Macbeth: if we should fail,
lady Macbeth: we fail!
but screw your courage to the sticking place,
and we’ll not fail.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Macbeth: if we should fail,
lady Macbeth: we fail!
but screw your courage to the sticking place,
and we’ll not fail.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Health: A issue of social justice
Health has evolved, over the centuries, from an individual concern to a worldwide social goal. A brief account of the changing concepts of health is given below:
1. biomedical concept
Traditionally, health has been viewed as an absence of disease, and if one was free from disease, then the person was considered healthy. This concept , known as the biomedical concept has its basis in the germ theory of disease which dominated medical thought at the turn of twentieth century. The medical profession viewed the human body as a machine and disease as a consequence of the breakdown of the machine. One of the doctor’s tasks was to repair the machine. Thus health, in this narrow view, became the ultimate goal of medicine.
The criticism that is levelled against the biomedical concept is that it has minimized the role of the environmental, social, psychological and cultural determinants of health. The biomedical model, for all its spectacular success in treating disease, was found inadequate to solve some of the major health problem of mankind by elaborating the medical technologies. Developments in medical and social sciences led to the conclusion that the biomedical concept of health was inadequate.
Health is on one hand a highly personal responsibility and on the other a major public concern. It thus involves the joint efforts of the individual, the community and the state.
2. psychosocial concepts
Contemporary developments in social, psychological, cultural, economic, and political factors must be taken into consideration in defining and measuring health. In other words, health is not only a biological but also a social phenomenon.
A THING WELL SAID WILL BE WIT IN ALL LANGUAGES
By John Dryden
FOR WHAT A MAN WOULD LIKE TO BE TRUE, THAT HE MORE READILY BELIEVES.
By Francis bacon
WORDS ARE, OF COURSE, THE MOST POWERFUL DRUG USED BY MANKIND
by Rudyard Kipling
THE POWER OF FAITH
Most people translate faith as belief. Faith is not mere belief. It is much more than that. It is a strong belief along with understanding, trust and confidence. The difference between the two is easier explained with explained.
If people have a mere blind belief in god without a study of religion and philosophy, when they face a tragedy in their lives they may lose belief in god. This happens often. But when we have faith in God, which is belief strengthened with understanding that the lord is omnipotent, omniscient and all-loving, the more the troubles that assail us, the more does our faith deepen.
1. faith includes a clear understanding that what we have faith in, will always be there for us. Faith is also knowing that even though we may be small and helpless by ourselves, we are strong and secure along with what we have faith in.
2. faith gives you a great deal of courage and security.
3. try to recall pictures and paintings of great saints and religious leader. Their faces are full of joy and serenity. They have no fear or worry. This is because they have full faith in god. However terrible their problems, they know that God is with them and that he will either solve their difficulties or give them the strength to face them.
4. this does not mean that we can just sit down and pray and expect everything to come our way. No! we must do whatever we can and then have the faith that god is with us and love us. Do your best and leave the rest to god.
For example, if the exams are fast approaching and a student sits down and prays without studying properly, can he do well? Certainly not. He should study and be well- prepared. Then if he pray also he can write the exam with confidence.
WAR BEGIN WHEN YOU WILL, BUT THEY DO NOT END WHEN YOU PLEASE.
By Niccolo Machiavelli.
SMILING YOUR WAY THROUGH
A smile is an expression of happiness. A smile brings brightness and beauty to any face. It is a friendly way of reaching out to the others. A smile is a sign of love, hope and joy.
The answer lies in this poem on the value of smile.
It brings rest to the weary,
Cheer to the glum, sunshine to the sad,
Be it in a palace or a slum.
You can’t beg, borrow or steal it,
Nor buy it, whatever you pay.
For it has no value at all,
Unless it’s given away.
Smiling is a pleasurable, easy way to popularity.
Most people look their best when they smile. This is the reason why a photographer asks people to smile just before he clicks.
4. Smiling lightens your heart and problems seem smaller when you smile through them.
“A smile acts up on difficulties as the sun acts up on clouds – it disperses them,” says the divine mother of Aurobindo Ashram.
A smile is so because it radiates joy and harmony.
5. you know that the way you feel affects the way you behave, but do you know that the way you behave also affects the way you feel? Extensive research that shows that our behavior influences our emotions. Nowadays, psychologists advise people not to slouch when they are sad but to sit straight, not to drag their feet but rather to walk briskly; and to smile, not frown.
6. smiling is unique to humans alone.
Have you ever realized that, of all the living beings on earth , only humans are capable of smiling? Animals cannot smile, though they sometimes look like they do
We can make others happy , in many more ways than other beings can. We can begin by gifting smiles to everyone we know.
7. make others smile.
A smile is double blessing because it gladdens the hearts of both the person who smiles and the person who receives the smile.
8. Even nature seems to want us to smile more and frown less.
Even we smile we feel bright and full of energy. When we frown, we usually feel dull and gradually get a headache. This is because we need the use of far fewer facial muscles when we smile than when we frown. In this way nature seems to tell us to smile more and frown less.
Hope everyone will start to smile after reading this.
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.