Surya Ma's prescription for preventive medicine and healing remedy always includes prayer and meditation at the top of the list. The link between emotions, diet, and disease is now well established. Yet diabetes, cardiac, and blood sugar diseases are now afflicting alarming numbers of people, and the increase is spiking on a yearly basis. How can you stop this self-defeating cycle of using sugar and carbohydrates, or drugs and alcohol to appease the insidious craving for safety and security, love and intimacy? How do you reclaim the life that you want and deserve, from a life sentence of being overweight and depressed, or otherwise unhappy and devitalized?

Surya Ma has long advocated a twice-a-day meditation and prayer practice as essential not only for the spiritual cultivation of your soul or higher self, but also as a tool for sanity and survival for living in an unreal world that is wildly out of balance. Let your prayer and meditation time become your "manas" for health and well-being. Statistics abound that meditation is an effective stress reduction remedy and tool for living a spiritually and physically healthy life. It is also scientifically proven to be powerfully effective for those who are facing a life challenging crisis, injury, or illness.

Stop the negative cycle of emotional reactions and daily upsets that serve only to increase the samsaras of illusion and karmic burden. Stop the impulse to reach for yet another cookie or substitute for emotional well-being. Reach instead for the light of your soul and the calm waters of meditation and prayer. Find refuge in the Divine. Find refuge in your deep heart of hearts. Find refuge in the transcendence of your higher nature. Find refuge in the illumined mind. Meditate and draw nigh to your Lord, God, your master above all masters. It is there that you will find the universal wellspring of wisdom that can guide not only your life and your soul's higher purpose but your every thought, word, and deed.