First step – Learn how to meditate

First exercise – breathing visualization

Read these simple guidelines – to put these fallowing steps into practice and they will become quite comfortable and as a habit to you.

In your meditative space (area), do light up a candle and your favored and pleasant incense.

Then, before all other things, put in center of your mind a meditation for the next 10 to 15 minutes.

 No phone calls, no disruption, nothing from the outer world. Imagine that every moment, in which you practice mediation, is your golden chance, that you make a progress in your spiritual journey.

Every attempt, every time you do it, is always a little bit closer to your goal.

To the aim which you have set for yourself.

This will help you feel sincerity and to value your meditation exercise.

Sit comfortably with spine straight, to preserve alertness and keep your eyes half-opened, not wide opened, but half open, half closed.

This is called the lion meditation and allow us to focus the mind better.

If this is too hard for you, you could also close your eyes, but try firstly this method, since it has many advantages.

When creating a relaxed atmosphere, also music is desired.

Music has this advantage that could easily take our mind from thinking, and could easily take us into meditation mood.

Later, I assume, you would prefer silence. Just as a suggestion, flute is an excellent instrument for meditation.

In this exercise we will learn how to calm our mind with meditation, and by concentration on the breath.

If possible, it’s better to breathe through your nose.

To not lose courage, when your mind will be as washed away or when there will be an infinite number of thoughts running around in your mind.

This is totally normal at the beginning, at your start of meditation. Later on, you will teach yourself how to sweep away your thoughts.

Breath and mind are closely connected, and when you direct all your attention on breathing, your mind will slowly gather and focus.

Let all the other thing go, – the only thing that exist is a breath, the river of life energy, which in constantly flowing.

Within the breath feel a sense of calmness quality. If you imagine, than on tip of your nose is a strip, your breath is so calm down, that strip in hardly moving.

For a few minutes try to deepen the sense of calmness, breath is a very quiet move, and the mind slowly becomes more quite and your body motionless. 

Observed a current pause, at the end of your inhale breath, just before you exhale, at the end of your exhale breath, just before you inhale again, and try to extend this moment of calmness between each inhale and exhale breath.

In this way, the breath becomes a little deeper, slower and peaceful and prepares us for deeper breathing.

Now you can focus on different qualities of the inhalation, one after another.

The first is peace – when you breathe in, feel and imagine as you are inhaling peace in all parts of your being.

When you exhale, imagine that you are exhaling all the opposite from the peace – restlessness, stress, negative thoughts or feelings.

If it will help you, you can imagine that you are inhaling a clean, white light purity and peace. Exhale breath is gray from impurities or thoughts.

I would suggest, making it easier for you, that you focused on breath and quality of peace.

Feel how each breath pulls you into little more inside, in the beautiful interior space.

The best is the simplicity – the less thoughts and ideas we have in our mind, the better it is.

After a few minutes you will feel as you are breathing in a cosmic energy from the space, which purifies and feel with energy all your beings.

With each inhale, through your body is flowing a river, the river of life force and cosmic energy, which is replacing the fatigue, stress, negative thoughts.

Imagine that you are exhaling all negative qualities. Then you breathe in a quality of joy and happiness.

Feel how it expands inside you, flowing through you – imagine that even your face is smiling.

In next post I will fallow up some more advices for practicing meditation.

Each of us goes through many stories in our life, looking for happiness and personal fulfillment.

In many ways we are looking for ways and limitless possibilities of life to find satisfaction- in the people that we meet, in the cities which we visit, in careers that can provide some meaning and direction to us, – a inner happiness and inner freedom, by which we strive so they could shine in our eyes and our hearts, but although seems somehow out of reach.

Life then encourages us to look inwards to find joy in life, which exists independently from all external things that come and go – and that’s how or personal and spiritual journey could begin.

Finding happiness takes a new, unknown direction, inward journey leads us to seek deeper meaning in our lives and aspirations of the mighty happiness of being free inside you (figurative).

Meditation and how to start?

What are the first steps to start with meditation?

One of the most beautiful things about meditation is that we don’t need to know very much about it, to do it.

We do not fill and “educate” our mind with additional knowledge and different ways of techniques but quite contrary – we completely clear out / empty our   mind.

Furthermore, there isn’t any need for dogma or special believing (or any believing except the one of your own).

But there is one thing that you need to feel.

This is the feeling, that you could develop (blossom) into something more, higher, and that your own positive qualities in your nature or peaceful moments in your life, both could exceptionally strengthen (become strong) or multiply and increase.

Meditation is the transition to reinforcing the silence, inner peace and happiness of the soul.

However, in order to reach this inner level, you have the external life to create the conditions that will support this revelation.

The first secret is sincerity – no matter how difficult and busy your daily life is, you have to add the date and time for your own training and organize some special place at home, where you will practice.

The same as plant grows, when there is enough sun, also your special place will reserved time will be as sun which will worm up your soul.

Feed it, and relaxed it.

Do find a nice place, where you feel comfortable, or place which you find closer to you.

Then, put a low table in that place, decorate table with a white cloth, and put on the table a candle in candle holder or on the salver and add a flower or two in the vase.

If you which, you could also add a thing or two from your personal belongings or some object which have some special value for your or feels close to you.

It could also be a picture of your spiritual or mental guide, meditation statue, anything that connects you with the feeling of the spirit.

You can chose to sit on the blanket, footstool, chair or anything else that suits you.

Ideally is, that you sit one meter away, and point your view straight on.

Scents could also be very useful, therefore, if you prefer any scent of joss-stick, do use them; anything that will help you relax.

The thing is that no one knows you better than yourself. Therefore, think which things, feelings, scent make you feel relaxed and comfortable.

The scent will create special feeling and will add a little ceremony and devotion your practice.

Simplicity, Meditation Music – bamboo flute, singing with one voice, slow, quiet songs – could also embrace us in an atmosphere of serenity, which silence the mind and open heart. Any such small thing will help you to begin.

Hsin Tao – Shaolin’s skills rejuvenation and exercises workshop with mysterious regeneration Master named Ratzielom Banderjem

WHAT Hsin Tao?

Hsin Tao also known as art or Zen / Buddhist Yoga (designed by the famous Indian monk Bodidarma named also Da Mo) is an extremely effective art body rejuvenation, revitalization, mind calming and strength the spirit.

It’s consist from the light and body pleasant movements and its practiced today the same way as it was in Chine 1300 years ago.

The single thing, that have changed from then was, that Hsin Tao was spread outside the walls of the known Saolin monastery.

There are only two Saolin masters outside of the Monastery, which teaches simple and at the same time effective regeneration technique.

Who is RATZIEL Bandera, The Master  of Hsin Tao practice?

Ratziel Bander comes from Australia and is one of two Saolin masters who teaches and practice this art outside of Monastery.

Ratziel Bander is the only one that teaches openly Hsin Tao in the West. He is practicing yoga and meditation techniques from when he was fourteen.

From his 20 years he began to work with actors and dancers, he taught them various physical exercises, motor skills and breathing techniques.

In 1999 he began with an intensive practice of Hsin Tao art, because of serious health problems. Hsin Tao exercises have helped him to regain back his health and vitality.

These exercises also helped him to eliminate all the problems and pain from suffering for a severe form of muscle disease (Post-Polio Syndrome).

Ratziel is empowered successor of Chinese Master of Hsin Tao arts. He was also his follower and got his blessing to teach the art and become instructor.

Which exercises combine the Hsin Taoa art?

This carefully protected art has been primarily designed for adults to obtain a refund of health and vitality.
It shall have an effective system of exercises that take work of apprentice into a deep meditative state while he/she enhance the physical level.

Hsin Tao art of practice consists of trainable physical gestures, breathing and meditation.

Apply effective combination of circular movements and breathing which focus and regulate life energy in vital organs, improving internal awakening and metabolism and facilitates the achievement of internal balance and strong health.
Hsin Tao is divided into three groups of exercises as fallows;

1.    Body Rejuvenation
This type of exercise is carried out standing and takes training person in real relaxed state, while works deeply within the body.
Leads in the vital energy centers, »grease under ‘decisions, strengthens internal organs, and revitalizes the entire metabolism.

2.    Rejuvenates and rest down persons intellect and mind

This is type of exercises which are carried out while you are sitting on a chair or cushion.
It connects the breath with gestures, and it takes the practitioner to a very deep meditative state, and it takes mind into a state of deep calm and peace.
Exercises work strongly on the kidneys, spleen and spine.

3.    Rejuvenation of the Spirit

This type of exercise consists of simple breathing exercises, which recovered the ability to preserve energy in the center of the body while increasing interaction with the spirit of body and mind.
These exercises enable you to achieve a magnificent emotional balance, while you are improving your body stamina, vitality and mental clarity in a relatively short time.

What do you gain with practicing Hsin Tao art?

Hsin Tao works in beginning period of doing exercises, and it works at any specific individual, but it is conditioned and depends on health of each individual.  Noticeable positive changes are occurring at all levels, – physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. It has a capacity of regeneration of the whole organism, by renewing the natural healing ability of the body.

Some of the positive effects which you gain with practicing regularly a Hsin Tao art;

1.   Mental calm, clear feeling of anti-stress action on the mind and body.

2. Mental clarity, clear mind.

3. Alleviates problems with back pain.

4. Relieve respiratory problems.

5. Elimination of emotional problems such as anger, depression, etc..

6. Beneficent impact on the problems with the spine, corrected posture, strengthen internal organs.

7. Increased resistance of the body and the final overall effect: welfare, robust health, physical vitality, and gaining more energy-vitality.

Ratziel Bandera is an experienced teacher of Hsin Tao, who will be presenting you this art in a effortless manner, playful humor and with knowledge of the skill.

To participate in the workshop you don’t have to be with a background or physical strength and flexibility.

Hsin Tao is carried out in a relaxed, effortless and playful without physical strain.

Have an open heart and sincere desire, to do something for you is the most important characteristic.

Therefore, if you will find out or notice, that Ratziel Bandera is having introducing of Hsin Tao art around your area, do go and explore with him.

It’s worth it and you will feel you received a lot.
Hopefully, you will also give a lot

For some time now I have notice that people are paying more and more attention to take care of their body, whether they are ill or healthy.

We are also quite aware, that next to official medicine in daily practice, we also have available other possibilities, how to treat our body.

Alternative treatment comprehends complementary and alternative methods of treatment.

Alternative treatment is about preconceptions which way of treatment if more useful and also considers how to make treatment more effective than the official medicine.

I read couple of books written by those who practice alternative medicine daily.

I think is always good to look up all possibilities there are, before you decided for any treatment.

But, don’t get me wrong, I am still good with official medicine, which I deeply respect.

Although, that doesn’t mean, I can’t practice alternative medicine.

Most common methods of alternative treatment

• Acupuncture
• Chiropractic
• Homeopathy
• Herbal medicine
• Osteopathy with naturopathy
• Official medicine

In my post today I will briefly introduce each of the above mentioned treatments and methods (in fallowing posts that will come, I will wrote more about each alternative treatment).

Acupuncture – exist as treatment and has an academic tradition from more than 2000 years.

Thus today’s doctors have a huge knowledge, which allows them to predict certain course of disease treatment and to subscribe appropriate drugs for each stage in which disease is developing.

In Chinese medicine, and thus also in the acupuncture our health is defined with human ability to maintain a harmonious internal environment.

Acupuncture is a simulative therapy

Thin steel needles, or needles of gold or silver are stick to certain points in the body.

Needles stimulate certain point all the way to the subcutaneous tissue.

Treatment includes monitoring of the critical points at energy channels, named also meridian, usually through the chaff with the needles on the certain places.

With this is released blocked life energy.

Conventional surface treatments are: forearms, hands, lower part of legs and feet, sometimes also the back, although acupuncture points are all over the body.

Jig point is often far away from the part which has been treated.

For example, with certain point on the feet can be used for the head treatment. If the patient is relaxed, the stitch should be painless.

The patient could feel when needle enter the body, but afterwards when needle goes deeper, patient feels nothing.

Acupuncture needles are full and thin, long from 12 mm to 10 cm, and goes in to 6 mm, or even deeper.

Needles remain in for about few seconds or could be also ztill one hour, depend from disorder and acupuncture method.

Average time is for about 20 min. Acupuncture examination includes overall of patient tongue and pulse – touched on both wrists.

If is necessary, a therapist can carry our also a physical examination, which is often focused on certain parts of the body).

Acupuncture therapist is always very careful to avoid blood vein and main organs. Blood is rarely shown, but in case there is any, it’s only a small drop. Therapist may use only sterilized needles.

For the patient is recommended that he eats something before the treatment. This is to avoid tiredness and weakness.

After the healing patients is recommended to avoid tiring movements for some times.

Chiropractic – beginning and evolving of chiropractic has start in the West.
All of its acknowledged educational institutions are operating in developed countries. It is also confirmed from the World Health Organization.

In many countries, is included in their health care system.

When we talk about beginning of chiropractic, we shouldn’t forget Hippocrates (450-375 BC) which is known after his work on the conclusions about spinal manipulation methods, described as »the most efficient among mechanical medicine«.

Official inauguration goes back to 1895 and belongs to Mr. D. D. Palmer from the State of Iowa.

Today the World chiropractic Association (WFC) brings together organizations from more than 78 countries.

Well know chiropractic is Dr. Yasuhiro Todo, founder of Slovenian Chiropractic Association – SCA. He defines chiropractic as a scientifically validate treatment method, which is specialized in the treatment of problems with the nervous-muscular-skeletal systems. If the vertebra in the incorrect position it may damage appurtenant joint ties.

Muscle groups could respond to this situation with cramp or with pain. This failure can consequently irritate spinal nerves platforms.

The President of Life Chiropractic College wrote: “Chiropractic with the spinal subluxation correction with normalization of backbone in biomechanics and with removing neurological barriers, allows the body to cure with its own vital forces”.

Homeopathy - is more than 200 year old method of treatment, based on the law of similarity. It heals similar to the similar.

Homeopathy comes from the word – homoios, which means similar and pathos means suffering.

It is heal with specially prepared medicines from nature, which have no side effects.

Homeopathic medicines boost defense mechanisms and immune system; therefore we could be healed with natural way.

Homeopathic medicines are prepared by a special procedure, the so-called potentiation.

This is the dilution; which is hardly stirred on the each stage of dilution.

Who is homoeopath?

Homoeopath is a doctor or therapist of natural medicine. Real homoeopath takes into account three principles: the law of similarity, potentiation and patient individuality.

Homoeopath prescribes medicine to a patient, after he’s done with a long and thorough discussion with the patient.

Used as a rule is also, that homeopath subscribes only one medicine to treat the complex problems of individual patient.

Which problems are not treated with homeopathy?

Homeopathy cannot cure the diseases which have arisen from irreversible defects in the functioning of the body or bodies.

One good example is children’s diabetes, where there has been a complete termination of the cells that produce insulin in the pancreas, and unfortunately in these cases homoeopath cannot help it.

But with success could be treated elderly patients with aged form of diabetes. Homeopathy can help them to reduce the amount of official products.

Homeopathy does not treat the problems that they can be eliminated only with the operation.

If the body still retains part of the function, then the possibility to improve the situation still exists.

It is the same with the treatment of mental illness.

Homeopathy can help if there was a disturbance at a functional level, such as depression, phobias, anxiety, and hyperactivity.

However, if the cause of the disease is organic nature, then there is not much to do to improve it.

How does homeopathic medicine work?

With those healing medicines, which in healty people eliciting certain signs or symptoms, homeopathic is treating ill person with similar difficulties.

The most common example is the onion. We all know, that when we cut unions we begging to cry and tear from the nose.

So like this, union (Allium cepa) is used as a homeopathic medcine for the form of acute coryza or in hay fever.Those who have try to smoke know, that with drag of the first cigarete you get a dizzy feeeling and nausea.

Thus, the tobacco (Tabaccum) is used as a treatment forvertigo and to treat weakness.For homoeopath symptoms are not disease, but is only manifestation of internal disturbances, which helps to choose the proper medicine, which then often acts on the whole body.

Four-leaved clover is for luck, black clover is for our health.

When we think of clover, we always first think of four-leaved clover, which should predict luck and happiness.

This time, I will write down some very positive effects by using black clover, which is body purification and body detox.

There are number of treatments, which offer you various diets, fasting, enema and all sorts of detoxing things.

Python- therapy (therapy with herbs) is among all the most natural and has no side effects. In Siberia, Python- therapy treatment – as a treatment with the help of medicinal plants, is resumed from medical folk tradition and is also used in official medicine.

Dr. Markov Novosibirska is the world’s most recognized Python- therapist, and people from all part of world are visiting him. He is healing solely with herbal preparations.

The first phase of his treatment is detoxification of the body.

Fo this event he recommend an old Siberian tea, which is a mixture of fifteen plants: birch, linden, ash, elder, nettle, lampblack, buckthorn, cherry, coltsfoot, milfoil, marigold, mint, needles Siberian cedar, black clover.

Since detoxification of organism can be very well achieved with the herbs that grow with us, it is recommended that use herbs that you have gathered yourself, daily drink a cup of sage tea and one cup of black clover tea.

BLACK clover or Trifolium or trefoil

It is one of the oldest medicinal herbs. It has red-purple flowers in a shape od snowball and the three-tier split.

Trojan leaves are a symbol of the Christian Trinity (the holy father-son-spirit) and the Irish national emblem, which is dedicated to Saint Patrick.

Active ingredients: tannins, phenols, flavonoids, selenium, caffeine acid, calcium, chromium, magnesium, tin, or thiamine vitamin B1, niacin or vitamin B3, vitamin C, phosphorus, copper.

Black clover activity

Adaprogen – enhances the overall health, prevent the formation of new blood vessels in tumors, pure blood, detox and enhances liver functioning and gall bladder, preventing the uncontrolled growth of tumors, prevent constipation, facilitates expectoration, stimulates secretion of bile and urine, quite strong effect of estrogen (increases fertility).

Black clover is known in different cultures as a very useful against cancer.

American scientist Jonathan Hartwell in The Journal of Natural Products announced the fact that 33 different cultures around the world, used a black clover to fight against cancer.

National Cancer Institute’s research confirmed the effectiveness of a black clover against cancer, because of the presence of daidzeine and genistene.

Moreover, a black clover contains antioxidant tocopherol and a mixture of E vitamins.

It helps organism to dominate the state, known as “the dominance of estrogen, which is associated with many forms of cancer (ovaries, breast, uterus, … …).

And some additional healing characteristics

• Stimulates secretion and digestion, reduces spasms and tension in the muscles, and facilitates expectoration.
• Prevent the uncontrolled growth of tumors, prevent constipation, facilitates expectoration, stimulates secretion of bile and urine, can have even the effect of estrogen, it increases fertility.
• Assists with skin diseases, eczema, and psoriasis.
• It helps enthusiastic larynx, throat and soothes the mouth ulcers.
• Alleviates the problem in menopause.

Although, the black clover is originally from Europe, the North American Indians were the first, who starts using it in alternative medicine.

It also is treat psoriasis, eczema and other skin diseases.