Maharishi's
Vedic Approach to Health
Perfect health
can only be achieved through a holistic approach that takes care
of all the values that constitute health.
Each aspect of
the body, as described by modern anatomy, has a quality of the
inner intelligence of nature associated with it. It is the lack
of integration between the physiology and its inner intelligence
that causes disorder and introduces disease.
Maharishi's Vedic
Approach to Health enlivens all the forty
qualities of intelligence -- the forty structures of Natural
Law, the Veda and the Vedic Literature, that are available in
the Atma, the Self, and are the intelligence at the basis
of the structure and function of the individual physiology.
Maharishi's prevention-oriented
Vedic Approach to Health is holistic and most basic; that is
why it is free from harmful side-effects. It maintains balance
between the body and its own inner intelligence, and between
the inner intelligence of the individual, the collective consciousness
of society, and the Cosmic Intelligence of the universe.
The Values
that Constitute Health
The territory of
Natural Law ranges from the infinite field of the unmanifest
to the infinite field of the manifest; from the holistic value
of infinity to the holistic value of infinity is the total value
of Natural Law, which includes all the diversified values of
different Laws of Nature within its holistic value.
That is why health,
which is defined as WHOLENESS, is structured in both HOLISTIC
and SPECIFIC values of Natural Law in a fully integrated and
balanced state.
Unless the knowledge
of this total field of Natural Law is considered, holistic health
will not be available, and total health -- total balance -- will
always be lacking.
The use of the
modern scientific approach to health has demonstrated the limitations of modern medicine. Medicine-oriented
health care alone is not enough to offer perfect health. Health
care should take care of the holistic value of health, and also
of all the specific values that constitute health:
- Physiology
- Intelligence at
the basis of physiology
- Influence of the
environment
- Influence of buildings
in which one lives or works
- Influence of the
distant environment: sun, moon, planets, stars
- Influence of collective
health on society
(See 'Components
of Vedic Health Care: A New, More Complete and Perfect System
of Health Care')
Creating
a Disease-Free, Healthy, Enlightened Society
The effectiveness
of Maharishi's Vedic Approach to Health lies in its ability to
utilise the total intelligence of Natural Law at the basis of
the human physiology -- to utilise that holistic value of Natural
Law which structures the physiology and integrates the functioning
of al aspects of body and mind. As a result, thought and behaviour
are spontaneously more in harmony with Natural Law, which is
the basis of good health.
Maharishi's Vedic
Approach to Health proceeds on the road of balance between the
holistic and specific values of Natural Law. It starts from any
level of imbalance and, eliminating imbalance, arrives at the
level of balance -- integration of mind, body, behaviour, and
environment.
A perfectly healthy
person lives in the state of enlightenment, with the natural
ability to spontaneously use the total organising power of Natural
Law to accomplish any goal without strain. Ill health is fundamentally
due to violation of Natural Law caused by lack of knowledge of
Natural Law. Lack of knowledge of Natural Law weakens the individual
and creates stress in society.
Maharishi's Vedic
Approach to Health promotes individual and collective health
through knowledge of Natural Law with all its expressions in
material creation. It brings life increasingly into accord with
Natural Law.
When the total
intelligence of Natural Law is fully awake in every part of the
physiology, then Maharishi's Vedic Approach to Health enjoys
fulfilment. In this balanced state of health there is perfect
synchrony between the functioning of every individual cell and
holistic functioning of the whole body, and between the intelligence
of the individual parts of the physiology, the holistic intelligence
of the physiology, and Cosmic Intelligence which manages the
whole universe. With this complete integration all thought and
action are spontaneously in harmony with Natural Law and the
individual naturally enjoys good health.
Maharishi's Vedic
Approach to Health is destined to create a disease-free, healthy,
enlightened society.
Vedic
Health Care
Components
of Vedic Health Care:
A New, More Complete and Perfect System of Health Care
40
Areas of Inner Intelligence of the Body
Discovery
of Veda and Vedic Literature in Human Physiology
Instant
Relief Programme
Hazards
of Modern Medicine --
An Overview of Recent Scientific Research
Research
on Maharishi's Vedic Approach to Health
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