“We believe that love is the most powerful force in the universe, and it is through love that the world will change. Love never divides. It always multiplies.”
Leslie Temple-Thurston
Meditation is the
food for the soul. It is a gateway whereby we can access the peace and tranquility
of our true nature. Through the practice of meditation, we come to know and experience
our subtle body system.
Meditating on our
Chakras (Chakras are centres of energy, located along the midline of the body)
allows us to balance and centre ourselves. By having the Chakras balanced we feel
more connected and grounded and more able to move freely in our day to day lives.
About
Sara and Terry
Sara
and Terry are delighted to offer this evening of joy and light as an
opportunity to take a break from the routines of daily life. They are students
of Corelight Teacher Training program. They are daily practitioners of
meditation. Terry is currently a student with the College of Ayurveda (UK) and
Sara is a Reiki Master; she holds a Women’s Meditation Group and teaches
Ritualistic Dance in Belfast.
Raena Morgan: There are actually studies that show vegetarians have less heart disease than carnivores.
Andreas Moritz: Absolutely. And that’s
not necessarily because of the fats. Initially, many years ago, people
were told avoid fats like butter.
RM: Saturated fats.
AM: Yes. And they then introduced
margarine, which in fact turned out to be the worst thing for the heart.
So refined hydrogenated vegetable oils are now a leading cause of heart
disease, and they got that. Then they thought cholesterol is caused by
fat,-
RM: The big villain.
AM: -so they banned fat from the diet
and they found that backfired too. So fat is not- if it’s healthy fat,
they have nothing to do with heart disease. In fact, coconut oil, which
they banned in the early years and replaced with margarines, that turned
out to be a great protector for heart disease. So it helps with heart
disease. Olive oil is a great protector of heart disease. That’s why in
the Mediterranean diet they use a lot of olive oil, they have very low
incidence or used to have- until they started overeating protein as
well,-
RM: Okay.
AM: -that they had very, very, very low
incidence of heart disease. So fats are really out of the equation
except the harmful fats, which can definitely cause heart problems. The
protein factor, when you eat meat and you heat it you create very
harmful chemicals. Particularly when you have these outdoor-
RM: Right.
AM: -where they make the- they found
that when you heat the meat and the oil or fat drops into the fire, that
creates gases that are then trapped in the meat, and they found that
they are one of the leading causes of heart disease now. So they can
damage blood vessels and cause cancers and diabetes.
RM: And inflammation, right?
AM: And it creates an inflammatory
response. Now when you have the protein coming into the body, typically
the liver tries to break down as much protein as possible so it doesn’t
enter the bloodstream or enter the blood vessel walls. But many of the
proteins that are left over in the blood, they will be dumped into the
connective tissues surrounding the cells. And once they have saturated
that, you are affecting the oxygenation of the cells, which can cause
cancer. So it’s the same causes that cause diabetes, cancer, heart
disease, same causes, so they’re not separate illnesses. In the early
days of the 40s or 50s, they considered all three diseases the same
disease.
RM: They did?
AM: Yeah.
RM: So they just manifested it?
AM: They started saying let’s make it a separate illness, we can treat it separately.
RM: Okay.
AM: So originally they were the same
illness because they have the same causes and they have the same things
that cause them. So the blood vessel wall is getting too thick, the
membranes accumulate all that protein, and then the damage occurs in the
blood vessel walls. So let’s say a coronary artery, where the blood
pressure is the strongest, will start stressing that thickened artery
wall, that stiff wall, the blood pressure is starting to rise because
the blood vessel no longer dilates properly.
RM: All right.
AM: And then you have the wounds and
lesions create, the breakages, the little damaged parts of the blood
vessel, and then that can release a blood clot which can enter the
bloodstream, enter the heart or the brain and cause a stroke or heart
attack. Now heart attacks are caused by blood clots that are released
from the wounds and lesions, so in order to prevent that from happening,
the body will use cholesterol, the so called bad cholesterol, to start
bandaging those wounds so that they don’t release blood clots.
RM: Okay.
AM: And so the bandage is what we call
Atherosclerosis. Again it is very far-fetched in my opinion to call that
a disease when it is a protective mechanism to prevent multiple heart
attacks from occurring. So what we call disease is actually a survival
mechanism to prevent heart attacks. Now, heart attacks occur not because
people have an occluded blood vessel, where the blood vessel is like 80
percent occluded, they think that causes a heart attack, but it
doesn’t.
RM: It doesn’t?
AM: No. The heart attacks are caused by
the early patches, the initial patches, the soft patches not the hard
crusty occlusions, the soft patches where the cholesterol has attached
itself to the artery wall to prevent a blood clot from escaping and
causing a heart attack. But if the blood pressure is high and you are,
let’s say, over exercised or you get stressed and you have a shortage of
blood flowing in certain parts of the body and in others you have too
much, that’s the fight or flight response, then you may suddenly have a
heart attack because that patch of the cholesterol piece is coming loose
and the blood clot behind is escaping and causing the heart attack or a
stroke. So this doesn’t happen with the occlusion. The occlusion may
make you feel a shortage of breath, you may have angina, pain, but you
don’t develop a heart attack from that. The body will eventually create
its own bypass operations; it will use the capillaries from one part of
the artery and create several bypasses to the part behind the blockage
so that now you have an increased blood flow and you continue having a
normal blood flow. They first discovered that in Korean soldiers that
had one hundred percent occluded blood vessel totally blocked that
didn’t die from heart attacks, they died from bullet wounds, and they
had no sign of infarction, so they didn’t die from heart attacks ever.
So they made their bypasses, they found they had more blood after the
occlusion than before because of their own bypasses.
RM: By their internal bypasses?
AM: Yes. The body makes that. So again
that’s not the main reason for heart attacks. That’s why when they put
stents into the arteries or they have a balloon put in or they have a
bypass operation, it doesn’t change the mortality rate from heart
attacks whatsoever; it has never gone down. So the reason is because it
doesn’t change the thing with the little initial wounds and lesions that
are patched up by the cholesterol. It doesn’t change that because the
main risk is the inflammation in the artery wall itself; that’s why the
C-Reactive Protein is a much better indicator for heart disease than
cholesterol levels-
RM: Okay.
AM: -or any other measure. So when you
have inflammation in the artery wall, that shows there is something in
there the body’s reacting to, and in most cases it’s protein, in some
cases it’s trans fatty acids that you react to, or cigarette chemicals
from smoking and damaged proteins, plasma proteins that get caught up in
those areas when you eat certain foods that are so acidic, like drink a
coke, you put yourself at risk for heart attacks. Or there’s a study to
show that if you eat a steak at night, in the evening, and the
digestion is so low compared to at lunchtime, you have a much higher
risk of dying from a heart attack the next morning.
Chatuhsasthi Yogini Mantra 64 Kali Yogini Namavali
Recitation
of the following sacred mantras will bring about transformation of
consciousness and a closer personal relationship with the aspects of
Maha Kali.
Each Mantra is preceeded by "Om" and is concluded with "Svahaa".
With a lot of joy I announce that the Belly Dance class has taken a different shape, we have finally got a new Venue for our Tuesday classes!!!!
Ritualistic Belly Dance is an art form that will burn fat and condition your abs, hips, buns, thighs, and arms. It also enhance your feminility and inner beauty as it adds a new dimension of artistic creativity and spontaneity to your weekly practice!
EVERY TUESDAY AT 7.15 - 8.15 pm
WINDSOR TENNIS CLUB, 37 WINDSOR AVENUE,
BELFAST, BT9 6EJ!!!
Please do not hesitate to contact me for further info on 07760838468 or via mail - saralakesilence@gmail.com or leave a post on this blog!!! Or come show yourself up on the day!!!!!!!!
