Spiritual Health

Positively, you were benefitted from the earlier articles on yoga and computer stress. This piece is all about how can computers make you really worry and stressful with the stiff neck and shoulders that are distressing. The neck pain generates a need an improvement on your working condition, sitting arrangement and primarily your bad posture.

Sitting continuously with an uncomfortable and incorrect posture in front of a computer can cause pain in the neck. You gape for hours at your computer screen with little space to move and time to be flexible. This causes neck pain. This may cost you your job or money.

To solve this health issue of computer stress, yoga has a remedy that shall cure your troubles of neck pain, stiff neck and posture. The following yoga may benefit you:

1. Yoga for a tight shoulder

1. Nothing simple like this. Be seated straight on a mat on the floor.
2. Relax by taking 2-3 deep breathes
3. Now place your each palms on your respective thigh.
4. Now squeeze your both the shoulder blades backwards, together.
5. Repeat it 4-5 times as necessary.
6. Relax.

This yoga shall help you release the tight shoulder leaving you with smile on your face for comfort.

2. Yoga for a stiff neck

Stretching can help you cure your stiff neck. Follow these simple steps of yoga and forget the worries of neck pain. While turning your head sideways,

1. Stretch your neck forward slowly and delicately.
2. Now push it backwards again.

Caution: Do not over do these exercises. Do it with proper care and tenderly.

3. Yoga for a tight shoulder

While you tried for the first yoga for tight shoulders, you may also resort to the steps of exercise for cure a tight shoulder due to computer stress and relax.

1. Stand with 3-4 feet apart from each other.
2. Clutch your both your palms together behind you below your butts
3. Inhale
4. Lift your chest and together squeeze the clasped palms and count to 10
5. Exhale

Tip:  Perform this yoga in much relaxed state of mind as this helps you open up your shoulders and chest muscles. Practice daily before bed time.

Hookah is one of the fastest growing trends in today’s age band. The thick smoke clouds and its variety of flavors appeals to one and all. However, it’s not entirely a new discovery. Rather, it is an age old tradition followed by people across the world. Thus, in order to keep up with the hookah tradition and also the craze amongst youngsters, a large number of licensed shisha cafes can be found today in nearly every city and town. These hookah cafes are the ideal hangout places for all people who love smoking hookahs. Moreover, to give you the ideal feel for enjoying hookah, its Herbal hookah flavors and smoke, the hookah cafes are designed especially in a traditional décor. They are cushioned well and give you extreme comfort to sit for long hours, thus allowing you to enjoy the thick smoke and the flavors with your friends.

The traditional hookahs were designed to smoke tobacco, however with the increasing health concerns and the numbers of patients being diagnosed with cancer, large number of people today prefer smoking the Herbal hookah flavors. These herbal molasses are 100% herbal, containing no tobacco, no nicotine and no tar. They are infused with natural flavors that are pure and taste excellent, giving you the best smoking experience. The herbal flavors do not give you a buzz or kick and hence, can be smoked for a longer time as compared to the tobacco molasses.

Herbal hookah molasses are the best alternatives to the tobacco flavors as they are not hazardous to our health. Apart from the health benefits of these herbal flavors, the hookah bar owners you are also free from all possible tax liabilities that otherwise are a major concern for tobacco based hookah bars. When purchasing a hookah, it is advisable to smoke the shisha pipes with these Herbal hookah flavors in your favorite hookah café before you decide to purchase your own personal shisha systems and hookah flavors. This helps you select the best flavors and enjoy the smoke in a healthy way.

The online market offers you a huge variety of Herbal hookah flavors such as Peach, Raspberry, Apple, Sweet Melon, Blackberry, Vanilla, Rose, Mint, Spearmint, and many more other flavors. With the increasing use of these herbal molasses, the market is swarmed with new brands that offer you these herbal flavors. Thus, in order to offer you the ultimate quality of herbal molasses, most online stores are always stocked with a variety of best known herbal brands. These herbal molasses brands are 100% pure and produced from premium organic herbs and a variety of flavors. They contain no traces of nicotine and tar, thus allowing you to enjoy the hookah smoke for a longer time. These brands promise to offer you with the best Herbal hookah flavors that allow you to enjoy the hookah smoke and flavors personally with your friends and not just talk about them or search them on the web. So, check out the wide range of Herbal hookah products for an ecstatic hookah experience.
You can buy hookah online at good price. Also finding hookah accessories is not difficult any more!

Now glow your skin with smooching, Doctor Fish.

It could be fun for many, sitting along the group of friends or like-minded souls in a spa there to get the foot nibbling by the kangal fish just to have a glowing skin, fish spa pedicures and manicures could be just right for you.

With growing popularity, fish spas are today synonymous with style statement and an alternative healing approach. Doctor fish as it is commonly known the world over; it is two kinds of species of fish – Cyprinion Macrostomus and Garra Rufa. The comb shaped fish, Garra Rufa (originally and mainly found in Turkey) also known as Reddish Log sucker or Kangal, are mainly used in treating the psoriasis or eczema leaving the healthy skin, grow and glow.

It all started with cleaning of the people who bathe in the spas in Japan and Croatia. The last decade saw the inception of the fish spa with the spa owners poured in thousands of kangal or doctor fish in the pool turning it into a big fish pond. The wide spread popularity make this method of skin treatment crossed the continental borders with leaps and bounds.

Benefits: The fish spa got popular mainly with the sufferers of psoriasis and eczema and other skin disorders. The Garra Rufa fish nibble the dead and affected region of the skin and leave it to grow new, naturally. Thus, bringing forth the benefits of healing along they are also called Doctor Fish.

It is simple: A patient immerses the affected part of the body or the whole in fish spa. The sucker fish will gently start feeding upon the affected loose skin area. This feeling could be tickling for many or unpleasant too while the fish peel off the dead skin. The smart fish ignore the unaffected skin area. The fresh grown skin is touches smooth.

The Curing Popularity: The fish spa started with a purpose of healing the skin disorders and reached the levels winning the hearts of large number of metrosexual population for manicure and pedicure. Being easy to set-up in a limited space, alternative healing techniques has evolved with the up market beauty salons.

Fish Spa: Is it a con? Many may find it eerie with fish sucking off your skin researchers are busy to find more beneficial aspects of fish spa. It is believed that the fish secrete enzymes that are benefitting to skin healing. An hour in fish spa may just cost you over a few bucks, it is not yet proven, that the fish spa treatment is a permanent solution to your skin disease. Experts consider it just killing of the time along with your dear ones in an outdoor fish spa having unusual experience.

Recession is a dreadful past now and yet many countries have not coped up fully with the alarming economic lows. This brought everyone, whether rich or not, on to one platter for some time. The numbers of debtors grew endemically. Many afeard of losing out at the marketplace started taking resort to various alternative remedies like Feng Shui (pronounced as ‘fung shway’).

Feng Shui is one of the oldest and highly sought after remedies in China and the world over. It cherishes with the most auspicious 3 legged frog, called Chan Chu that appears every full moon to attract volumes of wealth. A Chan Chu is frequently depicted sitting on a base of treasures made of gold, coins and gems and jewels. It is shown holding a coin in its mouth. One may also find seven dots on its back symbolizing the seven stars of the North Pole.

The followers of Feng Shui consider this wonderful frog as the attractor of wealth and luck.

Whether a home or an office, it is very important to know the few directives to place and utilize this frog and put oneself back on the tracks of better life and gain monetarily considerably.

1. The right position of placing a Chan Chu is in the South East of a living room or office. This is the zone of wealth in your house or office. It needs to be magnified with energies that attract wealth and luck. And exactly the Chan Chu does by energizing this sector to attract more wealth.
2. You can put two 3 leg toads; one in the front door facing inwardly of your home or office. The other frog should be placed facing outwards. This symbolizes collection of money. Hence, this wonderful frog can help you in bring you money/wealth.
3. If you are a person doing job, putting a Chan Chu diagonally to the front door of your house or next to your working desk can draw in the extra income to you.
4. Never keep this money frog in the bedroom, kitchen or even the toilets.

We are certain you will love it for sure. Place as many as 9 Chan Chu in your home or the office premises in different directions but not facing each other, randomly. It symbolizes pulling money from all the 9 directions as shown in the compass. Put each of these 9 frogs, one behind your sofa in the living room, you can put one near the front door, hoping inwards. Putting one below the coffee table is also benefiting. Or you may put them all in your garden too yet not facing each other or any other.

He is from the Mars; she from the Venus and then there is the Tantra and Kundalini in between them.

Tantra is finding and realizing harmony between the two in a couple through controlling of the sexual energies or the animal instincts hidden within. Considered to be amalgamation of other yoga, it is yet divisive form of yoga. To the roots of Tantra Yoga lies the purest form of relationship between man and his woman or a woman and her man. Thus becomes very vital for human relationship between couple to search for togetherness all the time though they both are primarily distinct. And if you thought this to be the master key to your grappling relationship or newly formed relationship for success and longevity then it might just be one, but the ultimate secret.

Enjoying togetherness for each moment is the very base of every marital relationship and this is the penultimate Tantra. You may call it respecting each other’s space with valuing your own space first with the surroundings and people around. You may call it ‘connecting’ with each other and others as well. Many times you experience that thousands of people keep on jabbering, but rarely few can connect.

Right! Tantra Yoga is all about getting connected and tuned to each other and everyone for an unknown period of time in future, or may be for the time one will breathe for the last time.

Considered to be the ultimate and holistic form of yoga, it allows one knowing the universe keeping oneself in the perspective. Like the many romantic movies with the happy ending, we all want the tag “they lived happily ever after”.

Do we really put our efforts in achieving this? Do we really try to overcome our shortcomings or ignore it in anyways? Do we ignore our partner like they do? Do we ignore the vices of our partner while we are as it is? Why do we feel the need to bring a change in our partner? These all questions sprout because every human being seeks “importance”. From the romantic Romeo to the heartless Hitler, every one strives to achieve it by some or other means. It becomes more important that everyone is every ready to have ‘importance” but rarely anyone is concerned about giving “importance”. Whether your colleague at work place or your own spouse, how often we give importance to the very “other”? Certainly a very few can do this. This means majority of us are scared of making the other person feel important, while we all constantly feel ignored.

To negate or overcome this feeling and behavior, Tantra Yoga is very helpful. If you are a religious performer of this yoga through various ‘asana’ or positions (even the sex), you can turn the hell into a heaven abode to live in. This is possible because the Tantra Yoga helps you generate the very lacking responsiveness in yourself and your partner or just anyone in your surroundings.

Benefits:

1. Tantra yoga keeps you fit
2. Makes oneself responsive with the spouse and other people
3. Helps you bond with your spouse for better longevity and long married life

You are working continuously on a computer for hours. This is means you are in one posture for this amount of time. As an educated person, you sit straight with a good posture in the beginning that is quite okay for a sitting condition in front of computer or laptop.

With the time, slowly you slouch forward making a curve in the lumbar spine. This causes you a back pain due to excessive bending forward and disturbing the natural structuring of your spine. This is due to computer stress.  Bending forward makes your lower back pay more loads on itself and thus you may find the growing of extra fat sideways that is called Love Handles.

Though called as Love Handles, they are not so lovely or anything thing you would like to love.

A couple of back exercises can certainly you give bit of relief instantly.

1. Yoga for lumbar spine:

1. Sit down on a mat.
2. Relax by breathing deep in and out a couple of times.
3. Now with hands on your hips, extend your one foot with toes in forward direction.
4. Keep the other foot backwards at a distance behind, toes turned at 45-degrees.
5. Now turn your hips in forward direction. Breathe deep and count 5.
6. Fold them as you exhale
7. Keep your back erect.

viii.  Now inhale and rise.

1. Repeat 4-5 times as necessary
2. Switch sides

2. Tips:

1. Do not use or remove the conventional computer chairs that are causing back pain and thus the computer stress. Replace it with more easy chairs that are hydraulic in making and more cushioned for an improved posture.
2. Do not sit for long on any chair in one posture. Take a break and walk along for 3-4 minutes in the corridor or just do some exercises for your eyes or fingers. Walking a few steps will relax your lumbar spine
3. It shall help restoring your natural restructuring of the spine with more cushioning.
4. This shall ultimately give you relief from back pain and provide you with the comfort of working.

We tried to provide acquaintance with Chinese herbs and their benefits. There are hundreds of herbs and you can explore them based on your requirements and ailments.

Ginseng (renshen): Blood pressure control, improved immunity and blood sugar regulation are benefits of ginseng. A tea with Ginseng is good for lowering fatigue. Use 0.5-3.0 gm of ginseng for consumption.

Hoelen (fuling): Fungus like herb grows on the pine roots. Heals gastro-intestinal irritation, acts as mild sedative when used with pine roots and helps transport moisture from digestive system into bladder. Use of 10-15 grams every day to prepare decoctions ascertains health. It is non-toxic.

Rhubarb (dahuang): The Chinese root acts as an effective laxative and enhances appetite. Rhubarb improves blood circulation, prevents infections and lowers autoimmune reactions. Cook 0.5-3 gm of Rhubarb for treatment.

Ma-huang (mahuang): The leaves improve breathing and invigorate the nervous system. Hoelen based alkaloids have been used to prepare drugs for sinus congestion and asthma. This metabolic enhancer is a good form of stimulant for people striving for weight loss. About 1-9 gm per day can benefit in preventing inflammation.

Licorice (gancao): These roots have many beneficial properties such as enhancing the digestion, neutralizing toxins and reduce inflammation. Chinese medical practitioners use this herb for sore throat, hyperthyroidism, hepatitis and heart valve ailments. Few hundred mg to 15 gm per day will suffice. Excess use may lead to edema or tachycardia.

Coptis (huang lian):  Known as coptis, goldthread or yellow root. It is used for diarrhea, bacterial infections, gastrointestinal problems and hypertension. The content – berberine is used as an anti-inflammatory substance for healing, that is available as tablet or pills. overdose side effects seen with prolonged usage.

Peony (baishao and chihshao): The well known flower is used to control blood flow and gives relaxation to the body. Wild peony or chihshao is red; it is used for enhancing blood circulation. White peony or baishao nourishes the blood. When mixed in 0.5-15 gm each day with licorice and tang-kuei herbs can improve health.

Rehmannia (dihuang): The dark herb nourishes the hormonal system and blood. Used for inflammation treatment, nourishing tonic for lowing the process of ageing by regulating hormones. Decoctions prepared regularly using 10-30 gm of herb is adequate for treatment. Digestive problem sufferers, use Rehmannia with caution.

Salvia (danshen): 1-20 gm red Salvina is used to treat body injury and promotes circulation. Used commonly for degenerative diseases, inflammation and post stroke effects. Lower blood pressure, cholesterol and enhance liver functions with Salvia usage.

Tang- kuei (danggui): Used for regulating urine flow, blood nourishment and relieves pain. 0.5-9 gm per day in tea or soup is effective.

Health is wealth and make sure you conserve it to the fullest extent with best Chinese herbs.

Voltaire quoted ‘The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient, while nature cures the disease’. Chinese culture uses herbs for medicinal purpose. Many unexplored plants and roots are used in traditional way since ages. Treating ailments in the natural way is favored by one and all, get relief from your physical pains with the help of most used Chinese herbs. There are some herbs that have been in use even as ingredients for basic cooking. Some of the copious herbs are mentioned below. Find your health problem and pertinent herb for improved health status.

Astragalus (huangqi): This Chinese herb also known as Astragali belongs to Leguminosae family. It is used to treat common cold, respiratory infections. Increase immunity; protect liver and increases blood cell production in case of cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy. Chronic nephritis, skin burns and diabetes can be treated through the Astragalus. Use the medicine with caution as many toxic varieties do exist that may cause rashes.

Cinnamon (guizhi and rougi): The pharmaceutical name of this herb is Cinnamomum cassia. The bark of this tree improves blood circulation, lowers allergies and harmonizes energy of our body. Other herbs when mixed with cinnamon to prepare tea are beneficial to the body. Do not use it with an inflammatory liver disorder.

Bupleurum (chaihu): This herb has been utilized in Japanese oriental medicine practices. Liver disease, arthritis and skin ailments can be treated.  Nephritis, corticosteroid use and even mental disorders can be cured. The saponins found in this root lower inflammation and regulate level of hormones. Use it every day in about 15 to a few hundred mgs in form of tea. Dizziness and headaches may be seen in few individuals.

Red sage (danshen): This herb is used after combining with other herbs. The vascular and cardiac disorders are treated with red sage. Blood clotting is also reduced with red sage. Hypertension is also lowered with use of red sage.

Ginger (jiang): Ginger is used worldwide in food and even in medicine. The digestive benefits of this herb are well known. It provides protection against arteriosclerosis, heart diseases and stimulates the vitality of yang. Morning sickness, dyspepsia, rheumatoid arthritis, flatulence and osteoarthritis can be treated. It is also used as an analgesic and can treat infections of respiratory tract, bronchitis and cough.

Atractylodes (baizhu): This herb helps to treat digestive disorders and even alleviates edema.

Use the herb as tea or as powdered form or pill to get rid of all pain and body problems. Be careful to read and understand the usage, dose of the herb for desirable results. Hundreds of these herbs have been effective in curing many patients worldwide. Give the nature a chance to show its provess and heal you from inside out.

Are you unable to concentrate on work or studies due to constant ache in your head? Thousands of individuals have been through this trauma. Try Acupressure when you suffer from the next painful headache. The throbbing in your head can take away the solitude at home and even your mental peace at work. There are many people who have appreciated the benefits of acupressure.

Make sure you are not suffering from the pain due to some chronic illness or migraine problems before you begin acupressure for headache. The therapy involves applying pressure on specific points of the body as head or hands depending on the spot of trouble. The energy of your body is used in the healing process. Acupressure has no side effects, is simple, needs no special equipments and is completely trusted method practiced since centuries.

Feng-chi acupressure method: Spare your 1-2 minutes. You can do it sitting, standing up or lying on your back. Use your thumbs to locate the depressions on your head at the base of skull. The points will be about 2 inches from the neck’s middle region. Press the depressions gently with your thumb as you provide slight pressure in circular motion.

Feel a comfortable pressure level as you hold it and continue motion. Close your eyes and concentrate on the depression points for 1-2 minutes. This will relieve you from headache, especially the temple and side part of the head.

Ho-ku acupressure method: This may take 2-3 minutes. Your hands have the acupressure points at the edge of the webbed skin in between the index finger and thumb. Use your right thumb on left hand and the right index finger on the palm side to give a pinching effect. Massage and squeeze the acupressure point with circular movements. Do this on each hand for 2-3 minutes each.

Acupressure for headache will ease the pain and you can resume your activity at once. Acupressure method is safe enough to be repeated many times a day. When performing acupressure for headache the important points to be noted are mentioned below:

• You must breathe deep.
• Make sure you do not feel inconvenience or strong pain when your apply pressure.
• Focus and keep the pressure steady so you get the desired benefit of acupressure.
• When there is prevalent headache and no change in condition, you must consult a doctor immediately.

• Avoid this technique if you are pregnant.

Our stressful lifestyle has made us prone to headaches and health problems. Popping pills for pain may have side effects and be harmful in the future. Try this simple technique for relieving your headache. Acupressure for headache boosts immunity and helps regulate blood circulation.

Scene this:

1. “Work comes to me first. Since 10 years I am in management fields. Have trotted around many cities and nations. Though this does not make strings detached from my kids and my family. But being on the constant move, I am not able to give enough time to my kids. And as a result of this stress I feel quite uncomfortable, pressure mounts and a guilty feel makes me sick all the time when I am away from the family. But after Reiki, things at work and my family seem more delightful and easier to manage.” – A working lady and homemaker
2. “I am an associate professor in my early 40s. Quite young to manage some 40 students in one class credits. But often, I feel like a loser, stressed with no energy left for myself as I am back from the work. I cannot have my space. Well I visited my doctor and she suggested me to adopt Reiki as the healing method to my stress-filled routine. A week and I am feeling better. My students love me more than ever, and I feel rejuvenated even after a tight day at work”

The above cases are no testimonials or justifications to what you may read on further here but it is a preamble, for next could be you instead.

Today success is everything. And success could be anything between achievements at workplace or in a relationship. “Success can be a welcome gift for an unrestrained mind.” maintains a well-known Brit businessman. However, achieving success is not easy, or in clear words, Stressful. And, alternate health remedies like Reiki prove to be the right solution for your health and work.

Spot on. Certainly a lot of experience is in the backing to have such thoughts. It is all about one’s mind. And only unrestricted stress-free minds can attain success.

Caught amidst the bustling and raging desks, you cannot surrender yourself to such livelihood. The reason is peace of Mind. And Mind is everything to do with soul. A couple of capsules or injections cannot be a permanent way out to these situations. Whether you are a manager or a lecturer, anyone today has a right to live a peaceful and stress-less life.

The situations of stressed out minds are rooted profoundly in every soul. And Reiki is just the solution.

Reiki was conceptualized by Mikao Usui in 1880s in Japan as an alternative healing technique and has gain popularity since then. More people are getting victims of changing lifestyle and rotating shifts and and no rest, no proper schedules, irregular food habits etc leading oneself to succumb to dreadful states of stress and depression.

Reiki as discussed earlier is a spiritual energy leading one soul to positivity and thus peace of mind with rejuvenated sources of energy. And to its very basics of Reiki, it appeals every soul not to be angry, not to worry, be grateful, work with diligence and be kind to people.

The 7 chakras for healing through Reiki can certainly help you attain what you want. You too can win. Performing chakra meditation, the energies within one soul are balanced and protected for peaceful and healthier longevity. You may refer to these seven chakra separate, to choose what chakra can heal your stress and negate the thoughts that make you stressful. Once you master it yourself, you can heal others too.

Thus many big organizations are engaging the Reiki Experts and also, Reiki schools are popping up on regular basis. You too can find out the one nearby or consult the Reiki expert your office.

Tip: You can start it by watching the movie, The Secret.