Health Benefits of saying Alhumdulillah .... There are many examples in the Quran and Hadith of the virtues of a positive mental attitude, perseverance and optimism in the face of adversity. However, did you know that patience and a positive outlook on life are two of the greatest healing tools that you can use? The Quran (2:155) says, Give glad tidings to those who exercise patience when struck with adversity and say, Indeed, we belong to God and to Him is our return. Such ones receive [the] blessings and mercy of their Lord, and such are the guided ones. According to the findings of modern science, it appears that this mercy may often come in the form of improved health. Bernard Jensen says, in his book The Science and Practice of Iridology, The doctor of the new day will recognize that a mans most important workshop is not the physical body, but the mind that controls it. Dr. Ted M. Morter confirms this in his book, Your Health... Your Choice, when he says that negative thoughts are the number one acid producer in the body (and high body acidity levels are a major cause of disease)… because your body reacts to negative mental and emotional stress brought about by thought the same way it reacts to real threats of physical harm. In fact, hospital studies show that, of all the patients who consult outpatient clinical facilities in the United States, an astounding seventy percent are found to have no organic basis for their complaint. That figure is amazingly high. However, although medically these patients are not found to have an obvious organic source for their complaints, there actually is a physical basis for this phenomenon. Since Freud popularized the idea of psychoanalysis, people have often focused exclusively on the mental realm to solve certain problems, forgetting that we cannot separate the physical and mental realms. Appreciating Allah’s Love The mind is in the brain, and the brain is an organ. Like all other organs, it feeds from the same pool of nutrients that other body organs feed from and is susceptible to all of the same problems. Ultimately, the brain is just a part of our body like all of the other parts and is completely dependent on the body. It requires sugar to develop energy unlike other tissues that can develop it from potassium and fats. Consequently, it is the first organ to suffer from low blood sugar and it reacts most severely. Freud himself said that psychoanalysis was not suitable for treating diseases such as schizophrenia, and he postulated that their causes eventually would be found to be biochemical. If we keep in mind that the brain is an organ and that it works in harmony with the other organs and feeds from the same bloodstream, we can understand how various mental events can affect us physically. For example, simply using our brains to think and study burns up nutrients in our system, particularly phosphorus. Heavily exercising the brain can cause us to suffer from a phosphorus deficiency. And we find that the reverse is also true in this relationship. People who have high intellectual capacity usually have high levels of phosphorus in their system. There is much wisdom in the Prophets (SAW) statement (narrated by Abu Huraira), The strong [person] is not the one who overcomes the people by his strength, but the strong [person] is the one who controls himself while in anger. In fact, staying patient and calm is key to physical strength.
Posted on: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 07:05:42 +0000
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