Heal your body naturally

Did you know that our emotions have a direct impact on the body? The way we feel inside reflects outside. That is why you might have noticed that the health of some people drastically goes down when they are stressed out or depressed for a long time. Stress is one of the primary reasons for poor health. Sometimes it manifests itself in the form of diabetes, hypertension and other such lifestyle diseases. When we meditate, the mind becomes calm and relaxed.



Meditation helps release stress from the mind and body. When the mind is quiet, the emotions are balanced and the effect shows on the body. We stay healthy and free of diseases. In fact, consistent practice of meditation for a period of time can even help cure certain prolonged health conditions. Ramila Patel, a 52-year-old housewife from Mumbai, is a witness to this. She had been suffering from chronic migraine for 20 years and would have to take at least four tablets of paracetamol a day! With daily practice of Sudarshan Kriya and meditation, she shares that she was completely cured! She has never had a single migraine attack since three years.

“We use only 30 percent of our total lung capacity; 90 percent of the impurities in the system are thrown out through the breath. When you put attention to the breath, it has immense potentiality to heal. Doing meditation and pranayama can eliminate the cause of disease.” - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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Patanjali and Pranayama, Healing Meditation to heal all kind of illnesses and diseases

Yoga Sutra of Patanjali is one of the oldest and most authoritative treatises on yoga.

This treatise is the same respect both academic scientists and practicing yoga. For this reason, the Sutra is considered a fundamental treatise on yoga is a very large range of specialists.

Unfortunately, the Yoga Sutra of Patanjali is very difficult to understand for modern practitioners of Yoga for a variety of reasons, among which should be mentioned such as: lack of adequate terms in European languages for translation

basic notions in yoga (the word Samaddhi, Citta, Manas, etc.), the ultimate short presentation (very short aphorisms), difficult not knowing the environment in which this treatise was written, and many others.

For this reason, there was a serious need to give intelligible to the layman comments on this treatise. In our work we tried to avoid the Sanskrit terms, as well as illustrate the difficult philosophical ideas of simple analogies from our lives. We also conducted a parallel comparison with other philosophical teachings, such as Tantric Buddhism, Hindu Tantra, etc.

If this course of Yoga will give you at least a small islet of the understanding of the great science of yoga, if it will inspire you to continue learning all the secrets and mysteries of yoga, then we wake up assume his task was done.

Chapter one. ON THE CONCENTRATION.
1-5 of the Sutra
OM, worship of Ganesha!
Yes you the one who left his perennial form rules over the world [beings], showing up in a variety of ways [it] a favorable disposition, which destroyed [all] of the affections, the owner of a terrible poison, with a lot of mouth and beautiful hooded snake, omniscience, creator of the retinue which [has] to eternal bliss, he, the divine serpent with white unblemished skin, bringing us to focus, in focus.
1. so, manual yoga.
2. Yoga is the cessation of consciousness.
3. then the Viewer is in its own way.
4. in other cases the similarity with [consciousness].
5. the five activities [consciousness]: contaminated and
unpolluted.

Self-Healing Meditation

The more consciousness you bring into the body, the stronger the immune system, becomes. It is as if every cell awakens and rejoices. The body loves your attention. It is also a potent form of self-healing. It is not only your physical immune system that becomes strengthened; your psychic immune system is greatly enhanced as well.

There is a simple but powerful self-healing meditation that you can do whenever you feel the need to boost your immune system. It is particularly effective if used when you feel the first symptoms of an illness, but it also works with illnesses that are already entrenched if you use it at frequent intervals and with an intense focus. It will also counteract any disruption of your energy field by some form of negativity. However, it is not a substitute for the moment-to-moment practice of being in the body; otherwise, its effect will only be temporary. Here it is.



When you are unoccupied for a few minutes, and especially last thing at night before falling asleep and first thing in the morning before getting up, “flood” your body with consciousness.

Close your eyes. Lie flat on your back. Choose different parts of your body to focus your attention on briefly at first: hands, feet, arms, legs, abdomen, chest, head, and so on. Feel the life energy inside those parts as intensely as you can. Stay with each part for fifteen seconds or so. Then let your attention run through the body like a wave a few times, from feet to head and back again. This need only take a minute or so. After that, feel the inner body in its totality, as a single field of energy. Hold that feeling for a few minutes. Be intensely present during that time, present in every cell of your body. Don’t be concerned if the mind occasionally succeeds in drawing your attention out of the body and you lose yourself in some thought. As soon as you notice that this has happened, just return your attention to the inner body.

Excerpted from Eckhart Tolle’s The Power of Now, pages 123-124. For more from this book, click here.

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