Sickness and disease are caused, not only by what we eat or how we eat, or by lack of exercise and adequate rest, though these contribute a great deal, but also to the negative emotions  like hate, anger, malice jealousy, bitterness and the like.

There is an Indian saying which goes:  “HASAD  KEE  AAG  BADAN  KO  JALAATAA  HAI  JAISE AAG  LAKREE  KA”.   This translates to mean:  “The fire of malice consumes the body in the same way as fire consumes wood”.   That may seem an exaggeration, but negative emotions do not only harm you physically,  but they warp the wind and corrupt the morals.  Hate  too, corrodes the vessel that contains it and also disfigures the object on which it is poured.

Nothing is better medicine than cheerfulness, laughter, thankfulness, content, loving service and prayer from the heart.  Carrying guilt too,  is harmful; we can never undo what is done already.  Confess, repent and ask forgiveness and move forward with a clear conscience;  for though you may carry the scar of your past,  the wound is healed.   God, who is of the present, will know you as you are, and not what you were.   It is fallible man who digs into your past to condemn you for what you are not.

Temperance too, is good medicine.  So get wise, get in good company without which  you can never acquire discrimination, and think loftily at all times.  It was Sir Philip Sydney, that compassionate soul who said:  “He is never alone who is accompanied with noble thoughts”.

To sumarise: Health is Simple living and Lofty thinking.

- Randall Butisingh.