Think for Tomorrow, Act Today

One of my favourite quotation by HH the Dalai Lama. This quotation makes me understand the purpose of making money. It also gives me an information on not to neglect our health.

How much should we eat and drink?

How much
How much should one eat and drink as per meal? It is very simple. Divide your stomach into four portions. Fill two portions with food, one portion with drinks and leave one portion unfilled   or empty for the circulation of movement energy. However, digestible foods and drinks one can have more than two portions of the stomach filled up, while indigestible ones one can have less than two portions of the stomach filled up. In the Four Tantras of Tibetan medicine, mentioned as one half of the stomach should be filled with solid food. One quarter should be filled with water and the fourth quarter should be kept empty for accommodating loong.


Benefits of Healthy Eating Regime
Then, it can protect the momentum of the digestive heat in the stomach thereby providing smooth mechanism of digestion process. If the digestion goes well, it is the real insurance of one's life. Health heavily depends not on how much one eats and drinks, but how digestion goes on. Mahamata Gandhi said: "if someone does not the significance of indigestion, he or she does not any thing about health".

Harmful Effects of Unhealthy Eating Regimen

We should eat and drink how much our body demands. No need to drink more water- seven litters of water a day- as our body does not require that much. Drinking too much water unnecessarily leads to weakening of the digestive heat, resulting in the development of indigestion, which is attributable to other conditions such as eating more solid foods, indigestible ones, and eating late in the evening.

Maintain your health by practicing Bodhichitta

Bodhichitta is a Sanskrit word meaning of 'awakening mind' or 'mind of enlightenment.  It is simply an aspiration to render service to worldly beings on the same foot as we do something to our own children, and is a practice by which one can sooner or later attain Buddhahood. Beyond the concept of Buddhism, the practice of cultivating Bodhichitta brings valuable advantages to oneself as well as others, especially prevents process of aging, disease and recuperation. Thus, the practice of Bodhichitta is not only a tool to attain the Buddhahood but is a noble medicine for mental health.

Doing something for the benefits of others and thinking the other being more important than oneself is an unimaginable thought to benefit oneself as well as others. In the pursuit of Bodhichitta one should always extend your helping hand to all, share the suffering of others and meditate on the welfare of all sentient beings. The Buddha said, "to make oneself happy, should you make others happy." Without involvement of other people conventionally one cannot be happy by oneself. If there is one who is in the dire need of help, if you do help, he or she will be happy by the way you become happy. Happiness that you pant for more comes from doing help to others. Happiness keeps your mind always peaceful and calm. The more your mind is peaceful and calm, the more your body becomes healthy. Thus, there is a saying from the Jewel Lamp: A Praise of Bodhicitta

With bodhichitta one drives feelings of pain
With bodhichitta one overcomes nastiness
With bodhichitta one cures unhappiness
With bodhichitta  one gets rid of fear

However, if you practice bodhichitta to benefit for yourself, is not a genuine practice of bodhichitta.

In modern science happy mind plays a significant role in health. The happy mind protects your immune system which keeps us away from infection. To be happy should we practice bodhichitta.While cultivating Bodhichitta there is no spacious room to develop illness and even the sick relieving from the pain. Thus, bodhichitta is a noble medicine for our mental health too. Thus, there is a saying from the Jewel Lamp: A Praise of bodhicitta:
By relying on the medicine of bodhicitta
all the diseases of defilement are cured
so in all the world it is definite
that there is no medicine like this

Drinking water is helpful to your health

Every day one should drink  six liters of water, and more especially during summer times and hot days. Since water constitutes 75% of our body, it helps to smooth functioning of blood circulation, and bowl moment as well. Even a single cellular function needs water as a transporting agent to receive nutrients. Every half an hour our brain needs water for neurological functions.

Thereby water loses from our body in a swift way, even taking a few steps, in such case we could not notice its loss. It is important to replace the lost water timely, otherwise causes headache, thirst, blurring vision, dryness in the mouth to name a few.