|| Nothing changes if nothing changes ||

As J. Kennady correctly stated, "Change is the law of life." Those who just gaze at the past and present will undoubtedly miss the future. " In warm milk, until a small amount of curd is added, it does not transform into curd. If you do not burn butter, it will not be transformed into ghee. Similarly, if you do not include hard work and dedication in your work, your future will not be successful. There is a small story about a boy who asked his father why, around Diwali, we all celebrate our rituals and welcome each other. And we pray to God that our approaching years will be as bright as Diwali diyas. The mother explained that during Diwali, we invite special guests named wealth, love, and success to our home. The daughter was curious and questioned her parents why we needed all three and how we were going to work on it. The Father emphasized so brilliantly that we spread love by greeting, welcoming, and appreciating each other for who we are, and that a strong connection allows us to grow and help to grow wealth, which leads to success. The difference is how simple it is and how complicated we make it. Nothing changes until we decide to make the necessary changes.

In ancient times, there was one guru who had such faith in Lord Krishna that he used to teach in an ashrama and then travel to other ashramas during the monsoon to monitor how students were learning, eating, and behaving. During that time, he also used to get a chance to meet people from the village where this ashram is located. People in that village used to wait for him, and he would guide them. He used to travel by foot or by boat to all of the communities, doing all of his rituals, including prayers, and eating whatever people gave him. When he was travelling through Ashrama and saw kids narrating shlokas, he would join them and if they didn't know, he would help them relate it and understand it. He possessed so much inner strength that he could change everything, yet he never misused it. He used to help people appreciate and enjoy nature; if he saw more food in one town than another, he used to encourage people to be kind and share it. In one village, where there was little food and he could see that people relied  only on the milk from the cows, he gave them advice on how to use the milk to their best advantage, distribute it to the children, and use the proceeds to buy food.

The moral of this story is that it is up to you to use your intelligence and inner strength positively to serve mankind, which is inherited in us, but in the rat race of the globe, we have lost what our forefathers taught us. Change must come from within, and if we do not change, nothing will change. Our forefathers used to heal people's minds with natural herbs, understand their psychology, and make conscious attempts to lead them. Today, we go straight to the doctor and take medicine to suppress panic attacks, not realizing that those pills can hurt our thinking process. We need everything to happen quickly and even faster to cure, but we don't understand the implications. I recently had a female patient who had a paralytic attack and panicked when an ambulance Cyrene passed by her house, and they quickly had the facility to relocate her to another residence and contact a doctor to minimize the panic attack immediately using depression medications.

Our tolerance is eroding day by day, and we have become so reliant on medications, particularly since the pandemic, that we are unsure where it will lead us. Another lady who came to see me stated she doesn't get along with her mother-in-law since she caused her problems in the early years of her marriage. She no longer wants to do anything for her mother-in-law or her husband, who has condoned his mother's wrongdoings. "I've become really rude and somehow my nature has been that I always give it back to whatever I've received, and I'm so restless and I don't know what to do. It's bringing me to depression. Sometimes I think that by spending time in prayer I'm not doing good karma, yet even after realizing this, I can't alter myself. Do I take antidepressants?", the lady added. I replied,"if you're 40 years old and not willing to change, how can you expect your 80-year-old mother-in-law to? If you have a small bit of love adoration in you, love has the potential to change everything."

She also stated that her child is not listening to her and that he does not have time to shower her with love and respect. I just told her that you are a role model for your child, and if you don't have love and affection in you, how can you expect him to? If you change, then your child will as well. Many times, tiny changes lead to enormous changes in a person's life. We recently had another lady under the age of 40 who developed hearing loss. We made her hear through hearing aids that were barely noticeable, and she was hearing really well, and she felt like the whole world was open for her to talk. She had a good family background, was very wealthy, a fitness freak, and very beautiful as a model. We merely informed her that with the kind of look she has, why doesn't she go for modelling and possibly a beauty contest, and that she was missing hearing, which we worked on.

She responded with great enthusiasm, "I was thinking up until now that nobody in my family has such a problem with that, and I was cursing how and why I got it and unsure of what to do, and you're encouraging me to go for a ramp walk?" We asked her, "Why not? Now that you have what you were missing and the world is open for you." The idea that the world could change for her has changed her attitude toward herself. Though you may be in any profession, love, comfort, affection, and positivism must be passed on. Sometimes the smallest things can make a tremendous difference in the lives of others, especially those who are looking for good light in their gloom.

From young children to senior citizens, we treat patients of all ages in our clinic. While we assess everyone, we never label anyone with a problem or disease. We consider them as a whole, work on their psyche, and simply assist them in overcoming their challenges while making them smile. I believe that designating a child as having autism, a mental disability, hearing loss, attention deficit, or any other label lessens the parents' desire to work with the child. They begin their own Google research and conduct all of the trials with the child, as do the grownups. We had an intelligent boy who felt he stammered and had done all the homework to work on his problem, and he recently had an interview and visa call for the same. He was having sleepless nights and other problems. All of our clinic personnel used to sit with him and discuss how to overcome all communication challenges, and he himself believed he simply had a respiratory anomaly while speaking, which he worked on, and he performed extremely well in his interview.   

       

                                 

Small changes in an individual's cognitive process can sometimes make a tremendous difference. We are moving so quickly in this fast-paced society that we have forgotten that we may change ourselves through our inner potential. We have forgotten how important it is to search for and work on it. We have broad exposure, but our thinking is narrowing. Instead of understanding our strengths, research is causing us to find fault in ourselves. Our weaknesses are gaining control over our strengths. Change is required, but nothing will change unless we decide to make changes. With my positive thought process, I have brought about change in myself and those around me. How about you? Decide to make a change and be happy always.