MYTHS & REALITIES

Amar Nath Mukherjee

In our day to day activities, we decide our plan of action as per the ideas and various conceptions that we receive from our social and cultural interactions; during that process at times it becomes rather difficult to differentiate between Myths and Realities, moreover we prepare the actions and try to implement unmindfully resulting which of our actions are ineffective if not retrograde.

Hence it is absolutely necessary to consciously and logically dichotomize between Myths and Realities.

Listed below are some of those conceptions that we adopt in our lifetime:-

Myths	Realities
Nothing will happen physically and mentally once we regularly practice fitness actively.	Nobody knows what will happen to us tomorrow in spite of our having a regular fitness actively but we can surely and certainly reduce the risk factors of various diseases substantially but can not make it zero.
Since nobody can prevent and escape having physiological problems, there is no use practicing healthy lifestyle.	Maintaining a healthy lifestyle is essentially required so as to substantially reduce the intensity of any infliction that may happen, also to effect faster recovery rate and lesser medical dependence.
By practicing Yoga and Pranayam, all types of diseases can be cured, be it Leucoderma or Lymphoma.	No panacea has yet been discovered; Yoga or other systems of workout are meant for prevention of diseases and not for its cure; medical help is required for curing diseases.
Young persons need not practice healthy lifestyle since they are much less prone to diseases.	Maintaining a healthy lifestyle is equally important for all age groups because by maintaining healthy workout one can decelerate the ageing process consequent to which there is a marked improvement of the brain chemistry and body’s immune system will significantly be strong to ward off any psychosomatic problems.
No medicine is required for any disease, particularly Diabetes, Hypertension etc. once one engages in Yoga or other workout.	Diabetes mellitus , Hypertension, obesity can not be permanently cured but can be controlled, hence medical management, workout management and diet management will have to be adhered to for controlling the said pathophysiological symptoms.
A particular type of workout or Yoga is suitable for every one irrespective of the physical status of an individual.	Each one of us is invariably different constitutionally; hence one type of workout may not be suitable for everybody.
Moderate to intensive workout is good for maintaining good health.	Moderate to intensive workout threshold is at variance from one person to another, hence at no point of time one should exceed his comfort zone during workout; since to much of exercise is as bad as not doing anything.
Persons bulging belly is indicative of his affluence.	Perilous paunch is responsible for triggering many gastrointestinal and heart problems on the contrary.
Yoga or physical instructor knows best how much exercise one should do regularly for fitness maintenance.	Nobody knows how much is too much and what is inadequate workout, it has to be determined by a trial and error method; first one should quantify the time duration and also repetition of the body movements and gradually establish ones comfortable workout zone. Instructor can suggest various options suitable for a particular person.
One can remain healthy only by proper diet and medication as and when required.	For keeping a healthy body and mind, exercise is indispensable; with proper diet and workout one can be less dependent on medicines.
Brushing teeth once in the morning is enough for good oral hygiene.	Brushing twice after main meals and once massaging gums is desirable for maintaining good oral hygiene, which is essentially required for a healthy digestive organ and healthy heart.
Tons of theory is equal to an ounce of practice.	Practice with scant knowledge is an extension of ignorance; hence enlightenment on practice is absolutely essential for maximizing the benefits of the action undertaken.
Yoga and Pranayam are holistically enough for maintaining a good health.	There is absolutely no alternative to half an hour brisk morning walk.

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ANATOMY OF INDOLENCE

Amar Nath Mukherjee

The most nearest and formidable foe of mankind is Indolence.
Therefore it is extremely important to find out by dissecting Indolence physiologically and psychologically so as to find out its depth and dimension by which it jeopardizes the quality of our life.
Given hereunder a graphical representation of Indolence.

The representations have been made in two parts

(a) Psychological

(b) Physiological

Psychological

Fig. 1

The figure shows that none of the psychological attitude viz will power, enthusiasm or sense of responsibility is strong enough to counteract the dominant power of indolence.

Fig. 2

The figure above shows that if all or at least one mental attitude is strong, the indolence factor is bound to be subjugated.

Now the question is, how we can convert the situation shown is fig 1 to the situation shown in fig2

Let us see first, why we do not get enough enthusiasm to undertake any action / task conducive to improving our quality of life.

The answer is (a) Lack of visible incentive (b) Fear of failure.

These two factors drastically demotivate us against preparing ourselves for the action.

Lack of Incentive

In our day to day activity we are very particular in our profession since we get the tangible incentive in return whereas we do not intend to spend little bit of time for proper maintenance of our health doing some sort of workout because the benefits or the incentives that we get out of the workout are not visible nor we can achieve or perceive the benefits in a short period of time.

Similarly if we feel apprehensive of the failure at the outset we shall never be able to gather enough enthusiasm to initiate any action.

Sense of Responsibility

The sense of responsibility is a strong motivator, which we can only imbibe by getting ourselves, involved with the activity and also increasing our level of awareness buy associating ourselves with the society, actively engaged with certain activity.

Will Power

The will power can be boosted up by getting oneself exposed to congenial environment and also associating onself with a strong motivator who can effectively inspire us for the proposed action we intend to undertake.

Physiological factors causing indolence

Fig. 3

Indolence caused due to physiological problems must be a case for medical intervention; nevertheless, mild to moderate workout under the guidance of the physician is essentially required to get over the fatigue syndrome thereby causing acute indolence.

The nature has provided us with extremely invaluable and spectacularly designed body organs at the beginning of our life process but due to ignorance, improper life style and addiction, we systematically jeopardize our entire physiological system quite earlier than its natural decay.

But the tragedy is that every body wants to remain in a healthy and disease free life, but he can not take required action in this direction only because of his lack of will power, and all pervasive indolence that demotivates and deactivates the individual to perform to reach his earnestly desired destination perhaps the Anatomy of Indolence may help the reader to identity and insulate the cause so as to be able to address our negativity effectively.

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