Naan Simran: The Ultimate Healer

The prime cause of sickness is rooted in the mind. No disease can
exist in the body and mind of a person unless there is some
susceptibility in the consciousness. Mind by nature is a non - stop
thinker and generates a continuous stream of thought patterns. Some
are evil and some are pious and pure. According to the characteristic of
every thought pattern it influences the functioning the various organs in
the body and thus responsible for the cause of any disease. The great
physician, Charak had said, Pradnyapradhanam hi moolam rognum',
i.e. 'all diseases originate from foibles of human thinking'.
Diseases which are the product of continued emotional stressed and
termed 'Psychosomatic diseases (psycho meaning mind and soma
meaning body). For example excessive anger have been found to
increase the acid secretion in the stomach when a person is constantly
in an irritated state of mind. The excessive acid secretion slowly eats
into the protective mucous lining of the stomach and an ulcer is formed.
It has been rightly said that an ulcer is not caused by what we eat, but
what we is eating us. (It means 'Anger' is eating us). Further, a study in
the characteristic nature of 'anger' reveals that it is aggressive, it burns
and boils, it accelerates and goes on pushing forward blindly. These
mental vibration generated by 'Anger' affects the functioning of "liver
and
gall bladder" which can cause jaundice. Louise L. Hay in her book
"Heal your Body", gives a long list of physical diseases with their
mental causes, and suggests how to overcome them by "Metaphysical
Ways": The mental thought patterns that cause the most diseases in
the body are Criticism, Anger, Resentment and guilt. For instance,
Criticism indulged in long enough will often such as arthritis. Anger
turns into things that boil and burn and infect the body. Resentment
long held festers and eats away at the self and ultimately can lead to
tumors and cancer. Guilt always seeks punishment and leads to pain.
"It is so much easier to release these negative thinking patterns from
our minds when we are healthy then to try to dig them out when we are
in a state of panic and under the threat of the surgeon's knife". Let us,
for a moment, take a pause here and theorize what is mind? What its is
relation with the consciousness and the physical body? Mind of a
person depending on his past Samskaras, is born out of five elements
(Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Space) "Ehu Mann Karma, ehu mann
dharma, Ehu Mann panch tatt te janma." "This mind doeth deeds, this
mind practiceth righteousness, And this mind is born of five elements".
(SGGS: 415) Consciousness is a vital factor in building the body and
mind. In pursuit of its self - expression, the consciousness groups
around the surrounding matter and appropriates it to shape a physical