Importance of friends and community support

Posted By Alexey (Yoga-from-A-to-Z.com) On March 12, 2010 @ 10:50 In Food for thought, general health issues | No Comments

I like an answer from Swami Satchitananda (not 100% sure that it was him, but it doesn’t really matter):

When he was asked: “What is the difference between illness and wellness?” – He circled first letter in the first word and two first letters in the second:

illness vs. wellness

see? How neat!

I’m not sure if origin of these two words has anything to do with this difference… But this I vs. WE difference serves our purposes just right. Point I would like to make is the following:

without friends, community around us – life is harder, harder physically and emotionally
for the very least: if person is alone and depressed and there is nobody to support him or her – that person more often than not is smoking, abusing alcohol, overeating
…and getting all kinds of health issues – we all know about psychosomatic connections…

And if you think about it: Yoga is Union… — some say: Union with Absolute Self… but in my opinion – first of all Yoga is union with people (and everything else) around us… and through that union – comes deepness of union with oneself… and One (?)

Be well!

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