- Created by Sadhguru, Isha Foundation
- Curated by Ishan, Team Impact
If you allow life to function fully, it is healthy. Only by using the body can you keep it healthy. The more you use it, the better it gets.
Some people are overworked and they have ill health. Most people are underworked and they have ill health as well. If you lived 200 years ago, you would be doing 20 times more activity physically. You would have walked more, worked more, used your hands and legs much more.
Nowadays the body is not being used. When we speak of health, we mean physical health. The more you use it, the better it gets.
One of the simplest things about health is just to use the body. If you sufficiently use it, your body has and knows everything to keep itself healthy.
80% of ailments on our planet would disappear if we just start using our body well. Another 10% would disappear if we start eating well. Out of all the sick people, if 90% could heal by using our body properly and eating properly, the rest 10% could be easily handled by our healthcare systems. The healthcare systems would then function at full efficiency to take care of the sick and the old.
So you just have to use your body, your head, and your energies. If these 3 things are well exercised and well balanced, you’ll be healthy.
If you build activity into your life — physical, mental, and energy — health will come. If your body is working well, your mind is working well and your energy is supporting the two, making sure nothing is going wrong, that is health.
Life is happening in full flow, that is health. Health is not a medical idea. The medical concepts of health have become essential because we have built-in very unhealthy lifestyles. We are becoming more and more sedentary.
Today, a 20-year-old person can not do, what a 60-year-old person used to do 100 years ago. It means we are weakening humanity. Over a period of time, we will become degenerate humanity.
Health is life’s natural way. We simply must not come in its way.
Health is not something that you invent. It is not an idea. Health is life happening well. Health is life’s way. If you allow life to function fully, it is healthy.
