Ignatius Raphael - cosmic traveller

Day #41:     Our body. Our temple (100 days Gratitude Challenge) My body is my temple. If I keep it clean, I stay blessed. If I abuse it, I suffer. It is such a complicated and sophisticated piece of machinery that it has the ability to self-correct and repair itself. It has the ability to take a lot of abuse and still come back to balance. But as any other piece of machinery there is a limit to how much we can abuse it and it will become too late if we cross that limit. Did you know that our body has some default processes that take place without our conscious intervention? ·          Breathing/Respiration ·          Digestion ·          Expulsion ·          Sleep When we breathe right, we stay healthy. Airconditioned environments are not healthy for long periods of time. Take breaks where you go ...

Day #21: Grateful for my body (100 Days Gratitude Challenge) There are many things in the world that we take for granted and one of the most often abused and neglected thing in our world is our body. I just assume that it will work all the time. I assume that all the parts will do their job all the time. I feed it junk and expect it to work. I starve it, overfeed it, deny it crucial nutrients, abuse it and neglect it and I expect it to work. And the funny thing is it does. It takes all that you can throw at it and surprisingly purrs on unconcerned for years and decades till one day it just buckles under. Today I want to give gratitude to my body. It’s a magnificent machine that s self-correcting, self-calibrating, self-healing, and self-energised. We, humans, are yet to create such a magnificent machine in spite of having in our possession all the supercomputers, intelligence and technology in the world. I shall give a simple example. Yesterday evening, after a full day of ...