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MARCH 2009

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From the Desk of the Editor..........Dear Readers, We known a lot about eating right and regular exercise but we are not fully aware that there is a tremendous relationship between our heart and our emotions. Anger, anxiety, depression, stress etc will make you more susceptible to heart disease. It becomes imperative to control these emotions to reduce the chances of developing heart problems and increasing our general well-being. The following studies make the above point clear :-

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Joys And Sorrows.................................................... 4

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Fruits, The Perfect Food............................................. 9

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God's Pharmacy! Amazing!...................................... 12

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The Power Of The Word........................................... 14

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The Power Of Your Subconscious Mind..................... 21

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• A study conducted by researchers at Harvard found that a more optimistic outlook in older men was linked with a dramatically reduced risk of CHD (Kubzansky et al. 2001) • A research article in the prestigious journal Circulation, published by the American Heart Association, described a nine-year study where investigators concluded that reducing emotional distress through a rehabilitation program improved the prognosis of 150 men with CHD (Denollet and Brutsaert 2001). • A study investigating the role of anger found that among 1,623 patients who previously suffered a heart attack, the risk of another heart attack after an episode of anger was increased by 200 percent (Mittleman et al. 1995). Learn to control your negative emotions as bad mind creates bad heart and oppressed soul gives rise to oppressed heart. With divine love...

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JOYS AND SORROWS (Job Stress Management) I have striven all my life, not to weep at human actions, Not to laugh at them, not to hate them, But to understand them. - Spinoza, the Spanish Philosopher Every job in this world comes with its in-built joys, and associated sorrows. It is only that person who could look at both these imposters alike that enjoys all the seasons of life, the cold of winter, the heat of summer, and the warmth of the spring. Those who have not learnt the art of living with joys and sorrows always complain and suffer from distress. For the conventional physiologist, like the Late Canadian Professor, Hans Selye, stress meant a series of stereotyped responses of the animal endocrine system to the various stressors in life. He had done a lot of work in this field. The common man's meaning of stress is marginally different. Caplan defines stress from the psychiatrist's point of view : "It is to denote the collective gamut of anxieties and pressures of the job, the impetus to seek promotion and success, the desire to avoid failure at any cost, the increasing demands of the post, and more, have all been bundled into the word 'stress', in general." Another excellent viewpoint is that given by Lazarus and Folkman who defined stress "as a particular relationship between the environment that is appraised by the person as taxing or exceeding his or her resources and endangering his or her well being." Stress, no longer means the simple word that it is, but always denotes the pathological connotation attached to it. Hans Selye makes this distinction when he talks about 'stress' and distress.' Stress, in the normal sense of the word, is an integral part of life itself. There is no life without stress. If one could avoid all stresses in life, he would wither away and die. Your mind is located in every cell of your body... be careful your body is listening. 4

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Stress is the normal stimulus for growth. That said, I must mention that it is the abnormal reaction to stress that makes man suffer in the end. The title of this chapter might amuse some of you, but the fact is that joys and sorrows could both be equally stressful. Marriage and divorce are shown to be equally stressful, in elegant scientific studies. That is why I called them imposters both, following the footsteps of Rudyard Kipling, when he, in his poem "If", said : If you can meet with triumph and disaster, And treat those two imposters just the same He goes on to give tips for stress management in life in the following lines, in addition : If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blame it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, ........................... If you can wait and not be tired of waiting, Or being lied about, and don't deal in lies, Or being hated, and don't give way to hating, ........................... If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch, ........................... Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more-you'll be a Man, my son! This poem, which netted the highest votes in a recent poll to decide the best English poem, tells us all about the joys and sorrows of any job, nay any life situation. The concept of swadharma in the Bhagavad-Gita, in the present context, talks about the situation of job stress and its management. Strictly speaking, swadharma is work according to one's nature (wrongly interpreted by some in the past as the work related to one's birth in the Varna system of society). In today's society this may be impossible to Music has powerful healing properties. 5

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achieve. The real meaning of swadharma is to work with dedication. If it is found that the work allotted is not to one's liking, one could try and change it into a new one, called paradharma. Ultimately, if one agrees to do a particular job, he has to do it with the feeling that he is not doing it just for the remuneration, but doing it as an offering to God with detachment. The latter gives satisfaction and also peace of mind needed to avoid day-to-day stresses. Indian scriptures give a lot of information on stress management in particular, and administration, in general. Awareness of these could make us grow vertically, while the western techniques in management let us grow only horizontally. Many of the best management institutes in India, and a few in the West, have taken note of these far reaching methods, which not only try to give the student an idea of how to manage with the head, but to give an inkling into management from the heart. It is only those who have the ability to combine a strong head with a large heart that could be ideal administrators. This could look preposterous for the novice, but is a sublime philosophy of life according to Jesus Christ who said : "Be ye, therefore, wise like a serpent, but harmless like a dove". Martin Luther King Jr. was of the opinion that when militancy could be combined with humility, the world would be a better place to live in. How sublime are these thoughts, culled from various sources, at different times in history of mankind. Man does not change! Shakespeare was of the opinion that: "Man in a cottage or castle, palace or pad, is governed by the same emotions and passions." Introspection is one such method advocated by the Indian wisdom of yore, where each sorrow could be analyzed to make the administrator better suited to deal with similar human problem, the next time. This is called anubhoothi, in contrast to, anubhava (experience). The psychological

change that the administrator undergoes, in the bargain, is the essential element in his or her real growth, the latter is vertical, as noted above. Just as there are no problems without human beings involved, there can never be any sorrow (problem) without a psychological background to it. If there is no problem in administration, there is no joy in the job. There is a beautiful motto in a London primary school, which goes thus : "Happiness is living dangerously." I did not believe in this until I took up an administrative post in our organization. I have come to believe that every problem (sorrow) is an opportunity with thorns on it. If you learn to remove the thorns carefully, you can always cash in on the opportunity underneath. That needs a deep study of human psyche, because man is what he thinks he is. When one goes to the root of the word psyche one understands this concept better. The word psyche has Greek roots. The allegoric representation goes back to the soul (psyche, in Greek) being immortal. Psyche (pronounced psychee-all Greek words that end with an e are pronounced with ee) was supposed to be the name of the most beautiful woman on earth, at the time. She earned the wrath and envy of Aphrodite, not only because she was very beautiful, but also because she was the beloved of Aphrodite's most handsome son, Eros. Aphrodite, who put three most difficult obstacles on her way, made life impossible for her. Finally, she had to be rescued by other Gods, to be eventually reunited with her beloved, Eros. All this looks fine! But our ancient wisdom has it that we do our duty more to satisfy our inner God. One could cheat anyone on this earth, but not his own conscience, the indwelling God. As administrators, our greatest boss should be our own conscience. Nothing is permanent here on earth, except the good that we do to others. When an administrator

Laughter is good Medicine.

Optimists live Longer.

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understands this, his sorrows get converted into his joys. This, I found, was the best stress management technique. What good could one do while on this earth, better than trying to help another human being in distress? Most of our sorrows in office are egocentric. If one could win over his ego, life becomes a perpetual joy. This inner God of ours, our conscience should be our guide in all our actions, who is omnipresent, but being subtle cannot be perceived easily. We can never escape his keen observations. All sorrows administrators are heir to, like ego, corruption, pride, anger, jealousy, arrogance disappear once one understands this philosophy. Many institutes have regular Yoga sessions for their departmental and institutional heads to make them tranquil. Yoga should not be misunderstood to be synonymous with aasanaas. "Chitta vritti nirodhah yogaha." Yoga is controlling the mind and making man more tranquil in his dealings with others. Our real boss is there everywhere around us: Bahir Anthascha Bhootanaam Achram Charaam eva ch, Sookshmaavath tad avijneyam doorastham cha antikecha tat That which is both inside and outside everything, it is moving, yet stationary. As it is very subtle it cannot be perceived by senses, it looks far, yet is very near. – Bhagavad Gita The word stress now has a medical connotation, in addition. This refers to the 'burn-out', a term coined by Freudenberger in 1974, to describe "the demoralization, disillusionment, and exhaustion that results from work in those stressed by wrong attitudes to work". Now that word has been elevated to a diagnostic label in the WHO's code : ICD10-Z73. Many of us come to grief because we set unattainably high standard for ourselves, or sometimes the authorities set such targets. Joy comes when one realizes that in life we should try to do our best, it need not be the best always. "Perfection shall be thy aim," said Jesus. – Dr. B M Hegde Every Single drug has its ills following long term use. – Dr. B M Hegde 8

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FRUITS, THE PERFECT FOOD Everyday a healthy person loses and replaces two to three hundred billion cells in the body! This is the body's way of renewing itself, to maintain the highest level of vitality and function. The body normally expends lots of its energies and resources (nutrients) in continuously casting out cells. These are cells that have outlived their usefulness and require replacement with vital, vigorous young cells. The average life of red blood cells is around 60 days in a healthy person. This is the most frequently replaced cell in the body. For a person who is unhealthy or ill, cells are replaced more frequently - sometimes in less than 30 days! Prolonging the life-span of each cell, thereby means conserving energy which further means that health is ensured. Thus the key to health is in minimising the wear and tear of cells. Wrong eating habits (which include wrong food choices) is destructive to cells in the mouth, oesophagus, and the digestive tract. This could amount to an astronomical number of cell loss. Heavy cell replacement requires heavy expenditure of energy and nutrients. A meal of fresh fruits (eaten at room temperature) for e.g. causes no extra burden on the cells - there is very little wear and tear of the cells. A single bout of indigestion (caused due to wrong eating habits) results in a loss of billions of cells! This causes great pain, due to the loss of cells and protective covering. The character of food intake alone destroys cells and drains us wastefully of the energies we have. Indigestion "The Natural healing force within each of us is the greatest force in getting well." - Hippocrates 9

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not only causes us to contend with it, but also to clean up and expel the mess and its toxic by-products. At the same time the reconstruction of tissues and cells must also take place. Normal or correct eating would have, naturally, kept healthy living cells, along-with saving and conserving the body energy. The question then is, what is "normal, correct eating?" The five essentials of life must come from the foods we eat are : Glucose, amino acids, minerals, fatty acids and vitamins. The number one, most important priority of any food is, "fuel value" (glucose). Fuel value is energy. Without this energy the body cannot exist. This should be the foremost factor in determining the "value" of our food choices - whether this should come from cereals, pulses, meat, eggs, fruits or vegetables. Fruit is glucose in the body. Our human body requires 90% glucose, around 4-5% of amino acids, 3-5% of minerals, 1% of fatty acids and 1% of vitamins. All these proportions are effective to the body only if there are enzymes. There is only one food that fits this bill perfectly and that is fruits. Fruits, more than any other food, most perfectly supplies the body with all it requires, to achieve the highest capacity of health. The high content of water (80-90%) in fruits helps the body to cleanse the toxic wastes that build in the body. Only high water - content foods can do this - not water alone. Every plant, vegetable, fruit, nut and sprout in its natural state, is composed of atoms and molecules. The enzymes which are present (i.e. the vital elements) reside within these molecules. They are not substances or "things" to be calculated or counted (calorie counting The true potential for health and healing lies in every person. 10

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does not help). Enzymes are the life principle of every cell - of life itself. The enzymes in the cell of the human body matches well or has an affinity towards fruits more than any other food we eat. Every cell in the structure of our body, and every cell in Nature's foods carries its functions (like building, rebuilding, giving energy, removing waste material) ultimately with the use of these enzymes. These enzymes are available to the body only when foods are fresh and raw. Heating destroys all enzymes - making the food a "dead food". The human body is finely designed to stay in balance, in terms of tissue building (anabolism) and tissue breaking down (catabolism). Excess of one, over the other, is metabolic imbalance - which leads to disease. These imbalances can be corrected only when we consume wholesome high energy foods. Nothing can match the benefits of fruits. By its nature, fruits help cleanse the body (they are cleansing, not clogging). Fruits require less energy to digest than any other food - it practically demands nothing from the body. Though the constant wear and tear of cells in the body cannot be stopped, we can provide the body with biologically-designed, genetically - patterned food and that is fruits. In the long run, fruits are not just good for the body, they are ecologically sustainable too!

– Dr. Vijaya Venkat & Associates

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GOD'S PHARMACY! AMAZING! It's been said that God first separated the salt water from the fresh, made dry land, planted a garden, made animals and fish... all before making a human. He made and provided what we'd need before we were born. These are best & more powerful when eaten raw. We're such slow learners... God left us great clues as to what food helps what part of our body! God's Pharmacy! Amazing! A sliced Carrot looks like the human eye. The pupil, iris and radiating lines look just like the human eye... and YES, science now shows carrots greatly enhance blood flow to and function of the eyes. A Tomato has four chambers and is red. The heart has four chambers and is red. All of the research shows tomatoes are loaded with lycopine and are indeed pure heart and blood food. Grapes hang in a cluster that has the shape of the heart. Each grape looks like a blood cell and all of the research today shows grapes are also profound heart and blood vitalizing food. A Walnut looks like a little brain, a left and right hemisphere, upper cerebrums and lower cerebellums. Even the wrinkles or folds on the nut are just like the neocortex. We now know walnuts help develop more than three (3) dozen neuron transmitters for brain function. Kidney Beans actually heal and help maintain kidney function and yes, they look exactly like the human kidneys. Celery, Bok Choy, Rhubarb and many more look just like bones. These foods specifically target bone strength.

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Bones are 23% sodium and these foods are 23% sodium. If you don't have enough sodium in your diet, the body pulls it from the bones, thus making them weak. These foods replenish the skeletal needs of the body. Avocadoes, Eggplant and Pears target the health and function of the womb and cervix of the female - they look just like these organs. Today's research shows that when a woman eats one avocado a week, it balances hormones, sheds unwanted birth weight, and prevents cervical cancers. And how profound is this? It takes exactly nine (9) months to grow an avocado from blossom to ripened fruit. There are over 14,000 proteolytic chemical constituents of nutrition in each one of these foods (modern science has only studied and named about 141 of them). Figs are full of seeds and hang in twos when they grow. Figs increase the mobility of male sperm and increase the numbers of Sperm as well to overcome male sterility. Sweet Potatoes look like the pancreas and actually balance the glycemic index of diabetics. Olives assist the health and function of the ovaries. Oranges, Grapefruits, and other Citrus fruits look just like the mammary glands of the female and actually assist the health of the breasts and the movement of lymph in and out of the breasts. Onions look like the body's cells. Today's research shows onions help clear waste materials from all of the body cells. They even produce tears which wash the epithelial layers of the eyes. A working companion, Garlic, also helps eliminate waste materials and dangerous free radicals from the body.

Health is simply the result of healthful living.

To be vibrantly and vigorously alive, in the best possible shape, we must eat foods that are alive.

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"By the words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned." A person knowing the power of the word becomes very careful of his conversation. He has only to watch the reaction of his words to know that do "not return void." Through his spoken word man is continually making laws for himself. I knew a man who said, "I always miss a car. It invariably pulls out just as I arrive." His daughter said: "I always catch a car. It's sure to come just as I get there." This occurred for years. Each had made a separate law for himself - one of failure, one of success. This is the psychology of superstitions. The horseshoe or rabbit's foot contains no power, but man's spoken word and belief that it will bring him good luck creates expectancy in the subconscious mind, and attracts a "lucky situation." I find, however, this will not "work" when man has advanced spiritually and knows a higher law. One cannot turn back, and must put away "graven images." For example : two men in my class had great success in business for several months, when suddenly everything "went to smash." We tried to analyse the situation, and I found, instead of making their affirmations and looking to God for success and prosperity, they had each bought a "lucky monkey." I said : "Oh I see, you have been trusting in the lucky monkeys instead of God. Put away the lucky monkeys and call on the law of forgiveness" - for man has power to forgive or neutralise his mistakes. They decided to throw the lucky monkeys down a

coal-hole, and all went well again. This does not mean, however, that one should throw away every "lucky" ornament or horseshoe about the house, but he must recognise that the power back of it is the one and only power, God and that the object simply gives him a feeling of expectancy. I was with a friend one who was in deep despair. In crossing the street, she picked up a horseshoe. Immediately she was filled with joy and hope. She said God had sent her horseshoe in order to keep up her courage. It was, indeed, at that moment, about the only thing that could have registered in her consciousness. Her hope became faith, and she ultimately made a wonderful demonstration. I wish to make the point clear that the men previously mentioned were depending on the monkeys alone, while this woman recognised the power back of the horseshoe. I know, in my own case, it took a long while to get out of a belief that a certain thing brought disappointment. If the thing happened, disappointment invariably followed. I found the only way I could make a change in the subconscious was by asserting. "There are not two powers, there is only one power, God, therefore there are no disappointments, and this thing means a happy surprise." I noticed a change at once, and happy surprises commenced coming my way. I have a friend who said nothing could induce her to walk under a ladder. I said, "If you are afraid, you are giving in to a belief in two powers, good and evil, instead of one. As God is absolute, there can be no opposing power, unless man makes the false law of evil for himself.

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.

To breathe properly is to live properly.

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To show you believe in only one power, God, and that there is no power or reality in evil, walk under the next ladder you see." Soon after she went to her bank. She wished to open her box in the safety-deposit vault, and there stood a ladder on her pathway. It was impossible to reach the box with out passing under the ladder. She quailed with fear and turned back. She could not face the lion on her pathway. However, when she reached the street, my words rang in her ears and she decided to return and walk under it. It was a big moment in her life. for ladders had held her in bondage for years. She retraced her steps to the vault, and the ladder was no longer there! This so often happens! If one is willing to do a thing he is afraid to do, he does not have to. It is the law of non-resistance, which is so little understood. Someone has said that courage contains genius and magic. Face a situation fearlessly, and there is no situation to face : it falls away of its own weight. The explanation is that fear attracted the ladder on the woman's pathway, and fearlessness removed it. Thus the invisible force are ever working for man, who is always "pulling the strings" himself, though he does not know it. Owing to the vibratory power of words, whatever man voices he begins to attract. People who continually speak of disease invariably attract it. After man knows the truth, he cannot be too careful of his words. For example : I have a friend who often says on the 'phone, "Do come to see me and have a nice oldfashioned chat." This "old-fashioned chat" means an hour of about five hundred to a thousand destructive words, the principal topics being loss, lack, failure and sickness.

I reply : "No, I thank you, I've had enough old fashioned chats in my life : they are too expensive, but I will be glad to have a new-fashioned chat, and talk about what we want, not what we don't want." There is an old saying that man only dares use his words for three purposes, to "heal, bless, or prosper." What man says of others will be said of him, and what he wishes for another he is wishing for himself. "Curses, like chickens, come home to roost." If a man wishes someone "bad luck", he is sure to attract bad luck himself. If he wishes to aid some one to success, he is wishing and aiding himself to success. The body may be renewed and transformed through the spoken word and clear vision, and disease be completely wiped out of the consciousness. The metaphysician knows that all disease has a mental correspondence and in order to heal the body one mst first "heal the soul". The soul is the subconscious mind, and it must be "saved" from wrong thinking. In the twentythird psalm we read : "He restoreth my soul." This means that the subconscious mind or soul must be restored with the right ideas, and the "mystical marriage" is the marriage of the soul and the spirit, or the subconscious and super-conscious mind. They must be one. When the subconscious is flooded with the perfect ideas of the super-conscious, God and man are one. "I and the Father are one." That is, he is one with the realm of perfect ideas, he is the man made in God's likeness and image (imagination), and is given power and dominion over all created things-his mind, body and affairs. It is safe to say that all sickness and unhappiness

Think positively - you cannot afford the luxury of a negative thought.

Get in the habit of giving more than receiving.

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come from the violation of the law of love. A new commandment I give unto you, "Love one another," and, in the Game of Life, love, or goodwill, takes every trick. For example : A woman I know had for years an appearance of a terrible skin disease. The doctors told her it was incurable, and she was in despair. She was on the stage, and she feared she would soon have to give up her profession, and she no other means of support. She, however, procured a good engagement and on the opening night made a great "hit". She received flattering notices from the critics, and was joyful and elated. The next day she received a notice of dismissal. A man in the cast had been jealous of her success and had caused her to be sent away. She felt hatred and resentment taking complete possession of her, and she cried out, "Oh, God, don't let me hate that man." That night she worked for hours "in the silence." She said, "I soon came into a very deep silence. I seemed to be at peace with myself, with the man, and with the whole world. I continued this for two following nights, and on the third day I found I was healed completely of the skin disease!" In asking for love, or goodwill, she had fulfilled the law (" for love is the fulfilling of the law"), and the disease (which came from subconscious resentment) was wiped out. Continual criticism produces rheumatism, as critical, inharmonious thoughts cause unnatural deposits in the blood which settle in the joints. False growths are caused by jealousy, hatred, unforgiveness, fear, etc. Every disease is caused by a mind not at ease. I said once, in my class, "There is no use asking anyone, 'What's the matter with you?' We might

just as well say, 'Who's the matter with you?'' Unforgiveness is the most prolific cause of disease. It will harden arteries or liver, and affect the eyesight. In its train are endless ills. I called on a woman one day who said she was ill from having eaten a poisoned oyster. I replied, "Oh, no, the oyster was harmless, you poisoned the oyster. Who's the matter with you?" She answered, "Oh, about nineteen people." She had quarreled with nineteen people and had become so inharmonious that she attracted the wrong oyster. Any inharmony on the internal indicates there is mental inharmony. "As the within, so the without." Man's only enemies are within himself. "And a man's foes shall be they of his own household." Personality is one of the last enemies to be overcome as this planet is taking its initiation in love. It was Christ's message "Peace on earth, goodwill towards man." The enlightened man, therefore, endeavours to perfect himself upon his neighbour. His work is with himself, to send out goodwill and blessings to every man, and the marvelous thing is, that if one blesses a man he has no power to harm him. For example : A man came to me asking to treat for success in business. He was selling machinery, and a rival appeared on the scene with what he proclaimed was a better machine, and my friend feared defeat. I said, "First of all, we must wipe out all fear, and know that God protects your interests , and that the divine idea must come out of the situation. That is, the right machine will be sold by the right man, to the right man." And I added, "Don't hold one critical thought towards that man.

Learn to live in the present. The past is water under the bridge of life.

In work, love and life, play hard and play fair.

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Bless him all day and be willing not to sell your machine, if it isn't the divine idea." So he went to the meeting, fearless and non-resistant, and blessing the other man. He said the outcome was very remarkable. The other man's machine refused to work, and he sold his without the slightest difficulty. "But I say unto you, love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you." Goodwill produces a great aura of protection about the one who sends it, and "No weapon that is formed against him shall prosper." In other words, love and goodwill destroy the enemies within one's self, therefore one has no enemies on the external! "There is peace on earth for him who sends goodwill to man!" – Florence Scovel Shinn

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POINTS TO PONDER OVER : Give tranquilizers to the worries, and add one more worry to his list of worries - that of liver inflammation, give anticoagulants to the heart patients, and cause bleeding from the bowels or kidneys, give cortisone for arthritis, and induce gastric ulcer, give antibiotics for streps and staphs, and breed highly resistant strains of bacteria, causing super-infections, which in U.S.A. alone kill over a 100,000 hospitalized patients annually. WE ARE CREATING A HAVOC AND CHAOS, WITHIN OUR PHYSIQUE, BY USE OF ANTI-INFLAMMATORY, ANTIBIOTIC, AND OTHER ANTI-HEALTH DRUGS, WHERE OTHER NATURAL METHODS CAN CURE BY RESTORING HARMONY WITHIN. THE HARM IS NOT ONLY PHYSIOLOGICAL, IT IS PSYCHOLOGICAL AS WELL! These drugs breed escapists.

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Remember that the subconscious mind has determined the success and wonderful achievements of all great scientific workers. By giving your conscious attention and devotion to the solution of a perplexing problem, your subconscious mind gathers all the necessary information and presents it full-blown to the conscious mind. If you are wondering about the answer to a problem, try to solve it objectively. Get all the information you can from research and also from others. If no answer comes, turn it over to your subconscious mind prior to sleep, and the answer always comes. It never fails. You do not always get the answer overnight. Keep on turning your request over to your subconscious until the day breaks and the shadows flee away. You delay the answer by thinking it will take a long time or that it is a major problem. Your subconscious has no problem, it knows only the answer. Believe that you have the answer now. Feel the joy of the answer and the way you would feel if you had the perfect answer. Your subconscious will respond to your feeling. Any mental picture, backed by faith and perseverance, will come to pass through the miracleworking power of your subconscious. Trust it, believe in its power, and wonders will happen as you pray. Your subconscious is the storehouse of memory,

– Dr. M. M. Bhamgara I look forward to the time when the people will give up the extra ordinary habit of taking medicine when they are sick. – Dr. Fedrick Traves 20

Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot, if you can heal the patient with food. – Hippocrates 21

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and within your subconscious are recorded all your experiences since childhood. 9. Scientists meditating on ancient scrolls, temples, fossils, and other evidence are able to reconstruct scenes of the past and make them alive today. Their subconscious mind comes to their aid. 10. Turn over your request for a solution to your subconscious prior to sleep. Trust it and believe in it, and the answer will come. It knows all and sees all, but you must not doubt or question its powers. 11. The action is your thought, and the reaction is the response of your subconscious mind. If your thoughts are wise, your actions and decisions will be wise. 12. Guidance comes as a feeling an inner awareness, an overpowering hunch whereby you know that you know. It is an inner sense of touch. Follow it with the simplicity of faith.

THUS SPOKE MAHATMA In Bengal almost every house has a kachcha tank attached to it. As a rule the water of these is unfit for drinking purposes. River water is also frequently not fit for drinking, particularly where the river is used for navigation or where it passes by a big city and receives its drainage and sewage water. In spite of what I have said, I know there are millions of people who have to drink what I have described as impure water. But that does not mean that their example is worthy of being copied. Nature has provided us with sufficient reserve of vitality. But for that, man would have long ago disappeared from the face of the earth because of his own mistakes and transgression of the rules of health.

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THE FUTURE IS CALLING YOU India is not just the land, mountains and rivers. India is you and me, all the million of young and old who are her citizens. The thoughts and actions of the people who have inhabited India for thousands of years have moulded our society. Out of the past grows the present and what we do today will shape our future. When we build a road or plant a tree or inculcate good habits, it is not for ourselves alone but also for those who will be born in the years to come. The work of building is not easy. We must give it all we have and strain every nerve and muscle. It is only by trying that we learn and by doing that we gather strength. All the world over, progress has been possible because of the hard work and sacrifice of pioneers. These years have laid the foundations of the new modern India. The children of today must continue this work and make our country united and strong. Anything which is easy soon becomes dull. The very hardships we face provide challenge and excitement. The future is calling you. Don't be disheartened by difficulties. You can change the bad, not only by doing big things but by trying your best to do even ordinary things extraordinarily well.

– Indira Gandhi

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Humility is linked to lower heart disease risk and better relationship.

Be truthful, patient, persevering, modest and generous.

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RED ALERT PHENYLPROPANOLAMINE : STROKE RISK Due to its potential to cause stroke phenyl-propanolamine (PPA) used in cold and cough remedies has been banned and/or discarded in all north American (including United States) and west European countries (including Britain). A study at Yale University School of Medicine found that PPA posed unacceptable risk , particularly since safer alternatives (such as pseudoephedrine and phhenylephrine) were available. Apart from the increased risk of stroke, PPA can aggravate diabetes, gluccomas and prostate emlargement. In India, PPA-containing cough and cold remedies (such as D'cold, Vicks Action 500, Wincold) are freely being advertised in the press and TV without any warning. Other products such as Solvin, Tuspress and Zeet also contain PPA. AVOID PIROXICAM DUE TO SERIOUS SIDE EFFECTS The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has warned that piroxicam carries unaccept able risk of gastro-intestinal side effects and serious skin reactions. Therefore it should no longer be used for acute painful and inflammatory disorders. Even in osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis and ankylosig, spondylitis, piroxicam shoul not be the first line therapy. If at all its use becomes absolutely necessary, then a gastro-protective agent like misoprostol or a proton pump. inibitor should be coprescribed and the dose must not exceed 20mg. per. day, that to for as short a timeas possible. WHO has so far received 6,692 reports of adverse effects on the Gl system including 1,167 cases of gut bleeding, 1,003 cases of melaena, 522 cases of gastric ulcers and 413 cases of gastric ulcer haemorrhage.

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CHONDROITIN : NO BENEFIT IN OSTEOARTHRITIS PAIN Chondroitin does not reduce joint pain in people with osteoarthritis and its use should be discouraged, concludes a study in the Annals of Internal Medicine. In their meta-analysis of 20 trials comparing chondroitin with either placebo or no treatment, the authors found that "large-scale, methodologically sound trials indicate that the symptomatic benefit is minimal to nonexistent." Therefore, the use of this agent should be discouraged, particularly in advanced cases. Chondroitin, which is usually taken with glucosamine - itself was found ineffective in a trial published last year. GLUCOSAMINE : NO RELIEF IN OA, INCREASES LIPIDS Glucosamina does not give relief in pain due to osteoarthritis, as per a clinical trial reported in the American Journal of Medicine. Patients on glucosamine did no better on several parameters : pain, stiffness, function, overall satisfaction and pain-killers use. The Danish and Swedish drug regulators have alerted all doctors about Glucosamine's potential risk of developing • high cholesterol levels • vision disorders • peripheral oedema • pulmonary embolism • seizures • myocardial infarction • increased liver enzymes •increased serum creatinine levels • joints pain • asthma • diabetes • colitis. METOCLOPRAMIDE : NOT FOR UNDER 18S, PREGNANCY The use of metoclopramide is not permitted for nausea and vomiting in patients below the age of 18 years worldwide due to its adverse effects. In the absence of adequate and well controlled studies, it should not be used in the first trimester of pregnancy. Pioglitazone : Risk of Congestive Heart Failure The innovator of pioglitazone, Takeda Pharmaceuticals, has issued additional guidelines and warnings on the use

The mind affects the body through psychoneuroimmunology.

Placebo effects induce healing.

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of the drug in Type II diabetes. Briefly it states that : • Pioglitazone is not for all type 2 diabetics. • It can cause fluid retention that can precipitate or worsen congestive heart failure (CHF). There is 39 per cent increase in the risk of CHF in patients taking pioglitazone compared to those who are not on this medicine. It is not to be used in moderate to severe heart failure. • LFTs must be done before starting pioglitazone and periodically thereafter. Patients must consult their doctors if there is rapid weight gain, shortness of breath, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, tiredness, loss of appetite, dark urine or yellowing of skin. ROSIGLITAZONE: INCREASED RISK OF HEART ATTACKS It has now known that rosiglitazone, as compared to other agents, is associated with significant increase in the risk of myocardial infarction and risk of death from cardiovascular causes. The conclusions are based on meta-analysis of 42 randomized, comparator trials involving 27,843 patients. The mechanism for the increased risk may be due to adverse effect of rosiglitazone on lipids, particularly increase in low density lipoprotein (LDL) by 18.6 per cent. Other factors could be the drug's propensity to precipitate congestive cardiac failure and reduction in haemoglobin levels that rosiglitazone should not be used in any of these situations : in patients taking insulin, in combination with metformin and a sulphonylurea drug, or in patients diagnosed with any degree of heart failure, either past or current, even that which is very mild.

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Health -Old English meaning the state of being sound, whole in body, mind and soul, especially being free from physical disease or pain.

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Diet has the distinction of being the only major determinant of health that is completely under your control. You have the final say over what does and does not go into your mouth and stomach. You cannot always control the other determinants of health, such as quality of the air you breathe, the noise you are subjected to, or the emotional climate of your surroundings, But you can control what you eat. It is a shame to squander such a good opportunity to influence your health. – Adrew Weil, M.D. Natural Health, Natural Medicine "....All things are connected. This we know. The earth does not belong to man, Man belongs to the earth. This we know. All things are connected like the blood which unites one family. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself." – Chief Seattles' Testimony, an 1854 oration, cited in 'A Diet for a New America' by John Robins

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