The Planets

*The Planets*Our sensitivity to the sun extends from light rays into the longer wavelengths of radio. We see the sun, we feel its warmth, and we respond to changes it produces in the earth's magnetic field. These changes affect radio reception in a pattern that, as Nelson has shown, can be predicted by the position …

Man and the Sun

The black death that drove Newton from his college and into a momentous discovery swept England in 1665. Astronomical records of the time show that this was a year of intense sunspot activity, and studies of annual tree rings, which are wider when the sun is disturbed, reveal that the terrible plague of 1348 was …

Man and the Moon

The third basic rhythm of life, the lunar cycle, also appears in patterns of human birth times. The moon is so closely linked to birth that in some places it is even called 'the great midwife'. To test this possibility, the two doctors Menaker collected information on more than half a million births that occurred …

Stress 8 (concluding part)

STRESS - Read Without Stress - 8 From THE HOMOEOPATHIC PRIMER by Rajgopal Nidamboor, 1994 There are basically three types of anxiety disorders, viz., generalized anxiety disorder, simple phobic disorder and obsessive compulsive disorder. Let us limit our consideration to Generalised Anxiety Disorder. This form of anxiety is characterized by persistent anxious state for at …

Stress 7

STRESS - Read Without Stress - 7 From THE HOMOEOPATHIC PRIMER by Rajgopal Nidamboor, 1994 Anxiety is as old as civilization. Its evolutionary origins are not too difficult to understand, because the ability to flee is one of the most primitive traits of animal behavior vis-à-vis the need for survival. A core concept in many …

Stress 6

STRESS - Read Without Stress - 6 From THE HOMOEOPATHIC PRIMER by Rajgopal Nidamboor, 1994 Physiological, behavioural and cognitive responses to stress are as follows (Beach, Burns & Sheffield). Type of response and Effect Physiological Escalation in heart rate and blood pressure; muscular tension; slowdown of digestive system; and release of adrenalin and noradrenalin. Behavioural …

Stress 5

STRESS - Read Without Stress - 5 From THE HOMOEOPATHIC PRIMER by Rajgopal Nidamboor, 1994 It is a different proposition to measure and study stress, because the phenomenon happens to be a non-specific reaction, response to be precise. With the conceptualization of individual responses to stress in terms of a general adaptation syndrome by Hans …

Stress 4

STRESS - Read Without Stress - 4 From THE HOMOEOPATHIC PRIMER by Rajgopal Nidamboor, 1994 Withdrawal is one defence-oriented method of avoiding stress by way of Repression, the process of excluding a thought of pain, shame or guilt; Fantasy, a retreat into a make-believe world; Beatnik reactions, where oddity rules supreme and the person becomes …

Stress 3

STRESS - Read Without Stress - 3 THE HOMOEOPATHIC PRIMER by Rajgopal Nidamboor, 1994 One of the common reactions to stress is aggression. One cannot tell the boss to jump off a cliff. The keeping quite leads to frustration – and the bottled up feelings are brought forth on the first scapegoat available: ashtray, stray …