Longevity and healing by Oil Pulling, an ancient Ayurvedic method

How would you feel is someone told you that you could live up to 150 years by using a simple method every day? How would you feel is someone told you that this method had been used by the Indians for thousand of years and it is a simple way to remove toxins from your body and heal many illnesses and diseases?
Oil Pulling is reported to cure mouth disease, stiff joints, allergies, asthma, high blood sugar, constipation, migraines, bronchitis, eczema, heart, kidney and lung diseases, leukemia, arthritis, meningitis, insomnia, menopause, hormonal issues, cancer, AIDS, chronic infections, varicose veins, high blood pressure, diabetes, polio, cracked heels and many more. 
Interestingly, Ayurveda advises oil swishing "to purify the taste-buds and the entire system", as explained by Dr Deepak Chopra in Perfect Health. According to this life science, the tongue is mapped by organ-locations - that is, each section of the tongue is connected to the kidneys, lungs, spleen, liver, heart, kidney, pancreas, small intestines, stomach, colon and spine. Thus, an oil-massage soothes and stimulates the key meridians where taste meets organ. Simultaneously, as in any skin-massage, the inner skin and lining of the mouth, palate and tongue become warm and supple and the lubrication prevents dryness (the vatic effect). The Ayurvedic purification of the taste buds also has its equivalent in dietetics as 'antioxidants'. Oxidation literally means 'the purification of body-tissues'. 
Oil pulling was a regiment developed by Dr Karach. It is a healing procedure involving cold pressed oils. Using this method, one could heal a lot of chronic illnesses, diseases preventing the need for surgery or medication. 

What did the procedure involve?
It is swishing 1 tablespoon of cold-pressed oil in your mouth first thing in the morning on empty stomach for around 15-20 minutes. Doing so would heal the tissues of all your organs at the same time. Harmful toxins would be eliminated without destroying any beneficial pro-biotics. Moreover, making this as your daily routine would prolong your lifespan according to Dr Karach. Make sure that you DO NOT swallow the oil. Slowly swish the oil in your mouth sipping, sucking it through your teeth. Use your saliva to swish the oil around in your mouth. Doing this will use your enzymes, which in turn will draw out harmful toxins out of your bloodstream. So make sure the oil is not swallowed as it will absorb toxins. As you continue oil pulling, the oil gets more thin and turns white. After 20 min spit it out in the sink or the toilet. If the colour is not white, it means you are not done. Next time, do it longer. Your oral cavity should be thoroughly rinsed. You can rinse it with salt water, use normal tap water and good old fingers to clean or if you wish, brush your teeth as normal. After you've done, clean the sink, because it may contain lots of harmful toxins that you just eliminated. 
Oil Pulling will generally increase your metabolic rate, your energy and thus your health. 
The oil pulls all mucous, bacteria and toxins from your body through your saliva. According to Ayurvedic medicine, mucous is a poison that is toxic that must be removed. There is no doubt now that the health of your mouth is directly linked to your organ health. The bacteria in your mouth, the really bad stuff that forms plaque, is very attracted to the acids in the oil. As your mouth is populating with all this nasty bacteria (or worse, infections) you are swallowing the stuff. That bacteria is attacking you internally. That is why some people have had heart attacks after a dental procedure, like a root canal, that infuses their body with nasty stuff. Oil Pulling simply removes bad bacteria and toxins so that it cannot go anywhere else. 
TIPS:
Keep your chin tilted up makes sure the oil gets to the back molars. If you oil pull after meals, wait at least 4 hours before you oil pull and one hour after drinking. 
A worsening of symptoms is an excellent indication that the disease/ailment is being dealt with and being cured. Do not stop Oil Pulling if you feel aggravated symptoms or heightened side effects after a day or two. Your body is healing. 
Change what oil you use, you will get different results and gain new energy. Recommended oils: best results are reported with organic cold-pressed Seasame Oil, Sunflower Oil and Coconut Oil. 
It is most astonishing what a great result can be achieved by this absolutely harmless biological healing method. One of the most striking results of this process is the fastening of loose teeth, the elimination of bleeding gums and the visible whitening of the teeth. 
Watch Natasha's video on how to do Oil Pulling 

The CHINA STUDY - most comprehensive nutrition study ever conducted

My personal opinion is this. Anyone who cares about his/her good health and interested in good nutrition should read this book.  Everyone who works in the medical profession should read it. What we do with this information after reading the book is a private matter. Some will apply it some won't. Good health is a choice.

THE CHINA STUDY by T. Colin Campbell PhD and Thomas M. Campbell
Startling implications for diet, weight loss and long term health.
Published by Benbella Books Dallas, Texas in 2006.

Watch The China Study series on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dXIFEWg-As

4th January 2010 change to plant-based diet

Once you chose the path of good health it is amazing how things pop up to take you deeper on this path to help you and heal you. My journey to good health seems to be an ongoing process with lots of exciting learning, great experiences and wonderful results. Not to mention the amazing people I have met in person or who's books and websites I have read. They are all out there spreading the news on a healthier diet that could save humanity and the planet from self-destruction. They are advocating this diet against the food industry, diary, meat, McDonalds, Coca Cola, drug companies, the medical profession who is as clueless about nutrition as one can be and many huge companies and governments who does not represent the best interest of the population. 


On 4th January 2010 as a result of reading The China Study and watching the 14-parts video series on YouTube I decided to get back to being vegetarian and this time to go even further. I made a commitment to my health and go on a plant-based diet. Strangely enough, any other time I would never even attempt it and sure would not be able to do it. Not even for a day. However, after reading The China Study it was a logical step and a very easy one. In the last two weeks I ate mostly raw fresh fruits and vegetables with a tiny bit of rice or pasta if I was out. I experienced  right away a huge increase in energy and a better quality sleep at night. I also noticed right after the first days that my skin became more smooth and moist. My heels are the real indicators of any change and I extremely pleased with what I am experiencing. I am looking at food and at people with very different eyes. The China study has changed my life. 

Brain Plasticity - Tibetan Monks in the Lab

We know that meditation is beneficial. See the video of Tibetan Buddhist Monks - Meditation and Science
We are responsible for our happiness. We are as happy as we make up our mind to be. We know that the brain is capable of building new neuron-connections. Making music is one of the best way of building connections and change the structure of our brain and to find happiness. Train your mind, change your brain.
How meditation can change the brain is now scientifically examined.

A series of video recordings are available about this examination with Tibetan Monks and the Dalai Lama.
Tibetan Monks in the Lab 1/3
Tibetan Monks in the Lab 2/3
Tibetan Monks in the Lab 3/3

MUSIC STUDIO SCHEDULE 2010

Piano, Singing, 
Musicianship & Theory 

Music lessons will commence on 

Monday, 11 January 2010.

30/45/60 min classes are available. 

Brighton Up! Choir 
Our adult choir will commence on Thursday, 21 January 2010
Rehearsals: Thursdays, 7.30pm-9.00pm
Rehearsal fee: $5
Venue: St Leonard's Uniting Church, Meeting Room, 
2 Wolseley Grove, Brighton
For enquiries please email: lifestyleimprovementcoach@gmail.com

END OF YEAR CONCERT 2009

You are invited to our End of Year Student and Choral Concert!
The concert is at 4.15pm on Sunday, 13th December 2009
St Leonard's Uniting Church, Meeting Room at 2 Wolseley Grove, Brighton, Melbourne
Hope to see you there!
Piroska

Twelve Benefits of Music Education

1. Early musical training helps develop brain areas involved in language and reasoning. It is thought that brain development continues for many years after birth. Recent studies have clearly indicated that musical training physically develops the part of the left side of the brain known to be involved with processing language, and can actually wire the brain's circuits in specific ways. Linking familiar songs to new information can also help imprint information on young minds.

2. There is also a causal link between music and spatial intelligence (the ability to perceive the world accurately and to form mental pictures of things). This kind of intelligence, by which one can visualize various elements that should go together, is critical to the sort of thinking necessary for everything from solving advanced mathematics problems to being able to pack a book-bag with everything that will be needed for the day.

3. Students of the arts learn to think creatively and to solve problems by imagining various solutions, rejecting outdated rules and assumptions. Questions about the arts do not have only one right answer.

4. Recent studies show that students who study the arts are more successful on standardized tests such as the SAT. They also achieve higher grades in high school.

5. A study of the arts provides children with an internal glimpse of other cultures and teaches them to be empathetic towards the people of these cultures. This development of compassion and empathy, as opposed to development of greed and a "me first" attitude, provides a bridge across cultural chasms that leads to respect of other races at an early age.

6. Students of music learn craftsmanship as they study how details are put together painstakingly and what constitutes good, as opposed to mediocre, work. These standards, when applied to a student's own work, demand a new level of excellence and require students to stretch their inner resources.

7. In music, a mistake is a mistake; the instrument is in tune or not, the notes are well played or not, the entrance is made or not. It is only by much hard work that a successful performance is possible. Through music study, students learn the value of sustained effort to achieve excellence and the concrete rewards of hard work.

8. Music study enhances teamwork skills and discipline. In order for an orchestra to sound good, all players must work together harmoniously towards a single goal, the performance, and must commit to learning music, attending rehearsals, and practicing.

9. Music provides children with a means of self-expression. Now that there is relative security in the basics of existence, the challenge is to make life meaningful and to reach for a higher stage of development. Everyone needs to be in touch at some time in his life with his core, with what he is and what he feels. Self-esteem is a by-product of this self-expression.

10. Music study develops skills that are necessary in the workplace. It focuses on "doing," as opposed to observing, and teaches students how to perform, literally, anywhere in the world. Employers are looking for multi-dimensional workers with the sort of flexible and supple intellects that music education helps to create as described above. In the music classroom, students can also learn to better communicate and cooperate with one another.

11. Music performance teaches young people to conquer fear and to take risks. A little anxiety is a good thing, and something that will occur often in life. Dealing with it early and often makes it less of a problem later. Risk-taking is essential if a child is to fully develop his or her potential.

12. An arts education exposes children to the incomparable.

Source: http://childrensmusicworkshop.com/advocacy/12benefits.html