Dear Friends,
Perhaps the only way to return to the good health that our ancestors enjoyed is to completely return to natural indigenous methods and to stop tinkering with nature. All the frontline thinkers in issues as diverse as health, to education, climate, farming and industry, are talking of this urgent need to change our priorities. Health is not only our wealth but is also a deep personal happiness, a balanced sense of innate satisfaction, and the inward spontaneous urge to increase the happiness quotient of the world. For we can be happy and healthy only if the entire world is happy and healthy.
As a stepping stone towards achieving the above objective, I propose that;
1. We should increase the holistic health budget from the current 3% to 25%.
2. We should reorganise the medical education setup so that
students can learn about all methods of healing and also get experienced teachers who can teach them the subtle nuances of holistic healing. (Our Health Minister has proposed this).
3. We should try to get the cream of the students who are interested in studying medicine, to study holism sincerely and practice it with integrity.
4. We should spread awareness about the holistic healing principles.
5. Babies should be treated holistically as far as possible so that they develop a better immunity base, thus leading to healthy, productive citizens. This will substantially reduce the current mammoth health expenditure.
6. Getting the holistic principles introduced into the school/college curicullums as compulsory subjects.
7. The teaching of yoga and meditation to all sections of the society should be undertaken with urgency.
8. Introduction of value based education; ( also
the teaching of the Samkhya philosophy, and the Vedic world view, the concept of One World - One Family.)
9. Strengthening of the family structure. Teaching the benefits of a restrained, moral life and also the need for respect between partners in marriage, as well as between parents and children.
10. Making health and education totally free for the poor and needy.
11. Making both these sectors open to caring, self sacrificing individuals who seek to serve humanity with a selfless motive.
12.Teaching the general population the basics of naturopathy and reflexology. (This has already been started by the International Institute of Naturopathy which has its HQ at Pune. )
13. Spreading awareness about the dangers of and fighting peacefully against harmful chemicals in our environment and food.
14. Encouraging the organic farming movement, reducing pollution and campaigning for vegetarianism.
15. Reducing tensions at the work place by ensuring better working conditions, better employer-employee interaction, optimum working time etc.
16. Teaching students with practical instructions on how to live judiciously, with an eye towards developing better, healthy individuals, and giving them sufficient time for appropriate recreation.
17. Caring about our environment and having fellow feeling towards other species.
I would request you all to kindly add to and supplement/criticise these rough suggestions of mine.
Please remember, we can do it.
Love, Respect & Regards,
Jagannath Chatterjee,
Health & Environment Activist.
"Our ideal is not the spirituality that withdraws from life but the conquest of life by the power of the spirit." - Aurobindo.
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