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HAND GUIDE FOR SURIYA NAMASKAR

BENEFITS OF SURYA NAMASKAR

Yoga practice helps develop the body and mind bringing a lot of health benefits yet is not a substitute for medicine. It is important to learn and practice yoga postures under the supervision of a trained Art of Living Yoga teacher

Why Start the Day With Surya Namaskar?

Surya Namaskar postures are energizing, meditative and relaxing. They also make the body flexible and improve blood circulation. A better blood circulation helps in prevention of hair greying, hair fall and dandruff, and also improves overall hair growth. The vital internal organs also become more functional with better blood circulation. It also benefits our skeletal and digestive system, while balancing body’s tri-doshas – Vata, Pitta and Kapha.

Why Should Children Do Surya Namaskar?

Surya Namaskar calms the mind and helps improves concentration. Today, children face a cut-throat competition and should adopt Surya Namaskar in their daily schedule as it boosts endurance power and reduces the feeling of anxiety and restlessness, especially during exams. Regular practice of Surya Namaskar gives strength and vitality to the body. For future athletes it is the best workout to strengthen muscles and it also improves flexibility in spine and in limbs. Children as young as 5-year-olds can start doing Surya Namaskar daily.

Why Should Women Do Surya Namaskar?

It is said that Surya Namaskar can do what months of dieting cannot. Hence, it’s a blessing for health-conscious women as it not only helps lose extra calories, but it offers an easy and inexpensive way to be in proper shape by stretching the abdominal muscles naturally. Some of the Sun Salutation poses help lose extra fat on belly by stimulating sluggish glands like the thyroid gland (which has a big effect on our weight) to increase hormonal secretions. Regularly practicing Surya Namaskar can regulate irregular menstrual cycles among women and also ensure an easy childbirth. Last but not the least; it helps in bringing back the glow on your face, preventing onset of wrinkles and making it ageless and radiant.

Develop Your Sixth Sense With Sun Salutations

Our ancient rishis said that different Gods govern different organs of our body. The navel or solar plexus is said to be connected with the sun and that’s the reason why yogis recommend Surya Namaskar practice in the morning when Vitamin D-enriched sunrays fall on the solar plexus. With a regular practice of Surya Namaskar and meditation, the solar plexus increases from the size of an almond to the size of a palm. This expansion of solar plexus, also known as the second brain, develops our intuitive ability and makes us more clear and focussed. The contraction of the solar plexus, on the other hand, leads to depression and other negative tendencies.

The manifold benefits of Surya Namaskar help keep the body healthy and the mind calm. Thus, a regular practice of Surya Namaskar is highly recommended by all yoga experts. These Surya Namaskar tips can also help improve your practice and give better results.

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WE SHOULD NOT USE AN ALARM CLOCK TO WAKE US UP

 Many of us have the habit of waking up

to the sound of the alarm clock. When we are in deep sleep in the morning, when our entire body is sleeping peacefully and

calmly, suddenly we are forced to wake up when the alarm clock sounds loud. If our sleep is interrupted by the alarm clock in

this way, our body gets affected it gets a kind of tension. This tension will prevail in us throughout that day. Therefore, please do not use the alarm clock to wake up.

Just think. What would have happened if the alarm clock had not sounded? We would have slept for about two m o r e h o u r s .

What does this m e a n ? T h i s means that our body needs two

more hours of sleep. When our body needs more sleep, if we cut it short and wake up who will make up for that sleep? If we wake up every day using alarm clock and cut two or three hours of our sleeping time, after some time, we might be forced to go

into sleep forever.

So, please do not use the alarm clock.Some people may ask, “We have to get up early. How can we get up without using an

alarm clock?” We get and give lot of advice that we have to get up early in the morning.

But nobody advises that we have to go to bed early every night.

We can get up early in the morning only if we go to the bed early in the night. It is our mistake to do unnecessary things such as watching television, movies, etc. up to 1.00 am or 2.00 am in the night and then go to bed late. Why do you think that even if a person

goes to bed at 2.00 am in the night he should get up early in the morning? If a person goes to bed late he has to get up from the bed late only. According to the time by which we have to get up in the morning, we have to go to bed about 8 hours in advance.

Therefore, we have to understand that using an alarm clock is dangerous and we should use the alarm clock only occasionally,

that too only for emergency purposes and not on a daily basis.

There is a simple solution for those who have a lot of confusion in their mind and do not get sleep for a long time in the night. Rest

will be obtained only in a slow manner if we lie down and rest. But, if we sit and take rest,we will get rest fast.

T h o s e  w h o  d o n o t g e t s l e e p immediately after going to bed can try to sleep by sitting instead of lying down fully, by being in a slanting position, giving some support to our back and our head, closingthe eyes, calmly stretching the legs or folding the legs in a squatting position. If we sleep in a sitting posture, our mind and brain sort themselves out very quickly and we will

immediately get sleep.

 When children have diseasesor they keep crying when they not able to sleep, if we massage the crown of their head, they get calmed down and get sleep.The glands in the body concerned with sleeping can be made to secrete by slightly massaging the bone below our jaw using the ends of the three fingers other than the little finger and thumb of our hand.

You may observe that children who prepare for exams do not feel sleepy when they keep walking or sitting and study. But if they lie down on their stomach, keeping the two wrists as support to their jaws and study, they get sleep within half an hour.

Therefore, when you do not get sleep, if you lie down on your stomach, close your eyes, and keep the two wrists as support to the

jaws, you will start sleeping very soon.

AWARENESS ABOUT VITAMIN K AND VITAMIN B12 FOODS

HEALTH ETHICS:FOLIC ACID USES AND FOODS CONTAINED

SWAMI VIVEKANADER SHORT STORY: THE MISERLY BEGGER

 

The king was to pass by a beggar’s hut and the man was beside himself with excitement, not because he was about to see the king but because the king was known to part with expensive jewels and huge sums of money when moved by compassion. 

 

He saw the king’s chariot just as a kindly man was filling his begging bowl with uncooked rice. Pushing the man aside, he ran into the street, shouting praises of the king and the royal family. 

The chariot stopped and the king beckoned to the beggar. “Who are you?” he asked. “One of the most unfortunate of your subjects,” said the beggar. 

“Poverty sits on my doorstep and follows me about like a dog. I haven’t eaten since yesterday afternoon!” “Have you nothing for your king except a tale of woe?” said the ruler, putting out his hand. “Give me something.”

 The beggar, astonished, carefully picked up 5 grains of rice from his bowl and laid them on the king’s outstretched palm. The king drove away. 

The beggar’s disappointment was great. He raved and ranted and cursed the king again and again for his miserliness. Finally, his anger spent, he went on his rounds. When he returned home in the evening he found a bag of rice on the floor. “Some generous soul has been here,” he thought and took out a handful of rice from the bag. 

To his astonishment there was a small piece of gold in it. He realised then that the bag had been sent by the king. He emptied the rice on the floor, feeling sure there would be more gold pieces in it, and he was right. He found 5, one for each grain of rice he had given the king. 

“It is not the king who has been miserly,” thought the man, sadly. “If I had been generous and given him the whole bowl of rice, I would have been a rich man today.”

SO BE GENEROUS WHEN YOU GIVE SOMETHING TO SOMEONE.

HEALTH ETHICS:BENEFITS OF AYURVEDA

• Ayurveda emphasizes more on prevention of diseases rather than its cure. The treatment given is not only to the ailments or the affected parts, but to the person as a whole. 

• This creates an environment for purifying the body naturally, which eliminates all toxic imbalances, enabling to regain natural resistance from diseases and attain good health. 

   

  
  
  

   

• Ayurveda provides detailed instructions of daily regimen, seasonal regimen, food, sleep and sexual behavior so that health can be optimized and illness healed. 

• Ayurveda is grounded in metaphysics of the five elements, earth (prithvi), water (jal), fire (agni), air (vayu) and ether or space (akash). Ayurveda stresses a balance of three elemental energies or humors: vata, pitta and kapha. 

• Either and air combine to form Vata dosha, which governs the principle of movement and therefore can be seen as the force that directs nerve impulses, circulation, respiration, and elimination.

• Fire and water form Pitta dosha, process of transformation or metabolism. Water and earth elements combine to form the Kapha dosha, which is responsible for growth, adding structure unit by unit. Another function of the Kapha dosha is to offer protection.

• Ayurveda holds that each human possesses a unique combination of Doshas as the ratio varies from person to person.Altogether, Ayurveda is not only treatment but a way of life. 

• It uses herbs, herbal-mineral combination, massage, meditation and yoga for ones physical, mental and spiritual well being because of which the medicinal system has no side effects. Moreover, Ayurveda gives you an in-depth knowledge of life and helps achieve - dharm, arth, kama, moksha.

ENVIRNOMENTAL ETHICS:

Raising Awareness of Plastic Waste

  Ø Most people are familiar with the concept of a carbon footprint. Many may also know there is such a thing as a water footprint. But whoever heard of a plastic footprint? Well, soon, more and more people will have.

Ø Hundreds of companies and institutions around the world will receive a questionnaire asking them to assess and report their use of plastic: how much they use, what processes they have for recycling and what — if any — policies they have to reduce their plastic consumption or to increase the proportion of recycled or biodegradable plastic within their organizations.

Ø Fairly simple questions, but ones that could help to thrust the issue of plastic waste and pollution onto the radars of corporations, investors and the public in a much bigger way.

Ø “What we’re trying to do is to have companies manage and use plastic much more wisely, and to receive recognition for doing so from both customers and investors,” said Doug Woodring, an environmental entrepreneur in Hong Kong who has a background in asset management and is the driving force behind the initiative.

Ø “Plastic pollution is a major global phenomenon that has crept up on us over the decades, and it really requires a global and comprehensive solution that includes systemic rethinks about usage and production.”

Ø By pushing the thinking about plastic pollution far beyond beach cleanups with an attempt to change the awareness and behavior of big users of plastic, which include not only companies but also universities, hospitals and sports groups.

Ø Like the carbon project, the plastic disclosure initiative is backed by investors: asset managers who value information about any potential wastage or liabilities related to the use of energy, water or plastic, or, conversely, any improvements that will bolster a company’s bottom line or its image with consumers.

Ø “Increased transparency by companies should improve the ability of sustainable investors to assess the investment risks and opportunities of companies in the global plastic value chain,” 

Ø While carbon emissions and water use are pretty firmly embedded in the consciousness of most organizations, the use of plastic generally is not.

Ø Here is why: About 300 million tons of plastic is produced globally each year. Only about 10 percent of that is recycled. Of the plastic that is simply trashed, an estimated seven million

AMAZING SCIENTIFIC RESONS BEHIND HINDU TRADITIONAL ETHICS 3

1. Why not to sleep with Your Head towards North:

Myth is that it invites ghost or death but science says that it is because human body has its own magnetic field (Also known as hearts magnetic field, because the flow of blood) and Earth is a giant magnet. When we sleep with head towards north, our body’s magnetic field become completely asymmetrical to the Earth’s Magnetic field. That cause problems related to blood pressure and our heart needs to work harder in order to overcome this asymmetry of Magnetic fields. Apart from this another reason is that Our body have significant amount of iron in our blood. When we sleep in this position, iron from the whole body starts to congregate in brain. This can cause headache, Alzheimer’s Disease, Cognitive Decline, Parkinson disease and brain degeneration.

2.  Surya Namaskar:

Hindus have a tradition of paying regards to Sun God early in the morning by their water offering ritual. It was mainly because looking at Sun rays through water or directly at that time of the day is good for eyes and also by waking up to follow this routine, we become prone to a morning lifestyle and mornings are proven to be the most effective part of the day.

3.Ear Piercing in Children:

Piercing the ears has a great importance in Indian ethos. Indian physicians and philosophers believe that piercing the ears helps in the development of intellect, power of thinking and decision making faculties. Talkativeness fritters away life energy. Ear piercing helps in speech-restraint. It helps to reduce impertinent behaviour and the ear-channels become free from disorders. This idea appeals to the Western world as well, and so they are getting their ears pierced to wear fancy earrings as a mark of fashion.