We all desire to be healthy and if possible never fall sick
even for a day. There are many experts
who have written books on healthy lifestyle. I am personally a vegetarian,
nonsmoker and teetotaler; and like many people I believe that meat products,
smoking and alcohol are harmful to health. I also take a regular walk and do
some exercises to maintain my weight and keep myself fit. Yet I know in my
heart that even the healthiest lifestyle can’t ensure good health. I know many
people how suffer poor health even though they follow all good habits and there
are many who follow all wrong habits and still maintain good health and live
longer.
One such glaring example that comes to my mind is that of Winston
Churchill who defied all rules of healthy living. He was a chain-smoker, alcoholic
and obese. He religiously followed his un-healthy lifestyle. On one occasion,
Churchill hosted a luncheon for King Ibn Sa'ud of Saudi Arabia, who did not
allow smoking or drinking in his presence. Rather than submit to the king's
wishes, Churchill pointed out that "my rule of life prescribed as an
absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before,
after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them."
The king was convinced.’
Churchill was quite proud of his drinking habits as following
anecdote from his life seems to suggest.
It was towards the close of World War II, and Churchill was
visited by a delegation of the Temperance League. And one of the ladies there
firmly chastised him, saying, ‘Mr Prime Minister, I’ve heard of all the brandy
you have drunk since the war began, and heard that if it were poured into this
room, it would come up all the way to your waist.’
And Churchill looked dolefully down at the floor, and then
at his waist, then up to the ceiling and said, ‘Ah, yes madam, so much
accomplished and so much more left to do.’
Yet Churchill was extremely healthy. He became the oldest
Prime Minster of United Kingdom at the age of almost eighty years and lived
upto ninety years of age. He wrote ‘The
Second World War’ in six volumes in his seventies and awarded the Nobel Prize
for Literature in 1953 at the age of 80 years.
I always wondered how Churchill defied all scientific
formula of good health and lived so long.
Perhaps the secret of good health of Churchill was that he
always followed his conscious. There was no contradiction between what he
thought, what he said and what he did. This harmony perhaps gave him good
health and long life. Many people may be following all right habits but they
may not be true to their conscious and that may make them sick and even kill
them early.
It may be difficult to prove the deep connection between
health and consciousness, but we all know that it is true.
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