Ancient wisdom
I just love ancient wisdom. An example that I often quote is from the ‘Charaka Samhita’, the oldest and most authoritative written material on Ayurveda. It concerns the value of exercise: ‘From physical exercise, one gets lightness, a capacity for work, firmness, tolerance of difficulties, elimination of impurities, and stimulation of digestion’. All of this applies in 2016 as it did when it was written. I want to focus on one word and that is ‘lightness’. My interpretation o
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