HEALING PLANET

You might have guessed today's topic. So, we are going to look into some common and easily available remedies for cough and cold. These are often childhood problems too. Being common does not mean not effective. According to Ayurveda, cough and cold are produced by excess kapha or imbalance in kapha . Therefore, it is important that you should take kapha reducing diet, remedies and avoid food or climate that increases kapha . These can be related to even allergies that we usually encounter along with the seasonal changes. Cough and cold can be symptoms related to other major problems. But, we are only dealing with primarily these symptoms and not any associated symptoms with it.  Causes: Cold weather, Diet such as ice-cream, sour food, cold drinks etc, Sudden climate changes, Allergies to dust, pollens etc, Sneezing can also be one of the symptoms of allergies. All these problems are related to the respiratory tract. Therefore, when these problems start, we face immense irritation ...

Here, we are in the new year and I am really happy to tell you that I spent the last 10 days of the last year in Vipassana. I thought I may be of more use if I summarize this thing "Meditation" and the metaphysics before you. There are thousands of books, thousands of gurus, thousands of definitions of what exactly meditation is. Before jumping to the definition, I would like to put forth the types and benefits of meditation. Meditation brings clarity of mind as well as it can fix your some of the problems in that way. Well, as I see meditation is a very natural quality of human beings. If you see the entire creation, you will feel that it is some kind of meditation going on within an existence. It's very significant that your body and mind should be in perfect harmony and in harmony with surroundings. Meditation can happen very naturally. When I see the involvement of my mind and body with an extremely beautiful nature having mountains and lakes, it happens to be meditat...