Should someone be looking for good weight loss program I recommend you to see this overview of diet programs for weight loss since even the physical aspect is part of self improvement. Otherwise use Yoga to get fit
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According to the Freudian psychoanalytic theory, the conscious, better known as Ego, is the superior mental substrate that is that what let us have awareness of ourselves and of our relationship with the surrounding environment.
To understand better what is said we must relate the conscious to the unconscious, that is its more hidden counterpart, which is located in the enteric brain or the below brain, in the intestines; everything we know and remember with consciousness is domain of the conscience, while any removed experiences are relegated to the unconscious, where they still remain active.
The theme was deepened by Kant with his concept “I think” and by Schopenhauer, to which Freud relates very.
Many believe that they are well separated two shares of the brain, instead NO: the conscious is the one that works more when we are awake, that rational, what decides, the unconscious works also and above all when sleeping.
We can define the conscious as that part of ourselves that is aware of itself and the world (the conscious mind).
The consciousness has the function to monitor the voluntary motor activity.
The unconscious is all that of which we are not aware rationally in a given time (breath, heartbeat, hormones, glands, attitudes, emotions, etc.) and that inevitably leads us to make certain experiences that are helpful of any kind.
The conscious mind continually provides opinions on what is possible to think-do and about what is not, rather than simply to try some behavior that makes it possible to discover whether it is or is not possible. The conscious mind, with its limited system of belief, is much less willing to try than it is the unconscious.
Most of our psychic-physical functioning, is determined from the unconscious, that means, occurs at a level of a natural chain of events that works very well without the intervention of our conscious part.
We live more ‘guided from the unconscious then the conscious therefore ids it the belly that guides us!
Bandler and Grinder affirm: “The conscious mind gives continually reviews on what is possible and what is not, rather than simply try to search for some behavior that makes it possible to find out whether it is or is not possible. The conscious mind, with its limited system of belief, is much less willing to try than it is the unconscious. Typically, the unconscious has no such restrictions. The unconscious mind, provided they are organized and educated in an appropriate manner, is willing to try anything. If you are in your study and a person says, <<I cannot do this and I want to do it>> a useful hypothesis is that this person has already done everything he is able to try to make that change with his resources he disposes consciously and has completely failed.
One way to avoid to combat with someone or to obtain a resistance is simply to eliminate the conscious mind. ” Milton Erickson said in Sydney Rosen: “What we will not make Sid account, is that most of your life is determined from the unconscious.”
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5 Ways to Tickle Your Funny Bone Group Giggling
Making time to laugh and play can boost your health. Experts say that laughter increases endorphins, strengthens your immune system, and sends extra oxygen coursing through your veins. Find out why some researchers believe laughing is as good as a mild workout.
Burns Calories
Laughing for 10 to 15 minutes raises energy expenditure, increases heart rate, and can burn up to 40 calories. However, it’s not a weight-loss method. “People can’t eat at McDonald’s and then expect to laugh away their lunch,” says Dr. Maciej Buchowski, a professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University. Even so, a few calories every day translates to a few pounds a year—so keep those laughs coming!
Causes “Runner’s High”
Laughing increases positive endorphins, reduces stress and strengthens the immune system. Even just anticipating something funny increases anti-viral, anti-tumour defences, reports Dr. Lee Berk of the School of Medicine at Loma Linda University. The benefits of humour can last up to 24 hours—this may be why we say “laughter is the best medicine.”
Increases Job Satisfaction
Humour improves communication, creativity and overall performance in the workplace, says Dr. Chris Robert. He’s a psychology professor and researcher at the University of Missouri-Columbia who studied how laughter affects employees. He says, “The ability to appreciate humour, the ability to laugh and make other people laugh, actually has physiological effects on the body that cause people to become more bonded.”
Increases Hope and Self-Worth
Watching just 15 minutes of a comedy show can alleviate worries about health or career. Texas A&M psychiatrist David H. Rosen found that a chuckle can replace negative thoughts with positive ones and help formulate a “plan of attack” for problems. This in turn increases feelings of self-worth, which makes overcoming obstacles even easier.
Protects Against Heart Disease
“Research suggests that a good sense of humour wards off heart attacks,” says psychologist Steve Wilson. “Laughter dilates blood vessels so blood flows more freely. Humour was a significant positive addition to standard cardiac rehabilitation.” Dr. Michael Miller, director of the Centre for Preventative Cardiology at the University of Maryland Medical Centre reports that laughing reduces the fat and cholesterol build-up in the coronary arteries. He says, “The old saying that ‘laughter is the best medicine’ definitely appears to be true when it comes to protecting your heart.”
Eliminates “Us Versus Them” Thinking
Comedy makes us more inclusive of others and helps us see the big picture. Happiness and humour reduces narrow-minded perspectives, says University of Michigan psychology researcher Kareem Johnson. Laughing can slash bias and bring people together, which strengthens our work, home, and school relationships.
Improves Counseling Sessions
Therapists who laugh with their clients increase feelings of connection and bonding, reports Dr. Carl Marci, the director of Social Neuroscience at Massachusetts General Hospital. Psychologist Steve Wilson adds, “Laughter is thought to be one of the earliest ways that humans signalled support and ‘it is safe to relax here.’ Good-natured shared laughter between counsellor and client can foster trust, rapport and reduced defensiveness.”
Helps Kids Tolerate Pain
Cartoons can help children cope with painful procedures, such as needles or visits to the dentist. In October 2007, Dr. Margaret Stuber from the University of California’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Centre found humour helped kids tolerate pain longer. In her study, the young patients who watched funny movies still felt the pain of a standardized pain test (in this case, dipping their hands into icy cold water), but they could endure it better because they were distracted.
Improves Classroom Interactions
Research shows that humour facilitates student discussions and increases course enjoyment. Mark Shatz, a psychology professor at Ohio University, found that top ten lists, jokes, and cartoons—all related to the course material—increased academic performance and students’ level of participation. “They expect us [teachers] to be boring and dull. We don’t have to be funny, but the attempt tells students that we’re trying to make the course more interesting.”
Strengthens the Immune System
“Stress hormones are reduced during laughter, allowing the immune cells to function better,” says psychologist Steve Wilson. “Laughing also promotes an oxygen/carbon dioxide exchange and clears airways. Muscles and joints are flexed and stretched, promoting muscle tone.” He says that by some estimates, laughter is a human ability that is about four million years old. “We need to be using it, not stifling it.”
By Laurie Pawlik-Kienlen TheAdventurousWriter.com
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I got from About.com today an email informing me about a person that suffered a stroke and discovered so “Nirvana” she perceived herself and the rest of creation as “all part of the same magnificent field of shimmering energy.
I past that to you because it fits right into the themes that we handle here on my Blog and because it demonstrates that I am here not talking about some unreal and esoteric things. There is also a video on YouTube that I place here too where you can listen to that woman.
You can read it here on About.com
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Your personality affects your health and ability to bounce back from illness. Here’s how personality traits such as hostility affect your body and immune system.
Your personality affects your health more than you may realize. Your personality traits not only affect your body and immune system, they can also speed up or slow down how quickly you recover from illness.
Does Personality Cause Cancer?
Your personality affects your health because your personality traits dictate how you handle stress. If you are a “nice” person who doesn’t express anger or frustration appropriately, you could damage your health. Some doctors call this the “cancer personality” because personality affects cancer cells. If you’re too nice, you may be repressing negative emotions, which affects your health negatively. Heart disease or even cancer can develop from a suppressed immune system, which can be caused by not making waves and being polite at all costs. Certain personalities are more prone to certain diseases.
Men Versus Women
Researchers at Duke University Medical Center found that negative personality traits increase the risk of coronary heart disease. These negative personality traits include anxiety, hostility, anger, and bouts of depression. The traditional risk factors of heart disease are high blood pressure, elevated cholesterol levels, and extra weight. Each negative personality trait by itself is associated with heart disease; together the traits are the best predictor of your risk for developing heart disease. These researchers encourage doctors to diminish negative personality traits in an attempt to promote long-term health. Being aware of how your personality affects your health can add a few years to your life.
Interestingly – here’s a twist – this Duke study included males only. Studies of women have found that long-term hostility does not make women more vulnerable to heart disease. Women can be equally as hostile as men, but their heart health isn’t affected. Perhaps because women express feelings more openly? Hostile men are twice as likely to have poor heart health, higher cholesterol, and heavier BMI’s than men with low hostility. Women’s health affects personality differently than men’s health does.
Stress Levels
Both men and women who are easily stressed, moody, and nervous tend to have less protective immune systems. Your personality affects your health negatively if you take life too seriously - and you’ll report more symptoms of disease, too. People who are more vulnerable to stressful situations are also more vulnerable to various illnesses; this makes it clear how important it is to deal with stress! If you don’t deal with stress effectively, your personality will affect your health negatively.
The Mind-Body Connection
Harvard University Psychologist Ellen Langer found that many exercise benefits are due to the placebo effect. She studied 84 female housekeepers from seven hotels; approximately half the women were told that their work was enough to meet the requirements for a healthy, active lifestyle while the other half weren’t told anything. After a month, the first group lost an average of two pounds, lowered their blood pressure, and were significantly healthier as indicated by their body-mass index (BMI) than the second group. Langer concluded that health is significantly affected by mind set. So, your personality affects your health negatively or positively depending on your mindset.
Express Yourself
Expressing your emotions and releasing toxic energy is important in maintaining a healthy lifestyle and dodging disease. Expressing yourself appropriately includes pinpointing feelings, communicating honestly, and being physically active to release tension. Your personality affects your health, and it also dictates your energy levels and activities. To get healthy you may already know what relaxes and energizes you, or you may need to experiment a bit!
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It Could Kill Faster than Smoking
All over the last years the personal effects of electromagnetism induces its cost though attributable to its invisibleness, it represents a thief with no face. Folks from around the world is monished to avoid holding their telephones to their ears as the radiation is sufficient to cook an egg and, that microwave ovens destruct the nutrients in our food, although we are behaving with trust to recognize whenever this is truthful or not.
A more touching fact are the effects that it is costing to certain animals that rely on navigation by applying specific frequency bandwidths correspondent to those applied from cell phone, conglomerates such as the bees whose almost disappearance constitutes more than a coincidence. This has happened in numerous continents simultaneously and it is acknowledged among investigators that the bees are not moribund; they’re departing their beehives presumptively as they cannot ascertain their way home.
The employment of frequencies causes an even more minacious frontlet if one looks at its employment as a military weapon system. The work of Nikola Tesla, the engineer who afforded us the electric current, was corralled and applied to develop HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research) Program www.haarp.alaska.edu/ which is capable of modifying climates, instigating Earthquakes and modifying human behavior because after all we are electromagnetic beings. See: The Military’s Pandora’s Box www.haarp.net/
Any cell located under a microscope constitutes ninety-nine percent pure spaces that means that we are constituted from pure energy which once combined with that what Tesla names the ‘Original Medium’, that is, cosmic, photonic energy, matter, what is expressed and sustained until energy is no longer present or an entity weakens it through entropy and cannot sustain the prevailing energy.
Health hazards from mobile phone by the radio waves emitted are absorbed by the human head wikipedia.org. The radio waves uttered by a GSM wikipedia.org can cause a apex power wikipedia.org of 2 watts wikipedia.org, and a US analogue phone featured a maximum transmit power of 3.6 watts . wikipedia.org
Accounted specific absorbed radiation (SAR) dispersion in an anatomical model of head next to a 125 mW dipole antenna. Peak SAR is 9.5 W/kg over 1 mg. (USAF/AFRL). image wikipedia.org
Beware the mobile phone? That’s a bit alike stating that phones are more compelling than biointelligent light energy existences. A cellphone can induce disorder through repeated exposure, but I post this not to validate but instead to call into question the too simplified assumption that far too many people might take to heart. And by talking of the heart, check into the Heartmath Institute that has demonstrated that our hearts fine-tune to the absolute frequency of the Earth called the Shumann Resonance, affirming an infrangibly relationship between this place we call home.
Do not forget where you come from and don’t let anyone convince you that we are anything less than the divine expression of infinite energies from this universe. It’s all interlaced. We are part of the unity and there is extraordinary peace of mind and great power in acknowledging this.
Applied science is but a mirror!
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Here’s the third and last part of the articles on Brain-Mind-Conscience, hopefully you liked it, leave a comment also critcs are welcome
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(PRINCIPLES and MODEL)
by Nitamo Frederick Montecucco and Enrico Cheli
The Hypothesis CONSCIENCE AND the “PRINCIPIA CYBERNETICA”
The idea of a universal mind or Logos would be, in my opinion, a plausible consideration from the actual state of scientific theory, or at least in harmony with it. Sir Arthur Eddington
The mind is by its nature a singular one-off: should I say: the total number of minds is only one. Erwin Schrödinger
The nature of the Lord is Conscience. Abinavagupta - from “Tantrasara”
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(PRINCIPLES and MODELS) - Part 1
By Nitamo Frederick Montecucco and Enrico Cheli
Descartes separated the body from the soul.
It is the beginning of the seventeenth century, with the figure of Galileo the Catholic religion has taken note of its theoretical and methodological weaknesses. The experimental method begun by Galileo and the discoveries derived from it created a strong reaction by the Catholic Church. Scientific knowledge was to demolish ancient philosophical and theological dogmas, endangering the validity of the overall structure of faith, no longer supported by collective spiritual experience. (Read more…)
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Here the first of 3 articles regarding 
BRAIN, Mind and CONSCIENCE like promised.
Test: The brain of the right (hemisphere) against that one on the left…
Do this joke: try with your mind to make rotate the woman below to the opposite side.
Do you see the dancer turn clockwise or counter-clockwise?
If clockwise, then you use the right side of the brain most, and vice versa.
Most of us will see turn the dancer counter-clock wise although you could try to focus and change direction; see if you can do so.
FUNCTIONS OF THE LEFT BRAIN
Use of logic
Grasp the particular
Organizing facts
Words and language
Past and present
Mathematics and science
Power of understanding
Knowing
Recognize
Perception order / model
Knowledge of object and names
Foundations of reality
Forms and strategies
Practice
Sure
THE RIGHT BRAIN FUNCTION
Use of the “feel”
Vision of the whole, totality, overview
Imagination
Symbols and images
Present and Future
Philosophy and religion
grasp the meaning of things
Beliefs
Appreciate
Spatial perception
Knowledge of the functions of objects
Fantasy
Possibility of the present
Impetuous
venture
Power of the Mind: Placebo effect (Read more…)
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Hello,
I want to introduce a series of articles regarding Mind Brain and Conscience
to give an understanding how we are made and how we can act against our personal problems by understanding our very nature of being. That will be four articles starting with the Placebo effect, followed by Mind Brain and Conscience 1-3. Since these articles are based up on scientific research that are going to be long and maybe compelling ones but knowledge is power and by having the power one is able to reach everything.
Enjoy your reading.
The effect PLACEBO & Mind, Conscience, Brain (Read more…)
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The Human Body (as well as all alive) as well-known, is a set of cells and therefore it follows and survives with the Principles and diagrams of the operation of cells, which as well highlighted on this page runs through the right relations between the external environment and the inner- and extracellular fluid (intracellular fluid), that are determined primarily by their pH - settled in their right reports from acids processes extra- and intracellular, i.e. from his ionic - bio electronically charge.
Thus, the human body gets “sick” only when those reports will alter (Read straight from biological discoveries from Hamer) therefore, the System of ontogenetic microbes MUST absolutely follow at first the reorganization, repair. Illness is only “ONE” (it does not exist diseases) for an alteration of the cellular and bodily functionality by alteration of the right reports of pH + RH + Ro intracellular and extracellular, generating any kind of stress and the body automatically creates the healing process governed by the biological laws from Hamer.
Spiritual CAUSE: Conflicts of incoherence (Ethical errors - consciously or unconsciously – i.e. wrong behavioral compared to the laws that govern living structures and/or non-acceptance of the trials of life, for lack of data on it… = Ignorance, experience of traumatic living) generates a strong and unexpected excitatory stress that can become even continuous, which is localized above all in the enteric nervous system - digestive tract - and in the intestines and from this place is “radius” where it can go…. that is where the land is a suitable (cell / tissue / organ / systems) target.
Any kind of stress automatically attempts a natural process of repair, which must NOT BE HINDERED but helped, called by its discoverer (Dr Hamer), “Biological Laws” that begins the process of defense and repair, which we call for ignorance mistakenly “disease “.
A mitochondrial lesion (malnutrition of the cell = intoxication) causes a deficiency of energy, the mitochondria does not produce electrons as it should, if you exceed a certain limit of stress, the state-cell produces a reaction to address it, and this reaction is from us defined as DISEASE.
The reality is that the various names that are given in the official medicine are the names of the various symptoms that presents and are not real diseases, in Nature Medicine we say that “the disease is only ONE” with infinite tending symptoms different from subject to subject!
It follows the trail: Psycho-Neuro-Gastro-Intestinal-Endocrine-Immunologically, thus depressing the natural immune defenses reaction… moreover the diseases, any disease it is, it is transmitted through the DNA to future generations, becoming increasingly early, dangerous and virulent.
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The sense of Disease
Each disease has its spiritual significance. If we cut its symptoms they then return in a modified form and not always harmless to other organs, producing pain and suffering….
“The question on the significance of the disease has never been posed by modern medicine, because medicine is considered a scientific (empirical) discipline and demanding on the meaning of reality does not fit into questions posed by the natural sciences, because that is at the end a metaphysical question. As much as scientists refuse issues relating to the meaning of things, many of them are at the end guided by questions arising from this problem. Even the doctor cannot simply dodge the question of the meaning of the disease, because patients not only ask the reason for their illness, but they want to know why their own to get a certain disease ” . (A. Jones A medicine tomorrow, Bern and Stuttgart, 1969).
There is no disease. There are only sick people, who must be threatened as complete individuals based on their constitution, age, sensitivity and emotional state of mind. Since the diet often contributes directly or indirectly, to the deterioration of a person, must it also be the key, to maintain or to recover that state of mental well-being, emotional, physical and social that we call health.
The disease becomes not born “by chance” or misfortune, but it comes from the auto generated “Chaos”, consciously or unconsciously, from the Being its self that is so “anti-counter-opposed” to the Laws governing the Living Beings, generating inside himself a chaotic biological system (intoxicated), so the disease is the crystallization, in other words the physical chaotic body in the altered Psycho-eco-biologic system compared to Perfect Health.
Therefore, we get NOT sick ever for the event: always are involved different factors - the “stressors” (Behavior mental-Spiritually incorrect) -, which alter the right and delicate relations of Perfect Health, Spiritual and for reflection physical.
The conscious and unconscious actions make assume and/or perform the subject behaviors for or against his own Health, actions that are necessary for his own spiritual evolution: learning not to transgress the universal laws governing the Perfect Health and therefore the Ethics of the True and the Right.
Typically the disease (continue behavior of incoherence that determine unresolved Spiritual Conflict of Incoherence - CSI) directs his “descent” to tissues of target organs depending on the location of the cerebral Spiritual Conflict of Incoherence, lived in solitude and without resolution or change of Ethics.
Therefore, we get sick NOT EVER-by-case basis, because there is always a spiritual first-cause and the second instance are the toxins spiritual/physical that alter the balance of the system of the flow of information.
The “land” of the subject (pH + RH + Ro) then determines the how to be and to develop of the endogenous disease. There are minor points of resistance stemming from the DNA genetic code and external factors introduced where toxins and parasites exogenous act with greater ease.
The disease is mainly endogenous produced, exogenous rarely.
So determines the interest of a tissue, a body rather than another depending on the type of Spiritual Conflict of Incoherence (CIS).
To determine the accumulation of toxins thinks the so-called physical stressors that can be Stress endogenous: spiritual activity and/or motor through sports and/or work too intense, noise, loss of affection, work, health, etc…
Geo-pathogenically: Courses of water and aquifers, natural electromagnetic fields and not, and not natural radiation, earthquakes, volcanic solar cycle’s bio-thermal (climate change, see influences), biorhythmic endogenous and exogenous, sudden movements and longitude/latitude of the Subject, etc…
Food and Environmental: coloring, preservatives, additives, sugar, toxins contained in various substances of which we nourish and/or use in environments in which we live: gas, smog, paints, radioactivity etc.
Medicines: vaccines, antibiotics, cortisone, anti inflammatory, psychotropic drugs, etc.…
Habits and Vices: Smoke, Coffee ‘, alcohol, tea, drugs, too much sex, etc…
Infections: Bacteria, mycosis (mushrooms), toxic proteins (virus) coming from the outside are very rare, unless parasites, those (infections) are very frequent on the contrary, those endogenous, endo produced!
Inflammation: they are easily induced and in first from alterations induced by feeding erroneous and/or unfitting drinks, the pH of digestion in the intestines. They then can easily, if the inflammation persists over time and becomes chronic, “reform” in other parts of the body where the “Land” (liquid-tissues) is in “acidosis” or in phase of stress-tissue trauma.
Hundred percents of the problems arise in the Spirit and are produced physically, in the intestines and cells for the Toxin produced and accumulated in the tissues of the target organs from the unresolved conflict!
Course of disease.
A disease is a slow but dynamic process, in which the course of the various morbid frameworks (symptoms) can change, can intensificate, change place and/or disappear.
Even the most diverse diseases are closely to each other related through the “course” which is characterized by continuous and easy “emigration” of toxins and parasites from one tissue to another (land) in the various organs of the body.
Parasites usually proliferate as the antagonist bacterial flora is upset, altered and then failed to maintain the proper eco-biological order between the various species of flora (that lives with us, i.e. autochthonous), which is composed mainly by fungi, bacteria and finally by alteration of enzymes necessary to perfect health.
The toxins require for their neutralization above all enzymes and bio-vital bacterial flora therefore autochthonous, therefore they’re mainly appointed to reach areas of tissues poisoned and inflamed and in acidosis, to do their job of neutralizing and cleaning the tissue (”land”, the matrix), but if that flora does not contain the necessary antagonists to maintain the proper relationship between it, then is occurring proliferation and/or mutations in the same flora making “born”, proliferate the so-called “pathogen agents” that the official medicine treads improperly as the authors of the various symptoms (diseases).
Each tissue reacts in its own way when toxins are located there, showing different symptoms, which are always the dynamic effect of global imbalance of the System Flow (Informational, energy, biochemical, bio-bacterial), we call that imbalance indisposition, disease, and then ACTION of the ILL.
The homotoxyine and parasites that are not neutralized and not expelled by the organism, moving easily from one to another tissue, very dangerous phenomena, often caused by damage due to shortages of bio-vital enzymes and/or deficiencies of certain vitamins or overabundance or deficiencies of certain minerals.
Conversely if homotoxyn are put in a minority and/or eliminated, regress the damage of the cellular “land”, clears the mesenchyme (embryonic connective tissue derived mainly from mesoderm), and change for the better the morbid frameworks (symptoms) until the perfect recovery of Health, as it has finally changed ethics, behavior, working and acting on themselves to and Pro Health.
In fact, it’s the “driver = spirit = being = spiritual subject, which leads (consciously or unconsciously), the human machine = physical/spiritual” in means of ….”PAIN”, whilst it could if it rationally knew the way, brings it to… WELLNESS and/or Perfect HEALTH!
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As promised in my previous post “What is Energy Healing” I’ll present you here a very interesting (but also very long) scientifically article to dig deeper into the question of energy healing, alpha beta gamma theta brain waves, prano therapy, reflexology and more…,
This article is a “must read” if you want understand the inherent energy of humans brain, the brain waves and all that what is connected with it.
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Though there are varying approaches, energy therapies are typically based on the premise that–on a fundamental level–everything in the universe is made of energy. From this perspective, human beings are also fundamentally energy.
Around the world, from ancient times to modern day, techniques have developed which focus on healing at this energy level. While many energy therapies make no claim of scientific verification, there can be some curious parallels with quantum physics
and un-proven, developing fields, like string theory.
Energy in spirituality, refers to a widespread belief in an interpersonal, non-physical force or essence. Vitalism is a general term for a force that animates living things. Believers consider spiritual energy to be of a different type than those known to science.
You have probably come across exotic-sounding terms such as “chakra”, “prana”, “aura”, and “tantra” in your course of reading books on spirituality, sex, and healing in the New Age literature section of the bookstore. But what’s the real scoop behind these exotic vocabularies?
Are All Energy Healings the Same?
Chakra or energy center is a term used in Pranic healing, an ancient Hindu system of energy healing. “Prana” means life energy. “Aura” is another terminology traced to Pranic healing. Aura is a non-physical body that consists of energy, which exists along with our physical body. The aura that covers our body is said to have seven layers pertaining to the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual aspects of an individual as manifested by energy. Studying the color and thickness of auras give ideas on the state of health of individuals. Six colors are associated with aura and interpreted into six personalities. These colors are all present in an individual but one or two are more pronounced.
Green - ambitious achiever
Blue - spiritual peacemaker
White - unconventional chameleon
Red - activist
Orange - creative communicator
Violet - psychic
In New Age belief, Aura refers to the energy field emanating from the surface of a person or object. This emanation is visualized as an outline of cascading color and may be held to represent soul vibrations, chakric emergence, or a reflection of surrounding energy fields. Auras may be viewed by the naked eye, though some psychics, like Edgar Cayce, believe this ability weakens with age. Focused training may improve one’s ability to see auras. Layers of aura are separate and distinct yet connected to all the remaining layers. In the books of Carlos Castaneda auras are referred to as luminous cocoons.
Although Tantra is popularly associated with the peculiar practice of sex and spirituality, it is another method of energy healing. It comes from the word “tan” which means to spread or expand. The concept of connectedness is a recurring theme in Tantric writings on sex and spirituality. As a method of healing, spirituality and sex figure prominently. It is presupposed that the union of man and woman can reach spiritual levels during orgasm, which removes the body and mind off collected impurities. These impurities being negative energies can in turn manifest as physical illnesses.
Unlike Pranic and Tantric healings, which have Hindu origins, Reiki originated from Japan. It is relatively younger than Pranic and Tantric healings having been rediscovered in the early 1900’s. Reiki stands for universal energy, an energy brought forth by higher intelligence. Students of Reiki are taught how to tap this energy to heal physical, emotional, and mental illnesses.
Although Pranic, Tantra, and Reiki are all systems of energy healing, they differ in the type of energy tapped for healing: life energy, sexual energy, and universal energy respectively.
The concepts of the connectedness of mind, body, and spirit; the connection of individuals to all living and nonliving things around them and to the universe; and how energy impacts physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being are some of the salient similarities of these three healing methods.
Why Do People Turn to Energy Healing?
Pranic, Tantric, and Reiki are considered alternative methods of healing. In spite of the availability and relative accessibility of modern medicine, how come more and more people are being drawned to them? Here are some possible reasons:
· Energy healing worked where modern medicine failed.
For several reasons both explainable and unexplainable, modern medical treatment failed to heal ailments and conditions in several if not many persons. Research or data may not be able to support this statement. But for the families of the dying as well as for the dying patient, they would take the risk of using alternative methods ranging from herbals and organics, faith healers, witch doctors, and New Age healing techniques just to be get well.
· People perceive modern medicine to be isolating.
Medical treatments are oftentimes focused on the disease and its causative agent, which can make a patient feel isolated and treated like a mere host of the disease. Although recent developments in hospital practice are gradually promoting the holistic treatment of a patient, the perception still persists. Unlike in energy healing, since energy and spirituality are intimately linked, the patient feels that all aspects of his health are being attended to.
. Energy healing is non-obtrusive and natural thus it is safer.
Repeated surgical procedures are physically and emotionally traumatic for most patients. It is but a logical and attractive option to both patient and families to look for less stressful health interventions. Moreover, with the rising popularity of New Age religions, going natural is the way to go.
· Energy healing is a good way of relieving stress.
Meditation is part and parcel of energy healing methods and this is an added come-on for highly stressed people. Moreover, sophisticated equipment is not required thus it becomes all the more convenient for students and future students of energy healing.
The battle between alternative healing and mainstream medicine continues as both present the benefits of their approach. But in the final analysis, what matters is the restoration of good health.
Soon I’ll post some articles that go more inside this subject.
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Aura or Alone
Life should be considered as an excitatory phenomenon.
We’re not common peaces of clay, but a substance in which were infused spirit, or if you like - which has been charged with energy.
As more excited we are that more goes our level of energy up, if we are depressed our energy level falls down. When we go to be very excited we are illuminated and, we emit light and we are brilliant.
These excitatory phenomena, like the sexual excitement, are energetically processes.
Our illumination or brightness is visible! I my self and others too have seen that.
There’s an energetic field around the human body, described in different ways like aura or alone. This has been observed and studied from many persons like Alessander Lowen (Depression and the Body) and especially from Dr. John C. Pierrakes (”The Energy Field of Man” Energy and Character, The Journal of Bioenergetic Research).
He wrote: ” The energies that are inside our bodies flows also outside of it in the same way in which a wave of heath comes out from an incandescent metal object”.
In the books of Carlos Castaneda auras are referred to as luminous cocoons.
If a person stays before a homogeny background of a light Celeste color, is it possible with making some manipulations for to produce a diffuse light to see a sensational phenomenon. From the periphery of his body originates a kind of dark bluish cloud, enfolding the whole body. It extends for about twenty centimeters to one meter and twenty centimeters, until it becomes not definite and fading with the surrounding atmosphere.
This energetic field blows slowly up, for one or two seconds, drifting away from the body, to model then a nearly perfect oval, it remains for about a quarter of a second, and then suddenly dissolves completely. After an interval of about one to three seconds appears it again. That pulsation repeats for about fifteen or twenty times in a minute by a normal relaxed person.
The rhythm of the pulsation seems to be independent from any other known rhythm of the body like the rhythm of respiration or the rhythm of the hard. Notwithstanding, it varies together with the level of the body’s excitement. If a person has a sentiment of rage, the pulsation of his energetic field can increase till to forty pulsations in a minute. If the body entries in vibration in consequence of deep respiration, the rhythm of his field goes up to forty-five or even fifty pulsations in a minute. In the same time, the amplitude of the energetic field extends more and his colors become brighter.
This energetic field reflects the levels of excitement and intensity of sentiment in the body. So is it possible to observe various changes of intensity and color in the peripherals of the body that corresponds to different emotions. There seems to exist a relation with the autonomous and involuntary reactions of the body. A delicate sentiment like love produces a delicate pink color. Sadness produces a dark blue color in the thoracic field. Rage results in a dark red color over the shoulders. A gold brightness can be seen over the head by sincere and direct sentiments.
A depression of the whole field is observable by suffering and pain, caused probably from the action of the sympathic suprarenal system by retrieving the blood from the surface of the body.
A more marked depression of the energetic field results by depressive persons.
Since this field reflects the energetic process that operates in the organism is it possible to use it for diagnosing malformation in the body. For example in the energetic field of a schizophrenic person are to observe characteristic alternations like interruptions of the field and changes of colors.
The energetic field is not a subjective factor like a sensation of the body; it has its objectivity as different observers refer to the same visible phenomena.
An individual in a state of an intense and pleasant excitement can feel his self-ardent, he doesn’t see his own brightness but others do, if he feels radiant is it possible to observe a radiation emanating from his body.
In fact, by conditions of right light, nearly everybody can see the energetic field. One of the easiest ways to do so is to bring your hands in a distance of about thirty centimeters before your eyes with the palms turned toward your eyes, against a background of a clear sky blue. If your hands are relaxed and your fingers in a distance of about two centimeters one from each other, can you see the brightness pulsing around your fingers.
Somebody maybe needs some time till his eyes relaxes enough to see that phenomena.
Human beings are not the only one that has an energetic field around them. The entire living organism presents that property. There is also a visible energetic field around trees.
It’s easy to become a mystic if you treat life phenomena, in this field, there’re mysteries that challenge science. One of the motives is that humans are part of this big mystery of life.
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“Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud, and one sees the stars.”-
Frederick Langbridge, A Cluster of Quiet Thoughts
If you’ve placed second in a writing contest, will you jump for joy and push for better
results the next time or will you be discouraged and find an excuse not to join again?
In life, you are always filled with choices. You may opt to have a pessimist’s view and
live a self-defeated life or you may decide to take the optimist’s route and take a challenging and fulfilling life.
So why nurture an optimist’s point of view? And why now?
Well, optimism has been linked to positive mood and good morale; to academic, athletic, military, occupational and political success; to popularity; to good health and even to long life and freedom from trauma.
On the other hand, the rates of depression and pessimism have never been higher. It affects middle-aged adults the same way it hits younger people. The mean age of onset has gone from 30 to 15. It is no longer a middle-aged housewife’s disorder but also a teen-ager’s disorder’ as well.
Here’s how optimists are in action and researches that back up why it really pays to be an optimist:
Optimists expect the best
The defining characteristic of pessimists is that they tend to believe bad events, which will last a long time and undermine everything they do, are their own fault.
The truth is optimists are confronted with the same hard knocks of this world. What differs is the way they explain their misfortune—it’s the opposite way. They tend to believe defeat is just a temporary setback, that its causes are confined to this one case.
Optimists tend to focus on and plan for the ‘problem’ at hand. They use ‘positive reinterpretation.’ In other words, they most likely reinterpret a negative experience in a way that helps them learn and grow. Such people are unfazed by bad situation, they perceive it is a challenge and try harder.
They won’t say “things will never get better,” “If I failed once, it will happen again” and “If I experience misfortune in one part of my life, then it will happen in my whole life.”
Positive expectancies of optimists also predict better reactions during transitions to new environments, sudden tragedies and unlikely turn of events. If they fall, they will stand up. They see opportunities instead of obstacles.
People respond positively to optimists
Optimists are proactive and less dependent on others for their happiness. They find no need to control or manipulate people. They usually draw people towards them. Their optimistic view of the world can be contagious and influence those they are with.
Optimism seems a socially desirable trait in all communities. Those who share optimism are generally accepted while those who spread gloom, panic and hysteria are treated unfavorably.
In life, these people often win elections; get voted most congenial and sought for advice.
When the going gets tough, optimists get tougher
Optimists typically maintain higher levels of subjective well-being during times of stress than do people who are less optimistic. In contrast, pessimists are likely to react to stressful events by denying that they exist or by avoiding dealing with problems. Pessimists are more likely to quit trying when difficulties arise.
They persevere. They just don’t give up easily, they are also known for their patience. Inching their way a step closer to that goal or elusive dream.
Optimists are healthier and live longer
Medical research has justified that simple pleasures and a positive outlook can cause a measurable increase in the body’s ability to fight disease.
Optimists’ health is unusually good. They age well, much freer than most people from the usual physical ills of middle age. And they get to outlive those prone to negative thoughts.
So why not be an optimist today? And think positively towards a more fulfilled life.
Why not look forward to success in all your endeavors? Why not be resilient? Like everybody else you are bound to hit lows sometimes but don’t just stay there. Carry yourself out of the mud and improve your chances of getting back on the right track. And why not inspire others to remove their dark-colored glasses and see life in the bright side?
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Category: Health, Personal Development
When you are unhappy what do you do? Do you go out for a meal? Go to the cinema?
The theatre perhaps? Do you go shopping? Perhaps you like a drink to overcome your unhappiness. Or do you get a buzz from jogging or going to the gym?
Whatever it is, scientist are in the process of proving that internal change is the only thing that can give you health and happiness. Everything else is an illusion.
What does this mean?
Your brain is the only thing that can keep you healthy and happy.
Richard Davidson, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin and Jon Kabat-Zinn from the University of Massachusetts Medical Centre have just completed some interesting research that can actually be of benefit to you and me and the way we run our lives.
They took a group of 41 stressed , but otherwise healthy, individuals working in a biotechnology firm in Wisconsin. 25 were taught meditation. The group met for a 2.5 to 3 hour meditation class each week. After six weeks they all attended a seven hour meditation retreat. In addition each member was asked to meditate, at home, for one hour a day using a guided meditation tape.
The other 16 were held as a control group and did not receive meditation training until the study was completed.
At the end of the eight week programme, in November, they also gave all the participants a flu jab. And guess what. “The members of the meditation group had a significant increase in antibody titers”.
In other words, they have less chance of catching flu.
The bottom line appears to be. If you want to have good health and overcome the day by day blues and maintain happiness, learn to meditate. When you meditate you change the way your brain operates.
In addition, they found, the more you practice meditation the better your daily performance.
”What we found is that the long time practitioners showed brain activation
on a scale we have never seen before. ‘ Their mental practice is having an effect on the brain in the same way golf or tennis practice will enhance performance.
It demonstrates, that the brain is capable of being trained and physically modified in ways few people can imagine”.
(Richard Davidson)
So give yourself the space each day to train your brain. It works.
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Category: Health, Meditation, Personal Development
Hatha Yoga for persons suffering from disturbs of psychosomatic nature.
Mind-body medicine focuses on the interactions among the brain, mind, body, and behavior, and the powerful ways in which emotional, mental, social, spiritual, and behavioral factors can directly affect health. It regards as fundamental an approach that respects and enhances each person’s capacity for self-knowledge and self-care, and it emphasizes techniques that are grounded in this approach.
Meditation, one of the most common mind-body interventions, is a conscious mental process that induces a set of integrated physiological changes termed the relaxation response.
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has been used to identify and characterize the brain regions that are active during meditation. This research suggests that various parts of the brain known to be involved in attention and in the control of the autonomic nervous system are activated, providing a neurochemical and anatomical basis for the effects of meditation on various physiological activities.
Recent studies involving imaging are advancing the understanding of mind-body mechanisms. For example, meditation has been shown in one study to produce significant increases in left-sided anterior brain activity, which is associated with positive emotional states. Moreover, in this same study, meditation was associated with increases in antibody titers to influenza vaccine, suggesting potential linkages among meditation, positive emotional states, localized brain responses, and improved immune function.
To use and sustain those powerful effects of our mind you need contemporary to keep up that work of your mind with some physical Yoga Exercise that prepares and free’s your mind to meditation.
The below program (Yoga Poses) is meant to person that experiment psychosomatic disturbs of different kinds.
Hatha Yoga Posture, Exercise or Positions acts through the stimulation of the nervous centers onto all the neuro-vegetative nervous system re-establishing an perfect psycho-physic equilibrium.
See: The Salutation to the Sun an easy yoga beginners exercise.
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