Healing Benefits of a Thangka

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

 

Anti-Oxidant and Multivitaminic Treatments

If you look at this photo, you will surely notice the young and beautiful body of the woman. If we think about the age, we will suppose that the model of the sculpture was not older than 20 years since women made early their first children and hardly is possible that the model gave birth to one.

It is surely an ideal of youth and, with it, of the best period in the life of every woman when she still has not particular worries and responsibilities.

In fact, the body of this sculpture is a Roman copy of a Greek original. But this copy was made to remain in eternity the presumed beauty and youth of a rich woman who ordered this ideal image of herself (marble was very expensive, and she had to pay a fortune for this statue).

If you look at her face, you will notice that it's the face of much more older person.

Well, as you see, nothing changed in the mentality of humans with the time that passes. Two thousand years after the death of that woman, we think so much what we have to do to remain as young as possible as long as possible. We do not order marble statues to "live" for eternity, we want to be young today. And the passwords are "Anti-Oxidants" and "Vitamins".

Do you take them for different reasons? I answer Yes. I can't live without my Multi- because I begin to "tremble" without Magnesium and Potassium first of all. Even if my diet is rich of vegetables: I like to eat salads with olive oil and balsamic vinegar of Modena. And, then, I try to buy aliments of good quality.

Here I want to publish some interesting facts I recently found in internet. Maybe, if you did not read it before, they will change something in your thoughts about the health, too.

Two large trials of antioxidants were set up...One was in Finland, where 30,000 participants at high risk of lung cancer were recruited, and randomized to receive beta-carotene, vitamin E, or both or neither. Not only were there more lung cancers among the people receiving the supposedly protective beta-carotene supplements, compared with placebo, but this vitamin group also had more deaths overall, from both lung cancer and heart disease.

 The results of the other trial were almost worse...Two groups of people at high risk of lung cancer were studied. Half were given beta-carotene and vitamin A, while the other half got placebo. 18000 participants were due to be recruited throughout its course, and the intention was that they would be followed up for an average of six years; but in fact, the trial was terminated early, because it was considered unethical to continue it. Why? The people having the antioxidant tablets were 46% more likely to die from lung cancer, and 17% more likely to die of any cause, than the people taking the placebo pills.

 Since then the placebo-controlled trial data on antioxidant vitamin supplements has continued to give negative results, The most up-to-date Cochrane reviews of the literature pool...show that antioxidant supplements are either ineffective or perhaps even actively harmful.

Most recently, a Cochrane review looked at the number of deaths, from any cause, in all the placebo-controlled randomized trials on antioxidants that have ever been performed, describing the experiences of 230,000 people in total. This showed overall that, antioxidant vitamin pills do not reduce deaths, and in fact they may increase your chance of dying.

vitamin D level: normal range is between 30 and 100 nmol/L (though readings below 50 are still not optimal for bone and overall health). (Source) 

The Way to Heal Negative Emotions

Goddess Sherab Chamma  is almost certainly the earliest Goddess which is even now adored widely nowadays.  She is Mother Creator of all beings, symbolizing the timeless life force that energizes allexistence, the Mother who speacks to all Her children. She is the Goddess of Mercy and Her strenght is compassion, because She understands every suffering and that is why She is an infinite source of love and compassion in the hearts of all us, humans.

 Sherab Chamma represents the women talents of patience and compassion, the capacity to survive on stressful and even horrific instances, hard moments in the eveeryday life, and is the source of support and security.

Sherab Chamma  is a sky Goddess, too. It's interesting that Dakinis, female divinities, are seen as Sky Dancers  in Tibet. What a romantic picture!

Sherab Chamma is one of the various manifestations of Bon female deity. There are different forms for every single existence event.

With this in mind, call this Goddess, recite He mantra, to assist your search if enlightenment and continue on the way forward feeling it full of brilliance and light.
It is a method to help all the creatures, too. Reciting this mantra invokes the guide of Buddhas of the six realms and their sources.

As a result their enlightened power will move off our negative emotions and positive, pure, and virtuous characteristics like love, generosity, wisdom, openness, peacefulness and compassion raise in us. Reciting this mantra allows us to be connected with them and strengthen these qualities that are present in our souls.

Help us to collect funds for Schools in Tibet and Nepal. One Euro is not a sum but if everybody of us gives some euros, we will bw able to collect a serious Sum. Buy our adesives and visit cards and sustain Good Common Cause.

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Adesivo Grande Lettera A Tibetana
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Help us to collect funds for Schools in Tibet and Nepal. One Euro is not a sum but if everybody of us gives some euros, we will bw able to collect a serious Sum. Buy our adesives and visit cards and sustain Good Common Cause.

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More Info here

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"A group of the forgotten really", 55-60+ year olds

Well, the title of  this post is inspired by an interesting document I was today. It was a report about healthy and active ageing in Europe. The main idea was that the persons of this age group are "older people" but nobody among researchers, governments etc thinks and dedicate time to improve the life of this group even if they need more attention since they are in the period when more health cure can move back time.

This report was interesting for me because I take part of this group and would like to remain young as long as possible. I do not feel that I'm "older person". Maybe it's because I have many friends who are older than me. In any case, time passes for me, too, and I wanted not to stop it but to live my age independently.

Here are some quotes from this report

Employment at transition into retirement
Participation/social inclusion, including engagement in voluntary work and mental health
Life-long learning and e-inclusion
Physical activity and nutrition
Utilisation of health services and intake of medication
Carers of children and older person

So, as you can see, we are very busy persons. And this information will maybe be interesting if you did not know it (I didn't)


SEVEN is a European network of 29 organisations promoting lifelong
learning and volunteering for senior citizens. The member organisations
are local governments, NGOs, research centres and universities. The
main aim is to generate international exchange, and allow for voluntary
work and lifelong learning to benefit from a “European Wide Space”.
More information is available at:
http://www.seven-network.eu/site/


ENOVO was created in 2005 as a new working group as part of
Volunteurope to promote older volunteering across Europe. ENOVO
works to develop new opportunities for older volunteers, exchange
good practice and open new funding opportunities and combat
ageism in volunteer agencies. It measures the impact of older
volunteering efforts


The Lifelong Learning Programme (2007-2013) aims to make lifelong
learning and mobility a reality; improve the quality and efficiency of education
and training; promote equity, social cohesion and active citizenship; and
enhance creativity and innovation, including entrepreneurship, at all levels
of education and training. Within the broad programme, several of the
funding streams are relevant to active ageing issues, including providing
support for teaching computer skills to older people, learning through
networks and intergenerational exchange. In particular, the Grundtvig programme aims to develop the
adult-education sector to meet the changing needs of learners taking adult education and non-mainstream
education courses.
More information about the Life Long Learning Programme is available here:
http://ec.europa.eu/education/lifelong-learning-programme/doc78_en.htm
For the grundtvig programme
http://ec.europa.eu/education/programmes/llp/structure/grundtvig_en.html


EUNAAPA is a network that aims to improve the health, wellbeing and
independence of older people throughout Europe by the promotion of
evidence based physical activity

More information is available at:
http://www.eunaapa.org/Home/

Here is the report if you are interested and want to read it

Defend Against Complainers

Complainers are very popular. Many of us practice it from time to time. Others do not understand that they complain all their life unceasingly. I do not blame this behavior because it's difficult to avoid it when one feels bad. Even if little by little complaining becomes the way to live.


This is and was the theme of different researches. Complainers not only damage their own brain with continuous complains, they damage all those who lives and happens near them even if for a short time. Everybody knows the bad feeling we have near such persons. We can't help often. And they don't want to receive help. Their brain is just in that terrible state.


Once I wanted to help one girl who complained the betrayal of her husband. I felt sorry and thought, I had to listen to her. A kind of psychoanalyst gratis. Imagine, I listened to her for different months hours and hours every day from the morning - every time she could find me by phone. After it I could not continue this way and told her she had not to phone me more. Well, some days after it, one friend told me, that girl speaks everywhere bad about me...


So, I turn back to the researches. They proved that the negative thinking of other persons and continuous complaints create negative thinking and behavior in our own brains. And this is the reason why we have to avoid complainers as much as possible. 


As I wrote in my previous posts about the stress remedies, we have to avoid negativities as much as possible, first. 
Then, we have to control our reactions when something happens in our lives.
Finally, we have to create positive exposure for our brains as frequently as possible.




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How to Reduce Sterss 2

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.