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The benefits of yoga

admin — Tue, 25 May 2010 23:00:30 +0000

Yoga is a philosophical therapeutic system which is a unique combination of spirituality and physical exercises. It works on the principle of a union of body and mind, the synchronization of the inner and outer realities of man, each controlling and rejuvenating the other by that cohesive action.

This physical cum metaphysical system is one of the oldest disciplines expounded by man. Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, a text which is of fundamental importance to the proponents of yoga, is dated around 300 BCE and there are references to the system in texts written much before it as well.

Yoga is an extensive system and covers a wide variety of practices. Karma Yoga, Raja Yoga, Jnana Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Hatha Yoga are all branches of this discipline. Each has within it, in one form or other, the synergy of body and mind. Karma Yoga is based on the perception of proper and good action and its lasting, if not immediate effects on an individual. Raja Yoga is a higher form of the more popular Hatha Yoga, with an added emphasis on introspection and contemplation. Jnana Yoga is concerned more with intellectual development and Bhakti Yoga is about devotion and reverence to creation.

The bulk of what has been today popularized and is known to the common man as Yoga is the practices of Hatha Yoga.

Yoga discipline’s curative and restorative potential is very high. The system involves several asanas or postures which are physical exercises, and breathing exercises. Many of these exercises, though they may appear difficult to the beginner, can be mastered by almost every one, by slow and steady practice. It is a discipline of sequential progression.

Yoga sessions generally start with overall warming-up exercises. This is followed by slow, prescribed and guided movements of neck, shoulders and eyes. Then comes Surya-namaskara, the first of the more important exercises. The word literally means paying respects to Surya’ and the exercise is referred to in English as the sun salutation pose.

This sun salutation exercise is considered one of the best exercises for human body. It is a series of movements that involves bending the head down without bending the knees, raising oneself on toes and palms, touching the forehead to the floor by curving the whole body and then coming back to the original position. All this is managed together with synchronized inhaling and exhaling and holding the breath in-between as prescribed. By stretching practically all muscles

What is anxiety?

admin — Fri, 21 May 2010 01:30:23 +0000

What is anxiety? I will try to answer this question from a personal viewpoint, and relate it to my understanding of the metaphysical and spiritual links that create anxiety for you from your hidden thoughts or emotions driven by some internal reasoning process, that you need to become aware of to alleviate anxiety fully, rather than to mask it by taking medication.

I myself feel anxiety whenever I have uncompleted events in my life, or unfinished business, or when I have an unknown future to face. When I have to wait before I can do something, I begin to experience anticipation anxiety. For example at the weekend, when a certain business is closed, and perhaps I have to confront them in the next week about an error on my account, I am most anxious until the situation has actually taken place satisfactorily, and been resolved completely.

If it is not resolved fully, I remain even more anxious, until it’s all satisfactorily resolved. I am always anxious in this way when anything is left uncompleted, or unfinished, or unfinalised.

The fullness of you as a person is restricted by anxiety. Anxiety is a pressure cooker of the traumatic allowance of all your misaligned thoughts, of all the anticipated negative outcomes, that are possible for you. These thoughts are replayed many times over, producing anxiety, and anxious waiting for the result, that the thoughts will be satisfied from and by. Thoughts are never satisfied, and so anxiety builds and rebuilds, until the thoughts burn themselves out from a preponderance of upwards pressure, allowing them to trigger an annoyance level, that you cannot then sustain.

Annoyance is the first step of the ladder, heading towards anxiety.

At this time, you will try to drop all of your thoughts, not only your anxious thoughts, out of a now newly acquired attitude of not caring, or of an apathetic acceptance of what is. This is a pseudo form of acceptance, created from an attitude of fear in your bottom line. Fear leads to a bravado, devil may care attitude, and a hidden form of anxiety follows.

This hidden form of anxiety develops in you, and manifests as physical pain, such as headaches, and shoulder pain, whenever you are too afraid to be your real self, and when you have stopped trusting your real self, and the flow of your life. Acceptance though, proper acceptance of the situation as it is in reality, is the only true cure for anxiety. And acceptance is no more than developing trust in yourself, and in the natural

What is yoga philosophy?

admin — Sat, 08 May 2010 17:07:54 +0000

Yoga is an assessment of the philosophical and metaphysical world. It is indicative of mind being over matter. It is a state which focuses on whatever the yogi is attempting to accomplish at the time. It involves all elements of the central nervous system and all the senses loaned to man by God. It is a state of meditation that allows someone to retrain their thoughts , hypnotize another or astrally leave their bodies during time of travel, pain or atonement.

One result was seen in a commercial about the Vietnam War where the Vietnamese would set

themselves on fire and not move. Under mental depravity the human body becomes an astral body void of any human sensations; therefore, not being subjective to elements related to pain. This feat requires deep, very deep concentration. They did not move because they did not feel anything.

In judo things are shattered by one blow, without hesitation because the mind is on destroying the object targeted.

The prophet Ezekiel said “Afterwards he brought me to the gate,even the gate that looketh toward the east: and, behold, the glory of God of Israel came like a noise of many waters: and the earth shined in His Glory.” At that time RE ( Eye of The Heavenly Father ) had given

the third eye to His people for overstanding as their consciousness was omnipresent. Therefore the prophets could relate ideas through mental reservoirs comprised of messages from The Heavenly Father or clairaudience from angelic beings for instructions of what God wanted done.

A true yogi see the world and its inhabitants as manifested by Gods’ Creation and not something that simply occured. The law of coincidence is not coincidental and the Lords’ Creations did not accidentally run into Einstein or Newtons theories of gravity or neutrons.

If one is in tune to nature or the soul of ones’ existence he is capable of being in control of its’ destiny. If one believes he exist because of another man, for his purpose, his thoughts are

not his and he cannot master anything beyond what he can see.

According to the word, “Faith is the substance of the unseen”. Light travels fast and one either see it or glance at it. Day is light and night is darkness. the universe can capture the beauty of the existence of night and day as man is afraid of his own spiritual or equal power given to him by God. The philosophy is we are the light.

It goes back to obedience and disobedience. The planets and the universe simply obey God. It is man that decide to place rivers where there were streams. It is man always altering the truth and allowing God angry to shatter the very earth he loaned us to enjoy.

Every time a scientist think he has a solution something get outside of the compound and he is right back where he started.

The philosophy of yoga is to use ones’ mind outside of the ten…,no seven percent and he will explore the world regardless of what state he is in without having to come back spiritually after his demise in a causal state because he think he missed something.

Yoga allows one to settle differences before they are out of hand by allowing a tunnel vison of things to come. A yogi with prayer and patience becomes a master to those around him with peace and unity. The only forces upsetting will be as with any other entity, a non believer.

Breast health

admin — Sat, 08 May 2010 11:17:39 +0000

In spite of over 50 years of research, chemotherapy, etc. cancer is on the rise. One wonders, “If research can solve the cancer epidemic, then why is cancer on the rise? Think about thisyou can not deny the reality that cancer is on the rise in spite of all the research since the early 50’s. Where is the cancer prevention if cancer is on the rise?

If you’ve been pinked, then what? News reports on TV, radio, magazine and newspaper headlines and email subjects ‘You’ve Been Pinked” grabs everyone’s attention about supporting research for”The Fight Against Breast Cancer.”

Like Louise Hay, Metaphysical Healer and author, “You Can Heal Your Body,” German oncologist, Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer, MD, operates under the premise that every disease, including cancer, originates from an unexpected shock experience.

The discovery came after Dr. Hamer, former head internist in the oncology clinic at the University, Munich, Germany, lost his son in an unexpected tragedy. A few months later, he developed testicular cancer. His diagnosis led him to study the connection between stressful events and disease by investigating the histories of his cancer patients.

He discovered, like himself, every one of his patients had gone through a very stressful episode prior to being diagnosed with cancer, and, upon investigating other diseases found that every disease is controlled from its own specific area in the brain and linked to a very particular, identifiable, “conflict shock.”

Dr. Hamer based his theory on five biological laws that apply scientifically to each and every case of disease. They include:

1. Any cancer starts with a traumatic event , that is to say, an extremely brutal shock, a dramatic and acute conflict, experienced in loneliness and sensed by the patient as the most serious he has ever known.

2. It is the subjective meaning of the conflict, the way the patient experienced it at the moment of the traumatic event, its coloring, which determines:

a) Hamer’s focus, that is, the specific area of the brain, which, under the influence of the psychic trauma, suffers a breakdown and thus induces an ill-proliferation of cells (cancer) in the organ dependent on this short circuited cerebral area;

b) The location of the cancer in the organism.

3. There is exact correlation between the evolution of the conflict

Emotional sources of disease

admin — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 00:26:41 +0000

The link between emotions and illness isn’t new concept. In 1984, Louise Hay discussed the mental causes for physical illness and taught the metaphysical way to overcome them in her book titled You Can Heal Your Life.

Manifestations of stress, annoyances, fears, phobias, resentment, guilt and a number other of personal conflicts often appear in the physical form. The ideology of this kind of self-healing is based on trigger points in the body and what problems in those areas translate to

in your personal life.

For instance, the knees represent the ability to bend, according to Hay’s findings. A

person who is having trouble with their knees may be stubborn, egotistic, or self-righteousness in his personal life – unable or unwilling to ‘bend’. In order to relieve the affliction to the knee, the person should work on his ability to roll with the punches and adapt better to his circumstances in life.

The stomach represents digestion and absorption. A person who is experiencing stomach

aliments is thought to have trouble digesting issues or events in their lives and/or ’stomaching’ or tolerating people and/or circumstances. The person may want to investigation which situations and/or people they are having tolerance issues with and work on resolving those. In turn, Hay’s findings suggest that the stomach ailments will resolve themselves.

It isn’t just the organs or limbs of the body in which personal conflicts can manifest into the physical. Hays suggests that there are many other conditions that also relate to these conflicts. Anorexia and Bulimia are thought to manifest because the person doesn’t feel they are worthy so they withhold life nourishment (food) subconsciously from their bodies. Being overweight suggests a need for protection, thus the extra padding a person puts on. Swelling is indicative of being ’stagnate’ or ‘bottled up’ with no where to go. Skin conditions suggest a threat to individuality, in that something or someone may be wielding power over you. Bladder infections, as well as constipation, are attributed to ‘holding things in’ such as hurts or anger. Tumors are believed to represent harboring ‘old growths’ and not allowing healing to occur, such as personal grudges.

If you learn to listen to your body, it will speak to you. Additionally, if you learn to listen to your mind, it will also speak to you. Once you have these two powerful forces speaking to you in tandem, you hold the key to healing your body.

No doctors.

No medications.

No long, drawn out treatments.

Very simply – mind over matter.

What is Yoga ?

admin — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 08:45:30 +0000

YOGA

Introduction

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Yoga, has been and is still an enigma to a large number of people. One should admit that people have learned to consider the Yoga to be something great and at the same time to be something reserved for the sages only. This is the reason for which men and women maintain some awful distance from it. They claim their innocence to own such attitude towards Yoga as they have been taught that persons with expertise in Yoga are generally anything more than extraordinary and that they are beyond the reach of the common human beings. Still one can notice that the government of India have been considering to request a person like Swami Ramdev to impart lessons of Yoga to the paramilitary personnel, that is, to thousands of persons in the security and defense in order to free them from stress and strain.

Definition

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Yoga is a Sanskrit word and this particular word means union. A section of people of the ancient India has a strong metaphysical bending of mind. They have an idea that with a specific set of mental and physical practices a man can be united with his creator, that is, with the eternal self. They had a belief that a man must motivate himself for this end. The philosophy of Yoga states that final and the greatest human wisdom may be achieved by an collective insight on physiology, ethics, psychology and spirituality which is possible to earn only through sincere, proper and regular practices of Yoga.

History of yoga

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It is hardly possible to determine how old this practices are. The Harappan people(3300 to 1700 BC) might have such experiences because some seals found in the sites of the Indus Valley Civilization have engravings of male figures in meditation-like posture.

The Vedic period is also based on anticipation. In the Vedas, for the first time in the earliest religious scripture of India, that is in the Rik Veda prescription of Yoga has been noticed. The concept of Yoga has been well-exhibited in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishada, (one of the earliest religious and philosophical texts in India). This philosophical exercises of the Upanishadas have been anticipated to be sometime in 400BC. References of Yoga have been marked in the Indian Epics, that is, in the Mahabharata and the Ramayana, which are works of 5th to 2nd century BC. In the Bhagabat Gita (200 BC) and in the Yoga-Sutra of Patanjoli (200 to 100 BC) the Yoga has been referred and discussed as one of the most important subjects.

Amritakunda (meaning Pool of nectar)

How to improve your emotional health

admin — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 17:24:52 +0000

Emotions are a very interesting part of human behavior and life. Not one person on this planet is exempt or excluded from feeling a feeling or an emotion. At one time or another, we will feel the emotional button being pushed. I am psychic and I do readings, however…I do not do psychic readings. Back in the 80’s, when I began this part of my journey, never…would have I imagined saying; “I am psychic, I do readings, but don’t do psychic readings”. As I have discovered, my psychic/intuitive abilities have become a tool for emotional healing; clearing, aligning and checking in. As an empath, I sit back, listen, watch, and can immediately pinpoint where our energy falls out of alignment; i.e…a bad mood, sadness, anger, etc. Our emotions are being pushed for a reason. We are being asked to heal our past, our childhood imprinting and patterns of behavior, so that, not only do we feel better emotionally, but we also become more in tune with who we are within our hearts.

In order for our religious, metaphysical, spiritual, or human beliefs to take root…we must travel to the root of our emotional core. If we experience any kind of emotional pain, this pain causes friction and the friction can throw our perception of any given experience, off. As I share with my husband, daughter, and anyone I am working with…we must do a constant check in, to see what we are feeling. We can be emotionally thrown off, just by walking into a crowded store or walking into a crowded room. We may not be able to make our immediate experience disappear, we will however, neutralize the emotional charge, so that we can function from a clearer and better place of knowing. While on the phone with my daughter one morning, while she was at work and I was home, as I was talking to her, I noticed that her energy was off and being the mommy empath that I am, asked her what was up? And it took a few minutes and a few questions to get her to feel what was up and pinpoint why her space was off.

I explained that maybe what she was feeling, wouldn’t go away…but if she took the time to ask herself what was up, she would be able to shift and lift her emotional space and come back into a neutral space. By the time we were finished with our conversation; her energy had become neutral and shifted into better balance.

There are steps to improving our emotional health. These steps take practice and committment, on a regular and daily basis. Journaling is one way to improving emotional health.

A brief history of alternative medicine

admin — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:03:10 +0000

The history of alternative medicine itself is anything but brief: while they’re commonly called “New Age” or “alternative” practices today, such techniques have been around for hundreds, even thousands of years. They originated in tribal times and intellectually dark times, when desperation was much more commonplace than scientific knowledge.

When you don’t know how to provide a cure, it makes sense to just do your best and hope it works, and for centuries, alternative but ineffective cures have been relied upon for this reason. Scientifically tested medicine rules the roost now: it has led us to develop vaccines, penicillin, insulin treatments, chemotherapy, and hormonal birth control, doubling human life expectancy in less than a century.

Humans, however, seem to have forgotten about these nearly miraculous discoveries. The potential gold mine of real health care has been filled in, for some, by New Age and Alternative medicine. Alternative medicine is no longer the best we can do, but just like many other traditions, it has stuck around, occasionally gumming up the works in the search for health and happiness.

Native American Medicine, Shamanism, and Witch Doctors:

This form of healing is based on the belief that cures come from nature, as well as the supernatural, and is most likely many thousands of years old. The medicine consists of a combination of herbal recipes and metaphysical rituals, including “ritual purification,” in which impurities of the body and conceived soul are removed via religious ritual.

Doctors are known as medicine men and medicine women, and true traditional doctors of Native culture do still exist, but they are a rarity. More common is the general idea of herb and ritual healing, used in a modernized but Native-inspired way, very often in New Age circles. Advertisers like to use models of the Native American stereotype when selling herbal products, as traditionalism gives a product credit in the minds of many. While some herbs, like marijuana, the most controversial of all, are good for us when used in medical moderation, others aren’t very effective. With untested Native medicine, it’s hit-and-miss.

Western Religion:

Hope, submission and faith have influenced the medical practices of monotheists since monotheism began. For a very long time, especially during Europe’s dark age, faith was all people had, and they relied upon it and prayer to provide relief to their suffering and add length to their pitifully

How to improve your spiritual health

admin — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:24:15 +0000

VIBRANT HEALTH

For the last three years I have been having digestive problems, losing weight, sleeping poorly and having a poor appetite. With a great deal of urging from my worrisome wife; I visited the doctor who gave me a complete battery of test including a colonoscophy. I was elated when he told me I had no problems and from all the test evidence I was told I was healthy. But, my conditions mentioned above continued, but, but with less severity. I identified with the doctor’s pronouncement of good health and the result was some temporary improvements.

Vibrant health is always in the here and now present. It is very easy to write these words, but to live them is a very insightful gradual process. Being here totally present or conscious in each and every moment can be lived or practiced but we have to be very clear what this means. It is unquestionable about eating healthy hormone and chemically free food, a balanced exercise program, plus stable and nurturing emotional and spiritual connections with yourself and others. But, the most fundamental aspect of any physical, mental (emotional), spiritual health is how much you are here and now present. Many positive metaphysical philosophies operate on the assumption that you can be joyous, enthusiastic, energetic; if you just change your thinking to being positive. Repetition of positive affirmations many times each day are used to try to keep you on the positive side the pendulum swing. In the short term, this is temporary, helpful fix. But, to really become totally present or conscious requires one to develop a habit of being very attentive or watchful in one’s daily experiences. Echkart Tolle is correct when he says that most of our thought is totally repetitive. We are habitually controlled by our ego which is a preoccupation with the past and future. For example, we are in constant identification with physical, mental (emotional) and even spiritual forms or roles. The assumption is that the more material possessions or toys will create happiness. Also, we identify mentally (emotionally) in our roles as parents, teachers, mechanics, lawyers, doctors, husbands, wives. Even spiritually, we can slip into the subtle role of seeing ourselves as more loving or spiritually advanced than others.

So, what does all these all these identifications have to do with being vibrantly healthy? A simple, explicit true statement can be made. The more identified we are with physical,

What is alternative medicine?

admin — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:45:19 +0000

Alternative medicine generally refers to practices not typically used in conventional medicine. Alternative medicine covers a broad range of healing philosophies, approaches and therapies. Examples are homeopathy, naturopathy and herbal medicine.

Considerable confusion remains about what exactly alternative medicine is and what position the disciplines included under this term should hold in relation to conventional medicine. For some, it is simply medicine that has not been proven to the clinical standards of modern western medicine. For others, it consists of undervalued therapies that have been used successfully for hundreds of years.

In the UK, the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology report on Complementary and Alternative Medicine categorised specific approaches and therapies into 3 groups:

Group 1: Professionally Organised Alternative Therapies

Acupuncture, chiropractic, herbal medicine, homeopathy and osteopathy

Group 2: Complementary Therapies

Alexander technique, aromatherapy, Bach and other flower remedies, body work therapies, including massage, counselling stress therapy, hypnotherapy, meditation, reflexology, shiatsu, healing, Maharishi ayurvedic medicine, nutritional medicine, yoga

Group 3: Alternative Disciplines

3a: Long-established and traditional systems of healthcare

Anthroposophical medicine, ayurvedic medicine, Chinese herbal medicine, Eastern medicine, naturopathy, traditional Chinese medicine

3b: Other alternative disciplines

Crystal therapy, dowsing, iridology, kinesiology, radionics

Alternative medicine practices are based on unscientific belief systems or philosophies. They may incorporate spiritual, metaphysical, or religious underpinnings, untested practices, pre-modern medical traditions, or newly developed approaches to healing. If an alternative medical approach, previously unproven according to orthodox scientific or regulatory methodologies, is subsequently shown to be safe and effective, it may then be adopted by conventional practitioners and no longer considered “alternative.”

If the treatment or therapy is used in conjunction with or in addition to conventional medicine, it is referred to as “Complementary Medicine” as the two practices complement each other. An example of a complementary therapy is aromatherapy, a therapy in which the scent of essential oils from flowers, herbs, and trees is inhaled to promote health and well-being to help lessen a patient’s discomfort

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