Health,mind ,Behaviour and character

We all know, “Sound mind in sound body”, the Greek proverb. But we only know it by words and rarely think of it. If health is good, the mind will naturally be healthy. And healthy mind will be reflected in behaviour and character. How often we use the words, “Your / his mind has gone out of order,” in our day-to-day life. It directly means (though we don’t know), that the mental health is behind the behaviour and character.

We daily see around us that some parents are very loving to all the children and some are rude even to their own children; some teachers during our school time were more patient and some used to punish very often; some of the bosses are very lenient and some are harsh and frightening. If we conduct a survey in depth on their health conditions, we would reach the conclusion that there is always an abnormality somewhere with the health or with some organ of the body which is responsible for the abnormality in their behaviour. But we do not bother even to think of it that the behaviour and character are the reflections of the health condition and are satisfied with what we are. We also preach our children to have a good character and behaviour. But we should also know how!

We don’t realize and we don’t even know that we hurt many just because we are not really healthy. From heart, we don’t want to hurt anyone around us especially near and dear ones. But sadly, we hurt only the persons who are around us and who are near and dear ones to us. And maybe sometimes we repent after we have hurt them, still we repeat it because of our ill health. An example: The ill health reflected in anger of a man is tolerated in the form of beatings or rebuking by his wife and children alone and not by outsiders.

Some of the bosses who in the state of bad health use “scolding” as a mode of getting things done from juniors or subordinates and pretend that this is the sure way of getting the things done should check their health thoroughly and remember the scolding contained in the proverb, “He who fears you present will hate you absent.” The cause is ill health, the manifestations are ill manners and poor etiquette and the result is? You know it. Irrespective of our status in the society, if we are not healthy, we can’t at least win the hearts of people we are in contact with.