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The Power of Yoga for Cancer Recovery

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The Power of Yoga for Cancer RecoveryYoga has been associated with therapeutic, mental and emotional powers. Yoga is simply the definition of the body, mind affiliation. Recently, some scientific journal revealed that those who undergo reconstructive surgery and mastectomy after stage 1 breast cancer diagnosis finds relief with Yoga. Yoga is the ultimate solution to recovering from cancer.

Yoga gives the recovering patients the tools to go through the emotional and physical pain and learn to breathe properly and live through. Whether it is through exercise or meditation, every cancer recovering patient needs some outlet. After surgery, most people suffer back and arm muscles issues, painful scar tissue and swelling. Yoga teaches people how to understand their body, know when to back off and know their strength.

How Yoga Works to Heal the Cancer Patients 

Yoga healing process for the cancer patients is mostly diagnosed by experts. Every move, every healing process plays its own part.

Yoga Postures 

The yoga postures work on the internal body systems and organs for instance respiration, circulation, elimination and digestion. They also work on the lymphatic system and the nervous system, and yoga penetrates the ligaments, muscles and joints. Some of the yoga practices are not suitable for the ailing, but the experts can guide on less physically demanding and simpler postures. The postures should be able to allow free flow of blood, removes all the blockages that prevent the energy flow increasing the body energy levels. Yoga postures teach the recovering patients to learn how to keep up with some minor pains resulting from sitting down too much and from bad postures.

Breathing Exercises

The breathing exercises aid in releasing the tension and helps the patient replenish lost energy. Restricted, shallow breathing leads to depression, tiredness and physical illness. Deep, rhythmic and relaxed breathing where the lungs get fully utilized is revitalizing and energizing which gives the body the power to overcome illness. The yoga simple stretching and breathing exercises will enhance efficiency and elasticity of the intercostal and diaphragm muscles. This way they replace the weak breathing habits.

Learning to breath equips people with the power to deal with strong emotions which originated from a cancer diagnosis. Breathing effectively fights of despair, panic, and grief.

Meditation 

Meditation does not mean emptying the mind. It means calming the emotions, giving the patients the opportunity to learn how their emotions work and hence gains control over them. Through meditation, the sick get to learn the life realities and easily accept them. Being acknowledgeable and working with the emotions in the daily lives strengthens people. Understanding how own mind works, facing the reality and letting go of the fears reduces stress. Meditation is a therapeutic procedure cleansing the emotional level, providing the energy required for spiritual growth.

Relaxation 

Relaxation is the most critical part of the cancer recovery process through yoga. Relaxation assist removes the stress that hurts the immune system. Through relaxation, the body muscles get rid of with the tension, the blood and heart rates drop, and mental and breathing activity declines and as a result the anxiety and tension start to dissolve. The mind and the body surrenders and allows the peace and stillness of deep relaxation to take charge.

Therefore, Yoga is a very powerful tool in the speedy recovery of the cancer. 

Two Folios from a Ragamala Series

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Kedar Ragini
The presence of two paintings from the same series in the Green collection provides an opportunity for viewers to study the stylistic and compositional relationships between illustrations of different ragas/raginis within a given Ragamala set. The present comparison is especially instructive, for the careful observer will discern that the two paintings, although clearly from the same series, were in fact painted by two different artists. The major comparable features of the two include the visually dominant expanses of white architecture and the division of the paintings into four registers, composed of a row of niches with flowering plants and parrots along the bottom, the figures and palatial setting in the middle, the lines of trees in the penultimate register, and the lengthy poetic passages, written in the same hand, in the yellow panel at the top.

Closer scrutiny of the two paintings, however, reveals innumerable minute differences in detail. The treatment of the pink lotus petals covering the surface of the architectural domes differs considerably between the two: the dome of painting A has petals radiating outward in a lively arrangement, but those of painting a lie in stiff horizontal rows. The detailing in ink of the architecture, intended to represent carved marble forms, is much finer and more complex in painting A than in B. The vegetal and floral forms are related but differ in botanical structure and array, with those of painting A generally more boldly portrayed. Figures and animals are more supple and naturalistic in painting A. Given these variances in detail and execution, painting A seems more accomplished than B and, by extension, so was its painter. For other paintings from this series, see Pal 1978, pp. 114-15, no. 34 (Panchama Ragini); Pal 1981, p. 58, no. 47 (Kanhra Ragini); and Sotheby's 1996, lot 186 (Malkos Raga). An additional unpublished illustration of Mcgha-Mallar Raga from this series is in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Desakhya RaginiA.)   This painting is identified and described by the text in its upper panel as representing Kedar Ragini, who is described as a love-torn, emaciated woman wearing earrings, smeared with ashes as an ascetic, and playing a vina. The ragini, a wife of Hindola Raga, is an early night melody characterized by tenderness and believed to possess magical healing properties. In the Rajasthani tradition Kedar Ragini is portrayed as a night scene with an ascetic either playing or holding a vina or listening to a musician playing the instrument. Surprisingly, the ascetic in this illustration is shown holding a tambura rather "than a vina, while both instruments are being played by two female musicians. In the sky above the trees an antelope pulls a celestial chariot bearing a crescent moon, a symbol of Siva, the arch-ascetic of Indian culture.

B.)  Here the text in the upper panel identities the heroine as Desakhya Ragini, a wife of Sri Raga, and describes her as a lovely woman wearing a sari in Marathi fashion and performing an acrobatic movement on the upright pillar. Desakhya Ragini is a late morning melody stressing the heroic sentiment. Depictions of the ragini in the Rajasthani tradition feature a group of acrobats performing feats of strength and coordination. Occasionally, as shown here, women athletes are shown in place of their male counterparts in order to reconcile the traditionally male quality of physical prowess with the feminine gender of the melody.

Writer Name:- Pratapaditya Pal

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