Yoga Sagar

SR No.: 014011
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Paramhamsa Satyananda
Publisher: Bihar School of Yoga Munger
Publication Year: 1994
Total Pages: 436
Language: English
Classification: Seminar & Articles
File Size: 24 MB

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ROLE OF YOGA IN HEART CARE
Dr. H. S. Wasir
We have all assembled here from different parts of the world and of this country to seek something, to achieve something and to disseminate something. For any achievement, for doing anything in the world, the most necessary medium is health. Sliareera madyam khaludharma sadhanam. To achieve any righteous things in the world, it is the body, the health which is of tremendous importance.
Before I come to the aspects of heart care and the role of yoga in heart care, let me define for you the World Health Organization's definition of health.."Health is the state of plete physical, mental and social wellbeing, and not necessarily the absence of disease and infirmity." That is how we define health: the state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing. This is precisely where the role of yoga comes in. What is that medicine? What is that modality which can give all three of these to us, physical, mental and social wellbeing? This is where the contribution of yoga comes.
As a cardiologist, my main talk is on the role of yoga and autogenic relaxation in heart care. Practising every day, seeing lots of heart patients, doing angiography, angioplasty and being involved with patients who are going for by-pass surgery, I always feel there are lots of deficiencies in the system, which we cardiologists have to fulfill in order to take better care of our cardiac patients. This is where I have been trying to inculcate, first in myself, next in my colleagues, and then in the patients, a better heart care system.
The treatment of any disease or any patient has two aspects. The first is curing the disease and the second, more important aspect on which practically the whole of the Charaka-Samhita is based, is the preventive and promotive aspect of the diseases.
Now, we often wonder, is it the heart which is responsible for the heart attacks or is it something else? I do not think the
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