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:

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.

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.

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

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.

Transforming Static Websites into Mobile "Wizdomes" enabling change through intertwining dynamic and configurative metaphors http://www.laetusinpraesens.org/docs00s/wizdomes.php

Prabha’ta Samgiita began its journey on 14th September, 1982 in Deogarh, Bihar, India with the invocation and a clarion call for a new renaissance with its first song: Bandhu he niye calo…O’ Supreme Consciousness, please lead us from darkness towards the fountain of effulgence.