Dr Sophie Jayamaha

Meat consumption and vegetarianism are both two ends of the same stick.  They are both created by people for the same reasons, thinking that both are right. Being right is only one of the reasons and you will find the other as you read. But this billion dollar question has no such simple answer or one right answer.  Let's look at the big picture. All vegetarians are not vegetarians because they love animals. Most vegetarians do so because of health reasons. Many animal lovers are also meat eating people. They eat meat because they too believe it provides nutrition and also they love the taste. Humans kill animals for various reasons and most people who kill animals are not the ones who eat them. They kill to sell and killing  animals is a legal and acceptable trade which is a significant source of economy of certain countries such as USA, Argentina, Australia and New Zealand. If people don't eat animals then there is no trade. But animals would be in peoples&

We have a natural tendency to avoid darkness and move towards the light. We are light seekers. Darkness brings us a sense of danger and insecurity. Our fears are heightened by darkness. We feel vulnerable and unprotected in the darkness, because darkness blocks our ability to see clearly. Inevitably we experience darkness in our daily life literally and metaphorically. Literal darkness sets in with the sunset.  As the night time creeps in, our eyes get adapted to the low level of visibility, the body makes certain changes to keep it warm during the coolness when the sunlight is no longer heating the earth's surface and the air around us. The body produces more melatonin in the dark and makes us sleepy perhaps to keep us out of trouble as a protective mechanism preventing us from danger by lurking in the dark. Our body's natural response to the darkness is by accepting it and adapting to cope with it until it disappears. We are in the dark metaphorically, when we are experie

Scientists and doctors in research have discovered an ancient medicine for depression. It is shown that combination of mindfulness with antidepressants is more effective than  antidepressants.  https://www.jwatch.org/na40648/2016/03/15/mindfulness-more-effective-when-antidepressant-treatment. Mindfulness is the new prozac that doesn't come in a pill and without the side effects It is becoming popular amongst psychiatrists and psychologists in treating stress, anxiety, depression and post traumatic stress disorder. They have found that mindfulness is the answer to all stress and depression and distress in life. Buddha is the first author of mindfulness. He taught a way to relieve suffering for ever by showing how suffering is caused. Suffering is the word used to translate the word Dukka. Dukka must be translated into today's language as all types of stress. That includes stress, anxiety, depression,  post traumatic stress disorder and much more. He show

The feeling of self-unworthiness is one of the biggest causes of anxiety and depression.  When you have no self-worthiness, you are reluctant to connect with others and tend to live in isolation. Why some people are happy and in full of joy and confidence in themselves and they are in self-acceptance and love and others are feeling low self -worthiness feeling depressed, in self-judgment and hatred towards themselves. Tara Brach, a clinical psychologist describes,  3 simple processes to overcome self-unworthiness. 1.  Learning to observe your own thoughts 2.  Observing your own feelings 3.  Offering loving kindness to yourself. When you have self-hate or self-judgment the primitive part of your brain gets activated. That means we are in a state of fright, flight or freeze state and under stress. We have then, activated our red alert system constantly looking out for danger or threat. That is why offering lovingkindness is so important to neutralise this effe

The body gets diseased in a number of ways. The diseases can be categorised according to the underlying disease process or the mechanism that alters the body tissues.   These mechanisms are: 1. Infective 2. Inflammatory 3. Neoplasmic 4. Traumatic 5. Degenerative 6. Cytotoxic These disease processes in the body, are initiated by other causes such as poor hygiene, poor ventilation, dehydration, nutritional deficiency, exposure to chemicals, heat, pressure, high velocity, substance abuse and physical and mental stress etc.  All these causes above are ultimately come under our responsibility. Those causes can be prevented or minimised by managing our behaviour. Our behaviour depends on our attention and awareness. When we are mindful we can manage our attention and awareness to prevent harm and to improve safety and wellness. Mindfulness not only help us to change our behaviour it also has a direct influence in managing the body's stress response. In

Mindfulness is the state of present moment awareness without interpreting with our own judgment. It is an impersonal experience. Anxiety, anger, panic, fear and stress are all caused by not being in the state of mindfulness. One cannot explore and experience the true nature of the body, mind and the environment without being in the state of mindfulness. We are not fully aware of our experience when we are not mindful. We cannot use the body, mind and the environment appropriately, safely and for our benefit when we are not mindful. You can see with clarity only when you recognise what is distorting reality such as assumptions and denials.It removes our blindfolds and makes us see what we haven't seen before. It removes our fixed views and can be life-changing. That helps to adjust any imbalances in life. Mindfulness allows us to see clearly the influence of our mind on the physical body. It also makes you see that the sadness, depression, fear an

Mindfulness can be defined many ways but most simple and practical approach is to bring your awareness in to the present moment experience and noticing it without judging only through your own interpretation, because our own interpretations are based on limited information and limited awareness. We can improve our awareness through mindfulness. Everything we see, hear , smell, touch, taste and feel are subjected to how we perceive and interpret with our own limited knowledge about them. Therefore they do not give us the true and whole picture of what we perceive. It is like a blind man touching one part of an elephant and interpreting what an elephant is. When we begin to notice things, places and people as they are without bringing our own interpretation so firmly, we tend to open and allow different perspectives and different views.   Then we begin to notice them differently to how we perceived before. When you change the way you see, what you look