The thrusting action behind every action is a persuasive longing to doing better, also one’s best, at every step. This uplifting idea works on that vibrant, enriching loop called conscious principle. The result is simple — a vigorous urge to become unequivocally useful to oneself and also others. There are decent folks around us, yet — some of them with abundant individual, or bespoke, aptitudes and qualities. They are individuals with augmented responsiveness — the power to be what they want to be. It is their profuse strength of mind and/or mindfulness that places them at the ‘controls,’ or the pilots’ seat, as it were. They achieve because they envision and decrypt what they distinguish into action. When you are in their circle, or company, you are also elevated to a higher stratum of conscious attentiveness.
This whole progression plays a fundamental role in the preservation of our health and well-being, or treating illness too, primarily because any, or every, change in our consciousness brings with it somatic, emotional and mental implications. From worthy attitude, positivity, harmony, self-confidence, success and fulfilment to distraction, skewed thinking, anxiety and tummy distress, aside from other disorders — for example, hypertension. This prompts a surfeit of surging ancillary effects too — good and bad. The resultant outcome of the latter is obvious — a disruption in our activity pattern, or movement of energy. When this process occurs on a protracted footing, it leads to not just compromised living, but also existence.
This is why the whole process of re-establishment of health and wellness, in prolonged illness, may often take a long time. The more one gets stuck with such a trepidation, the more difficult it is to preventing a relapse. The consequence is extended therapy, including its inevitable spin-offs — despair and vexation, not to speak of ‘drug-centric’ side-effects. The best thing that any of us could do is making, not just attempting, a constant and determined effort towards optimal health, while heeding to our body signals and improving the quality and intensity of our conscious responsiveness.
In other words, we should learn to disengage ourselves from our constant, also meaningless contemplations and anxieties. To achieve this outlook isn’t easy. The best thing we’d all do is: use our intuitive, observant and intellectual mind with better judgment, foresight, and insight. This will take us to a new terrain — it will allow us to disentangle ourselves from our artificial attitudes, or responses. It also helps us to realise ourselves as spiritual entities — not just corporeal, earthly objects with mind, body, spirit, or soul. The rest is predictable — when our sense of self-consciousness swells, it lifts us to a higher form of consciousness. Call it spiritual, or cosmic, mindfulness — or, what you may.
— First published in The Himalayan Times, Nepal
