Care for your face

Cleansing without removing dead skin cells and deeply embedded impurities makes the skin dull. It also results in clogged pores which is the root cause of acne.

Hence, deep cleansing your skin once a week is essential. A scrub sloghs off dead cells and unclogs pores by removing deeply embedded impurities like blackheads and whiteheads.

How Often do I use scrub?

It is recommended to use a scrub once a week. do not over scrub as it makes skin very sensitive.

How should I use Scrub?

Apply the scrub on cleansed skin , avoiding the area around your eyes, and massage gently in a circular motion. Do not be harsh while you scrub as it may lead to redness, irritation and even skin lesions. Rinse with lukewarm water and pat dry. Sprinkle water at room temprature over your eyes-always protect your eyes with something that imparts coolness

Apply ice to close the pores. Finish off with a light face moisturiser.

How should i choose my scrub?

Always use scrubs with fine granules as these are gentler on the skin. Scrubs with natural ingredients like Apricot, Neem and Walnut helps to gently remove dead skin cells, blackheads, whiteheads and grime. Neem's antibacterial property provides additional support by purifying the skin.

Compiled from Ayurvedic scriptures

Team Vedic Age

Success in Life

Life is not always smooth-sailing. It is full of struggle. It is unwise to expect the path to be always covered with roses. Even great people are not spared the difficulties of life. It is not by running away, but by facing them with a Lion's courage that one can overcome them.

Struggle of life is very severe, rigorous and relentless. Man fights for this struggle for life from three fronts. In one, he fights with nature, his second struggle is with his fellow beings and in the third he battles with himself. The strategies of these three fronts a different from each other. In order to fight with the first front, he takes the help of physical science, for the second, he seeks the help of social science and for the third he wants help from psychological science. In these fights sometimes he finds himself crowned with success and now and then fails to get desirable results.

When he fails to get desirable results he wants to get rid of these struggles. He thinks that this world is a place of conflicts  and confusions, and therefore he wants to stop his struggle and run away. Wrongly, he thinks that the change of the external situation may give him peace.

If a nail enters his foot and he wants to destroy all the nails in the world, he is completely mistaken. He must put on shoes to walk without hindrance. When he finds it difficult to walk in rains, he must use the umbrella and should not think of stopping the rains. Therefore in order to struggle for existence, he must change the set of his mind, he must change the angle of his outlook.

There are two fighters inside us. One is divine and the other devilish. There is continual fight between the two forces. One way is worldly pleasure, the attractions of sense pleasure, the life of excitement and the life of luxury and comforts. The other is the way eternal value, the way of mastering over sense pleasure, the way of renunciation and truth and the way of service to humanity to live for others

The way reminds us of the great sayings of Swami. Vivekananda, "He alone lives who lives for others and the rest is more dead than alive." 

Jesus Christ said, "Knock, and it shall be opened unto you." If you knock the door will open; yet it sometimes so happens that the door opens of itself, if you have that intense yearning. If you have longing, everything becomes favourable. A difficult obstacle  that you could not cross over suddenly vanishes. 

The impossible becomes possible. god holds your hand and takes you forward.

If you ask me whether you will succeed in life or not, I will ask you a question in return. Have you developed that impatient readiness to find the truth by study, enquiry, self-disciplineand service-the first step in creative power? If not, are you prepared to acquire it as speedily as possible?

If this readiness is quenched, you will cease to grow; decay of the spirit will set in, creative power will never be yours. And this applies not only to you, but to every one of us, old and young.

                                                                                                                

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Like all good things the long summer is bidding adieu with a note for us to be prepared for the beautiful Autumn and of course the Cold and Dark Winter. Come Autumn & Winter the qualities of the weather as per Ayurveda are Cold, Dry and Rough. These qualities manifests in our body as cold, dry skin, less sweat, chaffed lips, lethargy, dry hair, stiff, tight and unresponsive musculature, less or more sleep, drowsiness. As per the Ayurvedic scriptures these are the qualities of Vata aggravation, this hinting for us to take Vata pacifying diet, lifestyle and Ayurvedic management techniques     

Protect, Prepare, Refresh and Rejuvenate your body as the saying goes, There is no better wealth than Health

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·         Dried Ginger Water

·         Warm and freshly prepared Soups and beverages

·         Warm cooked foods and easily digestible proteins (chicken stew, soup etc) and green vegetables

·         Protect yourself with warm clothings, especially your ears and neck

·         Anoint your body with Vata pacifying oils for 30 minutes before taking a warm shower

•       Practice Brisk walking 30 minutes in the morning and 30 minutes in the evening
•       Pranayama or deep breathing exercises are also highly recommended

Music therapy -

As Music is Universal so is Music Therapy!

Music therapy as the term implies is the application of music as a complementary management technique  for a variety of conditions affecting the human population. Predominantly developed in India, nevertheless this expression have only recently found a place in the society recently.

It was the Nada centre for music therapy, a modest organisation which started the propagation of the concepts and practices relating to music therapy amongst Indians, who have lost the 'music' in their life, despite the fact that the music industry being a flourishing in India.

Though unrecognised and unsung, the Indian Raga system, well known both for its emotional content and impact, had no doubt provided much -needed solace for billions of people in the past. East or West music is the best, the potential of Indian Raga's are yet to be mastered by a wider population for being propagated to a wider public. Like the Sanskrit language, the raga's are restricted to a few individuals who have been able to master this art through family traditions or extraordinary interests and devotion.

Nada Centre commenced research with popular western music so as to identify their possible therapeutic role for the concurrent needs of youth (and also elders who have a savvy for western music.

The centre recommends that individuals should first identify their problems and religiously listen to the recommended music for atleast 20 minutes thrice each day, ideally after breakfast, lunch and dinner

• The Fantasy Music

Affected situation: Do you feel bogged down by the routine in life and get bored and irritated without rhyme or reasons? then the music should be based on its ability to relax you through certain fantasies and inanities!

    1. Plasir d'Amour by Andre Ridieu

    2. Forget the past

    3. Vaya con dias

    4. For you, by Giovanni Maradi

    5. All you need is a Flower by Paul Mauriat

    6. La Mamma

    7. La Prevre Par Cove

    8. Ave Maria No Morro

    9. Flash Dance- What a Feeling ! By Paul Mauriat

    10.Spring Love by Giovanni Maradi

    11. Je ne Pourrai Jamais t'Oublier by Paul Mauriat

• The Movement Music

Affected situation: Are you a child, teenager or a senior feeling bogged down in life with lots of homework and restrictions, waiting an outlet for moving away or shaking off your cocoon?

  1. Concerto de Aranjuez

  2. 1929: The Music box DFancer by Frank Mills

  3. March Turkish by Mozart

  4. Badinere by Paul Mauriat

  5. La Playa

• Music that tells of saddest thoughts in a pleasant way!

Affected situation:

 Are you feeling sadness, loneliness or social isolation from friends and family members? Then the best companion for you is music.

  1. Love theme from Romeo & Juliet by Andre Rieu

  2. A Comme Amour by Richard Clayderman

  3. Between tears

  4. Serenata by Andre Rieu

  5. Vaya con dios

  6.La Playa

  7. Ave Maria No morro

• Resolution Music to Induce Confidence

Affected situation: Do you lack one or all of the following: Confidence? Determination? Clarity?Resolution? Do you have a regret that you are left behind in the modern rat-race for power, money or relationships?

  1. 1974: Love's theme- Love unlimited orchestra

  2. La Paloma

  3. March Turkish, Mozart

  4. Between Tears

  5. Badinere- Paul Mauriat

  6. Moscow/Serenade- with Moscow Orchestra

  7. Vaya con Dios

  8. La Mamma

  9. La Playa

  10. Godfather

  11. La prevre par cove

  12. Ave mari no moro

  13. Flash Dance- What a feeling!, Paul Mauriat

  14. Gloria Bendita- Gypsy Soul

  15. Je ne pourrai T'oublier, Paul Mauriat

T. V Sairam

Compiled from Bhavan's Journal

Disclaimer: * This information is based only on Ayurvedic Medical Scriptures. It is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease, this should not be used for any self treatments