Guest guest Posted July 7, 2007 Report Share Posted July 7, 2007 Does Ayurveda have equavalent medicines to block or erase bad memories? Scientists find drug to banish bad memories By Richard Gray, Science Correspondent Read full article at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/07/01/scimemo101.xml Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 8, 2007 Report Share Posted July 8, 2007 i don't know if there are such remedies in ayurveda, to block bad memories. for sure there are plants good for decreasing the stress after bad events. ashwagandha and gotu khola are good after a shock. brahmi is helping to have a better acces and control on citta, on subconsciouse levels, so we can voluntarely get there and make changes. bitter plants are helping in getting detached and having a clear image of everything, integrating events with a state of " lucid and detached witness " . jyotishmati is increasing the sharpness of " mental digestion " so we can " digest " faster and better any information / event in life without rezidual products. those are just few examples. plants toghether with yoga practise , good guiding and support for surpassing the event and its effects might help much better than bloking a bad memory. a spiritual attitude is searching for the " gift " brought by the problem, because everithing can teach us some lesson we need (the other face of the coin). by changing perspective we can integrate better the event. there are some stages of reaction to stress according to each person's level of evolution and dosha (15 actually, 1 for each sub-dosha). for each type there are plants to help and also if we understand the mechanism we can control it and obtain spiritual results. __ Does Ayurveda have equavalent medicines to block or erase bad memories? ............... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 8, 2007 Report Share Posted July 8, 2007 Ayurveda doesn't follow the lead of " modern medicine " and gimmicks that this type of attitude can think up - nor does Ayurveda work by " blocking " anything whether it be physical, mental, emotional or spiritual - detoxifying and resolving in a natural way is more the way Ayurveda works as you must realise if you study what has been written here over the years. I'm sure Ayurveda could " detoxify " memories just as this discipline could " detoxify " the body, when required. " Blocking " memories would still have repercussions elsewhere in the being whereas detoxification offers true healing, " blocking " doesn't offer true healing. Jane __________________________ Does Ayurveda have equavalent medicines to block or erase bad memories? Scientists find drug to banish bad memories Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 8, 2007 Report Share Posted July 8, 2007 it's good u reminded us that " nor does ayurveda work by bloking anything " . actually, if we block the acces of our cousciouse mind to something stored in our citta, than we block our chanse to deal with the problem and solve it. the problem still remains and will " germinate " . sooner or later we have to deal with it's effects. then it's even worse because we will not be able to find the source of our problems when the acces to it is blocked. the healing process becomes very difficult in this case. we even might need someone with clairvision to trace the problem that we locked in our subconscous mind and forgot about. this is a disturbed kapha manner to deal with life. ____ Ayurveda doesn't follow the lead of " modern medicine " and gimmicks that this type of attitude can think up - nor does Ayurveda work by " blocking " ........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 9, 2007 Report Share Posted July 9, 2007 > Does Ayurveda have equavalent medicines to block or erase bad memories? Scientists find drug to banish bad memories Can a memory really be " blocked " or " erased " ? Whatever is not in our conscious mind has to become part of our unconscious mind. The difference is that, being pushed into the unconscious, a blocked memory will still influence our thinking and actions, but without our knowing it. The purpose of yoga, as a psychological sister science to ayurveda, is to shine light on our unconscious so that it is brought to our conscious - and we become aware of it. To try and push memories further into the unconscious merely increases our neurosis. What is a " bad " memory? All memories are the same, but we label some " good " and some " bad " according to our emotional response to them. When we are able to increase the activity of our Ajna, or governing, cakra, then we will be able to observe these memories, and the emotions surrounding them. When we can do this, the emotions will no longer have a hold on us - we are liberated - and the memories will no longer be " bad " or " good " , they are just memories. Patanjali said about 2,500 years ago, that memories are merely fluctuations of the mind. When we have no attachments to them, our mind can then become clear, and our awareness expands, finding bliss. Many people like hanging on to " bad " memories so that they can use them as excuses for why they feel " bad " . Other people would rather escape from their " bad " memories, and would want to take such drugs as you describe. Like a lot of allopathic medicine nowadays, this strategy is only superficially effective, and will not give lasting results. There are many techniques for changing our emotions surrounding our memories, such as yogic meditations and Neuro-Linguistic Programming. I believe these are far more effective in the long term than using drugs, allopathic or ayurvedic. Kia ora, Gerald Auckland, New Zealand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 9, 2007 Report Share Posted July 9, 2007 hi u mentioned NLP. this is dangerouse because many people are using it on large scale and they are really efficient in doing this. some of them are actually programming their entire life using those methods. in the night before or in the morning they immagine the day step by step, in details and use their mental power to make it happen the way they were visualising. they are replacing god's plan with their plan. this way they keep away their chance to burn the karma scheduled for this life and the chanse to learn, develope, evolve. so they will have to come again to do what they should have done this life. _________________________ <snip> There are many techniques for changing our emotions surrounding our memories, such as yogic meditations and Neuro-Linguistic Programming. I believe these are far more effective in the long term than using drugs, allopathic or ayurvedic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 9, 2007 Report Share Posted July 9, 2007 When we use medication to block symptoms we are ignoring our body and mind's cries for help. We do not allow ourselves the ability to access the root of our suffering when we use medicines to block symptoms and the blocking of the symptoms will cause symptoms or disease to erupt in another way until we get to the root cause. _____ it's good u reminded us that " nor does ayurveda work by bloking anything " ........................... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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