Heal your body

Heal your body

December 2023

Let your mind heal your body 

Jamuna Rangachari shares examples of how,  often, the physical afflictions we suffer have  their roots in our mental state. Through a  proper understanding and application of  this phenomenon, we can live a healthy and  disease-free life. 

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It has now come to our knowledge  that many ailments are caused by our  thoughts and corresponding emotions.  The good news is that we can change our  

emotions with our thoughts and thus keep  away ailments. Let us explore some of these  ailments to see how our health can indeed be  

in our control. 

Diabetes 

In my family and circle of friends, there are  many who are diabetic. A common pattern is  observed in them: they often feel that they are  

not loved by their family. One of my friends  has two sons, both of whom are loving to her  and their wives too, of course, but my friend  

feels that more importance is given to the  wives. She keeps showering gifts on them but  feels that they are not appreciated. This may  

sound like a soap opera, but the fact is that  every visit of hers causes stress to the entire  family. She felt unloved when she visited the  

home of her sons, and this was reflected in her sugar levels. She gradually accepted and  changed her unfounded behaviour, and her  

sugar levels improved. 

A lot of studies now show that diabetes is  linked with feeling unloved and lonely in life.  Perhaps, in India, it is increasing because  of children living away from their families,  sometimes even abroad. The pattern abroad  too is that there is an increase in loneliness due  to social circles becoming less prevalent. With  more community programmes, the situation is  becoming better. 

The late Louise Hay, in You Can Heal Your  Life, says that diabetes is caused by a great  need for control, deep sorrow, and a feeling of  no sweetness left in life. The affirmation she  recommends is this: “This moment is filled  with joy.” She asks all to experience life by  seeing love everywhere and sharing it. 

Thyroid disease 

Thyroid disease is linked to finding and  expressing one’s voice. 

My cousin married a Christian, and though  she tried her best to integrate, she could never  express herself completely in both homes.  Another relative of mine had a stammering  issue and could never speak aloud for a long  time. This gave him a complex, especially in  childhood. 

Both of them suffered from thyroid disease,  but after they resolved their issues by accepting  themselves as they were, their thyroid condition  gradually became better. 

Lalita Uttamsingh lived in London while her  late mother lived in Mumbai. During one of her  visits to Mumbai, her mother was diagnosed  with mouth cancer. She was shocked and did  all she could to get as much help from doctors  and hospitals, but no one had a long-term  solution for this disease. She then took on the  role of a caregiver to help her mother, making  sure she got all the palliative care at home with  limited and poorly trained external help from  

hospitals and agencies. However, the trauma  and helplessness in such a situation took its  toll on her. But through all this, she remained  serene and stoic knowing it would be useless  to express her concerns to anyone, thus  suppressing all her fears and anxiety. This  manifested as hyperthyroidism, which she  has now managed to heal through medication  as well as venting about all the stress she had  been through, to family and friends. 

The thyroid is in the throat, and it is through  this organ that we express our innermost  strength of will and the ability to follow our  dreams, and share our innermost desires of  the heart. It is the centre of demonstrating  our choice and saying what we wish to say.  When one’s ability to speak up and to be heard  has been shut down, blocked, or restricted,  the thyroid, which influences metabolic  rate, protein synthesis, and intellectual  development, gets badly affected. 

Louise Hay asks everyone to express  themselves and not suppress anything for this  is how thyroid problems can be resolved. 

Migraine 

I had a friend who kept a perfect home but  would always suffer from migraine, especially  during festivals and parties. No house help  stuck around for long because she was obsessed  with keeping the house spic and span. Even  her family was scared of her, and many of her  friends avoided her.  

Fortunately, her neighbour, a counsellor,  counselled her to not be excessively fastidious.  Gradually, she changed her behaviour, and her  migraines improved. Her life became better  as she accepted all situations. This did take a  while, but it worked. 

According to Louise Hay, again, the solution is  love and trusting the flow of life.

Men suffer more from heart attacks as they prefer to bottle up their pain inside themselves 

Heart ailments 

My late cousin, a sports journalist, had a  sudden heart attack during one of his travels,  after he lost his mother to whom he was very  close, in a fire accident. 

We have often seen in many movies that  someone gets a sudden heart attack on receiving  shocking news. This may sound dramatic, but a  heart ailment does get triggered by a shocking  event. Louise Hay too says the heart is affected  mainly by shocks and stress.  

Is it not true then that we need to express  ourselves and our traumas to heal? The fact  that many youngsters are having sudden heart  attacks, perhaps, points to the fact that there is  too much pressure on them to perform, leading  to stress. Though not spoken about much, the  heart is indeed the barometer of our inner self  too. Therefore, it is indeed important to keep it  healthy by connecting to our inner self always,  in whichever way we deem fit. As it has been  repeated many times in literature in a different  context, love is indeed the tonic to keep a heart  healthy. The solution then is to always affirm  that we are not alone and are being looked  after in the journey of our lives. 

Allergies 

Allergies are triggered when we are not  comfortable with what is around us. My  daughter used to always develop rashes on  her skin during her exams, making it evident  that she was facing stress. It has been seen  that allergies are triggered when one is not  comfortable with one’s surroundings. Dr  Meenaxi Jain, a homeopath from Mumbai, has  seen that many of her patients who are newly  married and not accepted by all in their new  homes suffer from skin allergies. She has also  found that the repression of sexual desires often  causes these allergies as the skin is the first  place from which the body conveys underlying  

conditions. She heals people from allergies by  asking them to express who they are without  hesitation, under all circumstances, and has  seen a lot of results using this approach. 

Asthma 

Asthma, according to Louise Hay, is a result of  suffocating love and not having the freedom to  breathe easy. My late aunt, who suffered from  asthma, faced such issues in her family, who  did love her but controlled what she did, what  she wore, whom she met, and where she went.  No wonder then that she suffered from asthma  as she did not have any freedom in life. Despite  being a talented singer, she was not allowed to  sing in public. She passed away a sad soul. 

According to Hari Pai, an Indian healer from  Goa, asthma is often triggered during a full  moon, or Poornima. He suggests chanting  mantras, while Louise Hay recommends  affirming that one is free in the journey of life.  We could do both to keep ourselves healthy. 

Obesity 

I have an obese cousin who could never give  up eating oily food. She was teased in her  

childhood both for her weight and grades. This  created a vicious circle, resulting in her eating  even more. She was very loving to all children  on social occasions but kept away from adults.  By God’s grace, she once went with a friend to  an ayurvedic hospital to be of some support to  a friend who was grappling with cancer. This  made her concentrate more on the other. While  feeding her friend a healthy diet, she too would  consume the same. With this, she regained both  her self-esteem and health to a large extent. 

Cancer 

My late sister-in-law had a tough life—she  raised both her young girls on her own due to  the untimely death of her husband. She was very  loving to all of us and raised her girls very well.  When one of them got married and was abused  by her husband, she went into a very sorrowful  state and was then diagnosed with leukaemia  (blood cancer) of an advanced state. She passed  away before her children got happily settled in  life later. The one with the abusive husband  got divorced and remarried, and the other one  too is happily married. Both thank the Divine  and the blessings of their mother from another  realm. 

My late aunt, who suffered from asthma, faced such issues in her  family, who did love her but controlled what she did, what she  wore, whom she met, and where she went. No wonder then that  she suffered from asthma as she did not have any freedom in life.  Despite being a talented singer, she was not allowed to sing in  public. She passed away a sad soul.

Satish Sharma, a bureaucrat from Delhi who took  premature retirement to pursue his interests, lost  his mother to cancer, and soon after, at the age of  50, was diagnosed with stage II breast cancer, a  rare type of cancer in men. He was operated upon  and underwent chemotherapy and radiotherapy  for a while. Meanwhile, he looked for other natural  treatments. Subsequently, he stopped radiation  and chemotherapy, and is now completely healthy  and works as a health coach guiding others in  their lifestyle choices. He is clear that everyone  needs to find a purpose in life and enjoy it to the  maximum extent to remain healed. Louise Hay,  herself a cancer survivor, attributes deep grief  and resentment to cancer and asks everyone to  heal by using the mantra of forgiveness, living in  the present, and love. She strongly recommends  keeping away from negative thoughts like anger  and guilt. This certainly seemed to work in her  case. 

Meherunisa Sutarwala is a hypnotherapy  quantum physic energy abundance coach  from Mumbai who uses several modalities to  reconstruct diseased cells. She works on healing  the biocellular memories of cells and transforming  the past erroneous memories and programmes  to heal her clients. Meherunisa does this using  energy healing methods, whereby the disease gets  arrested with the change in patterns, as every cell  has a stipulated time frame of life. Some cells die  every three days, seven days, or even six months.  This depends on each cell’s life span. She has  healed many by using this method. Some cancer  patients avoid radiation or chemotherapy with  her help. The patient is treated with a regimen  of alternative thinking, exercise, diet, and a  total lifestyle change, following which there is a  transmutation of cells in the body system.  

We can see that when one changes their lifestyle,  attitude, and thinking to healthier living, with  meditation and eliminating incorrect actions  and thoughts, there is a significant shift towards  abundance. Here, being abundantly happy and  believing in healing the body, mind, and soul is  of vital importance. 

Healing is indeed possible 

Everything, including something as serious as  cancer, can be healed when we work on ourselves  in body, mind, and spirit. 

In the Indian context, yagnas and prayers do  the same thing due to the power of our mind  and soul. Whenever there is a health crisis, you  will often find pujas and chanting being held by  families and even colonies and communities.  This does help in making one’s mental health  stronger. 

In the context of reasons for our ailment, it  makes sense to know about them and introspect;  denial will never help us. We need to accept our  limitations and work on removing them from our  soul’s imprint. This is a process which, usually,  never happens overnight. However, it does make  us holistically healthy if we keep working on it  and emerge victors instead of remaining victims. 

Ultimately, our Creator wants us to keep  improving in the school of life, ailment or not. 

Jamuna Rangachari, the former assistant editor of Life Positive, has authored  two books for children, and compiled and interpreted Teaching Stories-I and II  for Life Positive. Write to her at jamunarangachari@gmail.com.