Abundance with Back Pain Part 6
Ayurveda, which translates as "knowledge of life," dates back 5,000 years to the ancient Sanskrit texts, the Vedas. It's a system of healing that examines physical constitution, emotional nature, and spiritual outlook in the context of the universe. According to the philosophy, universal life force manifests as three different energies, or doshas, known as vata, pitta, and kapha.
Iyengar says, "without inversions, it's not Yoga" They are the most curative and preventative poses in Yoga. Inversions done correctly can keep you healthy and young, and will help you get the most of out of your yoga practice. Joni spends over a half hour a day up side down and loves to get you going (or help you clean up and correct)in this direction, as it will change your life!
The Subtle Difference between Prayer and Meditation : One way to deepen your spiritual practice and experience, is to contemplate the subtle difference between prayer and meditation. Meditation empowers your mind to be more disciplined, focused, more refined, more content. True happiness in life, flows out of it spontaneously. Meditation connects you to spontaneous inner source.
Firstly, you have to realize that you have infinite potential, and it comes from within. You also have unlimited potential from the outside, when you engage in prayer, and meditation, on a daily basis. Prayer and meditation will positively charge you, and you will contribute to the benefit of others as a result of it.
In a study reported in the Orthopedic Technology Review, Nov/Dec 2003 by Thomas Gionas MD and Eric Groteke DC, 229 people with major symptoms associated with herniated and degenerated disc disease underwent 20 decompression treatments over a six-week period. In 86 percent of the patients the pain levels were reduced to either a rating of zero (no pain), or one (occasional pain).
These patients reported complete resolution of pain, lumbar range of motion was normalized, and there was recovery of any sensory or motor loss. After 90 days only 2 percent had relapsed and of the patients with abnormal findings at the end of therapy, only 3 percent still exhibited those findings at the end of 90 days, showing they continued to improve following the decompression therapy.
Therefore, one study is not the answer; especially one study which just happened. The truth is, most of the studies on back pain and Yoga, as a form of therapy, are taking place in India. So, why doesn’t your family doctor, chiropractor, or orthopedic doctor, take a leap of faith outside the view of traditional western medicine? To put it simply, doctors read and continually educate themselves. They do not look down the narrow path of medicine that is laid down by bureaucracy.
