There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to the one hope of your calling, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all and through all and in all.
~Ephesians 4:4-6 (NRSV).

Unity is the church. The church has very little without the cogent sense of unity, in and under Christ – who is Lord of all.

There is a threefold triadic structure eminent in this passage: 1) body, Spirit, hope; 2) Lord, faith, baptism; 3) one God and Father of all – over, through and in all.

What this sense of unity is about is simple. It’s characterised by way of seven key elements, unifying the whole in completeness in identification through Christ to the Father in heaven:

1. One Body

I am covering this element of Christian unity in an upcoming article to be titled, Church Essence – Body Fellowship. However, it is via identification in Christ that universally qualifies the Body – a universal ‘machine’ and a force for Christ in this world. ‘One Body’ is an entirely new concept heralded in the New Testament – it is a tradition not seen so much in Old Testament times under ‘the Elect.’

2. One Spirit

This verse could be read that the Body (above) is solemnised in one Spirit. Indeed, as John Stott puts it, “Thus, it is our common possession of the one Holy Spirit that integrates us into one body.”[1]

It is clear to all of us, I hope, that the one common Spirit resides in all of us, activated by belief in Christ – belief in his death and resurrection to the purpose of redemption.

3. One Hope

Here, for Paul, there is a quick departure. He hearkens the reader back to verse 1. Our hope is centred onto the calling we’ve received; that to follow Christ heavenward for the prize of eternal life, both here and to come.

This same hope we share with all others in fellowship and keeping with God. The call is punctuated via this one singular hope: Christ.

4. One Lord

The third person of the Trinity or Godhead has already been discussed – we’re one in Spirit. Now Paul turns to the second person of the Trinity. There is a linkage now between the terms “faith” and “baptism” that immediately follow and the second person of the Godhead – God the Son – Jesus himself.

5. One Faith

There are few sweeter gospel summaries than Paul’s in Ephesians 2:1-10. He succinctly roadmaps faith for all believers in this section; ‘one faith’ is the one, singular gospel of Jesus Christ.

6. One Baptism

Notwithstanding a previous ezine-article I wrote recently, What Must I Do to Be Saved?, we’re called to a higher calling, to enter the church, through baptism.

Now, this one subject – of all subjects – has often caused more disunity than unity over the present age, from Christ’s resurrection, than most others. There are a variety of different takes on the theology of baptism.

Some believe it means water baptism, others, the fire of Spiritual Baptism (baptism of the Holy Spirit), and others again, the believer’s baptism, which is simply faith per Romans 10:8-9 (which is covered in the abovementioned article) by way of identification in Jesus’ death and resurrection. Snodgrass agrees by highlighting that “Paul was not speaking about the mode or timing of a ceremony; he was saying no other baptism exists except baptism into Christ.”[2]

Whatever theology we hold to we should ensure it’s inclusive in nature, for unity is the real prize for which we’re all called heavenward.

7. One God

Everything truly begins and ends with God the Father himself – all else in the whole of creation, with literally no exception, waits on the Father. The key feature of this theology is the Shema of Deuteronomy 6:4 – Yahweh is One. This, at last, calls us to be unified to the first person of the Godhead, having already considered unification with the Spirit, initially, and the Son.

He is forever above us, through every part of us, and in us. Nothing can separate us – in these terms – from the Father in heaven.

Summary

The clearest purpose we can reach in reading Paul’s passage with most clarity is that we’re called to theological oneness – a seemingly impossible invocation to the divisible church nowadays, or in any day for that matter, especially where our common, encroachable humanity – the flesh – descends, spoils and rots.
We’re to be marked for our unity and inclusiveness – under Christ.

This means stamping out divisive elements by tolerance and reason, not counterattack. Where tolerance and reason do not cut the theological custard we can but accept it and move on as we were, loving the divisive element all the very same.

© 2010 S. J. Wickham.

[1] Harry Uprichard, Ephesians – An EP Study Commentary (Darlington, England: Evangelical Press, 2004), p. 200.
[2] Klyne Snodgrass, The NIV Application Commentary – Ephesians (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, 1996), p. 211.

It’s a difficult chore to give a proper definition of a topic so universal and so important as attitude. This one concept can leave us at the end of life full of regrets or completely satisfied. Attitude can define and shape every experience of life. It’s essential to learn what attitude is, and isn’t, as early as possible. In the following paragraphs, we’ll investigate the definition of attitude, why it’s important and how to control it to our greatest benefit.

Don’t Give Me Any Of Your Attitude: This is a popular phrase, used mostly by a parent, usually directed at a teenager. I mention this to explain why it isn’t attitude. The parent is reacting to a set of behaviors (one of which may be rolling of the eyes). Behaviors are not attitudes, but they reveal attitudes for those paying attention.

The Real Definition Of Attitude: Attitudes are unseen, and often unexamined motivations deep within our minds. We all develop these deep motivations so early, we’re unaware of the process. Some have suggested that even unborn children are learning attitudes, based on the emotions displayed around them. As we grow, emotional events are recorded in our minds with great importance, forming unconscious motivations for almost every action and reaction later in life. As we live, our experiences either reinforce or alter these motivations. Most of these attitudes are so deeply embedded, we never have to think of them, but they drive how we think and act, almost like remote control.

Attitudes are more obvious under stressful situations, during conflict and under the influence of chemicals, like alcohol. Ever wondered why you behaved badly under a certain condition? My violent father would break things and then hit people when in conflict. Though I vowed never to be that way, I discovered (by destroying our coffee table) that my father had programmed my attitude. Fortunately, I was reading about attitude at the time, so I had, and used, the tools to see to it this never happened again. This article it to pass those tools to you. Your attitudes shape every action and reaction you have in life.

What Attitude Can For You: This is one of the most powerful keys, that every life situation is driven by attitudes. We can control them and use them to literally change our whole experience of life, from one of false starts, conflict and failure, to ever-improving successes. Our relationships can improve in amazing time. Our performance at work can be improved. We begin to see possibilities where we used to see roadblocks. Addictions fall away into our past, never to return, because we no longer have an addictive attitude. What if there was nothing in between you and your greatest dream of achievement? There is nothing…but our attitudes! If it’s good and legal and harmless and you dream of doing it, no one can stop you except you. It’s our motivating thoughts and emotions that make us think someone or something is stopping us. If our attitudes were changed so we understood this resistance we’re getting is there to make us stronger and better able to do what we dream, everything would change. Stop signs would become stepping stones toward a whole new reality. This is the reality, if we choose to control our attitudes.

A Mental New D.E.A.L. How To Control Your Attitude:

Dream as big as you can about all the things you want your life to be. My Mom used to tell me not to get my hopes up. Get your hopes up!!! How can we expect to get anywhere our hopes haven’t been? Dreams are the magnets that draw us to a satisfying life.

Eliminate limiting thoughts with positive thoughts and plans to achieve your dreams. Our self-talk needs to change as well as our actual talk. Everything we think, say, and do impacts our attitudes. If we want to be motivated towards the positive accomplishment of our dreams, we must discipline everything we think, say and do.

Act on your new, positive plans. Dreams without action are frustrating fantasy. It doesn’t matter how small the action begins as long as we’re taking concrete steps toward our dreams. As we go, we can increase our actions and efforts until we’re all in. Yes, all in! Put everything you have in every action you take toward your dreams.

Learn from setbacks, conflicts and failures, to adjust attitudes and actions. Here’s where stop signs become stepping stones. People with an attitude of failure will use some circumstance along the way to turn their backs on their dreams. People who are reprogramming their attitudes toward success will see opportunities, here, to learn, grow, gain strength and find another way to get the job done.

As I start to sum this up, I’m worried that I’ve made it seem so simple it can’t possibly of be true. You can read hundreds of books and attend dozens of seminars, to get the same information, only expanded with illustrations, examples and exercises. You’ll learn that, either way, the results are the same, as reliable as the sunrise (established by the same Designer). I was once told that people won’t value a thing unless it has a high price. The value (and price) of controlling your attitude is in the doing of it, in the effort and discipline it takes. Once you start, you’ll discover the price is high, but fair. If you feel there should be a large financial cost on top of this, well, that’s just a matter of attitude. We can negotiate if you’d like.

Overall Effects- People’s Lifestyles and Mobile Communications
The 4th Generation (4G) mobile communications systems are projected to be carried out around 2010. World Over the research on 4G (Fourth Generation) Mobile Communications is in progress since the last 6 years. The technology is still in evolution but Countries have already started committing themselves to its implementation. India has said that it would leapfrog from 2G to 4G bypassing the 3G Technology. China, Korea and Japan are jointly developing 4G Phones; China will implement 4G technology for the Beijing Olympic games. WiMax Technology is on its last legs because it does not support VOIP. Data transfers will happen at LAN Speeds of 100Mbps.The World is looking up to 4G for transformation of the way people do day-to-day business. Once the technology evolves the hand phone used in 4G mobile communications would be an all in one device for use in. ? Education, Arts and Science ? Business activities outside the office ? Network games and music/video content downloading ? Visual Communication ? Merchandise purchase and settlement ? Daily Life ? Work ? Nursing and Health Care ? Emergency Medical Treatment ? Disaster Management.

People’s Lifestyles and Mobile Communications

The 4G Mobile Communication Systems can have even greater impact on people’s lives, leading to changes in lifestyles and transforming our living environments, way of business and the social system. 4G mobile systems are likely to widely and deeply penetrate our daily lives, to create a new information and communications environment in our society. The use of mobile communications services will be taken for granted in the daily lives of people, and their behavior may be significantly change from the conventional behavioral patterns. , It will enable people to study literally, play, work, and shop anywhere they want. As a consequence, people will be liberated from the limitations and restrictions of space, and be able to more freely choose where they want to be schools, offices and homes will not disappear as a physical space, but the significance of “place” and “space” could be much different from our conventional thinking, a great transformation of business structure, particularly in industries targeted at consumers, and an emergence of new businesses. service offering may shift in varying degrees into a structure where “a service is delivered to the user” instead of “users are required to go out to receive service”. Mobile government services and remote education is likely to be provided purely as an application on mobile networks. Although it may be difficult to realize full-scale on-line medical service right away, an environment where doctors with advanced mobile medical devices visit patient’s homes to provide treatment using special mobile services are considered sufficiently possible .The advancement in mobile services are likely to enlarge the markets for a wide range of products that are often used in daily life, including mobile terminals, information appliances, home network, intelligent vehicles, etc

It may not be too much to say that the service that has most dramatically transformed people’s lifestyles in the last decade is mobile communications such as cellular phones and PHS. Ten years ago, cellular phones were still too expensive and too bulky to carry around, thus, they were used only by limited amount of business users and others. After the explosive growth in the late 1990′s, however, mobile communications have turned into the most frequently used means for communications for many users. Furthermore, with the creation of e-mail, content services, i.e., ringing tones and games, and other applications such as web information services for cellular phones, mobile communications have provided a lot of fun and conveniences to people’s daily lives, and even caused some changes in the power balance between various information medium.

In the next ten years, mobile communications services are expected to make further progress and cast an even greater impact on people’s lives, leading to changes in lifestyles and transforming our living environments, way of business and the social system. Due to the advancement of mobile services, 4G mobile systems are expected to be much more widely used in and closely related to our daily lives than today. For instance, through the six use of mobile terminals equipped with full-scale settlement capabilities, people would be able to use mobile devices as a secure electronic settlement means for the purchases they make from shops or vending machines in town. If a solid personnel authentication becomes a reality through biological authentication technologies, people may be able to gain access a variety of services including administrative services of local governments from their mobile terminals at hand. A significant enhancement in data transmission rates will allow users to obtain and enjoy video software and advanced game contents, etc., in an instant regardless of their location.

Transactions of business mail with a huge data attachment can be performed without any stress in mobile environments, which may make the word “desk-work” obsolete. People will be able to receive necessary navigation information in a simple manner whenever they go out, and may no longer feel inconvenient due to a lack of information. In addition, if abnormalities, such as an accident or a natural disaster, people will be able to make necessary contacts immediately from virtually anywhere, improving the safety standard of our lives.

As described above, 4G mobile systems are likely to widely and deeply penetrate our daily lives, to create a new information and communications environment in our society. The use of mobile communications services will be taken for granted in the daily lives of people, and their behavior may be significantly change from the conventional behavioral patterns.

Traditionally, people used several life spaces of different functionality or significance (home, school, workplace, bank, department stores, hospitals, to name a few) for specific purposes. Mobile services, however, can provide many of these functionalities transcending spaces. In other words, it enables people to study literally, play, work, and shop anywhere they want. As a consequence, people will be liberated from the limitations and restrictions of space, and be able to more freely choose where they want to be.

This is a transformation from a “space-based lifestyle” with many restrictions to a freer and more flexible “object-oriented lifestyle”. Naturally, schools, offices and homes will not disappear as a physical space, but the significance of “place” and “space” could be much different from our conventional thinking.

Jesus is the lamb slain from the foundation of the world. When Jesus died on the cross, he paid for the sins of the world for all time whether past, present or future. The result of Jesus sacrifice is in effect outside time and space. From God’s point of view, the past, present and future exist simultaneously in the Now. God is omnipresent in all space and all time. Redemption is in effect even from the beginning of creation.

When Jesus Christ died on the cross and paid for the sins of the whole world, the names of everyone that exists from the beginning of time to the end are written in the Book of Life. So people of the world have their names written in the Book of Life whether they believe in Jesus or not until the very end of time. God the Father does not consider which point in your life you actually get saved before he considers you as his child. To him, you are his child from the very day you were conceived in your mother’s womb till the day you pass from this Earth.

This is the reason why before a person is saved, he can pray to God and God hears and answers him. In a sense, there is no before or after. His effect of salvation is outside time and space. His whole life is saved no matter which point he accepts Jesus Christ as his savior.

Faith operates through Jesus Christ whether we believe in him or not. The reason why we can be healed by having the faith to be healed, is because Jesus himself took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses on the cross in his own body. He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his stripes we are healed.

There is only One Law, Mental Law. Law is Mind in Action. The Lord is the Law. The entire universe operates through the Spirit of Christ. All Faith is of the Lord. Jesus is the Author and Finisher of Faith. Even if you do not acknowledge the real source of faith, faith still works. Law never fails. You might not know the real reason why you are healed but you can still be healed if you believe you are healed.

According to the Law of Karma or Cause and Effect, good results in good and evil results in evil. What you sow, you shall reap. Sin is mental or physical action that is not in alignment with the will of God. To sin is to miss the mark. Sin is evil and sin cannot exist in the presence of the person of God. The wages of sin is death. To die from something is to be separated from that thing. Sin causes us to be separated from God.

Quantum physics states that something which exists will continue existing forever until something else neutralizes it. So to think that we only need to pay for the penalty of our sins for a certain period of time until it is over, is a great error. Once sin exist, it will continue existing forever and so will the penalty which is eternal separation from God. God is life, health, happiness, love, joy, peace and prosperity. The penalty of sin is to be separated from the good things of life and suffering sickness, sadness, poverty and death.

In order to be reconciled back to God again, sin has to be paid for eternally and removed completely. It takes something eternal to remove something eternal. The idea of sin being paid for only for a period of time is absolute nonsense because sin being a spiritual thing is eternal. Therefore the wages of sin is eternal death. The concept of neutralizing karma when being applied to sin has turned the punishment of sin from eternal death to temporal suffering. People professing themselves to be wise become as fools.

Man has to pay for his sins forever by being eternally separated from God. In the spiritual dimension, time and space does not exist. The separation is a mental disassociation. We are still connected to the universal aspect of God which we can never be separated from but we are separated from the personal aspect of God, we are alienated from him. We are still one with the Spirit of God but we are no longer one with Him in righteousness.

Light and darkness are separated by only one degree. They differ simply moving one frequency up and one frequency down. That one degree is all that’s needed for a separation of infinity. Distance is relative in the physical dimension but it simply does not exist in the spiritual. Light and darkness are separated not by distance but by frequency of it’s own energetic vibration and by perception of the Mind of God.

Jesus being the Eternal Son of God shed his blood for us to remove our sins eternally. He does not have to pay for sins continually in hell by eternal separation from God because the blood which he shed is eternal. Having died to sin once, his blood is eternally covering our sins forever. We are continually being washed by the blood of Jesus. Our sins are continually being put away by the blood of Jesus.

We know that blood is only a form in the physical and it doesn’t actually exist in the spiritual. Blood in the physical actually represents Life in the spiritual. Every time we consider the blood of the lamb, we truly mean the very life of the Son of God. Good always overcomes evil on the mental plane because higher vibration has more energy to neutralize lower vibration without canceling itself out completely. The life of the Son of God is infinite. You cannot subtract from infinity any portion of it but you can remove the whole of it. When the infinity of eternal life and the infinity of eternal death meet, eternal death is removed completely and eternal life still retains its infinity. Death is swallowed up in victory.

How can two things of infinity coexist side by side and not merge into one another at all? They can because they are laterally infinite but vertically apart. A frequency is laterally infinite but vertically distinguished from another. Eternal life and eternal death are infinite in a horizontal dimension but separated from a vertical dimension. You can be in the presence of a person physically and yet be worlds apart from him or her mentally. You can be light years away from someone you love but yet be connected with him or her as though you are both in the same point in existence together.

Jesus Christ has reconciled the world unto himself, not imputing your trespasses to you. He is the propitiation for our sins, not for Christians only, but also for the sins of the whole world. Understanding that the effect of salvation operates outside time and space is the key to solving the mystery and reconciling the paradox of why people of the world can connect with God as though they were Sons of God even though they have yet to be saved.

Since the sins of the whole world are paid for, and God’s justice is satisfied, there results a universal offer of salvation to the entire human race. But this does not mean that every person is automatically saved. One must accept Christ’s work on his behalf by personal trust. So the issue in salvation is not sins but only one sin. The sin of unbelief is the only thing standing between God and each member of the human race. When that is reversed by trusting in Christ, all other sins are forgiven.

The only work that is involved is the work of God, that you believe on Him whom He sent. At the last judgment, the issue will be faith in Christ, not sins. If someone has failed to trust in Christ during his lifetime on earth, his name is blotted out of the book of life and he will spend eternity separated from the Godhead in the lake of fire which is the Second Death.

The effect of salvation is upon all people, but only those who have personally accepted Jesus Christ as their savior are sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise until the day of redemption. So can salvation be lost? Yes, only for those who are not born again in this lifetime. They will lose their salvation at judgment day.

Your name is already written in the Book of Life, and will remain so until the end of time. The question is, will you believe in what Jesus Christ has done for you at the cross and personally accept him has your Lord and Savior? All your sins have been wiped away. The only sin that the holy spirit now reprove the world of is the singular sin of unbelief. Believe in Jesus and your name shall not be blotted out at the end of time. You will escape the second death with the angels in the lake of fire and experience eternal happiness and fellowship with God the creator who loves you so dearly, forever in the highest heavens. Is it so hard to believe? Not at all.

Pranic Therapy Part I – An Introduction

Pranic Therapy is an alternative system of Medicine using therapy with the Universal Stream of Consciousness, the Cosmic Prana.

Pranic Therapy can be effectuated by proper knowledge of the psycho- physical organism, physical and mental discipline and opening all our channels to the Cosmic Prana. This is normally effected in seven steps

The Seven Stages of Pranic Therapy

Knowledge of the Psychosomatic Machine Regulation of Sleep, food & Exercise Relaxation Attunement to Biorythms ( Circadian Rhythms, Solar & Lunar Rhythms ) Removing mental blocks ( Difficult due to Repression ) Overcoming Prajnaparadha ( Fault of Awareness due to misuse of our cognitive & conative functions) Opening the system to the Cosmic Prana ( Opening all channels to the Divine Shakti )

Introduction

With the advent of rapid industrialization, urbanization and the breakdown of family life after the Second World War, social life in the West became tense & stressful. The spread of materialistic ideas and ideals and the erosion of faith in Morality & the Law Divine & the social disturbance caused by the Vietnam War brought a sense of futility & meaninglessness in the Western psyche.The limitations of the Western system of chemotherapy & adverse side-effects of antibiotics, sedatives and certain other drugs and the disillusionment with the promises of science & technology made millions turn to Oriental philosophies, divine practices & systems of therapy.

The response from the Orient was benevolent. Favoured by the social revolution that swept through several countries in the West in the 1960s, these countries, especially the US, came to be flooded with Gurus and Yogis. Yoga, TM, Reiki – all attained world-wide popularity.

Three Modern Movements

As a byproduct three modern movements came into being.

They are Neo-humanisn, interreligious dialogue and Holistic Health. The term ‘Neo-humanism’ refers to a basic change in modern man’s attitude towards himself and his fellowmen which is characterised by


the recognition of the essential goodness of man
focus on existential problems
striving for higher transcendental experience.




The contribution of Ramakrishna Movement to inter-faith dialogue was immense. Other movements like Maharshi International University & Self Realisation Fellowship contributed to this change in the human mindset.

Holistic Health

Holistic Health refers to a modern movement which regards health as a dynamic state of the total human being. Although the symptoms of a disease may be found in certain tissues or organs, health is not a mere removal of such symptoms by the treatment of the affected tissues or organs, but a state of multidimensional experience, according to this perspective. The mind, body & environment are in a state of dynamic interaction & the maintenance of this interaction in an optimum state of efficiency is what health means. In other words ” To be healthy is to have the ability to live with full use of our faculties and be vigorous, alert & happy to be alive, even in old age, despite an occasional bout of illness.” This ” operational health” has been defined as wellness. It is a sense of all-round well-being as contrasted with illness. .

The greatest aspect of holistic health is its recognition of the role played by mind in health. ” Mind is omnipotent ” said Freud & he had shown that the Unconscious played a key role in causing certain diseases which came to be described as psychosomatic diseases. He looked upon the Unconscious chiefly as the repository of negative emotions. His early disciple Carl Jung expanded the concept of the Unconscious to make it include good emotions and even spiritual urges. Adler, another disciple of Freud showed that the ego could alter unconscious behaviour.

The connecting link between the body and mind was not clear. The work of the Canadian endocrinologist Hans Selye brought the much needed connecting link. In his classic work ” The Stress of Life ” Selye showed that mental stress was the root cause of several types of common illness such as hypertension, hyperacidity etc. The ‘stressor’ (the original source of stress ) excites the hypothalamus in the brain. This vital organ which controls the autonomic nervous system activates the pituitary to secrete the stress hormone ( known as ACTH ) which stimulates the secretion of several hormones and steroids (including the well known, adrenaline or epinephrine). More sugar is released into the blood & BP is increased as a result of these changes. According to Selye, stress is unavoidable in life. ( The emotional centre in the brain, when upset, stimulates the oxintic cells to secrete more hydrochloric acid in the stomach which leads to hyperacidity.) When it goes beyond a certain tolerance level ( which varies from person to person ) the system breaks down resulting in illness.

To the scientific picture of body-mind interrelationship given above, certain new concepts were added. One was the idea that if negative emotions could cause illness, positive emotions can cause “wellness”. The attention of medical experts & the imagination of the public was captured by this innovative idea when Normal Cousins, editor of Saturday Review, published a convincing account of his recovery from a debilitating & incurable disease of the connective tissue. The patient’s understanding of the disease & his active participation in the recovery process was highlighted by his case.

The most difficult and controversial aspect of holistic health is another idea that by creating proper awareness within himself man could exercise a certain degree of voluntary control over the healing processes taking place in his body. After the aftermath of Pavlov’s demonstration of conditioned reflexes, another Russian scientist K M Bykov and his colleagues showed in 1924 that several involuntary processes such as regulation of body heat, heart rhythm, production of urine, BP etc which were mediated by the autonomic nervous system could be brought under voluntary control. The above finding was corroborated later during experiments conducted on animals under ‘operant’ (voluntary)conditioning. Hundreds of people found that they could bring under control their heart rhythm, brain waves etc with the help of the biofeedback technique. Indian Yogis in the West also demonstrated that they could alter metabolic rate, heartbeat, body temperature etc simply by their will power, without the use of any biofeedback instruments.

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Holistic health practioners invaded the scene at this juncture. They showed that not only certain organs but the working of the whole system such as the digestive system, the respiratory system, circulatory system etc ( known as the Systems concept ) could be regulated simply by changing one’s life-style & affinities. It was claimed that even diseases such as cancer could be cured or held in check be creating strong faith & the right type of consciousness.Despite the exaggeration and the propaganda which accompanied these claims, the basic idea that man can consciously regulate involuntary and unseen physiolo- gical processes came to be accepted as a fact by the medical community.

Various meditation techniques like Transcendental Meditation, Zen, Yoga were becoming popular in the West in those days. Apart from the spiritual benefits, (In Transcendental Meditation, the existence of a fourth major state of Consciousness called Transcendental Consciousness was proved by Dr Keith Wallace in his Phd Thesis ) practical Yoga teachers showed that Meditation also produced other beneficial effects such as reduction of tension, lowering of BP, relaxation of muscles, increase of concentration & work efficiency & even increase of immunological resistance to diseases. As a result, some form of Meditation has become an essential part of most holistic health programmes.( Dr Harold Bloomfied says that TM can be used as an adjunct to psychiatric practice.)

The success of Acupuncture, herbology etc which came to be recognised as ‘ Alternative Medicine ” , lent much support to the holistic health position. Two great discoveries strengthened this position. One was the discovery of ‘biological clocks’ in nature and the existence of biorhythms in the human body. The other discovery was that the brain produced certain neuro- modulators called endorphins which have the property of reducing pain. The production of these natural painkillers is influenced by our thoughts and endorphins are produced when our EEG brain waves are in an alpha state ( 8.5 cycles per sec).

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