For about a 90 years we have had modern medicine making, manufacturing and distributing chemicals which have yet to come up with any cure for any disease.

Here is the latest invention which need not be participated in. Think before you take someone else’s word for something, including mine. Do some investigating and research before you put something into your body that might be causing more harm than good. Be active in your choices.

Yogi Cameron

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak7s0sBYzfA

Seek your God within and you will be bestowed with creativity and knowledge even before you discover this power inside. Seeking the creator on the outside brings on more suffering as religion and tradition limit our vision of the boundless universe. Be an explorer of the inner universe and you will connect with the ultimate power.

Yogi Cameron

Dear all,

I will be traveling to India for my annual studying and practicing of the Ayurvedic and Yogic path with my Guru and some other new teachers. I undertake this each year for about 2 months so I can learn more and bring these teachings through experience back and share it with others seeking health and spirituality.

I will be fasting and in silence a lot of this time so I will not get to the blog as much so please practice fasting and silence with me as much as you find necessary. The practice of not eating, being celibate and being in silence opens up the inner consciousness and brings awareness beyond the mind and senses. This helps us to operate with less emotion and more heart, understanding the deeper aspect of our self.

All humans need to spend this time to experience and understand truth beyond what limitations the mind has placed on itself. Once you are not involved in the primitive urges of food, sex, sleep and daily chatter, the inner teacher takes over and starts to teach us our purpose for living. As we put aside idle and mundane everyday living, we become aware of who we are and not what we have become on the surface (personality).

We will take a brake from all the reading to experience inner life and to contemplate all that we have read this year and start to apply these teachings. If on occasion you still feel the need to read please review some of the writings from this last year. Please join me some days to practice this path so you too can experience inner contentment.

We will resume again around the 30th of November.

Yogi Cameron

In meditation we are putting aside all that the brain is telling us and we are not thinking any more. There is a reason why Yogis and Gurus came to teach this method of ‘checking out’ as the mind can become obsessed with a few negative thoughts or never stop thinking. One thought leading to the next and the whole life becomes one long thought giving the person a headache called stress. 

The yogic methods of dealing with stress are meditation, repetition of mantra, Karma yoga the performing of selfless service and other methods I have mentioned on the site under the 6 paths of Yoga. It is not that you stop doing other things but you approach your whole life of work, family and pleasures from a peaceful yogic manner taking up one of the six paths and incorporating the practices and mentality into all that you do.  

To relieve stress the mind need to be focused on other peaceful thoughts and at times not thinking at all. This is difficult at the beginning but once learned never forgotten.

The article below might be of interest.

Yogi Cameron

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/18/science/18angier.html?_r=2&emc=eta1er.php

What ever you make important to you will take away your attention. The tv, music, magazines or conversations you have will all either add or take you further away from your goal of peace and contentment. Be careful what becomes important to you as your attention will be taken in that direction and a new habit formed. If money, sex, relationship or popularity take up much of your thinking, then here you will make your reality. Making inner contentment your goal will bring you to inner joy. 

Yogi Cameron

Rosalie asks

Hello Cameron,
I have notices that my hair, nails, and skin are getting dry. Is something going on with my body that I am not aware of??? Hope you will answer this for me. Dry time of my life!!

YC- Dryness has mostly to do with the air element which is responsible for movement in the body becoming too much. If you tend to move a lot, think too much, do a lot of physical exercise, eat dry foods, sweat a lot, stay up later at night, drink alcohol or coffee, then you might find your body is quite dry.

In this case we need to reverse the situation by lubricating the body with the intake of good oils like ghee, olive, flax seed or sesame oil. The outside of the skin also needs oiling with coconut or sesame. Foods should be fresh and natural like fruits and vegetables. Nuts should be raw as they contain more oils too. Rub oil into the nostrils too before bedtime for better sleep.

Yogi Cameron