Burning Incense Is Psychoactive

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

ScienceDaily (May 20, 2008) — Religious leaders have contended for millennia that burning incense is good for the soul. Now, biologists have learned that it is good for our brains too. An international team of scientists, including researchers from Johns Hopkins University and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, describe how burning frankincense (resin from the Boswellia plant) activates poorly understood ion channels in the brain to alleviate anxiety or depression. This suggests that an entirely new class of depression and anxiety drugs might be right under our noses

Complete article here.

“In spite of information stemming from ancient texts, constituents of Bosweilla had not been investigated for psychoactivity,” said Raphael Mechoulam, one of the research study’s co-authors. “We found that incensole acetate, a Boswellia resin constituent, when tested in mice lowers anxiety and causes antidepressive-like behavior. Apparently, most present day worshipers assume that incense burning has only a symbolic meaning.”

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Power of the Mind as Healer Shown By Pioneering Scientist

Monday, August 4, 2008

This article is not about the New wave of people that say about just thinking positive they will make a difference... this guy is actually backing that with scientific information... interesting!

"He set up New Awakenings, giving talks and workshops about the power of the mind over the body. While many new-age types talk about positive thinking, Hamilton is different, in that he gives listeners a view based on the latest developments in chemistry, biology and physics. By presenting arguments backed by science, he hopes to motivate people to work on their minds in order to improve their health: "With faith, hope and determination people can change the state of their health, life and world".

"I have found around 500 scientific papers from mainstream academic journals which directly talk about the effect that thought, feeling and faith have on the body’s systems," he says. Recent research into spontaneous remissions from cancer found that a radical change of belief system seemed to be a common factor. While few would argue with the idea that a good attitude can speed the healing process, Hamilton believes emotions, such as happiness, can change DNA."

"Hamilton says: "About 99.9 per cent of our genes are exactly the same. The differences between us are determined by whether our genes are switched on or off. "There is a whole branch of medicine called psycho-neuro-immunology, which studies the effect of thoughts and emotions on our biochemistry. The biochemistry is intimately connected with the DNA, so if these biologichemical components are affected by thoughts and emotions then thoughts and emotions must also affect our DNA."

Complete article

Learn How to Meditate

Monday, July 14, 2008

Awesome videos teaching how to meditate... 10 min each one.

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The Top 10 Ways to Raise Your Consciousness

Sunday, July 13, 2008

Life can be a GIFT or a NIGHTMARE, depending on where you choose to operate from consciously. Practiced regularly, the following 10 tips will assist you in shining your beautiful unique light so brightly that your resulting raised consciousness will be a GIFT to yourself, humanity, and the Cosmos.

1. Forgive yourself and others. - Life is too short to hold on to regrets, grudges, miscommunications, or disappointments.
2. Practice gratitude and appreciation. - Whatever you focus on grows. So, when you focus on every thing in your life you have to feel grateful for and all the wonderful people you appreciate, the universe hands you more to feel grateful about.
3. Live each day as though it were your last.
4. Meditate/Pray. - Open your direct link between yourself and the spiritual realm.
5. Suspend judgment. - One judges another to feel less guilty about one’s own misgivings.
6. View every experience as a GIFT. - See how even the worst situations you experienced in your life ended up teaching you invaluable lessons and therefore ended up putting you in the perfect place for your continuing development.
7. Stay consciously aware of all of your thoughts and feelings.
8. Treat your physical body as your temple.
9. View the world through the eyes of a child. - Never get enough of observing and experiencing this life.
10. Give LOVE, LOVE, LOVE from your heart. - It’s all about love. Do you remember the feeling of being in love for the first time? Why was it so wonderful? That’s because love is the highest vibration. Allow yourself to receive love unconditionally from others. Give love from your heart unconditionally to yourself and others, and you will experience the highest state of consciousness possible.

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Effect of the moon on a man.

Friday, June 20, 2008

I have always been fond of the moon and nature… (not frogs and snakes….haha!) so every month when there is a full moon I feel relaxed and I just love looking at it whenever I can. The best moons are the ones towards the end of the year, the October moon is awesome…

So I was wondering on how really the Moon affects us as humans, and I found this interesting article:

“The frequencies emanating from the Moon affect the frequencies of the mental body, i.e. mind of human beings. By ‘mind’ we mean our feelings, emotions and desires. The mind consists of the conscious mind and the sub-conscious mind. Within the sub-conscious mind we have a number of impressions that are embedded that decide our basic nature and personality. We are however not aware of the thoughts or impressions in our sub-conscious mind. These impressions get collected over a number of lifetimes.

These impressions in our mind are the catalysts for all our thoughts and subsequent actions. Both the impressions and our thoughts have their own subtle frequencies.”

“However on a full moon day as the moon frequencies are more active, a heightened activity of the mind is observed”

“However for most people the thoughts are random. If there are a number of dominant personality defects such as anger, greed, etc. then they too may surface and dominate our thoughts during this period. For example an alcoholic will get more thoughts about the need to drink alcohol on this day.”

“It is also possible to awaken thoughts about Spirituality that lie inert in the sub-conscious mind of a spiritual person by taking advantage of the heightened mind activity and by increasing spiritual practice on a full moon day.”

Effect of the moon on a man.

Osho - La Mente Quieta / The Unwavering Mind

Monday, June 9, 2008

Para mas informacion www.osho.com.

Acabo de terminar de leer este micro libro, el primer libro que leo de Osho... lo compre porque soy una persona que tiene siempre mil cosas en la cabeza. Aqui les dejo con algunas frases de libro para que se animen a comprarlo.

"La mente es justo como un espejo, cualquier cosa a la que te apegues se fija en el espejo"
"El cuerpo siempre sigue a la mente... y si tu mente se apega a la idea, entonces el cuerpo reacciona de esa manera"
"Cuando puedes retener un pensamiento por largos periodos de tiempo te vuelves amo, y si puedes retenerlos tambien puedes dejarlos"
"La fijacion de la mente te dara un ojo penetrante. Ese ojo se ha conocido en el mundo del ocultismo como el tercer ojo"
"La cuestion no es leer mucho, la cuestion es leer muy poco pero leer profundamente. La profundidad es lo importante porque en la profundidad se esconde la calidad"
"Solo el trabajo verdadero en ti mismo, solo una disciplina espiritual, te ayudara a crecer, te dara un crecimiento en el cual el vislumbre no es algo forzado sino algo natural"
"Porque es el bien indefinible al igual que la belleza? porque no existen como un hecho en el mundo, es una interpretacion. Depende de la mente."
"Cualquiera que tenga mente esta loco de una forma u otra. La mente ES locura."
"Capas de pensamientos te ocultan de la realidad y ocultan la realidad de ti."