Two-pronged approach towards a good life
KINDNESS and forgiveness. These are two of the sure avenues to good health. The explanation is so startingly simple that it almost defies belief.
Have you not felt the unscratchable ache when you feel hostility and anger towards another person? Never mind the fact whether that person whom you have in mind deserves your kindness.The act of forgiving is health-giving (to yourself).
Kindness is its own reward. Doctors and scientists have only recently found out that the positive values in life go a long way in adding harmony to one's well-being.
Learning to be kind is an act, not an art. Those who feel that they are just being hypocrtical if they do what they don't feel like doing. Wrong. Practise the act of kindness.In time, such gestures will become part of your persona. Kindness is built into our soul and being.
Nurture it, and it will grow and triumph over the other negative traits.A good heart doth builds a healthy constitution. Forgiveness calms a troubled heart, soothes the soul and gives life to an ebbing spirit.
Most of us think that if we spend thousands of dollars at a well established gym and sacrifice many hours of a week at such places, we will naturally become strong and healthy.
Yes, that is part of it but the secrets of a healthy body begins with a healthy mind, and the paths have been identified as kindness and forgiveness.Lest, someone thinks kindness and forgiveness are precursors to a call to a life of meditation and prayer, they are never more wrong.
These two conditions are necessary for a life free of much stress and worries.The masters of martial arts and arts like tai chi and qigong understand the concepts that make ordinary men great and great men saints.
Well, most of us will shy away from being labelled as "saints" but I don't think we mind being called "great" (even though we may not deserve that honour).
Lest it be said that "kindness" and "forgiveness" are the bywords that find solace and commonality with monasteries and convents, those are the same qualities we find in our mothers.
As little boys and girls growing up in the safety and comfort of our mothers' bosoms, we are surely no strangers to forgiveness and kindness. All of us, as I would like to believe, grew up remembering more of our own mums than our own dads.
One of the reasons is because dads are always busy at work. When we need some urgent cash, we will look at dad's direction, otherwise we steered clear of dad's path.
I notice with the passing of years and the passages of life that those people who are imbued with the superior qualities of forgiveness and kindness tended to lead healthier and happier lives.
Why is that so? My guess it it has something to do with the good side of life. When a person is attuned to the positive waves of all that is good, something happens to his physical constitution.
His body recognises these signals and is subsconsciously harmonised with good health and a sound mind.Yes, everybody eventually deteriorates physically but let's not hasten the deterioration process.
Let it happen naturally. We can live longer than most of us think. Right now, our natural life span is about 70 to 75. By right, it should be in the region of 90 to 120. Impossible? Tell it to those who have lived up till that age.
The stresses of modern living is one of the greatest scourges of the present day world. We pay too much attention to those aspects of life that are not good for us. We have lost our way somewhere while travelling on the highway of life.
Let's hold on to the two that are forever in us and in front of us. They are kindness and forgiveness. Practise these two qualities. Internalise them. Let them be part of us and we be part of them.
These two qualities are the paths to longevity and they are among the smoothest byways in the highway of our lives.
Have you not felt the unscratchable ache when you feel hostility and anger towards another person? Never mind the fact whether that person whom you have in mind deserves your kindness.The act of forgiving is health-giving (to yourself).
Kindness is its own reward. Doctors and scientists have only recently found out that the positive values in life go a long way in adding harmony to one's well-being.
Learning to be kind is an act, not an art. Those who feel that they are just being hypocrtical if they do what they don't feel like doing. Wrong. Practise the act of kindness.In time, such gestures will become part of your persona. Kindness is built into our soul and being.
Nurture it, and it will grow and triumph over the other negative traits.A good heart doth builds a healthy constitution. Forgiveness calms a troubled heart, soothes the soul and gives life to an ebbing spirit.
Most of us think that if we spend thousands of dollars at a well established gym and sacrifice many hours of a week at such places, we will naturally become strong and healthy.
Yes, that is part of it but the secrets of a healthy body begins with a healthy mind, and the paths have been identified as kindness and forgiveness.Lest, someone thinks kindness and forgiveness are precursors to a call to a life of meditation and prayer, they are never more wrong.
These two conditions are necessary for a life free of much stress and worries.The masters of martial arts and arts like tai chi and qigong understand the concepts that make ordinary men great and great men saints.
Well, most of us will shy away from being labelled as "saints" but I don't think we mind being called "great" (even though we may not deserve that honour).
Lest it be said that "kindness" and "forgiveness" are the bywords that find solace and commonality with monasteries and convents, those are the same qualities we find in our mothers.
As little boys and girls growing up in the safety and comfort of our mothers' bosoms, we are surely no strangers to forgiveness and kindness. All of us, as I would like to believe, grew up remembering more of our own mums than our own dads.
One of the reasons is because dads are always busy at work. When we need some urgent cash, we will look at dad's direction, otherwise we steered clear of dad's path.
I notice with the passing of years and the passages of life that those people who are imbued with the superior qualities of forgiveness and kindness tended to lead healthier and happier lives.
Why is that so? My guess it it has something to do with the good side of life. When a person is attuned to the positive waves of all that is good, something happens to his physical constitution.
His body recognises these signals and is subsconsciously harmonised with good health and a sound mind.Yes, everybody eventually deteriorates physically but let's not hasten the deterioration process.
Let it happen naturally. We can live longer than most of us think. Right now, our natural life span is about 70 to 75. By right, it should be in the region of 90 to 120. Impossible? Tell it to those who have lived up till that age.
The stresses of modern living is one of the greatest scourges of the present day world. We pay too much attention to those aspects of life that are not good for us. We have lost our way somewhere while travelling on the highway of life.
Let's hold on to the two that are forever in us and in front of us. They are kindness and forgiveness. Practise these two qualities. Internalise them. Let them be part of us and we be part of them.
These two qualities are the paths to longevity and they are among the smoothest byways in the highway of our lives.
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