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Exclusive Interview Originally from Hollywood, California, and a graduate of Stanford University, where she holds a Ph.D. in Psychology, Sadhvi is a renowned spiritual leader and motivational speaker who has served nearly 25 years in humanitarian and spiritual service. Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati that changed from Hollywood to the Himalayas, currently serves as the Secretary-General of the Global Interfaith WASH Alliance, an international interfaith organization dedicated to clean Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH). She is also the President of Divine Shakti Foundation, which runs free schools, vocational training programs, and women empowerment programs.
Sadhvi also serves on the United Nations Faith Advisory Council on Religion; the Steering Committee For Partnership For Religion And Sustainable Development (PaRD), an international body comprising the Governments of twelve countries (including United States, UK, and Germany), the United Nations, the World Bank, the African Union, and the world's renowned faith-based organizations; and the Steering Committee for the World BankUnited Nations Campaign with international faith-based organizations of the "Moral Imperative To End Extreme Poverty."
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5 NATURAL WAYS TO FIGHT OFF ILLNESS AND STAY WELL If you're experiencing allergies, getting summer colds, or just generally trying to stay healthy, supporting your immune system is one of the best ways to prevent illness. Your immune system is designed to defend your body against all kinds of diseases and illnesses. On any given day, it helps you fight off countless bacteria, viruses, and other pathogens you encounter as you go about your life.
By Dr. Bradley Nelson The immune system is a complex system designed to fight off infection. It includes white blood cells, antibodies, bone marrow, the lymphatic system, mucous membranes, the spleen, the thymus, liver, and skin. It is a complex system within the complex system that is the human body, and it functions best when we take steps to keep our overall health in balance. The immune system consists of two parts — innate and adaptive.
Innate immunity is the first line of defense against illness and includes skin, immune system cells that fight off invading pathogens, and other components such as mucus and stomach acid that trap and destroy pathogens.
Research has shown certain holistic practices can help boost the immune system. These are simple, natural, non-invasive, economical things we can all do. Think of them as an investment in your good health and give them a try. Identify and release your emotional baggage — The effect of emotions on our health is often overlooked, but evidence is growing. Those emotions exert a profound influence on our overall health — including our ability to fight off illness. Negative emotions may alter immune response functions and are associated with an increase..., a recent Pennsylvania State University study finds.
Energy healing methods such as the Emotion Code® with the Body Code™ are designed to help people remove Trapped Emotions, unresolved and unconfronted negative emotions from traumatic and challenging experiences. It can facilitate physical and emotional balance and recovery and boost overall health and happiness, which naturally supports a healthy immune system.
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The adaptive immune system allows your body to identify the foreign substances exposed to overtime and activate antibodies and immune cells to fight them off.
QUANTUM ANCESTRALITY YOUR ANCESTRAL LINE – THE LOVE THAT TRAVELED THROUGH YOUR DNA
The other day, listening to a lecture by a Spiritual teacher, something left me amazed and intrigued. He said that we don't have "spiritual karma" but "karma" coming from the body, that is, from the experiences lived by our family DNA. This made me think of some situations and stories that I witnessed in several family constellations that I was present. It seemed, in fact, typical for old family conflicts to be repeated for several generations, unresolved marriages, separations, exclusions, and even forms of love very peculiar to each family group. A lot of pain comes to us through our ancestral lines. The strength of ancestry in our lives is much greater than we can imagine. Although, if before, reverence for ancestors was a cultural movement, now, with the knowledge we have acquired through therapies such as family constellations, we learn that it is possible to dissolve old hurts, disagreements, and energetic knots through the relationship with our ancestors. We can't explain things looking at our current life because they come from other times, from other people. So much of our pain comes from our ancestors. Commonly, some feeling you carry is not just hers, but rather a connection to what you have lived and felt with an ancestor, even if you have not known them. Remember: it lives inside you, in your blood, and it also carries your whole story. BY HUMANITY HEALING
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Let's say that you go through a difficult situation and feel abandoned, or even that you fear being abandoned, even for no apparent reason, but that this fear has been with you since childhood and seems completely meaningless or unexplainable. Still, it moves you to flee of loving relationships. At some point, your mother may reveal to you that your grandmother or greatgrandmother was abandoned in the marriage, having to take care of the children alone. Due to this fact, she lived very challenging situations of insecurities and uncertainties, deep feelings of pain and sadness. You don't know why, but it seems that this story touches you, although you consciously don't realize the connection of your emotions with your ancestors.
The Origins of our lives start with our Ancestors. The first thing we need to learn is that we're only here because of our ancestors. Without grandparents, our parents would not exist. Without great-grandparents, our grandparents would not exist. And so on. And it is these ancestors who present us with a heritage that goes beyond genetics: through our DNA, we transmit and receive subconscious beliefs, emotions, psychological and emotional inclinations. "Forgetting the ancestors is like being a stream without a source, a tree without roots." Chinese proverb It is important to know that they live within you, and then only you can heal the line, in there, through your healing. Today, you find in your favor several therapies that work the timeline and are able to cure you of this discomfort and thus release the pain of your ancestor in you. Without this pain, you can walk more freely and happily.
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Hollywood to The Himalayas BOOK EXCERPT
Rishikesh is laid out on two sides of the Ganges (correctly, Ganga) River, a bustling downtown on the western side and a quieter area on the eastern side. The southeastern quarter centers itself near Ram Jhula, a swinging footbridge named after Lord Rama, the divine hero of the Ramayana, while the northern part is centered around Lakshman Jhula, a similar bridge named after Lord Rama’s brother, Lakshman.
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Lakshman Jhula is where most of the hotels, shops, and restaurants for tourists are. The Ram Jhula area, also known as the Swargashram (literally, Heavenly Abode) area, is lined with ashrams. In September 1996, the Green Hotel was the only hotel in the Swargashram area of Rishikesh, sitting on a small lane that runs parallel to the Ganga, just behind the ashrams. Of course, Lonely Planet did not mention that in order to reach there, you have to schlep your bags across a nearly half-mile-long footbridge. So, when we arrived at the Ram Jhula taxi stand to discover that our hotel was across the water, the driver instructed helpfully, “You cross the bridge.” No mention of the large, convenient motorboat that pilgrims can use to travel easily from bank to bank of the river, no offer to find a coolie—the driver pointed his finger toward the swinging footbridge, more than 300 yards past where he had to drop us off. You couldn’t find a hotel that doesn’t require schlepping our bags across a river? I berated myself as we found ourselves sharing a bridge, barely two feet wide and precariously suspended a hundred feet above the water, with stray cows, sugarcane-laden bullock carts, fruit and vegetable vendors, motorcyclists, and two-way foot traffic. I was sure we had walked onto the Indian version of The Bridge of San Luis Rey set. Finally, hot, sweaty, and already done with India, I followed Jim through the doors of the Green Hotel. “How do you get back to the river?” I asked the clerk after we’d checked in and dropped our backpacks in the sparsely furnished room. The Ganga called me. As we had crossed Ram Jhula, our luggage strapped to our backs, the river flowed quickly and deeply below.
Learn all you need to know to make your Zen Garden.
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The Zen Garden, also known as the Japanese Garden, is recommended to bring calm, tranquility, and well-being to the environment and people. You can deploy it in your home or office in miniature mode. It is very versatile, can be made in different sizes, and will help you restore physical, emotional, and mental balance.
The Zen Garden or Japanese Garden, which immediately announces its origins, is a space beyond unique. Usually made of gravel, stone, and fountains, it is the perfect place for those looking for mental rest or a moment of meditation. With each passing day, Zen gardens are becoming more popular in the West as well.
His drawings in curved lines, so characteristic, are the heritage of Zen monks who wanted to have spaces designed in stone and the inclusion of aquatic elements. Easy to maintain, as they have a stone base, they are so simple to create that you will quickly realize that the primary concern during their implementation will only be choosing materials. Thankfully, we have ten excellent reasons for wanting to have a Japanese garden at home. ZEN GARDEN: ITS ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS The main characteristic of a Zen Garden is its simplicity. It is, in fact, the simplicity with which it must be built that must be transported to daily life. This element will help you live it in a more peaceful way and with more selfknowledge. Remember: the Zen Garden is where you can hear what your body and inner self have to say. Sand Sand represents the sea and is related to the peace and tranquility of spirit and mind. In the sand, with the help of the rake, you can create waves. The waves designed in a more extended, curved pattern symbolize rough waters, while straight lines represent calmer waters. OMTIMES| AUGUST
ANIMALS CAN BE MEDIUMS MEDIUMSHIP IN ANIMALS Can Animals be 'Mediums' like Human beings?
We all know what it means to be a Medium. Some of us are aware that animals can be very sensitive beings, and sometimes they are very good judges of characters. With all of this in mind, we ask ourselves: Would it be so strange to consider that our animals may have some medium abilities? Nevertheless, this is a complex and controversial issue. Evidence shows that animals have a sensitivity as heightened (or even more) than many sensitive people. Have you ever heard someone say that your pet seems to understand your thoughts or feelings? In fact, they are not exaggerating. Animals do possess unique psychic abilities that have not yet found an explanation in science. CAN ANIMALS REALLY BE MEDIUMS? Animals are sentient beings; they have a special and unique stream of consciousness that may differ from Human consciousness. Still, Animals have a specific type of intelligence that is already proven. We know that each species has a different degree of brain development capacity.
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However, some capabilities are difficult to ascertain due to the difficulty of communicating with them. Have you ever heard that dogs and cats could see spirits? Many people claim that it is accurate, and whoever is a spiritual or medium and manages to contact beings from other dimensions confirms this theory. There are many reported studies about animals' life, communication, and impressive experiences.
Such experiences include the materialization of animals in experimental sessions. On some of these occasions, they reported dog yelps being heard by several people at the same time, without a dog in the vicinity. Faced with these statements, we can think about whether animals have the capacity to act as mediums or not. In fact, a "mediumistic phenomenon, in the fullness of its semantic connotation, is the one of an intellectual effect.
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It is an occurrence in which the sensitive person or an empath really works as the communication channel between incarnated and disincarnated". It is challenging to consider an animal as a medium for this concept because despite having intelligence, they do not have the intellectual capacity to express their feeling, at least not directly. "For intelligent communication, there is a need for an intelligent intermediary, and this is the spirit of the medium."
HOW INTROVERTS AND EXTROVERTS Can Start Safely Socializing Again By Marcia Sirota, MD
Socializing is a skill. With the mass distribution of vaccines against COVID, the world is slowly reopening. Unfortunately, many of us have spent the last sixteen months relatively isolated. Those who live in a family unit have only been in contact with the same few people all this time. Those who live alone have had minimal contact with anyone. Socializing is a skill that we develop over time, and it’s a skill that we can lose if we aren’t practicing it. After all this time, with hardly any in-person socializing, our social skills could be pretty rusty. So how do we get back to enjoying a healthy social life after being out of practice for so long? Before I answer this question, I want to talk about the different reactions of introverts compared to extroverts to many months of forced isolation.
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Introverts need to push themselves to get back out there. For them, it’s going to take a lot of self-discipline to push themselves out of the comfortable shell they’ve crawled into and to start trying to connect with others. So, I’m starting to have talks with these patients, helping them to navigate their re-entry into the world of in-person socialization more comfortably.
Introverts vs. extroverts: I have a few patients who are extreme introverts or very socially awkward. For these individuals, all the time alone has felt like something of a relief because they didn’t have to struggle with trying to navigate the ins and outs of social interactions. Unfortunately, these people need all the practice they can get in developing and maintaining healthy relationships. All this time on their own has set them back considerably, and they’re likely to find themselves that much more awkward and uncomfortable in their upcoming in-person interactions. They could be tempted to withdraw even further, avoiding the stress of having to start building their skills all over again, but this is not a healthy choice—even the socially awkward need for human contact and intimacy.
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Love has been described as an intangible connection between two people that feels exceptionally good, and yet, the word and experience of love cannot be easily defined.
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There is wild, crazy “being in love,” and there is the love of a child, friends, family, pets, co-workers, neighbors, community, etc. Then there is “divine love” and connection to God, Goddess, or whatever higher power you subscribe to.
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But I think we can all agree that having and being love is a good thing. The entire Universe is made up of energy, and we impact this energy field with our thoughts, feelings, emotions, beliefs, and actions. All of us are vibrating, all the time, at various frequencies.
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When we are in fear, self-doubt, judgment, or anger, we vibrate at a low frequency. When we focus on love, inspiration, doing good for others, we are vibrating at a higher frequency…. the frequency of love. Think of yourself as a radio tuner with many stations. Do you want to stay tuned into the FEAR channel or the BLISS channel? Of course, you have the power to change channels at any time. However, it requires that you remain aware of your thoughts, feelings, and emotions, rises to the challenge of being an emotionally mature adult, and turn the dial from the negative to the positive. Many of you have heard the saying, what you put your attention on grows. When your attention is on love, you magnetize even more love. Omtimes/August Special Edition
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One of the traditional beliefs of spirituality is about the Karma we carry over our lifetime. Besides our own personal karmas, it is possible to be the bearer of your family's Karma. Some spiritualists believe that the younger generations pay for the sins of the older generations in their families. FAMILY KARMA: WHAT IS IT AND HOW TO GET FREE? Karma, from Sanskrit कम, literally means "action." As a term, it is used in several philosophical and spiritual currents, such as Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, and spiritualism. THE HERITAGE OF FAMILY KARMA It doesn't sound very comforting, but it is a firm belief in some parts of the world, mainly where traditional and family values are highly respected.
Signs You are Carrying Family Karma To understand this concept, it is essential to know the relationships of primary Karma and micro macrocosms. Simply put, every action reacts. That is, everything we do has consequences. They say that when a butterfly flaps its wings in Japan, it can cause a hurricane in Florida. Karma is that. KARMA: PLURAL VISIONS According to Hinduism, Karma is the result of our actions during our earthly lives. When we die, it begins to develop within us, within our soul.
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As time goes by, it starts to show itself and moves on to subsequent reincarnations. In Buddhism, the action of Karma is seen above all as our intentions. That is, what motivates us to take action, whether good or bad. They generate consequences and, as an intention, they are also responsible for our will, our life link, our desire to stay alive. FAMILY KARMA: WHAT WOULD IT BE? One idea that is intrinsically linked to Karma is family karma. It has a genetic characteristic as it passes from generation to generation. Often an aspect of us is not from our past life, but from our parents' lives. But how is this possible? HOW DO I KNOW IF I HAVE FAMILY KARMA? Well, we all have at least some family karmas. It does not always mean that Karma is dreadful. Often our family karma is so positive that actions in our future lives cause us to evolve much faster as light beings. However, when you carry heavier karmas from past families, some symptoms are the most common. Among them, we can highlight: – You find yourself much more sensitive to your current family and may even feel patterns in your ancestors that go – and repeat themselves – in your current parents. – Discussions or strange events within the family will involve you in most cases. This is because your family energy and your Karma are in constant dialogue. – You feel heavy and have many responsibilities. It is exceptionally normal, as your subconscious needs you to evolve and consolidate the familiar Karma of your life, either to relive them in later lives or to say goodbye to them.
VEDIC ASTROLOGY
By Lalitha Donatella Riback
CAN HELP CREATE A BETTER REALITY Quantum physics tells us that there isn’t an objective reality and that the only reality is the mind. Let’s look at a tree, for example. When we fall asleep, there’s no tree.
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The tree reappears promptly when we wake up. So where did it go when we were sleeping? It simply didn’t exist for us. Like most of us, you have perhaps felt at times entirely alone in the world.
Vedic astrology affirm that we’re all connected, a belief shared by Carl Jung, the famous Swiss psychiatrist. So we create our reality. And if we don’t like our reality? Then, we can perhaps give astrology a chance and try to change our life, turning it into something more to our liking.
Astronomical and Astrological Phenomena Cause Events on Earth Vedic astrology, the traditional predictive system of India, is the only astrological system in the world to be considered a science in its country. In 2004, the Supreme Court of India confirmed a Bombay High Court ruling that declared Vedic astrology is a science “as accurate as computer science.” The University Grants Commission followed suit, and now anyone after the necessary studies can acquire a Ph.D. in Vedic astrology. While this verdict was based on observable and repeatable results (which is our scientific method) in the case studies analyzed, it quickly aroused the indignation of some scientists deeply skeptical about the intangible aspects of the planets, including predictions, prayer, intuition, past lives, reincarnation, and other spiritual topics. Yet, we can’t deny Vedic astrology’s countless case studies collected over three thousand years showing how planets and life experiences are interconnected. OMTIMES MAGAZINE
How Do You Re - Present Yourself to You? by Melvin D. Nix It's Time For Personal Reflection We spend a lot of time reflecting. It's become a way for us to observe life, correct actions, and find personal healing. What I've discovered is that a lot can be revealed to you when you start to observe the many layers of life and the results that are present. For example, when you contemplate making a change in your life, it is amazing what input you can receive from yourself when you note your thoughts, internal dialogue, and words. How we represent ourselves to ourselves is the driving force behind everything we do, react or respond to situations, and make our decisions. Who Do You See In Your Internal Mirror? We all have an inner mirror. It is composed of our self-reflection and personal thoughts. The unfortunate thing is that the image we see internally isn't an accurate representation of who we are.
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For example, who we've come to know as our authentic self is made up of information given to us. It's a reflection of the perception of others. You may have started in life with huge dreams and aspirations, but you made the mistake of revealing your heart to the wrong people. When they heard of your dreams, they may have told you that you aren't good enough, smart enough, or capable of achieving them. They sowed a seed of doubt and unbelief in you based upon their limitations and lack of drive. Once this occurred, it caused you to see yourself in light of their perceptions and beliefs rather than the truth. Often seeds of doubt can take root in us because the people who sowed them into our hearts were people we loved and trusted. Those individuals may have had good intentions. However, their words and actions created a lid over your potential. Once you allow the suggestions of others to take root within, it isn't easy to see yourself differently. When you think of the quality of life you want, the image of their doubt overshadows your beliefs, and you begin to reflect their words to yourself, and your inner image of YOU becomes distorted like looking through a funhouse mirror. It may look like you, but it's not an accurate representation.
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Positive Thinking EASY AND EFFORTLESS
Let's be honest. There are days when one gets a little weary of the continual message to 'Think Positive.' However, since the release of The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale many years ago, the advice to keep one's thoughts upbeat has pervaded self-help books too numerous to mention. It is even a cornerstone of specific spiritual disciplines and practices.
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First, is it worth the effort? Though it can be hard some days (and we may even gripe), keeping a positive outlook on life is indeed something worth pursuing. Years ago, the influence of my thinking on the events in my life became ever harder to deny. At first, we may see that things didn't go as well on days you were in a bad mood. However, obstacles that had once seemed impossible (first, potty training my children, and later, paying for college) could be conquered, provided we could maintain a sense of calm and confidence.
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Later, I'd see the bigger theme of how my views about various areas of my life, such as health, relationships, and work, were influenced by beliefs and feelings I'd held since I was a child. Why is it hard sometimes? Yet, it's not that easy. We can remind ourselves with phrases like 'This too shall pass or 'Everything will be ok when the dog throws up on the carpet or when the kitchen plumbing springs a leak an hour before cherished guests arrive for dinner. But if you are like most people, you have a set of nagging, limiting beliefs that run through your head more of the time. The voice speaks these limiting beliefs from your subconscious mind. The voice is not that loud, most of the time, perhaps, but there are those times when the voice is really loud. Maybe the voice screams 'I don't belong,' 'No one loves me, or some other equally ridiculous message that reflects our limiting beliefs. Whether the voice is soft or loud, the limiting beliefs always affect us, holding us back and hindering our full enjoyment of life. Where do these limiting beliefs come from? Most long-held limiting beliefs arise from childhood experiences that upset us at the time.
When people remember the great Austrian psychiatrist and psychotherapist Viktor Frankl, they don't usually think of the genius who developed the psychological approach known as logotherapy. Instead, they, justifiably, think of the Holocaust survivor who gave new meaning to the word freedom. In Frankl's classic book Man's Search for Meaning, he famously said, "When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."
What Life Expects from Us By Debra Poneman
Frankl said that each of us has total freedom because freedom is not dictated by our outer circumstances but rather determined by our inner state. Suppose Frankl could experience freedom in a concentration camp where the absolute worst of human depravity was inflicted on the inmates. Can we not experience it when we feel trapped in a job or relationship or life circumstance and are, more often than not, prisoners of our own making? If we learn nothing else from Viktor Frankl, freedom is a choice we must make at every moment—and there is always a choice. So let's look at some things we might be able to do in our own lives to achieve the type of freedom that seems unattainable by us mere mortals. HAVE A PURPOSE GREATER THAN YOURSELF One of the observations Frankl made was that the prisoners who survived had a purpose that inspired them to keep going no matter what—a responsibility to something greater than themselves. For some, it was a child whom they managed to send off to a country where they were safe or a spouse, they believed would be waiting for them once they were liberated. For others, it was an unfinished book or piece of art or a scientific work they had begun. Yet, they knew their contribution would make the planet a better place and needed to complete it before they died.
Those who held a vision of what they wanted to create in the world, even if it just lived in their hearts, were the ones who made it out alive. The vision gave them the courage to live and a sense of inner freedom. In his teachings, Frankl often refers to the words of Nietzsche: "He who knows the 'why' for his existence will be able to bear almost any 'how.'"
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