Are you concerned about your child’s future? Do you often overlook asking your children about their aspirations?
This is what happened to Raghav, one of our 15-year-old boys from Hyderabad. Raghav came with his mother for a consultation at my office. As a matter of practice, I always perform Nadi Pariksha. This is the most effective method to investigate a person’s thoughts and feelings, which are often the root cause of physical illness.
As I was checking his pulse, I realised the agonising body pain he was enduring, which prevented him from even sitting up straight. He did not smile and had dandruff on his scalp. It was clear that he had gone silent and was brooding. At one point, I also noticed suicidal thoughts in his pulse, and that shook me.
How easily children contemplate ending their lives, I thought. His mother was sitting beside him. I couldn’t share my findings with her immediately. So, I waited until I had completed my investigation and told his mother that I wished to speak with Raghav in person. She consented to my request and left the room.
As I looked at the evaluation chart, I could see this was a case of deep aspirations being snatched from him. Raghav shared how he aspired to be a Business Development Expert who would change the direction of the company he chose and turn the graph skyward. What a brilliant vision of wanting to transform industries, don’t you think so?
However, his father had a different opinion. He wanted Raghav to become an engineer first and then pursue whatever he desired. Raghav never wished to displease his parents and thus agreed with his father’s wishes, enrolling in a science college to undertake his pre-university education. It had only been a few months when he fell ill with pneumonia. A child’s future must be taken seriously.
If you didn’t know, pneumonia occurs solely in those individuals who begin to lose their enthusiasm for life, a fact their parents never realised. He recovered after a year of treatment, but then started to suffer from severe body aches and pains, which prevented him from even sitting up straight. They were concerned. However, Raghav did not want to miss college because the subjects were complex for him, and he needed to put in extra effort to learn them. He would wake up early and stay up late at night after college hours.
After talking to him, I asked him to request that his mother join the conversation. In my way, I had to explain to her the perils of pushing a son to achieve what they believed was a bright future when the brightness of their boy was at stake. The child’s future was at stake.
Before we concluded the session, I performed Marma Chikitsa to help alleviate his pain. Today, seven days later, his aunt called us and informed us that they had discussed the matter with their son, Raghav, and had concluded that they would fund the course he wished to study. Not only that, but they also enrolled him in the Business Management pre-university course.
Raghav left a message for us to say that his pain has since vanished.