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January 2007

Redefine Health

Wake up and smell the herbal tea! Modern living is injurious to health. We’ve got it all wrong. And it’s time now to start afresh.

Our health special focuses on the so-called lifestyle diseases, the direct products of..... More >>

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The Way of the Masters

by Life Positive

Swami Chidananda, Head, Parmarth Ashram
Swami Chidananda’s diet is simple and healthy. Having grown up in the Himalayan jungles, he has not developed a taste for salt, spice or ghee. He eats his food cooked with very... More >>

The Breath of Life

by T. A. Basubramanian

Here is an experiment you can try. Focus attention upon the ticks of a clock placed at a distance of about 12 feet. If you get distracted, try concentrating harder until you experience the ticking with undivided attention. If you... More >>

Meditate Sleep Well Handle Stress

by Jamuna Rangachari

A physician, endocrinologist, mystic and the best-selling author of many books, Deepak Chopra is almost synonymous with the major paradigm shift in the growing worldview of health as a product of body-mind-spirit interdependence.... More >>

A Clean Aura Indicates Good Health

by Jamuna Rangachari

Grand master Choa Kok Sui, founder of the World Pranic Healing Foundation, stumbled upon the ancient science of pranic healing (as its name indicates, its origins are Indian) in 1987, through 18 years of immersion in esoteric... More >>

Perfect Health

by Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

Fundamentally, the word ‘health’ comes from the root word ‘whole’. When we say we ‘feel healthy’, it means we have a sense of wholeness within us. Merely being medically free of disease does not make us healthy.
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Have a Healthy Day

by Life Positive

“May I have breath in my nostrils, voice in my mouth, sight in my eyes, hearing in my ears, hair that has not turned grey, teeth that are not discolored, and much strength in my arms. May all my limbs remain unimpaired and my... More >>

Health on a Platter

by Dr Anjali Mukerjee

When thousands of people die in the US due to terrorist attack, it is rightly considered to be a tragedy with global implications. But when thousands of deaths occur each day due to unnecessary disease, nobody even thinks about... More >>

Healthy Mind Healthy Body

by Dayal Mirchandani

For centuries, physicians have been aware about the link between personality and disease. The famous Greek physician, Hippocrates, who lived from 460 BC until 377 BC, introduced the four human ‘temperaments’: choleric, sanguine,... More >>

Optimum Solutions

by Deepak Kashyap

Lurking in the shadows of the dazzling Vedas, Upanishads, epics and yoga sutras, is yet another gem of the rich Hindu scriptural tradition, Karma Vipaka Samhita (KVP). Unlike its awe-inspiring cousins, even a cursory reading of... More >>

The Thumb Rules

by Jamuna Rangachari

For most of us, troubled times are a crisis which we would like to get over with as soon as possible and move on. For some, however, they are the trigger to finding a much larger purpose in life.

Ketan Shah went... More >>

The Interpreter of Planets

by Purnima Coontoor

He sits on a mattress in his dingy 6 X 4 room stacked with ancient, well-thumbed scriptures, with his mobile and almanacs within easy reach. A woman, who earns her living as a maid, is next in line for consultation with her sick... More >>

Squeaky Clean Inside Out

by Mansi Agarwal

When your clothes are dirty, what do you do? You clean them with soap and water and dry them. Similarly, yoga, ayurveda and naturopathy offer techniques and measures by which to cleanse and detoxify the body. The body is often... More >>

Path of Pain

by Life Positive

The Power of Breath
Barely 25, I was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease, a cancer of the lymph system, in December 1998. I was shocked. I just couldn’t believe that I was a cancer patient!

Soon, the initial... More >>

Help Yourself

by Mansi Agarwal

Ever dreamed of curing yourself and your family in the comfort zone of your home? Many alternative therapies have the advantage of being self-administering, are frequently drug-free and free of cost. Perhaps the best, though most... More >>

Benefit of the Doubt

by Dr. Uma Ladiwala

A newspaper article titled Comeback Kings and Queens, about people in showbiz who survived calamities in their lives and bounced back stronger, caught my attention. Mentioned in it were singer/actor Raageshwari who had a form of... More >>

No Sweat

by Luis S. R. Vas

Stress is subjective. What stresses one person may leave another unperturbed, for it is related to our ability to cope with the circumstances of our lives. Given that we lead such highly pressured lives today, stress is at its... More >>

Heal Thyself

by Jamuna Rangachari

When I was young, I used to have severe stomach upsets when my exams were round the corner. I knew it was due to my anxiety and began to learn to de-stress myself. Gradually, this reduced.

This is not an unusual... More >>

Food and You

by Life Positive

The physical body is the most extraordinary machine ever imagined! No human being has ever been able to develop anything remotely similar in function and efficiency. In theory, if we were to build a computer that could assume all... More >>

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