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.Āyurveda
The prevalence of hepatitis B in India and its prevention with Āyurveda – a revisit
While modern medicine has identified certain causative factors that operate behind an illness or predispose us to it, this knowledge does not always and necessarily translate into finding a cure for it. The reasons for the gap between knowing and controlling are many. Systems of knowledge such as Āyurveda have a slightly different approach to the problem and so are sometimes quite effective against illnesses where modern medical knowledge fails even if it has identified the causative organism. Read more...
Inner approach to health
Coming up for air
Depression is a hidden killer. Goodness knows how much illness and death it secretly induces. In truth, it has become a world malaise and works through attachment and contagion behind the scenes, creating a vacuum for degeneration. Depression is also a suffocating experience and escaping its clutches might be likened to coming up for air. Read more...
Inner approach to health
Nullifying pain
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.
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Integral Health
The metaphysical basis of Integral Health — the ‘Threefold Life’
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
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...
