Archive for February, 2008

Insight meditation belongs to the comprehensive body of teaching Dharma, depth awareness, inner peace, emotional and psychological insights.

Though it has been for a long time, the benefits of Insight Meditation is recognized and being practiced by many in now-a-days.

Professional sport persons are using this to increase focus and attention towards their play and have derived the results.

Insight meditation practice effectively helps you to bring calm and clarity state of mind in this daily life pressures. The entire practice is a mental training, uses to develop healthy mind.

How insight meditation can be practiced?

All you need to have is “focus of your mind on your body”. If you are starting “Insight Meditation”, you need to see for a place which will not give you many distractions from the process of Vipassana.

Time is important: If you have just started to meditate, maintain a specific time. This will help you to accustom to the process of meditation. Early in the morning hours or after your work session spare a time of 15 minutes to meditate.

As you have just started the meditation, this is the brush up session. As the time goes on, you get accustomed to the meditation time and you can increase the time as per your schedule.

Naturopathic medicine (naturopathy) is a sector of medical philosophy and practice, which not only to cures the disease, but treat the disease by roots and assist the body to improve self immunity system to stop the reoccurrence of the disease.

Naturopathic practitioners will treat a wide range of disease and different organs- they are not specifically related to treating one organ of the body.

Treating is done on “whole body” combining the spirit and physical body. The practitioner suggests a change in the diet and life style to enhance the health.

The origin of naturopathic medicine is to use the power of nature’s healing capacities to maintain and restore health. They don’t cure the diseases but prevent your body by attacking diseases.

The goal is to minimize the toxic and dreadful effects of drugs on your body while encouraging a self-healing process.

Naturopathic medicine is widely spread and includes a broad array of different modules:

• Manual therapy: The form of physical treatment refers to hand-on-techniques such as soft tissue mobilization, mobilization of joints, joint manipulations, mobilization of neural tissues and visceral mobilization. The perfect relations to manual therapy are acupuncture and massages.

Macrobiotics is a natural and holistic treatment, including lifestyle, relationships and effects of your diet on health of the body.

Macrobiotics is a complete and effective approach to establish and maintain or improve physical, mental and spiritual health.

Macrobiotic healing:

Healthy diet is a healthy way to get rid of diseases. Macrobiotics is not a medicine to cure many diseases but when proper diet is taken, health related problems can be cured such as

• Heart diseases
• Diabetes
• Arthritis
• High cholesterol levels
• Digestive disorders
• Weight loss
• Degenerative diseases

Macrobiotic diet:

Macrobiotics stresses or teaches the importance of balanced diet for a healthy and happy life, together with the inter relation between body, mind and spirit.

A macrobiotics diet is a vegetarian pattern diet with no animal food (no fats), non-organic food and processed food. It avoids all the foods which are not good for your health.

Diets preferred in macrobiotics: Foods that are rich in proteins and have less carbohydrates and fat contents are the most preferred.

• Whole grains
• Bean and bean products
• Organic vegetables and fruits
• Soya products
• Soups
• Condiments (for minerals)

Flower essences are the blossoms of the plant. It can also be defined as an herbal infusions or decoctions of the flower part of the plant.

These are prepared from sun infusions in a bowl of water, then further diluted, potentized and preserved in an airtight container.

Flower essence treatment is a drug-free, natural or nature’s way of elevating the mood and increasing self immunity to heal the disease.

The main purpose or initiative behind use of flower essence is to eliminate negative imbalances in the soul and body. This elimination of the negative energy gives a push up to have a positive energy and emotional level.

How do flower essence work on your body?

It works with the same principle of inspirational sound (music) or carries the medium of light (color psychology) to evoke the specific qualities within you. But the medium of air is replaced by water.

Flower essences are full of life traces derived from the plants which will interact with the subtle bodies to energize them in a positive way giving a boost of positive energy.

Any thing which is in motion needs energy, not in a stable state but in the state of motion. Our body is filled up with universal force energy and needs flow of energy.

The energy flows through chakras. The breakages in the energy flow leads to diseases. Clearing the path for the energy to flow is called as chakra clearing.

The flow of energy in chakras is very important for your health. The energy should freely flow from one chakra to another, up to down and down to up without any obstacles.

Chakra clearing:

Meditation: This is a perfect process to clear the chakras which allows the flow of energy in a positive direction. Calmly settle down on a small place and start meditation.

Concentrate on the blocked chakra and start breathing. Breathe in through nose and hold it for 7 seconds repeat this for few times. Insight meditation will help you for chakra clearing.

Reiki: By using reiki for chakra clearing, you can remove the energy related to traumas and you will no longer feel any pain related to the chakra’s organs.

“As an awareness of balancing approaches to conservative health care continued to grow, holistic nutrition came into picture.”

Holistic nutrition helps the body to reach the state in which it can fight the external parasites and treats the disease in non-toxic and natural therapy way.

When your body is supplied with proper raw material, (food having higher nutrient values) it supports the immunity system and activates them in healing themselves without the support of medication.

The holistic nutritional diet that over come many diseases:

• Organic food
• Free of junk and fatty food
• Free of additives and preservatives
• Free of sugar and caffeine
• Cooked in steam form i.e. it should be cooked in pressure cooker; microwave cooking should be avoided
• Whole food should be eaten in its natural form.
• Addressed to the nutritional deficiencies.
• Free of genetically engineered food.

The water you drink should be properly filtered to get rid of chlorine and other contaminations.

The holistic nutrition for a proper balance in health are:

• Carbohydrates: The main means of carbohydrates are whole grains, beans, vegetables, fruits and seeds.
• Proteins: The main means of proteins are bean family products, fish, nuts, meat, egg and dairy.

Cupping refers to an ancient or traditional Chinese treatment (TCM).

In this treatment of cupping, the evacuated glass cups are placed on the bare skin.

The suction of air in the cups by creating a vacuum in the cups is believed to influence the flow of energy and blood in the body.

In old china, this method of cupping is done by animal horn; that’s why this is also referred as “horn method”. As the time changed, the horn is replaced by jars.

Enormous varieties of materials are used in preparing cupping jars, but two main jars are clinically proved, those are:

Bamboo jar: A branch of bamboo tree is cut down in the section of 3-7cm in diameter, 8-10cm in length forming a cylindrical shape or looks like a drum. One end is used as opening and the other end as bottom. Economical, light and easy to make as bamboo is found in many places.

Glass jar: Available online or at shops, since the glass is transparent the suction can be controlled and the physician has control over the treatment.

Cancer alternative medicine is widely spread treatment for cancer and is giving equal response in treating cancer.

There are many reasons why many of the cancer patients are turning towards cancer alternative medicines.

The main reason behind this is the adverse effects of chemotherapy and the return of malignant cancer tumor even after the surgery.

The stress levels are increased and the older and weak people are not able to cope up with the treatment and its side effects.

There are mainly two treatments in treating cancer

• Conventional method - In this method, all external medicines treats only the disease and disease related symptoms. Example-chemotherapy or any surgery relating in treating cancer and its tumors.
• An alternative method – In this method, the treatment not only treats the disease and its symptoms but also treats the body and controls the cancer by affecting the other body parts. Example – herbal therapies [Cancer Herbal Remedy], mind-body therapy, immunology therapy, holistic treatment etc.

Herbal therapies in cancer alternative medicine

These treatments are referred as the oldest of all treatments in the world. This therapy mainly uses herbs and its products for increasing your self immunity system.