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My Experience with a Natural Healing Therapy Center in Philippines

I recently experienced a revolution. But it's not a bloody revolution. Sa rather it is an internal revolution experienced during my stay in a natural healing therapy center in Cebu, Philippines.

It is a health revolution I was talking about, a totally new way to keep myself healthy to be the most natural meaning of the word. This is definitely one of the best decisions I made in my life.

When my daughter spent her usual summer vacation in Larena (people of my mother on the island of Siquijor), I figured it out is the only time I would be able to taste the natural therapies this year. For practical and professional reasons, and for the sake of curiosity, I decided to go for 10-day regimen.

The Ananda Marga Wellness Center at Green View Subdivision in Pagsabungan, Mandaue in Cebu is a comfortable dome-shaped house, fully carpeted 22 rooms, including an art room, meditation room (also called cave), and a media room, a large exercise room, and an garden. The design is so well-planned to match all the physical, mental, and spiritual activities that promote our well-being. Upon entering the house, there was once a positive feeling of opulence.

One can choose to learn about heathy and happy lifestyles through the Wellness Center on the most urgent of times – now. We do not have to wait for a debilitating disease in order to do a reversal of our unhealthy way of life. It is better to be pro-active.

As a journalist who writes extensively environmental issues, believing in the natural way health care is a given. Experiencing natural holistic health program so Ananda Marga is a big work on my personal and professional life. A 10-day life is just a short one for those who are not seriously ill and want only a detoxification process.

I thought it was exciting and enjoyable experience of mud pack treatment as well as sun bathing. Systematically done in the early morning so that the Li has not been so fiercely shining, the treatment is so beneficial to skin. Oil and water massage is applied locally and in general body to get best results.

Mud and sunshine are two natural elements to detoxify the skin to make the treatment is necessary, more than being an act of vanity, like what the commercial health centers have somehow impressed.

These therapies are quite popular in commercial spas and I thought they were really a luxury. Having experience in the treatment easily made me feel pampered. Of course, that was the immediate psychic reward.

The daily exercises (yoga asanas) which was made in the morning is a good way to start my day. These posture exercises are soothing and rejuvenating, and immediately at the beginning, my skin detoxified because of the sweat that emitted by doing the exercises.

The asanas are however more value than just skin detox. they correct hormonal imbalance so enabling the body to heal itself of any malfunction or disease has. Yoga is complimented

My food was pleasant and prepared in accordance my health and conditions in compliance with the detox process. I am purely fruit and vegetables for the first three days and fresh fruit juices for the next seven days.

Honestly, I dreaded the thought of seven-day diet of fruit juices. I have not done that fast in my life. Not once did I deliberately starve myself even for just some time, despite personal problems or large work load. I thought many times asking if I can just put my fasting.

But then, like a brave soldier conquering one's fears, I marched through the days of taking only liquid food. And to my surprise, I felt weak. Although I felt very hungry and salivating at the thought of all my favorite foods, I shot off my brain from making trouble. After a big gulp jar of coconut juice, apple juice or time, or melon juice or cucumber juice mixed with melon, I was full and all rights.

What made me full and is able to sustain the detox powder capsules and I took along the fruit juices. Without them, I doubt if I have done my fasting without fainting. The powder and capsules are important food and cleaners of the colon.

There were many other treatments that immediately made me feel good after having them – the hot bath foot, steam bath, and hip bath.

But the best detox is colema, a painless way of cleaning the colon. That really made me cleansed from within and each time was truly a liberating experience! That was a relief to see that I finally released the very ugly things I have been harboring for a a long time!

I also went through art therapy session that is psychologically helpful. My own art work revealed my current concerns and state of mind. In a way, it served as a mirror of my current state of being, both consciously and unconsciously. The experience is a reaffirmation of art is indeed a powerful tool for understanding and realization.

Finally, the session of meditation. For many times I sat down and closed my eyes meditation, my mind wandered through all corners of the globe. There is always a mad scramble of thoughts in my head.

But gradually I learned to yet find the key to my mind (after all the sessions that I did) and to focus on a single thought beautiful. A beautiful thought, embedded within me in silence, eradicated confusion, fear, and all the Monsters in my mind.

Meditation is a style of thought that teaches us to focus on our individuality and to discover that within us there is an infinite reservoir of love that nourish us to go through anything in life. It is a spiritual journey himself, whatever his religion background.

My mind is amazing, if it is calm and quiet, it can naturally and effortlessly take from his own sizeable the solution to its concerns, both real or perceived.

Every time I open my eyes, I become increasingly calm and confident that anything in life can handle the good and beautiful. Through regular meditation, I can sense that I have developed the ability to focus on the good sense, take Inspired by these thoughts and try to maintain a happy mood.

The greatest lesson I learned in my 10-day lifestyle and Wellness Center can be said in a statement – my happiness and good health and start relying on me, especially at the latter. It is a choice I gladly
undertake now.

(The Ananda Marga Wellness Center is Alinsug N. Street, Green View Subdivision, Pagsabungan, Mandaue City. Tel. No. 346-9664 and can be reached info@amwellness.org or www.amwellness.org)

About the Author

The author is a Cebu-based book writer and television host and executive producer of Babaye, a television talk show on women aired over Channel 47 or the Catholic Television Network). The website for the AM Wellness Center is
http://www.amwellness.org

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