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happiness. The holistic approach of Tibetan Medicine for relieving anxiety and rLung Imbalance results in a stronger person, both mentally and physically. My clients who come off their medication feel like they’ve accomplished much and have a deeper sense of themselves. They have successfully developed new healthy personal habits thanks to Tibetan Medicine and their own discipline and hard work. They are meditating, exercising more, using the Tibetan incense, and have new dietary habits that are more nourishing for their constitution. By eliminating or reducing their anxiety medication, they feel more aware of themselves and others. It is as if they feel more connected and involved in their lives, like the medication had buffered and separated them from the world around them. They feel more in contact with reality, exactly as things are. Many clients remark on how intensely joyous and wonderful life is, but also how intensely the struggle of life requires a new kind of courage for them. When working with anxiety medication, I always work closely with a person’s doctor. Sometimes a person can only lessen the medication by milligrams. Even so, they still come away more aware and with healthy lifestyle tools that bring them closer to themselves, their inner self, their constitutional type, and ultimately, more confident and stronger when facing their fears.
While the United States has mostly focused on making technological advances, such as electricity, the telephone, nuclear weapons, computers, and cell phones in the last hundred years, Tibetan Buddhist scholars have concentrated on making inner developmental advances for the last thousand years. Tibetan Buddhist monks have mapped out an inner psychology or roadmap of the mind and the way in which it is intertwined with the body. This mind/body connection also shows us how to prevent mental instability as well as how to heal ourselves when we do become mentally
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