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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 treatments usually are the best option. Meanwhile, conventional doctors are embracing diet changes,… 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 suddenly I find myself thinking about them very much. I’m in my thirties but feel about 5 years old when I think… 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, treating day-to-day ailments is easier than you think. To discover the 50 best home remedies for common health issues, we consulted Andrew Weil, M.D.,… 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 high blood pressure. 7- Reduces anxiety attacks by lowering the levels of blood lactate. 8- Decreases muscle tension 9- Helps in chronic diseases like… 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 accurate definition of power as ‘the ability to influence future change’. And as we look out into the world we see so many are vying with each… 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

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, along with the role of diet, impressions, mantra, meditation, yoga and many other methods to create wholeness. Dr. Frawley has once again demonstrated his… 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 studies on the health benefits of tai chi and qigong are lacking. But many who practice tai chi and qigong report heightened feelings of… 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

Amazon.com Editorial Reviews Product Description For over 4,000 years, the people of India have looked to Ayurveda as a pathway to vibrant health and increased longevity. This… Continue

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 peace. Even the elements are mostly peaceful by nature, until we decide to attempt to control and interfere with their balance and harmony.… 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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Review "The Soulmate Secret will inspire you and give you a glimpse that this can be a… Continue

Added by Bijay Raut on October 9, 2009 at 3:09pm — 2 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 on this subject in his "Autumn" is contained in the lines,— But see the fading many-colored woods, Shade deepening over shade, the country… 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 thousands of ways to access this natural state, and some form of meditation has been practiced in all the world’s great cultures. Instinctive Meditation… 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 pleasant two hours together speaking about everything under the sun. Murphy was a congenial host and has a personality that emanates warmth… Continue

Added by Bijay Raut on September 15, 2009 at 12:09pm — 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 mystery to why someone might want to earn, hoard, squander, or steal a million dollars. One way or another, most of our daily actions follow the… Continue

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

The Power of Intention: Learning to Co-create Your World Your Way by Dr. Wayne Dyer

The Power of Intention "Change the Way You Look at Things, and the Things You Look at Will Change."

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Added by Bijay Raut on September 4, 2009 at 11:36am — No Comments

The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World by Lynne McTaggart

THE INTENTION EXPERIMENT Can our thoughts affect the physical world? An Interview with Lynne McTaggart by Janice Hughes, Share Guide Editor

An internationally recognized spokesperson on the science of spirituality, Lynne McTaggart is the author of five books, including the international bestseller The Field. In Lynne's new book, The Intention Experiment, she takes the ideas popularized in The Secret and What the Bleep Do We Know? and… Continue

Added by Bijay Raut on September 4, 2009 at 11:08am — No Comments

Grow Younger, Live Longer: 10 Steps to Reverse Aging

Grow Younger, Live Longer: 10 Steps to Reverse Aging by Dr. Deepak Chopra

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Editorial Reviews Amazon.com Review Written as an easily… Continue

Added by Bijay Raut on August 28, 2009 at 7:00am — No Comments

Transcendental Meditation (TM) - An Introduction

Transcendental Meditation (TM)

The Transcendental Meditation technique allows your mind to settle inward beyond thought to experience the source of thought, the most silent and peaceful level of consciousness—your innermost Self.

What is the Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique? It is a simple, natural, effortless procedure practiced 20 minutes twice each day while sitting comfortably with the eyes closed. It’s not… Continue

Added by Bijay Raut on August 21, 2009 at 10:35am — No Comments