Ayurveda and Yoga: Prevention and Self-Healing through Awareness
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Following his education as a naturopath and completion of a university degree in business administration Klaus-Rupprecht Wasmuht successfully pursued a career in industry and later became an independent entrepreneur in England. Since 2003 he has devoted himself exclusively to health care. During his multi-annual training and further education in authentic ayurvedic healing treatments in South India, he has been able to establish close contacts with numerous Vaidyas in the last 15 years, leading to a lively exchange of experience. Currently in charge of the Ayurveda and naturopathic practice in the Hanseatic city of Lübeck, he is author of scientific publications and active as a speaker and seminar leader at the Federal Association "Freie Heilpraktiker e.V. Berufs- und Fachverband" (Federal Association of Independent Health Practitioners).
Klaus-Rupprecht Wasmuht
Klaus-Rupprecht Wasmuht hat nach seiner Ausbildung als Heilpraktiker und abgeschlossenem Hochschulstudium der Betriebswirtschaft zunächst einen beruflichen Werdegang in der Industrie und auch als selbständiger Unternehmer in England gesucht und erfolgreich bestritten. Seit 2003 widmet er sich ausschließlich heilberuflicher Tätigkeit. Bei seiner jährlich erfolgenden Aus- und Weiterbildung in authentischen ayurvedischen Heilanwendungen in Südindien hat er in den letzten 15 Jahren enge Kontakte mit zahlreichen Vaidyas knüpfen können, die einen regen Erfahrungsaustausch ermöglichen. Gegenwärtig leitet er die Ayurveda und Naturheilpraxis Lübeck und ist als Referent und Seminarleiter am "Freie Heilpraktiker e.V. Berufs- und Fachverband" tätig.
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Ayurveda and Yoga - Klaus-Rupprecht Wasmuht
life.
Prologue
The modern science of the Western world has found various means to enable a standard of living beyond the subsistence level. However, it has done little to facilitate inner self-realization and true emotional satisfaction. Greater material well-being is accompanied by a regrettable increase in mental illness, drug addiction, suicide, crime, corruption and violence.
In the Eastern world, on the other hand, human beings have developed emotional and spiritual techniques that lead to the realization of the connection with the metaphysical. The appropriate way of life has made it possible to free oneself from existential doubts and suffering internally. However, most people have so far failed to solve the urgent issues of everyday life and to improve their living conditions.(²)
Realization:
Material prosperity alone does not mean a happy life yet, and spiritual freedom in material distress does not provide sufficient livelihood.
Question:
In the social environment, how can one be connected to the other in order to enable a full and happy life in community?
The title page shows Shiva as Nataraja (King of Dance
) in the cosmic dance, dancing on Apasmara, the Demon of Ignorance
.
In dance, Shiva destroys ignorance
The essential meaning of Shiva’s dance is threefold: First: it is the image of his rhythmic play as the source of all motion in the cosmos represented by the bow:
Second: the purpose of his dance is to remove the innumerable souls of men from the trap of illusion.
Third: the place of the dance, Chidambaram, is the center of the universe, in the heart.(³)
What does Shiva tell us as a symbol of the source of all movement in the cosmos – liberation from the trap of illusion – the heart as the center of the universe?
Liberation from the illusion is today desirable through self-realization.
Is not this desire already an expression of an illusion? Sri Ramana Maharshi (⁴) answers this question as follows: The desire to realize the Self is at the same time an expression of a deficiency phenomenon. The very nature of this sense of life hides itself as a secret, the meaning of which only reveals itself to a few people.
This leads to the question: what is the actual character of this self-awareness of life, which hides itself as a secret and reveals itself to only a few people?
What would life be like if humanity managed to solve this mystery?
Would the crew in Spaceship Earth
be able to shape their coexistence in a cooperative team spirit, rather than in a competition-dictated survival of the fittest
? In other words keeping healthy
instead of getting sick
!
Ayurveda and yoga – prevention and self-healing through awareness – are means to reveal and promote awareness of the true character of this feeling for life
, called Swasthya
in Hinduism,
Swasthya, or rest in the self, is naturally devoid of pathological aspects. Only by misjudging the circumstances and subsequent misconduct problems appear that have a negative impact.
The cause of this sequence is a lack of knowledge, lack of awareness about the interactions of complex life processes and thus misguided lifestyle.
This ignorance or misjudgment in coexistence of people has led from the earliest beginnings to the present to social conflicts and armed conflicts in the political and religious environment, as well as in economic dealings and in many other areas of life.
The world has become a big village in the last decades, in a few hours every point of the earth can be reached. Have we become world citizens for that reason alone?
Or do we see the events too much out of our own glasses, if not rose-tinted glasses, conditioned from early youth, shaped by the social environment, stubbornly blocked in dogmas and automatisms?
In this book, the ayurvedic approach is explained in connection with yoga, which is primarily preventive and health-promoting, taking into account the patient’s own physical, mental and spiritual activity, focusing on awareness of self-ordering and self-healing interactions.
The desired shift from a purely curative to a preventive-curative medicine, and finally a medicine that primarily pursues the goal of prevention through health promotion, requires an understanding of complex holistic interactions, an understanding of individual dynamics, and an understanding of how a person’s life has developed.
1. Mesocosm
Human being – Cosmic dust and what else? "
There are areas of life that we do not know about. However, when we apply to them the principle of analogy (in philosophy, a form of agreement on certain characteristics), we extend our understanding beyond these realms. The principle of analogy reveals itself as a universal law on various levels of the material, intellectual and spiritual universe.(⁵)
Already the spread of the galaxies seems gigantic to humans, an order of magnitude that can hardly be grasped, whereas atomic distances seem very tiny to humans.
Ultimately, this similarity of the different levels of existence is due to the mental state of consciousness.(⁶)
Mesocosm in philosophy is the subject area of objects clearly intelligible to human beings. This is understood as an intermediate area between microcosm and macrocosm.
The mesocosm is important in that it defines the range of perception from which humans can describe the macrocosm and the microcosm.(⁷)
Consciousness can be compared to the tip of an iceberg and the unconscious to the hidden much larger part of the iceberg.
The situation is similar with the sensory perception of man. Even a rough assessment of the human senses reveals the limitations to what we can see and hear.
Sound spectrum:
People can only hear vibrations with a frequency of 20 Hertz up to 16000 Hz (maximum 20000 Hz). Elephants, cattle and insects, on the other hand, hear very deep sounds whose sound waves propagate over long distances below 16 Hz. Pigeons can even hear sounds in the 0.1 Hertz range.
In the high frequency range, hedgehogs, dogs, dolphins and bats are superior to humans. Bats can hear sounds up to 200,000 hertz.
Apart from the sound phenomenon as a physical phenomenon, sound is of particular importance in numerous creation myths.
For Joachim-Ernst Berendt, the longtime jazz editor of Südwestfunk Baden Baden sound is the continuous principle of creation.(⁸)
He saw a harmonic principle not only in the music of all cultures, but also in nature (fauna and flora) and in space, in the orbits and vibrations of the planets.
Oxygen particles vibrate in C major, the blades of a mountain meadow sing
, photosynthesis creates triads.
Berendt thought that Copernicus must be taken literally. God himself created the world out of sound, so reject all music to God or to the Gods.
The Bible emphasizes in several places the meaning of sound and light. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (⁹) The same was in the beginning with God. All things are made by the same, and without it is nothing made that was made. (¹⁰)
In him was life, and life was the light of men. (11) And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not understood. (¹²)
According to Indian philosophy, the world is sound (Nada Brahma). The sound of Nada stands for the sacred syllable OM.(¹³) Om is the most sublime symbol of the Hindu Metaphysics.
As a transcendental primordial sound, OM refers to vibrations that created the entire universe. Om stands as sound for the beginning, without matter.
Building on this, the perceptible, the material universe emerged. So much is mentioned here to OM. Particular importance is given to the effect of OM-chanting in yoga practice for more awareness of body and mind, to recognize the Self and return to the essence of nature.(¹⁴)
According to Professor Klaus Fessmann, pianist, composer and sound artist, Sound and music are vital. Sound and music not only reverse misery, but at the same time prevent fear.
(¹⁵)
"When I was sitting in a circle with a group of ADHD children in the clinic of Esslingen with sound stones in a circle on the floor and we were playing, they suddenly knew what they had to do with their hands and their urge to move: they entered into the movement of the music of the stones, which was like them, like their senses and feelings, their being and their way of thinking.
They did not need any Ritalin, no therapies, prescriptions, or anything like that, just meaningful and fulfilling movements and accompanying notes in their Musica Humana."
Electromagnetic spectrum:
In the electromagnetic spectrum, the light spectrum with wavelengths between approximately 380 and 780 nm is the part visible to the human eye.
At the beginning of the spectrum are the short-wave and thus high-energy gamma rays whose wavelength reaches atomic magnitudes. At the end are the longitudinal waves whose wavelengths are many kilometers.
Light, like fire, is one of the most important phenomena of all human cultures. Light casts no shadow.
(¹⁶) The existence of the shadow is dependent on the light, but the light is not dependent on the shadow and can never be reached by the shadow.
Although only a limited portion of the electromagnetic spectrum is visible to the human physical eye, the spiritual
eye has produced a much wider notion of light.
Thus mankind has made astonishing discoveries since fire was brought to mankind by Prometheus, who is considered the originator of human civilization.
In particular, the discovery of power generation in modern times enabled electric propulsion and power supply over long distances.
Classical electrodynamics has been extended by quantum electrodynamics (quantum field theory description of electromagnetism).
Nuclear energy also highlights the downsides of human activity: the A-bomb dropping on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as well as the Chernobyl and Fukushima disasters - to name only the most monstrous derailments - have caused and still cause unspeakable suffering.
The following points of view, both scientific and spiritual, which are in line with the main message, seem more luminous. According to Frido Mann and Christine Mann, the authors of the book Let Light Be: The Unity of Mind and Matter in Quantum Physics
, (¹⁷) the