Fasting month is here (22 Aug - 21 Sep 09).
Found a good article from anandamarga site about yogic fasting.
i decided to try this, and i SUCCEDDED :D
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Question: What's so good about fasting? How long does it last?
Answer: Fasting is one of the secrets of long life.
Your body, and your digestive organs in particular, are required to work and work without any vacation. You know that you require rest from your work or your school from time to time.
In the same way, your digestive system needs a rest from time to time.Periodic fasting provides the rest for your digestive system. It allows your digestive system to recuperate from the rough treatment that you may have given it by overeating or eating the wrong foods or eating at the wrong time.In addition fasting also provides an opportunity to eliminate many toxins from your body.
After fasting, you should take some lemon water with a bit of salt. This drink helps to flush the digestive system, eliminating waste material that might otherwise remain in the body if you didn't fast.
Fasting also helps you to keep a balanced mind inspite of the attraction of the moon on the fluids of your body. That is why our fasting system is timed in relation to the moon. The eleventh day after the new and full moons is the time when this attraction is very strong. If you fast during this period, then the emptiness of the stomach pulls down liquids that would otherwise rise up in your body under the attraction of the moon.
Finally fasting also gives you a chance to save some time and use that time for spiritual pursuits. In order to eat, you may have to spend time shopping, cooking, cleaning and of course eating. If you fast, you can use that time to do meditation, to read or some other valuable pursuit.
This system of yogic fasting has a duration from sunrise to sunrise. You begin at sunrise on the fasting day and eat nothing. If your body is strong you can also refrain from drinking anything.On the next day, you can break the fast with lemon water, as I have mentioned above, and then with fruit and other suitable food.
Some people think that fasting is difficult. If you prepare yourself for fasting it is not difficult. Prepare yourself physically by taking enough food and also plenty of liquids the day before. Prepare yourself mentally by deciding the night before fasting: "Tomorrow is fasting day, and I am not going to eat anything." If you take this mental determination prior to the fasting day, you will not be hungry during the fasting day.
If you don't make a prior determination, during the fasting day you will start to think "Maybe I should eat, and fast another day!" Decide beforehand and you will be able to complete your fast.All in all, fasting is one of the best practices for maintaining physical, mental and spiritual health.
I highly recommend it.
Wednesday, September 02, 2009
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
food allergy
swollen lips >> one of the signs of food Allergies
Food allergies occur when a sensitive person eats, inhales, or comes into contact with even tiny amounts of certain foods or food additives. These allergic reactions can be very mild or may be life-threatening.
Food allergies are becoming more and more common. There has been an increase in severe food allergy cases in the last 10 years, mostly driven by peanut and tree nut allergies.
In adults, the foods most likely to cause anaphylaxis are peanuts, tree nuts, fish, and shellfish.
Symptoms tend to occur just after eating. They may include reddening of the skin, hives, itchy skin, swollen lips or eyelids, tightness of the throat, wheezing, difficulty breathing, coughing, vomiting, or diarrhea.
Food allergies occur when a sensitive person eats, inhales, or comes into contact with even tiny amounts of certain foods or food additives. These allergic reactions can be very mild or may be life-threatening.
Food allergies are becoming more and more common. There has been an increase in severe food allergy cases in the last 10 years, mostly driven by peanut and tree nut allergies.
In adults, the foods most likely to cause anaphylaxis are peanuts, tree nuts, fish, and shellfish.
Symptoms tend to occur just after eating. They may include reddening of the skin, hives, itchy skin, swollen lips or eyelids, tightness of the throat, wheezing, difficulty breathing, coughing, vomiting, or diarrhea.
Thursday, June 04, 2009
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
new sites
after the invasion of www.twitter.com, few new sites to click:
www.tumblr.com >> to make a minimalistic blog ~ you can leave short comments just like in twitter.
http://www.wolframalpha.com >> new computable search engine -- interestiiiinggg...
happy surfing!
www.tumblr.com >> to make a minimalistic blog ~ you can leave short comments just like in twitter.
http://www.wolframalpha.com >> new computable search engine -- interestiiiinggg...
happy surfing!
Monday, February 23, 2009
problem?
The definition for word = PROBLEM = something that comes with a solution.
If there is no solution, then that is NOT a problem.
>> quoted from Ajahn Brahm on one of his mp3 file talks ~~
If there is no solution, then that is NOT a problem.
>> quoted from Ajahn Brahm on one of his mp3 file talks ~~
Thursday, October 23, 2008
"You should cherish everything even if you don't possess it"
"Fragrant Rice" / "Dao Xiang"
lyricsComposer: Jay Chou
Lyricist: Jay Chou
If you have too many complaints towards this world
When you fall down you don't dare to continue walking forward
Why must people be so weak, depraved
I ask you to turn on the TV and see
How many people bravely try hard to continue walking for their life
Shouldn't we be content with what we have?
You should cherish everything even if you don't possess it
I still remember you said your home was the only castle,
you continue to run with the fragrance of the rice and the flowing river
Smiling, the dreams when you were young, I know
Don't cry, let the fireflies lead you to escape,
the eternal dependence of the folk song in the country
Just go home
Go back to the happiness at the very start
Don't be so easy to give up, it's just like I say
For dreams you can't achieve, switch it for another and it'll be fine
Put some colour into your life, firstly paint the colour you like on love
Come on and smile, merit and fame aren't the goals
Let yourself be happy, this is what you call meaning
The paper airplane from my childhood, it's finally flown back to my hand now
That so called happiness, running barefoot in the fields chasing crickets and getting tired
Picking fruits without permission and getting scared from being stung by bees, who's sniggering?I lean on the scarecrow while being blown by the wind while singing while sleeping
Oh oh, if the sunshine sprinkles on the road then I won't be afraid of being broken-hearted
You should cherish everything even if you don't possess it
I still remember you said your home was the only castle,
you continue to run with the fragrance of the rice and the flowing river
Smiling, dreams when you were young, I know
Don't cry, let the fireflies lead you to escape,
the eternal dependence of the folk song in the country
Just go home
Go back to the happiness at the very start
lyricsComposer: Jay Chou
Lyricist: Jay Chou
If you have too many complaints towards this world
When you fall down you don't dare to continue walking forward
Why must people be so weak, depraved
I ask you to turn on the TV and see
How many people bravely try hard to continue walking for their life
Shouldn't we be content with what we have?
You should cherish everything even if you don't possess it
I still remember you said your home was the only castle,
you continue to run with the fragrance of the rice and the flowing river
Smiling, the dreams when you were young, I know
Don't cry, let the fireflies lead you to escape,
the eternal dependence of the folk song in the country
Just go home
Go back to the happiness at the very start
Don't be so easy to give up, it's just like I say
For dreams you can't achieve, switch it for another and it'll be fine
Put some colour into your life, firstly paint the colour you like on love
Come on and smile, merit and fame aren't the goals
Let yourself be happy, this is what you call meaning
The paper airplane from my childhood, it's finally flown back to my hand now
That so called happiness, running barefoot in the fields chasing crickets and getting tired
Picking fruits without permission and getting scared from being stung by bees, who's sniggering?I lean on the scarecrow while being blown by the wind while singing while sleeping
Oh oh, if the sunshine sprinkles on the road then I won't be afraid of being broken-hearted
You should cherish everything even if you don't possess it
I still remember you said your home was the only castle,
you continue to run with the fragrance of the rice and the flowing river
Smiling, dreams when you were young, I know
Don't cry, let the fireflies lead you to escape,
the eternal dependence of the folk song in the country
Just go home
Go back to the happiness at the very start
Sunday, July 20, 2008
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