Re : YOGA THERAPY OR YOGOPATHY?

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Hello everybody !!!Here some thoughts on health by Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov. He is a Christian Master but his thoughts echo Ananda's, I feel :« Doctors should understand that merely healing the sick is not sufficient. They should also put a few truths in their patients' heads at the same time. I ask a doctor this question:- "You have made these people better, haven't you. But did they subsequently change their lifestyle? Are they not going to continue their ridiculous ways and become ill again?"- "Well yes, unfortunately this is true."So it is clear that before agreeing to cure people, doctors should enlighten their patients in order to prevent them from falling prey to the same excesses and victim of the

same imbalances. If I were a doctor I would simply refuse to look after people who did not first promise me to improve their lifestyle. Since I would not ask to be paid I would ask them at least to pay the Lord by improving themselves. And if they refused to make this promise I would send them elsewhere. Of course, if someone has just been rescued from the water or is suffocating, that is not the time to extract promises from them. They have to be saved. But I want doctors to understand it is not sufficient to cure people "for the time being", they should also enlighten them so they may find permanent good health again...»« Health is the result of the work all the organs of our body carry out together and in harmony for the good of our whole

being. From the moment, therefore, an element enters our organism that does not obey this law of harmony it creates disturbances, and these disturbances, this disharmony is what we know as illness. The same phenomenon occurs in the psychic organism. When the thoughts, feelings and desires of human beings let in elements that do not vibrate in harmony with their entire inner being, they also let in illness. So, when you feel troubled, instead of looking for complicated reasons why you should feel this way, understand that you have allowed chaotic and dark thoughts and feelings into your head and your heart. Seek them out and try to eliminate them. »« A person comes to seek my advice on her health: she has consulted all the doctors, taken every possible remedy, but there is no

improvement. I tell her: "Since you have tried everything and nothing has worked, well now, try a remedy that you have not thought of. Harmonize yourself with the sublime creatures of the universe and tell them: 'I love you, I am in harmony with you, I want to accomplish the will of God...' and gradually you will feel an improvement." If people are sick, it is because they have troubled the inner order that nature has established within them. That is why they have to be taught some lessons, in order to learn to reestablish harmony. The whole universe sings this harmony, and the one who does not have respect for it is expelled. »« Nothing happens to us by mere chance. Our thoughts and feelings bring us into contact with entities, currents and elements in space that correspond to those thoughts and feelings,

and we end up attracting them. This is how health and illness, strength and weakness, intelligence and short-sightedness, beauty and ugliness in people come about. We attract these physical and psychic states, and so, if you are faced with problems in this life, it is because through ignorance you attracted unhealthy and unsound elements in the past. So now you know the real reason why things happen in your life, resolve to work on your thoughts and feelings, because you will then connect with the purest and most luminous entities and regions in the universe and you will receive from them all the qualities you need to rebuild yourself: beauty, strength, intelligence, and so on. This is the true secret of resurrection. »« A man owns a beautiful car. He is extremely vigilant with regard to its

maintenance, he uses the highest grade petrol in it, fits it with the best tyres, and so on. But when he gets into it he is not careful, nor is he able to keep his self-control. He performs rough and dangerous manoeuvres, he drives at great speed, he brakes suddenly, and then of course this poor man-handled car soon breaks down. Well, this is how most human beings treat their physical body. They are not in the least bit aware of the marvel their organism represents, in what workshops it was built, how much work the spirit put into it and how much it cost the Creator to perfect it. You will say you treat your physical body with care and respect. Maybe, but that is not enough. If you really want to be in good health then you must be attentive, provident and careful, in other words avoid impassioned states, chaotic thoughts and emotions, all of which weaken and wear out your organism. »« Love, and all doors will open up to you. So stop asking yourself why you are unhappy, why you suffer so many setbacks, and so on. The reason is simply that you have no love. If you had love, nothing would resist you, because when you have love you do not stay there doing nothing. Someone will say:- "I'm ill."- "Well, exactly, it's because you have no love."- "But what is the connection?"- "If you had love for health, good health would have established itself in you long ago. If you are ill, it's because you do not really love health. So there you have it."Once you have love for all that is good, for all that is beautiful, and you live with this love day and night, no force in the universe will be able to resist you. Because there is nothing above love. Love

has created the world and all forces obey love. »I took these quotes (there are a few others there) on : http://www.healingcancernaturally.com/aivanhov-health-disease-love.htmlGood inspirations from Brussels to all of you !!!Christoph--- En date de : Dim 24.5.09, Yogacharya Dr.Ananda Bhavanani <yognat a écrit :De: Yogacharya Dr.Ananda Bhavanani <yognatObjet: YOGA THERAPY OR YOGOPATHY?À:

Date: Dimanche 24 Mai 2009, 16h05

 

 

YOGA THERAPY

OR YOGOPATHY?

Modern Yoga therapy

seems to have lost touch with the real essence of Yoga. Yoga aims to help us

regain our psycho-physiologica l balance by removing the root cause of the

disharmony (dukka samoiga viyogam-BG).

Dwaitam or

duality is the main initial cause of the imbalance that may then manifest

through the psycho-somatic stress mechanism through the various Koshas (aspects

of existence) as various disorders depending upon the propensity of the

individual.

Tituvalluvar

the great Tamil mystic says in his Thirukkural, “Look for the disease, look for

the primary cause of it and then treat itâ€. Similarly sage Vashistha tells Lord

Rama in the Yoga Vaashistha that the essential disease (sara adhija vyadhi) is

that of being caught in the vicious birth-rebirth spiral. He also says that

this essential disease can be remedied only by Atma Jnana or the inner awareness

of the higher Self.

Unless we aim

to correct the manifest psycho-somatic disassociation as well as the underlying

ignorant jaundiced perception of reality in the individual, we are not

practicing Yoga Chikitsa (Yoga therapy).

Managing and

suppressing the manifest symptoms with Yoga techniques is just as good or bad

as modern Allopathy that focuses on symptomatic management without ever getting

close to the real cause of most disorders. How many doctors look at the

emotional and psychological issues that are the primary cause of the problem in

so many of their patients?

When Yoga

therapists make the same mistake of merely treating the manifesting symptoms without

remedying the cause, I prefer to call it YOGOPATHY.

An example of

this Yogopathy is when they use Shavasana to manage patients of hypertension quoting

research that has shown that Shavasana reduces blood pressure. Real Yoga Chikitsa

would try to look for the primary cause of the patient’s hypertension and try

to tackle that along with Shavasana

for symptomatic management. Without an attempt to do so, it is merely

Yogopathy.

Another

common example is of using the left nostril Chandra Nadi Pranayama to lower the

blood sugar or using the right nostril Surya Nadi Pranayama to relieve

brochospasm without looking for the real cause of the patient’s diabetes or

asthma.

I recently

encountered a Yoga Therapist who said that he advised his patients to do their

prescribed Pranayama while watching television to help them save their precious

time! When queried on the fact that “Prana flows where the mind goesâ€, he

retorted that he was talking of therapeutic Pranayama whereas I was talking of

spiritual Pranayama!!! !

THE RISHIS

MUST BE TURNING IN THEIR SAMADHIS!

-- Yogacharya Dr Ananda Balayogi BhavananiChairmanICYER and Yoganjali Natyalayam25, 2nd Cross, Iyyanar NagarPondicherry, South Indiawww.icyer.com

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