We spoke a lot about subconscious content and reality. I am now going to share a simple trick if you want to know whether it's imprints that are driving your life now. Do you find yourself in repetitive trigger situations that make you react in a same way over and over again? You must pay attention to those situations and your reactions. Most probably, it is your imprints that are at work. The first step in finding a solution is acknowledging there is a problem. Isn't it? It is simple common sense that all of us know. And let me be honest. It is a relief to know where the challenges in life are coming up from. Thank God! It is not destiny, fate or unseen hand playing chess with life. The issue is in our own subconscious. And it is a bigger relief to know there is a simple heart centred solution to come out of these challenges. I had a client whose case demonstrates how imprints work. It is a typical situation in most families. She is happily married to a wealthy business man for few years now. They are a loving couple except for one dark cloud over their happy blue skies. Her husband's large family, including some of the relatives, ask financial assistance from him quite often. Since he has money to dispose, many relatives expect him to help them financially for any of their issues or ventures in life. Husband is of helping nature, so he extends help whenever asked. He knows the money will not come back. Since my client wants him to be happy, she tries not to interfere. She wants husband to be happy, but the lady herself is not happy giving money to relatives. She knows it is his duty to help family and it is his wish who he can help. So she tries not to react but in spite of telling herself not to react, she is upset about it. Whenever someone asks for help, it ends up in an argument between husband and wife. And she reached to a helpless stage where it started feeling like a never ending cycle. When someone is driven by their imprints, they find themselves in such repetitive situations and tend to react in same way in spite of their best intentions not to react. The entire situation including their own reaction gives them quite a helpless feeling. It is like a frightened child put on a giant wheel. The child feels dizzy and nauseous exactly at the same height and fears it but he can neither stop it from going on and on nor jump down from it. Do you feel this way about any of the issues in your life? Then definitely this particular situation in your life is being created from the subconscious imprints. Do you feel you had enough of it and very badly want to get down the giant wheel? Congratulations. This is the first step. The feeling that you had enough of it and you are willing to step out of that situation is the critical first step. You make such a commitment only when you care for yourself. And the good news is, caring for you is the most apt solution to any of your life issues driven by past imprints. It just involves honouring yourself and all your feelings. Does it sound too simple? Heart is simple. Feelings are simple. Hence a heart centred solution is simple. It's only the mind, or as in this case, the subconscious mind, that complicates things in life. Isn't it? So how does it work? We have seen in our last articles, how past painful experiences leave strong imprints. But how do these imprints get stored in the subconscious and stay there so long? Even for several lifetimes! When we faced painful emotions in our past, mostly as a small, helpless child, we were afraid of the pain. We do not know how to handle the pain in that experience. So we suppressed all of them and tried to push away the memory of that experience. But all of it is still present in our subconscious as imprints. So what keeps imprints in place is the unfelt and unresolved pain from that situation. In fact, all our memories of past have some emotional response attached to it, either painful or pleasurable. Without any emotion attached to a situation, it will not get stored in our memory in the first place. Imagine, you have experienced millions of situations in all these years of your life! How many of them do you remember or can recollect now? When you do recollect, can you recollect anything that doesn't have an emotion attached to it? That's the reason the solution here is to heal the unresolved pain sitting on top of the imprints in your subconscious memory. It is like a giant paper weight that is kept on a stack of papers. You just remove the weight and papers just fly away with even a simple breeze. Just paying attention to your feelings in any painful situation will heal all the past pain that is keeping the imprints in place. When the past pain is healed, subconscious memory of the past experience just melts away. That is why it works so well. In the case of above example, when I asked my client to enquire within herself, what is the exact feeling/s that the present situation triggered, she figured out fear of poverty underneath the pain. It is based on a childhood memory. She had that fear because of a bitter experience that her father had faced with his relatives about money. As a child, she just felt helpless in this situation. As a child, she didn’t know how to deal with that insecurity when she came to know about father's financial troubles. She was just afraid they will all end up being poor. All that unfelt and unresolved fear and insecurity is sitting now in her subconscious. So I asked her to honour and allow this feeling of fear when she is in my office. And to allow herself to feel all there is to feel in her present situation with finances. Just by doing this, it allowed her past pain to be healed. Once it is healed, she is able to acknowledge, that as a mature adult and in her position now, there is no need to feel helpless and be in fear. Now she doesn't feel the pinch when her husband helps anyone. Not just that, even the calls for help has come down like a miracle. It is really a simple solution. Even you can do it easily by yourself. Just honour all your emotions without any judgement. When in pain, do not make yourself wrong for it. Instead, recognize that it is past pain that is coming up now for your loving attention. Treat all repetitive painful situations as triggers. The feelings triggered in the situation help you to identify and resolve the past unresolved pain. Of course, we will take a deeper look at how exactly you can use this in your life in our upcoming articles. But make sure you honour all your feelings and emotions from now on, they hold the key to a happy, light filled life.     Ramakrishna Maguluri Engaging with Life ELAI engagingwithlife@yahoo.com  

How does it feel when you receive a promotional letter with an increment of 50k per month? Incredible! Absolutely stunning! Amazing feeling! Right?? "However, this all can make you feel happy only in a part your brain... But if you are sharing loving moments with your spouse, this is equalant indeed more than the above pleasure" say Professors at The University of Warwick. Their department of Economics, recently did a research on the kind of returns one will get on investing their time in bedroom with partner. To their surprise, results were Very interesting that, the happiness and satisfaction levels are much more than the pay cheques they receive as bonus by employers. After, continuous research happening on the benefits of being intimate with spouse regularly, will have so many benefits physically and mentally as this act is rated as very good workout for couples, which helps in loosing excess calories; in addition this, secretion of the "endorphin" hormones in body which will trigger a positive feeling in the body and makes person to experience joy and happiness. This is the reason why couples who share the bed at least 2-3 times in a week never get in to depression mode. Indeed, psychiatrists always advise the partners of their patients who are feeling severe despondency and dejection to take out personal time to spend intimate moments. They also say that lack of such pleasure in ladies,often push them in to depression state. With money, one can happily enjoy life with comforts and luxuries, but in reality this can be felt and experienced by a part of the brain. Nevertheless, complete happiness can be experienced by an individual when they develop a skill to be happy with body, mind and soul. This is the only secret behind the extreme happiness every newly wedded couple go through. Experts also advise couple to stick to their cozy romantic moments with out fail, especially when things seem tough, as this has amazing power and plays a vital role in strengthening relationship in a marriage.To be precise, If you are having some personal , intimate moments with your spouse you are the richest without any doubt... Be proud of this. .......BHAVANA

  Whenever we think of treatment of cancer, we think of chemotherapy. Have you ever thought that cancer can have simple treatment too? Sometimes, its treatment can be as simple as the use of turmeric! I’m sure you never thought of that.  Lets star thinking now and see how this can happen. Multiple researches have come to the same conclusion that, this Asian spice can do magic on cancer patients. How does this magic work? Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention, suggests that turmeric has the capacity to cause the cancer cells to die. When taken in the right dosage it can be used as a very effective cancer therapy they say. A similar study in 2007 told the Liver International after conducting an experiment on mice that, those that received turmeric as treatment for liver cancer, showed signs of improvement. They believe this has only been possible because of the anti inflammatory properties of turmeric. An year later another study in Taiwan declared that the Asian spice not only causes the cancer cells to die but also prevents the formation of tumors. That makes turmeric a very useful medicine in prevention and treatment of cancer. The Life Extension Foundation has discovered that as a treatment to cancer, turmeric targets 10 causative factors like  DNA damage, chronic inflammation, and disruption of cell signaling pathways. The only thing that’s left to do is deciding the exact dose of turmeric to be taken to prevent or treat cancer. Don’t forget to talk to your doctor about this. -Kruti Beesam

    Recent studies have shown that those who drink diet beverages tend to snack which in turn gain more weight because of the calorie intake than those who drink beverages laced with sugar. These so called Diet beverages which target those who are conscious of weight gain but studies into how these beverages affect weight control have contradictory results.   To gain a better understanding of the relationship between diet beverage consumption and caloric intake, a research team led by Dr. Sara N. Bleich at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health examined patterns of food and beverage consumption. They used data collected between 1999 and 2010 in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), a periodic survey of the health and habits of the U.S. population by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The analysis was funded by NIH’s National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI). The researchers studied almost 24,000 adults, age 20 and older, who reported all the food and beverages they had consumed in a previous 24-hour period. Results appeared online in the American Journal of Public Health on January 16, 2014. The team found that 11% of healthy-weight, 19% of overweight, and 22% of obese adults drank diet beverages. Diet drinks appeared to help healthy-weight adults maintain their weight. These adults consumed less food and significantly fewer total calories on a typical day than did healthy-weight adults who drank sugared drinks. Notably, obese adults who consumed diet drinks ate significantly more snacks than those who had sugared drinks. Those who drank diet beverages consumed 131 calories per day in salty snacks and 243 in sweet snacks, compared to 107 and 213, respectively, for obese adults who drank sugared drinks. “The results of our study suggest that overweight and obese adults looking to lose or maintain their weight—who have already made the switch from sugary to diet beverages—may need to look carefully at other components of their solid-food diet, particularly sweet snacks, to potentially identify areas for modification,” Bleich says. Source: http://www.nih.gov/