Showing posts with label meditation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label meditation. Show all posts

Friday, 13 March 2015

5 Ways to Energize Your Day


Straight to the Five best routines to energize you day.


1.      Gratitude Prayer      (Benefits – Triggers your auto immune system)

Wake up 15 mins before your normal wake up time. A quick trip to freshen up, drink a glass of warm water ,then find a place to sit erect with neck and spine in a straight line,  Be still, close your eyes and say a Gratitude prayer and instructions to send fresh energy on each organ and sense.
Take a deep breath where you take fresh energy and exhale through the object, the body part, of your intention – taking away the impure energy (on your exhale). 



  • For your consciousness and perception faculties
  • For your sense of Hearing- try to hear something internally
  • For your sense of Touch – imagine feeling something internally
  • For your sense of Sight – Imagine seeing a pleasant sight with your eyes closed.
  • For your sense of Taste – Imagine tasting something you like – does your mouth salivate.
  • For your sense of Smell – Imagine smelling a rose if you can
  • For your Throat energy centre and all organs associated with the- Respiratory System
  • For your strong and healthy heart – the Circulatory System
  • For your healthy Solar Plexus area , two inch above the navel, Digestive system (stomach, intestines, gall bladder, pancreas, liver)
  • For your healthy Sacral Centre  - the Reproduction Organs, Kidneys
  • For your healthy Root Centre – the system looking after all waste from the body
  • For your healthy hips,thighs, knees, shin and foot.
  • For your healthy shoulder, arms, elbow , wrist and hands.
  • Tell the Mind with intention that if you have missed any part to correct it also.
  • Say Thank You Thank you Thank you and now open your eyes
You can have as many breaths at each point, with time your entire Gratitude Prayer should take 5 to 6 min. 

You have ensured that each and every part of your body was bathed in new energy which ensure that reproduction of new cells will be healthy as per your DNA instructions. 

2.     Meditation  (Benefits – You are consciously finding the calm state of mind while awake. This is the wellbeing state of  mind)
  • Can play some pleasant instrumental or meditation music – it will help
  • Close your eyes again, while sitting erect with neck in line with the spine.
  • Make a sound while inhaling through your nose. 4 to 5 secs
  • Hold your breath for 5 secs.
  • Make a humming sound while exhaling through nose- 7 to 10 secs
  • Repeat this inhale, hold and exhale 24 times
  • Open your eyes and take a big stretch. YOU are READY for what you have to offer this DAY


You can do both #1 and #2 in continuation and allow 15 mins.  
The humming sound while inhaling and exhaling is to prevent any coherent thought being processed by you.

3.     Exercise   (Benefits – You help your auto immune system.)
  • Do any exercise which will stretch or use your muscle groups by rotation for 15 Mins daily.


    • Do gentle stretching of your neck and spine – 5 stretches.

    4.     Breakfast    (Benefits – With optimum blood               sugar levels you make better decisions.)
    • Have a healthy breakfast- Egg white, Bran/Oat cereal, Grapefruit, Tea/Coffee, Skimmed milk, High Fibre Bread – suggestion, avoid -  egg yolk , butter and bacon unless you exercise 2 hours a day.

    5.     Pre Pave your day. ( Benefits – You have a path to follow otherwise you may go in circles !)
    • Make your intention as to the flow of activities you wish to accomplish during the day. When you achieve your small milestones you feel empowered.
    You now spend the rest of the day giving your best.



    CaptainWB
    http://mortgagewise.info

    Five Horsemen

    Some truths.


     If your body is healthy the mind is healthy, your thoughts are positive, your actions are complementary, generally you are in Joyful state of mind and hopefully the people around you are also in that state. Your state of health is one of the important cogs in the wheel of wellness.

    When you are tense there is constriction of the muscles and the blood vessels thus needing the heart to pump more – increased  pulse.
    In the above case LESS oxygen enriched reaches all the organs and extremities.

    With age all organs in the body are subject to decay and malformation of cells , this is due to decreased oxygen enriched blood flow to the organs and tissues.

    When you have a fever, you have muscle constriction, thus causing vasoconstriction- the constriction of all blood carrying veins and arteries, like a garden hose stepped on - the body’s natural response to correct the condition is to increase heart rate to improve good flow to organs and extremities to bring you back to normalcy.

    If in a relaxed state of mind when also the muscle tone is relaxed, there is less constriction. Thus in this state body organs and extremities are now irrigated more efficiently   Now when you further improve vasodilation of blood vessel by induced hypercapnia, increase of CO2 in the bloodstream, you send more oxygen enriched blood to your organs and extremities. There is temporary  increase in the blood pressure during this period. Overall  this causes less degeneration  of cells and healthy generation as per DNA specifications.

    Vasodilation can be explained as ,when we inhale air which comprises of 21% Oxygen, 78.9% Nitrogen and some traces of there gases. When we exhale the composition is 16%  O2 and 5% CO2 , with the Nitrogen still at 78.9%. If we exhale slowly there is more absorption of O2 with respect to time and more production of CO2 – and when we exhale slowly twice that of the Inhalation, the CO2 in the arterial system causes the arteries to overall dilate – called Vasodilation. Example – your veins are always larger than your arteries – because the veins have blood returning back to the heart for further purification.

    When you are sick the auto immune system of the body does all this to correct the imbalance by increasing the blood flow by pumping more. This happens by default. The increased heart rate causes fever to be present.

    Now you can deliberately create this condition for improved overall good health – longevity. Your are mimicking the Auto Immune system of your body!

    So how do we deliberately create a condition in which we place our body’s complex matrix so as to enhance consumption of oxygen enriched blood by the organs and extremities within the same base of time.

    Let us explore how to get 20 – 30 more years of loving life in the most healthy manner.

    The FIRST mechanism in the method is the process of Meditation . If you do 15 mins minimum twice a day you achieve a calm state of mind, less muscle tone, less constriction,less blood pressure, more blood flow. There are many ways to achieve meditation for best results neck and spine should be in a straight line.
    Meditation by itself produces good results in overall improvement of oxygen absorption. Daily meditation improves overall health and increases longevity.

    The SECOND mechanism is the method to induce minor hypercapnia. 15 mins once a day on a empty stomach.

    This can be induced by breathing in one unit of time and breathing out in  two or more unit of time.
    You can easily induce it by holding your breath long enough till you have to breath again. Like breathing in 4 seconds and holding the breath for 16 secs. All the oxygen is absorbed by the lungs and the increased CO2 causes vasodilation. All you blood vessel, that is arteries, are more dilated.

    Did you notice that your veins, which carry CO2 enriched blood, are always bigger than your arteries. There will be a spike in blood pressure but is is offset by FIRST mechanism.
    You will observe how we are using our body’s respiratory system to affect the body’s circulatory system

    Now the THIRD Mechanism is the method is to introduce more than required oxygen into the lungs. 15 mins in conjunction with the second mechanism. Alternate 5 mins each routine x 6 rounds.

    This causes the oxygen enriched blood to flow further to organs and to the extremities due to increased transportation passage created by the SECOND mechanism.

    This is achieved by hyperventilating rapidly for a prescribed duration. This is the same action like coughing where you use use your diaphragm  to expel all the air from your lungs. – but without the noise. You should expel your air at least once every second and let the air naturally aspirate into your lungs. This way you are breathing by a different process and give your lungs, an involuntary muscle, a rest. All involuntary muscles specially heart and lungs are always in action with out rest from the first time they start functioning till they cannot. All time spent breathing in this way is added to your lifespan as a bonus.


    The FOURTH mechanism is eating whole foods. This is whole new subject by itself. Life style change required.
    Let it be said that any ingress of material into the body by way of mouth is considered a foreign body. The body processes it but the ability to efficiently do so diminishes with time. Now if you eat only whole foods,no sugars, no fats and no salt you should help you digestive system from overwhelm and work efficiently like a well oiled machine. Also you have to prescribe to the belief that the sense of taste was created primarily  to reject bad tasting food, and food is like refuelling a car – we can only put a certain grade for best operation try putting diesel in a gasoline engine.

    Question most asked is what am I going to do with the added lifespan ? For that we need a another talk . Now i would simply say that the Final mechanism could be the answer to your question.

    The FIFTH mechanism is the expending of love. New Way of life.
    In this matrix of what we call real is really imaginary. So deliberately introduce feeling which are higher on the emotional scale to achieve real time joy. Love, gratitude, appreciation are some of the emotions which are there on the top. They are illusions too but they were created by you for the people around you and collectively for the universe around you.
    It is the state of mind of joy which you should always have irrespective of the manifestations. It is not that certain manifestations are required to bring about a joyous state of mind. That is short lived.

    In conclusion

    What you have heard so far are actually the 5000 year old yogic methods used. What you should be doing now has a scientific basis to it.
    Personally I use these mechanism on a regular basis with the desired effects.

    So if you take the longevity challenge the following five horseman are to be remembered.

    First – Meditation – To bring body and mind to a calm state with less muscle tone – should be floating.
    Second – Hypercapnia – Increase co2 in blood temporally so as to create vasodilation
    Third – Hyperventilation – to increase O2 enriched blood to reach organs and extremities via the improved transportation conditions.
    Fourth – Simple whole foods – Life style change required
    Fifth – Love Love and love – If all the world had that highest emotion it would be single living entity.


    So I hope to see you all  at my next talk in 40 years from now.



    Tuesday, 15 July 2014

    State of Mind - SOM


    If one’s State of Mind is always happy and positive your have fulfilled your mandate of the gift of your life. 

    Coupled with the desire to be in selfless service to humanity you have absolutely made good use of the physical life gifted to you.
    All the rest is an Illusion.

    To achieve the ultimate truth you have to tread through many falsehoods-illusions. Do you recognize the falsehoods ? 

    Real direct knowledge is gained by introspection and meditation which helps to dispels darkness.

    Let us attempt to define Happiness mathematically ;

    Happiness =  What you Have  /  What you Need   ( A Ratio)

    Happiness is a ratio where any thing greater than or equal to one means Positive and less than one is not.

    In the equation the Numerator = What you have, depends on many external circumstances not all in your control.
    Say you prosper and increase the numerator to a high number. Good luck.

    Denominator = What you need,  again depends on your thought process and ego. This number will increase with you desires.
    Keeping this number in check helps immensely in the overall Ratio.

    Pursuit of wealth, name and fame, is the blueprint most want to follow. Truth is that ultimately it is not fulfilling as your denominator also increase causing the ratio to be less than one.

    Happiness is an inner state not an outer accomplishments.

    What is required is a good balance between the Inner and Outer worlds.

    Good Health,  Peace of Mind and contentment are treasures to be cultivated and cherished.

    Use your own methods to balance the Happiness ratio. 

    Meditate to improve Direct Experiential Knowledge to guide you.

    Life is actually simple but we all make it unusually complicated. 


    You now know what is required- Execute . You will Honour the Gift of your Life given to YOU.

    CaptainWB

    Tuesday, 27 May 2014

    MediCation - C replaced by T - MediTation



    Meditation Meditation  Meditation - What is it ?

    “Practice meditation regularly. Meditation leads to eternal bliss. Therefore meditate, meditate, meditate."     -Swami Sivananda

    "There is no time for Meditation - in the time available I will medicate, medicate, medicate "  - Todays Majority Thinking

    Actually the act of doing and thinking nothing - is meditation. Unlearning what you have learnt is a process of meditation. The indirect advantage of meditation are many and when done regularly are more powerful than medication.

    Medication is a short time quickfix to physical or mental afflictions with the hope that the body's auto immune system will then take over. 

    Meditation if done porperly and regularly will prevent those physical or mental afflictions from occuring.

    Is it a religious act of some kind ?  NO.

    Have you ever done meditation in your life ? 

    To all those who have not done meditation ever I have news for you.
    We all meditate every day whether we know it or not. This the best type of meditation says the Dalai Lama. 

    At night when your body instructs you to sleep and in due course your body muscle tone is loosened, heart rate comes down, there is improved blood circulation, blood pressure is normalized , your endocrine system endeavours to stabilize, overall it resets your physical, electrical and chemical systems All this while you are in deep sleep state - unconscious state. 

    What was so religious about the above fact ?

    We will quantify the rest and rejuvenation one achieves by sleeping 8 hours as One Unit of wellness. This is assuming this was a sound sleep without any interruptions.

    Now if you Meditate while your mind is in the  conscious state the advantages your receive during meditations is THREE times more effective than what you receive during sleep.

    To put it in another way, if you could meditate, in the conscious state, for 3 hours - it is equivalent to 9 hours of sleep. You now have 6 additional hours to do any activity of choice - write a book perhaps or mediate some more !

    To explain this further let me go to the very fundamentals.
    There are SIX basic systems in the human mind body continuum.

    The Mind System -  The Third Eye - Brain
    The Nervous System - Vayana  Vayu. - Over all
    The Respiratory System -Udana Vayu - Throat 
    The Circulatory System - Prana  Vayu - Throat to Heart
    The Digestive System - Samana Vayu -  Heart to Navel
    The Elimination System - Apana Vayu - Navel to Rectum

    If any one system fails the body cannot last.

    Breathing rate is normally 15 breaths per minute (bpm) for a healthy person who will then live to a 100 years of age.
    Now if we reduce the breathing rate to 6 bpm by consciously slowing the breathing rate - this will effect the circulatory system by reducing the number of heart beats and the consequently the blood pressure. This will have a beneficial effect on the Nervous System which in turn will provide a better ambient currents to improve the Digestive and Elimination system.
    You did hear of person in stress condition (mind) does tend towards constipation

    One of the fact is that the Human Body can correct it self by triggering the body’s  auto immune system. The conditions have to be right for the Auto Immune System to be effective.

    What are those conditions ?

    • Stillness of body. (When sleeping you can achieve it and when in a meditative pose) 
    • A quite place where one can mediate or sleep.
    • A calm state of mind. (When sleeping you can achieve it but you are in deep sleep - unconscious. In meditative state you can achieve the calm state while in the conscious state).
    • To increase blood flow to extremities and organs.

    To illustrate let us visit a newly born baby and somebody in their thirties.
    The baby smells good if the pamper effect is not taken into account. The baby has all their SIX systems working efficiently and in balance. One important factor in the system is removal of toxins from cells which are dead and to bring fresh nutrients to new cells. 

    In the baby this system is working most efficiently as compared to an older person who has picked up bad habits during their lifetime. If the baby is not bathed she/he still smells fresh - the older body will start smelling because of non removal of toxins. On the other extreme when flesh rots the smell is awe full.

    Fact- If blood circulation is increased to organs and extremities we can have excellent toxins removal and nutrient delivery to cells of those regions.

    How do we increase Blood Circulation ?
    You can only use your body and their systems, no chemical or physical aids are allowed to increase blood circulation.
    Lets us follow a package of air ( one Breath) which was breathed in and what difference did it make.

    You took in AIR which is : NORMAL






    You took in AIR which is possible during  MEDITATION

    So we agree if we reduce breath per minute and breath deeply and diaphragmatically so we can increase the oxygen absorption. 


    So that package of air went to the alveoli and a gas exchange takes place from the CO2 rich blood coming back to the heart. Freshly oxygenated blood  is diverted by the heart into the circulatory system.


    The CO2 absorbed from the blood in the alveoli  is exhaled by the lung. So that package of air was processed so as to move fresh blood forward by a few inches. 

    At this point let us say we can achieve this increased absorption of O2 and increased expulsion of toxins when meditation is achieved.  We will do a practicum to prove this.

    As an analogy lets us say a human has a heart which is connected to a long pipe. The blood in the pipe irrigates a body organ and comes back to the heart. The long pipe is coiled like a garden hose in the body. So merely the process of blood circulation continues as usual.

    Now when one wakes up they immediately start thinking of the day to day affairs  and also the reasons which cause stress. Due to this flight response due to stress the muscle tone of the entire body implodes. This causes a constriction in the long pipe. This causes the heart to pump harder. This stress is like a person standing on top of the coiled garden hose. Generally  STRESS is defeating the forces of longevity.

    Now in this state if we achieve meditation it is very productive. For a start we request the person standing on your chest to get off. This softens the muscle tone of the body  and  automatically improving blood flow to the organs and extremities and is in cooperation with the forces of longevity.

    Meditation alone  improves the blood flow considerably. Now additionally by just modulating your breath easily you can further increase blood flow by additional 30%. 

    Now this is specific exercises of Yoga called Pranayama which can achieve this. Presently let us learn how to achieve meditation before we learn Pranayama. 

    Learn to walk before we run !

    Lets go for a leisurely walk.

    Love and Light

    CaptainWB
    sarab@innerbeingclub.com

    PS: Please send me any query you have at the above address. Our panels of experts - Real Yogis in India-  will gladly answer .







    Wednesday, 14 May 2014

    What is LOVE.....


    What is Love?

    Are you happy with your definitions? 

    There are two laws, the Law of Expansion and the Law of Contraction. Hate others, you are going through the Law of Contraction. Love all, you are going through the Law of Expansion.

    Do you feel your State of Mind (SOM) vibrates more positively when you are vibrating in harmony with the emotion called love. One of the highest emotions on the Emotional Scale.

    If one dwells or acts on the love emotion as a recipient or as a provider- one's state of mind soars towards the positive.

    Let us also see from a different perspective.
    Hate is a negative emotion  which is caused because of absence of Love.
    Yes Hate is the dichotomy of Love.

    How would we know what is Love if there was no Hate ? 

    We can say love and hate are drawn from the same bucket of emotions - one causes aversion and the other attraction.

    In the hierarchy of the love-hate emotions the best is  the Love of Self.

    All other recipients of the emotion are secondary.

    Your Mind is connected to your body with the two sentries, breath - inhalation and exhalation. All the emotions come specifically from the Four Primitive Fountains of Life, conscious mind and randomly from your unconscious mind, 95% of the total mind. 

    Emotions then cause thoughts or actions with respect to a recipient to who it is targeted.  The perception of the receiver will be as per their domain of knowledge, their goodness scale. The feed back to the initiator will also be perceived as per their domain of knowledge, their goodness scale. So this is how the see saw goes on.  

    Now what happens when you, alone, are present in the interaction above  which occurs.

    It is a fact that you love yourself if you look after your Body the best possible way you can, improving your knowledge so as to dispel ignorance,  better you perceptive powers, eating right so it does not effect your health and generally improve your virtue count during this spell of conscious living.




    110 years old, loving and childlike. 
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    Simply put if you vibrate positively with the love emotion you will have a profound effect on your disposition and health. 

    Do not dwell into the lower emotions of hatred, shame, fear, grief, condemnation, race prejudice for they take you away from self love. 

     "We can only love another; if we love ourselves first.” - Anonymous 

    We can sure say that the absence of hate is tending towards love.

    What does Lao Tzu say about Goodness and love…..


    A truly good man is not aware of his goodness,
    And is therefore good.
    A foolish man tries to be good,
    And is therefore not good.

    A truly good man does nothing,
    Yet nothing is left undone.
    A foolish man is always doing,
    Yet much remains to be done

    When a truly kind man does something, he leaves nothing undone.
    When a just man does something, he leaves a great deal to be done.
    When a disciplinarian does something and no one responds,
    He rolls up his sleeves in an attempt to enforce order

    Therefore when Tao is lost, there is goodness.
    When goodness is lost, there is kindness.
    When kindness is lost, there is justice.
    When justice is lost, there is ritual.
    Now ritual is the husk of faith and loyalty, the beginning of confusion.
    Knowledge of the future is only a flowery trapping of the Tao.
    It is the beginning of folly.

    Therefore the truly great man dwells on what is real  and not what is on the surface,
    On the fruit and not the flower,
    Therefore accept the one and reject the other.

    Tao Te Ching, Chapter 38 ,


    When the Tao is lost , there is goodness. So this is the goodness scale we talk about. In a Tao centred life there is no good or bad, there is no scale. It is what it is. All is perfect in Nature. When we deal with our own selves  we have to be Tao centred in how we act. We are not trying impress our own self!

    "We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves”  - Johann Wolfgang Goethe 

    “He who outwardly restraining the Organs of Senses and Action (Physically restrain the Senses); sits mentally dwelling on the Object of Senses, (What the Senses will perceive as an object) that man of deluded intellect is called a hypocrite” - Bhagwad Gita.

    Attachment is misery, non-attchment means love.
    All of our possessions and relationships are viewed as attachments.
    If we view all such with love, non-attachment rather than attachments then we will not feel the misery on their loss.
    All thing and relationships are transient and should be enjoyed with non-attachment and love.

    When there is non-attachment involved there is absence of hate and as such surfaces unconditional love.

    On a survey conducted on people of 100 years and over guess what was the most important ingredient of longevity.
    Yes you guessed it it was Love. This could be love and acceptance provided by family members, intellectual companionship by friends or generally a person of disposition where hating some  one was not part of the mind set. All the participants accepted this as the most important ingredient in their longevity.—Why ?

    1 years old loving 
    When you are angry which you will be when hate is part of your mental disposition, The muscle tone is constricted as in a fight/flight response, which in turn causes all the blood vessel/pipes in the body to contract ever so minutely, this causes less blood to reach the extremities or organs while keeping the blood pressure constant. - Loss of Blood irrigation to cells due to contraction.(minute effect multiplied by a lot of time!)

    If the heart increases blood pressure to achieve irrigation levels previously sought ; The increase of Heart beats due to contraction.

    If the muscle tone is relaxed and there is no constriction - You have maximum flow to organs and extremities where the toxins are removed efficiently and fresh food for new cell is received. — Simple logic , long lasting carbon life form. 

    This actually can be witnessed when inspecting a baby. The baby breaths what is required, without constriction of blood vessels/ pipes, as they are all infused with love the natural emotion. This causes efficient exchange of nutrients and toxins at the cell level. The baby have an excellent body smell due to this efficient exchange. As part of human conditioning the baby learns how to hate at some point.

    The only better way to live is with Love as the dominating emotion, hopefully with non- attachment and unconditional.

    It is for you to see where you are and where want to go. You decide and go forth with love always smelling nice.

    CaptainWB

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    Sunday, 6 April 2014

    Rishikesh the Holy City

    My departure to Toronto was delayed due to official reasons. Now I had 2 months to finish my project. This was after all near the dreaded March 31st financial closing in India. I was stationed at Chandigarh India

    To make constructive use of the time I decided to visit Rishikesh. I chose Rishikesh as a by-product, because Swami Rama’s Ashram was located there. I had discovered Swami Rama on the Internet in 2008 and since then had become well versed in his teachings. 
    Swami Rama
     1925 –– 1996
    Swami Rama's translation of the Mandukya Upanishad, Enlightenment without God is my favourite philosophy.

    One of the sites www.swamij.com is dedicated to his teachings. There are 40 hours of videos on the internet which one can see. Swami Rama just made the knowledge of the scriptures easy to understand in this own simple way. 

    I wanted to enroll for a course starting March 31 for 14 days. This was about transforming your self by applying the teachings of Swami Rama. There was no vacancy, sold out course. There was a course starting March 7th for 3 days and another course starting on March 20th for 5 days. In between was 10 days gap which the ashram allowed me to stay as a self-directed meditation. 

    So I stayed from  March 7th to March 26th in Rishikesh at the Sadhna Mandir Ashram built by Swami Rama, exact co-ordinate of the Ashram is 30.084745, 78.288762. 

    To reach there from Chandigarh, it took Rs 50 to reach the bus stand, another Rs 50 to reach Ambala by bus, Rs 65 Train ticket to Rishikesh - 4.5 hours journey, Rs 100 to the Auto Rickshaw to reach the Ashram.
    1 USD is equivalent to  Rs 65. So in Rs 265 or $ 4 did a 225 Km journey.
    View of the Ganges from the Ashram
    The Ashram has simply constructed building with an exquisite garden for meditative walks. It was located 50 feet from a flowing river called the Ganga. This place was a  1 kilometer upstream of a barrage which diverted the water for electricity generation, so the water was clean and abundant and at least having a width of 1200 feet. I did swim in the holy waters.


    The per day fees for the course and to stay there was Rs 750 or $11.50. This included three vegetarian meals daily and room rental. The food was adequate and wholesome. You had to wash your own dishes and there was no room service!
    View of the garden from the dining room

    The first course was taught by Ms Savitri Jugdeo. She was a visiting teacher from Toronto.  She had met Swami Rama in person in the ’90s. Imagine meeting in Rishikesh after originating from the same city.

    The second course was more intense and was taught by  Dr. Prakash Keshaviah. He was IIT Madras graduate and was a practicing Ph.D. engineer in Minnesota, USA. Swami Rama persuaded him to move back to India in 1990 and join the Himalayan Trust Hospital in Dehra Dun, Uttar Khand, India.

    During my stay, I visited Swami Yogananda Yogacharya and attended his Yoga Class. The Swami is 106 years of age at the time of meeting him.


    He has his own teeth, own eyes hears well and is on no medication at all.

    He was married and has 10 children. His grandson is  60 years old. He has been a widower for the last 10 years.

    With Swami Yogananda 
    He eats once a day a diet of fruits and nuts only. Typically 2 kgs of oranges, walnuts, almonds, cashews, raisins - nut count 40 units each.
    No beverages of any kind except water. He fasts for a week every two months. 

    I had the opportunity to ask him directly his secret of longevity.
    One of his yoga poses at 106
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    To have a life filled with love. Love is defined as the absence of hate.
    If you don’t do or think of violence you are a loving person. 

    Ego, the need for separate existence, will always steer you away from love.

    He practices Sukshma Yoga daily. This is the easiest form of yoga for longevity as is apparent. This allows for the best breathing for health

    Eat what your body requires. We do tend to eat 3 times more than what the body needs.

    With age, we tend to start listening to your body language. If we listen to our bodies early we can no doubt live a healthy long life.

    He says it is best practice to keep a fast once a week for better health. You can in one 24 hour period only drink water. 

    I want to talk about the dip in the Ganges in my next post.

    -

    CaptainWB
    www.sarabsandhu.com





    Saturday, 2 November 2013

    YOU as in the Original Equipment Manufacturer's manual.

    How would YOU describe yourself !

    A electro-chemical based mechanical being which has direct sense perceptions by the the following sensors.
    The being can hear sounds, can sense touch, can see, can taste and can smell.
    These senses are collated at a central place and the information collected helps us to make necessary decisions to ensure that in the continuum of time space where on the happy state of mind spectrum you are located.

    My being also has indirect sense perceptions by drawing on complex images, incidents, sounds stored in their vast memory banks in the brain.

    These big reservoir of memories could be also be carried forward from a previous life and could only be accessed in the super sub conscious state which you can easily access through meditation or randomly in the dream state when sleeping.

    My Mind wanders from being in Happy State of Mind, say 1, as one Extreme and likes to keep away from an Unhappy State of Mind, say 0, in the other extreme. All this information is exchanged by way of electrical signals between the various cells in the body.


    Vedic Fact - In the meditative state, you can with intention, stimulate any part of your physical, electrical and chemical functionality of  body parts or organs. You will it better by triggering the auto immune system. You can use it for prevention or remission of disease.

    To explain it further let us divide the body by the basic functions it carries out. We will start from the top.

    Neurological Functions analyzed by the brain and perceived  by the Medulla Oblongta the first body part which is created in a human fetus. This forms the command centre where all information is collected to make decisions about continued survival. Let is call this the CENTRAL COMMAND System and locate it right in-between your EYE BROWS and 4 inches inwards.

    The SECOND is the RESPIRATORY System. This is an involuntary system where Air rich in oxygen provides the necessary cleansing of the blood of CO2 and other waste products. This a complex process but simple enough to understand that  life is a string of breaths, you miss one and  will surely die.

    Let us say the location is your ADAMS APPLE in your throat. The centre is also responsible for SPEECH.

    The THIRD is the CIRCULATORY System. This again is an involuntary system where the Heart pumps fresh blood rich in oxygen to the various organs and extremities of the body in the first part and the reception of blood now rich in CO2 back to the heart for cleansing in the second part.

    The location of this centre is the exact location of the Physical HEART on the left side but moved to the centre on the breast bone.

    The FOURTH is the METABOLISM System. This includes all digestions and other means of metabolizing all ingested nutrients to strip from them all useful ingredients which will help the survival. It also expel all harmful ingredients  which would be harmful to the body.

    The Stomach, liver, pancreas, gall bladder , intestines and other organs helping the digestive process are controlled by this Center. The location of this is the SOLAR PLEXUS, this is two inches on top of navel.

    The FIFTH is the REPRODUCTION System. This includes the reproductive genitalia and associated  organs, it also includes the kidneys ,the prostrate, the urinary tract and the Spleen. The location, is said to be just behind the Genital Organs in the location of the Ovaries or Testes.


    The SIXTH is the EXCRETION System. This includes the Colon, Rectum and part of the Intestines. Location of the centre is between the anus and the tailbone.




    To Summarize:

    NUMBER             SYSTEM                                               CHAKRA

    FIRST                 NEUROLOGICAL  SYSTEM                  THIRD EYE

    SECOND            RESPIRATORY SYSTEM                      THROAT                
    THIRD                CIRCULATORY SYSTEM                     HEART                      
    FOURTH            METABOLISM SYSTEM                        SOLAR PLEXUS      
    FIFTH                 REPRODUCTION SYSTEM                  SACRAL (SPLEEN)  
    SIXTH                 EXCRETION SYSTEM                          ROOT                        

    There is one more SYSTEM above the FIRST one called the PERCEPTION (SPIRITUAL) SYSTEM.
    This is located 3 inches above the crown of the head and is called the CROWN Chakra.

    You can number them in any way but knowledge of their function is important.


    Now if any one system fails life in the physical form will cease.  Some systems have rapid outcomes on failing  others have gradual.

    It is important to note that during meditation you can by the power of intention stimulate a healthy functioning of any system. A healthy system can be desired in your prayers to the Universe.

    In conclusion we have 7 major Systems signified with seven major Chakra’s.

    How to use Meditation to open up all Chakra'a  to ensure a healthy body to Follow.

    Captain WB