STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: Relentlessly working towards his mission to aware the common populace about the morbidities arising due to the incidence of cardiovascular diseases Dr. Sushil Sharma on Sunday held a day long camp at Mathwar Nagri in the outskirts of Jammu city.
More than 300 people were screened during the camp who were also thoroughly evaluated, diagnosed and free medicines were given to them as per the requirements. Dr. Sushil Sharma briefed the patients how spirituality and involvement in religious activities can delay the onset of Cardiovascular Diseases. He maintained that our physical health is intricately linked to our spiritual, mental and emotional health.
“We must focus on our mental and spiritual health and not ignore them. Negative emotions viz. anger, stress, and pessimism/negativity increase heart disease and may take years to manifest consequences,” he said.
However, he added, anger, stress and pessimism make one crave for high sugar, high salt and fatty foods which are not good for healthy heart.
Chronic and sporadic anger are damaging to the heart, he said adding that anger stimulates the sympathetic nervous system, causing a surge of the same hormones that are released during the early morning hours to help us wake up and start the day.
“Anger is detrimental to our physical, mental, and spiritual health and left unchecked it has the capacity to kill us,” he informed.
Continuing in the same vein, he stressed that our emotions cause changes in the concentration of various substances, like hormones and steroids that circulate in our bloodstream. Emotions influence the amount of resistance and turbulence within our blood vessels. They affect our organs – including our heart – in intangible ways. Stress can affect endothelial cells, which will send signals that trigger inflammation and clotting of the blood. If a person has hypertension, diabetes, smoking, dyslipidemia, and aging, they are predisposed to endothelial cell dysfunction. The endothelium is sensitive to psychological stress. This can compromise blood circulation to the heart. Stress also modifies cells in the bloodstream.
He however emphasised that no doubt spirituality is far more than simply looking at religion and religious practices but for a beginner involvement in religious activities may prove as a starter to reach at larger spiritual heights and thus helps in negating negative emotions. He thus underlined the importance of socio-religious trusts catering the social and spiritual needs of the people and henceforth can be used as a potent platform to bring health awareness in the society.
Mahant Mathwar Mandir Parisar Yashpal Sharma appreciated the efforts of Dr Sushil and his team for conducting a cardiac awareness camp in such remotest area and that too in extreme weather conditions.
Positivity in life is the real mantra to undo the effects of negative emotions on health, he said.
Others who were part of this humane effort included, Dr. Dhaneshwar Kapoor, Dr. Anitipal Singh, Dr. Nidhi Mahajan and Dr. Chakshu Mahajan. Paramedics and volunteers who were part of the team included Kashmiri Lal, Kamal Kishore, Raghav Rajput, Vikas Sabharwal, Ankush Kohli, Suresh Sharma, Gourav Sharma, Rajkumar, Rajeev Vohra and Vikas Kumar.
