2. Ideal Health as per Hinduism

Ø What is Optimum Health?

Optimum health means body is not only functioning perfectly, the possibility of disease happening should not be there. That is what is optimum health.

First thing required for optimum health is oxygen! Your body is made up of trillions of cells. Each one of them requires a steady flow of oxygen. Oxygen is so important, even if few seconds of disturbance in oxygen supply, cells can cause disease.

Every cell needs steady flow of oxygen. Unfortunately, most of us even though we are breathing, we don't take the oxygen completely. Oxygen supply to each cell is such an important necessity not only we don't supply enough oxygen to trillions of cells in our body, we go on disturbing it.

In Siddha tradition there is a beautiful description – every time you visualize certain negative idea in your system – For Example: you visualize an accident – then every such time one part of your body does not get oxygen supply! The moment you create stressful negative thought, immediately the system responds to it and the oxygen supply to many parts of your body drastically gets reduced.

In Vedic tradition, we go one step beyond oxygen. We call it prana. Prana is the food for the mitochondria in your cell.