• Buddhists, believe that a healthy body is important for enlightenment.
• Health is the balance of the body, mind, emotion and spirituality
• It is the harmonious balance that is attained through right understanding of the four noble truths.
• Buddhists believe that disease is caused by ignorance that leads to craving, desire, impurity and indulgence which lead to disharmony as physical, emotional and spiritual levels.
• No one can harm us except ourselves.
• Our thoughts dictate our happiness and through it we can improve our wellbeing.
• Practicing meditation and reading Buddhist texts can generate positive thoughts.

How to meditate

“sit cross-legged in a solitary place, keep your back straight, and direct your mindfulness in front of you, [focusing] on the tip of the nose, the forehead, or the space between the eyebrows. Keep the wondering mind focused completely on one thing. If a mental affliction – a desirous thought arises, you should not hold onto it but should brush it off like dust on your clothes. Even if you have eliminated desires from your mind, there is still an innate tendency towards them, like a fire smoldering in ashes. My friend, this should be extinguished by water. Unless you do this, desire will arise again from the innate tendency, as plants arise from a seed. Only by destroying the tendencies will they finally be eradicated, like plants whose roots have been destroyed… When one washes dirt from gold. One first gets rid of the largest pieces of dirt, and then the smaller ones, and having cleaned it, one is left with pieces of pure gold. In the same way, in order to attain liberation, one should discipline the mind, first washing away the coarser faults, and then the smaller ones, until one is left with pure pieces of dharma (Saundarananda chs. 14, 15 tr. JP)

Mandalas help in meditation

Mandala evoke healing, spiritual development, and meditation, it represent wholeness, health, connection, unity, harmony, and the cycle of life.
They remind us that we are one with life, going with the flow, and reflecting inward. Mandala meditation help to release stress relief, relaxation, and self-expression.