How To Maintain Pure Health and Happiness

Most of the people around the world are very conscious about their health and happiness. For this, they play games, do exercises or practice yoga. They go on a walk in the morning or go on outings to natural and beautiful places. They follow strict diets or the advice of doctors. Still then, they do not get full satisfaction so far as health and happiness are concerned. Certainly, there must be some cause which they fail to follow or understand. In order to get full satisfaction, people should follow these steps.

1. Mind is the root cause - The secret of complete wellness and health lies in the mind. Body is a manifestation of mind. What happens in the mind or what the mind thinks is reflected in the body. So if mind is well and happy, the body will be well, disease-free and fresh, too. Generally, people believe that wealth, name and fame, wife and son should give happiness. But if we ask those people who have such things, many say that they are not happy. So happiness does not lie in obtaining these things. Happiness lies in the mind and in its thoughts and desires. One should always remain satisfied.
2. Work, earn and enjoy - Everybody should work and earn his livelihood. Only then can he enjoy life. One can't enjoy, be happy and satisfied in life if one has no money. One must be self-dependent; it is painful to depend upon others. However, one should not run after money. This is nothing but greed. It takes away health and happiness. What is good for health is plentily available at a cheaper price. A glass of fresh water is almost free, but a glass of wine is costly. Fresh air is free, but when going to a nightclub, one pays to be there and inhales polluted air. Bread is very cheap but oily and spiced food is costly. Similarly, comfortable dress is cheaper, and stylish coats and jackets are costly.
3. Forget past and future - In order to remain happy and satisfied, one should not think deeply about the past or future. One should try to live in the present. Pain, stress, fear, anger or discontent are either derived from events in the past or may originate in anticipating the future. In reality, everybody lives in the present, and so always think about the present. Only then a man shall be happy. A child does not think about the past or future and so is much more likely to remain cheerful.
4. Disease is an imagination - The life force in the body maintains an immunity to disease. When foreign matter causing disease enters into the body, the body tries to digest or kill them and drive them out. For this, we see certain changes in the body such as fever, cough, vomiting, loose bowels or urination, etc. Such effects or symptoms are not disease. These symptoms indicate the cleaning or washing out of the inside the body. But people fear disease and take medicine. The nature of medicine is to suppress one disease and to create another.

Hence in order to maintain pure health and happiness, we should think firmly that we have no disease, no pain and no sorrow. We should think that disease and pain cannot touch us. Since mind has total control over the body, we can easily maintain health and enjoy happiness forever.