Shirodara the holistic healing

Practised for over 5000 years, shirodhara massage originates from India and is based on the ancient principles of Ayurvedic medicine. Translated from the Sanskrit as a holistic healing science, Ayurveda aims to harmonise the body, mind, senses and soul.

Ayurveda may be an ancient Indian therapy but its appeal is thoroughly modern. This holistic system of diet, herbal remedies and massage has been a big hit with thousands of celebrities, spa-goers and harried workers all around the world, looking to regain a balanced and healthy lifestyle.

Shirodhara is a luxuriant and easy way to achieve instant calm and rejuvenation. It derives from two Sanskrit words: shiro and dhara. Shiro means head and dhara means to flow. It involves the warm and consistent flow of aromatic oils on the forehead, specifically on the ‘third eye’. This is the chakra point just above and between the eyebrows. It is said to be the seat of human consciousness. The oils are allowed to flow over the scalp and through the hair, creating a blissful sensation.

 

Health and beauty spas that offer shirodhara are careful to create a comfortable and tranquil environment with atmospheric background music and a soft treatment table.

Lying on your back, your body will be cocooned in warmed towels and your head will be positioned under the oil ‘fountain’ – a metal bottle with a slow-flowing spout from which the oils will stream gently onto the forehead.

 

The soothing and fragrant oils flow in a continuous, rhythmic stream for approximately 30 minutes – you’re guaranteed to be transported to a calm place in no time! The herbal oils will flow back freely, also nourishing the hair and scalp before they are captured in a basin below.

All your mental demons – fear, anxiety, anger or irritability – dissolve into an ocean of calm as your mind is lulled into a state of serenity and expanded consciousness.

 

As the oil strokes the third eye, it has a balancing effect on the deepest recesses of the brain, stimulating the endocrine system, the pituitary and pineal glands (for hormonal upsets) and pleasure neurotransmitters (for depression or emotional insecurity). The procedure is also said to synchronise alpha brain waves, enhancing blood circulation to the brain, improving mental clarity and generally releasing deeply trapped ama, or toxins.

You are then left for a few minutes to relax and assimilate the experience. Best of all, you’ll emerge with a heightened state of awareness and a long-lasting sense of peace to equip you for any of life’s challenges. Shirodhara truly honours the body as a sacred temple and a vehicle for the divine spirit within.

Anyway my wife tried this when we went for vacation at Kerela,India.She loves it.

Past Times Memor

You knew, sometime I did wonders if I really can go back in time to review my past lives.I did remember I read it in one of my book collection by ISKON Prabhupada tittle "Krisna".His past time adventure.I am not an Iskon member or devotee but I read all kind of religion book.Name it from Ramakrishna Math,Shivananda from Rishikesh,ISKON and others.I like to go to buy this books annualy at JB Raja Mariamman Temple.JB'reean should know this (I mean Indian which have a passion on reading la).
I use to buy a minimum 2 books of this kind which decorated in my small library at home.
Anyway lets go back to the topic.What will you do if you are given a chance to revisit the place during your own past time as a kids? Not imaginary OK!Do you ever think about this? For me yes I did. My first crush,budies playmate.Well this memories will not fade away doesent't it?
Thing may not be the same physicaly but what stored in our head will be the same as those old days and always fresh in mind.You got me on this ?
The place which I start everything from the year of four because beyond that I seem hardly to remember.The past time is indeed one of the fine memories which I had and it will be there with me and nobody have any right over it.Copyright maybe? It can be shared with your kids and they can do the same with their.So the ball start and will keep rolling.We may not be a popular or well known person like Bush,MJ or Pope.But to our kids and family we are the most honored and a role model.So be one from now on.
Did this tickle your mind ? For me it did.So think it over.

 

Pakar dari Amerika mendakwa makan nasi dari beras putih menambahkan risiko menhidapi penyakit kencing manis. Menukarkan menu makanan dengan mengalih kepada roti atai "Brown Rice" dapat mengurangkan 1/3 risiko terkena serangan diabetes.

Mungkin faktor penyebab rakyat Malaysia ramai yang terkena diabetes bukan di sebabkan gula sebagaimana yang disebarkan dalam iklan-iklan media massa sekarang ini. Kalau nak dibandingkan penggunaan gula dengan nasi, orang kita kuat makan nasi sedangkan nasi merupakan penyumbang penyakit kencing manis.

Iklan mengurangkan gula amat hebat dipromosikan sekarang ini. Ada peniaga yang mengambil kesempatan dengan memperkenalkan pemanis lain sebagai pengganti gula dengan alasan mengelak penyakit diabetes. Tambahan pula gula merupakan barang kawalan dan nampaknya kerajaan terpaksa meliberalisasikan pasaran gula.

Walaubagaimanapun makan berlebihan ni sebenarnya amalan yang buruk, bersederhana dan mengawal nafsu makanan adalah yang terbaik.  

Vimanas

Many Sanskrit epics, which were written in India more than two millennia ago, contain references to mythical flying machines called vimanas. Pointing to similarities between descriptions of vimanas and reports by people who claim to have seen UFOs, ancient alien theorists have suggested that astronauts from other planets visited India during ancient times.

References to these flying machines are commonplace in ancient Indian texts, even describing their use in warfare. As well as being able to fly within Earth’s atmosphere, vimanas were also said to be able to travel into space and travel submerged underwater.
Descriptions in the Vedas and later Indian literature detail vimanas of various shapes and sizes:

• In the Vedas: the Sun and Indra and several other Vedic deities are transported by flying wheeled chariots pulled by animals, usually horses (but the Vedic god Pusan’s chariot is pulled by goats).
• The “agnihotra-vimana” with two engines. (Agni means fire in Sanskrit.)
• The “gaja-vimana” with more engines. (Gaja means elephant in Sanskrit.)
• Other types named after the kingfisher, ibis, and other animals.

The word comes from Sanskrit and seems to be vi-mana = ‘apart’ or ‘having been measured”. The word also means a part of a Hindu temple. The meaning of the word likely changed in this sequence:

• An area of land measured out and set apart to be used for sacred purposes.
• Temple
• A god’s palace
• In the Ramayana: the demon-lord Ravana’s flying palace called Pushpaka.
• In later Indian writings: other flying vehicles, and sometimes as a poetic word for ordinary ground vehicles.

In some modern Indian languages, the word vimana means ordinary real aircraft.
The Buddhist book Vimanavatthu (Pali for “Vimana Stories”) uses the word “vimana” with a different meaning: “a small piece of text used as the inspiration for a Buddhist sermon”.
UFO Lore
Some modern UFO enthusiasts have pointed to the Vimana as evidence for advanced technological civilizations in the distant past, or as support for the ancient astronaut theory. Others have linked the flying machines to the legend of the Nine Unknown Men.
Alexander the Great purportedly gave a description of “dozens of silver disk-like objects” entering and leaving the Jaxartes River in 337 BC. Alexander, so the story goes, then became obsessed with the craft and spent many hours in a primitive diving bell searching for them. (Source: History Channel “Unidentified Submarine Objects”)
Mythological Descriptions
Sanskrit texts are filled with references to gods who fought battles in the sky using Vimanas equipped with weapons as deadly as any we can deploy in these more enlightened times.
In the Ramayana there is a passage in the Ramayana which reads:

“The Pushpaka chariot that resembles the Sun and belongs to my brother was brought by the powerful Ravana; that aerial and excellent car going everywhere at will …. that car resembling a bright cloud in the sky … and the King [Rama] got in, and the excellent car at the command of the Raghira, rose up into the higher atmosphere.’”"Pushpaka” is Sanskrit for “flowery”. It is the first flying vimana mentioned in Hindu mythology (as distinct from gods’ flying horse-drawn chariots). It is also called Pushpaka Vimana. The special characteristic of this vehicle is, “What ever may be the number of people sitting in it, always there will be one more seat vacant i.e., If N people sit, There will be (N+1) seats”. It was basically a vehicle that could soar the skies for long distances. It shows that even in ancient times, people were curious about flight and might have tried to design flying vehicles. Pushpaka was originally made by Maya for Kubera, the God of wealth, but was later stolen, along with Lanka, by his half-brother, the demon king Ravana.

The core epic of the Mahabharata mentions no vimanas, but vimanas often occur in the large amount of matter which was added to the Mahabharata corpus later. One example is that the Asura Maya had a Vimana measuring twelve cubits in circumference, with four strong wheels.
The Mahabharata is a veritable gold mine of information relating to conflicts between gods who are said to have settled their differences apparently using weapons as lethal as those we have now. Apart from ‘blazing missiles’, the poem records the use of other deadly weapons. ‘Indra’s Dart’ (Indravajra) operated via a circular ‘reflector’. When switched on, it produced a ‘shaft of light’ which, when focused on any target, immediately ‘consumed it with its power’.
In one exchange, the hero, Krishna, is pursuing his enemy, Salva, in the sky, when Salva’s Vimana, the Saubha, is made invisible in some way. Undeterred, Krishna immediately fires off a special weapon: “I quickly laid on an arrow, which killed by seeking out sound”. Many other terrible weapons are described, quite matter-of-factly, in the Mahabharata, but the most fearsome of all is the one used against the Vrishis. The narrative records:

“Gurkha flying in his swift and powerful Vimana hurled against the three cities of the Vrishis and Andhakas a single projectile charged with all the power of the Universe. An incandescent column of smoke and fire, as brilliant as ten thousands suns, rose in all its splendour. It was the unknown weapon, the Iron Thunderbolt, a gigantic messenger of death which reduced to ashes the entire race of the Vrishnis and Andhakas.”

It is important to note, that these kinds of records are not isolated. They can be cross-correlated with similar reports in other ancient civilizations. The after-affects of this Iron Thunderbolt have an ominously recognizable ring. Apparently, those killed by it were said to be so burnt that their corpses were unidentifiable. The survivors fared little better, as it caused their hair and nails to fall out.
Perhaps the most disturbing and challenging, information about these allegedly mythical Vimanas in the ancient records is that there are some matter-of-fact records, describing how to build one. In their way, the instructions are quite precise.
The Mahabharata also tells of the awesome destructiveness of the war: “… (the weapon was) a single projectile charged with all the power of the Universe. An incandescent column of smoke and flame as bright as the thousand suns rose in all its splendour… An iron thunderbolt, a gigantic messenger of death, which reduced to ashes the entire race of the Vrishnis and the Andhakas…. the corpses were so burned as to be unrecognizable. The hair and nails fell out; pottery broke without apparent cause, and the birds turned white…. after a few hours all foodstuffs were infected…. to escape from this fire, the soldiers threw themselves in streams to wash themselves and their equipment…” Some say that the Mahabharata is describing an atomic war. References like this one are not isolated; but battles, using a fantastic array of weapons and aerial vehicles are common in all the epic Indian books. One even describes a Vimana-Vailix battle on the Moon! The above section very accurately describes what an atomic explosion would look like and the effects of the radioactivity on the population. Jumping into water is the only respite.
In the Sanskrit Samarangana Sutradhara (Literally, “controller of the battlefield”), it is written:

“Strong and durable must the body of the Vimana be made, like a great flying bird of light material. Inside one must put the mercury engine with its iron heating apparatus underneath. By means of the power latent in the mercury which sets the driving whirlwind in motion, a man sitting inside may travel a great distance in the sky. The movements of the Vimana are such that it can vertically ascend, vertically descend, move slanting forwards and backwards. With the help of the machines human beings can fly in the air and heavenly beings can come down to earth.”

In Mesopotamian sources — The Hakatha (Laws of the Babylonians) states quite unambiguously:

“The privilege of operating a flying machine is great. The knowledge of flight is among the most ancient of our inheritances. A gift from ‘those from upon high’. We received it from them as a means of saving many lives.”

More fantastic still is the information given in the ancient Chaldean work, The Sifrala, which contains over one hundred pages of technical details on building a flying machine. It contains words which translate as graphite rod, copper coils, crystal indicator, vibrating spheres, stable angles, etc.
Archaeological Claims
Some say that when the Rishi City of Mohenjodaro was excavated by archaeologists in the last century, they found skeletons lying in the streets, some of them holding hands, as if some great doom had suddenly overtaken them. These skeletons are among the most radioactive ever found, on a par with those found at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Ancient cities whose brick and stonewalls have been vitrified, that is, fused together, can be found in India, Ireland, Scotland, France, Turkey and other places. Some say that there is no logical explanation for the vitrification of stone forts and cities, except from an atomic blast; but others say that vitrified forts arose by an enemy setting fire to a fortification composed of a mixture of big timbers and stones

Effects of Cigarette

Effects of Cigarette Smoking on the Body

Effects of Cigarette Smoke on Men:

• Male impotence ("limp dick")
• Smoking and male impotence
• 24% fewer sperm ("shootin' blanks")
• Loss of sexual stamina ("Sorry, honey. I can't!")
• Children have higher risk of cancer in early life
• Higher estrogen and lower testosterone levels than nonsmokers

Effects of Cigarette Smoke on Women:

• Oteoporosis (thinning of the bones)
• Fertility 72% that of non-smokers
• Cancer of the cervix
• Greater risk during pregnancy of bleeding, miscarriage, waters breaking
• Breast cancer
• Irregular periods
• Menopause on average 2-3 years earlier

Effects of Cigarette Smoke on Children:

• Premature birth
• Low birth weight
• Stillbirth
• Fetal injury
• Ear infections
• Asthma
• Bronchitis
• Pneumonia
• SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome)

Neem the "Vepillai"

Neem is being pushed as a wonder herb, a miracle drug that can fix anything.
"Neem leaves cure diabetes" some headlines read.
Great. As you can imagine, many Westerners would love to simply pop a pill a day rather than change unhealthy eating habits. No wonder neem leaf capsules are selling well.
But there is another side to neem. Neem oil can be toxic, so can the leaves be safe? Aren't the leaves supposed to contain the same ingredients as the seed oil? And if leaves are safer, how much is safe?

Is taking neem leaves safe?

Simple quick answer for the impatient: Yes.
In thousands of years of traditional medicinal use, and tens of years of scientific studies, fresh or dried neem leaves have never hurt anyone or anything.
However, different people have different reactions to substances, whether drugs, foods, or herbs. Also, depending on what else you are taking there may be unexpected interactions. If you take neem for the first time, take only a little, and see what happens. You may just be the first person ever to have a neem allergy...

Can neem leaf be taken every day?

As far as we know, yes. However, I would suggest you let common sense rule. Neem is a very powerful herb. Start carefully by taking only a little and see how your body reacts. Don't overdo it. And if you have a serious condition, see a doctor.

How much is safe?

Well, you are talking about a plant with over hundred active ingredients, not about a single substance that can be precisely measured. What exactly you are taking varies, depending on where it came from, how it was grown, which time of the year it was harvested, how it was processed and stored and so on.
It also depends on you and what you are trying to achieve. Considering how many different uses of neem leaves there are, there just is no hard and fast rule.
Treat neem like any other powerful medicinal herb, with common sense and respect. Buy organic products from reputable sellers. Use neem in moderation, as required, and observe the results closely. (So far nobody has managed to overdose on leaves.)

What about neem tea? Capsules? Extract?

Now this is where it gets interesting. What follows applies to all herbs, not just to neem:
Neem leaf extracts and tinctures: if a plant contains toxic substances, then these are usually concentrated in tinctures and extracts. Different extracts will contain different concentrations of different ingredients, depending on the solvent used and the method of processing.
Neem extract is mostly known for its promising medicinal uses, but in some experiments neem leaves extracts have produced nasty side effects in laboratory animals. Unless you know exactly what you are taking and what you are doing, don't self medicate with extracts. The use of extracts should be left to experienced Ayurvedic doctors.
Neem tea: dried herbs made into teas or infusions are usually quite safe. This is true for neem as well.
Neem capsules are popular because they are convenient, and because you avoid the extremely bitter taste of the leaves. But capsules are the least effective way to use herbs. They are generally poorly digested, poorly utilized, and often stale and ineffective. Which also means they are pretty safe...

Does taking neem leaves prevent pregnancy?

Internal use of neem leaf may interfere with conception and pregnancy. So if you are trying to have a child, steer clear of neem.
But if you are looking for a natural means of contraception, then the answer is no. There is no reason to believe that taking the leaves offers reasonable protection.

"Face Lift " The Drugs (Dadah) way.

Bagaimana rupa mereka yang pada asalnya bebas daripada dadah bertukar rupa menjadi rupa jembalang apabila terbelenggu dengan gejala ketagihan dadah. Lihat gambar-gambar mereka yang terlibat di bawah sebagai renungan: 

Jadi kenapa haru kita dekati ?

Documentary to cover Banff bigfoot mystery

The Discovery Channel are filming in Alberta following claims that a "bigfoot colony" is located there.

Sylvanic Bigfoot group's Todd Standing is convinced that the area is home to not only one mysterious primate but a whole colony of them. While his claims and photographs have come under a great deal of skepticism over the years, it hasn't stopped the TV series "Finding Bigfoot" from wanting to get in on the action with an upcoming episode based on his discoveries.

Mudra

A mudra is a bodily posture or symbolic gesture. In
Hindu and Buddhist iconography every Buddha is
depicted with a characteristic gesture of the hands. Such
gestures correspond to natural gestures (of teaching,
protecting, and so on) and also to certain aspects of the
Buddhist teaching or of the particular Buddha depicted.

The origins of the word mudra are uncertain as is the
precise evolution of its meaning. At a very early period
in the post-Vedic literature of India the term mudra
designated the idea of a seal or the imprint left by a
seal. Somewhat later usage takes on the meaning of
“way of holding the fingers”, designating very precisely
a ritual gesture. The Pali word for mudra, muddika,
derives from mudda, meaning authority. There is thus a
developing inter-relationship in these meanings of a
gesture enhancing and authenticating the spoken word
with mystic and magical values. The gesture is a sign, a
ritual seal; seal implies authenticity. As Buddhism
spread to China a further usage of the term came to
identify mudras as ‘marks of identify’ of the deity being

personified