Who is your Life Partner-Yourself-Your Body-says Gurudev Sri Sri Ravishankar, Founder of Global Art Of Living Foundation!

Who is your life partner? Mom? Dad? Wife? Son? Husband? Daughter? Friends?  Not at all!! Your real-life partner is your body.    Once your body stops responding no one is with you.  You and your body stay together from birth till death. What you do to your body is your responsibility and that will come back to you. The more you care for your body, the more your body will care for you. What you eat, What you do for being fit, How you deal with stress, how much rest you give to it; will decide how your body is going to respond. Remember, Your body is the only permanent address where you live. Your body is your asset/liability, which no one else can share. your body is your responsibility. Because you are the real-life partner.  Be fit. Take care of yourself. Money comes and goes. Relatives and Friends are not permanent.  Remember no one can help your body other than you. Pranayama - for Lungs Meditation - for Mind Yoga - for Body Walking - for Heart Good food - for Intestines Good thoughts - for Soul Good Karma - for World   Please also see my earlier DRK's Newsletters-  1) DRK's Newsletter No. 19 - Quantum Healing - June 2018 (Click Here)  2) DRK's Newsletter No. 24 -Yoga for Holistic Health-Jan 2019 (Click Here)  3)  DRK's Newsletter No. 36 - Food As Medicine-August 2020 (Click Here)  4)  DRK's Newsletter No. 40 - Integrated Medicine-Dec 2021 (Click Here)  5)  DRK's Newsletter No.44-Meditation is Miraculous-June 2024 (Click Here)  Why do we struggle with health so much. And then it hit me - I come from a culture that never taught me my body matters. Middle-class homes don't raise you to be healthy. They raise you to be safe. To be obedient. To be employable. Not to be strong, ambitious, or mindful. We were taught to save money, not save our knees. To protect our reputation, not our posture. Our childhoods were full of lectures on marks, manners, and marriage. But no one told us how to breathe when we're anxious. No one taught us what real sleep feels like. Or that sugar is a drug. That gut health is real. That skipping breakfast isn't being busy but being neglected. You eat what's cooked. You sit where there's space. You rest only when you're sick. That's how we're raised. Rest is laziness. Exercise is timepass. Health is something you deal with after something goes wrong. Got a headache? "Balm laga le, thoda so ja." Got a backache? "Moov laga le, thoda let ja." Bad throat? "Haldi doodh pee le, subah tak theek ho jaayega." Feeling weak for a week? "Exertion hai. Kal ki chutti karle, theek ho jaega." We didn't grow up in homes that believed in prevention. We grew up in homes that feared diagnosis more than disease.  We'll pay for term insurance, life insurance, two health policies but won't spend on mental therapy. Or a fitness coach. Or a nutritionist. We'll go to a hospital only when things are out of control and then say, "Pehle kyun nahi aaya?" We'll travel 20 km to eat Chole Bhature, but won't walk 5 km after dinner. We'll argue over MRP at a chemist, but spend 600 bucks on cold drinks and namkeen for guests. And this neglect is justified with pride. We wear fatigue like a medal. We talk about acidity like it's a family member. We think waking up tired is just part of adult life. The irony is brutal. The same middle class that saves every receipt, every rupee, every old shaadi card forgets to save the body that holds it all together. We build careers. We raise families. We tick every box that society gave us. But the body we carry through it all? Ignored. Until it screams. And by then, it's already too late. The slip disc. The borderline diabetes. The insomnia. The stubborn weight. The breathlessness on stairs. Pain in joints.  We have health issues because they sent warnings we never heard. Maybe it's not willpower we lack. Maybe it's vocabulary. Instead of "Thoda thak gaya hoon," say "Mujhe break chahiye." Instead of "Baad mein dekh lenge," say "Abhi dekhna zaroori hai." Because health isn't an expense but your first investment. And fitness isn't indulgence but survival. If we don't change this script now, we'll spend our entire savings on a body we never learned how to care for & leave the next generation with body debt. WIth Regards and Best Wishes,  -- D.R.Kaarthikeyan, IPS (R) Padma Shri Awardee  President: Foundation for Peace, Harmony and Good Governance                 : AGE CARE INDIA Former : Director, Central Bureau of Investigation Director General, National Human Rights Commission Special Director General, Central Reserve Police Force 102, Ground Floor Anand Lok New Delhi - 110 049 India Phone : 91- 11- 4601 3255 : 91- 11- 4601 3266 Fax : 91- 11- 46013277 E-mail : drkaarthikeyan@gmail.com www.goodgovernance.in www.lifepositive.com https://twitter.com/DRKaarthikeyan

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