Hippocrates said this:

"I would rather know the person who has the dease than know the disease who has the person."

Massage opps

What do you do when this happeneds to you??

Fizzy bath bombs

1st) 4 cups baking soda
2 cups citric acid
(blend well)

2nd) 1/4 cup corn starch
1/4 cup sea na+ (sea salt)
1 tbl glycerin
1 tbl olive oil

a.)add oil solwly, to prevent over saturation.
b.)use gloves
c.)spritz with witch hazel
d.)put in egg cartons to set the mold

T.E.N.S.

T=touch
E=eye contact
N=name
S=smile

Love in relation to massage

If you don't know what to do, just put your hands on the person and love them.
The practioner who "cares enough not to care, can truly let go and trust the universe." The seed of this relaxationare then watered in the recipients own being. This fosters an extremely deep state of relaxation and trust.It is in this relaxed state that healing occurs, if it is meant to be. This attitude of surrender and openness, this simple "getting out of the way" of the body's inherent tendency to homeostasis allows healhormome levels normalize, endorphines increase, breathing deppens, and so on...

Personal practice goals

Take the vow to bless all and hurt none! Cutlivate greater awareness of how you use language. Become attentive to the quality of your speaking. What does it reeal about who you are being in this moment? What does it contribute to others? Where is this converstaion coming from, where is it leading at an energetic level? If you find yourself engaged in a negative conversation, remember your commitment to bless ratherthan harm. If necessary, openly admit you feel uncomfortable with being so negative, and explore with the other person how you can both redirect the conversation. If you find yourself in an angry, accusatory exchange, simply admit that this is not constructive for anyone and take a break. Search your soul for the capacity to accept and understand. Don't come back to it untill you can be compassionate and constructive, untill you can bless the other person with what you have to say and hear his/her side of the issue.


Reading from:
"Your Mind Your Best Friend"
by: Sri Sri Shuddhananda Brachmachari, aka "Baba"

Enlightment

Faithfully traversing the diverse paths and disciplines of Yoga, Lokenath eventually reached the pinnacle of Realization. He had attained the Self, that state of being one with the Absolute ground of reality. He was at one with the Beloved. To whom could Baba speak to of this unique state of mind? Who would understand His language of the beyond? There were a number of times when Baba did speak of the enlightened state: "Words are such poor vehicles to express the inner experience. Any attempt to reduce it to words only belittles the Ultimate Truth. It is like the mute trying to express the taste of nectar.""Everything that exists in the infinite creation exists within Myself. The whole Universe is within Me. I am existence beyond space, time and causation. My existence is without beginning or end. I exist in eternal expansion. These words are not meant to be shared. That is the reason you see Me spending time with the householders, granting their mundane demands. Do not think when I am busy with you all in worldly matters, that I lose touch with that blissful state. No. Whoever achieves that state can never fall from it. Nothing can ever again be seen in isolation. Everything is seen as the expression of the One. In variety is the taste of Unity.""Because I eat, drink, attend to the call of nature and live like any one of you, you think of Me as one like you. Your greatest mistake is to think of Me as a body. How am I to explain who I am? Everyone is so involved in the fulfillment of small desires, so unconscious, so forgetful of the true 'I'.Baba Lokenath's expressions of identification with Ultimate Truth flow like divine music from the world beyond. They echo the words of Lord Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita, "Ignorant people seeing Me in human form mistake Me for an ordinary human. They fail to realize that I am the Paramatman (God)." (Gita, 9.11) There is also a Vedic text which explains Baba's state of Yoga: "The One Divine Being is hidden in all beings; He is omnipresent, the Indwelling Self of all beings, the witness, the one who imparts consciousness, unconditioned and without qualities." (Svetasvatara Upanishad. 6.11)Recalling His time in the Himalayas, Baba Lokenath said, "While in samadhi, heaps of snow would cover My body and would melt away. In that sublime state I had no feeling of the existence of My body. I was in that state of samadhi for a long time. Then, finally the effortless state of the Ultimate Truth was revealed. In that state of consciousness, there was no difference between me, the rest of the cosmos and all its manifestations. The inner and the outer all merged into each other as an expression of ultimate bliss, absolute joy. There is no state beyond this to be achieved in human life with total effort and divine grace."When Baba Lokenath reached this state of Buddhahood by flowering into divinity, the whole of nature celebrated. For Mother Nature takes a long time to bring the Divine Seed to bloom. Baba was ninety years old and His Guru was a grand old man of hundred and fifty years.

sites to visit

www.babalokenath.org
www.googleearth.com
http://www.sohnen-moe.comnen-moe.com
http://www.massagewarehouse.com/index.asp
http://www.abmp.com/home/index.html
http://www.cdc.gov/
http://www.medterms.com/script/main/alphaidx.asp?p=f_dict
http://www.onespirit.com/doc/full_site_enrollment/fse_homepage.jhtml
http://www.mondominishows.com/
http://www.amtamassage.org/
www.medline.com

How does Transcndental Mediation compare with other forms of mediation?

A meta-analysis of 597 studies of meditation practices was published in the American Journal of Health Promotion (May/June 1998). The study found the Transcendental Meditation technique to be significantly superior to other forms of meditation and relaxation in a wide range of criteria related to mental and physical health.Another meta-analysis, published in the Journal of Social Behavior and Personality, found the effect of the Transcendental Meditation technique on increasing self-actualization to be markedly greater than that of other forms of meditation and relaxation.

Where did the TM program come from?

The Transcendental Meditation technique is based on the oldest continuous tradition of knowledge in human history, the Vedic tradition of enlightenment in India. The Vedic knowledge has been handed down by Vedic masters from generation to generation for thousands of years.
About 50 years ago, Maharishi — the representative in our age of the Vedic tradition — introduced Transcendental Meditation to the world, restoring the knowledge and experience of higher states of consciousness at this critical juncture in time for humanity.When we teach the Transcendental Meditation technique today, we maintain the same procedures and effectiveness as the teachers of thousands of years ago.

Deep relaxation and mental alertness

Researchers discovered significant reductions in respiration, minute ventilation, tidal volume, and blood lactate, and significant increases in basal skin resistance. All of these physiological measures represent a state of deep relaxation, even deeper than sleep. And they found that even though the body is in a state of deep rest, the mind is alert rather than asleep, indicated by an increased abundance of alpha waves in the EEG.This unique state of restful alertness led pioneering researcher Dr. Keith Wallace to suggest it was a fourth major state of consciousness — transcendental consciousness — distinct from the waking, dreaming, and deep sleep states of consciousness. For the past 30 years, many other researchers have confirmed and expanded upon this initial research on transcendental consciousness.

During TM mediation...

During the Transcendental Meditation technique individuals often report the subjective experience of Transcendental Consciousness or pure consciousness, the state of least excitation of consciousness. This study found that many experiences of pure consciousness were associated with periods of natural respiratory suspension, and that during these respiratory suspension periods individuals displayed higher mean EEG coherence over all frequencies and brain areas, in contrast to control periods where subjects voluntarily held their breath. Reference: Psychosomatic Medicine 46: 267–276, 1984.

During the Transcendental Meditation program, early (sensory) components of the brain’s response to somatosensory stimuli are more widely distributed across the cortex, indicating greater participation of the whole brain in the response to a stimulus. Reference: Human Physiology 25: 171–180, 1999.

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