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Loading ...A new study led by Oxford University in England has mapped the points at which vitamin D interacts with our DNA – and identified over 200 genes directly influenced by vitamin D. It is estimated that 1 billion people worldwide do not have sufficient vitamin D. This deficiency is thought to be largely due to insufficient exposure to the sun and in some cases to poor diet.
(2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...A recent study by the University of Oxford shows that vitamin D deficiency increases the risk certain cancers, dementia and autoimmune conditions such as multiple sclerosis (MS), rheumatoid arthritis and type 1 diabetes. This study also found 2,776 binding sites for the vitamin D receptor along the length of the human genome – the human DNA system.
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...In his new book The Vitamin D Solution: A 3-Step Strategy to Cure Our Most Common Health Problem
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...In this health article, Dr. Mercola presents his evidence why Vitamin D is considered the most important vitamin in the human body. Learn what diseases Vitamin D will prevent and fight. Learn how much Vitamin D a person should ingest and receive from the Sun.
(2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...Modern DNA research is showing that Vitamin D improves the body’s ability to fight cancer and repair DNA damage. Larger amounts of Vitamin D3 in the body increases the expression of the GADD 45 protein – GADD stands for Growth Arrest and DNA Damage – This protein inhibits the growth of cancer cells and stimulates repair of damage to cellular DNA.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...New York Magazine features this article on the benefits of barefoot walking. This article is packed with information will educate and encourage you to return to a more natural way of living and walking – barefoot in harmony with the Earth and your anatomy.
(2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...New York Magazine features this article on the benefits of barefoot walking. This article is packed with information will educate and encourage you to return to a more natural way of living and walking – barefoot in harmony with the Earth and your anatomy.
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...In the 2nd part of this article, you will learn how to properly sunbathe to improve your overall health and immunity. Sunbathing has been an important healthcare practice for thousands of years. By practicing sunbathing correctly, you can minimize risk or damage and get the most benefits from your time in the sun.
(5 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...One of the oldest health care practices is heliotherapy or sunbathing. This ancient healing practice has been used for thousands of years to keep people in high states of health and to fight common illnesses by boosting immunity. Modern research on the remarkable health benefits of Vitamin D confirm that sunbathing is one of the most important health care practices available to us today.
(4 votes, average: 4.25 out of 5) Loading ...This article by Alternative Depression Therapy shares with us 3 simple solar meditations that connect us more fully with the Sun to improve our physical, mental, and emotional health. These solar meditations are easy to perform and help with depression and Seasonal Affective Disorders (SAD).
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...In 1945, a traveler in Romanian met with a monk at Sihastria Monastery. This monk shared with the traveler his life story and spiritual transformation, which includes his own process of purification and dietary change into the breatharian state by living on spiritual manna.
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...Swami Nirmalananda Giri authored a comprehensive book on the spiritual significance of the sacred sound OM. In the chapeter The Glories and Powers of Om, Swami Nirmalananda Giri cites many authoritative yoga texts and their teachings about the Om sound and the Sun. In this article we have included some excerpts from Swami Nirmalananda Giri’s book and links to read the complete text.
(2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...The book Om Yoga – Its Theory and Practice by Swami Nirmalananda Giri contains a section called “The Solar Path of Liberation”. This section shares knowledge from the inner yoga teachings and Upanishads about the significance of the Sun. “As the germinating seed struggles upward toward the sun and out into its life-giving rays, so all higher forms of life reach out for the sun, which acts as a metaphysical magnet, drawing them upward and outward toward ever-expanding consciousness. Sunlight is the radiant form of Om, so the sun initiates the entire solar system into Om.”
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...India’s most sacred text The Bhagavad Gita teaches us “Having confined the mind in the heart and…engaged in the practice of concentration, uttering the one-syllabled Om–the Brahman–and remembering Me, he who departs, leaving the body, attains to the Supreme Goal.” “If he meditates on the Supreme Being with the Syllable Om, he becomes one with the Light, the Sun. He is led to the world of Brahman.” (Prashna Upanishad)
(4 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...Swami Nirmalananda Giri teaches us many ancient yoga secrets in his book Om Yoga – Its Theory and Practice. In the section called “Om is the essence of the evolutionary solar energies”, Swami Nirmalananda Giri references the ancient spiritual texts of Inida, the Upanishads, to teach us that “Sunlight is the radiant form of Om, so the sun initiates the entire solar system into Om. Human beings are solar creatures, therefore to intone Om is the most natural thing they can do. The japa and meditation of Om aligns us with the solar powers that are Om and thereby greatly increase our life force and the evolution of all the levels of our being.”
(3 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...In 1961, a remarkable book on Foot Health was published by Simon J. Wikler, D.S.C., called Take Off Your Shoes and Walk : Steps to Better Foot Health
(4 votes, average: 4.75 out of 5) Loading ...This short article by iloveIndia.com lists many of the health benefits of barefoot walking. New research is now confirming what our ancestors knew for thousands of years – barefoot walking has many positive effects on our physical, mental and emotional health.
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...In 1923 TIME Magazine published a short article on the “new” old therapy of healing with natural sunlight. Heliotherapy has been widely practices for over 2,000 years. However in 1923, TIME Magazine thought of the sun cure as a new addition to modern medicine.
(3 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...The Chandogya Upanishad is one of the “primary” (mukhya) Upanishads. It ranks among the oldest Upanishads, dating to the Vedic Brahmana period, before first millennium BCE. In this commentary on the Chandogya Upanishad, Swami Nirmalananda Giri teaches us about the connection between the sacred sound (mantra) OM and the Sun. “One should meditate on the sun as Om…. the energy of the sun is a manifestation of Om.”
Swami Nirmalananda Giri teaches us that the energy of the Sun is the subtle energy that enters and fills our subtle energy channels (nadis), bringing life to our physical body. Speaking of death, Swami Nirmalananda Giri states, “When he thus departs from this body, then he proceeds upwards through those very rays. He surely goes up meditating on Om. As long as it takes for the mind to travel, in that time he goes to the sun. That indeed is the door to the world of Brahman (Supreme God), an entrance for the knowers and a shutting out for the ignorant.” (Chandogya Upanishad 8.6.5) Those who pass through the sun are free from the compulsion to rebirth on the earth. Om!”
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...The great saint Kabir said ““The sun is the most immediate physical form of AUM we can experience, for it is really solidified, materialized AUM.” In this article by the Ananda Church of Self Realization, we learn about the relationship between the Sun and the spiritual sound AUM (OM). With quotes from Kabir, Paramahansa Yogananda, and Swami Kriyananda, we learn that the Sun is the form of Aum. By meditating on the AUM sound we connect with our Higher Guidance.
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