Rudraksha therapy?

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Dear all,

 

Om Namah Shivaya!

 

Namaste! I just wanted to introduce myself and say hello to all the

lovely rudraksha bead lovers in this little club. I've been skulking

around reading all the interesting posts for a while and thought it

was time to pop in and say hello and share this link for an article

that I found on rudraksha therapy - interesting is it not?

 

http://www.elle.com/article.asp?

article_id=2335&section_id=36&page_number=1&magind=3590

 

Enjoy, wishing you all love and happiness,

 

Suf

[Guest guest]

Namaste Suf,

 

Thanks for swinging by to say hi and for kind comments. Good to see

you! Tried the link but could not find the therapy article. Can

you please post the link again, i.e., directly to the article?

Would love to have a peek. When I went there, could only see Elle

fashion bimbo stuff. Hope you won't mind, thanx!!

 

Jai Maa

Simone

 

 

, girkdude

<no_reply> wrote:

> Dear all,

>

> Om Namah Shivaya!

>

> Namaste! I just wanted to introduce myself and say hello to all

the

> lovely rudraksha bead lovers in this little club. I've been

skulking

> around reading all the interesting posts for a while and thought

it

> was time to pop in and say hello and share this link for an

article

> that I found on rudraksha therapy - interesting is it not?

>

> http://www.elle.com/article.asp?

> article_id=2335&section_id=36&page_number=1&magind=3590

>

> Enjoy, wishing you all love and happiness,

>

> Suf

[Guest guest]

Hi you had mailed the link of the article but i am unable to find it or the

website so........can you please copy - paste the article for benefit of

all............thanks....................

 

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

All,

 

I was able to get to the article by cut & Paste of the

lines containing the url and the next one.There is

acarriage return between them

When u do open the article it really looks like some

kind of ad for their products.It is in fact an article

on powers of Rudraksha.

 

 

KArtick

 

 

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[Guest guest]

Namaste all,

 

I couldn't find the article posted within the group (excuse me if it

was there) nor a URL directly to it (http://www.elle.com/article.asp?

section_id=36&article_id=2335&page_number=1). So, curious to see

what it said I dug it up. Here it is for those interested.

 

 

Om Shanti

Neil

 

P.S. Can't believe I'm posting Elle...what have I come to (LOL)

 

 

Our beauty adventuress was worrying herself sick. Could the latest

ayurvedic healing-bead treatment help her come to her senses?

by holly millea

 

You're not going to believe this, but the other day I was

multitasking my news intake, watching CNN's Bill Hemmer (or as I

call him, Bill Hemmina-Hemmina) and reading the ticker at the bottom

of the screen, when it scrolled, "…while you're reading this,

sleeper cells are waking, hell's breaking loose, and the world's

coming to an end.…" And I realized the channel was channeling the

loop of anxious thoughts constantly running through my head these

days. Flipping over to CNBC—same thing! "…the stock market's

falling…your ass is falling…that itch is a yeast infection.…"

 

Then, as I stood there, that cute Brian Williams announced, "Holly

Millea's Homeland Insecurity Advisory System is warning that her

risk of an anxiety attack has just gone from yellow [elevated] to

red [severe]…and that's the news for tonight.…" Hello? Brian?

Omigod. Red? I've learned to live with yellow—a pedicure,

highlights, a new vibrator, and—bang!—back to feeling better. I

can even nip high-risk orange in the bud with a Xanax, a shrink

visit, or a Bill Hemmer fantasy. But red is a level I've never had

to face. Clearly this threat requires a daring, untried method of

counterattack.

 

Seeking foreign aid, I find myself at Pratima, an Ayurvedic beauty

and skin-care spa, where for $72 you can undergo an hour of

rudraksha therapy—a mind-calming experience soon to be a trend

because it can be. Rudraksha is a seed from the fruit of the utrasum

tree, which grows in northern India and Nepal. The rough

brown "bead" looks like a small, petrified human brain that—like

my brain—has a hole running through the center.

 

The beads are commonly strung as malas (rosaries) and are believed

to possess major physical and mental healing powers. "We have used

rudraksha as medicine for thousands of years," says Pratima

Raichur, a bindi-dotted beauty and naturopathic physician who, at

age sixty-five, looks only forty-eight-and-a-half—give or take a

week. "This is not a fad. There's been a lot of scientific

research done on this." She slides a book across her desk that's

filled with a lot of scientific research and turns to some brain-

wave graphs that, unlike the economy, end on an upswing.

 

Rudraksha beads have vertical grooves running from top to bottom,

creating anywhere from one to 14 natural facets or faces, known in

Hindi as mukhi. The number of mukhi prescribes the bead's healing

properties—i.e., wearing a bead with three mukhi is said to relieve

guilt, fear, and inferiority complexes; four mukhi beads increase

memory and wit; six give you courage. The five-faced bead is a good

all-purpose healer used to lower blood pressure and ease an agitated

mind. "People aren't able to relax anymore," Raichur says,

raising her voice over the sound of a garbage truck backing up

outside. "Even for people who have been doing meditation for a long

time, it's difficult." Hence her creation of a rudraksha bead room.

 

No bigger than a walk-in closet, the candlelit room has a Sleeping

Beauty­size bed, canopied and curtained with garlands of rudraksha

beads—thousands of them. I lie down, and Raichur drapes me in long

strands of rudraksha, chanting "Om," and rubbing oil between my

brows (the third-eye area). Then she places a bead on the spot,

anchoring it with a headbandlike wire. She turns on a cassette tape

of "oms" and leaves me alone in the bead womb, where I immediately

start thinking about those Hale-Bopp people. I try to relax

and "let go" like she said, go with the flow…To Bead or Not to

Bead, The Bead Goes On, Beadniks, Beady-Eyed, Beadermeier, Bead

Laden….

 

I focus on my third eye…ew, like, what if you really had a third

eye? How freaky would that be? Even if you had 20/20/20 vision,

where would you buy sunglasses? Would you mention it in a personal

ad? This anxious runaway train of thought is derailed by the wail of

an ambulance siren. It passes, and I try to reconnect with

the "oms" emanating from the tape player. Just as I begin to

relax, the tape ends and the recorder clicks off, which suddenly

makes me feel gypped and angry and abandoned and wanting to call my

therapist. In other words, I'm reliving last Wednesday night, when

an ex-boyfriend I'd trustfully reconnected with clicked off on me a

second time. Gee, which bead relieves How could I have been so f--

king stupid-itis, and the overwhelming urge to dropkick that 90-

pound emotional weakling?

 

That would be the Cuervo Gold bead.

 

With the "oms" off, I can hear the receptionist through the wall

answering the phone, taking appointments, checking clients in….

Let's face it, not being a great candidate to begin with, I'd need

a bead the size of a bowling ball to sink me into a meditative

state. My neck hurts.

 

When Raichur returns, I feel guilty for not being blissed out and

confess that the noise from the street and the reception area

interfered with my entering what she said would be a "deeper state

of consciousness." Raichur admits that she's been thinking of

soundproofing the room. Before I leave, she gives me two five-faced

beads and a copper cup, instructing me to soak the beads in water

every night and drink the water the next morning. "This will lower

your blood pressure and help you relax," she assures me. "But

don't swallow the beads—then you'll have a problem."

 

After one week of drinking the beadle juice, my anxiety level lowers

from red to orange. Is it the rudraksha or is it because I've

stopped watching the news? I decide to consult a specialist in

alternative medicine—my big brother, Paul Millea, who's a medical

doctor and a homeopath. He's never heard of rudraksha beads. I fill

him in. "Hmmm," he says, "there are a lot of panaceas out there.

I will say that recent research demonstrated that if someone

experiences a placebo effect, it can create the same physiologic

change in the body that would be seen with a pharmacologic agent."

He pauses. "These beads may have some nice effects, but the people

who profit from selling them overblow it. They're selling the

sizzle." The Internet is loaded with rudraksha sites. Prices are

all over the map, from $14 for a strand to $501 for a single 15-

faced bead. At Pratima, Raichur sells them for $6 a bead. Oh, and

heads-up: Many sites say the beads should not be worn during sex,

menstruation, or bowel movements. And if you see anything growing on

a guy that looks like a rudraksha—run in the other direction.

 

 

 

, Viswa kartick

<viswa_k> wrote:

> All,

>

> I was able to get to the article by cut & Paste of the

> lines containing the url and the next one.There is

> acarriage return between them

> When u do open the article it really looks like some

> kind of ad for their products.It is in fact an article

> on powers of Rudraksha.

>

>

> KArtick

>

>

> --- ghantala nilesh <tigernilesh> wrote:

>

> > Hi you had mailed the link of the article but i am

> > unable to find it or the website so........can you

> > please copy - paste the article for benefit of

> > all............thanks....................

> >