BodyOn the path to gnosis you'll meet people who will offer you a helping hand in taking the next step, as well as those who will want you to fall off the path. Like any marketplace, forces already present want to prevent entry to newcomers, especially if they have set an agenda. The only way to continue on the path is to know yourself. According to Dr. Candace Pert, an internationally recognised neuroscientist and pharmacologist who published over 250 research articles and was a significant contributor to the emergence of Mind-Body Medicine as an area of legitimate scientific research in the 1980’s, your body is your subconscious mind. "In particular Candace formulated a theory of the emotions, mediated by receptor active peptides, such as the neuropeptides and immune system cytokines, as the agents that integrated communication between the brain and the body. Candace thought emotions were stored in the body and that that healthy communication via emotional expression was key to integrating the mind and the body. Wellness practices such as somatic, behavioural, and contemplative practices thereby had a physiological basis and could be used to promote or enhance health and recovery from illness by integrating the body’s native repair and regenerative systems, providing a biochemistry and modern interpretation for the Wisdom of the Body. Her ideas were taken forward by many others and there continues to be great interest in research studies in Complementary Medicine. Her vision was for a New Medicine in which such practices would make a significant contribution to health, combined with or without traditional allopathic practice. Candace went where the scientific evidence took her." In simple words, What Dr. Pert found was that our feelings, habitual reactions, beliefs are embedded in our bodies, across our central nervous system, connective tissue, and fascia. "In recent years some of the world’s leading biochemists, physiologists, systems theorists and consciousness researchers have turned their attention to this mysterious substance known as fascia. Often the terms connective tissue or soft tissue are used interchangeably for fascia but this is somewhat misleading as they would imply a fibre- or muscle-type material when actually, fascia is primarily a fluid gel. To understand fascia, we have to understand a 4th state of matter in between solid and liquid and also the behaviour of liquid crystals." Understanding all of this would take books. I will list them as Ramadan continues. You can also begin your own research.MindTell yourself before before falling asleep - "I intend to become aware of the most painful experiences of my life and where they are lodged in my body." You'll be amazed at how your brain will work to gather this information for you while you rest. When you come to this awareness, do cardio excercise, namaz, meditation with full awareness directed toward those areas. Use your atomic mind and breath to release the pain from your heart and your body (subconscious mind). When you do namaz, don't force physical alignment that is painful. Know where you are physically and respect that, which will then enable circulation to flow across your muscles and central nervous system. Choose to eat well, especially during this cleansing period. Ramadan is the perfect time. Cut down on sugar, mucus inducing foods. I would say 100% but if you have a sweet tooth like my husband then start with cutting down to 80%. Sugar, which includes rice, create excess mucus in the body which strengthen those painful fascia, "knots’ or ‘gristle’ in our connective tissue. Cut down on salt, at least 90%. There is already a natural presence of salt in the foods you eat. Some salts are better than others, for example the pink Himalayan salt which reduces acidity of the body but does not have iodine (good for opening the pineal gland). Salt increases the inflammation of the tissue by holding onto water in your cells so that your already painful parts become even more painful, namaz and meditation become even more difficult and Allah becomes palpable only at an intellectual level. But we want Allah in mind body soul!SoulFrom where does the energy for will power enter our hearts? For me it is music and dance. Qawaali. Allah-hu. Allah-hu. Allah-hu. Daler Mehndi has two powerful pieces in particular: 1. Allah-hu; 2. Bismillah. Where do you get your additional strength?
Sunday, March 23, 2025
