Where is the Autonomy? - Human Body and Health

Why are we so fearful of infections? When we get a cold and a cough it is always some else who has given it to us somehow, it’s never us giving it to others! Don’t touch this — don’t touch that — don’t share food etc. are common statements that you may hear around this.

I was wondering if a doctor or a therapist fears infections, who will treat and who will heal the sick?

Did Mother Teresa die of Leprosy especially since she mostly served and loved leprosy patients?

Immune system is a shared field of heart space. Being heart conscious allows an incredible boost to our immune system. Sharing the fluid field adds to the boosting of the immune system within a family and creates a common microbiome and common gut eco system. Our traditional Indian rituals are so beautiful in how they preserve and encourage these eco systems within family, building bonding alongside. If you ask me, what is another term for immunity - I will call it social bonding.

Do you know why during an Indian wedding ceremony, the bride and groom fed a single piece of food/sweet and drink water/milk from a single glass? Do you know why they are encouraged to eat from the same plate? In fact, this is practiced in many other cultures; extended to even communities — for example in Arab communities, Bohra Muslim community, Jain community and many other communities - they share a meal from a single extra-large plate called the Thaal. The entire family and the extended family eats from the same plate.

Do you know - in most cultures when a baby begins solids at the middle of the first year of life,  the mother often softens food in her mouth before she feeds her baby. This is a common practice in most traditional cultures.

Sharing spaces with an open heart, without fear and judgement is the single most game changer in boosting your immune system. The more we isolate ourselves the more the NEED to further isolate in times of crisis like an epidemic or a pandemic.

Does it mean we discard basic hygiene? — the answer is NO.  It is the subtleness that needs to be understood here. We need to think about what we may have moved away from and why so many communicable diseases have topped the charts despite so many inventions of vaccines and antibiotics.

Is the sense of a loving ‘community’ dying? What is the meaning of community in the real sense - when science today tells us we are 99.9 % community of microbes and less than 1% of human cells?
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Who then are we running away from? Something to ponder upon....