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Dietary Stress
Modern farming practices increase the quantity of food production while compromising the quality. With the use of chemical fertilizers, we are now able to harvest more food but with less nutrition in it. Studies show the modern potato has lost 100% of Vitamin A and 57% of Vitamin C compared to its sister in 1950. There are many research studies showing less vitamins, minerals and other nutrients in different foods. There are several studies showing that organically grown foods have higher nutrient content than non-organically grown food. For example, lycopene-a very powerful anti-oxidant-is more concentrated in organic tomato than the non-organic variety. It is interesting to understand that organic tomato produces more lycopene in order to fight the pests which attack the tomato plant, than the non-organic tomato, which does not encounter any pests as it is treated with chemicals. When treated with pesticides and chemical fertilizers, plants grow in a stressful condition and that stress is then passed on to us, when we eat them.
We do not consume fresh fruits and vegetables. Freshness does not mean, for example, apples being coated with wax to prevent dryness. The practice of picking fruits and vegetables before they are ripe and the use of ripening gas devoid them of many nutrients. Lack of vital nutrients caused by this process increases stress. We need the phyto-nutrients so our body can cope with other stress factors that introduce oxidizing chemicals in our body.
Treating Food
Due to our fast life, we do not have time to cook food. We end up either eating in a restaurant, where the emphasis is on economics and not on your health. While preparing food on a large scale the workers prepare food with no love and joy and care only for your praise that food is tasty. Therefore they try their maximum to prepare tasty food compromising health.
Many are so busy that they eat pre-cooked food. At lunch time they eat fat-free foods, highly refined, refrigerated in a plastic container, bombarded with the rays of a microwave. Microwave is an easy, fast means not only to cook food but also to deplete nutrients. Click here to read about the effect of microwaving on nutrients in your food.
In between meals, the mouth remains active with lot of chocolates, cookies and roasted, fried and burned materials in the name of snacks. The evening meal is a heavy dinner with, once again, highly refined products.
Processed foods
Not only do foods grown with pesticides cause stress; processed foods devoid of nutrients will cause stress too. Even organically grown food, if processed, is not good for health. Just because it has a label promoting it as 'organic' or 'natural' does not mean it is healthy. This is how food companies fool the public. Just by adding some ingredients that are natural they sell highly processed foods. Processed foods that are highly refined, whether they are refined oils or refined grains, will cause stress to the body.
The wheat flours used in cakes, biscuits and bakery confectionary items are all chlorinated to oxidise the starches for softness and fluffiness. These oxidated products logically will cause health problems.
What is the relationship between eating refined products and stress?
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What is Disease?
Disease: not-at-ease: is an unhealthy process of mind and/or body having a characteristic train of symptoms. We will now understand how the mind, directly or indirectly, gives rise to physical diseases. In the next figure we summarize the factors leading to diseases.
We see that there are two factors contributing to Stress - the ultimate cause of disease manifestation. One is internal, the mind and the other stress is brought about by lifestyle. These include chemical toxins that gain access into our body through food and other products we use in daily life.
Let us discuss how stress causes disease and the factors that contribute to it in detail.
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Purification of Mind and Body
5 Steps
Sakthi Foundation offers a five step process to achieve perfect health for a blissful life. Pancha means five (5) in the two ancient Indian languages Tamil and Sanskrit. We give you five or Pancha steps for leading a stress free life. These steps are essential principles. Bhoota means "essence" or "fundamental" in the same two ancient Indian languages Tamil and Sanskrit. These five essential principles or thePancha Bhootas are the causal principles of this world including humans.
Pancha Bhoota healing stems from the use of the five essential principles that create and govern the universe. We will discuss the details subsequently. We will first understand the underlying theme of Pancha Bhoota healing. The theme is that the healing or vital force is always present in us. Due to the toxins (mental and physical) the healing force is blocked and hence the manifestation of diseases. This cleansing and detoxification is the theme of Pancha Bhoota healing.
Cleansing or DETOXIFICATION
We have discussed earlier that the source for toxins in the mind and body are internal and also external. The internal toxins are metabolic waste produced due to the innumerable physiological and metabolic processes that occur in our body. The external toxins are those that come from the environment into our body. The process of protection of the body and mind from various harmful chemicals (both from those produced in the metabolic processes and those coming from outside) is a remarkable feat.
The body has evolved over millions of years to promptly handle toxic chemicals. However, in this century, various toxins from the environment have become additional burdens for the human body. These toxic pollutants enter our body through the air we breathe, the water we drink and the food we eat. No wonder there is a global increase of cancer and other diseases at the turn of this century. The human body is choked with agents that affect us both at the physical and mental level.
These toxins that are produced internally in the body and that come from the environment have to be removed from the body to be healthy. This is called cleansing or detoxifying the body. In fact, we should do this maintenance and repair job daily just like maintaining a library.
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Freedom
You have come to us seeking suggestions for a disease or problem and we will do our best to help you. Sakthi Foundation does not want anyone to walk away with temporary relief. We are interested in helping you not only with the current burning issue or issues but also hope to make you self-sufficient for future problems. We want you to be able to take care of yourself self-sufficiently and prevent future physical and mental problems. We are not profit motivated and that is why we want you to learn to be independent regarding any future physical or mental challenges.
Your freedom is our vision.
In the following few pages we would like to bring to your attention as to why we get diseases of body and mind. You will find, in fact, that all diseases are directly or indirectly caused by the state of our minds. It is hard to swallow this fact but we will guide you to think about and analyze this fact.
If you are impatient, go ahead and contact us for relief from your problem but make sure you get back to this page and continue to read further for your "Self". Otherwise continue to read.
Please do not just read the contents in the following pages. Think them over in order to understand them for your own benefit. Reading without thinking and reflecting is like eating food without digesting it. So please do not read casually or in a hurry and get indigestion of knowledge.
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Health
Everyone likes to be healthy. In fact, health is the nature of the body. Disease is an un-natural condition of the body. For ages mankind has strived for perfect health. With help of modern science we have increased the life span in this century, but cancer and heart diseases and many infectious diseases are haunting us. In spite of good knowledge about healthy life stlye not many follow these guidelines.
From ancient health records we know that only few people took care of the body and majority of the population took health for granted. Hence health tips were emphasized in various aspects of life.
In modern times, the same trend continues. In spite of good health care and knowledge of health, the majority of us are unhealthy. This is again because we take health for granted. Even in this age of technology and communication, despite knowing what is good for us, we tend to ignore the facts. All this stems from lack of Awareness.
Awareness means to be connected to Truth (that which is never changing but eternal). In other words Awareness means to overcome the boundaries of individual beliefs and self-connect to the common Truth. Example, each individual will have their own beliefs about their food habits and life style. Scientific Truth is not based on a belief but tested and verified with a scientfic system which avoid human bias. Sticking on to the Truth is Awareness.
The aim of Sakthi Foundation is to help understand the root cause of suffering both at the body level and the mind level and bring in more Awareness to the Universal Truth. Without understanding the root cause no disease or problem can be eradicated. Without focusing on the core matter all steps undertaken will only be superficial. The benefiting results will only be temporary, while the root problem will continue to manifest in other forms. So, we here, will be addressing these problems for permanent long lasting solutions.
We have a Universal Self pattern in understanding the Truth about Health. These are like the five Energy patterns. Based on this approach we have a pattern in treating the diseease which is logical and rational. Please look at the image that briefly explains the pattern.
"Noi nadi noi muthal nadi athu thanikkum Vainadi vaippa cheyal" (Thirukkural)
Make a careful diagonosis based on symptoms and other indications, discover the true or root cause of disease, think out the proper remedy,and apply it effectively
நோய்நாடி நோய்முதல் நாடி அதுதணிக்கும்
வாய்நாடி வாய்ப்பச் செயல். (குறள் 948: மருந்து அதிகாரம்)
நோய்நாடி – பிணியானது இன்னதென்று உடற் குறிகளாலும், வெளிப்பாடுகளாலும் அறிந்து
நோய்முதல் நாடி – அப்பிணியின் மூலகாரணம் என்பதை ஆராய்ந்து அறிந்து
அதுதணிக்கும் வாய்நாடி – பின்னர் அப்பிணி தீர்க்கும் வழியினையும் இன்னதென்று அறிந்து
வாய்ப்பச் செயல் – தக்க மருத்துவமும், மருந்தும் தந்து பிணியை நீக்க வேண்டும்
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"Kitchen is the Hospital
Mother is the Doctor
Food is Medicine"
- Mohanan Vaidyar
Excellent Mohanan Vaidyar's You tube in Malayalam on natural health
