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There’s a lot more to it

than just getting outwardly clean. 

"Every problem in the body is a result of your capillaries not opening and not getting flushed every day." YB

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 4 minutes a day

Ishnaan

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1.Use a dry brush on your skin before you shower, dry              brushing helps exfoliate all dead skin and improves              circulation.

2.Oil your entire body, deeply massaging your skin,                  avoiding your eyes. Almond oil is great for the skin                and stimulate circulation.

3.Women, cover your thighs with shorts (it protects the            calcium and magnesium levels). Men, cover the                    genitals. 

 

4.Start with the extremities, one limb at a time.

      First by the feet sole going up to the inner side of the            thights. Follow by the hands to the upper arms.

 

5.Go to your chest, breast and then to your shoulders,             caring not to directly shot the water into the spine.

 

6.Repeat all 3 times and then you can go to specific                   points or just go fully under the water. 

 

7 Dry yourself vigourously with a towel and dress with            warm clothes if the atmosphere is not warm enough.

 

8. BTotal inmersion into cold water is of course a                       fantastic habit. By showering note that head and hair is         avoided. 

      

 

 

Women should note the following:

 

 

ï‚·Don’t take cold showers while menstruating.

 

ï‚·While pregnant, give the baby a cold shower for no longer than three minutes and stop altogether after the seventh month.

 

 

 

 

 

"If I with my body can conquer the chilliness of the water,

I can take away

the chilliness of my life." YB

 

Ishnaan the Science of
Hydrotherapy ,

by Yogi Bhajan

 

 

 

Since ancient times, people have prayed for the blessing of Ishnaan.

What is Ishnaan?

Ishnaan is the total sum of hydrotherapy.

The word is Ishnaan. We don't say we'll take a bath; we never say ''bath''.

lshnaan is when the body by its own virtue creates the temperature

that it can beat off the coldness of the water.

Ishnaan is not just wetting your body.

There is a whole respect to it. There is a whole grace to it.

The power of water is sixty percent of the power of the human.

In hydrotherapy we believe that the sixty percent water in the body

can be totally exchanged in sixty minutes with outside water.

We do ice cold water massage and not only do we open up the capillaries,

but then when they close down again, that is, return to normal,

that blood goes back to the organs.

The heart, kidneys, lungs, liver-each organ has its own blood supply.

In this way the organs get their flushing.

When the organs get a flushing,

then immediately the glands have to change their secretion.

It is a law.

And when the glands change,

the guardians of the health and life change, youth returns.

What is youth?

Young glands. Young glands are called youth.

If your glandular system secretes correctly the blood chemistry

is a young chemistry,

and the glands can be made to do it.

All this neurotic neurosis and angriness will all be over . . .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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In hydrotherapy, the water is a fatherly shield, paanee pitaa,

and that anybody who can produce this shield that conquers

the coldness of the water can conquer death.

That's what hydrotherapy is based on. It's a very simple thing.

If l with my body can conquer the chilliness of the water,

I can take away the chilliness of my life.

 

 

 

From Kundalini Yoga For Youth and Joy, by Yogi Bhajan

This science of hydrotherapy is very precise and sophisticated, and very simple.

If you take a cold shower and let it fall:

 

*Just below the lower lip for ten or fifteen minutes, you will be bright and your mind will be very clear.

*If you put the water between the eyebrows and the upper lip, you will be very energetic.

*And if you put the water on the forehead, you will be so sleepy that you can't match it.

*If you massage the upper arm under a very cold shower from your elbow to just below your shoulder

on your upper arm, you are totally curing your stomach.

*From your elbow to about two inches above your wrist corresponds to your digestive tract.

*Two inches above the wrist to the start of the wrist corresponds to your heart.

*The wrist corresponds to your liver

*and the finger tips correspond to your brain.

*Then if you put the water on your neck in the front and let the water run down your entire body and hands, you will totally change all your cells.

 

*And if you let the water hit your chest and go all the way down to your genitals

and you stay under it for a while, you are totally changing the chemistry of the blood from unhealthy to healthy.

*If you let the water hit your feet and massage the right foot with the left foot,

and the left foot with the right foot, you are actually massaging your entire body.

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