Researchers have found that omega-3 fatty acids in the form of fish oil can often help with breathing problems such as asthma, bronchitis, and emphysema, as well as with numerous other health problems, including heart disease, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, ADD, arthritis, depression, and many more. It is also very important before, during, and after pregnancy.
So many of us today live fragmented, unconscious lives driven by fear, guilt, anger, anxiety, and tension. Out of touch with the earth, with never a glance toward the sky, we rush into an imaginary future with little appreciation for the miraculous gift of Now--the only time and place we can truly live. This stress-filled rush into the future creates many problems for us--physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual.
...this breath of life which breathes in each one of us is what one basically calls freedom. In biology it's called Life, in affectivity it's called Love, in psychology it's called Consciousness, and in theology it's called God. The difficulty is to bring these all together within everyone's understanding.
The ancient traditions and modern medical research have demonstrated the intimate relationship that exists between how we breathe and our physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual lives.
Love will not bring you to ultimate contentment. It is not possible to change the nature of things. It doesn't happen. What can we do? Two plus two are four. It is a fundamental law of life that love brings you to deeper and deeper dissatisfactions. Ultimately love brings you to such a discontent that you start longing for the ultimate beloved, God, you start searching for the ultimate love affair. Taoism is an ultimate love affair: the search for Tao, the search for truth. It is possible only when you have failed many times, loved and suffered, and each suffering has brought you more and more consciousness, more and more understanding. One day the recognition arrives that love can give you a few glimpses -- and those glimpses are good, and those glimpses are glimpses of Tao -- but it can only give you glimpses; more than that is not possible. But that too is too much; but without those glimpses you will never seek and search Tao. Those who have not loved and suffered never become seekers of Tao – they cannot; they have not earned that worth, they have not become worthy. It is the sole right of the lover one day to start searching for the ultimate beloved. Love, and love more deeply. Suffer, and suffer more deeply. Love totally and suffer totally, because this is how the impure gold passes through fire and becomes pure gold. Do not escape from your love affairs: go deeper into them. Go into love, because love ultimately fails. And unless you know by your own experience that love ultimately fails, your search for Tao will remain phony.