Pranic Energy – Universal Life Force

Photo/Illustration by Egoten

I was asked a question about Prana for my newsletter and realized it is a great subject and often not discussed unless you roam around people who do yoga.  Even then, yogis usually talk about it in terms of breath and techniques.  The newsletter has some detail of how to enhance the receiving of Prana in your life.

A healthy living person is filled with Prana, Qi or Universal Life force. Prana penetrates every aspect of life, it is in every physical system, from your digestive system to circulatory system, skeletal, muscular and nervous system. Prana goes to every part [...]

July 15th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Health | 2 comments

Second Hand Smoke connected to low level anti-oxidants in kids

BALTIMORE, May 5, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) — Children exposed to cigarette smoke have lower levels of anti-oxidants, which help the body defend against biological stresses, U.S. researchers said.

Researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York looked at the levels of anti-oxidants vs. the amount of smoke exposure in more than 2,000 children and teens ages 6 and 18 in the 2003-2004 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.

The study, presented at the Pediatric Academic Society Meeting in Baltimore, showed that secondhand smoke exposure is associated with lower levels of anti-oxidants in children.

“We don’t know [...]

May 14th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Health | 2 comments

Allergies and the stress response

Most information about allergies discuss what the specific allergen is and how once found out what needs to be avoided. Information about the emotions and the psychology of an allergy sufferer is often left out of the picture.

Types of allergies include food, and environmental. Some say that there is another which can be called situational. For those of you who are reading this and are highly intuitive or sensitive, you know what this is. I’ll save that discussion for another post. Each of these allergic substances are considered stress by the mind.

Allergic reactions occur when the immune system [...]

May 12th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Category: Health | 4 comments