satnaam ji,
dandauth bandhana ji (prostration greetings).
Alot of people think getting cancer is just bad luck and its out of their hands as to wether they get this disease or not.
Then they carry on with their life as normal. Well, most cancer and other diseases prevalent in western society is
due to our lifestyle. Bad diet, no excercise, stress, drinking alcohol and smoking are the major causes.
Guru Nanak Dev Ji said that "aapay beej aapah hee khao ... What we sow is what we reap" and that applies not just to spirituality, but also
to the food, drink, drugs and stressful hurtful words we put in our mouth with the result of disease in our body.
"Nanak fikay boliaa tan mun fikaa hoi" Guru Nanak Dev Ji says "speaking bitter words results in the body and mind becoming bitter too."
There are always going to be diseases that we cant avoid due to our genetic makeup or our karma playing out, but we certainly can avoid at least 40% (some say 90%)
by clean living according to this BBC Health article.
Even knowing that a healthly lifestyle is good for us, people still dont change their habits. I know I was reading these kinds of articles for 3 years without being able to change.
So without God's Grace we can't change, we can't avoid the disease that our lifestyle is guiding us too. Instead of giving up, please pray to SatGuru ji every day and sincerely to grant His favourable glance upon us so that we can change our bad habits. The change in lifestyle happens by God's grace which allows the mind to change its thinking and the body just follows the new regime.
Another thing that really has helped me is to realise trying to be healthy out of fear of avoiding cancer doesn't really motivate for very long. Trying to lose weight or to build mucles doesn't motivate for very long either as it is all ego based. It can motivate us for a couple of months at most when we are really dedicated, pay money to the gym, go every day and so on, we see the results too, but then something happens and we stop going, get complacent and end up back in the old lifestyle. I have been through that cycle many times. But this time with God's Grace, I was able to have a different perspective. This time I accepted this body is not mine, it is God's gift to my soul. It is for me to look after. This body and soul is called God's Temple - the real Har Mandir, by the Guru's. We do so much service maintaing and running the Gurdwaras or temples, mosques or churches, but no time maintaining the body temple in which God - the soul - actually resides and will become manifest. So with God's Grace this time I prayed that all the good eating and excercise and good thinking is in the service of God's body temple. That God would accept it as service to Him, just as we hope god accepts our selfless service at the religious places. And secondly, I didn't set any future targets. The only aim was to change bad DAILY habits into good DAILY habits. Change from high fat diet to low fat diet, change from crisps and sweets to nuts and seeds. Change from no excercise to 30 minutes a day of anything - yoga, walking, running, cycling. Change habits of late night TV watching to early to bed, early to rise. Change negative thinking to positive praise of God in nature. Change from complaining about the negative cards karma dealt me to thankfulness to God for this fleeting chance to be in this human body and do naam simran. Change from associating with people that caused me stress which then caused me to seek relief from my bad habits, to associating with people that allowed me to be at peace with myself.
All this has happened by the power of personal prayer - ardas to Satguru Baba Ji for his kind favourable glance so a sinner like me can be ferried across the terrible ocean of the mind. From prayer to grace to change of thinking to change in actions to a change in lifestyle to longer healthier life.
God bless you if you are at the stage of needing to change.
God is kind, God is merciful, God forgives us, our body forgives us too, as soon as we change our habits our health improves.
Dust of your feet
Harjit
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