Health Benefits of Walking Barefoot

1. Clear Your Mind

 It’s hard not to pay attention to every step when you’re walking barefoot. You have to be on the look out for sharp rocks and thorns. Awareness of what’s in front of you in this moment quiets your inner chatter and clears your mind and helps you focus on the here and now.

2. It’s Free Foot Yoga

Walking barefoot strengthens and stretches the muscles, tendons and ligaments in your feet, ankles and calves. This helps prevent injury, knee strain and back problems. Not only that, but because it works muscles not used when you’re wearing shoes, it strengthens and stretches your core, helping keep your posture upright, and your balance spot on.

3. It’s a Free Reflexology Session.

There are reflex points to every part of your body in your feet. Every little bump and rock in the road helps to stimulate all these little reflex points. If it hurts at first – especially in specific areas, this means your feet need the stimulation they’re getting by being barefoot. Over time, these sensitivities will go away, and the areas the tenderness corresponds to will be rejuvenated, helping decrease the symptoms of whatever it is that ails you.

4. Decrease Anxiety & Depression.

Walking barefoot in the grass can help decrease anxiety and depression by 62 percent, and increases the levels of those feel good endorphins. Awesome!

5. Get a Good Night’s Sleep.

The ancients believed that walking barefoot in the grass was the best cure for insomnia, and many people still swear by it today.

6. It’s Grounding. Literally.

Our bodies are made up of about 60 percent water, which is great for conducting electricity. The earth has a negative ionic charge. Going barefoot grounds our bodies to that charge. Negative Ions have been proven to detoxify, calm, reduce inflammation, synchronize your internal clocks, hormonal cycles and physiological rhythms. The best places to get some negative ions through your feet are by the water. Everyone knows how good it feels to be barefoot on the beach – now we know why!

7. Get Back to What Matters.

 To be barefoot outside doesn’t just involve your feet – the rest of you has to be outside too. You get to connect with Mother Nature all around. Feel the sunshine on your face; hear the wind in the trees. It’s easier to connect to a higher power when you’re in touch with Nature; it’s easier to put things into perspective.

Who knew something as simple as a barefoot walk could be so good for you – mind, body and soul.

Courtesy: http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-4369/7-Health-Benefits-of-Going-Barefoot-Outside.html

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Tulasi – The Perennial Health Treasure

How to stop worrying and love the world?

 

(This an article by Deepak Chopra which was published in San Francisco Chronicle on 7th June, 2010)

 

We live in times when it seems like a duty to be worried. Two wars, global warming, an out of control oil spill. More than anytime I can remember, people are uniformly glum about the future prospects of the planet. If you aren’t worrying, you feel that somehow you aren’t doing your part.

Worry is nothing to be glib about. In some situations it is inescapable. In a crisis when you are uncertain about the future, the mind begins to obsess as a way to gain a sense of control over events that are uncontrollable. But revolving a host of worst case scenarios as you lie awake at night isn’t really a solution. May I give some good reasons for not worrying?

Worry is a form of pain, and pain doesn’t make people change.

Worry is chronic anxiety, one of the least productive of all emotions.

Worry is like mental smog. It keeps you from seeing clearly.

People who create real change aren’t worriers. They are the exact opposite. If you take a step back, you can see that worrying is a form of self-inflicted pain. For many people the pain is a mild mental martyrdom — they feel that to worry makes you a better person than if you don’t worry. It’s true that the kind of person who never worries about others may be selfish, callous, and indifferent. But you aren’t making up for such people by putting yourself in pain.

Other worriers believe that being anxious will force them to change, but psychologists know that pain isn’t a good motivator. If it were, the millions who worry about their weight would all be slim. When somebody punishes you, do you feel motivated to change? No, and worry, being a form of self-punishment, is just as useless. If anything, it becomes a habit that clings stubbornly to the mind and refuses to change.

You can’t think clearly while you are worrying. Worry takes up energy and occupies the space where productive thoughts could enter. Like smog, it limits visibility. The reason for this is both psychological and biological. Psychologically, fear is convincing because it is such a powerful emotion, yet what it wants to convince you of — that everything is bad, hopeless, and doomed — is rarely correct. Biologically, worry activates stress hormones that throw the brain into a state of low-level arousal to fight or flee. This arousal is temporary, and is soon followed by exhaustion and apathy. So when you worry, your brain isn’t in the best shape to consider what to do.

Finally, the kind of people who lead the way to real solutions aren’t worriers. They have looked at a bad situation, felt the pain, and moved on to creative answers. Right now a lab somewhere is developing algae and bacteria that will consume greenhouse gases and metabolize the oil that dirties the surface of every ocean. Someone else is working around the clock to develop alternatives to fossil fuels. Others have taken on the role of job creators, micro financiers in the developing world, and green activists.

Their motivation is something better than worry. It can be pure love of the planet, which all of us share. It might also be what’s called intrinsic motivation, which is the desire to master a field and to do as good a job as possible. They may have a specific passion or suddenly see a solution that no one else has. Free market incentives also enter the mix. Far, far down on the list is worry. Such people wouldn’t be human if they didn’t feel anxious about the state of things, yet they have taken steps to wipe out their anxiety in a productive way.

So the message isn’t a callous “What, me worry?” It’s more like, “I know what it’s like to worry, but I’ve moved on.” Let anxiety be your past. Let a renewal of love for this beautiful world be your guide in the future.

 

Healthy Juices

Following is a combination of juices that will help improve your health:
For boosting and cleansing our system:

Carrot(100gm) + Ginger(10gm) + Apple(100gm)

To prevent cancer, reduce cholesterol and eliminate stomach upset & headache:
Apple(100gm) + Cucumber(100gm) + Celery(50gm)

To improve skin complexion and eliminate bad breath:

Tomato(100gm) + Carrot(100gm) + Apple(50gm)
Avoid bad breath and reduce internal body heat:
Bitter gourd(50gm) + Apple(50gm) + Aloe Juice(100ml)

 

Improve Skin texture and moisture and reduce body heat:

Orange(100gm) + Ginger(10gm) + Cucumber(100gm)

 

To dispel excess salts, nourishes the bladder and kidney:

Pineapple + Apple + Watermelon 

To improve skin complexion:
Apple(100gm) + Cucumber(100gm) + Kiwi(50gm)
Regulates sugar content:
Pear(100gm) & Banana(100gm)

 

Clear body heat, counteracts toxicity, decreased blood pressure and fight oxidization:
Carrot + Apple + Pear + Mango (Each 50 gm)

Rich in vitamin C + Vitamin B2 that increase cell activity and strengthen body immunity:

Honeydew + Grape + Watermelon  (Each 50 gm)

Rich in vitamin C, E, Iron. Improve skin complexion and metabolism:

Papaya + Pineapple + Guava  (Each 100 gm)

Rich in vitamin with nutritious and prevent constipation:

Banana + Pineapple + Curd (Each 100 gm)

 

For best result take each juice as per the need with 100 ml water for 40-60 days on empty stomach

 

 

 Fruits & Vegetables Benefits:

Fruit & Veggies	Benefit	Benefit	Benefit	Benefit	Benefit
apples	Protects your heart	prevents constipation	Blocks diarrhea	Improves lung capacity	Cushions joints
apricots	Combats cancer	Controls blood pressure	Saves your eyesight	Shields against Alzheimer’s	Slows aging process
artichokes	Aids digestion	Lowers cholesterol	Protects your heart	Stabilizes blood sugar	Guard s against liver disease
avocados	Battles diabetes	Lowers cholesterol	Helps stops strokes	Controls blood pressure	Smoothes skin
bananas	Protects your heart	Quiets a cough	Strengthens bones	Controls blood pressure	Blocks diarrhea
beans	Prevents constipation	Helps hemorrhoids	Lowers cholesterol	Combats cancer	Stabilizes blood sugar
beets	Controls blood pressure	Combats cancer	Strengthens bones	Protects your heart	Aids weight loss
blueberries	Combats cancer	Protects your heart	Stabilizes blood sugar	Boosts memory	Prevents constipation
broccoli	Strengthens bones	Saves eyesight	Combats cancer	Protects your heart	Controls blood pressure
cabbage	Combats cancer	Prevents constipation	Promotes weight loss	Protects your heart	Helps hemorrhoids
cantaloupe	Saves eyesight	Controls blood pressure	Lowers cholesterol	Combats cancer	Supports immune system

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Which path of Yoga should one Choose – Karma, Raja, Bhakthi or Jnana Yoga?

It depends on the individual. They are all different paths. If supposing I have got a born gift of having friendship. Some people have got that wonderful capacity to make friends with everybody. They are emotionally very loving, very affectionate.

Such people find Bhakti Yoga as the supreme and Bhakti Yoga will be very, very helpful for them to grow very fast towards the highest achievement. Some people are great intellectuals, they have got powerful intellect. They can understand. They can see through things and mathematics is very strong, logical brain is very strong and left brain-dominant personality. For them the Jnana Yoga is the best. The Jnana Yoga use that intellect to tress transcends the intellect itself to go the highest.

There are some people who are very good at hands, doing work, any work you give immediately they are going to do that. They may not be great thinkers but they can do the work very efficiently and see that the work is done. For such people the Karma Yoga is the best. And some people have tremendous willpower. Once they start doing the work, they come what may are going to finish that work. They are go-getters. And such people for then the Raja Yoga are the best. But today in the modern society we need all these four full dimensions. Intellectually you should be very sharp, emotionally you should be highly developed and you should be good at work and also you must have great willpower. Otherwise you cannot face the challenges of the modern era of science and technology.

And therefore Sri Aurobindo said we need all of these, you use the integral Yoga and it is this integral Yoga can harmonize and build a total personality. And this integrated approach we use in dealing with different ailments, the Integrated Approach of Yoga Therapy. Therefore if a person chooses only Karma Yoga equally fine; a person chooses only Jnana Yoga, alright; if a person chooses Raja Yoga, fine. But he must have an understanding that all past lead to the same goal and each one of this Yoga are complimentary to one another.

If you understand that then there is going to be a harmonious growth and once you start growing in one other thing will also start following suit. And this is how Swami Vivekananda approaches do it by one or more or all of these and be free, ultimate goal is freedom, mastery, mastery over the mind. Freedom from all diseases, freedom from all tensions and stresses, freedom from all limitations, freedom from all bondages and that is the goal of Yoga.

 

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7 Steps to Releasing Emotional Turbulence

The practical procedure to transform toxic emotions. By transforming painful experience we not only heal ourselves, but we can also use that process to help ourselves grow spiritually from that experience.

Emotional turbulence interferes with emotional well being and initiative. Fear, anger, guilt and anxiety are deviations from natural condition of balance and stand in the way of spiritual evolution. Restoring balance can be evolutionary in itself.

Patients suffering from life threatening illness often report that their diseases have taught them to love and value the other people in their lives more deeply than before they became ill. During recovery they learn to appreciate and understand areas of life that they took for granted before. Overcoming anxiety can bring the same disguised benefits that dealing with a physical illness can bring. Anger, fear, and worry are not diseases, but we can grow from them even as we process them to become the person we want to be.

By resorting to our inherent intelligence, harmony and creativity, we engage our ability to manifest a positive outcome, but if we are emotionally turbulent, then we are too agitated to access to that field of potentiality. Through meditation we experience our silent self beyond our thoughts and emotions. This is our internal reference point for equilibrium and from where we can create a desired outcome. To restore balance in our life, meditation must therefore be an essential ingredient. It is also important to support this with balanced activity in the basic areas of diet, exercise and sleep. Assuming these fundamental balancing components are in place, I would offer an additional exercise to specifically address what to do in the face of intense anxiety and fear.

Emotional distress is a form of pain. If we learn how to recognize pain as soon as possible, we can also learn how to effectively metabolize and eliminate pain. If we don’t deal with pain when it occurs, we can be certain it will resurface as compounded emotional toxicity later on. The remembrance of pain not processed appears as insomnia, hostility, or anger. If a past hurt has not been metabolized and eliminated there will be anticipation of having that experience again, generating fear and anxiety. As a further complication, if you don’t know how to deal with either of these feelings of anger and fear, you are likely to turn them inward at your self, believing “It’s all my fault.” That guilt depletes our physical, emotional and spiritual energy until any initiative or movement feels impossible. We feel exhausted and paralyzed leading to depression. Toxic turbulent emotions have one cause—not knowing how to deal with pain. Pain is normal to life, but suffering isn’t. When we do not know how to deal with pain, then we suffer.

Learning how to metabolize pain involves these 7 steps:

Identify and locate the emotion physically

    Witness the experience

    Take responsibility

    Express the emotion

    Release the emotion

    Share the outcome

    Celebrate the process

 

Set aside a few minutes when you won’t be disturbed. Sit comfortably and close your eyes. For a few minutes, just meditate in silence. Focus on your breathing or if you prefer you may use a mantra.
Now with eyes still closed recall some circumstance in the recent past that was upsetting to you. It may be a time when you felt you were mistreated, an argument with your partner, or perhaps a past injustice at work. Identify some instance where you felt emotionally upset.

For the next 30 seconds think in detail about that incident. Try to picture what actually happened as vividly as you can, as if you were reporting it for a newspaper. Here you are the observer watching this event. You are not the event, the argument, or the emotional upset; you are merely witnessing what is happening from the perspective of your silent self. You are carrying the effect of the meditation you just did, allowing you to maintain a vantage point that is not overshadowed by the quality of the emotions.

Now identify exactly what you are feeling. Put some word on the incident that describes what you are experiencing. Be as precise as you can. Do you feel unappreciated? Insulted? Treated unfairly? Give the feeling a name. Come up with a word that epitomizes the painful experience. Focus your attention on that word.

Gradually allow your attention to move away from the word. Let your attention wander into your body. Become aware of the physical sensations that arise in your body as a result of the emotion you’ve identified. These two elements—an idea in the mind and a physical sensation in the body, are what an emotion truly is, and they can’t really be separated.

This is why we call it a feeling. It is because we feel emotions in our bodies. Let your attention pass through your body as you’re recalling this experience. Locate the sensations the memory brings up. For many it’s a pressure in the chest or a sensation of tightness in the gut. Some feel it as pressure in their throat. Find where it is in your body that you’re feeling and holding the emotional experience.

Now express that feeling. Place your hand on the part of your body where you sense that the feeling is located. Express audibly, “It hurts here.” If you’re aware of more than one location for the pain, move your hand from place to place. At every location, pause for a moment and express what you’re feeling. Say, “It hurts here.” When you experience physical discomfort, it means that something is unbalanced in your experience—physically, mentally, or spiritually. You body knows it—every cell in your body knows it. Befriend these sensations and their wisdom, because the pain is actually leading you to wholeness.

Writing your feelings out on paper is a valuable way to express the emotion. This is especially effective when you can write out your painful experience in the first person, in the second person and finally from the perspective of a third person account.

Be aware that any painful feelings you experience are your feelings. These feelings are happening inside your body now as you remember the pain, even though nothing is actually taking place in the material world. You’re only remembering what happened, yet your body is reacting with muscle contractions, hormonal secretions, and other responses within you. Even when the painful incident was occurring in the material world, the effect was entirely within you. You have choice in how you respond and interpret this emotional turbulence. Recognizing this is taking responsibility for your feelings.

This doesn’t mean that you feel guilty. Instead, it means that you recognize your ability to respond in new and creative ways. Taking responsibility for your feelings, you can also gain the power to make the pain melt away. You’re no longer blaming anyone else for having caused the pin, so you no longer have to depend on anyone else to make it go away. Hold that understanding in your consciousness for the next few moments.

Now you’re ready to release the pain. Place your attention on the part of your body where you’re holding the pain, and with every exhalation of your breath have an intention of releasing that tension. Over the next 30 seconds, just feel the painful sensation leaving your body with every breath. Some people find that making an audible tone that resonates in that part of your body where the pain is localized helps to loosen and lift the contraction away. You can also experiment to discover what works best for you. For others singing or dancing does the trick. You may try deep breathing, using essential oils, or a taking a long warm bath. Finally, if you have written out your emotions on paper, it can be useful to ritually burn the paper and offer the ashes to the winds.

Sharing the outcome of releasing your pain is important because it activates the new pattern of behavior after the old painful pattern is released. Imagine that you could speak to the person who was involved in that original painful incident. What would you say to that person now? Bear in mind that he/she was not the real cause of your pain. The real cause was your response. In your transformed state you are now free. So you can share what happened without blame, manipulation or seeking approval.

Perhaps they intended to cause you pain, and you may have unwittingly collaborated in that intention. Maybe you would like to say you no longer intend to fall into such traps. Whatever you say is totally up to you. As long as you have an awareness of the steps we’ve taken so far in this exercise, whatever you say will be right for you.

Now you can celebrate the painful experience that had taken place as the valuable material that helped you move to a higher level of consciousness. What was previously a disconnected, destructive and disabled part of your psyche is now integrated and contributing its power toward your greater spiritual goal. Instead of responding to the situation with a pain reflex, perpetuating the problem, you’ve turned it into an opportunity for spiritual transformation. That is something to celebrate. Go out for a nice dinner or buy yourself some flowers or a present to honor the new you.

Use this exercise whenever you feel upset to free yourself from emotional turbulence and the underlying pain. When you do that, you’ll find opportunities will arise more often in every area of your life.

– Dr. Deepak Chopra

Source: http://blog.beliefnet.com/intentchopra/2009/03/seven-steps-to-releasing-emoti.html

 

How to beat Stress?

 

Origins of Stress:

Genetic: Familial factors run in generations and can be controlled with efforts

Psychological: Loss of near & dear, failures, phobias, bitter experiences

Physiological: Polluted air, aerated water, sedentary life, fast foods, pickles, fried foods, non-vegetarian food.

4 White Poisons-Salt/Sugar/Maida/Polished Rice are stress inducers.

 

Stress Busters:

Air: Breathe clean natural air deeply, slowly, properly for 10-15 times wherever you are at house/ school/ car/ bus/ train/ movie etc.  Do it for every 2-3 hours and you will feel relaxed.

Walk: Brisk walking for 10 minutes morning & evening on empty stomach is a good stress buster . Walking in open/green areas, water bodies, garden and forest open fields recharges cataions and relaxes mind & body. Avoid talking while brisk walking. Don’t drink anything 30 minutes before & after walking. People who want to reduce weight walk in sand with weights in hand.

Sky walking: It is a time tested method for STRESS Busting. Best done morning before 7 AM on empty stomach in open terrace, garden, veranda and hall. Stand erect relax, take deep breath for 10 times, stretch for 2-3 minutes. Rotate your neck & waist. Raise your head look at the sky/ roof and walk slowly for 2-3 min. This will improve blood circulation and helps to reduce your stress by regulating serotonin levels in the brain for next 4-5 hours. Repeat in the evening on empty stomach. This is proved to be effective in many studies.

Don’t be in the same position for long. If you are on computer get up for every 1 Hr for 2-3 min, move, drink water, wipe eyes, move fingers, watch flowers. In class getup in break, take few steps, stretch, bend, breath deeply, smile at others. This is applicable while traveling also to avoid stress.

Water: 70% of your body weight is due to water. Even 5% change of its quantity in the body will affect your mood & functioning. Sufficient quantity water maintains the texture & tonicity of your skin. Dehydration reduces your efficiency. Taking plain water 1-2 glass for every 2 hours is a good stress buster. If you drink 2-3 glasses warm water early morning clears your bowls, toxins and relieves stress. Avoid water 30 minute before food & 60 minute after food as it dilutes the gastric juices. While taking food, take only 50-75 ml. Never drink refrigerated water which reduces your appetite. Clean Pot water is good.

Cleaning the Bowls: This is very important as fecal matter sends out undigested food, dead cells. Bacteria & toxins are released in body by many bio-chemical actions. Drink 2-4 glass of warm water daily early morning. Adults/ Children 10 + yrs spend 24 hours completely on water, fruits, veg soups & greens every Week gives rest for stomach.

Oil Massage: Take about 20 ml warm gingili oil apply on your scalp & massage gently for 15-20 min, that improves blood circulation to brain relives stress & strain, induces good sleep, improves memory.  Do it twice a week very beneficial.

Bath: Aromatic/ Herbal bath with lukewarm water on empty stomach for 7-8 min is a good stress buster. Shower bath is excellent. Add mint/ tulasi leaves/flowers to a bucketful of water. Use bath powder scrub entire body, which improves micro circulation for next 3-5 hours. Taking bath twice daily is good.

Head Bath: Massage warm oil before going to bed & take head bath next morning. Massage neck, forehead, shoulders, hands, knees, calf muscles, palms & feet-they have 36 reflex points and allows bio energy to pass freely along meridians that gives relaxation & send out toxins from the body.

Aromas: Lemon, orange, jasmine, rose, coriander, ginger, garlic & radish are very good stress busters. Keep flowers, flowering plants or Agarbatti aroma in vicinity of your reading area.

Laugh: Laughing by cracking jokes / reading humors at least 15-20 min/day. I request the lecturer to ask one of her students to tell a joke every day in class. Most of the European hospitals have nurses to make patients to laugh that improve immunity.

Rhythmic Clapping: Is a very good stress buster. Group clapping rhythmically clubbed with singing for 30 min & above stimulates the reflex points in the palm & improves micro circulation, corrects arrhythmia, causes mild perspiration and warmth in the body. These speeds up the breathing and improve oxygen availability to the cells and bust the stress. Try this today. Minimum 3. Maximum any number. Antyakshari with clapping is very good.

Steps are Stress busters:  Ancient England realized this when they invaded Indian Forts. Even now in England they conduct Steps Week. Where lifts & escalators are not functional in residential, official/commercial complexes people are encouraged to use steps for burning the fat & stress busting. Japan, France, Germany are observing no car/ computer/ mobile/ TV/ AC day once a week as a stress busting activity and India is no exception to it .

One of the major causes for Stress is AC environment as it will have more anions – and less cataions+ leads to Stress. It is better to spend time in green areas, water falls, forests which will have more cataions which relaxes us mentally. Walking is the best Way to good health and stress busting activity.

When you can walk don’t talk. Put a shell to your cell phone.

Play & Recreation: It has been proved that if a child plays for 30-40 min in open area every day will keep him stress free for next 8-9 hours. Indoor games like Table Tennis, Tennis, Shuttle Badmition, Passing the ball, Using Steps, Push-ups, Skipping. Cycling, Gardening, Swimming & Aerobics.

Develop an absorbing hobby like singing, dancing, lacing, embroidery, tailoring, cooking, musical instrument, collection, painting, drawing, gardening, interior designing, pottery, cane work, carpentry, floral decoration, helping children, decoration, yoga, reading, quiz programs, watching birds/ nature, toys/ bags making, animation, repairing, anchoring, horse riding,  swimming, helping elders, traveling, learning languages.

Sleep: Every student needs 5-7 hrs of sleep. It has been proved scientifically that human brain can’t be effective after 16-17 hours in grasping & retaining. It is active from 4 AM to 10 PM. Hence it is better to get up at 4AM & go to bed at 10PM. Reading for 1 hr in the morning is equal to 4-5 hours in the night. No night outs.

Food & Bed: Never take your food on table and chair watching TV. Sit down and eat. You consume less and your digestion is better. After lunch rest a while sitting/ lying down. Don’t sleep. After supper keep 300 minutes between food & bed.

Read, understand, analyze, implement and be healthy and happy

 

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Why be a Vegetarian?

We can save environment (nature) by following vegetarianism. Non-vegetarian is the food of some animals and they cannot eat vegetarian and survives only on meat of other animals. If we consume or do waste more meat by killing rabbits, deers, birds and other forest animals, we are creating shortage of meat to the meat eating animals. If you care about the environment, please live as vegetarian.

The choice to become a vegetarian is a wise decision you can make to impact your personal health and the health of the mother earth. If somebody arguments against being a vegetarian, it is due to economic and political interests of them who profit from the sales of meat. If you are convinced you to be a vegetarian you can convince others easily. If you are already became vegetarian, due to high cost of meat is enough to make anyone feel uncomfortable being a non-vegetarian. You can tell about the unclean, inhumane, and utterly repulsive treatment of millions of helpless animals each year and contamination and dwindling water supplies. You can talk about our population suffering from diseases of excess (such as weight, heart disease, cancer and diabetes).

If we wish to be happier, healthier and to contribute to the overall well-being of animals, humanity, and the planet we live on, change is necessary. Our lives will actually start to change for the better when we experience this new awareness. By realizing and accepting the consequences of our choices we can begin to solve many of the problems we face in the world today.

A real environmentalist does not eat meat. Rather, they understand that raising animals for food will make hell on the Earth by polluting and depleting our land, water, and air and they want no part of it. There’s a lot of talk about curbing global warming by reducing carbon emissions. But surprising very few people is presenting the fact that vegetarian diet would have a huge impact on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. In fact, on the basis of carbon emissions, adopting a vegetarian diet actually does reduce emissions than driving a hybrid car. That is because every single stage of meat production involves heavy pollution, massive releases of greenhouse gases, and massive amounts of energy.

Would you clear 55 square feet of rainforest just to eat a hamburger? That is about what it takes if you are consuming meat imported from South America. An area of rainforest the size of seven football fields is destroyed every minute to make room for grazing cattle. When rainforests are destroyed, so is a rich variety of plant life and entire species of wildlife. And it’s not just the rainforests that are vanishing, more than 260 million acres of forest have been clear-cut just for animal agriculture. By choosing to be a vegetarian, you alone would save one acre of trees every year.

Nearly half of all the water used in the United States goes to raising animals for food. A vegetarian diet requires only little water per day, while a meat-eating diet requires more water per day. In other words, for every pound of meat you spare, you are saving more water than you would by not showering at all for almost an entire year. There is a saying, “The Earth is able to provide for everyone’s needs, but not everyone’s greed.” The problem with the growing worldwide demand for meat is that there are not enough resources to allow everyone in the world to eat meat. It takes up to 16 kilograms of grain fed to the animals to produce just 1 kilogram of meat.

To support their meat habit, industrialized countries export huge amounts of grain to developing countries, which in turn use it to produce meat, which is then exported back to those industrialized countries. Because of this trend, the much more efficient plant-based agricultural model that was once the norm in developing countries is being replaced by intensive livestock rearing – and less food being grown for the people of those countries.

If everyone on Earth received 25 percent of his or her calories from animal products, only 3.2 billion people could be nourished. If everyone ate a vegetarian diet, there would be more than enough food to nourish the world’s entire population—more than 6.3 billion people.

An acre of land used to raise cattle meant for slaughter, produces about 200 kilograms of meat. If pulses were grown on that same acre, more than 17 times the amount of grain could be produced. If we added up all the land on Earth that is suitable for farming and divided it equally among the entire population, each person would get about 2/3 of an acre. To feed a vegetarian, it only takes about 1/6 of an acre of land, but to feed a meat-eater, it takes nearly 3 and 1/4 acres of land. See the huge difference.

I do not expect everyone in the world to become a vegetarian (even though it is a nice thought), but even if a small percentage switched to a plant-based diet it would result in saving land and water resources to help the population of the world to live in a much more sustainable manner.

Be a veggie. Save planet. Save animals. Be healthy & happy!!

Impact of Yoga, Dhyana, and Ayurveda

 

In US alone 1 crore people are meditating on daily basis. Same is the trend in Europe. On many occasions doctors are suggesting to do yoga along with medication. National press is printing various articles describing these ancient Indian life procedures. Almost every town is having Yoga & Dhyana centers.Schools made yoga classes compulsory from KG to PG. Corporate, Offices, Hotels and even jails conduct it.

Especially to prevent & control the severity of chronic diseases doctors are recommending Yoga & Dhyana in many major hospitals. More so in Hypertension, Ischemic Heart Diseases, AIDS, Cancer, Infertility Yoga is highly beneficial in reducing the agony and pain. Also helpful in psychiatric disorders, depression by aiding patients by recovery from the symptoms. Why is it so?

 The results of 3 decades scientific studies are attracting the medical professionals all over the world. Doctors are accepting especially for tension Yoga-Dhyana are the right answer.  It also helps in improving the body immunity and fights the diseases. Interesting questions are how they act on brain and what changes they bring in its functioning? It is not difficult to find answer with modern medical gadgets.

In mid 60’s Dr. Herbert Benson studied 36 people who are doing Transcendental meditation (Bhavateeta Dhyana). At mid night they were taken to the lab and noted the effects of Dhyana like heart rate, blood pressure, body temperature changes. The oxygen use reduced by 17%. The heart rate is reduced to one third. Theta waves are observed in the brain. Normally they are more before sleep. After rolling into sleep they will be different. By analyzing the results Dr. Benson by this Dhyana the people could able control the shocks and responses due to severe stress. They were also happy and relaxed in their composure.

Dr. Greg Jacobs-Prof. Of Psychiatry-Harvard medical school who coordinated the studies of Dr. Benson conducted another experiment.  He has selected 2 groups of each 20 members, for one group he has given listen to selected audio cassettes and he asked the other group to practice Dhyana. He recorded brain responses with EEG. The Theta waves are more in the group done Dhyana-Yoga. The functional activity of parietal lobe has come down and created great calmness & serenity. This is very interesting to note.

In late 90’s Dr. Andrew Newberg-Neurologist-Pennsylvania University conducted a study on Buddhist Monks about their brain functioning during yoga by using ultra sound scanning apparatus. It has been noted that even in deep meditation brain functioning is not stopped. But the information to parietal lobe stopped from getting information.

Dr. Benson with the help of MRI Scanner tested the people in Dhyana and noted that though the blood supply is reduced to brain to some extent during Dhyana, the blood supply to limbic system controlling emotions, heart functioning, respiration was good. Dr. Richard Davidson-Wisconsin University-Madison conducted experiments. Usually the pre-frontal cortex plays a crucial role in our emotive behavior of its left is stimulated negative traits like dissatisfaction and angry will be predominant. If its right is stimulated positive traits like happiness, satisfaction etc. will be predominant. He analyzed that during Dhyana in this cortex stimulation changes from left to right. This clearly indicates that brain will be trained to face stress there by happiness, satisfaction will increase.

Buddhist Guru Dalai Lama & Dr. Benson established Mind-Body Medical Institute in 2000. Here some neuro scientists, psychologists has conducted a deep study on Dhyana in their Dharmashala. They have arranged electrodes to the heads of meditators and recorded electro-magnetic wave changes of their brains. This study proved regular Dhyana helps neuron to strengthen and face stress effectively.

There is another angle of these experiments involving the antisocial elements in jails-2002, by changing their thinking through Dhyana. They have conducted this study at a jail near Seattle-US they have made them to meditate for 11 hours a day for 10 days. After 2 years only 56% of the people meditated returned to jails. Others not meditated 75% returned to jails.

In 2002 at Cambridge University people suffering from chronic depression made to meditate. After the meditation the chances of recurrence of symptoms have reduced by 50% in them.

In 2003- Dr. Den Arnish experiments proved that the people who meditate daily and take proper food coupled with Yoga the cholesterol in blood vessel is reduced, that reduces the chances of heart attack problem. He declared through “American Urological Association” that the prostrate cancer progress will be slow by Dhyana. The patients suffering from chronic skin diseases like Psoriasis will have mental stress. Dr. John Kabat jinn observed that Dhyana reduces the stress and help in reducing the progress of the disease. He studied the effect of Dhyana on vaccines at Wisconsin University. In this study a vaccine used for flu has shown better results in people doing meditation. Producing antibodies more effectively. This has proved that Dhyana & Yoga strengths body immune mechanism.

It helps immensely in reducing Hypertension considerably and reduces the chances of cancerous lumps in the breasts of women. By improving mental peace it improves sexual ability.

What is the future of Dhyana & Yoga?

They not only reduce the stress, improves concentration, mental calmness. They also improve coordination between functioning of various systems in body. More and more experiments are conducted globally towards this and entire medical profession is looking at it seriously and eagerly for effective solutions for nagging healthcare problems.

 

What changes we can see in the brain during Meditation?

Frontal Lobe: is the seat for our discretely ability, planning ability, emotions, self motivation. During Dhyana frontal lobe will be serene and stable.

Parietal Lobe: is the centre which will help about our consciousness of the surroundings, time sense. While doing Dhyana its activation is slowed down.

 Thalamus: Consciousness, sensory organs control, communication responsibility, concentration are major jobs of thalamus. While in Dhyana the flow of communications are reduced.

 Reticular Formation: Alertness, fighting spirit, running away from danger making us ready to face eventualities through electrical impulses as Alfa Waves are responses of Reticular Formation

Alfa Waves are responsible for Reticular Formation. During Dhyana and Yoga the responses of Alfa Waves are reduced, slowly Theta Waves will increase creating calm and serene atmosphere to brain and in turn to whole human body. This rejenuvates both Mind and Body resulting in immuno-modulation and better quality life.

In Charaka Samhitha & Susruta Samhitha herbs are mentioned which will help in improving the calmness of body and mind like Aswagandha (recommended for insomnia, as a rejenuvator and aphrodisiac), Brahmi, Shankapushpi etc. Hence the combination of Dhyana, Ayurveda and proper eating habits go a long way in proving 100 years healthy, happy life.

 

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