We have seen same disease sometimes get cured through different systems like allopathy, homoeopathy, Ayurveda, unani etc. and also through drugless therapy like yoga therapy, pranic healing, reiki therapy, magnet therapy etc. and all these systems have different theories that cures the same diseases. Then question comes which system is scientific or how truly diseases get alleviated.

In modern healthcare system, allopathy has more scientific approach with advanced pathological tests and digital technological image processing to arrive at right diagnosis or finding the root cause of the disease. Whereas, other systems like homoeopathy, Ayurveda, unani etc. depend more on analytical study of the symptoms and prescribe the medicine. Success rate and time taken to recover might differ but how same disease get cured by different theory of different therapy is to be understood. It can be possible only if there is one master theory that connect all theories in deeper level like different parts or organs functions uniformly of a same body.

Placebo and nocebo theory says, sometimes diseases get cured if someone has faith in doctor or drug even diagnosis is wrong or medicine content is not there in pills. So, there is an unknown factor playing a role in these cases beyond scientific reasoning. We have to take both science and faith into consideration to arrive at correct conclusion. Now medical science is coining a word, psychosomatic, i.e body and mind are not two different entities rather either side of a same coin. Thus, if body is affected by disease, thereby mind will also be affected and vice versa.

Of course, scientific laws are more applicable in matter or physical aspect rather than subtle mental phenomena in which faith or other unknown factors like; life style, attitude, heredity, genetic influences are more active. In the presence of consciousness, body and mind functions and when it leaves the body it cannot heal itself. That means, consciousness and in turn, prana or life energy is the prime factor, that is essential in healing with or without medicine (faith/unknown factors).

Thus, apart from scientific medicinal approach, diseases can be cured in many of the cases where this life energy can be brought in a balanced state and healing happens through natural means. Faith is one of the factors that raises the level of prana or energy for effective healing. Preserving prana through various means such as managing life style, balanced diet and nutrition, listening to the signals of the body and act accordingly and of course, through various yogic discipline, even chronic diseases can be cured or cared without or with drug.

There are five ‘holistic living’ principles while balancing subjective and objective aspects of life. 1. Integrating science & spirituality, self & society, peace & prosperity 2. Empowering Self a) self-analysis, self-assessment b) self-belief, self-behavior c) self-control, self-confidence d) self-discipline, self-determination e) self-esteem, self-effort 3. Developing ‘Yes’ attitude 4. Just for ‘today’ 5. Be aware ‘happy now here’.

In ancient India, in the beginning of career, curricula of the education system emphasized character building process through teaching of Shastra (spiritual knowledge) and Astra (healthcare) in first of the four ashram parathas i.e. bramhacharya, garhasha, banaprastha, sanyas. In modern era, career building curricula are basically set to earn a qualification in a competition based education system without imparting knowledge and application of human values.

Introducing moral or value education (character building) in the curricula in the beginning would definitely develop a decent human being, whereas competition gives rise to, ’rat race’, ‘self-centered’ and ‘survival is the fittest’ approach in life, while making a man as money earning machine.

In this electronic era, we have gathered much objective knowledge that is making us prosperous but simultaneously in the hustle and bustle of life, we are missing much peace, principles and purpose. Introducing holistic ideas in education system that nurture both subjective and objective aspects together is the need of the hour. Health care and hobby care should be encouraged among youth while time and value is to be assigned as per temperament and tendency of the student.

Psycho-emotional wellbeing/ resilience should be taken care of through holistic measure. Emphasizing only intellectual aspect in education system is creating imbalance in developing a contented human being failing to address stress and tension, challenges and uncertainties, personal and professional goal etc. and in turn society is experiencing increasingly anger, aggression, anxiety, jealousy, hatred, violence along with many other negative qualities.

 

 

How relationship issues and concerns are tackled through holisticyog concept?

Career, relationship and health; these three aspects are very important issues in students, middle aged and old aged lives respectively. Over the journey of life, we develop various relationship especially parent-child (batsalya), friend-friend (sakhya), master-servent (dasya), husband-wife (madhur) and God/ Guru- disciple (shanta) etc.. All these relations experiences dualistic doldrums’ like-dislike, love-hate, expression-depression, ego flash-ego clash, self-interest and social interest and so on more or less time to time.
Whole humanity is guided by cultural conditioning, values or moral principles while maintaining various relationship in social fabric. Stress and strain in various aforesaid relationship is sharply visible in modern age living. Combined family life is broken into small family, live in relationship, single parent child etc. and earlier culture has replaced as self/nuclear family centered living. Rate of divorce, violence in relationships, dissatisfaction, psycho-emotional illnesses is on the alarming rise.
Holisticyog/ holisticliving concept encourages application of holistic approach to deal with these difficulties. Generally, we are so delicately identified with visible body and mind as ‘I’ or ‘me’ that we are unconscious or oblivious about our spiritual entity/reality/identity. When we start living with an awareness of material and spiritual aspects together i.e. science and spirituality, self and society, peace and prosperity; in a balanced way then these issues and concerns of relationships can be effectively dealt with.
Every kind of relationships need love, joy and freedom to flourish but mind and its vrittis i.e ahankar-akankha-asakti-agnanata (ego-expectation-attachment-ignorance) as far as ‘self-interest’ and ‘survival is the fittest’ is concerned poses serious threat to experience or apply these attributes/values in behavior. When we ourselves are slave of our own mental vrittis especially from negative ones, then higher spiritual values cannot spring forth from within to cut the thread of its slavery.
Thus, unless we are aware of our spiritual nature along with material/physical one, suffering cannot be addressed successfully/ permanently. Holistic yog program is devised in such a manner that body-mind-soul as a whole is taken care of through psycho-physical exercises, asanas, pranayamas, meditation, conscious relaxation and transmission. A lots of discussion, clarification is included in the program to nurture holistic concept/ dharna while balancing theory and practice to achieve best result.
Everyone wants to be happy but most of the relationships are not doing well because of misunderstanding or ignorance about the conditioning that, happiness or peace can be obtained only from objective world or by changing others. Whereas, primarily it is the subjective matter and one has to transform from within by bringing a balance between both objective and subjective phenomena.
Thus, holistic yog program is devised in such a way that both subjective and objective approaches are incorporated in the day to day lifestyle of an individual in applying the principles of holistic living and various relationships are nurtured in more effective means. And individual life and social life coexist together happily and harmoniously.