Meditation has caught on like wild fire from Pune to Pennsylvania, from Mumbai to Manhattan. For physical ailments, too, meditation is now often a part of the treatment in many countries. If you have a heart problem, definitely go to your doctor. But also consult some meditation teacher, as that can unburden your heart.
Throughout our life, our heart has to go through so many shocks and emotionally charged situations that it is really amazing how it copes.
For example, if you have a headache, go out and breathe for a few moments. Inhale from the left nostril seven times and exhale from the left, and repeat it in the reverse order. There will be an automatic balance of yin and yang energy and you will get relief from the headache. There will be no need for painkillers.
If we learn this method of breathing, or the other method of deep rhythmic breathing, we may never have the problem of migraine or depression. Simple methods of meditation practised on a regular basis keeps us hale and hearty, full of energy and confidence.
Close your eyes. Breathe. Watch your breath going in. Go as deep with it as possible and see where it takes a turn and come back with it. Breathing will energise your whole system and closing your eyes for a few moments will refresh them.
The East has known the magic of meditation all along and has been practising it. But somewhere along the line, it seems to have forgotten it. In ancient times, the guru was called a vaidya, a physician. Both Gautama Buddha and Sri Guru Nanak called themselves vaidyas.
In one of his discourses, the Buddha said: “I am a brahman, responsive to requests, open-handed, bearing my last body, an unsurpassed doctor and surgeon.”
In the foreword to his book From Medication to Meditation, Osho says, “Every hospital will have a department of meditation. It should happen. Then we will be able to treat man as a whole. The body will be taken care of by the doctors, the mind by the psychologists, and the soul by meditation. The day the hospitals accept man as a whole, as a totality, and then treat him as such, will be a day of rejoicing for mankind.”
Osho adds: “The word ‘meditation’ and the word ‘medicine’ come from the same root. Medicine means that which heals the physical, and meditation means that which heals the spiritual. Both are healing powers. Similarly, the word ‘healing’ and the word ‘whole’ also come from the same root. To be healed simply means to be whole, not missing anything. Another connotation of the word — the word ‘holy’ — also comes from the same root. Healing, whole and holy are not different in their root. Meditation heals, makes you whole; and to be whole is to be holy.”
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