The science of sleep and neuroscience has show us some pretty amazing things the last years. One of those newly discovered facts that we have been waiting for is how the brain detoxes. You see, there is no lymphatic system in the brain! It stays on the outside of the scull (why it is recommended you massage it daily). Accordingly we were taught that the brain didn’t detox the waste we produce by just living, and by voluntarily putting some extra toxic stuff in us.
Only now we know that the brain can detox and clear away waste from the brain too, not through the lymphatic system as other organs do, but through the blood vessals! And it only happens when we sleep or meditate. This TED-talk by Jeff Iliff, explains how fabulous our biology is. Sleep is detoxing, don’t mess it up!
I can only bow! Once again we are oblivious to the marvelous intelligence of our nature. How could we ever think we know better than the biological evolution of 13.7 billion years? Do we ever learn? When scientists started seeing the body as a machine culminating about 100 years ago, sleep and a healthy living became something for wimps, as Edison expressed; “Sleep is a waste of time!” Thats one reason why the macho culture is not very healthy (more about this in other blogs)
Many doctors in all parts of the world still treat us as if we were machines that can be fixed like you fix a car with some spare parts, but it is a convention and a facade. Most medical professionals and scientists I talk to in private know very well that there is more to us than our science can prove, but they can’t express it. This devastating way of seeing our bodies, makes us trust experts more than ourselves. We stopped respecting our own signals, like our sleep patterns, our hunger signals, our feelings, etc., and today’s generation pays the bill with disease.
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Since 20+ years we have successfully been consultants in the natural health sector to support individuals and we are in particular working with entrepreneurs and professionals. Our mission is to defend natural health, the only one that really works so far. We mainly but not entirely use Eastern philosophy such as Ayurveda, TCM, Yoga, Thai chi, Falun Gong, and only honest modern science.
Everyone can heal naturally, it's what bodies and (free) minds want. Our O• Method is based on physics, chemistry and biology with emphasis on the first one as the rest often follow naturally. We divide our work in three parts: Body-Mind-Soul. To allow them all to detox and let go we work with energy (Prana, Xi, Vitality, Spirit, Pneuma or whatever you call the life force, it's the same force mentioned in ancient texts) to heal on all levels, i.e. from chronic disease, toxicity, depression and traumas using our own method, reaching 96% success rate which is unheard of by others in our sector. Would you know of anyone with that result, let us know.
Considering that we invented and dumped >120.000 (petro)chemically derived substances since 1945, of which many are very toxic, getting healthy will most likely include a good old body detox sooner or later.
My love for Ayurveda started in 1993 with Deepak Chopra and after a few turns in life I quit my job as a Nordic Brand Manager and BI strategist at the largest Nordic telecom operator and re-schooled in natural medicine. Besides Dr. Chopra I have studied Dr. Lad, Dr. Siva (Pune, India) and other prominent teachers in their field, but the real difference comes with a practiced. I added nutrition, Orthomolecular Medicine with Dr. Nielsen (USA/Spain) and herbalism.
Today we teach those whom want to continue our work and we love to dig down in etymology and the original (mainly Avestan, Pali and Sanskrit) scripts to understand the words fully and I fall in love with the concepts over and over again for every sutra. This love affair that created a few books (Amazon), presentations, essayes and many events and consultations, is still giving us Yang-Yin balance and inspiration. I guess with that we are recognizing the value of Dao De Ching 💚🌿💜
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