Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/229

On this video, Dr. Taylor tells her personal story of her brain stroke and the insights that she received as a neuro-anatomist.

The word Ashtanga means “eight-limbed”.This is an expression used by the author of the Yoga Sutra, Patanjali.

Patanjali was an ancient yogi who was living in India probably in the age around 300-200 BC. He is one of the most important figures of the yoga tradition, because he is the first one that has written a text with clear and systematic instructions about yoga.

He uses the expression “eight-limbed” to indicate eight important levels in the spiritual progression of a yogi:

This article is on the negative effcets of garlic. While everyone has heard of the medicinal effects of garlic, few know as to how garlic effects the brain negatively and should be avaoided as a reguklar food item. Yogiis have known this for thousands of years and that is why they have called it a tamasika (static) food.

During a recent visit to an optician, one of my friends was told of an exercise for the eyes by a specialist doctor that he termed as 20-20-20.

'It is apt for all of us, who spend long hours at our desks, looking at the computer screen. I Thought I'd share it with you. 20-20-20

Step I :

After every 20 minutes of looking into the computer screen, turn your head and try to look at any object placed at least 20 feet away.

This changes the focal length of your eyes, a must-do for the tired eyes.

Step II :

In October of 2001, my sister started getting very sick. She had stomach spasms and she was having a hard time getting around. Walking was a major chore. It took everything she had just to get out of bed; she was in so much pain.

Scientists are beginning to uncover evidence that meditation has a tangible effect on the brain.

Sceptics argue that it is not a practical way to try to deal with the stresses of modern life.

But the long years when adherents were unable to point to hard science to support their belief in the technique may finally be coming to an end.

When Carol Cattley's husband died it triggered a relapse of the depression which had not plagued her since she was a teenager.

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Folate 'may keep sperm healthy'

A diet rich in the vitamin folate may protect men against producing abnormal sperm and children with genetic abnormalities, a study suggests.

Study Shows Hard Evidence That Yoga Elevates State of Mind

THE NOTION that yoga is a tonic for the mind, as well as the body, isn’t such a stretch anymore.

Practicing yoga might boost a neurotransmitter associated with regulating depression and anxiety disorders, according to a new report in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine.

[Yoga Meditation aids sound sleep. Prabhat Samgiita helps one to sleep soundly too. But all these claims need to be verified by research. Here is the current report on science of sleep.]

Shakespeare waxed lyrical about it, and not getting enough of it remains a favourite national gripe. But it is only relatively recently we have started to understand how sleep impacts upon our health, from where we do it to how we do it.

A Theory of Yoga Cakras: The Neurological Basis of Physiological Expression

Lend A Hand: http://www.nhne.org/DONATE/tabid/398/Default.aspx (Thanks to Sherry Stultz.)

MYCELIUM RUNNING: HOW MUSHROOMS CAN HELP SAVE THE WORLD By Paul Stamets,Ten Speed Press, 352 pages, 2005, $35.00 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1580085792/newheavenneweart

Reviewed by Starhawk,Yes Magazine http://www.yesmagazine.com/article.asp?ID=1495

In neuro-anatomy, a nucleus is a CNS structure that is composed mainly of gray matter, and which acts as a hub or transit point for electrical signals in a simple neural subsystem. The term Hebenula originally denoted the stalk of the pineal gland, but gradually has come to refer to a neighbouring group of nerve cells in the brain with which pineal gland is believed to be associated.

This is one of the first books written by a member of AMAYE on a sutra-by-sutra explanantion of Patainjali's Yoga Sutram. Ac. Candreshvaranandaji has been kind to offer his assistance to Keshava in this venture. We hope that the book will be translated into English also for wider audience. It appears that the commentary has been written in light of Ananda Sutram. The book is available from Ananda Marga Publications in Taiwan.

Whatever parts of the brain may be involved in migraine headaches, the stimulus that causes it has been studied in Ayurveda and Yogic Therapy. Indigestion, Constipation and Mental worries should be avaioded in this condition.