Dmitry ShamenkovAwareness-based health management system       Moscow, 2009        This System is useful for anyone who wants to be healthy

 I dedicate this System to my Teachers: my parents Aleksei and Olga, my beloved Zhenechka, sister Dina, sister Diana, brother Andrei, my friend Irek, my children Nastenka and Alina, their mother Oksana, all my relatives, Viktor Paramonov, Sergey Grachev, Renat Alyautdinu, Vyacheslav Loginov, Vadim Balabanyanu, Anton Krutskikh, Timur Fathudinovu, Denis Arkhipov, Vadim Repin, Dmitry Goldstein, Nikolai Tsvetkov, Evgeny Brodetsky, Sudamadji Rathore, Marina Shapiro, Alexey Sinev, Max Kutuzov, Vadim Tikov, Lesha Buryachenko, Andrei Karabanov, Tolia and Makar, Pasha Megavolt, Lomov, Mishin, Anna Stawski, Igor Pomytkin, Lena Strut, Tanya Yug, Sergei and Volodya Karpenko, Shanin Vadim, Vadim Zorin, Anatoly Gromyko, Vladimir Smirnov, Marina Ionova, Andrei Kulikov, Arthur Isaev, Igor Isaev, Leo Bokeria, Natalia Malysheva,

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Gennady Burbulis, Veronika Skvortsova, Volodya Truschenkov, Paul Nazarenko, Elena Brusilova, Max Uvarov, Oleg Gorbachev, Andrei Shirmanov, Avtandil Lomsadze, Vladimir Maikov, Stan Grof, Chogyal Namkhai Norbu, Yakov Marshak, Sonya Chmuh, Nike, Tatyana Dyachenko, Denis Grodetsky, Igor Igoshin, Yuri Isaev, Sveta Valier, Julia Belotskaya, Alexei Skripkov, Sergei Radaev, Ivan Potapov, Jason Schulman, Yehuda Berg, Michael Laitman, Sri Pundzha, Ram Tzu, Osho, M.M. Schneerson, Arny Mindell, Ken Wilber, and to all of my patients, friends, living beings and the ones who left this world.  Most importantly, I dedicate this System to Life, the greatest Teacher of all.   Dear friends! You can use this System, and the information about it, at your discretion. Act consciously, and do it from your heart. Enjoy and be happy. Thank you for Being.         © Dmitry Shamenkov, shamenkov.ru, thehealthbook.ru 2009© JSC «Health Management System», 2010© Translation by Ivan Tikota, 2012

 Table of contents

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HOW THE AWARENESS-BASED HEALTH MANAGEMENT SYSTEM APPEARED

My life path contained short yet intense periods with various experiences. As I grew and matured, I had a chance to be a son, a pupil, a student, a cancer surgeon, a pathophysiologist, a neuropharmacologist, a cell biologist, a transfusiologist, a science manager, a clinical study specialist, a specialist in new technologies, an instructor on therapeutic practices, an entrepreneur, a senior manager, a physician, a doctor, a student and a teacher, a lecturer, a father, a leader and even a specialist in health management. All this professional and personal experience allowed me to formulate a simple and neat system for obtaining and preserving real health of our body and spirit, and to make a crucial step towards rejuvenation and prolongation of life. My scientific work helped me to realize the fact that our organism has infinite potential for self-renewal. It was proven by recognized research in the area of stem cells. However, there is one factor that prevents people from prolonging their lives and that leads to disease and suffering. This factor can be characterized as [unwillingness/inability/ignorance]=inability to live with what Life gives us. The System that I developed will help you to remove a fundamental aging factor. Eventually, you will recall something you have always known, and enjoy a rich life filled with impressions and bright colors - a happy life.

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FOUNDATIONS

1.From the very emergence of our organism, we, as a biological species, possess a universal tool that ensures the functioning and preservation of our life-sustaining activities. This tool may be referred to as the “MIND”. 2.The Mind is a set of reactions controlling the key neuroimmunoendocrine regulatory system of the organism, body movements and emotions. 3.The Mind operates according to a simple recording principle. It registers ALL our experiences (events), all images received by our sensory organs, our interpretations and reactions to them. 4.When we experience events that may threaten our lives (pain, fainting etc.), we react to them. We may either survive or not. The mind of all survivors has registered reactions to all life-threatening events. These reactions are automatically replayed when we face circumstances similar to the ones that threatened us before. 5. Our ‘embedded’ reaction to a change in the external environment is fear. Fear includes emotions, autonomous reactions (change in heart-beat, increase of arterial pressure, release of cortisol and other stress-hormones into the bloodstream, withdrawal of blood from peripheral circulation, increase of blood coagulation, slowing or shutting down of the digestive and urogenital systems, sharp strengthening of immune resistance followed by a sharp weakening thereof etc.), and motor responses to autonomous changes. 6.The fear allows us to survive in new circumstances. The mind records the complex of our reactions, and uses them. In fact, the mind is a machine for preserving life. 7.Once the fear reaction is over, our organism can fully return to absolute tranquility and start a self-recovery process; our body has an infinite potential for this process. 8.It means that we can live infinitely long and practically never be ill, except for minor discomfort when facing new circumstances requiring quick adaptation.

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9.However, it does not always happen like that. We frequently fall sick, and our lives are short. Moreover, we experience a lot of suffering. 10.The root of this problem lies in identifying oneself with one’s mind and body. Any attempt to change recorded ways of reacting leads to an automatic Fear reaction. The Mind equates the attempt to change with a life threat. 11.Starting in the womb, we have been constantly facing new circumstances and have been constantly reacting to them with fear. The Mind recorded all of these reactions and extrapolated them to similar circumstances. Since early childhood, we have been unconsciously reacting to everything in our lives with fear. When groups of circumstances bringing many changes and life threats match, we record them in the form of especially vivid reactions that we identify as problems, limitations, personality traits, peculiarities of thinking, diseases, and fears.12.The majority of people on Earth live in constant fear. Part of this fear is unconscious; we define it as a relatively natural existence, getting used to our fears and considering them as a norm. Some fears are conscious; we classify them as life problems. People are born, live and die in fear. We encounter different types of suffering, including the ones related to the way we think; our decisions are made by an autonomous system based on previous experience - our mind. Since the instant of birth, the life of a person is practically pre-determined by a complex of reactions derived from previous experience. 13.The problem is exacerbated by the fact that by identifying with the mind and SELF, we become attached to our life conditions, and any change in behavioral stereotypes leads to an automatic fear reaction. These changes include, but are not limited to delays, cheating, lies, loss of job etc. 14.Any attempt to change this order of things is doomed to fail. Given the average level of awareness, most people are condemned to be victims of circumstance. Our body is doomed to a short, disease-prone life, because at no point in our lives does it have a single moment for self-recovery. It constantly

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spends all of its energy on fear and a struggle with it. The body constantly reacts to the fear we are living with. 15.There is no method, algorithm or technology that the mind can use to change this. Any such attempt will be based only on previous experience of automatic reactions and will be equally automatic. People can use various means to affect their mood and feel pleasure and so-called “happiness”: food, drugs, alcohol, tobacco, spiritual practices, domination over others, violence to oneself and other people, altruism etc. None of these ways breaks the cycle of recurring problems. Suffering is inevitable. The stronger the pleasure from using various “tricks”, the more the suffering. 16. To change the way the mind works, one needs an external spontaneous interference of pure consciousness that is not conditioned by the mind.17. In order to break free of an infinite cycle of problems with life and health, we need to weaken the hold of our automatic reactions, and let a miraculous experience of Awareness enter our lives. You cannot force it, but you can ask it to come, and humbly wait for it. 18. Practices suggested in this book will help you to demonstrate your intention and readiness to help Awareness enter your life. 19. The awareness-based health management system includes techniques of working with the body, breathing and consciousness. Regular work allows to quickly move through problems with health, to attain a high level of Awareness, and to leave the cycle of recurring issues. 20.The System is based on the fact that you already are an aware, healthy and happy being; you just haven’t realized it yet. The moment you realize it – which is always “now”, even though you might heal only in a month’s time – will be the same moment that you read these lines, with only one difference: you will be aware of being healthy and happy.

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THE PATH

This system is one of the elements of Consciousness that can become a key to your becoming aware of your health and of who you are. It contains no algorithm for “acquiring” something; it is a sufficient tool for a fundamental shift in your personal consciousness.

Attention is the foundation of the path.

1.The main thing that should be realized is the fact that the only tool that can be controlled by us is our Attention.

2.If we want to manifest something in our life, we need to pay attention to it.

3.If we want to remove something from our life, we need to pay attention to what it is that we wish to manifest instead.

4.The original intentions of any human being (unconditioned by previous experience) are ultimately pure and aimed at improvement and constant development.

5.It is not necessary to worry about your intentions. Just observe what you pay attention to. It is enough to become aware of your attention.

6.In order to learn how to manage your health, you need to become aware of your attention and observe what it is focused on 24 hours a day.

7.If you brought a plant home, and paid no attention to it (which is quite hard, since you already used your attention for the flower to appear in your life), it will soon disappear from your life. The flower will try to catch your attention by various means. If it fails, it will fade and die.

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8.Our health and we are also a flower. If we don’t pay enough attention to ourselves, our lives, reactions, feelings, or are almost completely inattentive to them as most people are, our organism and body will try to attract our attention just as the flower does. It will start with subtle hints, followed by more serious issues, and then use diseases in order to focus our attention on the body and life. If we keep resisting and suppressing symptoms, we will lose the body and a precious chance to become aware of what we are.

9.Our attention is often identified with the mind and previous experience, - something that we define as “external”/“other” objects and circumstances. We use them to identify ourselves. In most cases, we try to protect ourselves.

10. A regular practice of Awareness is needed in order to manage attention when making initial steps on the Path towards health.

11. Awareness can be practiced by spending time for self-observation:

a.The easiest and most important step on your way to Health is observation of your breathing

b.Breathing is a continuous process, which comes throughout our entire life, from the beginning to the end

c.Breathing is one of the processes that is easiest to become aware of; it is the only physiological act that we can affect with practically no hindrances

d.The essence of the practice is observing your breathing every day

e.It is up to you to determine the duration of the practice: the more attention you pay, the more health there is in your life. It is

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worth remembering that in order to develop your attention at least 40 days of regular practicing is needed

f.The main rule of the practice is that there are no rules. You just need to observe your attention

g.If your attention goes to thoughts about breathing, possible outcomes of the practice or thoughts about problems, just put your attention back onto breathing

h.There is no ‘right’ technique to observe breathing. Everything is right: any technique or method of observation, any duration of the observation, and any thoughts coming to your mind.

12. After a while, you will feel that throughout the day at least part of your attention encompasses your breathing. Gradually, you will start noticing that your attention expands and that it can include wider aspects of reality, where you are Being.

13. You will feel many signals from the body reflecting a certain degree of your Resistance to your Reality. They may take the form of tickles, pains, lump in the throat etc. You may start experiencing waves of various emotions.

14. Should such reactions appear, you can extend your attention practice by observing body responses and emotions without analyzing them.

15. Try responding to any event by observing your body, breathing and softly switching attention from thinking and reacting to observation of body responses. You will soon start noticing that it leads to changes in the process of thinking and to liberation from various automatic reactions and habits. Please note that it shouldn’t become a goal and a result of the practice.

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16. If you notice tension in the body or unpleasant symptoms, allow them to manifest fully; don’t try to suppress or support them, don’t try to relax, just observe and let them be. They are already part of your life, part of the Reality you are Being in. There is no point in resisting them, just relax into the reality of your situation. Don’t think about the results of these actions – you are performing a practice. Gently switch your attention to symptoms by just observing them.

17. The more devoted you are to the practice, the quicker you achieve results. Remember that when all your attention is on ‘auto-pilot’, you are strengthening the source of your suffering. Once your attention is fully focused on your body and feelings you have a closer contact with reality, which starts manifesting your real intentions regarding health and life in general. These intentions are exceptionally positive and come from the deepest and most sincere parts of your Being.

18. Remember that when you perform the practice, but still keep assessing it or expecting something in return, if you are in a rush or think about problems, you are not performing the practice, but simply repeating previous experience, and no changes happen in your life. In fact, you are automatically following the prescriptions from this book without fully engaging your attention.

19.However, don’t worry about it. Just switch your attention to body responses, emotions, and thoughts; become aware of what Is.

The practice of working with attention is basic and sufficient for Awakening and attaining health. If the practice leads to you meeting new people and/or knowledge, be open, and remember the essence of the practice – becoming aware of everything there Is in your life and accepting it. Experience everything that comes; feel it, and… keep being open, remember that you Are your Attention.

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The basic practice of working with attention within the Awareness-based System of health management does not contradict any existing healing systems, religious, philosophic or scientific concepts.

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BODY

1.Start the body practice once you feel a need for it, which arises from regular work with attention.

2.A real need is something you feel in the body, not in your thoughts.

3.Body practice is not a basic and/or regular one.

4.The practice is focused on becoming aware of feelings in the body.

5.The body practice naturally and organically follows the practice with attention.

6.It is always necessary if you have health problems.

7.The practice can take any form; it may be any movement of the body with respect to length, intensiveness, and load.

8.The foundation of any body-oriented practice is attaining a FULL AWARENESS OF THE BODY.

9.If you perform a body practice without working with attention, you lose your precious time with almost no result.

10.But do not worry about it; bring your attention back to body feelings and breathing.

11.Basic body practice:

a.Is a process of becoming aware of body feelings

b.To perform the practice, start focusing your attention on feelings in different parts of the body; e.g. begin by observing arms or legs

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c.It’s up to you to decide which part of your attention to pay to body feelings. Remember that attention and the level of concentration are in direct relation to the results of the practice

d.Also remember that working with attention implies no assessment of the results

e.Don’t try to keep your attention on the body for too long, just because it is suggested here. Feel yourself: is it your intention to focus on the body for this amount of time, or is it an automatic mind program? Is your body asking for motion or is it you thinking that you need to move? Don’t judge, just feel.

f.It is crucial to perform this practice for as long as your body feels the need for it. Once you have finished the exercise, spend some time to feel the reasons for stopping – is it because you have a thought of being tired and other things that need doing, or is it because you have a feeling in your entire body that the practice is over?

g.It is reasonable to observe the entire body, but it is up to you to define the scope of work based on your feelings

12.Second basic body practice

a.Observe contraction and relaxation of your muscles in turn

b.It is up to you to choose which muscles to contract, and for how long

c.You may create contraction and relaxation of various groups of muscles and observe your feelings with maximum attention. You may take various postures or dance, lift weights or swim

d.You may observe contractions of the antagonist muscle groups– it will lead to expansion of the consciousness

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e.You may observe feelings arising when muscles and ligaments stretch. You may observe feelings in joints when you move

f.Try diving into body feelings as deeply as possible; describe them without forgetting that you Are your attention

g.Based on your body feelings, you may determine the scope of the practice yourself. Start from the parts of the body you consider to be most important; it may be some aching parts

h.You may use various sets of exercises from aerobics and static gymnastics, including postures and motions from Oriental practices, e.g. Yoga, Qigong, Tai Chi and other systems.

13.The third basic practice of working with body

a.Is a development of the above practices

b.You can observe painful feelings in the body

c.Most importantly, you observe feelings outside of pain

d.In order to start the practice, you can observe the pain, describe it and its features. You may enhance and weaken painful feelings. Just don’t resist the pain

e.Remember that if you have acute pains, you should immediately consult a medical specialist you trust

f.Also remember that if you experience chronic pain, you may continue your practice independently, but it is advisable to consult a qualified and responsible medical specialist regularly. This specialist should have a detailed understanding of the issue and be open to ALL existing healing systems, and primarily to modern academic medicine.

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g.Remember that attaining the “no-pain” state, when the pain impulse is still present, but does not cause pain, is not a complete cure for the pathological process. However, it is a positive signal and a circumstance that makes further healing much easier.

In order to simplify your body work, you can join any group that is into body(-oriented) practices. Most important here is to remember the reason for doing so. Always continue the practice of being aware of your attention. Observe your judgments and do not identify with them; live your Life.

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BREATHING

1.Like the body practice, the breathing practice is closely linked to a fundamental practice of attentiveness.

2.Since breathing is an extremely important physiological process, this practice requires a higher level of attention.

3.Breathing practice has tremendous physiological effects.

4.This practice leads to a strong acceleration of many processes in life, and increases their energy in general. Regardless of our perception of the process (positive or negative), EVERYTHING gets activated when you start breathing practice.

5.The practice strongly accelerates awareness processes.

6.In view of the aforementioned, the breathing practices listed below should be performed only after a direct transmission from a Teacher who has been practicing conscious breathing and working with attention for a long time. It is possible that some people will become aware of breathing practices spontaneously after having worked with basic breathing and attention practices for a long time.

7.Don’t try to perform the breathing practices below until you have performed basic awareness practices.

8.You can perform the breathing practice if you are ready to take responsibility for all changes that may/will occur due to it. In any case while performing this practice remember to work with attention. Avoid judgments on who you Are, and what your reality Is.

9.The main basic breathing practice is described in the section on attention. If you practice on your own, you should perform it

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on a daily basis for at least four weeks before you start any other breathing exercises. I would appreciate if you describe your experience in an e-mail. You can also visit me for a consultation or ask a question in order to be sure that you are ready to perform breathing exercises described below.

10.General principles for performing the breathing practice:

a.Performing the awareness practice

i.Every time before performing breathing exercises you should become aware of what your attention is focused on (body feelings, thought, breathing) as much as you can. You focus on becoming aware of your breathing. Ideally you have spontaneously realized that you have already started to perform the first breathing exercise (relaxed full breathing).

ii.During the whole practice be aware of what your attention is focused on. It should be primarily focused on breathing itself and on physical feelings in your body. After a while, you can start becoming aware of the work of the mind (i.e. the thought flow) without identifying with it.

b.Posture

i.The posture for performing breathing exercises does not play a crucial role

ii.Try to make the process as natural as possible

iii.Before performing the breathing practice you perform an exercise of becoming aware of your attention, which may spontaneously spread to body feelings; don’t try to resist them, try being in the moment as much as possible. It will lead you to maximum relaxation. Before performing breathing exercises, scan your main groups of muscles in order to become aware of

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any tension there. You may release it; it will foster performance of the exercise.

iv.It is desirable (but not obligatory) to hold your spine straight without tension; shoulders and face should be relaxed. You may be sitting on the floor, on a chair, in bed; you may be swimming in the pool or taking a bath. You may lean against a wall, or use something as a support for your coccyx. The ambient temperature should be comfortable for you.

c.Duration, character and sequence of exercises.

i.It is up to you to choose the duration of the exercises; follow your inner feelings. Don’t aim at extending the practice just because “the longer you practice, the more the effect”. This is not the case. Don’t aim at finishing the practice just because “you need to start doing something” or due to a thought that you forgot to do something. Act with best intentions and accept whatever happens.

d.No counting.

i.Never time yourself when performing the breathing practice. This is one of the main causes of negative effects.

e.Easiness and freedom.

i.Do practice in such a way that you experience ease and freedom. Don’t strain yourself; don’t try to reach any goals or objectives. Let the practice lead you (not the mind leading the practice). Remember that the main goal of the System is to lead you out of ‘automatic mode’ and into life that already Is. Any hindrance along this Path, any Resistance only moves you farther from the goal.

f.Permanent landmark

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i.The main and the only landmark that you should pay attention to when performing practices within the System is your inner feelings. Follow your best intentions when practicing, follow your best feelings. At the same time, do not chase pleasure. It often happens that we have difficulty accepting certain feelings, considering them to be negative. Remember the practice on working with attention. Observe all feelings, ‘listen’ to them, feel what they say. Don’t aim at getting particular feelings. The practice may stir up the aspects of Reality and of what you Are, which you have been suppressing for a long time. Look around, feel and accept it. Don’t try to suppress feelings; if they have emerged and are part of your Reality, don’t resist them.

g.Regularity.

i.In the beginning you may need conscious effort to continue. This will be a new experience. Your mind will come up with zillions of reasons to stop the practice or to take a break. Observe this mechanism at work. Keep performing the practice for at least two months every day. Even when you can’t perform the whole set of exercises or you don’t have free time, you can always use 3-5 minutes once every hour or two, to become aware of your body and breathing.

ii.As your awareness develops you will be able to adjust the rhythm of exercises and will begin to feel that the practice is part of your life – and indeed is Life. From that moment your Life will become practice, and you will be able to define the need in regular exercises basing on inner feelings. It is similar to brushing your teeth; at the beginning it causes discomfort, but in a month you won’t need a break, because you will be feel that your teeth are not clean.

h.Time of day.

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i.Any time during the day fits; follow your feelings to see what is best. Usually I recommend performing the practice in the morning and in the evening, before going to bed.

i.Food and water.

i.If possible, you should refrain from food 1-2 hours prior to practice. If you have had a late dinner, do the simplest breathing exercises, without active movements. It is possible to practice relaxed breathing and to become aware of your breathing at any time after any meal.

j.How to breathe.

i.God gave us a nose to breathe through. Probably this is how we should practice breathing. However, in some instances you may use your mouth as well.

ii.If your nasal septum is bent, you should adjust your practice or consult a doctor who specializes in breathing practices. You may slightly adjust the nasal floor with your hand in order to improve the air flow. You may also correct your nasal floor using modern technologies.

iii.The air should preferably be fresh and of a comfortable temperature. Having many insects around may hamper your practice.

11.Five basic breathing exercises

a.Relaxed full breathing

i.This is a breathing that tends to occur spontaneously during the practice of attention to breathing, when at some point you start feeling an increasing need for a deep and full inhalation; you may start feeling that it is the air that inhales you. After a while you feel that you breathe using your whole body.

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ii.Don’t try to breathe deeply on purpose. When it happens, you will breathe as deeply as you can.

iii.This form of breathing is basic and tends to arise between other breathing exercises.

iv.Remember that this type of breathing builds on the practice of working with attention. While practicing, softly focus on breathing.

b.Cleansing breathing

i.The technique: short exhalation with nose followed by an automatic inhalation. It is similar to a situation when you try to blow off a midge or crumb from your upper lip.

ii.After a while you will feel that the front belly wall moves together with the breathing. You may consciously enhance/weaken these movements.

iii.Following your feelings, you may speed up/slow down the speed of the exercise.

iv.Remember about working with attention throughout the whole exercise. Observe that facial muscles and shoulders are relaxed and that the exercise is performed smoothly and easily.

v.A powerful cleansing effect is reached owing to the intensive massage of internal organs, including vessels and nerves of the abdomen, specific coordination with breathing movements and changes in blood gases concentration. The feeling of heat appears in the area of abdomen and expands to the whole body. Therefore, this type of breathing technique is also referred to as “fire breathing”.

c.Energizing breathing

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i.Energizing breathing is a breathing pattern that arises naturally at intensive physical load; it is the fullest, deepest and most intensive type of breathing.

ii.In order to experience this type of breathing, try different physical exercises, e.g. doing a standing jump or running on the spot until your breathing movements become more frequent and deep. After this point you should take any comfortable posture and preserve the breathing rhythm while observing feelings in the body and the breathing itself.

iii.In order to simplify breathing movements, you may raise your hands up or to the sides together with breathing. This will help to experience a deeper inhalation.

iv.As with other types of breathing, you should do this being fully relaxed, being present in the moment.

v.This type of breathing may lead to a quick emergence of energy in the body. Therefore, it is advisable to perform it in the first half of the day.

vi.Avoid any negative or painful feelings while practicing. This is especially important for energizing breathing. If you get a headache, pains, feel pressure in the temples, switch to normal breathing and observe emerging changes, fully accepting them.

d.Relaxing breathing

i.Is an extremely important breathing practice. It is especially efficient in complex therapy of various chronic diseases.

ii.At the same time, it is quite simple: you breathe using one nostril at a time. Closing nostrils with a thumb and a finger may be helpful.

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iii.This technique has a variation: inhale through nostril 1, and exhale through nostril 2, then inhale through nostril 2 and exhale through nostril 1, then repeat the cycle.

iv.Frequency and depth of breathing may vary from very deep and slow to fast and shallow.

v.In order to be sure that you do this correctly, check that there is no shortness of breath/air hunger/dyspnea. Make sure that you breathe with no tension whatsoever.

vi.By performing this practice you enhance the blood flow in the whole body and significantly enhance it in the smallest vessels, which improves blood supply for all tissues. Correct performance of this type of breathing leads to deep relaxation and a complete recovery of energy.

e.Soothing breathing

i.Inhale and exhale deeply through the nose with a squeezed throat. The sound performed may be reminiscent of snoring or give a “Ha” sound.

ii.This type of breathing is effective for calming the mind and may be performed in case of stress or during physical exercises.

12.Sequence and timing

a.The optimal sequence of exercises is obtained through personal experience – practice. Don’t be afraid to play and experiment with breathing. Vary sequence and timing. After a while you will start feeling what suits your body best.

b.The most important point to remember is to mix exercises with relaxed breathing and paying attention to body feelings.

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Remember to keep your attention on your breathing during exercises.

13.Warning

a.You may perform any exercises in any state on your own. You will never face difficulties if you do it with full awareness, or if you stop exercising once you realize there is a need to stop. Rehearsing ANY rules, conditions and prohibitions limits you and makes you ‘a causality slave’. Aim to obtain your own experience and live it, as there is nothing more valuable than that. Never blame anyone; remember that it’s you who decided to have this experience. Resisting experience contributes to disintegration of the personality and loss of contact with reality (or schizophrenia – in the worst case). Don’t listen to anyone who claims anything else. A true teacher always aims at having his/her students develop their inner teachers; otherwise, teaching is pointless.

b.It is undesirable to perform breathing exercises in case of exhaustion, intoxication, intensive pain in a stomach area, during menstruation, pregnancy or in case of fever. Be careful with practicing in case of cardiovascular, mental and neurological disorders, or acute health problems.

c.In case of any diseases it is always advisable to consult a doctor specializing in breathing practices or a yoga-therapist you trust before practicing.

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RESULT

By practicing regularly and thoroughly following the descriptions provided here, you will reach a high level of efficiency of both your body and mind in 2-6 months. You will become aware of the fact that you have become free from many automatic reactions, and come to realize that you are more happy and free. Your dreams and eating behavior will normalize; and you will observe a significant weight correction. According to studies and our observations, the intensity of most chronic disease symptoms drops by 40%. In the long run, performance of such practices leads to decrease of infarction and stroke frequencies, biological age, and addiction to drugs, alcohol, coffee, cigarettes and tranquilizers.

Practice of the Awareness-based health management system leads to many positive changes in your organism and life in general. However, describing these changes is beyond the scope of the present book. In order to obtain more information, please visit my lectures or consultations, or e-mail your questions.

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SUMMARY

The most important practice described here is the practice of awareness. At some point you feel that you went beyond time; you experience your whole body, the Reality you create, and see who you are with the utmost clarity. From this moment you are free from the automatic mind system, free from concepts, and you remember something you have never forgotten. All patterns, stereotypes and limitations have disappeared, including the need to perform any practices. From that moment, your life is the practice, and the practice has become Life. You experience the wholeness of all there is. The gap between your being and all there is disappears. You attain absolute health and longevity.

The only thing required is your full commitment and constant practicing of awareness.

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WHAT IS “AWARENES-BASED HEALTH MANAGEMENT SYSTEM”? SHORT OVERVIEW

Most diseases are rooted in failures in communication between our Being, mind, body and what is referred to as ‘the environment’. Any misbalance in this communication leads to the development of so-called ‘symptoms’ ranging from slight weakness to acute life-threatening illnesses, problems in business and personal affairs.

Any therapy method that is aimed only at removing the symptoms will sooner or later lead to enhancing them; and thus does not resolve the issue. With regard to this, we observe the increasing occurrence of various chronic diseases such as metabolic syndrome and diabetes, obesity, hypertension, vascular dystonia, chronic fatigue, sexual dysfunctions, problems with the immune system, allergies, irritable bowel syndrome, chronic headaches, and tumors; alertness and depressions are also quite common.

None of the therapy methods existing today guarantee 100% healing nor prevent recurrence. Moreover, once a symptom of a particular disease is cured, symptoms of other diseases may appear indicating a deeper root cause.

For more than 10 years Dmitry Shamenkov headed research and clinical centers focused on the issue of restoring health to the body based on new technologies, singly or in combination. As a result of their scientific work, Dmitry and his colleagues have established that the human organism has limitless and really amazing resources for self-restoration. They found that the underlying cause of health problems is a dysfunction in the regulation of organism performance at the level of functional systems, i.e. in transmission and reading of DNA.

Indeed, our body is managed by a very sophisticated self-balancing/homeostatic regulatory system, which combines

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elements of the nervous, immune, and endocrine systems. Learning to manage this regulatory system can eliminate the root cause of most diseases; consequently, any intervention aimed at eradication of symptoms, which does not cause imbalance in the regulatory system, will be very efficient and most likely will lead to a complete elimination of chronic problems.

Awareness-based health management is a simple technology containing basic principles of managing one’s health that can be learned by everyone.

The main effect of learning is removing fears associated with the body and developing self-sensitivity (proprioception) and awareness, which, in turn, offers effective tools for overcoming and preventing various health issues. Use of breathing and physical practice multiplies the effects of awareness and brings the organism to a completely new, higher level of performance. It can be measured by the decreasing intensity of most symptoms; or their painfulness, if they are caused by a severe functional deficit. As a result of long-term research, Western authors found that patients who are open to positive changes experience 30-40% less heart issues depending on the age group. The closest approach in Western countries is being represented by a stress reduction technology developed in the Memorial Medical Center of Massachusetts University by John Kabat-Zinn, MD. This technology (known as ‘Mindfulness’) is currently supported by the US National Institutes of Health and the Ministry of Health; since 2009 it is actively implemented in healthcare establishments throughout the US and other countries. The potential social and economic effects are described as unique; apart from the potential decrease of death rates in most active population groups, a decrease in the incidence of all chronic disease and stimulation of the social, economic and innovative development of society are predicted.

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Technologies aimed at developing awareness in health management are innovative by nature. Fundamental research and implementation has just started: the Russian Medical Society has established various working groups with renowned doctors, physicians and bio-physical specialists in order to develop methods for clinical use and implementation of these methods.

For more information please refer to the website: www.shamenkov.ru

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