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JUNE – JULY 2002 www.nexusmagazine.com NEXUS • 29AWAKENING THE HEALER WITHIN We are in a very magical era: all around us, on all levels, we are witnessing the connection between the East and the West, the ancient and the modern,spiritual heritage and science. We are so truly fortunate to be living in suchan exciting time, and to be able to watch in awe the way life unfolds before our very eyes. Modern scientific research is discovering today that ancient spiritual ideascome very close to today's most recent discoveries in the field of quantum physics andvibrational healing methods. One such powerful practice for healing that is continuing to flourish today is Shivambu Shastra, respected for thousands of years as the "Mother of Ayurvedic Medicine" and commonly known as "Self-Urine Therapy". Shivambu means literally "Water of Shiva",referring to the auspiciousness of the practice. Its "method of drinking urine for rejuvena-tion" is outlined in the Shivambu Kalpa Vidhi , part of a 5,000-year-old document called the Damar Tantra , linking this practice back to the Vedas, the sacred Hindu texts. Self- urine therapy has been seen as one of the divine manifestations of cosmic intelligence, andhas been used as such by Indian yogis to unleash kundalini up to their third eye. There is something esoteric about urine. It is considered to be a supernatural, living food because it is a by-product of the blood and contains "life force" or prana. Using urine as a therapeutic tool mirrors to us the "healer within" who works on a mechanisticlevel as well as on an energetic level. This implies that urine, as a holographic substance,has the ability to affect all levels of being—from the physical, through the electromagnet-ic fields of the emotions and the mind, up to the subtler vibrations of the soul. Urine is considered to be an invaluable source of nourishment and healing that perhaps has been too controversial or not financially rewarding enough for it to be talked aboutand encouraged as a potent medicine. One's own urine, a living food, contains elementsthat are specific to one's body alone. The body is constantly producing a huge variety ofantibodies, hormones, enzymes and other natural chemicals to regulate and control itsfunctions and combat imbalances that one may not be aware of. Clinical studies have proved that the thousands of critical body chemicals and nutrients that end up in urine reflect the individual body's functions. When re-utilised, these chemi-cals and nutrients act as natural vaccines, antibacterial, antiviral and anticarcinogenicagents as well as hormone balancers and allergy relievers. The information that urinecontains therefore cannot be duplicated or derived from any other source. Just as natureproduces no two people who are exactly the same, there are no two urine samples in theworld that contain exactly the same components. A STERILE BY-PRODUCT OF BLOOD FILTRATION Urine is not a dirty and toxic substance rejected by the body. Urine is a by-product of blood filtration, not waste filtration. Medically it is referred to as "plasma ultrafiltrate". Itis a purified derivative of the blood itself, made by the kidneys—whose principal functionis not excretion but regulation of all the elements and their concentrations in the blood.Urine can be compared to leftovers from a meal, and this metaphor may help us under-stand why our bodies excrete elements that are valuable to our health and well-being. Nutrient-filled blood passes through the liver where toxins are removed to be excreted as solid waste. Eventually, this purified "clean" blood undergoes a filtering process in thekidneys, where excess water, salts, vitamins, minerals, enzymes, antibodies, urea, uricacid and other elements not usable at that time by the body are collected in the form of aShivambu ShastraShivambu Shastra HHEALINGEALING WITHWITH UURINERINETTHERAPYHERAPY The ancient Ayurvedic practice of urine therapy is undergoing a resurgence, as its myriad health benefits are being explored by scientists, health practitioners and the general public. by Natalia Perera © 2002 Saffronrose 49 Ocean Street Woollahra, NSW 2025 Australia Telephone: +61 (0)2 9362 8838 Email: nataliaperera@saffronrose.com