Is the lack of energy your problem? It's surely mine. What do you do to solve this problem? Overdose of caffee? I just can't even think about caffee. It's smell provokes cramps in my body. I began to hate it, confess...
They say, the problems are different: we need more Vit B-s, our liver and kidneys are full of all kinds of toxins and can't work normally, all our organs do not receive enough oxigen for these and other reasons...
What can help us? Natural food. Fermented drinks like teas, kvass etc. Honey+ royal jelly+propolis The weight loss drink I told about in my previous post black tea and pure 1 lemon juice. If you prefer, you can use honey to feel better taste in your mouth after you drink it.
What do you prefer? I use all of these and those are good solutions. The only problem is they are not ultimate ones. Maybe, it's necessary think about cleansing of liever and kidneys?
What do you think about the rejuvenation of the skin? Do you believe in all these creams? Specially those which we see in the malls? Honestly; I do not believe. And those "50 but looks like 18" without any surgery etc - I do not believe them, too. Madonna, Sharon Stone and others could not do anything with all their money and necessities of the job. What can we say about all the others?
But in the years I had the possibilities to meet people from Asia, I noticed they have the skin of the face and neck much more young than we have. Those have to be genetic peculiarities but the habits and cultural customs, I think, too. This is why, when I learned about some new for me Chinese traditional medicine techniques, I decided to purchase the tools and to try these ways.
One of these therapies is burning of the mugwort (artemisia) cigarettes in a kind of wooden box that you post on the painful place of your body.
Here are the photos about how it works. I use it myself regularly for my neck aches and can list here the benefits we have. Together with my husband - because the smoke of the burning artemisia can inspire all who are present in the room (the cat does not like it and goes under the bed when I burn moxa)
So the benefits we have are: we are more relaxed we sleep better the pain goes away (not forever, unfortunately)
Thangka Painting is a old fashioned art that developed between the 7th and 12th centuries in Nepal and Tibet. Displayed on cloth and placed in silk brocade, images of divinities and mandalas are more than just a a thing of beauty. Thangka is an item of faithfulness, a help to religious practice, and a base of blessings for every person who owns it.
Thangka painting is totally ruled by strict iconographic principles. From the canvas research and painting of the chosen topic, to combining and using colors, designing with gold and installing the completed work in a brocade. The creation of a thangka requires ability and attention on every phase and shows specific points the thangka painter has to know and to highlight when he works.
Benefits of a Thangka
Thangkas are thought to generate beneficial impacts in the environment where they are exposed. Their amazing colors and forms help the mind to arise and stimulate awareness.
Their pictures activate functions of visual images and feed the heart of the persons in spite is the person a believer or not. So, looking at a thangka is by itself a beneficial action.
For those who practice meditation, meditating on such objects can help to reach an understanding of particular types of awareness a specific image is dedicated to.
One more purpose for commissioning a thangka is that they can bring good health, prosperity or long life to you. (Bon Thangkas)
How to ordine a Thangka
If you dream to have a thangka in your house, you can order it easily today. A monk, who received his diploma from the hands of one of the oldest Yungdrung Bon Masters, Yongdzin Lopon Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche, will paint and send you a thangka you desire. Examples, prices and direct contact with the painter are on the page of my Yungdrung Bon Blog
Reducing stress is not the easiest task in our lives. We use different remedies most of them are not healthy. The most popular are drinking, smocking and eating. And, since we are stressed practically every day, this behaviour becomes habit, a kind of addiction, and we have to use bigger and bigger quantities of our "medicine".
1 - I used to avoid everything that provoked states of anxiety: I did not watch TV notices and films that were full of bad notices, crys and yells, killings and horrors (and I don't do it till today before I have to go sleep).
In Italy, TV became a kind of a tool of "natural selection": there are too many persons with not stable mind -they repeat desperate gestures they see on the screen. We had epidemic of mothers that killed their children, for example.
2 - Very often is enough to avoid a person or an environment where you feel bad, nervous. If it's possible. And... this analysis of your life, when you are able to detect the "bad" person, will do so that other similar persons will not be attracted by you more. Because if you attract ONE of such persons, you probably attract other similar persons, too. So, it's something inside you that attracts this kind of persons.
3 - Other reason of stress are too many tasks. It's enough sometimes to make a list and to cancel some of them. Or to find your personal way to solve the problem. What do you do when you have too many plates to wash? Or too many things to iron? What is your personal way to manage this situation?
So, we discover that it's often our perception and not external conditions that provoke stress in our life. And analysis is often just enough to show to our brain the way to turn calm and happy.
Are you affected with allergie and can't breath more? If it can be useful for you, know that there are millions of persons suffering the same problem. Who knows, why is it so widespread in our times? I discussed it with my friends and many of them think, it's the conseguence of the chemical substances in our food and in all the activities of our life.
Well, I think, nobody can answer this question but the quantity of allergies seems to confirm this supposition.
I collected some remedies to cure sinusite and want to write about them here.
Most use steam baths for these treatments. They add Eucalyptus Oil drops into the bowl (8). Others use boiled potatoes vapors. Effective is onion skin (I continue about the steam baths).
I experiment with ginger juice. I grate it, squeeze the juice, add water and drop it in the nostrils. There is nothing pleasant but it's effective. Don't try it with children.
Very effective are branches of raspberries. Boil them and drink the infusion.
An other device you can use is neti pot. I wrote about it in this blog some time ago.
And try to avoid pasta and bread that help our organism to create mucus.
One evening in Milan I went in the shop where it's possible to buy all the "esoteric" an buddhist things. I wanted to buy a singing bowl. It was a relatively long trip through Milan because I don't know the city, it's too large and because I don't know the distances I had to walk enough because I finally found the shop.
Entered in the shop I saw an entire collection of singing bowls and all their accessories. The owner gave me a stool and said I have to prove all the bowls I want. He said me I have to find MY bowl personally without any help from his side because it's an absolutely personal question.
So, I passed about half an hour to bit some of this bowls (there were many of them there). I was just ready to choose one before I came there. You remember, I read different articles and watched different videos about it. So, I knew the next points:
1 -there are simple bowls and healing quality bowls. The difference is in the vibration and how long the sound lasts. Healing bowls have pronounced vibration and the sound longs 1 to 3 minutes.
2 -it's not very clever to buy the bowls in internet because you have to control the sound. The blows can produce invisible cracks in the metal and the sound will not be good. The vendors could not change the item and not recognize the fault.
So I wanted to buy my bowl personally and the owner of the shop was strong with me in this sense too.
Singing those bowls -and there were very different of them, with pictures, very beautiful, and very simple with not very beautiful look- I discovered that there is really the great difference in sound and vibration. Finally, I found one with better as others vibration and nice sound. I showed it to the owner and said him, it seems to me, the vibration is good enough here. He took the bowl and showed me the sound how it is. I can't describe you HOW it was. I could not produce the sound this way and unfortunatelly did not ask the owner to show me how it works. It was... like in the space. We watch the space documentaries sometimes and they add this kind of sounds.
I'm not very downcast about it, I have watched some videos with the explanations. Today I looked for some of them. Here are the examples. If you know others, tell me pls.
About Tibetan Milk Mushroom I wrote just in my previous posts. Open this second post too: The Secrets Of The Health I Learned. This theme was suddenly interesting for many persons. :0))) And I thought, nobody knows about it... Some of my readers asked me to explane how to cure this culture. I could not write about it because I had not much of the mushroom and had to wait it grows enough. Now I have some photos and post them here for you.
There is an important rule to follow: never use metal. The second is an important condition: to grow, it needs warm place and air to breath. Because it is too cold in my house, I bought a yoghurt machine.
I don't close it completly, as you see on the photo. This way, I think, it has enough air to breath. After 10 hours (more or less) my fermented milk is ready. Here is how it looks:
I use only clotted part because I noticed, the whey is not good for my digestion. And I needed 3-4 days at the beginning that my organism accepts this type of yoghurt.
When the yoghurt is in the cup, I wash the milk mushroom with cold water and here it is just washed:
I prepare cold milk in the microwave cooker, throw tibetan milk mushroom in it and put it in the yoghurt machine.
All this you have to do every day. If you have to go away for some days, you have to wash your Tibetan Milk Mushroom with cold water and put it in the fridge.
This is all you have to know about the Tibetan Milk Mushroom. They say, it is very good for all digestive system. But you have to eat this yoghurt for long time to see the results.
A very short post to tell you about un unusual weight lose technique.
You can eat everything you want -in reasonable measures, clear. Not some kg-s every time you open the mouth. :0)))
Sweeties only till 12:00. Bread, rise, macaronies for lunch. Vegetables for dinner. Never eat after 18:00 if you go to bed normally, if you do not sleep till the midnight or later you can ea at 20:00 but never later in any case.
This is from MY experience: a glass of kefir (fermented milk similar to yoghurt) as breakfast is enough to live till 13:00 without "second breakfast".
One of the most important healing techniques known by europeans is mantra healing. My friends sent me some interesting links today and I wanted to share them with you because you can benefit from them and maybe heal you or someody with this help.
First of all I have to say that I personally use both mantras and sutras to heal myself and my loved once. They work for me.
(Photo) This is a theme that is relative to the animals totems.
In some cases our dreams have important significance for us. Not all dreams are important. How can we understand if it is THAT dream?
As I wrote just in this blog, the main point is that we have to analyze our dreams. All of them. With time it will give us the possibility to understand if the dream is important or it is only ordinary job of the mind.
As for me, I often see something important in the state when I don't sleep but am in the relaxed, ready to sleep state. When I dream something important, I wake up and remember the dream very clearly. The teachings say: you have to write the dream when you wake up in a blocknote that you take near the bed. I never do it because I will not sleep more if I begin to write. The other possibility is that an important dream you will see it different times till you resolve the problem.
All this you know just because we spoke about it before. What is new in this post? New for me is the other technique I read about today.
If you dream a "special" animal, you have to analyze this animal. It can give you clues to understand the message that your conscious wants to send you. So, what have we to analyze? The behaviour of this animal, is it diurnal or nocturnal, what is it's habitat, is it solitary or lives in group, what is it's diet.
This analyzis can help you to understand the message. Often it's enough to our mind that we NOTICE the message. "I see this big animal because I feel oppressed by somebody, my boss, as example." To be conscious of the problem is the first step to resolve it.
In my family there were many cases of all types of cancer. And there were members of our family that had different types of cancer during there lives. Specially skin cancers. In the last period the sister of my husband that likes sun and beach very much had skin cancer too. So, I'm very attentive when I find something about it. Here I want to remember some rules about the behaviour to prevent skin cancer.
The very clear description you can find if you visit this page "Skin cancer" that was suggested by CCN.
The sister of my husband heard about vaccine to prevent skin cancer invented in Milano institute and asked me to find more information about it. So, for those that are interested in this information too I can say what we found here about it. This vaccine is only at the beginning and will be ready for use after years of research. So, don't think about it else. Think about prevention. And that skin cancer is curable. All skin cancer forms even those more grave. Say the sources I read and the story of my family too.
Prevention Most basal cell carcinomas can be prevented. To protect yourself: Avoid the midday sun. Use sunscreen year-round. Wear protective clothing. Be aware of sun-sensitizing medications. (!!!) Perform regular skin checks. Get enough vitamin D. Read more on this page
Healthy meal... Junk food is linked to cancer... Our obsession for healthy food becomes an illness, as for me. Psychological dependence. I read some time ago that the today society creates dependences practically on everything. Well, I'm not obsessed by healthy lifestyle and food but when I see or know how and where things we eat are made, I begin to think and to buy only the best I can allow me.
Now I read an interesting article telling about other problem of our food.
Statistic says that 6 from 10 persons add from 2 to 4 kg in summer.
To have just contrary situation we have to think about glucose in our blood. In other words we have to think about carbohydrates in our food. Ufff...
So, this new method says: if we reduce the quantity of aliments with high quantity of carbohydrates, we will lose about 4 kg every month without any other diets or efforts. It will reinforce our cardiac system generally.
What to eat (in normal quantities): fruits and vegetables, fish, meat, eggs, integral cereals
Not good: refined cereals and potatoes
Killers: White bread (better rice and maize biscuits) White sugar and industrial sweeties (good: honey, cane sugar, fructose) Alcohol and CAFFEE (!) grow fat because create hepatic difficulties. Drink purifying drinks, tea, infusions and juices. Sausages and milk foods (good: yogurt and goat milk) Fried Foods
This post is about how to avoid some problems or errors in our practice. The advies are given by Lamas of Mahayana Tradition, but the mistakes are common to all us that is why those advises are important for everybody.
In my previous post I told you that Geshe Jampa Gyatso passed away. He was the principal tutor of the Basic Program in Lama Tzong Khapa Institute situated in Pomaia/Italy. In this Institute I met Tibetan Buddhismus and studied buddhist phylosophy.
Now I received mails from the Institute with explanations what to do in this days. And they speak much about TSOG. So I wanted to know, what is this. Because I didn't knew it. The Idea was so interesting that I wanted to post here some quotations from the Teaching written by Lama Thubten Yeshe (entire article):
Take this Darjeeling tea we drink. Think how many people were involved in its getting here: the growers, the pickers, the sorters, the packagers, the shippers, the shopkeepers, our own cooks. Finally, we get to drink it here. You know from your lam-rim studies that, directly or indirectly, every sentient being has helped you get that cup of tea. And not just that cup of tea. All happiness, from the lowest samsaric pleasure to the eternal bliss of liberation and enlightenmentcomes from each of us to the other.
One more quotation:Normally, we push ourselves to achieve, but nothing happensbecausewe've not made the space for something to happen.By gathering together to offer tsog we're making space. Therefore it's important to put yourself in the right atmosphere when practicing
I have some friends that are practicing reiki. One of them is an important healer and trainer and he wanted I learn a little about reiki. But as I said many times, I'm practicing an other Teaching, I think it's what I needed and want to follow it. I'm not a fanatic of something, I'm open to all Universal Wisdom as you see, but I feel the Teaching I follow as mine, I think, it's not good to dissipate one's energies in many practices at a time. Jumping does not make good in this sense. Persistence opens you doors to all Wisdom not important what practice you do. Think I.
Said this, I wanted to present you this interesting video. It's interesting for me, because the healing practices I do, I feel them more or less in the same way. Sometimes persons ask me: what I do, how I do, what I feel. This is the answer, in this video. I feel a light, energy, that is coming from inside the person and from the Higher Being that follows me. It's no matter, what religion you follow, I think. All religions are Unconditional Love, Compassion and Universal Wisdom.
One woman said me: I do sometimes the same what you do, but I can't heal myself. I can answer you from my experience: the difference is the Faith. If you don't believe in the Holy Being (or in the energy that you use -you can call it how you want) that follows you, how can you believe in connection with this Holy Being/energy and use his/her/it's help, energy to heal you or others? Nonsens. You can have some positive results -as I had befor I understood the roots- but great results you become when you believe in what you do.
I don't know how it is in other religions, but in all buddhist and similar schools the first practice is Refuge, Guru-Yoga and Bodhicita. That meens: you declare to your mind that you are protected by all Holy Beings, and you ask them about Blessings (help). And you do it not for your benefit, but for benefit of all sentient beings. If this words explain your deep faith, you can do healing practices.
I had problems with some persons, that declare they are buddhists. They felt wounded that I don't declare myself as a buddhist or bonpo (as said, I follow this Teaching for 3-4 years). I think, the Universal Consciousness doesn't need my declarations. It's enough, that I do my practices with dedication and faith. And I have my results. There is not difference, what name I'll use to call them.
If you like declarations, shows with candles, icons, rituals -it's splendid, it's your way. But real practices don't need it. In fact, teachers repeat it: techniques are for your mind, not for result.
I wanted to write only some words to post this video, but it's a great story to continue maybe next time.
It's true maybe, that when you look for something that is important in your life -not from your but from "cosmic" intentions (Till today I don't know how to name this to be accepted by all points of view)- the informations will come to you from very incredible parts.
All you know -and I become just noisy with this my idea fix- that I tryed to understand what is necessary to do to make the persons more happy.
In the last posts I told you about techniques of positive thinking, that are not very good interpreted by many of them hat practice them. Today, in the blog Yang Town I found a post How to Let Go of an Emotional Trauma that tells about other interpretation of this technique. The name is Tapas Acupressure Technique and is the great mix of 7-point prayer, marma points and positive thinking sentences.
First of all, The marma points here are not massaged but only touched. Sincerely, I feel bad when I massage some marma points that are recomended to all as preventive and not dangerous. From my experience I can confirm, the 7 point prayer is very effective.
Than I liked the 7-point prayer here. Hope the author will forgive me that I copy it. Attention! These are only sentences.For the technique visit the link over.
Technique:
The healing I am about to do will also benefit all of my ancestors, my family, everyone involved, all parts of myself and all points of view I have ever held.
Step 1 - The Problem: This happened. Step 2 - The Opposite of the Problem: This happened, it's over and I'm okay. I can relax now. Step 3 - The Places: All the places in my mind, body and life where this has been stored are healing now. Step 4 - The Origins: All the origins of this are healing now. Step 5 - Forgiveness Part 1: I apologize to everyone I hurt related to this and wish them love, happiness and peace. Forgiveness Part 2: I forgive everyone who hurt me related to this and wish them love, happiness and peace. Step 5 - Forgiveness Part 3: I forgive everyone I blamed for this, including God and myself. Step 6 - Parts: All the parts of me that got something from this are healing now.Step 7 - Whatever's Left: Whatever’s left about this is healing now. Step 8 - Choosing: I choose ________. Fill in the blank with a statement of how you want to feel or any positive outcome that you want. Make sure it's positive such as "I choose to feel love towards my parents," and not "I choose to forget all the pain my parents caused me." Step 9 - Integration: This healing is completely integrated now. Step 10 - Gratitude: Simply give thanks to God, life, source energy etc. for the healing that has taken place.
As you know, I'm very interested now to find a receipe for happy life. Not becase I'm so unhappy, I'm unhappy in the same way as all of us. I want to find this receipe because I see too many negativities around me. To give you the most evident example I remember you the persons that take a gun and shoot their family, friends. I ask you: can a happy person do it? Can this state of soul be created from one day to other? No.
We spoke about positive thinking too (see Related posts on the bottom of this).
We said, positive thinking is something very hard to reach and maintain. But it's unpossible to live without it.
Why does positive thinking not work in many cases? Because we point on mistaken aims. We have not to begin with "I'm milioner". This is not the root of our problem. You have to post many "Why's" to find the root.
Here I want to tell you about Raja Yoga Meditation site's advises for the morning. Note the difference . Technique: every morning when you wake up repeat
I am a peaceful soul, my aim today is to radiate peace to every person that I come into contact with.
And then for 15 minutes this text
(Try to experience the stillness of mind of being a peaceful soul as other thoughts emerge in the mind do not judge or focus on them but repeat) ............ I am a peaceful soul ............. I am a peaceful soul ............ My mind is filled with peace .............. I radiate peace to the world ............... I feel the gentle waves of peace flowing across my mind ........... As these peaceful thoughts emerge in my mind I feel the stillness and silence envelopes my mind ................. I am the peaceful soul ...... I am a peaceful loving soul ............ My mind feels light and free from worries ........... I realize my real nature is peace .......... Peaceful thoughts flow through the mind and I feel the self becoming light ...................... I am a being of light shining like a star ....................... I radiate peace and light to the world ...................... The light and peace envelopes me and the waves of peace and light shine like a lighthouse
I did this practice too. For 40 days I repeated the thoughts of positive thinking according to my state of soul. I can confirm: it works.
When I do my favourite asanas, I'm very cocentrated on how I move first of all. That is because from my young age I have problems with my spine. And than I pay attention on my breath. I forget about problems and thoughts, and my body brings me in the meditational state without any effort. After some minutes of asanas I can meditate. Very comfortable.
That is why I was surprised to read about many centers that teach asanas only as physical postures.
What I do? I relax muscels and those in the head too, then I focus my attention on this relaxation for some breathings. The gaze is fixed because my mind is concentrated on controlling the muscles. Fixed gaze makes the mind more quiet. When my mind is concentrated on this exploration, I'm not distracted by my sences. But it's better to do it in the place where I have less distractions as possible. There is an other problem. My animals distrb me often. Cats want to rub against me, my dog comes to say me something too.
So after this breath relaxation I begin to do asanas.I do them very slowly, relaxed and concentrated on what my muscels do. I enjoy this movement. I like it. It's really great feeling.
I did asanas for different years without this "preparation", and it was completly different experience. Now I think it's very important part of the practice. Maybe the most important part.
Here I post the video with some explanations of the meditation practices. Not only this, it's interesting to see Teachers and behaviour.
This other video I like for musik and chant that is very good for relaxation.
The faces of children are sad and some of photos are made with our mentality. I think they don't reflect the real life. So I appreciate this video for chant and music only.
