IT IS WITHIN OUR REACH

The 49 years old Belgian athlete Stefan Engels has created a record of running a marathon a day, consecutively for 365 days. a wonderful achievement.

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/SPORT/02/05/marathon.record.engels.365/index.html

I was just reading this news item. Rolling down to the news item, i found out something very interesting. He was a patient of ASTHMA, as a child. The doctors had told him that he would never be able to do exercise. It was then that he decided to start running marathon. Now look at the achievement of the same asthma patient.

The reason is simple. I believe that doctors usually OVERACT and make the patients terrified. Being sick is just a part of life, and the life must go on. But my experience shows that the doctors usually do more to terrify the patient instead of building his confidence and will power.

The only way out that the doctors usually show to their parents is medicines. the patients of blood pressure, sugar, etc etc live their lives just with the help of the medicines. Whereas had they not become addicted to these medicines, they could have lead a normal life, just by being more disciplines and careful. But the doctors do not show them these ways. The medicines are not the only recourse. Disciplining the daily life is the answer.

I might have mentioned earlier too. I was a regular visitor of doctors' clinic till i was in my early twenties. I was diognised Tuberculosis. A pretty long and strenuous period of medicines, injections, x-rays, blood tests etc etc passed, and that made me think about asking myself. "Is this the only way?".

With the help of my father, i started collecting information about the human body and medicines. then i found a book that my father had brought a couple of years back. It was the urdu translation of an english book. I do not remember its name now, but i remember i had found it sometime back on the net also. The book is the life tale of a person, who did have a long history of heart disorders in his family. He himself was a centre of quite too many sickness as a child. The doctors had never hoped that he would remain alive. But this young man, later on  studied human body, its functions and disorders, and decided to discipline his life.

He charted out his own principles of disciplining his own life. He tested all his theories over his own body and started seeing the results. The book carried his photos at the age of 20s and 70s. He was too fit at the age of 70.

Just simply, disciplining the life.
BASIS OF SELF DISCIPLINING