This evening I was trying out a slightly modified version of my carrot muffin recipe in my new oven. I’ve hardly used it so far – only the grill 4 times & twice (this was the second time) to bake anything.
I sat down to have my dinner and was approaching my last few mouthfuls when I heard a bang! It was an explosion from my oven where the inner glass section had shattered, strewing glass fragments over my kitchen floor.
Carrot muffins in exploded oven ...
Glass strewn on floor
I quickly turned off the oven & sat down again to finish my meal, wondering what could have caused this dynamite reaction. I shall be in contact with the company who fitted the kitchen about what happened tomorrow but in the meantime this incident sparked the following thoughts.
I have been meaning to contact the company about another issue in the kitchen for a couple of weeks but have been putting it off as it wasn’t anything urgent. How often do we have niggling little health issues that we put off because they are not anything urgent. Other more important matters come up. Then something “explodes” in our body, which means we have to act immediately to rectify the situation.
No dis-ease appears suddenly. It develops over a period of time and the body offers us signs in the form of discomfort, pain etc. which we can choose to ignore or suppress or to listen to and act before the situation is out of control and out of our hands. Preventive medical systems such as Ayurveda offer many lifestyle guidelines that we can use to look after our health, even before signs appear.
Ayurvedic practices help heal and empower the body, mind and spirit by emphasising nature, energy and balance and advocating prevention rather than cure. So they can help to enhance our quality of life.
Ayurvedic nutrition is one part of Ayurveda, in which we can learn how to use foods to establish balance and health in the body and mind.
What preventative steps could you take now to make sure that you continue to enjoy health peace for the foreseeable future? Share your comments below.
2 Responses
July 27th, 2009 at 1:21 am
The health step I could and should take is to get back into the netipot habit… interestingly, when I went to the doctor recently about a persistent cough, he prescribed something to me that once I picked up from the Chemist I realised is pretty much a sort of automatic netipot. Most interesting!
September 13th, 2009 at 12:04 am
How profound to break the word disease into dis-ease. You are so right about things sneaking up on us over time, and we don’t address them until we suddenly have urgency in our face. Many people struggle with weight gain and loss. It’s so much harder to work on the issue once it becomes an urgent matter – i.e. heart disease, joint problems, cholesterol, cancer…all because we didn’t modify our nutrition and activity in the beginnings of our dis-ease. Thank you for a thought-provoking article.
Leave a Comment