Food and our body system

Namaskaram

Watch this amazing video shared by my yoga friend. Thanks Raja.
Thank nature for such a blessing. The solutions to all our problems are just amongst us.

Wishing you Peace, Love and Harmony
Om

Menstrual cycle - A blessing in disguise for women

Namaskaram

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Blessing in disguise

Master Nava always says that women are very lucky because we have a menstrual cycle to tell us if we are healthy and signal us if something is wrong with our body. I know some of you might be cursing to hear such a compliment. At first, I was equally skeptical to accept the fact that the menstrual cycle is indeed a blessing in disguise for me.

Do you know that every woman should have a 28 day cycle and every cycle should be painless? This is how it is supposed to be. A perfected menstrual cycle is 28 days (start counting from the 1st day of your period to the 1st day of your next cycle), nothing more, nothing less. Certain women experience at least 2 days of pain before their period and 2 days of period after they get their period. Some of these women go through very bad pain that they tend to vomit, have dizziness, loss of appetite and many more. This should not be the case at all.

Take me for an instance, during my younger days, I was an ice-cube addict, I chew on ice-cubes and literally take them off from my freezer and put them in my mouth. Yes, I was an addict. This contributed to massive pain before and during my period. It was just unbearable. Fortunately, when i got pregnant with my 1st child, i stopped it for the benefit of my baby. Consequently, the addiction stopped. After my pregnancy, my period was at 32 day cycle and it has been that way since I did my 1st shatkarma (yogic detoxification, I shall write more on it later). After my 2nd detox session, my cycle started to drop from 32 to 31, 29 and finally to 28. It has stuck to it since then. My period starts without a fuss and ends without a fuss, the only I know I got my period, is if i got it, no pain, no fuss. It just came and went, it bothered nobody. Isn't that just nice.

Besides shatkarma there are other yogic lifestyles and yoga asanas that you can do to regulate your cycle.

My Natural Soap

Namaskaram

Today I am going to share with you on some natural living styles. I have a very sensitive skin, hence the more chemical there is in a bath gel/facial foam the more breakouts I get. Not just that, my skin is dry after shower and an oily one after 6 hours. I have to rely on foundation and compact powder to give my skin the glow when I dress up for function or to work. So I choose my products very carefully, and purchase those that use more natural botanical extracts.

To be frank, I have a paranoia on products that we purchase in the store, simply because, they aren't permanent. Today they may sell something that fits to our needs and we buy them, 2 months down the road they are not on the shelf anymore simply because the sales were not that good. What happens to us, the minority? Doomed. The sustainability of these products is questionable. Nevertheless, what those chemicals do to our skin.

One of my closest choices of natural product that i hung on to for years before I started yoga was Skin Food from Korea. Their products are said to be at least 75% natural. I loved them, but they are expensive and more importantly, I still have my skin problem. If there was a way out of this problem once and for all... the universe heard my prayer and one fine day, after our usual yoga session, Master Nava gave us a talk on how to live on natural things. He said when you bathe, do not use soap. No Soap?? How about all the bacteria on our skin. He said we can use the natural grains and natural antibacterial as a replacement. But will that give us the squeaky clean skin that we get after using a bath gel / facial foam.

Our skin creates a layer of natural oil to protect germs and bacteria from entering our pores. By using bath gel and facial foam, yes, we get a squeaky clean skin, but it also washes of the natural oil exposing our pores for more damage. Hence the skin creates more natural oil to layer the epidermis, hence you have your oily skin :).  Make sense?