Monitoring Points of your Health

Health Definition: As per World Health Organisation, health is defined as follows.

“Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease”

Being fit doesn’t mean that you are healthy. Mere absence of disease doesn’t mean that you are healthy. Health is a balanced holistic state of your being at the physical, mental & emotional levels. Any kind of practice that follows this protocol takes you to a true healthy state. Obviously, yoga is one such practice which gives the practitioner an opportunity to lead to an internally calm balanced state called Homeostasis.

Homeostasis: Human homeostasis is the process that maintains the stability of the human body's internal environment in response to changes in external conditions. This includes controlling of your body temperature, blood pressure, blood sugar level etc.

As an engineer, I always equate this process of homeostasis to the function of the PLL (Phase Lock Loop). The incoming signal is superimposed by the feedback signal that comes from the error detector and sent as an output signal. The output signal is monitored by the error detector to generate the feedback signal. So, the final output is always in a stable state irrespective of the errors caused due to the external factors.

Fortunately, our entire involuntary systems such as digestive system, circulatory system, excretory system and so on work in homeostasis without our involvement or our conscious effort. But, at the conscious level when things are not taken care in a balanced way then it has its own influence on our involuntary systems. This is the cause of the disease. So, to be healthy, it is important for you to stay balanced at the conscious level.

Indicators of Health: What are the indicators or monitoring points to know that we are in a healthy state and leading a balanced lifestyle? Here are four areas that summarise your current health state.

a)      Sleep pattern: A strong deep sleep pattern puts your system in a state of relaxation & body rework mechanisms kick start in this deep sleep state. Brain scientists call this state of brain as Theta & Delta State.

b)      Bowel Movement: Mother of all disease is constipation. Your entire digestive track is subconsciously programmed to work without any conscious effort. Good digestive system is a good indicator of your health.

c)       Mensuration cycle: Balanced hormonal system is the necessity for your perfect health. Periodic mensuration is a good indicator.

d)      Self-Talk: Free mind is a source of our creativity. Mind chattering centred around the negative emotions such as worries, fear, doubts etc. is a bad indicator of health.

So, look for the four of the above indicators and see where you stand for you to know your current health state.