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Articles by Kavitha Chinnaiyan
Modern Medicine & Lessons from the Gita with Dr Chinnaiyan
EP 74: Modern Medicine & Lessons from the Bhagavad Gita with Dr Kavitha Chinnaiyan In medical school, Dr Chinnaiyan was fascinated with embryology. The question that used to hunt her was how does once cell know to differentiate into so many different organs: what is that knowledge? In this week’s Parallax, Dr Ankur Kalra welcomes back Dr Kavitha Chinnaiyan cardiologist, Professor of Medicine at Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine and accomplished author.
Cultivating Inner Silence Through The Practice Of Daily Meditation
The basis of suffering is a misapprehension of our true nature that arises from the neurohormonal superhighways we have created throughout our lives that have become our habits. Not only do these habits make us do things in certain ways, but they make us think and believe in certain ways that keep us bound to the body-mind as our true identity.
Cultivating Inner Silence Through The Practice Of Daily Meditation
The basis of suffering is a misapprehension of our true nature that arises from the neurohormonal superhighways we have created throughout our lives that have become our habits. Not only do these habits make us do things in certain ways, but they make us think and believe in certain ways that keep us bound to the body-mind as our true identity. They obscure the fact that bliss is our true nature.
A Cardiologist Prescribes Bliss: The Bliss Rx
Kim sat across from me, her anger and frustration etched on her face. “I can’t believe this happened to me. I exercise every single day. I pay attention to every morsel that goes in my mouth. I don’t smoke and have only 2-3 alcoholic drinks per year. All my five siblings are overweight, they all smoke and eat the unhealthiest foods. If anyone should get cancer, it should be one of them. Not me.” I sat quietly, listening to her pain-filled words.
InnerSelf Newsletter: June 17th, 2018
Welcome... Our InnerSelf welcomes your inner self.This week we reflect on coming face-to-face with ourselves... on facing our suffering, discovering our intentions, clarifying our choices, and of course taking action towards the reality we wish to empower.Today, on Father's Day, I wrote a short piece (This Father's Day: Let Not The Children Suffer) asking you to take action about the atrocities taking place at the Mexican border...
Working with Pain and Illness and Making It Go Away
One of the greatest blocks to discovering our nature as bliss is identification with physical pain. When we are in pain, it takes over our identity and clouds our perception until it is relieved. Some of this is a natural physiological response—pain is unpleasant and universally unwanted. However, pain is also mostly unavoidable, particularly as we age or when we are afflicted with chronic illnesses.
Working with Pain and Illness and Making It Go Away
One of the greatest blocks to discovering our nature as bliss is identification with physical pain. When we are in pain, it takes over our identity and clouds our perception until it is relieved. Some of this is a natural physiological response—pain is unpleasant and universally unwanted. However, pain is also mostly unavoidable, particularly as we age or when we are afflicted with chronic illnesses.
InnerSelf Newsletter: May 20th, 2018
Welcome... Our InnerSelf welcomes your inner self.This week we bring you articles to assist in stepping out of the conditioning of our culture and explore different perspectives. We look at pain and how to move beyond it, we reflect on reincarnation, and we look at moving beyond the way of the ego to the path of spiritual will.
InnerSelf Newsletter: March 18th, 2018
Welcome... Our InnerSelf welcomes your inner self.“As above, so below, as within, so without, as the universe, so the soul…” (This quote is attributed to Hermes Trismegistus, author of Hermetic Corpus, and was found inside his tomb.) The subject of this quote is the theme of this week's edition of InnerSelf. What is within us affects the outside, and what is outside affects the inside.
We Are Not The Helpless Slaves Of Our Habits
Do you ever wonder why you do things specifically the way you do? Whether I’m reading a patient’s echocardiogram or loading the dishwasher, I have “a way” to do it, which is different from someone else’s “way.” How does this happen?Unlike other mammals, we are born helpless and clueless. Our brains have all the neurons but the synapses are formed through experience.
How the Goddess Writes
As a writer, my writing is an extension of my life, my heart and my identity. Most writers can agree with the statement that writing isn’t something we do because we must. It’s something we do because we simply can’t not write. It’s an outpouring of our heart-mind onto paper, flowing in ways that are as unique as each of us, telling stories and conveying material in ways that only we can. Writing Shakti Rising was one of the most profound experiences of my life.
How To Use The Doshas To Hack Your Biological Rhythms: A Doctor Explains
As we move into full-fledged winter in America, I'm once again intrigued by the inherent beauty of nature's rhythms. Everything in nature is subject to the rhythms of both day and night and the seasons, including our bodies. In fact, our health and sense of well-being depend on these delicate cycles that often escape our attention in day-to-day life.What is the fundamental cause of physical, mental, emotional, psychological, or spiritual discord or illness? One could say it is lack of balance.
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