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Understanding The Lungs (The Artist) and How to Keep Them Healthy in Traditional Chinese Medicine
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In our human evolution we have passed through the summer season, it is now late summer when the heat is being burnt out through the leaves, and the autumn winds are blowing the trees bare (the hope is what follows is a peaceful winter rather than a desolate nuclear wasteland!). The stripping back that autumn brings is very helpful to a culture based in greed and excess.
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The Value of Meditating in the Early Morning
This morning I decided to write down a few reasons why you should do early morning meditation and yoga. It is vitally important not to have any attachment or expectations…
Kidneys | The Wise Ones
The Kidneys (the wise ones) and how to keep them healthy according to Chinese medicine
Heart tea herbs
Beetroot for the Heart A recent study found that dietary nitrate, a compound that dilates blood vessels to decrease blood pressure, may reduce overstimulation of the sympathetic nervous system that…
The Liver | The Teacher
Understanding the Liver in Traditional Chinese Herbal Medicine (The Teacher)
An Introduction to Numerology – The One | The Stomach
An Introduction to Numerology – The One By AMRIT SINGH Winter. The first season. During Winter our energies tend to gather more deeply inside. Things freeze over, the colder days…
A new understanding of the mind-body connection
All of us are experiencing the struggle that goes with transition and transformation. In astrological terms we are on the cusp between the Piscean and Aquarian ages. In our human…
Detoxing. The Kundalini Yoga Perspective
Detox There is a modern fashion with ‘going on a detox’, which normally implies restricting certain foods, a mono diet or even fasting on water and herbal teas or juices.…
Liver tea herbs
Turmeric – Curcumin, the active component of turmeric increases the amount of glutathione in the liver. Turmeric can also be helpful, not only in liver disease, but also in liver…
Meditation
We have 3 minds
The 3 Minds We are told that we have one body and one mind but actually we are ten in one; Soul, negative Mind, positive mind, neutral mind, physical body...
Why meditate
I would like to share some thoughts about meditation. We will take it in stages. Firstly WHY Meditate (today), then WHAT is meditation, what is it’s essential nature, WHEN to...
What is meditation
What is Meditation, what is happening when we meditate? I would like to share this part in 2 stages. This first part is an introduction...
What is happening during meditation
What´s happening during meditation? Don´t try to solve your problems? take them to the...
When to meditate
“You are the creative source and nucleus of the whole vibratory pattern in which you live” YB (TT Manual p28). It maybe clear by now Who is the meditator is the you...
How to meditate
HOW to Meditate (last in this series). So we have seen that meditation is a cleansing of the subconscious. A way of observing the social and intellectual programming you have...
If you don’t go within you go without
It has been said that It doesn’t matter what your external life is like if you don’t have access to the...
The Science behind Meditation
Meditation has surged in popularity in recent years and is now championed by therapists, scientists, celebrities and...
Healing
Presence and Power, Attitude and Energy
Attitude and Energy There are many claims made for healing at an energetic level and many claiming...
Your organs are characters in the story of your life
Healing from the inside out Considering the story of your life; every organ is a character with a...
The eternal soul
Despite all of our efforts to keep healthy the body is complex and paradoxical. After the loss of our premature baby boy at 15 hours old it was revealed that my wife had liver disease from an...
Mental Health and Choice
Everyone’s life is full of all kind of symptoms and co-morbidities. It is just a matter of a continuum. Some have more, others less...
The Body part 1
The Body Mostly we want to silence any cries from our bodies that something is amiss as quickly as possible. Symptoms of disease are commonly battled into submission...
Spiritual Life Coaching
Through our consultations we bring together three great healing traditions; sacred numerology...
Kundalini Yoga for Addiction
The process and effect of addictions Many addictions start in the teens as an attempt to escape from uncomfortable feelings...
The 5 Reasons for Any Disease
We are made up of 5 Tattwas or Elements; earth, water, fire, air and ether which correspond with wilfulness/lust, greed, anger...
The 5 Levels of Healing
The 5 Levels of Healing There are 5 levels to healing and though healing on one level can trigger healing on another it helps to be aware of...
Yogic Process
The Yogic Process
The Yogic Process There are 3 processes – Rejuvenate / Harmonise / Eliminate or Gather, Organise and Deliver / Destroy. (Yogi Bhajantakes the fist letters...
Yogic Process part 2; 3 Levels of Health
3 levels of health Let us consider the 3 levels of health and how the...
Keep Up!
When we have a regular yoga and meditation practice we remain bright, receptive and self-sufficient, embrace the flow of life and tend to complain less...
Food and Eating
Quick meals
Quick meals (once you have a stock!) Chickpea Soup (River Cottage,light and easy, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall – a favourite cook book) Serves 2 – 4...
Favourite recipies
The following books and recipes have been used frequently by me over the years; River Cottage – light and easy – Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. This is a wheat...
Bhoj Kriya. A lecture by Yogi Bhajan
How to Bless and Eat Your Food: Bhoj Kriyai Kundalini Yoga as taught...
Thoughts on Eating
Ask yourself: why did I stop eating?; was it really because you had eaten enough? In the book "Eating...
Miscellaneous
Alignment and Flow in Kundalini Yoga
Alignment and Flow in Kundalini Yoga.? ? A workshop for teachers and those with...
Presence and Power, Attitude and Energy
Attitude and Energy There are many claims made for healing at an energetic level and many claiming...
The eternal soul
Despite all of our efforts to keep healthy the body is complex and paradoxical. After the loss of our premature baby boy at 15 hours old it was revealed that my wife had liver
Why meditate in the early morning?
This morning I decided to write down a few reasons (not all) for an early morning yoga and mediation practice...
Heart transplants – food for thought
In Western medicine the heart is viewed as a muscular pump that sometimes malfunctions but it is also the organ which reveals our...
Thoughts on Eating
Ask yourself: why did I stop eating? was it really because you had eaten enough? In the book "Eating the Moment" you are encouraged to...
The Process of Creation
Most people have the process of creation reversed. They believe that if they "have" a thing, for example more time, money, a relationship...
Tuning In with Kundalini Yoga
How to do It? ONG starts with the open mouth "O" sound but soon leads into a nasal sound since the objective is to create a vibration...
The 4 stages of the menstrual cycle and treatment protocols
The 4 stages of the menstrual...
Shabd (yoga of sound)
Mantra, shabd and the yoga of sound
Shabd Guru – the yoga of sound Kundalini yoga uses mantras and shabds during meditations and they form an important part of Kundalini yoga...
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