Be your own placebo

Thank you, readers, for your valuable comments and guidance. I have been receiving letters on the essentials of healing practices by our esteemed readers. I have decided to present you with a series of blogs on ancient Indian healing practices which are globally acclaimed. The western world has been researching these miraculous healing powers only with partial success.

In the ancient Hindu tradition, each disease is defined with an association with an emotional problem. The oldest book on wellbeing written by great sage “Charak” mentioned in his book “Charak Samhita” that we are the product of environment and three elements ruling good health are Vata (air energy), Pitta (Fire energy) and Kapha (water energy). Any imbalance in our environment directs affects these elements. Mind and body are two important ingredients of life and they need a soul to illuminate them. They look interwind and are dependent on each other, but in reality, they are independent and each one of them has the miraculous power to heal us. Thought initiates in our mind based on our previous experience in the environment in which we spent our time and space since our existence on this planet. An environment is created by religious belief, educational background, our economic and social status. Any changes in our environment create ripples in our mind and hence body and soul tremble. The body gets either emotionally unstable or physically sick. Impact on soul either changes our personality or we treat ourselves unworthy, unwanted and undeserving. In both cases, we feel terrible. All the three attributes of healthy life as defined above can heal these ripples in our inner realm. And by mending our thoughts and emotions, we can change our environment and heal our outward world.

Healing our inner realm

I remember my conversation with Mr. Janardhan Reddy last year while taking a sound bath in Bangalore at AnahatVruksh Foundation regarding the impact of sound on our body as it is composed of 72% of water. Later I read the research paper of Japanese scientist Mr. Masaru Emoto on the impact of our consciousness on the water molecule. The molecular structure of water changes with the change in sound waves. Another research paper by Prof. Rustom Roy from Penn state university in the department of material science describes how healing sound changes its molecular structure. An angle between two hydrogen atoms with Oxygen atom is 104 degrees, but after healing the water it changes to close to 90 degrees. Another example of the effect of human consciousness on water droplets is by Prof Brunt Kipling from the University of Stuttgart how water droplets behave with different personality. He conducted an experiment with 20 different people looking through the microscope and capturing the molecular structure of water. He observed that water droplets behave differently with different people. The photographs of water molecules captured by different human beings were different. But when the experiment was repeated by the same person, he was able to produce a similar molecular structure of the droplets. This proved that water droplets are sensitive to human consciousness.

Hindu temples give holy water to the devotees which are believed to have high healing power. Later it became prevalent in other faiths as well. We heard a lot about this in Christianity and Islam. In Christianity holy water, blessed at the beginning of each lunar month and is kept on the entrance of the churches. Those who want to enter the church are sprinkled with holy water. We hear a lot about the “Well of Zamzam” in Islam. Devotees consider the water of this well as a potion of life. In Hinduism, it’s an old tradition. It has been coming since time immemorial. In the olden times, this holy water could be activated to give life to the dead bodies. I have read in the book Ramayana, an epic on the life of Lord Ram – when there was a war between Ram and Ravana a king of south who was evil and kidnapped Ram’s wife Goddess Sita, holy water was sprinkled by God in heaven to give lives to the apes and bears fighting for Lord Ram. There are many more examples of water giving life to the living being.

Due to the imbalance of water energy or Kaph in our body, we feel following issues in different parts of our body:

In the Brain

An imbalance in Kapha or water energy in the brain brings an unusual heaviness and sluggishness. Brain fog, feeling drowsy and lethargy is common. It creates depression, loss of consciousness and also diabetes.

In The Digestive Tract

An unusual feeling of fullness in the stomach and loss of appetite is the common phenomenon. Nausea, excess salivation, a sweet taste in the mouth, indigestion, diarrhea, and pre-diabetic symptoms. Also dangerous disease such as anorexia nervosa ( A complete loss of appetite) and blood and pus in the stools.

In the Respiratory System

Running nose, cough, and cold is the first symptom, congestion in the sinuses, throat, and chest. In a more serious level, it can cause infection in the chest, throat, fluid in the lungs (Tuberculosis), etc.

In the Circulatory System, Skin, Muscles, and Adipose Tissue

As Kapha accumulates in these areas, it may cause lymphatic congestion, swollen lymph glands, mild (and intermittent) hypertension, hives, itching, pallor, cold sweats, reduced sweating, loss of strength, the formation of lipomas, and/or weight gain. Long-standing Kapha disturbance can lead to varicose veins with thrombus, deep vein thrombosis, stagnation of the blood, hardening of the vessels, severely high cholesterol, profuse edema, solid edema, congestive heart failure, leukemia, hypertension, hypertrophy, extreme hypotonia, obesity, and the formation of malignant fatty tumors such as liposarcomas.

Elsewhere in the Body

Excess Kapha is also behind water retention, excess urination, low grade fevers, fungal infections, excess ear wax, dental tartar, excess hair growth, low libido, an exaggerated desire for sex, premature ejaculation (emotional), enlarged prostate, cold or heavy testicles, fibrocystic lumps, leucorrhea, and prolonged, slow menstrual cycles. Imbalanced Kapha can also cause a foul smell, swelling and stiffness in the joints, a sense of heaviness in the eyes, whiteness in the urine, eyes, or feces, impacted wisdom teeth, tumors, goiter, an enlarged spleen, an enlarged liver, glaucoma, protruded eyes, gangrene, fibroid tumors, gall stones, calcifications, bone spurs, osteoma, scoliosis, kyphosis, lordosis, hydrocephalus, neurofibromas, prostatic calculi, endometriosis, and cystic ovaries.

In the next blog, I will present easy ways to curb these diseases by changing in your water energy