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Monday, April 12, 2010

Gambia Healing Treatments

 The history behind holistic therapies dates back some 4,000 years. For ancient cultures like the Egyptians and in Eastern countries like India and China, it was accepted that well being and illness were opposite forces where well being held illness in balance. They realised that their focus should be on achieving balance between the mind, body and spirit as a means of maintaining good health or well being and preventing illness from manifesting itself.

Modern living is hectic, you rush around looking after everyone else but when do you take time out just for you? Holistic therapies offer you the opportunity to relax and take time out for yourself to recharge your batteries.  

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Monday, February 2, 2009

What Is Pranic Healing?

Pranic healing is an ancient science and art of healing that utilizes prana or ki or life energy to heal the whole physical body. It also involves the manipulation of ki and bioplasmic matter of the patient`s body. It has also been called medical qigong (ki kung or ki healing), psychic healing, vitalic healing, therapeutic touch, laying of the hand, magnetic healing, faith healing, and charismatic healing.

Two Basic Laws of Pranic Healing

Pranic healing is based on two laws: The law of self-recovery and the law of prana or life energy. These laws are quite obvious but strangely they are usually the least noticed or least remembered by most people. It is through these basic laws that rapid or miraculous healing occurs.
Law of Self-Recovery:
In general, the body is capable of healing itself at a certain rate. If a person has a wound or burn, the body will heal itself and recover within a few days to a week. In other words, even if you do not apply antibiotic on the wound or burn, the body will repair or heal itself. At the present moment, there is no medicine available for the treatment of viral infection. But even if a person has cough or cold due to viral infection, the body will recover generally in one or two weeks without medication.
Law of Life Energy:
For life to exist, the body must have prana, chi or life energy. The healing process can be accelerated by increasing life energy on the affected part(s) and on the entire body.

In chemistry, electrical energy is sometimes used as a catalyst to increase the rate of chemical reaction. Light can affect chemical reaction. This is the basis for photography. In electrolysis, electricity is used to catalyze or produce chemical reaction. In pranic healing, prana or life energy serves as the catalyst to accelerate the rate of biochemical reactions involved in the natural healing process of the body. When pranic energy is applied to the affected part of the body, the rate of recovery or healing increases tremendously.

What we call miraculous healing is nothing more than increasing the rate of self-recovery of the body. There is nothing supernatural or paranormal about pranic healing. It is simply based on natural laws that most people are not aware of.

Although science is not able to detect and measure life energy or prana, it does not mean that prana does not exist or does not affect the health and well being of the body. In ancient times, people were not aware of the existence of electricity, its properties and practical uses. But this does not mean tliat electricity does not exist. One`s ignorance does not change reality; it simply alters the perception of reality, resulting in misperception and misconception of what is and what is not, what can be done and what cannot be done.


Children have more life energy than elderly people do. You notice that they move a lot from morning to night, hardly getting tired at all. When suffering from a fracture, who heals faster—the child or the elderly? The broken bone of a child heals very fast while that of an elderly heals very slowly; sometimes, it will not even heal at all.

Prana Or Ki
Prana or ki is that life energy which keeps the body alive and healthy. In Greek it is called `pneuma`, in Polynesian `mana`, and in Hebrew `ruah`, which means `breath of life`. The healer projects prana or life energy or `the breath of life` to the patient, thereby, healing the patient. It is through this process that this so-called `miraculous healing` is accomplished.

Basically, there are three major sources of prana: solar prana, air prana and ground prana. Solar prana is prana from sunlight. It invigorates the whole body and promotes good health. It can be obtained by sunbathing or exposure to sunlight for about five to ten minutes and by drinking water that has been exposed to sunlight. Prolonged exposure or too much solar prana would harm the whole physical body since it is quite potent.

Prana contained in the air is called air prana or air vitality globule. Air prana is absorbed by the lungs through breathing and is also absorbed directly by the energy centers of the bioplasmic body. These energy centers are called chakras. More air prana can be absorbed by deep slow rhythmic breathing than by short shallow breathing. It can also be absorbed through the pores of the skin by persons who have undergone certain training.

Prana contained in the ground is called ground prana or ground vitality globule. This is absorbed through the soles of the feet. This is done automatically and unconsciously. Walking barefoot increases the amount of ground prana absorbed by the body. One can learn to consciously draw in more ground prana to increase one`s vitality, capacity to do more work, and ability to think more clearly.

Water absorbs prana from sunlight, air, and ground that it comes in contact with. Plants and trees absorb prana from sunlight, air, water, and ground. Men and animals obtain prana from sunlight, air, ground, water, and food. Fresh food contains more prana than preserved food.

Prana can also be projected to another person for healing. Persons with a lot of excess prana tend to make other people around them feel better and livelier. However, those who are depleted tend to unconsciously absorb prana from other people. You may have encountered persons who tend to make you feel tired or drained for no apparent reason at all.

Certain trees, such alpine trees or old and gigantic healthy trees, exude a lot of excess prana. Tired or sick people benefit much by lying down or resting underneath these trees. Better results can be obtained by verbally requesting the being of the tree to help the sick person get well. Anyone can also learn to consciously absorb prana from these trees through the palms, such that the body would tingle and become numb because of the tremendous amount of prana absorbed. This skill can be acquired after only a few sessions of practice.

Certain areas or places tend to have more prana than others. Some of these highly energized areas tend to become healing centres.

During bad weather conditions, many people get sick not only because of the changes in temperature but also because of the decrease in solar and air prana (life energy). Thus, a lot of people feel mentally and physically sluggish or become susceptible to infectious diseases. This can be counteracted by consciously absorbing prana or ki from the air and the ground. It has been clairvoyantly observed that there is more prana during daytime than at night. Prana reaches a very low level at about three or four in the morning.

Benefits of Pranic Healing
1. It can help parents bring down the temperature of their children suffering from high fever in just a few hours and heal it in a day or two in most cases.
2. It can relieve headaches, gas pains, toothaches, and muscle pains almost immediately in most cases.
3. Cough and cold can usually be cured in a day or two. Loose bowel movement can be healed in a few hours in most cases.
4. Major illnesses such as eye, liver, kidney, and heart problems can be relieved in a few sessions and healed in a few months in many cases.
5. It increases the rate of healing by three times or more than the normal rate of healing. These are some of the few things that pranic healing can do. All of these assume that the healer has attained a certain degree of proficiency.
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Sunday, January 25, 2009

What are Flower Remedies?

In the 1920s and 30s, a noted homeopath, Dr. Edward Bach, discovered a system of flower remedies that can help us rediscover the positive side of ourselves. He believed, as many doctors do today, that attitude of mind plays a vital role in maintaining health and recovering from illness.

The flower remedies act to balance in-harmonies in the emotional and spiritual body, and bring about a gentle healing by bringing the body back in balance with itself. They act almost a catalysts to cause healing. There were originally thirty eight Bach Flower Remedies that at that time Dr. Bach felt would correct all imbalances that were possible. There are remedies such as Holly which he found would heal the state of anger, and open the heart, and remedies that deal with a variety of other emotions from lack of confidence to over enthusiasm and impatience.

Each of the 38 remedies discovered by Dr Bach is directed at a particular characteristic or emotional state. To select the remedies  you need, think about the sort of person you are and the way you are feeling.

Agrimony  - mental torture behind a cheerful face
Aspen - fear of unknown things
Beech - intolerance
Centaury - the inability to say 'no'
Cerato - lack of trust in one's own decisions
Cherry Plum - fear of the mind giving way
Chestnut Bud - failure to learn from mistakes
ChicoryChicory - selfish, possessive love
Clematis - dreaming of the future without working in the present
Crab Apple - the cleansing remedy, also for self-hatred
Elm - overwhelmed by responsibility
Gentian - discouragement after a setback
Gorse - hopelessness and despair
Heather - self-centred-ness and self-concern
Holly - hatred, envy and jealousy
Honeysuckle - living in the past
Hornbeam - tiredness at the thought of doing something
Impatiens - impatience
Larch - lack of confidence
Mimulus - fear of known things
Mustard - deep gloom for no reason
Oak - the plodder who keeps going past the point of exhaustion
Olive - exhaustion following mental or physical effort
Pine - guilt
Red Chestnut - over-concern for the welfare of loved ones
Rock Rose - terror and fright
Rock Water - self-denial, rigidity and self-repression
Scleranthus - inability to choose between alternatives
Star of Bethlehem - shock
Sweet Chestnut - Extreme mental anguish, when everything has been tried and there is no light left
Vervain - over-enthusiasm
Vine - dominance and inflexibility
Walnut - protection from change and unwanted influences
Water Violet - pride and aloofness
White Chestnut - unwanted thoughts and mental arguments
Wild Oat - uncertainty over one's direction in life
Wild Rose - drifting, resignation, apathy
Willow - self-pity and resentment
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008

About Aromatherapy

Aromatherapy can be defined as the art and science of utilizing naturally extracted aromatic essences from plants to balance, harmonize and promote the health of body, mind and spirit.  It is an art and science which seeks to explore the physiological, psychological and spiritual realm of the individual's response to aromatic extracts as well as to observe and enhance the individual's innate healing process.  As a holistic medicine, Aromatherapy is both a preventative approach as well as an active treatment during acute and chronic stages of illness or disease.

The term "aromatherapie" was coined by Rene Maurice Gattefosse in 1928.  He utilized the word to imply the therapeutic use of aromatic substances (essential oils).One could say that aromatherapy is as old as man’s relationship to the plant kingdom and so the beginning of aromatherapy is shrouded in the mists of time. No one knows the identity of the first person to recognize the healing properties of plants but detailed recipes using aromatic compounds are given in the Old Testament and well sealed urns filled with aromatic resins have been unearthed in the tombs of Pharaohs.

The Egyptians and Aromatherapy
The contribution of the ancient Egyptians to the history of aromatherapy is significant. While aromatic substances also played important roles in the medicinal prac¬tices of the Hebrew, Arabic and Indian civilizations, the ancient Egyptians regarded aromatherapy as a way of life. At about the time that the Chinese were developing acupuncture, the Egyptians were using bal¬samic substances in both religious ritual and medicine. Records dating back to 4500BC tell of perfumed oils, scented barks and resins, of spices, aromatic vinegars, wines and beers all used in medicine, ritual, astrology and embalming.

Translations of hieroglyphics inscribed on papyri and steles found in the temple of Edfu indicate that aromatic substances were blended to specific formulations by the high priests and alchemists to make perfumes and medicinal potions. The priests knew of the power of certain smells to raise the spirits of their congregation, or to promote a state of tranquillity. A favourite perfume was the famous kyphi, a mixture of sixteen different essences - including myrrh and juniper - and this was inhaled to heighten the senses and spiritual awareness of the priests.
The Greek and Roman Discoveries
If the Ancient Egyptians perfected the art of using the essences of plants to control emotion, putrefaction and disease, new discoveries of the medicinal power of plants continued to be made. The Greeks, for instance, developed medicine from a part-superstition to a science. Hippocrates, popularly known as the Father of Medicine, was the first physician to base medical knowledge and treatment on accurate observation, and ever since, of course, doctors have adhered to his principles outlined in the Hippocratic Oath. One of his beliefs was that a daily aromatic bath and a scented massage were the way to health, very much a central principle of today's aromatherapy.

At the height of the power of Rome, it was 'immigrant' Greek phy¬sicians and seekers after knowledge who dominated the medical world. One of these was Dioscorides, a Greek surgeon in Nero's army, who wrote De Materia Medica, a comprehensive textbook on the properties and uses of medicinal plants.

The Romans, although more interested in the culinary than the medical properties of plants, were botanically enormously influential. As the legions advanced over Europe, the soldiers took with them seeds of the plants they needed or could not live without, to cultivate in the countries they occupied. Many herbal plants in England - parsley, fennel and lovage, for instance - were introduced by the Romans.

Towards the Renaissance  
Although rational medicine declined in Europe after these early begin¬nings, it still continued in China and India. The Arabs, whose civilization advanced from the fourth century AD, were also keeping the scientific spirit alive. An Arab was one of the founders of the famous medical school at Salerno, near Naples, and the Arabian physician Avicenna's book, Canon of Medicine, published in the eleventh century, remained a standard work until the mid-sixteenth century. Avicenna was also thought to be responsible for the invention of distillation as a means of extracting essences from plants, and many of his principles are still in use today. Great explorers and colonisers, the Arabs spread their knowledge throughout the known world. They were also great traders, and to a large extent were responsible for introducing many new plants from the East - spices in particular - which were used both in cooking and medicine.
 
The Middle Ages in Europe, stretching from roughly the sixth century to the Renaissance in the fourteenth century, was not an inspired time in terms of medical advance.

The European Herbalists
The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were the times of the great herbals in Europe, the British ones including those of Gerard, Parkinson and Culpeper. With the outbreak of plague again in 1665, methods of dealing with the disease had not advanced much from those employed 300 years before.

Thereafter, though, knowledge grew in leaps and bounds, with the founding of the Royal Society in Britain, the plant classifications of Linnaeus, the explorations of Cook, and with many amazing medical discoveries such as digitalis, vaccination for smallpox, quinine and anaesthesia

Aromatherapy in the Twentieth Century
 It was not until the beginning of this century that a French chemist and scholar, Dr R M Gattefosse, rekindled interest in aromatherapy - a term he actually coined and about which he wrote several books. He explained at length the properties of essential oils and their methods of application, with examples of their antiseptic, bactericidal, anti-viral and anti-inflammatory properties. He related how, after burning his hand in the laboratory, he plunged the hand into the nearest receptacle which happened to contain essential oil of lavender; he was astonished at how quickly the pain ceased and the skin healed.

Around the same time that Dr R M Gattefosse wrote his first book on aromatherapy, Sir Alexander Fleming discovered the antibiotic penicillin. This was a 'natural' cure as well, being isolated from a culture of mould. Today, of course, natural penicillin is no longer used, for its constituents were identified long ago and it is now synthesized in the laboratory. Perhaps that is the reason why so many people have allergic reactions to penicillin, resulting in eczema and swelling: the artificial variety is considerably stronger than its natural counterpart.

Awa’s Health and Beauty Spa
Gambia Ocean Bay Resort
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220-642-3370
220-692-0526
220-992-0526
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ismael_colley@yahoo.com