Kinship: Wings or Shackles?

 

Wings or Shackles?

We are travelling in the journey of life together with our partner, ensuring we carry equivalent responsibilities, understanding towards each other’s pain and happiness, clear communication and honesty when it comes to a feedback, so it is mostly a hand-in-hand walk in many relations. Sometimes there could be a temporary gap where one partner is in focus and other is not but eventually in a healthy companionship, partners will take efforts to compensate the gap and stand together equally in the circle of life called ‘us’. This is the ideal scenario.

  Despite of a lot of trust uploaded into each other, I personally feel that we fail to gift the wings of freedom to each other in the form of solace. Every individual has a space or corner, that domain is either ME or YOU. There is a separate domain with partner & child called US.

 

In the individual domain of YOU or ME, are the separate sub-domains for parents, for colleagues, for society and for friends. Many couples keep each other in emotional shackles (not healthy bonding) where the mental freedom is killed, which can permanently supress the personality of the partner in the due course and therefore we must remember that,

I don’t own anyone and no one owns me

I am an individual and I take my responsibility

I need my freedom and I dont wish to always be in emotional shackles

…. SO DOES MY PARTNER!

What are the best ways to help your partner realise the bliss of freedom and give her/him a perfect mental rejuvenation,

a. Let your partner tour with his/her friend circle

b. let your partner go on a solo tour

c. let him/her enjoy a get together with his parents and cousins on his own.

When we mentally record that the partner must have his/her separate world to remain mentally fit and to return back happily conducive for the relationship, that time, we prove to be an understanding better-half.

If we continue to keep the partner in shackles under the label of responsibilities or using the emotional card, it becomes a new normal for both and a regular affair. Such kind of viscious circle of entrapment in the long run turns into a red flag either for the relation or for the health of the supressed (or unexpressed) partner.

Instead, build the trust in the relation and perceive or give the wings of freedom to the partner.

 

 

भारतीय शौचालय: 'स्क्वैट टॉयलेट'

 भारतीय प्रसाधनगृहांना जागतिक स्तरावर *स्क्वॅट टॉयलेट सीट* म्हणून संबोधले जाते कारण वापरकर्त्याला नियमितपणे नकळत स्क्वॅटिंगचा व्यायाम होतो. शौच करण्याच्या भारतीय स्थितीमुळे शरीरातील खालच्या भागात रक्ताभिसरण वाढते आणि पोटात अतिरिक्त दाब निर्माण होऊन अन्नाचे छान मंथन होते.

स्क्वॅटिंग पोझिशन आपल्या शरीरातील मोठ्या आतड्या (कोलन) मधून साचलेला मल पूर्णपणे काढून टाकते. त्यामुळे साहजिकच  बद्धकोष्ठता, अपेन्डिसाइटिस आणि

कोलन कॅन्सरच्या घटनांचा संभाव्य धोका कमी होतो.

स्क्वॅटिंगची स्थिती योगाभ्यासातील मलासानाच्या स्थितीसारखी असते. त्यामुळे पोटाचे स्नायू आपसूकच ताणले जातात, नितंब प्रसरण पावतात व गुदद्वार उघडते. मांडीपासून मानेच्या भागापर्यंतचा ताण कमी होतो, ज्यामुळे पाठीच्या कणाला आराम मिळतो. हि क्रिया श्रोणि क्षेत्रामध्ये रक्त प्रवाह वाढवते आणि मूत्रमार्गात असंयम (गळती) प्रक्रिया नियंत्रित करते. ह्या स्थितीत स्वायत्त मज्जासंस्थेतील तणाव कमी करण्यासाठी मूलाधार चक्राचे पालनपोषण केले जाते, शिवाय वापरकर्त्यांना शांत मलनिस्सारण क्रिया व समाधानाची भावना देते.

सदर क्रियेने पायांचे स्नायू सुखावतात, पोटाचे स्नायू टोन होतात, पचनास मदत मिळते आणि चयापचय संस्था मजबूत होते.

नैसर्गिकरित्या हे आसन गुदाशय सरळ ठेवून गुदद्वाराचे स्नायू शिथिल ठेवते.

परिणामत: शौचालयाच्या पृष्ठभागाशी कमीत कमी संपर्क झाल्यामुळे भारतीय शौचालय वापरकर्त्यांना मूत्रमार्गात संक्रमण आणि त्वचा संक्रमणाचा संभाव्य धोका पाश्चात्य शैलीच्या तुलनेने कमी असतो.

पाश्चात्य शौचालयांच्या तुलनेत, भारतीय शौचालये गर्भाशयावर कमीत कमी दाब देतात आणि नैसर्गिकरित्या गर्भवती महिलेला सहज प्रसूतीसाठी तयार करतात.

ज्या कोणाला गुडघ्याला दुखापत, पाठीच्या खालच्या भागात दुखापत, शस्त्रक्रिया किंवा गर्भधारणेशी संबंधित गंभीर आजार असलेले असे रुग्णं वगळता भारतीय शौचालये सुरक्षित आणि फायदेशीर आहेत.

मानावाच्या उत्पत्ती पासून आतापर्यंत नैसर्गिक विधी पार पाडण्यासाठी नैसर्गिक आसन म्हणून भारतीय शैलीच्या संडास/लॅट्रिन/प्रसाधनगृहाची  सहज पद्धती लोकप्रिय आहे.

डॉ. स्वाती पद्माकर भावसार

Hips dont lie!

 

The Eye Hip Opener

Indian toilets are globally called as the Squat toilet seats for the user gets to exercise squatting regularly.

They can be found in nations like China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Singapore. Much of the world's rural population uses squat toilets especially in the developing countries.

In Southern and Eastern Europe Indian squat toilets are common, especially in public sectors. America has a mixed culture. While they are generally non-existent in Northern and Western Europe.

This squatting position in Indian toilets increases the blood circulation and adds more of pressure and churning of the food in stomach.

The squatting position completely evacuates the stool from the colon in our body, so obviously this reduces the risk of constipation, appendicitis and factors leading to the colon cancer incidences.

The squatting position on the Indian pots resembles the Malasana pose which causes the stomach muscles to stretch, opens the hips and relieves the stress from the thigh to the neck region, enhancing the spinal comfort.

It increases the blood flow in the pelvis region and controls the urinary incontinence (leakage) process.

The Muladhara chakra is nurtured reducing the anxiety and dysfunction in autonomous nervous system, moreover, giving a calming feeling to the practitioners.

It tones the leg muscles, abdominals, aids in digestion and strengthens the metabolism

It keeps the rectum straight and rectal muscles relaxed.

Indian toilet users have  lower risks of urinary tract infections and skin infections due to minimal contact with the toilet surface.

In a few cultures, the prevalence of squat toilets is generally quite high, as is the practice of anal cleansing with water using a bucket system. Where as the use of tissue in the western toilet system will never be able to compensate the litres of water wasted in the flush.

As compared to the western toilets, Indian toilets impose minimal pressure on the uterus and prepares the pregnant lady for an easy delivery.

Indian toilets are safe and beneficial except for the ones having knee injury, lower back  disabilities and pregnancy-related -complications.

Happy 2023

 

I planned the New year celebration with migratory and native birds in the rural parts around Nasik. Enjoyed beautiful view at the Ramsar wetland site in Nasik, which included painted storks resting on the trees, common cranes in the grassland, smaller egrets dining in the shallow waters, kites swooping, ibis and spoonbills in a flight, half of the cormorants in the wing-drying pose, purple moorhen (swamphens) busy hunting around the grass, purple and grey herons like always isolated from the crew and snaking the neck, crested and common kingfishers, wagtails bouncing everywhere, robins and drongos shining black against sunlight, stilts steadily preying in the shallow waters, fly and bee eaters sitting on the branches, fantailed on the walking trails, grey hornbills and lapwings in pairs, Eurasian common coot bathing in the backwaters, ruddy shelduck (Brahminy duck) swimming in the lake, grey goose walking on grass, gadwall dabbling in fresh water, spotbilled duck green wing flight, common pochard, shoveler with huge spatula of beaks, lot of noisy parakeets and doves on our way towards exit and a pintailed on the wire just when I was leaving the site. I headed further to see the barn swallows at the bank of the river. The location was more than an-hour-walk-away. Swallows had built a lot of nests on the huge rocks adjoining the template of the river. The birds built up sturdy nests with mud and self-secreted saliva. Hundreds of swallows were seen in the sky in a swooping flight and kept repeatedly swirling. Like a systematic drill the troop moved in a direction, forked out in two groups and then reunited in a specific pattern. They were superbly fast and  kept cruising for hours together till the sky turned pink during sunset and they finally entered their homes. They are tiny ones with hell lot of energy and can sleep even during flight. They are strong in unity and can hit you if you try to destroy their home. In few hundreds in the herd not one would be left out till the team swallow finds that one fellow mate. Until then the herd kept performing sky ballet known as 'murmuration'. Finally, all disappeared in their houses leaving a sudden silence in no moment and hungry predators  were left behind awestruck.