Reinventing Medicine
A NEW ERA OF HEALING
A lecture by :
Dr. Pranav Pandya, MD
Head – All World Gayatri Pariwar
Chancellor – Devsanskriti Vishwavidyalaya
SHANTIKUNJ Himalayas Uttaranchal Bharat
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Man is a Marvel. He is linked to Gods.
There is nothing more divine than human
mind, nothing more potent in its
operation, Nothing more apt to unite men
to Gods and Gods to men….for man is a
being of divine nature.
–
Hermes (Greek
name for Egyptian God, Supposed to be founder of
Alchemy)
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A man on earth is a mortal God…..
And a God in Heaven is an immortal
man.
– Hermes
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Modern consciousness Research
reveals that our Psyche has no
real boundaries. On the contrary
we are part of an infinite field of
Consciousness that encompasses
all of us
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Before we go ahead with the
subject of Medicine in
today’s Era of consciousness
revolution further, Let us try
to know few issues
challenging all of us.
Challenging Issues
* Increasing no. of elderly persons all over
* Care of dying patients becoming more
difficult
* Organ Transplants ;a boon or a curse?
* Stem cell revolution with newer
dimensions emerging.
* Genome and Cloning – Technological
wonders?
Challenging Issues
* Health system getting bankrupt and costs
getting higher.
* Complimentary and alternative medicine
(CAM)emerging fast.
* Impaired Physicians,Lack of will to
participate in CME,Their addictions
* Pain Management and reassurance
* Depression as the topmost killer by
2015(WHO)
Modern Medicine : Three Eras
Era 1 : Dates to Mid 1800
1.
Scientists regarded that time
the entire world including human
bodies, as mindless
machine.Crude therapies were
prevalent
Modern Medicine : Three Eras
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Era 2 : Dates to Mid 1900
•*
Era of penicillins and other
Antibiotics
•* Emerged mind body medicine
•* Mind Could affect one’s body,
placebo response
•* Research on PUS and hypertension
Modern Medicine : Three Eras
Era 3 : By New Millennium
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Development of non local
mind.
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Effect of consciousness to
act locally as well as non
locally.
Modern Medicine : Three Eras
Era 1 is Mechanical Medicine
Began in 1860s :
It was materialistic, mechanistic or
physicalistic medicine like :Leeches,
drugs, surgery, radiation so on.
Energy and matter only mattered not
mind.
Modern Medicine : Era 2
Developed after World War II : till
Mid 90s
Research on Placebo Effect – Beneficial
results of suggestion,and Positive
Thinking.
Stress Management is used with Medicine
for heart disease or Coronary bypass, not
as a replacement for them.
It was the time when Isotopes had
changed the scenario
Modern Medicine : Three Eras
Era 2 ---- Psychosomatic Medicine
Development of Alternative and
Complementary Medicine :
Endless potential of therapies
Modern Medicine : Era Three
Non-local Medicine (Infinite Medicine)
*
It grants mind freedom to roam
freely in space and time.
*
Mind is more than the brain. No
one’s illness is a purely individual
matter.
Modern Medicine : Era Three
Non-local Medicine (Infinite Medicine)
*Healing
can be achieved at a
distance by directing loving and
compassionate thoughts,
intentions and prayers to others.
Modern Medicine : Three Eras
Three features of Non Locality
1. Non Local happenings are unmediated
(Don’t require a go between two Subjects)
Beyond Mind Body to a
New Era of Healing
Three features of Non Locality
2. Non local events are Unmitigated
(Strength does not falloff with
distance)
Beyond Mind Body to a
New Era of Healing
Three features of Non Locality
3. Non Local Phenomena are immediate
(No requirement for travel time)
Beyond Mind Body to a
New Era of Healing
Era 3 :
* Recognizes the collective, unbounded
nature of human consciousness
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Era 3 - Medicine thus is a form of
healing based on the fundamental,
infinite nature of consciousness.
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Concepts of Psycho-neuro-immunology
&
Development of Complementary or
Integrative medicine
Are indicative of revolutionary era 3 in 21st
century.
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Eternity Medicine Therapies
(i) Music
(ii) Presence being felt
(iii) Need of internal and eternal
medicine
Era 3 in Everyday Healing
Role of telepathy
Dreams of Illness and healing
Intuition and revelation
Role of Sympathy
Telesomatic Connections
Miracles
Fears of nonlocal mind
Mind body Medicine, MBM giving
way to Spiritual therapy
An exciting field of medicine
– includes
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meditation,
*
hypnosis,
*
guided imagery,
*
biofeed back,
*
relaxation therapy
*
Prayer healing
Spiritual Therapy is…
Useful in
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Headache,
*
chronic pain,
*
insomnia,
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anxiety,
*
depression,
*
CAD ,Immunity disorders
and even all Cancers
COMPLEMENTARY
&
ALTERNATIVE SYSTEMS
OF
MEDICINE
(CAM)
Alternative Systems of Medicine
emerged because of
• Limitations of Various Branches of Medicines
• Synthesis of Proven Systems
• Need for Preventive Measures
• Inexpensive Treatment
• Emphasizes Mind and body link
Complementary Therapies
Biological therapies :
Herbal remedies
Aromatherapy
Dietary therapies
Orthomolecular therapies
Mind - body therapies : Hypnotherapy
Pranic Healing
Meditation
Complementary Therapies
Herbal Remedies– Plants and their Extracts
Aromatherapy– Essential oils usually inhaled
Dietary Therapies—Right diet to promote
health,prevent or control illness
Orthomolecular Therapies—Large vitamin
doses Or mineral supplements.
Complementary Therapies
MIND BODY INTERVENTIONS
Hypnotherapy-for behavioral and mental
problems.
Healing-Prayer,directed thoughts and
spiritual healing.
Meditation-deep breathing and inner
relaxation.
Tranquility and equipoise.
Alternative systems & Therapies
Diagnostic Systems :
Iridology-looking at eyes
Dowsing-through rods
Radionics-invisible energy fields
Kinesiology-energy imbalances in
muscles
Biopulsars
Alternative systems & Therapies
Energy Therapies
Crystals- said to influence the patients’ aura
Reiki-channels spiritual energy to heal
body,mind
Laying on of hands-to manipulate the body’s
energy
NONE SYSTEMATICALLY
REVIEWED YET
MANIPULATIVE THERAPIES
OSTEOPATHY; MANIPULATION
OF MUSCLES AND JOINTS
CHIROPRACTIC;MANIPULATION
OF SPINE
MASSAGE;RUBBING,KNEADING OR
PRESSURE
REFLEXOLOGY;MASSAGE OF
SPECIFIC PARTS OF FOOT,ACU POINTS
ALTERNATIVE THERAPIES
AYURVED-ANCIENT INDIAN DISCIPLINE
-’SCIENCE OF LIFE’ based on Mind,body,spirit
interactions.
TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE
HOMEOPATHY
NATUROPATHY
Ayurved
The Atharva Veda contains early description of the use of
herbal medicine
Ayurveda is fifth veda or upveda
The ancient Indian sages,
who came face to face with
the truth, revealed the
secrets of wholesome living
after intense research and
observation of Herbs and
gave us the gift of Ayurved
OPINION OF SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY
Some of the complementary
therapies may be like a
harmless fashion or may be a
mass hysteria but…..
Alternative systems of medicine
like Ayurved definitely opens new
horizons for prevention and cure
of diseases.
OPINION OF SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY
Conventional medicine regards
body as a machine like a computer
or a jumbo jet.
CAM thinks that healthy body is a
system in balance.The whole body is
a self regulating extended network.
CAM
EXPERTS SAY THAT
NETWORK PATHOLOGIES ARISE WHEN
THE BODY SELF ORGANISES IN RESPONSE
TO SOME DISTURBANCE BUT BECOMES
CONFUSED AND ENDS UP WORSE AT SELF
REGULATION THAN BEFORE.
IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME AND
CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME ARE
EXAMPLES OF PRIMARY NETWORK
PATHOLOGIES.
Depression will be world’s most debilitating
disease by 2005 after heart ailments. By
2015, it may be first.
Psychology is going to be the subject of
future for students.
FOR STRESS PROOFING LIFESTYLE
The art of being
The art of relating
The art of thinking
The art of becoming
The art of organizing
New salad combinations
 Fruit nuts and raw vegetables
 Raw or steamed/boiled vegetables
 Fiber rich diets
whole wheat flour
boiled rice
beans and pulses
potatoes with skin
 Fruits as alternatives to pies
 Sprouted Pulses /wheat grass
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Lord Krishna in Gita Says Yuktaahaaravihaarasya
Yuktacheshtasya karmasu;
Yuktasvapnaavabodhasya
Yogo bhavati dukhaha
6/17
He who is regulated in diet and recreation,
who is restrained in performing his
actions, whose sleep and wakefulness is
regulated, such a person perfects the
Yoga which destroys all sorrows.
Meditation
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A cleanser of our mental garbage.
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Our day to day necessecity.
It gives relief from mental constipation
Meditation
Shuchau deshe pratishthaapya
Sthiramaasanamaatmanah;
Naatyuchchhritam naatineecham
Chailaajinakushottaram – Gita 6/11
He should establish a firm seat in a pure place
which is neither too high nor too low, and
upon which is spread either Kusha grass or a
deer skin or a cloth.
Meditation
Tatraikaagram manah kritvaa
Yatachittendriyakriyah;
Upavishyaasane yunjyaad
Yogamaatmavishuddhaye – Gita 6/12
Having seated on it, let him practise Yoga for
the purification of mind, after bringing the
mind to a state of one pointed ness controlling
his senses and activities.
Meditation
Samam kaayashirogreevam
Dhaarayannachalam sthirah;
Samprekshya naasikaagram svam
Dishashchaanavalokayam – Gita 6/13
There, having steadied himself and holding the
body, head and neck erect in a straight line,
looking steadily at the tip of the nose and not
looking in the different directions.
Meditation
Prashaantaatmaa vigatabheeh
Brahmachaarivrate sthitah
Manah samyamya machchitto
Yukta aaseeta matparah – Gita 6/14
Peaceful and fearless, established in the Vow
of celibacy with his mind restrained, and
turned towards Me, with wholehearted
devotion to Me – the Highest Goal, one should
practice yogic discipline.
Meditation
Implies giving a bath to
your personality of nobel
and ideal thoughts.
How to meditate
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Sit in a comfortable position.
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Classic posture is cross-legged on floor
(sukhasana) or
a big chair with soft cushion.
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Straighten your spine.
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Imagine yourself supported by a string
hanging from ceiling connected to the top of
your head.
How to meditate
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Breathe deeply through your nose.
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Inhale to full up lungs and then exhale
slowly to expel all the air, observing breath
all the time.
How to meditate
Select something to focus upon:
A candle flame,
a flower,
your deity,
Himalayas or ocean.
Focus on your breath by counting each inhalation and
exhalation.
How to meditate
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You can also focus on sound of Aum or
Mantra or a meaningful word or phrase.
OR
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Mentally recite mantra in synchrony with
your breathing.
Even 20 minutes of inner equipoise is enough to give
you inner peace and freshness.
Scientific Basis
Meditation affects brain cells specifically in
our limbic nervous system (base of brain),
which controls :
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Metabolism,
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Blood pressure,
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Respiration,
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Heart rate and
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Our emotions.
Endorphins and Encephalins (pleasure giving hormones)
are secreted.
Scientific Basis
A Fact:
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60% to 80 % of visits to health care
professionals are related to stress.
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Patients who respond poorly to
medication and surgeries respond
extremely well to mind body approaches –
such as meditation.
Research
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Migraine headache sufferer experience a 32%
reduction in frequency or severity of migraine.
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Psoriasis lesions heal 4 times faster with
ultraviolet photo therapy along with meditation.
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Chronic pain relaxation techniques are very
effective in lessening the suffering.
*
Cancer treatment : Meditation alleviates the
suffering of chronic pain and allows people
undergoing chemo to better manage pain and side
effects.
Research
In surgery :
*Prior to it, meditation and
relaxation leads to lesser anxiety,
patients blood pressure is
lowered, they bleed less and
surgery takes less time.
The Need is….
To use all three eras in balance
Combine the physical, mind-body and
nonlocal approaches of eras 1,era 2
and era 3
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New Era Medicine
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