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THE BODY, MIND AND SPIRIT JOURNAL

NAMAH is a pioneer body, mind and spirit journal with an integral vision looking at the influence of the spirit or soul in psychology and health.
Inner approach to health

Nullifying pain

The Mother

The first thing and the most indispensable is to nullify the pain by cutting the connection. You see, one becomes conscious of the pain because it is there. Read more...


Integral Health

The metaphysical basis of Integral Health — the ‘Threefold Life’

Dr. Soumitra Basu

In his treatise on the practical application of yoga (The Synthesis of Yoga), Sri Aurobindo describes three kinds of life available to humanity in consonance with three separate formulations in Nature: “the ordinary material existence, a life of mental activity and progress; and the unchanging spiritual beatitude (1).” These three kinds of life are the three choices available to the human being; they have their separate connotations, trajectories and culminations. They have unique ramifications in every sphere of human activity, including health, development and psychology. Read more...


Perspective

Stop believing in your own weakness

Vernon Howard

The body

It is our fear of being alone and in doubt, of wanting to feel certain what we are doing is right, that compels us to seek the approval of others. Thus the chief cause of many of the decisions of our lives so often winding up in the hands of others is not that they are superior or that the world is too strong for us, but that we don’t want to face the uncertainty of our doubts and the loneliness we believe we are too weak to bear. This is the real cause of all of our flawed relationships. We have been betrayed by a belief in our own weakness. Read more...


Notes on counselling

Self-esteem in children


Dr. Soumitra Basu

integral psychology article

After having spent many years working with children, both in the clinic setting and in the playground, I can now understand the deeper significance of the role of self-esteem in developing children. I have often wondered how much our counselling techniques actually help children. That four year-old lost in the world of Disneyland, that six year-old naughty one swinging through trees in The Jungle Book, that ten year-old dreaming of Robinson Crusoe — can they really benefit from the sermons of an adult counsellor? The more I work with children, the more I feel that restoring the sense of self-esteem is the prime task in counselling. It is only then that other interventions become meaningful. Read more...


Medicinal plants

Bhūmī āmalakī, Phyllanthus


Dr. K. H. Krishnamurthy

integral psychology

Of the five species of the genus Phyllanthus, P. niruri, Linn. is the most famous. Even practising allopathic physicians recommend its freshly extracted juice as a cure for patients suffering from jaundice. Read more...

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