Yoga For Healthy Weight Loss:

 Improve Energy, Metabolism And Lose Weight

History Of Five Tibetan Rites

The five Tibetan rites is a unique set of exercises that was discovered in the early 1900's by a British army colonel, Colonel Bradford . He lived in Himalayan monastery and had learned it from Tibetan monks.

Today they are practiced around the world and are claimed to preserve youth, balance hormones and keep your body fit and healthy.

In 1939, Peter Kelder published "The Original Five Tibetan Rites of Rejuvenation," with detailed instructions on how to perform the exercises. Mr. Kelder has since updated the book to "The Eye of Revelation - The Original Five Rites of Rejuvenation."

Note: This set of exercises will be a great addition to your healthy diet. If you combine it with my healthy eating tips you will start loosing weight at a stable rate.

Benefits Of Five Tibetan Rites

The most important feature of Five Tibetan Rites is that they help you maintain your hormones in balance. This in turn ensures that you have proper metabolic exchange and healthy body weight.

In addition, medical research has uncovered convincing evidence that the aging process is hormone-regulated. The five ancient Tibetan rites are said to normalize hormonal imbalances in the body, thereby holding the key to lasting youth, health, and vitality.

The rites stimulate the energy system in the body, wake up the endocrine glands, and get energy moving from your core outward to your extremities.

The theory behind the rites is that your energy is stored and lies at the base of your glands and that these rites access that energy in a very efficient, fast, and user-friendly way.

The Five Tibetans create complete energy distribution to all organs, nerves and glands. For thousands of years, medical practitioners believed that the body has seven essential energy centers which correspond to the seven endocrine glands, that are in charge of producing hormones.

In Hinduism endocrine glands also called chakras.

Energy, Hormones and Seven Chakras

The first chakra is Muladhara chakra and it is responsible for adrenal gland. It is located at the base of the spine, beneath the sacrum.

The second chakra is Swadhisthana chakra. It is located at the tailbone slightly above the Muladhara chakra and it represents ovaries in females or testes in males.

The third chakra is Manipura chakra and it is located at a navel region. It represents pancreas.

The forth is Anahata chakra or thymus. It is positioned at the heart region.

The fifth chakra is Vishuddha chakra or thyroid. It is positioned at the neck region.

The sixth chakra is Ajna chakra; it is located at the eyebrow region and represents pituitary gland or hypophysis.

The seventh chakra is Sahasrara chakra; it is located at the top of the head or even a little above it and represents pineal gland or epiphysis.

How To Perform The Five Tibetan Rites

The Five Tibetan rites are comprised of five different exercises. Many practitioners add the sixth exercise that is aimed at bringing your sexual energy to harmony with the rest of your body.

Each Tibetan rite is focused at distributing energy to a certain endocrine gland. However, you will fully stimulate each gland only if you perform rites in combination with each other.

Each exercise may be performed up to 21 times. It is not necessary to repeat it more than 21 times because this is enough to reach a perfect energy flow through the body.

You may start with as little as 3 repetitions of each exercise and gradually increase the repetition. You will begin feeling energized even before you reach 21 repetitions. The entire routine can be completed in 5-10 minutes.

How To Breath During The Exercises

An important part of the Tibetan exercises is a conscious synchronization of breathing while performing physical activity. Before beginning the exercises, learn the basic breathing technique:

•   Inhale deep through your nose. Put your hand on your belly to feel your body filling with oxygen.

•   Hold filled lungs for a few moments.

•   Exhale long. Ideally your exhale should be twice as long. Keep your hand on your belly to feel how it descents

•   Hold empty lungs.

When you inhale try filling the lower part of your lungs with oxygen first and do same when you exhale. If you do it right your breathing will feel like a wave.

Try breathing through your nose, but if it is too hard start from inhaling through your nose and exhaling through the mouth.

Precautions

No exercise should be so intense that it makes you feel exhausted. For example, if you are "loosing your breath", it indicates that your body is in an anaerobic (low oxygen) condition and that you should slow down.

When performing the rites, the main emphasis should be on breath synchronization with exercising and proficiency, rather than on speed and number of repetitions.

Some rites will seem easier than the others and you will be able to do them much faster.

Some call these rites isometric exercises. Although they are helpful in stretching muscles and joints and improving muscle tone, this is not their primary purpose.

Poor endocrine glands performance causes your body either to deteriorate, or it makes you feel anxious and exhausted. Hormonal imbalances produce abnormal health, deterioration, and old age.

The rites normalize endocrine glands functioning by keeping them working in harmony with each other and the rest of your body organs.
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People often try to reduce weight through yoga but give up eventually when they realize that the process of reducing weight through Yoga is very slow. However, yoga and pranayama can be modified with several levels, just like jogging, strength training and intense running or weight training. Together, they can facilitate a faster weight loss.

INSTRUCTIONS:

1)      Start with pranayama. Download the Divya Yog pranayama by Swami Ramdev or any other yoga and pranayama video. Learn how to proceed with the pranayama. Just have a trial and get accustomed to the video.

2)      Adopt a good diet plan which preferably has vegetables and fruits only.

3)             Learn the pranayamas so that you can do them as needed without referencing the video. There are 7 basic pranayamas or breathing exercises you must do before you start your yoga. According to their suitability for you, you can skip two or three. But do not skip the Bhastrika pranayama, Kapalbhati pranayama, and the Alom Vilom pranayama. These three are the keys to reducing weight. Practicing these three breathing exercises for 1 hour each day will result in the loss of as much as 25 pounds in a month.

4)             Practice the Kapalbhati pranayama for 10 minutes properly. Then move on to Bhastrika pranayama and repeat the exercise 12 or 15 times. Finally, practice the Alom Vilom pranayama whenever you want. You can do it when you are sitting idle or before going to sleep. Alom Vilom pranayama is also an excellent energizer. If you are stressed and have lot of work ahead then you can do Alom Vilom pranayama for 10 minutes and you will be back in form, as if you have just woken up fresh from 12 hours of sleep.

5)             After the breathing exercises select 5 basic yoga postures which you like. The yoga postures should be selected in such a way that you should be able to do it with a little effort and practice. Don't select yoga postures that are too tough.

6)      Check your progress weekly. You will be surprised to see how much progress you are making.


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Fish and papaya soup to boost milk supply

Written for BabyCenter Singapore
Approved by the BabyCenter Medical Advisory Board 

What is fish and papaya soup?
If you think you have low milk supply, your doctor or lactation consultant will advise you to increase the number of feeds and allow your baby to breastfeed as long as she needs. On the other hand, in the Chinese community, your confinement nanny, mother or mother-in-law will probably be at the stove, brewing you a pot of traditional fish and papaya soup. This recipe has long been believed to help a new mother in increasing her breastmilk supply.

The soup is largely popular among the Chinese community, and soups are a big feature during the confinement. The most basic version of this soup calls for very simple ingredients: fish, young or green papaya, ginger, water and salt. These ingredients are boiled together until the water turns a 'milky' colour.

Does it really work?
Most breastfeeding mums worry about low milk supply in the early days and weeks, hence the fish and papaya soup is a firm feature in a confinement diet. While there is no scientific proof to support this claim, it is believed that this nutritious soup helps boost milk supply.

Fish is a good source of protein, and papayas are packed with minerals and vitamins A, C and E. These two main ingredients combined provide a healthy and nutritious meal for anyone, even more so for a breastfeeding mum.

Lactation consultant, Doris Fok says the effectiveness of the fish and papaya soup is hear-say and has never been verified by evidence based research.

"There is no strong objection to a mother having the soup as part of a diet for a breastfeeding mum. It is rich in proteins and vitamins A and C, as well as beta carotene. However, I would suggest that the mother consumes a well-balanced diet, with everything in moderation and having a lot of variety in each food group. Keeping a healthy lifestyle helps too.

If you are concerned about your milk supply, speak to your doctor or a lactation consultant. Also, look out for signs that your baby is getting enough milk to help ease your worries.

Recipe for fish and papaya soup
Gillian Koh-Tan shares her experience:
"I didn't follow traditional confinement practices strictly, but my mother-in-law came over every day with a fresh batch of fish papaya soup which she said would help boost my breastmilk supply. The soup was tasty and nutritious, and I loved having a bowl of it with each meal. I don't know if it was the soup but I certainly never had supply problems and I was able to breastfeed my baby exclusively for six months."

Gillian's mother-in-law, Mrs Tan Li Cheng shares her recipe with us.

Ingredients
• 500 grams of fish bones (preferable to use threadfin - kurau - fish bones)
• 500 grams of green papaya (the flesh of the fruit is white)
• Three litres of water
• Four slices of ginger (this will help cut down any fishy taste or smell)
• Six pips (cloves) of garlic
• Three stalks of spring onion
• Salt to taste

Directions
• Boil the water, then add in the ginger, garlic and spring onion.
• Cut the papaya into small slices. Discard seeds.
• Pour boiling water over the green papaya to remove sap, then drain.
• Combine the fish bones into the boiling pot, followed by the green papaya.
• Turn down the fire, leave to boil for about half an hour to reduce. This should yield about three rice bowls of soup.

Is Spiritual Healing A Valid And Effective Therapy? Discussion Paper R D Hodges, PhD; A M Schofield, PhD Department of Biological Sciences, Wye College (University of London), Wye, Ashford, Kent, TN25 5AH, UK.

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Volume 88, April 1995

Correspondence to Dr R D Hodges J R Soc Med 1995; 88, 203-207

Keywords: spiritual healing; healing mechanism; healing research; strategies

SUMMARY This paper briefly reviews the evidence supporting the reality of healing as a scientifically-attested phenomenon, the techniques and mechanisms of healing and the potential value of this therapy if it were integrated into the medical services.  The need for further extensive research is indicated and strategies for such research are suggested.

INTRODUCTION

Medical science had made tremendous advances in health care but in doing so has raised both the cost and patients’ expectations of medical treatments.  The costs of the National Health Service now form a significant part of GDP and seem set to continue rising.  Thus it may become necessary to ration health care in the future1,2.  A new approach to solving this problem would be to develop low-cost, effective therapies which would allow a more efficient use of available funding whilst helping to maintain the level and quality of health care. 

Healing, of the type known as spiritual, mental, faith or paranormal healing, is potentially such a therapy.  However, available evidence, although demonstrating that healers can improve the health of patients by mechanisms other than those suggested by the British Medical Association in its original, 1986, report on alternative medicine3, i.e. psychological effects resulting from healers spending longer with the patient than conventional doctors, is at present not enough to overcome resistance against the development and incorporation of healing as a recognised therapy.  In spite of such resistance, however, there have recently been significant changes in official attitudes towards healers and other complementary practitioners.  Thus the General Medical Council has amended its ethical rule book to allow doctors to delegate patient care to such practitioners, and the Department of Health has changed its administrative rules to allow general practitioners (GPs) to employ these practitioners in their practices4,5.

Healing consists of a simple, direct relationship between healer and patient through which an improvement in the patient’s condition may occur.  The mechanisms underlying healing acts are usually explained on the basis of the transmission of ‘healing energy’, although as yet there is little understanding of what sort of energy may be involved.  However, both healers and patients are frequently aware of the flow of what is best described as energy and thus healing can be simply defined as:

The direct interaction between one individual and a second, sick individual with the intention of bringing about an improvement or cure of the illness.  Any healing effect results from the channelling of an, as yet unrecognised, energy through the healer to the patient.

The purpose of this discussion paper is to examine the evidence in favour of healing, to consider its potential value for patient care and to suggest the steps necessary for its acceptance as a scientifically-valid therapy complementary to medicine.

THE REALITY OF HEALING

The evidence in favour of healing as a phenomenon with an objective reality which can be measured and investigated is twofold:

The Historical Record

There is an extensive historical record concerning healing which provides substantial evidence in favour of its reality.  For example, in western, Christian culture there is a considerable literature of healing6-9.  However, although all ages have produced accounts of successful healings, this evidence must be viewed with care because:

(a)                Almost all such records are anecdotal evidence and cannot be assumed to be proven

scientifically.  Similarly, the quality of historical accounts varies greatly.

(b)               Historically attitudes to disease and healing differed greatly at different times and thus

care must be taken in interpreting the older records particularly.  Nevertheless, studies such as that by Gardner9 may suggest close parallels between some modern and older healings.

Table 1  A summary of some of the more significant research results showing a positive healing effect, as reviewed by Benor19.

Subject of healing Researcher(s) Summary of results Significance Effects on enzymes

Human platelet monoamine oxidase

Effects on micro-organisms

Inhibition of fungal cultures

Carbon dioxide production in yeast cultures

Effects on cells in-vitro

Red blood cell haemolysis

Red blood cell haemolysis

Effects on plants

Barley seeds

Effects on animals

Skin wounds in mice

Retardation of goitre in mice

Effects on humans

Increase in blood haemoglobin levels

Anxiety state in cardiac patients

Rain, 1986*

Barry, 1968

Grad, 1965

Braud et al, 1979

Braud, 1988

Grad, 1965

Grad, 1965

Grad, 1965

Krieger, 1975

Heidt, 1979

Increased enzyme levels

Decrease in fungal growth

Change in CO2 production

Reduction in haemolysis

Reduction in haemolysis

Reduced effect of saline damage

Increased rate of wound healing

Slower thyroid growth

Increase in Hb post-treatment

Reduced levels of anxiety

P<0.001

P<0.001

P<0.0005

P<0.001

P<0.00002

P<0.001

P<0.001

P<0.001

P<0.01-0.001   

P<0.01-0.001

*References quoted in Benor (Ref 19)

However, the extensive amount of anecdotal evidence available, particularly from this century, is such that it cannot be ignored.  Although single accounts can be rejected as unreliable, taken together the whole body of evidence indicates that there is a phenomenon worth investigating further.  In this context, MacEoin10 has argued the case in favour of good anecdotal evidence.

The Scientific Evidence

The literature concerning experimental investigations into healing and related phenomena has been widely reviewed11-18.  However, although many laboratory experiments have been performed on animals, plants and micro-organisms, many have been concerned with demonstrating psychokinetic (PK) effects rather than the recovery of sick organisms; seeking for example, to influence growth or behaviour rather than to heal.

A recent review by Benor19 has concentrated specifically on healing research.  In assessing work performed since 1952, Benor concluded that, of 136 controlled experiments, 56 significantly demonstrated a positive effect of healing.  A variety of models or conditions have been used with significant results and a range of these are summarised in Table 1.  Most recently, Benor20 has produced a detailed review and assessment of all published healing research.

Our own research21,22 has concentrated upon demonstrating the ability of a gifted healer, known personally to us21. The model used in these experiments was that of  salt-stressed cress seeds, thus providing a ‘diseased’ organism which could react positively to healing. The results of the experiments, which were repeated six times, showed that the healer was capable of stimulating seed recovery and growth at a very high level of statistical significance in five of the six experiments and to a lesser degree in the other, and were thus a specific demonstration of a healing effect (see Figure 1).

Clearly, a body of sound research has now been accumulated which for many supports the reality of healing beyond reasonable doubt20, 23-26 and provides evidence that healing can occur when psychological factors, which may manifest as the placebo response, have been eliminated or allowed for in the analysis.  When combined with the mass of anecdotal evidence already described, it may be concluded that the reality of healing has been demonstrated.  However, because many scientists and doctors still regard this as unproven, there is a need for further detailed research to place healing on a more substantial footing in the mainstream of science and medicine.

Nevertheless, there is increasing public interest in healing with many people seeking help from healers and other complementary therapists27.  In the main healing organisations alone there are more than 8,000 registered healers who are involved in treating patients both within and outside the National Health Service (NHS).  In parallel, a growing interest is developing among many doctors, particularly GPs.  Healing is increasingly being seen as a technique which can provide benefits to patients with a wide range of ailments; but relatively inexpensively and without the side-effects which may arise from treatments provided by modern medicine.  Thus, the development of healing as a scientifically-based therapy and its wider availability could be of benefit to both medicine and the individuals it seeks to help.

Figure 1

Germination and growth patterns of cress seeds in relation to treatment by a healer.  All seeds were soaked overnight in either salt-solution (salt-stressed) or in distilled water (normal, unstressed).  After treatment, all seeds were placed in a controlled environmental chamber and assessed daily using a pre-determined scale of germination and growth.  The upper line in the graph (D) shows the normal pattern of growth in unstressed seeds.  The lowest pair of lines (control, r; untreated, A) show that there are no significant differences between seeds which were stressed but not handled by the healer and those which were stressed and held but not healed by him.  The centre line (treated, c) represents the growth of seeds which were stressed and then healed.  The vertical bars represent standard deviations and the separation between the healed and the unhealed lines represents a very high degree of significance between healed and unhealed groups of seeds, with P varying between 6.7 x 10–6 and 3.3 x 10-9.  (From Hodges, Scofield, J Act Compl Med 1991; 9 (9):11-12, with permission).

THE TECHNIQUES OF HEALING

Some of the better known techniques of healing are:

1        Faith healing: This occurs in a religious context, usually during a church service or in the form of prayer groups for healing 28.

2        Spiritual healing: In Britain this is the most commonly-used name for healing using the

      laying-on-of-hands, the technique most widely used.  This method does not require faith

      from the patient.  Healing is administered by placing the hands on, or close to the

      patient’s body.  A variation of this technique is distant healing, where the healer directs

      healing intentions to the patient situated elsewhere.  There is evidence both in favour of

      29-31, and against32, a positive effect of distant healing.  Research suggests that distant

      healing is not based  on electromagnetic energies33.

3        Therapeutic touch: This is very similar to spiritual healing except that the healer works

      just above the surface of the body34, 35.  It is one of the few healing techniques which has

      made any significant headway within the health professions, particularly in the USA.  It

      has been tested in a limited number of research trials with some significantly positive

      results19, 20, 35, 36.

4        Reiki healing: Reiki is a system of healing which was developed in Japan37.  It uses both

laying-on-of-hands and distant healing techniques.  Little testing has been done on Reiki healing but one test has shown significant changes in some blood parameters37.

THE MECHANISM OF HEALING

Almost without exception healers describe the transmission and balancing of energies as being the basis of their work with patients and consider that their effectiveness is based on more than psychological factors or the placebo response.  Although, at present, there are only very tenuous theoretical foundations underlying healing, the idea of energy transfer is a concept central to its practice and the theory proposing a subtle, universal form of energy which is activated during the process of healing is a regularly recurring theme throughout the literature of this subject 25, 35, 38-40.  Observation and practice strongly suggest that the energies associated with healing may be outside the known electro-magnetic spectrum and thus at present unrecognised by science.

The following hypothesis is suggested to explain the mechanisms of healing:

That there is some form of energy, or spectrum of energies, of a nature which is at present undetected by normal scientific methods, and that this energy is fundamental to the well-being of life.  Illness and disease either cause, or are the result of imbalances or blockages in the normal flow of this energy in the affected organism.  The purpose of the healer is to channel the energy from what is usually termed a “higher” source into the patient where, firstly, it increases the energy levels and flows, and re-establishes a balance; secondly, it activates the natural healing force (the vis medicatrix naturae) within patients, helping them to heal themselves and to return towards a state of normality.  In many patients healing treatment brings help and improvement in the condition, occasionally it may bring the rapid or instantaneous cure of serious conditions.

This hypothesis is supported both by the practical experience of many healers and also by the scientific research described above.  However, whether one accepts the above account as a working hypothesis, or whether one seeks a more conventional explanation, there is a great need for further research into both the mechanisms and effects of healing because it has considerable potential value in the treatment of illness, disease and injury.

THE VALUE OF HEALING

No system of treating the sick can guarantee a cure and healing is no exception to this.  Nevertheless, after treatment by a healer, patients normally receive benefit on one or more of three levels – body, mind and spirit – and also in their general quality of life41.

The important aspects of the value of healing can be summarised as follows:

1     As indicated above, there is clear evidence that it can be effective.

2     It is simple and straightforward, requiring the minimum of support costs.

3     It is non-evasive and thus relatively risk-free.  Furthermore, it can be used in support of

both medical and surgical procedures with considerable effect.

4     There are no apparent side effects nor contra-indications.

5     Healing has considerable economic value.  Healers can and do treat their patients at home, in surgeries and in hospital; treatment may also take place at a distance.  There are 49 National Federation of Spiritual Healers Centres around the country where regular sessions are held41.  The simplicity of the technique and the facilities required means that costs are relatively small.  If healing were developed and integrated into medical practice, considerable economic benefits would accrue from: (i) the relative cheapness of healing as a replacement therapy where suitable; (ii) the potential reduction in time needed in hospital when healing supplements conventional treatments; and (iii) the likely reduction is the overall drug bill resulting from the use of healing.  There is evidence to support this last point41.

STRATEGIES FOR RESEARCH

The lack of general acceptance of the reality of healing is not obviously due to a lack of evidence, although we accept that not all published work has been conducted to the highest standard42, more likely is the failure of people to examine the available evidence.  It is, therefore, crucial that further good quality trials be conducted if only for the purpose of building a body of evidence which, despite the problems associated with placebo effects and difficulties with organising blind trials, may raise the awareness of the medical profession to the phenomenon.  Clinical trials are being undertaken in Britain under the auspices of the Confederation of Healing Organisations (CHO) on the healing treatment of arthritis, leg ulcers, parasitic infection of horses and paraplegia in cats4, 43.

The demonstration of a transferable energy is crucial to both a proper acceptance of healing and as a step towards understanding its fundamental nature.  Truly blind trials using non-sensate targets where psychological factors are removed are possible in this area.  Our own work on seeds is an example of a range of options that already include the use of more mature plants, cells in culture and even enzymes in vitro.  Models where the disease or stress can be carefully induced provide an opportunity to control potential confounding factors.

Laboratory studies should eventually be extended to determining characteristics of the healing energy; for example, one worker has already claimed that healing can effect the surface tension of water44.  An understanding of how healing can be blocked or potentiated using laboratory tests may provide information on how healing can be made more effective.

Such studies could fruitfully be combined with a survey of successful healers in an attempt to identify those factors that make them effective.

CONCLUSIONS

Healing is at present still largely viewed with scepticism by medical science, in spite of evidence which points strongly towards the need for an objective investigation and assessment of the phenomenon.  The main difficulty in bringing about what, if developed and integrated into medical practice, could be a major advance in health care and potentially a significant factor in controlling medical costs, is that the concepts and mechanisms underlying healing appear to be radically different from those underpinning modern medicine.

However, healing is clearly becoming more widely recognised as: (1) more than 8,000 healers in Britain in the main healing organisations are affiliated to the CHO; (2) the CHO have developed a Code of Conduct acceptable to the General Medical Council, together with disciplinary procedures and agreed criteria for membership and training; (3) a Register of Healers has been published and the Department of Health has recently clarified Government policy regarding the employment of healers within the NHS4, 43.  It therefore seems essential that a more widely-acceptable scientific case for healing be developed: that healing as a therapy be scientifically validated by a properly constructed programme of research.

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