MonaVie: The Future of Natural Healing

MonaVie's Health Juices are rich in antioxidants.

Some of us never heard of MonaVie. I was introduced to it by Cherry Smyth while she was in Atlanta, Georgia for a convention held by her company, MonaVie.

What is MonaVie? Monavie is a company that began in 2005 that focuses on creating products that promote health and wellness. MonaVie's products are essential to the four elements that secure great health -- nutrition, weight, energy, and stress. 

What are their products? MonaVie manufactures energy drinks, dietary supplements, protein bars, and health juices. The company uses vital ingredients such as vitamins, phytonutrients, glucosamine, and it's product-seller, antioxidants.

It was antioxidants that kept me interested in learning about MonaVie. For those of you not-in-the-know, antioxidants are highly beneficial. For instance, they are a great source of vitamins A, C, and E. In 2012, Carcinogenesis published a study showing how vitamin C promotes an important antioxidant enzyme that helps prevent breast cancer. Within the same year, the Age journal published a study illustrating how vitamins C and E facilitate maintaining your youth and can prevent memory-loss.

Antioxidants are very beneficial to our health.

The best thing about antioxidants is that they are natural. They can be found in fruits and vegetables. What makes MonaVie great is that it uses at least 19 antioxidants in its products. This is important because combining antioxidant-rich foods is very effective. According to a study published in Journal of Medicinal Food, mixing strawberries, blueberries, and spinach, has a greater impact on the nervous system than eating either antioxidant-rich ingredient alone. According to the study, those antioxidant-rich ingredients hinder an enzyme that may be involved in neurological disorders such as autism, depression, and schizophrenia.

Antioxidants are the real-deal and MonaVie is going to be the future of natural healing because they understand the metaphysics of antioxidants and how to properly use them. Cherry invited me to the convention and I heard countless testimonies of how MonaVie's products healed family members and friends. It didn't feel like church; I knew these people were being honest because I know the healing power of antioxidants. Cherry was passionate about it, too; that convinced me that she believes in MonaVie, which is interesting since she studied nursing in New York.

MovaVie convention; Atlanta, Georgia.

I'm blessed that Cherry introduced me to MonaVie. I'm interested in purchasing their energy drinks, protein bars, and becoming a distributor of their products, too.

Cherry Smyth, MonaVie distributor.

To purchase a product, or learn additional information about MonaVie, contact Cherry by clicking this link.

Ayurvedic Medicine: India's Holistic Method

Ayurveda's Doshas

Different cultures have unique methods to natural healing. For instance, India's traditional medicine is Ayurveda (knowledge of life). Ayurvedic medicine is a holistic approach to health and life. According to Alternative Medicine: The Christian Handbook, its healing methods focuses on incorporating medical, philosophical, and religious beliefs. The Alternative Medicine Handbook states that Ayurveda is an "ancient healing system" that can be tracked back to the Vedas.

The Vedas

Traditionally, Ayurvedic medicine teaches that life held in tact by a nonphysical life energy (prana). Prana signifies a healthy life that is balanced physically, mentally, spiritually, and environmentally. When prana is not balanced, people become sick, age, and ultimately, die. 

According to The Alternative Medicine, this energy balance isn't limited just an internal factor, but external, too. There must be an energy balance between people and their environments to achieve unity with the Universe.

What products and practices does Ayurvedic medicine incorporate? According to Alternative Medicine, Rasayanas, or herbal supplements, gemstones, panchakarmas (purification procedures), and yagyas (religious ceremonies to solicit the aid of Hindu deities). Other therapeutic procedures are breathing exercises, meditation, massage, diets. 

It is important to estrange yourself from negativity. Ama is an accumulation of negative energy, which is unhealthy for you. Negative energy isn't only people, but negative thoughts, unhealthy food, and habits.

Interestingly, Ayurveda teaches that there are three doshas. There is a specific dosha found in specific body organs and they have a relationship with at least two environmental elements. The three doshas are kapha, pitta, and vata. The five elements are earth, water, fire, air, and ether. Why ether? According to The Alternative Medicine Handbook,  ether is believed to be connected to hearing and opening spaces in the mind.

Ayurveda's relationship between the Elements and Doshas

Ayurvedic practitioners believe that the doshas act as a bridge among organs and internals parts of the body. In addition, they also connect the body with the cosmos.

Ayurveda is similar to Chi, China's traditional medicine.

Understanding Magic, Medicine, and Natural Healing

Magic, Medicine, and Natural Healing, researched by andRe Christos Helios

Since the days of antiquity, civilizations employed magic when it came to medicine. There weren't any hospitals with emergency rooms and people coughing. There weren't any Tylenol tablets for headaches or Bayer for pain relief. It was the application of magic that facilitated medicine for healing -- natural healing, not Western medicine.What is magic? Magic isn't optical illusions. Nor is it solely the practice of communing with intelligences (i.e, spirits).

According to P. Christian's Histoire de la Magie, magic has its origins in the Greek words Magos and Mageia, meaning magician and magic. Christian continues that these are renderings of Pehlvi and Zend's Mog, Megh, Magh, which in these languages, mean priest, wise, and excellent.

Christian further delves into the etymology of magic with the Chaldean Maghdim, which means supreme wisdom or sacred philosophy. This research concludes that magic has nothing to do with optical illusions, but is the embodiment of a superior knowledge practiced by the Righteous.

Joseph Ennemoser's History of Magic, which was translated by William Howitt, supports this idea. He inclines that among the Persians, Medes, and Egyptians, magic was understood as a "higher knowledge of nature" combined with religion and astronomy. He states that Plato understood magic, or Wisdom, as "nothing less than a worship of the Divinity" and that Aupleius believed that Magus meant a priest in the Persian tongue.

History teaches us that the practice of the oldest magic took place in Chaldea, India, Persia, and Egypt. According to Ennemoser, Zoroaster, Ostanes, the Brahmins, the Chaldean sages, and the Egyptian priests were acquainted with the secret knowledge of Magic. They dedicated their lives to preserving this Secret Wisdom as well as healing the sick.

Prominent occultist Eliphas Levi asserts that magic is "the traditional science of the secrets of Nature which has come down to us from the Magi." It is this science that administered medicine in the form of natural healing.