Sometimes one feels dizzy, light heade while getting up from the Bed in the morning.
You feel wobbly, there seems to be a pressure in your head.
Dizziness
If you walk, you find you are off-balance and your feet take to n a direction you do not intend..
This becomes better after some time and you are alright after you take bath in warm water.
Why?
Unless you have a History of other ailments relating to Blood Pressure, Brain, Vertigo, Ear or Spinal Cord problems, the explanation s this.
As you lie down flat , your heart need not pump as vigorously as it has to while standing,as it has no Gravity to act against, it pumpsblood at a slower pace and your blood vessels relax.
When you stand up, the Gravity pulls Blood from the heart.
Brain, as usual grabs more Blood, it tells your heart to pump harder, and your blood vessels to contract which helps increase the blood flow to your brain (there are pressure sensors that help determine this).
As this process is taking place, occasionally your will get dizzy as a result of decreased blood flow to your brain.
If the pressure sensors don’t work fast enough, and your brain doesn’t get enough blood flow, you can actually faint.
After touching on what thoughts are and how we get them, Patanjali now is defining the important function of the Mind, ‘Memory’
We come (our senses) come into contact with sense objects.
We become aware of them
Neurology explains the process thus.
We have neurons in our Nerves.
The neurons have two essential parts,
Axon and Dendrites.
These when the come into contact, through the appropriate sense, transmit the sensation, in the form of an electrical/magnetic impulses to the Brain.
( there is a debate whether these are transmitted as an electrical impulse or they are Magnetic;Indian Philosophy and Buddhism say it is an Magnetic Impulse)
These messages do not travel through a pipeline as it were.
There is a small gap between one neuron and another.
The gap is called the ‘Synaptic Gap’
The impulses jump in the form of waves(electrical/magnetic)i to another neuron till the impulses reach the Brain or the Spinal Cord.
Depending on our Nature, the emergency and nature of the message , the Brain or the Spinal cord takes decision and reacts.
If we are sleeping, a mosquito votes us, the message is acted upon by the Spinal Cord..
If we see some things, then action is taken by the Brain.
Before this action takes place, the brain, after receiving the impulses (Stimulus), searches its memory bank to identify whether there is already some information there already and banks the stimulus there.
Then the Action center of the Brain takes charge.
It decides the action to be taken, based on the threat to the organism(individual) and selects a course already banked in the Data base, Memory.
In case the stimuli appears for the first time, action is taken on the basis of the threat level to the organism and the unconscious imprints of the actions already taken by the Brain earlier.
Then the message flashes out to the appropriate muscles through the Nervous System.
Then we react.
Patanjali goes to the roots here and talks about the ‘Unforgotten experience’ .
He does not say ‘ remembered’, but says ‘unforgotten’
We remember what we want to and forget what we want to.
Patanjali here says ‘unforgotten’ because the ‘forgotten’ ,(what we think consciously as” forgotten’ this is a paradoxical concept), Memory includes those which we consciously think we have forgotten!
Many of us are aware a,that, at many an instance, memories of what we thought have forgotten rush to us suddenly.
Memory, according to Yoga, is the recollection of ‘unforgotten’ experiences, both conscious and unconscious.
( In Indian Philosophy, there is no such thing as Unconscious‘ ,we just do not remember that’s all).
So as a corollary,as all our actions, reactions, are registered and come back to us,
Indian Philosophy says,
‘Think, speak, and do Good always’
and Tamil Says,’
ஒன்று உண்டென்று இரு , தெய்வம் உண்டென்றிரு ,உள்ளதெல்லாம் உனதன்று என்று இரு ‘
“Trust The Reality,God,Remember whatever is here is not yours’
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anubhūta – perceived, understood, apprehended; resulted,; that has experienced, tasted, tried or enjoyed viṣaya – sphere (of influence or activity); dominion, kingdom, territory, region, district
country , abode asaṁpramoṣaḥ – the not allowing to be carried off, not letting drop (as from memory) smṛtiḥ – memories, remembrances,
When one totally dispenses with Natural food and chooses canned/packaged food products, we buy ill-health in the least and cancer at the most.
Do we really need to do this?
In India a new culture has emerged where they buy cut vegetables from Stores and they use it .
We do not know whether the people who cut the vegetables are carriers of Viruses or whether the water used for cleaning was good, if at all the vegetables were cleaned.
I have seen in reputed hotels how the vegetables are cleaned.
The Vegetables are immersed in a Plastic Bucket and the water is churned with the legs.
The same muddy water is used to clean again and again!
Any vegetable once cut and if not cooked immediately loses its nutrients , whatever the ‘Freeze Technologists’ may say.
If you trust your tongue it will tell you which is tastier,freshly cut vegetables or cut vegetables kept in a Fridge.
Now scientists have found that certain chemicals used in cans ans packaging materials of food products cause Brain Cancer.
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Context
Meningioma is a type of brain tumor that develops from the meninges, the membrane that surrounds the brain and spinal cord.
About 90 percent of diagnosed meningiomas are benign. That is, they are non-cancerous, slow-growing tumors. The other 10 percent are malignant. However, benign tumors can cause illness and death as they grow and press against the brain and spinal cord.
Meningioma affects six in 100,000 people in the United States. It is more common in women than in men (Bondy et al. 1996) and in those older than 40. Radiation, genetic disorders and hormone replacement therapy (HRT) (Blitshteyn et al. 2008) are potential risk factors. Tumors may also be related to previous head injury and viral infections, although more research is needed to confirm this.
Meningioma is a hormone-sensitive cancer – the tumor thrives and grows in the presence of hormones. Because of this, there are concerns that endocrine disruptors – compounds known to mimic or block hormones in the body – may play a role in the development of cancers like meningioma.
Bisphenol A (BPA) is a widely used chemical that can behave like estrogen. It is used in the manufacture of polycarbonate plastics and epoxy resins. BPA is in many consumer products, including the lining of food and beverage cans, plastic food packaging, dental sealants, paper receipts and water pipes. Exposure in people is widespread and occurs mainly through eating or drinking contaminated food and beverages.
Animal and human studies have linked BPA to hormone-sensitive cancers, including breast and prostate cancers. The relationship between BPA exposure and meningioma is unclear.”
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