I wandered lonely as a cloud....

At the start of the last winters , circumstances conspired in such a way that I was once again came across some 'daffodils'.
It unfolded in a particular form of lifestyle (that I will not name- so that people do not develop a prejudice to it because of the prejudice they may have towards me).
However this particular form helped me another step in trying to tie up the ends of my HOLISTIC beliefs.
I have always believed that for a person everything that he thinks and does is linked to the outcome of his daily and even immediate happenings.
What he thinks when he gets up and eats for breakfast definitely has link to his performance during the day.
Sorry, I made a mistake - with 2 ladies at home I have to be politically correct and say HER instead of HIS.
Our sudden attack of sinusitis or migraine is definitely linked to what we ate in the morning, which side of the bed that we got up from, how we cringed at the site of that gruesome murder reported in the paper... this all this ends up on our desk for problem solving at 11:00.
Then again the small signals that we ignore in our daily life are the ones that make up our final 'WHOLE' .
Being the son of a dexterous homoeopath- I was introduced to the various human body constitutions , quite early in life - I learnt how just one medicine can treat the person of various ailments that one may not even know that existed.
It was so shocking to learn that my destiny was taking me to work in an environment (physical) which would actually treat my chronic cold . The salty air , I was told by my father was actually the medicine for my cold.
It happened!!!
Now to be back to the experiment that I mentioned in the beginning.
This skill or exercise that I learnt- taught me to treat the 2 sides of the coin 'just the same'(Kipling again). However this was not in the philosophical sense- not those big talks of treating good and bad times equal etc.etc.
This was actually about treating the physically opposed things as same. Painful and good sensations were to be treated equal in actual physical and metaphysical sense.
Then I thought that if this were true then I must try out this theory immediately .
Hence the idea came to try out the opposite in the winter season that was ensuing.
Starting from taking bath in cold water and sleeping with the same type of covering as in summers I tried out the theory.
I would like to emphasize that this was not to show off and the element of 'tolerating' the cold was not to be there.
The results surprised me. Not only I was comfortable in Dehradun , in a T-shirt in the month of December - my famous 45 year old cold also kept away from me. The nagging headache that I used to have after exposure to low temperatures was missing.

Now that the summers are looking up here in Jaipur- I'm still comfortable in the same clothes and 'treating' the environment just the same.
I know Girish is laughing- since he's been in a T-shirt for last 40 years and teasing me.

HAPPY HOLI!!!