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Holistic Health Care - An Introduction

Explore the options and choose what's right for you.

Thirty years ago, conventional and complementary health practitioners were calling each other nasty names and dismissing each other's treatments as useless or dangerous. These days, many complementary health care practitioners are willing to admit that for emergency medicine, conventional treatme… Continue

Added by Bijay Raut on November 27, 2009 at 5:03pm — No Comments

The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success - by Deepak Chopra

"Success in life could be defined as the continued expansion of happiness and the progressive realization of worthy goals. Success is the ability to fulfill your desires with effortless ease." - Deepak Chopra

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Added by Bijay Raut on November 27, 2009 at 9:23am — No Comments

Wisdom of Uncertainty - Deepak Chopra Answers

Q. My question is a simple one, but in a way, one of the big ones. How do you live life when it has no guarantees? How do you dare to love someone, when they may die, or you may die? How do you dare feel safe walking in the world when maybe nothing will come in the next part, after death? These questions have never concerned me before, but sudde… Continue

Added by Bijay Raut on November 22, 2009 at 7:00am — No Comments

50 Simple Health Tips - Whole Living by Martha Stewart

Some health advice is universal: Eating well, exercising, and reducing stress go a long way toward boosting wellness and preventing chronic disease. But what about those individual health issues -- headaches, cramps, indigestion -- that we often feel we just have to live with? As it turns out, tr… Continue

Added by Bijay Raut on November 18, 2009 at 5:44pm — No Comments

100 Benefits of Meditation

There are so many advantages to meditation. Physiological benefits: 1- It lowers oxygen consumption. 2- It decreases respiratory rate. 3- It increases blood flow and slows the heart rate. 4- Increases exercise tolerance. 5- Leads to a deeper level of physical relaxation. 6- Good for people with… Continue

Added by Bijay Raut on November 13, 2009 at 11:30am — No Comments

The Real Seat of Power – Are You in it?

Where lies true power? Who has power today and why exactly are they powerful? There is a tendency to externalize the idea of power. We look at other people and organizations and we call them ‘powerful’. Why? Because they seem to have a significant effect on the world around them. This gives us a simple but a… Continue

Added by Bijay Raut on November 12, 2009 at 12:23pm — No Comments

Passion makes the old medicine new - sufi Rumi

Passion makes the old medicine new: Passion lops off the bough of weariness. Passion is the elixir that renews: how can there be weariness when passion is present? Oh, don't sigh heavily from fatigue: seek passion, seek passion, seek passion! - sufi Rumi Continue

Added by Bijay Raut on November 6, 2009 at 11:30am — No Comments

Ayurveda and the Mind: The Healing of Consciousness by Dr. David Frawley

Ayurveda and the Mind

Book overview Ayurveda and the Mind is perhaps the first book published in the West that explores specifically the psychological aspect of this great system. The book explores how to heal our minds on all levels from the subconscious to the superconscious, alo… Continue

Added by Bijay Raut on October 30, 2009 at 12:35pm — No Comments

Health Benefits of Tai Chi and Qigong

Tai Chi and Qigong

Tai chi and qigong are two mind-body practices that originated in ancient China. Practiced widely in China for thousands of years, both tai chi and qigong have become popular in the West. This might be because people of almost any age or condition can learn them. Large, clinical studi… Continue

Added by Bijay Raut on October 27, 2009 at 10:04am — No Comments

Ayurveda: Natural Health Practices for Your Body Type by Dr. Vasant Lad

Ayurveda: Natural Health Practices for Your Body Type, from the World's Oldest Healing Tradition with Others

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Added by Bijay Raut on October 23, 2009 at 12:59pm — No Comments

Inner Peace, the Real Peace

Inner Peace, the Real Peace

Take a moment to look outwards into the natural world. See the tree…watch the flower… observe the grass…feel the breeze. Notice how everything in nature does what it does naturally and peacefully. Peace is nature’s nature. It grows, blooms, decays and dies with peace, in p… Continue

Added by Bijay Raut on October 16, 2009 at 2:45pm — 1 Comment

The Soulmate Secret: Manifest the Love of Your Life with the Law of Attraction by Arielle Ford

The Soulmate Secret

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Added by Bijay Raut on October 9, 2009 at 3:09pm — 2 Comments

Love Will Find You: 9 Magnets to Bring You and Your Soulmate Together by Kathryn Alice

Love Will Find You

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Added by Bijay Raut on October 9, 2009 at 2:58pm — No Comments

Fall Foliage

Henry David Thoreau Autumnal Tints The Atlantic Monthly (October 1862)

Europeans coming to America are surprised by the brilliancy of our autumnal foliage. There is no account of such a phenomenon in English poetry, because the trees acquire but few bright colors there. The most that Thomson says… Continue

Added by Bijay Raut on September 22, 2009 at 2:02pm — No Comments

Meditation Made Easy...

Meditation doesn't have to be hard... Unless you make it that way!

Author and Meditation Teacher Lorin Roche, Ph.D. offers insight into how we make ourselves uncomfortable during meditation and how we can change this approach Meditation techniques are infinitely varied. There are th… Continue

Added by Bijay Raut on September 18, 2009 at 11:57am — No Comments

Michael Murphy on Self-Mastery and Enlightenment - An Interview

Integrating the Big Bang: An interview with Michael Murphy by Andrew Cohen

Introduction I first met Michael Murphy in 1995. Sharon Toms, who at that time was CEO of Esalen Institute, Murphy's brainchild, arranged for us to meet over coffee at his house in San Rafael, California. We spent a very p… Continue

Added by Bijay Raut on September 15, 2009 at 12:09pm — No Comments

The Evening Romance – A Poem

The Evening Romance by Bijay Raut

When the day seeks to rest, It pleads the Sun to set, When the workers wipe the sweaty forehead, The cool air breezes from the distant ahead, When the crops sink to soak the soil, The farmers lay their tools to rest, When the babies sing the evening chirps, Th… Continue

Added by Bijay Raut on September 11, 2009 at 3:00pm — No Comments

The Joy of Giving

The Joy of Giving by Deepak Chopra

Giving, taking, earning, stealing, squandering, hoarding. These are all human impulses, and we wouldn’t be human without them. Yet on this list only one item — giving — appears in the world’s wisdom traditions. Why is giving set apart? After all, there’s no myste… Continue

Added by Bijay Raut on September 10, 2009 at 7:00am — No Comments

The Heart of The Mind - A Book of Poetry

The Heart of The Mind by Bijay Raut

"Ultimately, poetry is the pouring of the divine consciousness through the pen of the master poet." - Bijay Raut, The Heart of The Mind "The Heart of The Mind is a collection of 21 poems about Love, Nature, and Spirituality." Available at… Continue

Added by Bijay Raut on September 7, 2009 at 11:30am — No Comments