EFFECT OF MEDITATION ON HEALTH

The best wealth of a man is - Health as It is the source of all happiness. A man may possess much wealth but If his health is not good, he cannot be happy. He is always remains sad and he is unable to find peace of mind. Healthy and unhealthy men contrasted - It is our first duty of preserving our health. We cannot do anything without good health. We don’t get interest in doing anything. The whole world seems to be an unhappy place to an unhealthy man. An unhealthy man always thinks of his ill health because his life is total miserable. Nothing can give him pleasure but good health. He does not have strength of mind and courage. On the other hand a healthy man is always cheerful. He finds interest in doing a thing. He has got strength of mind and sees the bright side of a thing. He is always hopeful and enthusiastic. He does not lose heart easily. A healthy man is then the happiest all men. Components of Good Health: There are many components of good health and similarly many things are necessary to necessary to preserve health. The first necessary thing is pure air and second thing is water. Also, we must have good and nutritious food. We require exercise of the body and the last among these (xxxxxx) is rest. Physical exercise must not be taken too much. We become tired if we take excessive exercise. After exercise we require rest. So, we must have sound sleep at night. Physical and Mental health legislation is essential for protecting the rights and dignity of persons with mental disorders, and for developing accessible and effective mental health services. Effective mental health legislation is instrumental in providing a legal framework to integrate mental health services into the community and to overcome problems such as stigma, discrimination and exclusion of mentally-ill persons. Legislation also create enforceable standards for higher quality medical care, improve access to care, and protect civil, political, social and economic rights of mentally-ill individuals, including a right of access to education, housing, employment and social security. Furthermore, mental health law can establish guidelines through which a country can develop mental health policy, for the people. It can also, reinforce previously established mental health policies that seek to provide effective and accessible mental health care for the community. Mental health legislations play an important role in implementing effective mental health services, particularly by utilizing political and popular will to reinforce national mental health policies. Enactment of mental health legislation can pave the way for findings mental health services, create accountability for those responsible for providing mental health services and overcome bureaucratic gridlock to ensure compliance with mental health policies and directives. WHO and international guiding principles for mental health care mandate that all human rights, including the right to privacy, informed consent, confidentiality, freedom from cruel and unusual treatment and non discrimination should be guaranteed through mental health legislation. In WHO HEALTH REPORT (2001) it was reported that 67% of countries in South-Asia have mental health legislation and rest of the 33% have no such law. Mental health care in India over the last 25 13 years has been an intense period of growth and innovation. India enters the new millennium with many changes in the social, political, and economic fields with an urgent need for reorganization of policies and programmes. The mental health scene in India, in recent times, reflects the complexity of developing mental health policy in a developing country. The National Health Policy (2002) clearly spells out the place of mental health in the overall planning of health care. These developments have occurred against the over 25 yr of efforts to integrate mental Dr. J. K. Trivedi health care with primary health care (from 1975), replacement of the Indian Lunacy Act 1912 by the Mental Health Act 1987, and the enactment of The Persons with Disabilities Act 1995 focusing on the equal opportunities, protection of rights and full participation of disabled persons. The growth of voluntary action for mental health care in the areas of suicide prevention, disaster mental health care, setting up of community mental health care facilities, movement of family members (care givers) of mentally ill individuals, drug dependence, public interest litigation to address the human rights of the mentally ill; research in depression, schizophrenia and child psychiatric problems are other major developments.