**Know your local vegetable : Ridge gourd**

This is must vegetables for people with

- pre diabetes and diabetes
- cholesterol
- strained liver and gland functions
- Improves eye vision

How to identify pure ghee

According to ayurveda, ghee itself is a medicine and medicated ghee are widely used as medicine

Ghee is a essential good fat and helpful in
- Laser sharp cognition
- Good Bone health
- Proper Digestion

There is lots of adulteration happening with ghee due to increased demand for unpasteurised milk and reduced cow population

Cows were part of every Indian household now it's hardly a family member

Most of diary based ghee are buffalo ghee / imported oil fats or vegetable fats

*dairy

So how check it's purity

- Teaspoon test

Take a teaspoon of ghee heat the teaspoon on lowest flame like diya or birthday candle or burning cowdung dhoop top

Pure one will melt in two seconds and turns dark brown

Adulterated one will take more than a minute to melt and it will turn yellow instead of dark brown as butter and ghee contains artificial food colour for yellowish texture

Shakti mudra - A mudra for sound and peaceful sleep

- This mudra helps to keep the tridosha (Vata, Pitta,&Kapha) in balance
- Helps to keep manas /mind calm and easy
-Influences our central nervous system
-Widely done before homas after pranayama to maintain focus 1/2

Do this mudra mudra 15 minutes before going to sleep as below

-Do a 3 to 11 (Reverse count if possible ) count of Pranayama
- Do Shakti mudra for fifteen minutes by chanting any Shloka /mantra or ishta devata
- Complete thanking "Nidhra Devi " (Goddess of sleep )

You will feel calmness before hitting the bed and feel energetic the following morning when you wake up from bed

It’s more beneficial if you do this on a Dharbhasana as it helps you to focus inward (Chakras) by acting as a shield from energy disruption /distraction

If not place a towel or wodden plank asana and do this

As these mudras does activate the Chakras of our body

Thorpikaranam : A simple but powerful yogic practice for physical and mental wellbeing

Do this daily if you want to

- Sharpen your mind ,
attentiveness & decisiveness
-Reduce weight and belly fat
- Strengthen your vision
- Overall flexibility of your joints and muscles

Most often given as punishment for mischievous kids at school and done as prayer before Bhagwan Ganesha It's actually a superb physical exercise which benefits both physical and cognitive functions of your body

Per astrology, Ganesha is ruling diety for planet Ketu (Gnanakaraka) who is meant for blessings with wisdom (Gnana) /intelligence Per psychology,it is given as cognitive therapy to minimize their sadistic thoughts ..no wonder it's help to discipline mischievous kids at school

Another name for Ganapathi is Vigneshwara / Vinayagar he is considered to remove the vignam / obstacle by bestowing intelligence To be successful in your personal & professional life you need to tide over many obstacles in your path only through your intelligence & hardwork

Looking scientifically, We hold earlobes between thumb and forefinger with hands crossed in front of chest and perform repetitive squats. This is done 18 or 108 times as prarthana mostly for success in anything It's a kind of auricular vagus nerve stimulation

Know Your Local Herb : Cardiospermum Halicacabum /Kapalphodi/ Mudakaruthan Keerai/ Indravalli /Balloon Plant Leaves

- Must green of every household garden

- Proven Cure in
- Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Relives Joint pains of any sort
- Hair Growth & Dandruff

Per Ayurveda this green is used as

- Anti Arthritic
- Anti Inflammatory
- Anti Fungal
- Anti Pyretic in its medicinal formulations

This climber is easy to grow at everyone gardens and it is undergoing research for other lifestyle ailments too

Studies are underway to asses the

- Anti hyperglycaemic effect to treat diabetes
- Herbal analgesic and vasodepressive properties of this herb

- Phytoconstituent cardiospermin is used as natural herbal source in most of modern fertility improvement drugs beneficial both for men & women

- Consumption of this herb gradually will relive menstrual cramps & dysmenorrhea suffered by women with irregular menstrual rhythm

-This has ability to nourish & strengthen the hair root to great extent after hibiscus

-Applying the leaf powder over the scalp with coconut oil will cure dandruff and itchy scalp experienced by working women by constant use of chemical synthetic shampoos

Why should we wear Bindi / Kumkum / Tilak ??

- Wearing Bindi / Kumkum /Tilak on our forehead is not just symbol of religion or culture

- it's has profound impact on your health and wellbeing

- Why this is practiced even for new born babes

- It's a ancient health hack

- As per ayurveda forehead is a key biological region which has major role to play both over your mind , body and spirit

- Forehead has sensory nerves which helps to detect the earths magnetic field by our brain

- it has deep connect towards your subconscious mind

Per Ayurvedic texts our forehead is gateway for our energy/ kundalini

Marma chikitsa a branch of Ayurveda which is similar to reiki or pranic healing starts the therapy from the muka / face especially with herbal paste being applied over the forehead

Same references are found in accupressure and traditional Chinese medicine

- Applying gentle pressure over forehead by wearing bindi / kumkum/ Tilak helps to keep key pineal gland hale and healthy

As per Hindu culture, sadashiva holds the sacred and fierce third eye over this region

For normal man, it's a key technique to activate your key chakra - the Ajna chakra

This is soul reason any hindu Pooja or vedic procedure emphasizes wearing a Tilak over this region

Anxiety resides in 4 spaces:

1. The space inside you
2. The space between you and another
3. The space between others
4. The space inside another.

A powerful de escalation tools is to first locate the anxiety. Where is it?

Often the answer is 'all 4.' Yikes!

1/

Anxiety is contagious, we spread it and escalate it unless we know how to manage it.

This was perhaps my biggest lesson as a trauma chaplain - the very hard work of not catching someone's anxiety.

2/

When I caught it, I was no good to them. I no longer saw what was going on, I was now 'infected' by my own triggers, assumptions, the story I tell myself. I was all wrapped up in myself.

But when I managed my anxiety, I was able to be calm, aware and fully present to them.

3/

Even in the very worst moment of their lives, even if they had me by the shoulders screaming, 'how could God allow this to happen?'

4/

Incidentally, early in chaplaincy, I thought this was an actual question. Because I was anxious, I was more infected by my need to answer than I was to simply be calm and present with them in their pain.

5/

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