There are many types of meditation with roots in ancient religious and spiritual traditions. In meditation, one learns how to focus your attention, be aware of your thoughts and ultimately how to secure a greater peace of mind and mental relaxation.

At first glance, meditation seems to be the easiest thing in the world. In fact, it turns out, however, that the entry into standby mode and make the mind free of thoughts takes time and considerable skill.

It is best to meditate every day. But when we do not have time for this, suffice even three days a week to reduce tension. We, Westerners do not pay attention to how we breathe.

Meanwhile, conscious breath, which teaches derived from the East meditation, significantly lowers levels of stress hormones that interfere with proper operation of the accumulated body. This in turn is bad for the digestion, increases muscle tone and increases blood pressure.

Therefore, meditation is a valuable technique for supporting other methods of natural medicine, especially those whose goal is to eliminate stress related disorders, and performed for uprzyjemnienia a day, is able to prevent them.

Medical Wchodu perfectly knows how to stimulate various parts of the human body affects the process of self-medication. While many of us have heard of reflexology, which holds that with the stimulation points on the feet can cure various diseases of the body, or about acupuncture consisting of an even wider knowledge and experience, probably few are aware that the effectiveness of the treatment series failure has also affected our ... ear.

Without a doubt we know how this organ is sometimes useful, but who would have thought that, thanks to special treatment, which had long been using Eastern medicine, we can greatly improve our overall condition.

Aurikuloterapia understood as a form of acupuncture focuses his practice on the stimulation of specific lots of the external ear. Chinese acupuncturists have found that flowing through the meridians of the body are combined in the outer ear, which is somehow a reflection of the condition of the body.

However, specific points located on małżowinie and stacking on the shape of a "microsystem" correspond to all organs of appearing in human flesh.

In this article we would like to introduce the concept, as used in Chinese medicine, Tibetan and Mongolian. We hope that this minisłownik will allow you to better understand the methodology of natural medicine treatment of cultures of the Far East.

1. Chi

It is the energy of the universe circulating in both humans and in the channels of energy, she brings us a life force, is responsible for health and psychophysical condition. , według kultury japońskiej jest to "ki" , zaś świat zachodu postrzega ją jako "bioenergię" . Depending on the country name of this energy is changing, and so is China's "chi", Hindus call it "prana," according to the Japanese culture is "ki", and the western world sees it as "bioenergy."

There are energy positive and negative (so-called Sha). Positive energy moves like a snake, after the wave, almost sinusoidzie, while the negative is emitted in a straight line. When energy flows freely, gently meandering we are healthy, but when the flow of chi is blocked, there is disturbance of the harmony and the disease appears. A series of circulation of energy takes place within 24 hours, starts and ends in the heart, by the time the highest wave of energy flows in turn through all the organs and tissues.

Each culture learns from the local knowledge of their ancestors, just as was the medical system in Mongolia. It is the fruit of many generations of medical practice, which for centuries had saved lots of lives before disability, suffering and premature death.

When making a diagnosis in Mongolian medicine physician draws attention to the interdependence of the three energies:

HEYI - is the energy responsible for our various functions fizologiczne, including thinking, speaking, stocks and various functions of internal organs. If "Heyi" loses energy, it will reduce the functions of internal organs and you develop symptoms such as mental problems, insomnia and ease of forgetting.

XILA - reflects all the "heat" of the body, or body temperature, warm body and spirit.

BADAGAN - reflects viscous substances in the body, is a cold.

• what we eat, our diet has a direct impact on the state of our body, because we need to keep it to provide vitamins, nutrients, trace elements,
• lifestyle, because work under stress, in harsh environments will be more aggressive affect our health than moderate lifestyle
• climate and weather conditions - such as in Afghanistan, people live much shorter than in Russia, scorching heat destroys the tissue and the body ages much faster,
• state of mind and soul - the people cheerful, happy and fulfilled life live longer,
• Genetic predisposition - thanks to the genome can be more or less prone to disease.

Mongolian medical science cures by looking at the whole organism, not its parts, as do European physicians. The human body is a unity, because one organ dysfunction affects the operation of the other. Is called. a holistic approach. It's a good look, because it allows not only to cure disease, but also to find and eliminate its causes. Because pomyście themselves, which seems to treat drętwiejącej hand, since the cause lies in the spine and nervous system.