Shaktanand's Wellness Programme CORPORATE TRAINERS' MANUAL
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Shaktanand’s Wellness Programme CORPORATE TRAINERS’ MANUAL 2016 ii Assistance: Indebted to all the dear friends who helped in inputs / suggestions of their specialized fields on below. Without them it would have been very difficult to finish the project. Dr. Ekta Jain, MD, (Pathology). Dr. Sohan Chandel, Ph.D (Psychology). Chandni Maurya, M.Sc. 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Printed at : Mahindra 51, SCO 51, Panjab University, Sector 14, Chandigarh -160014. iii Corporate Wellness From the Author’s Pen…….. It has been decades that one is passionately involved in the field of health. People of our generation, used to do more physical work, be it household or agricultural, be it going from house to work on foot or by bicycle, playing different games in the local parks together, participating in various physical exercises in the open, be it weight training or martial arts. Everything was done in the lap of nature, thus one got more connected to it. One fondly remembers a pious soul in the form of a Sikh gentleman, who fought in World War II in Germany. On coming back to India, he brought along designs of all the equipment the German army used to exercise its troops. On his own, with his money, he built those structures and installed them in a park near one’s locality during the early 70’s, when one was only 10-11 years old. His place was shifted at least three times from one sector to another, to a ground, then to a school and then again into a small ground. In early mornings around 5 am and in evening around 5pm, people would flock there; take his empty sacks to be used as mats and perform yoga asans while on the other side young people would be doing weight training, rope climbing, swinging on Roman rings, stretching on parallel bars and other equipment. All the weight - lifting equipment there was also bought by him. It was a total selfless service to which the government paid no heed. Thus one grew with exercise and sports from childhood itself. Parks use to be full of people doing exercises or playing different games, unlike the laptop and cell phone addicted population of today. People had less but still they were joy full. Everybody called the Sikh gentleman ‘Babaji’ and touched his feet. Children use to fear him also. Whenever he would come towards their side, some would run away. This was because, once he laid his hands on you at an exercise station, he would see to it that you completed that exercise. It was immaterial to him whether you we are shouting or crying or imploring him to let go, whatever! Although he was a hard task master, he was a great soul at heart. One remembers an evening in the late 80’s when one went there to just see the place and found the old Babaji walking alone with thick specks there in the park with slight unsure steps maybe because of the old age. One touched his feet and inquired about his well-being. When one asked if any help is needed to make new things or repair old ones, a reply came, “O beta, you tell me what more you want here I will get it made as enough money is lying with me.” Such was the spirit! And after a couple of years one went again to check if he was still there but alas he was no more. Just about that time things started hanging, people started earning more & more and losing health faster and faster. Money became the enter point of life and everything was sacrificed in that fire. The 90’s saw a faster changing pattern in the society. People had less and less time for each other and even for themselves. Materialistic ambitions, big vehicles, big houses, big bank accounts but, small hearts. Computers and cell phones did the rest. People iv became prisoners of their own lifestyles. They caught diseases. Whatever they earned in their prime, they pent later on for their medication. Somewhere in between these twenty years the balance was lost. Faced with diseases, a new gym culture became popular. People started undertaking aerobics, dance classes, so called cross-fits and so many different kinds of patented yogic systems. Despite all these things, society has not benefited. Why is this so? Nobody seems to have any answers to the things happening in our society because all are busy looking outside, but not inside. One performed asans but real Yoga disappeared, which was totally internal. Our culture is still intact, after centuries of subjugation by foreigners only due to the strength of the inner self, and not of outside material possessions, as is advocated by our ancient Rishis. People forgot their message and started aping the West and as a result we also have this present state of affairs. One strongly believes that to offset all this one has to return to one’s roots, the quicker the better. It is in this background that the present system was thought of and designed, with a view to help more and more people. Keeping the interest and attitude of them modern people in mind, a comprehensive approach has been devised. Nobody has time, for that matter, companies would like to utilize each and every second of their employees’ time for their own purposes. In the corporate culture an individual is not an entity but is reduced to just a number. If one can provide a solution, which will look after the physical, psychological and spiritual growth of its employees, it will be a great social service. The whole idea, being to make strong human resources, which will generate stronger corporates ensuring greater strength to our country, Mother India. Since the field of knowledge is so diverse in this programme, one has to seek the help of similarly driven souls. One is indebted to all these friends who provided their expertise in writing or editing the script from time to time. So many thanks to Dr. Ekta for her help in the Pathological part, to Dr. Sohan Chandel with the Psychological part, to Chandni Maurya for her help in the Food & Nutrition part and to Radheshwari for her help in editing of the text. Without their help, one could not have completed the text in such a short time span. Now at least one document in this direction has been generated which will be improved upon from time to time by oneself or some qualified motivated souls. This self may come and go, but the show must go on until all start enjoying true Wellness. Though one sat to write something else but as the heading suggests, whatever flowed from the heart through the pen is being written here. Sarve Bhawantu Sukhinaha, arve Santu Niram ayah, Sarve Bhadrani Pashyantu, Ma Kashchid Dukh Bhag Bhawait . Om! Dated: 11.05 pm, May 5th, 2016. Shaktanand. v Corporate Wellness Program Introduction: Life is continuously evolving. What is its purpose? The highest goal as per our scriptures and ancient seers is to realize one’s own true nature or to become one with atma. A great number of commentaries have been written on the subject. Different paths have been described to attain the same goal. Many dharmas like Sanatandharma, Budhdharma, Jain dharm etc. all talk about final emancipation. Actually Dharma is only one, i.e. to know one’s own true nature also called Swadhrma. But if we descend to a little lower from these lofty ideals, to the life we are leading, then the most apt description of it is given by yogis of ancient times. It has been described in monosyllables like Equanimity, Attunement or Sambhav. Everybody in the world desires peace, happiness and love. The ways and means to arrive at it may be different for different religions or cultures. According to Indian sage Patanjali, founder of Ashtnagyog or Raj yog, the first sutra mentioned in his scripture is ‘Yogasch Chit Vritti Nirodha’. It means if we are able to control our desires, we will achieve yog. We will be at perfect peace and enjoy eternal happiness. Slowly-slowly, the above values eroded in modern times, people started equating health with fitness, a state free of diseases etc. Everybody started frequenting various gyms, pumping iron, building muscles at the cost of their overall health, which they did not realize. Questions is, ‘Is only a muscular body, a symbol of good health’, or ‘Is only a disease free body healthy’. In our opinion, the answer is big ‘NO’. Hence, we should not be talking of FITNESS alone but rather WELLNESS. In the present manual, we plan to introduce the readers to this concept of wellness.