Powers of Ashwagandha, Neem & Brahmi

Ashwagandha, Neem and Brahmi are just some of the most valuable herbs Ayurveda offers.

• Ashwagandha is great for balancing Vata, which governs all movement in the body.
• it is an adaptogen and promotes stamina and well-being
• supports all nerve impulses
• increases strength in muscles
• supports healthy functioning of the reproductive system
• helps with joint pain
• promotes a good sleep, memory and clear mind

Neem has been around for centuries and is very widely used in India.  In Ayurveda, it is known as a great herb to have a medical effect on the skin.

• Neem is great for balancing Pitta
• helps in the removal of ama and other toxins
• excellent purifier for the blood
• clears blemishes
• helps with psoriasis and other skin problems
• also very nourishing for the hair

Brahmi is one of the mot popular Ayurvedic herbs.  In ancient Vedic literature, it is known that brahmi was used by scholars and students to increase their memory and proper brain functioning.

• Brahmi calms the mind
• supports proper brain functioning
• increases memory
• promotes relaxation
• support consciousness and longevity

Powers of Ashwagandha, Neem & Brahmi

Lets Go Green

It is so important to go green because globally we all come together, we are in coherence with the laws of nature and in tune with our bodies and the plants.  From where we live, to what we buy, to what we eat is super important.  It will make life easier, healthier and more blissful for the consciousness of all.

Here's how we all can go green - LETS DO IT.

Buy organic

Buy local
Avoid GMO (Genetically Modified Organism) foods
Cook with spices and herbs 

Grow a garden with fresh vegetables and fruits

Eat raw nuts and seeds on a regular basis

Juicing vegetables and fruits is fun and easy 

Use healthy oil or ghee (clarified butter) for cooking 

Surya Namaskar - Sun Salutation

Thought I'd keep with the roll of yoga.

Surya Namaskar, or Sun Salutations.

Surya, the sun, is the Hindu solar deity.

A sequence of asanas or poses are performed to build strength and awareness to the physical body, mind and soul.  There are a total of 8 different asanas in the sequence of 12 asana changes.

Benefits of Surya Namaskar - 

• your consciousness is raised
• develop inner peace 
• rekindle your drooping spirit
• face glows - balance of mind, body and spirit
• detoxification of body and mind
• mental clarity and concentration
• immunity is increased 
• loosens excess belly fat
• regulates menstrual cycle
• reduces anxiety and restlessness 
• enhances strength and vitality 
• various poses help regulate blood flow
• tones arms
• strengthens spine 

Special Features of Yoga

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Yoga and its special features - 

• natural
• holistic 
• systematic
• scientifically validated
• culture's perfect health
• develops higher state of consciousness
• authentic
• time tested
• cost effective 
• easy to practice
• free from harmful side effects 
• oriented towards correcting the root cause of imbalance 

Relation Between Long Hair & Consciousness

The Relation Between Long Hair & Consciousness

Native American elder with long hair, an important part of their culture

We are conditioned to think that hair styling is important and how it makes a cool fashion statement. But in olden times it was a different story. An interesting find revealed that long hair in men was actually related to consciousness or the sixth sense. Does that sound alarming? Lets delve a bit more into this topic.

During the Vietnam war, special forces in the war department had sent undercover experts to look for talented recruits among Native Americans, who were blessed with special supernatural and tracking abilities.

A couple of American Indians were selected and what happened after that is surprising. Once they were recruited, their natural skills and ability to access their sixth sense just disappeared. On conducting a test to find out what went wrong, the older native American recruits said that after undergoing military haircut they could no longer sense the enemy, they lost their intuition power and couldn’t access subtle extrasensory information.

So more native Indians were recruited and this time they were allowed to keep their hair long and on comparing performance of men with military haircut and ones with long hair, they found out that long-haired men were far better and skillful. The results stated that the Native trackers should be allowed to keep their hair long. A special thanks to Indian in the Machine for the truth on Native Indians and long hair.

While reading about this I also realised that Sikhism requires men to keep their hair long and is considered a symbol of spirituality. One of the five physical symbols of faith for Sikhs is, “The Kesh (or hair) reminds aKhalsa to behave like the Guru’s. It is a mark of dedication and group consciousness, showing a Khalsa’s acceptance of God’s will.”

Lord Shiva statue in Bangalore

Long hair has long been a common element of many spiritual prophets such as Jesus, Moses, Buddha, Shiva, or the story of Samson and Delilah from the Bible, when Samson lost his strength with the loss of his hair.

Hair is an extension of the nervous system and it emits energy from the brain into the outer environment. Its an information highway reaching the brain, so when hair is cut, receiving and sending transmissions to and from the environment is hampered.

The 60′s were quite hairy and on a ending note, you may like the musical called Hair!

Source: FractalEnlightenment

Wow, what a great read!  I'm so happy that I have long hair :) 

The 20 Approaches Of Maharishi Ayurveda

Maharishi Ayurveda promotes a balance in body and mind and incorporates a range of twenty complementary approaches to maintain perfection in all areas of life, including health, on the psychophysiological and emotional levels.

The twenty approaches of Maharishi Ayurveda are:

1. CONSCIOUSNESS
    Developmental of higher states of consciousness through Maharishi's Transcendental Meditation programme, its advanced techniques and the T.M. Sidhi programme.

2. PRIMORDIAL SOUND
    Use of the primordial sounds of the Samhita, of the four aspects of Veda and their Vedangas and Upangas to eliminate imbalances in the functioning of human nature and nature as a whole.

3. INTELLECT
    To correct the mistake of the intellect, pragya paadha, so that the totality of the unified structure of life is perceived while perceiving the diversified structure.  In this state of knowledge of the self, disease cannot flourish because life is intimately connected with the sources of natural law.

4. EMOTIONS
    Strengthening the finest level of feeling to develop the emotions fully.

5. LANGUAGE
    Using Vedic principles of the structure of language to promote balance and integrity in the mind and body.

6. GANDHARVA-VEDA
    Traditional music therapy using sound and melody to restore harmony in the physiology and to eliminate the imbalances responsible for disease.

7. SENSES
    Vedic procedures to enliven, through the senses, perfect balance in all areas of life.

8. PSYCHOLOGICAL INTEGRATIONS
    Restoration of homeostatic and acceleration of neuromuscular coordination and balance in the physiology and psychology.

9. NEUROMUSCULAR INTEGRATION
    Vedic exercises pertaining to the physiology of breathing to restore integrated functioning at all levels of life.

10. NEURORESPIRATORY INTEGRATION
      Vedic exercises pertaining to the physiology of breathing to restore integrated functioning at all levels of mind and body.

11. MAHARISHI PANCHA KARMA PROGRAMME
      Physiological purification - sophisticated purification procedures applied at regular intervals to eliminate and prevent accumulation of physiological impurities.

12. DIET
      Appropriate dietary measures to support the restoration of physiological balance for prevention and treatment of disease.

13. HERBS AND MINERALS
      Medicinal flora and minerals from every country to bring perfect balance to the functioning of mind and body.

14. RASAYANAS
      Sophisticated herbal and mineral preparations formulated for the prevention and cure of disease and the promotion of longevity.

15. BEHAVIOUR
      Bringing behavior in accord with natural law through daily and seasonal routine.

16. PULSE DIAGNOSIS
      Detecting an existing or forthcoming imbalance simply by feeling the pulse.

17. JYOTISH
      Securing perfect heath for the future, mathematical prediction on environmental influences on health.

18. YAGYA
      Vedic performances to restore environmental balance and promote individual and collective health.

19. ENVIRONMENT
      Creating collective health through the T.M. and T.M. Sidhi program me so that society provides a nourishing and strengthening environment for the individual to rise to perfect health.

20. WORLD HEALTH / WORLD PEACE
      Group performance by 8,000 experts in Maharishi's T.M. and T.M. Sidhi programme to create coherence in the world consciousness, the basis of world peace and collective health on a global scale.

Ayurveda - the science of life.

Ayurveda is a science which can be defined in many different ways but has one meaning - a holistic approach that takes into consideration all aspects of the body, mind and soul.  Ayurveda maintains the balance between the body and its own inner intelligence and between the inner intelligence of the individual, cosmic intelligence of society and the cosmic intelligence of the universe.

Ayurveda is a basis of intelligence or consciousness, rather than matter.  Ayurveda has its importance on mental, physical and behavioral factors.  Rather than looking for disease, Ayurveda uses a holistic approach to bring the physiology back to its normal intelligence. 

'Ayurveda Mritanam' - 

'Ayurveda is for those who desire immortality'

It is a completely natural, effortless and holistic approach that takes into consideration of the mind and body together.

'Sharira, Indriya, Sattva, Atma, Samyoga' - 

'The conjunction of the body, senses, mind and self'. 

As long as they are held together, there is life.

Ayurveda is now the world's oldest scientific system of natural medicine originating over 6,000 years ago in the ancient Vedic tradition of India and it is the most complete system of natural medicine which has helped man to cure disease and maintain perfect health.

Perfection of life is in complete clarity of experience in any individual.  An example of perfection given by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi is of the sap in the tree.  The gardener waters the root, it supplies nourishment to the sap which therefore enlivens that sap and makes every expression enlivened or brighter.  Everything becomes better only if the sap is lively.  Like the sap in the tree, Atma or consciousness has a place in the life of everyone.  Perfect health means perfection in every field for everyone.  A perfect person is a balanced person, a perfect person always acts in the best possible way for himself and the society.  With the practice of Ayurveda, we all can achieve perfect health.