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Breathing Method To Help Reduce High Blood Pressure

The Yoga Cooling Breath – Sheetali Pranayama

Yoga Technique To Enhance Vitality, Induce Mental Calmness And Normalize Blood Pressure

Sheetali Pranayama is an age-old practice which is included in the teachings of Satyananda.

Sheetali Pranayama will noticeably reduce high blood pressure even after one or two practices of the method. Over time, if you practice it regularly on a daily basis, you will find that your general health will improve, and that your blood pressure will also improve. Of course, attention to the diet and minimizing any activities which cause your blood pressure to rise are also important in achieving a balanced state.

Basically, this is a very easy exercise to perform. There are some added sophisticated yoga techniques which you could add to the exercise if you wish to take your yoga practice seriously.

But here I will give the simple, basic method which is effective in calming the mind and in helping to reduce blood pressure, and which anyone can do easily without any prior knowledge of yoga technique.

First, make yourself comfortable, either in a chair, or in your favourite meditation pose.

Take two or three slow deep breaths to clear your lungs of air and prepare for the Sheetali pranayama cooling breath.

How To Perform The Sheetali pranayama Cooling Breath:

So now you are seated comfortably. Stick out the tongue a little, and make it into a tube shape. You are going to breathe in through this tube made by the folds of the tongue. Note: This is the only one of Satyananda’s yoga breathing techniques whereby the breath is taken inward through the mouth, and outward through the nose. It is the reverse of the usual method.

So – With the eyes closed, we take the breath in through the curl of the tongue, slowly and evenly. Hold the breath in briefly with the mouth closed. Then exhale evenly out through the nose.

Repeat.

Be Cautious – Build Up Slowly:

In the beginning, if your blood pressure is high, it might be best to perform only about three or four breaths using this curled tongue technique. Otherwise if you do too many at once, you might feel awfully light-headed or dizzy as the sudden burst of oxygen into the blood stream takes effect.

As your strength improves with building up your Prana, or nervous energy, you should be able to perform more breaths in the one sitting. In conjunction with regular pranayama practice, nine rounds is suggested by Satyananda.

For people suffering high blood pressure, Satyananda recommends building up the practice slowly for anything up to 60 rounds.

Many Benefits:

I find that the Sheetali pranayama Cooling Breath has many benefits. As well as the obvious effects in calming the mind and normalizing the blood pressure, it also oxygenates the blood, helps the eyesight, enhances the intuitive faculties, improves memory, and helps to improve the digestion. You will notice right away that saliva secretions increase as you perform the exercise. Stimulating the saliva glands in this way greatly helps the digestion. After a few days of practicing the Cooling Breath, you will become aware of other more subtle changes occuring throughout the system.

It can be a helpful technique for people suffering all kinds of degenerative disease, such as cancer and arthritis.

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Remember To Drink Plenty Of Water Daily: This helps keep the blood pressure stable. Take a glass of water immediately after performing the Sheetali pranayama cooling breath exercise.

Jalandhara bandha – The Chin Lock. If you wish, you could perform the Jalandhara bandha as you practice the Sheetali pranayama Cooling Breath.

You need to sit in a meditation pose for this, knees touching the floor if possible, and with the arms straightened out, hands holding the knees. Hunch up the shoulders so that the arms can become perfectly straight.

Close the eyes. You then inhale through the curled tongue, then, close the mouth whilst holding in the breath, and push the head forward so that the chin touches the chest.

Hold this position, with the breath retained inward, for as long as is comfortable. Then, still retaining the breath inside, slowly relax the pose, bringing the head up. Exhale slowly through the nose as you sit with the head erect.

Repeat.

It is important to remember that the head must be properly erect before breathing in or out. No breathing should be done whilst the head is down on the chest in the chin-lock.

Personally, I think that the chin-lock is a bit much for most people who are simply wanting to improve their blood pressure. It is not really necessary in order to achieve results.

But there we have it!!!!!!

See the deep relaxation technique which is also helpful for stabilizing blood pressure and calming the nerves:

Yoga Nidra Deep Relaxation

No Antibiotics For H7N9 Bird Flu Virus 2013 Human Killer

New Strains Of Influenza Are Threatening The Human Race. Antibiotics and Immunizations are not working for some of these hybrid viruses.

Homeopathic Medicine could work for this new strain of Bird Flu,the H7N9. When modern antibiotics do not work, homeopathic medicine and vitamins should most definitely be used instead to help save people’s lives.

See Merrilyn’s posts on the use of homeopathic remedies for various illnesses:

Homeopathic Arsen Alb For NZ Flu May 2013

Homeopathic Remedy Arsen Alb For Flu Allergies Asthma

http://merrilynhope.com/vitamin-c-cures-swine-flu/

Vitamin C and Cancer

Swine Flu: Intravenous Vitamin C

Best Homeopathic Remedy For Whooping Cough And Croup

Of course, since I have not had Bird Flu myself, I have not tried Arsen alb or any other homeopathic remedy on the Bird Flu Virus, but Arsen alb could very well be effective.

Since Vitamin C has proved effective for the deadly Swine Flu and other life-threatening infections, I would be looking to use intravenous Vitamin C as well, if I contracted the Bird Flu Virus.

Over 100 people so far have fallen sick with the deadly H7N9 Bird Flu Virus. Of these people, one third who have succumbed to the disease have died.

The medical profession would do well to explore the range of Homeopathic remedies, which are available for treating different kinds of influenza. Appropriate Homeopathic treatment, along with Mega doses of Vitamin C, and Vitamin A, might have prevented these people from dying of the Bird Flu.

Remember that antibiotics did not work to cure swine flu either, but when megadoses of Vitamin C were given, taken intravenously, some people were saved from dying of Swine Flu.

This H7N9 virus is affecting people in parts of China, and others who have come in contact with the disease. Some travellers have caught the bird flu, after coming in contact with infected chickens.

If I had the disease, I would be powering into those 1000mg tablets of non-acidic Vitamin C, or heading for a clinic which could administer some megadoses of intravenous Vitamin C.

If I was taking 1000mg tablets, I would take one tablet each hour until an improvement was noted. I would also take Vitamin A capsules to the tune of three times the recommended dose each day. I would take the megadoses of Vitamin A for up to three days only.

Depending on the specific symptoms, I would choose a Homeopathic remedy from one of the following, and change the remedy as needed, when the symptoms changed.

Note: Each remedy has its own range of specific symptoms, so it is necessary to examine the symptoms for each remedy so that the most effective remedy can be used. A homeopathic doctor should be sought in the case of a serious illness such as Bird Flu.

Homeopathic Remedies For Flu:

Aconite

Arsen alb

Belladonna

Baptista

Bryonia

Camphora

Eupatorium

Gelsemium

Glonium

Mercurius

Phytolacca

Veratrum alb

Note about Iatrogenic Illness to Angus who commented on this post: Read my post entitled: ‘Medical Causes of Death’.

Accidents DO happen. We can never know just how many people suffer iatrogenic illness. But iatrogenic illnesses and deaths certainly do occur from time to time.

Only a year ago or so my cousin came back from Australia to have a cancerous portion of his bowel removed. Guess what? The surgeon removed the TOP part of his bowel, when it was the BOTTOM part of the bowel which should have been removed. The mistake was discovered just as he was waking up. So he was shot back into the operating theatre to have the bottom part removed. Too late to put back the good,top part of the bowel the surgeon had cut out.
This ‘accident’ was, like many, not reported as negligent practice. Many such-like mistakes go unrecorded, because people are too nice to complain.

My own daughter was initially made sick from aerial drops of 245T -same ingredients as Agent Orange which contains Dieldrin – We were intensively sprayed with 245T in a country area while I was pregnant. This caused chronic 245T poisoning which made us all very sick. It took several years for our health to recover after this spraying incident.

After my daughter was born, when her breathing was so bad, and she was so ill, doctors guessed she might have had cystic fibrosis, but this was never confirmed.

Anyhow, interesting to note that the actual CAUSE of her death was an overdose of Ventolin done by a young nurse at the hospital we were staying in. This caused heart failure and brain damage almost immediately after a whole test-tube full of ventolin was poured down her throat. I saw it happen. We eventually took her off life support after a month because there was no improvement. We had to let her die.

Interesting to note too, that I went to the doctor after the spraying, because my own health had suddenly become so bad, with asthma-like symptoms among other things. I wanted the doctor to note that the spraying had made me and my young son sick, so that our symptoms from 245T poisoning were recorded. My hopes were to get the stuff banned.
The doctor told me that there was nothing wrong with 245T – no record of it causing illness in humans – and that my illness was all in my imagination. What an ignorant doctor – the stuff was already banned overseas at that stage, but NZ was still manufacturing it.
This should give you some idea about the influence the chemical and pharmaceutical industries have on our society, how lies are told, and how rules are bent so that they can continue to profit where they can.

Lives could be saved if, as well as Vitamin C treatment, homeopathic medicine were at least given a try in some of these ‘incurable’ illnesses. Let’s pray that the pharmaceutical companies loosen their strangulating hold on the medicine industry, and let Homeopaths prove the worth of their science.

See Merrilyn’s other posts on Homeopathy and Herbal Alternatives to Vaccination:

No Antibiotics For H7N9 Bird Flu Virus 2013 Human Killer

Homeopathic Remedy Arsen Alb For Flu Allergies Asthma

Homeopathic Arsen Alb For NZ Flu May 2013

Vitamin C Cures Swine Flu Case

Vaccinated NZ Girl Dies From Meningococcal Disease 3rd September 2012

Homeopathic Remedy And Herbs For Cholera

http://merrilynhope.com/un-refuses-compensation-to-haiti-for-cholera/

Scarlet Fever Outbreak in Hong Kong/Homeopathic Alternatives

Natural Treatments and Remedies For Scarlet Fever

Flu Vaccination Brought On Asthma And High Blood Pressure

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Art Programme Cuts Violence In Orchard Gardens School BBC Report

How Art Can Heal Society

Art and architecture, gardens and music, all have the capacity to draw out the best in us. Our surroundings are very important, and we should all improve and beautify our immediate environments as much as possible.

The social value of art has been recognized since ancient times. Many Renaissance artists and architects wrote about the value of art and architecture in helping to create a harmonious society. The 19th century architect and designer, A.A. Putin, wrote much about the importance of art and architecture and in improving society.

Rudolph Steiner, the early 20th century Austrian psychic and educator, believed that bringing emphasis to the creative aspects of a child’s learning can result in a more balanced, thoughtful, and caring child. Negative social behaviour in schools can be transformed through art, and learning outcomes can be advanced through teaching art in schools.

BBC News Report 4 AM 27th March, 2013, New Zealand time tells of social transformation in a school where a radical new art programme has been implemented.

Orchard Gardens is a Boston public school for children aged from kindergarten to year 8. The school is situated in Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA. It has been a violent and troubled school for many years, with a very low academic achievement over-all.

Many of the children are disadvantaged economically, and come from a disparate mix of cultures: 56% Hispanic, 42% Black, 2% Asian has made the social environment difficult. These young children have been in the habit of carrying weapons, and so security guards were employed in an effort to check violence and other antisocial behaviour.

New Art Programme For Orchard Gardens Pilot School: Then, in 2010, along came new headmaster Andrew Bott to the Orchard Gardens Pilot School, who immediately fired the security guards. I imagine that getting rid of the security guards alone would have made a difference in the children’s behaviour. Watchful security policemen would not have inspired a feeling of trust and amiability amongst the pupils, and possibly might have made a bad situation worse as far as the violence went.

But, as well as creating a happier space for the children with the security guards gone, Andrew Bott had a dream of healing the atmosphere by inspiring the pupils through art. Using the money saved from paying security guards, he began to establish an extensive art programme for the school.

This new art programme, in just three years, has helped to turn around the outcomes. Peace now reigns at Orchard Gardens School, and the children are much happier. Academic achievement has risen dramatically. Students who were once ‘wasters’ with no hope for the future, now do their best to keep out of trouble and expend their energy on achieving good things.

The headmaster, Andrew Bott, walked us through onto the third level of the school building, pointing out that although there were 900 pupils studying in the school-rooms right at that moment, all was perfectly quiet.

The children now look forward to life, and their expectations for their futures have grown.

Art has changed their lives.

As well as implementing this great art programme to encourage a feeling of self-worth through creativity, which also helps learning outcomes, the learning hours were also extended to improve the academic level.

Rudolph Steiner wrote much on the value of art in education. Art, music and dance, he said, developed the soul. Of course, this is not a new idea: Renaissance artists, and probably many before, have written about the spiritual aspect of art and architecture. Good architecture, especially if it incorporates gardens into its scheme, helps promote a good and comfortable and happy society, so many architects and philosophers have written. So it makes sense, in order to create well-rounded, happy, constructive children, for them to spend a good proportion of their learning time in making art and things of beauty.

Living and working in a beautiful environment will also enhance learning outcomes. Connecting with nature and enjoying beautiful architecture soothes the soul and develops spiritual and creative qualities, which. in turn, will be conducive to learning.

Glass Houses at Dunedin Botanic Gardens 2012. Photo by Merrilyn on Holly’s camera.

Steiner schools have a great emphasis on art, with children using colour, first with crayons, then with paint, as part of their daily routine. Steiner schools do not teach the intellectual side of education until the child is seven years old. They do not have formal lessons in reading before that time, but are read to instead. The idea is that you must not force the intellect in learning ‘stuff’ until that intellect is sufficiently developed to be able to tackle these ideas comfortably. Until the age of seven, the education is entirely made up of making things, making art, singing, dancing, being read to, and learning through play. By promoting the creative process through art, music and play, the spiritual qualities in the child are given nourishment, and this encourages harmony within. Social skills are also very much enhanced by art and by play.

There is no need to worry about the intellectual pursuits before the age of seven: If the right measures are taken using art and music, and a rich and happy learning environment is provided, then the child will most likely be well adapted and well developed by the age of seven, so that learning the academic things becomes easy. Reading, writing and doing mathematics pose no hurdle to the child who has been fortunate enough to have had this kind of artistic early education.

Health Without Vaccinations Or Antibiotics

Mother and Child: A Picture Of Perfect Health

Photo by Lachlan.

This is the picture of a child who has never had any vaccinations. And nor did his beautiful mother, who is pictured in this photo.

This is the picture of a second-generation no-vaccinations child. Unfortunately, the grandparents of the wee laddie in the photo both had lots of vaccinations throughout their childhoods, which means that this child’s immune system will have been weakened through the inherited effects of these vaccinations. But still – two generations without vaccinations is a pretty good start in this day and age.

Good nutrition and a happy life are the best ways to prevent disease, rather than relying on vaccinations, which many of us believe do more harm than good in the long run. Of course, it is a wonderful thing to have antibiotics to use in an emergency, when other measures have failed. However, my view was that it was best to not vaccinate my children, unless it was absolutely necessary. Instead, I learnt the art of natural healing, using homeopathy and vitamin therapy as my main antidotes to any infectious diseases which were doing the rounds.

Homeopathy For Children’s Illnesses: Homeopathic medicine proved to be thoroughly effective in treating the common childhood infectious diseases, such as whooping cough, croup, measles, chicken pox, and mumps.

We did not even use tetanus injections. Instead, I used homeopathic Ledum as an antidote to tetanus. One can never prove that the Ledum did actually work in preventing tetanus, because you use the Ledum as a preventative, before the thing strikes. How can you prove that this medicine works, if you prevent the disease from happening? At least the homeopathic prophylactic for tetanus did not actually give us the tetanus disease:

Some writers claim that the tetanus antibiotic shot does not actually work, because some people who have been given the shot have developed tetanus afterwards. The tetanus shot could even have CAUSED these cases of tetanus, in the same way that the flu vaccine can cause a flu infection in some people. Many believe that the reason people do not get tetanus very often these days is because the disease is in a natural lull of its cycle, not because of the presumed efficacy of the tetanus shot.

There are some very good homeopathic remedies for treating all illnesses, even serious ones such as tetanus and scarlet fever. Ledum is considered one of the best for tetanus, and homeopathic belladonna one of the best for preventing or treating scarlet fever.

If a good diet is followed, with a healthy life-style, then usually Homeopathic remedies, herbs, and vitamins will do the trick in combatting any illness which your child might succumb to.

Of course, it is always best to see your doctor or health professional in the case of childhood illnesses. But while you are on the way to the doctor, there is no harm at all from giving your child the homeopathic remedy which most suits the condition. On many an occasion, when this happened in my own family, the illness had almost disappeared by the time we had gotten to the doctor or the hospital. Great to have these professionals there to help if necessary, but in many cases, these illnesses will respond to homeopathy and vitamins if you begin treating them right away, making antibiotics unnecessary.

People who use homeopathy, herbs, vitamins and nutrition instead of resorting to standard pharmaceutical preparations such as antibiotics and vaccinations, generally have a higher IQ than people who take all the standard vaccinations. Antibiotics in vaccinations help to dull the mind as well as the immune system, in my opinion.

See Merrilyn’s other posts on Homeopathy and Alternatives to Vaccination:

Reading these posts might be helpful if you have decided to forfeit those much-promoted and often dubious flu injections.

No Antibiotics For H7N9 Bird Flu Virus 2013 Human Killer

Homeopathic Remedy Arsen Alb For Flu Allergies Asthma

Homeopathic Arsen Alb For NZ Flu May 2013

Vitamin C Cures Swine Flu Case

Swine Flu: Intravenous Vitamin C

Vitamin C and Cancer

Vaccinated NZ Girl Dies From Meningococcal Disease 3rd September 2012

Health Without Vaccinations Or Antibiotics

Homeopathic Remedy And Herbs For Cholera

http://merrilynhope.com/un-refuses-compensation-to-haiti-for-cholera/

Save Homeopathy – Brief History And A Royal Horse Called Hypericum

Best Homeopathic Remedy For Whooping Cough And Croup

List Of Homeopathic Remedies For Ear Ache

List Of Complementary Homeopathic Remedies And Sequences

How Homeopaths Cured Some Cancerous Tumours

Doctors Used Homeopathy To Cure Fibroid Tumours

List Of Homeopathy Remedies For Shingles Herpes Zoster

Useful Homeopathic Remedies For Measles

Vaccination Alternatives and Homeopathic Remedies For Scarlet Fever

Scarlet Fever Outbreak in Hong Kong/Homeopathic Alternatives

Flu Vaccination Brought On Asthma And High Blood Pressure

Unicef Gives Vitamin A For Measles In Syria

Natural Treatments and Remedies For Scarlet Fever

Herbal Recipe For Cancer Doctor Uses Just Three Herbs

On-Going Chest Pain Is It Lung Cancer?

Homeopathic Remedy To Reduce Craving For Tobacco

Complete List of Gluten Free Foods for People with Wheat Sensitivity

List Of Homeopathic Remedies As Alternatives To Conventional Medicine

Link Between Vaccination and Obesity New Study Suggests BBC Documentary

Homeopathy For Measles

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HIV Baby Possibly ‘Cured’ In America

Is This A Cure For AIDS Or An Act Of God? A Dubious Question.

Note: This is not the baby the post is about. Photo taken by Merrilyn on Holly’s camera, 26th December, 2012.

BBC have just given us this story of hope: A child who is now two and a half, has been free of the AIDS virus for over a year. This news item has just come over our BBC news through the night, 3AM 5th March 2013.

The story goes: In July, 2012, a mother from Mississippi gave birth to a baby girl. However, it was just discovered at this time that the woman had the HIV virus. Because of the late diagnosis, she had not been taking any medication to alleviate the disease. So it was feared that her baby might also have had the AIDS virus. As a desperate remedial measure, the baby was given a megadose of antibiotics for three different illnesses within hours of her birth.

It is possible that a ‘functional’ cure may have been affected. The key factor in the treatment is that a cocktail of strong antibiotics were given immediately after the child was born, and these could be effective in keeping the virus at bay.

The mother took the child home. After a year, she stopped giving her child any medication. When she took the child back for examination a year after this, when the child was two and a half, there was no trace of the AIDS virus.

However, spontaneous recovery of AIDS has been known to happen before. It may not be the aggressive antibiotics which caused a so-called cure.

The other point to keep in mind is that it is not known whether or not the baby girl really did have HIV. According to the BBC science reporter, it is difficult to ascertain for sure whether or not a new-born child has got the virus.

One point which was not considered at all on the BBC News item was this: If the child really did have the AIDS virus, then spontaneous recovery could have occurred, not just because ot the antibiotics, but through specific foods the woman gave her baby in that first year, or through vitamins, or homeopathy, or some other unknown environmental factor.

There are other things in the world which cure disease, apart from antibiotics. Vitamin and Mineral therapy should always be considered. Herbal Medicine and Homeopathy are other avenues to explore in the treatment of HIV and the AIDS virus.

However, how wonderful it would be if this cocktail of antibiotics do in fact cure HIV in new-born babies.

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