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Many of us are and were hooked on to the popular television series Game of Thrones which concluded recently. After experiencing shock and horror while watching the first few episodes, one gets used to the gory scenes.

Friends turn foes overnight. It takes only a few seconds for the Starks to get brutally slaughtered. You don’t even get moments to feel angst and regret for the blood-laden and scattered dead bodies of the Starks. It is all over in a couple of minutes. Robb Stark, his mother Catelyn Stark and Talisa (Robb’s wife) from Volantis are all dead. Walder Frey befriends the sinister Tywin Lannister and gets them executed.

The fiery Daenerys Targaryen and consistently power-hungry Cersei Lannister are the two main contenders for the Iron Throne. Then there are a handful others all engaged in wars and deceit. All are threatened by the Army of the Dead.

There is something to take note of.

Soldiers, they all follow what their queen says. They obey their masters with precision and loyalty. Take any war film. Or let us imagine the wars that have been played on our soils in the past. Hundreds and thousands of soldiers have but a single focus of action. They do what they are told to.

Our minds are the kings. The cells of our bodies do what the mind says. Watch what you think, speak and behave like. Know your disposition.

We breathe every moment and inadvertently take this life-giving function for granted as most of the time we are unaware of how we are breathing. We don’t realize that it takes only fraction of a moment for the breath to stop. Only a moment for life to leave the body.

As part of the autonomic nervous system, breathing is an involuntary action. And yet we can become aware of it when we choose to do so.

Similarly, there is a space where thoughts and feelings meet physical cellular matter. Have you felt your stomach twitch or throat feel tighter in any situation? Have you felt your breath stop for a moment? Have you twisted your ankle while walking without realizing that your attention was somewhere else? Have you felt a jolt in the body when you heard something?

There is a place and a time when exchange of information takes place between the mind, body and the spirit. They converse. The place is in the body. Diseases set in when the cells interpret our complexities minds and communication in a twisted manner, or rather when we twist things up in our lives.

To free your body from a disease or a health problem, it is the cells of the particular organ in the specific location which need to transform. However, a disease could originate in one place and show up at another. The cells need to take new information, that of to heal and this brings the power of the will to the fore. Every cell behaves like an individual and has a mind of its own.

Dis ‘eases’ demand us to change. They push and force and behave in an equally stubborn manner, reflecting us just as we are with our ways and unhealthy habits.

Diseases incite us to get better. We evolve and grow, and this is the opportunity that diseases provide, particularly the chronic ones. They push us, they force us to dig deep and find out what it is that has led to its existence in the first place.

Almost all the times, the issues lie within us. Our thought patterns, feelings, responses and behaviors. Once you crack this, you get closer to letting go off hurts, pains and all those emotions which are no longer required but have been allowed to live inside your bodies, often unknowingly or forgotten.

For to get well, you must smash your old habits and ways of thinking.

You must change your food habits and adopt healthier practices in life. Diseases challenge our routine habits which we are so much in love with and have trouble letting go. Very well, the disease too is not going to leave unless you change your ways and habits for the well being of the body.

It seems as if mankind still does not understand fully, where and how diseases originate. We are able to trace them at the organic levels, bacteria and viruses. Even genetics. But still, we cannot track the triggers. The triggers are emotional and mental cues. Our body is a reflection of what is going on within. And this is a tough lesson to learn in life.
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