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Start with yourself
‘We are as a collective coming out of a consciousness cycle that was based on power-over/power-under control systems. Meaning certain groups positioned as authority, created a reality that enslaved people’s mindset and behavior through pre-emptive subconscious programming. This subconscious programming is pre-emptive because it requires massive amounts of life force, creative fuel in order to manifest the future reality that the control groups want to see happen. In other words, your energy unknowingly creates the new timeline. It’s pre-emptive because the ideas are fed to you subconsciously through movies, news, media, in a way that makes you think about this new reality before it happens, so that your thoughts bring it to life. The whole time you’re just thinking you’re watching a movie about robots. Focus your energy. It’s a powerful tool that has been siphoned for so long. Learn how to direct your thoughts, ideas, emotions and creative energy on outcomes that support the highest and best for all concerned. Time to be in your sovereignty.’ – Maryam Hasnaa
(quote found via bambalouni) #Mindful #Health #Philosophy
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Handbook of African Medicinal Plants: Pharmacognostical Profile of Selected Medicinal Plants
With over 50,000 distinct species in sub-Saharan Africa alone, the African continent is endowed with an enormous wealth of plant resources. While more than 25 percent of known species have been used for several centuries in traditional African medicine for the prevention and treatment of diseases, Africa remains a minor player in the global natural products market largely due to lack of practical information. This updated and expanded second edition of the Handbook of African Medicinal Plants provides a comprehensive review of more than 2,000 species of plants employed in indigenous African medicine, with full-color photographs and references from over 1,100 publications.
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Doctors Can Prescribe Year-Long Pass To Canada’s National Parks
Health care professionals in four Canadian provinces can now prescribe time in the national park system to boost people’s mental and physical health. Parks Canada is collaborating with a program called Park Prescriptions (PaRx). Doctors, nurses and other licensed health care professionals who register with the program can prescribe nature — and even a Parks Canada Discovery Pass — to their patients.
“Medical research now clearly shows the positive health benefits of connecting with nature,” Steven Guilbeault, Minister of Environment and Climate Change and Minister responsible for Parks Canada, said in a written statement. “This exciting collaboration with PaRx is a breakthrough for how we treat mental and physical health challenges, and couldn’t come at a better time as we continue to grapple with the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on our daily lives.”
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Secret Tai Chi Training - by Earthbalance Taichi
A lot of Tai Chi and Qigong students practice secretly out in the wild. What is this secret training and how can you add it to your practice? It's being outside of your training space or studio, it could be somewhere in public or somewhere non Tai Chi related, in everyday clothes, doing every routines and sneaking some Tai Chi and Qigong practice into what you are doing. Examples:
- Standing in a supermarket queue and doing a variation of standing practice.
- Driving a car, paying attention to how you are using your shoulders, their alignment through movement, and being aware of unnecessary physical holding or tension.
- Standing in a queue, in a modified forwards bow stance, shifting weight subtly from 30-70% on each leg, switch legs.
- Walking somewhere, and being mindful with your posture e.g. lengthening the spine whilst rooting the hips (ding).
- Standing at the post office and modifying (shortening) the lower body silk reeling stance, going through a short training session.
- Sitting at your computer, paying attention to your posture, replicating as much as possible the correct Tai Chi and Qigong alignment.
- When gardening, use the strength of my waist, kua, core and lower body instead of my arms and shoulders.
- Practicing breathing colour into one of the yin organs the inner smile waiting in a queue.
- Attending a yoga class and adapting the movements to be more qigong based than yoga.
- Waiting in line, practicing empty stance leg and right. This is great single leg strength and conditioning training.
- Walking in the woods and practicing deep physical relaxation, either focusing on a specific body part as you move and observing and adjusting as you walk, or with an overall sense of physical release and ease.
- Standing at a bus stop and practicing connecting the pressure going into the ground with equal force in the opposite shoulder, switching from left to right (ground path, rooting with opposing force).
- Lying down in bed, aligning the body into a modified standing practice pose, using dantian breathing to fall off to sleep.
- Standing on a tube whilst it is travelling and taking a stable lower body stance e.g. a modified forwards bow stance, lowering your centre of gravity and maintaining stability through softening.
- Waiting in a queue and practicing expanding and compressing the joints in my shoulders, elbows, wrists and fingers, over a small range of motion.
- Picking something up off the floor by performing a full squat or a low stance (not out in public for this one!).
I have done all of these, and still do regularly. There's plenty you can do without anyone being the wiser. Queues are a firm favourite place! All you need is a single point of focus, and you can adapt most standing, sitting, lying down and walking activities. This is part of a life long practice.
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Charaka and Suśruta replaces the Hippocratic oath in India
National medical commission on India has given orders to Medical Colleges in India to replace the Hippocratic oath with "Maharishi Charaka shapath". Now Modern Medicine Doctors will be taking the oath in the name of the Father of Ayurveda. Additionally, Students face "compulsory 10 days of yoga for one hour per day" and Yoga is going to help allay depression and suicidal tendencies.
Comment by Joe Agneya: Charaka & Suśruta has direct contributions to modern medicine-Variolation, Cataract extraction etc Charaka was translated & studied in Arabic & Latin. Why must Indians honor Hippocrates? Decolonization needs change of heroes & scientific independence.
Comment by Vakibs: Charaka Samhita is also the first clear formulation of the scientific method, anywhere in the world. One cannot get a better antecedent to “evidence based medicine”. [...] The first clear enunciation of scientific method was in Ayurvedic texts: termed as "Yukti". It is a better formulation as it takes care of the bias from language. Europe just copied wholesale a lot of science & maths from India. Bullshit about inventing the "scientific method"
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A small selection of the expansive body of work by Iona Miller
- Sacred Wounding: The Family Shadow - Transgenerational Wounding & Healing
- Holographic Gods: Archetectonic Forces of Creation
- Holographic Archetypes: The Zero With a Thousand Faces Archetypes of Nature, Physics & Depth Psychology
- 21st Century Renaissance: Science * Ethics * Aesthetics * Poetics * Ethos & Cultural Survival
- Artist Statement: A Meandering Self-Exploration
- Self-Exploration 6 – Quest for Wholeness
- Tavistock Timeline of Culture
- Sacred Wounding: The Family Shadow - Transgenerational Wounding & Healing
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Researchers regrow frog's lost leg
In a study published in the journal Science Advances, scientists at Tufts University and Harvard University's Wyss Institute have brought us a step closer to the goal of regenerative medicine. On adult frogs, which are naturally unable to regenerate limbs, the researchers were able to trigger regrowth of a lost leg using a five-drug cocktail applied in a silicone wearable bioreactor dome that seals in the elixir over the stump for just 24 hours. That brief treatment sets in motion an 18-month period of regrowth that restores a functional leg.
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Scientists find there are 70% fewer pollinators, due to air pollution
Air pollution significantly reduces pollination by confusing butterflies and bees, lessening their ability to sniff out crops and wildflowers
Study Shows that Bees Love Hemp, Which is Wonderful News for the Environment and the World
“Industrial hemp can play an important role in providing sustained nutritional options for bees during the cropping season.”
