CONFUSED MEDICINE !

Modern medicine has allied itself with exact sciences like physics, chemistry, nuclear physics etc. All these sciences tend to become abstract as they reach their frontier but medicine is abstract to start with. This has resulted in confusion. Exact sciences use logic which is not so vital in medicine. Medicine is yet to define life or death. Medicine does not know what is mind. Medicine still does not know many areas of the body. Mind and body are still dealt separately when they mean two aspects of the same organism. Medicine is interested in treatment of disease when a human being is interested in health. Medicine makes a person dependant on some external gadgets when health is freedom from them. Medicine doesnot know who dies and who is born yet the practitioners behave as if they know all and everything. They are really confused but do not show it. Modern Medical Men and Women are not only NOT humble but to hide their confusion they have become very arrogant. A knowledgeable person appreciates that there is much in medicine which is not only not known but unknowable.

Human body is a process. We call ourselves human "beings" and not "be's", simply because our body is a n ongoing process from conception to death and even beyond death. Why ? This whole universe is a process and not a steady thing. It is said that one cannot put one's hand in the same river twice because the river is a flow. Little does one think that the hand is also a flow. Therefore one cannot put hand in the same river even once because the hand and river both are flowing so to say. If we appreciate this fact then it is easy to appreciate that suffering is also a process. If we can arrange the flow called body in a specific way the suffering can be alleviated. We must "heal" our body and not "treat" it as Modern confused medicine is trying to do. The doctors are becoming businessmen instead of healers and patients are not participating in their "healing" because they are allowing the doctors to " treat " them. This results in distrust and antagonism betweem them. They both must appreciate that medicine treats without knowing much about the process called disease. Medicine knows more and more about disease every day which itself means that it is also a process. Patient who appreciates this will be appreciative as well as alert of the services offered by the doctor but will never complain. A doctor who knows this will be humble before a patient rather than in some exalted position.

Present civilisation is the laziest civilisation in the history of human beings. We do not work for our shelter, food, clothing and finding a mate. The human body requires a careful maintainance so that it can function well. The " well being " emerges from a healthy body as a symphony emerges from notes. Body and mind are not two things but one. Modern Medicine must forget the dichotomy of "Psychiatrist" and "Physician". Unless it is appreciated that body is mind and mind is body there cannot be any "healing". One tends to treat one with complete disregard for the other as if the other does not exist. Such " treatment" invariably fails paving way for litigation and lawsuits. Unless the physician knows or tries to know his or her own body/mind unity it is going to be beyond his capacity to ever understand somebody else's body/mind. One then knows that our bodies are not separate but united by some invisible threads which connect not only all the living things but non living things as well. One sick person,animal,plant,insect,bacteria or virus makes the Universe that much sick. This understanding is behind all healings. Treatment leads to "consumerism" where investigation is a byword. The diagnosis is made with inferences accrued from investigation and not from directly perceiving a persons "presence". Inferences are more likely to be wrong because the interpretive faculty of mind comes into play. Mind can never come to a correct conclusion because it "interpretes" same things differently at different time depending on the "mood" so to say. Unless the healer is able to suspend her or his mental faculties it is not possible to initiate healing. Heaaling is related to whole. Body, mind, sex, soul, environment and everything under the sun. Usually our bodies take various postures throughout the day, day after day. There is little variation in our working postures for years together. There is no variation depending on seasons as may have happened hundreds of years before.We have also invented " pain killers" which completely disregard and obliterate the most important signal coming from our body. Use of pain killers makes our body even worse. In the end the body has to scream to let you know what it feels. Mind plays an adverse role in this situation at the cost of body.