Energy Medicine

While most New-Age medicine enjoys a bad reputation as a quasi-science, the energy medicine method by Donna Eden is endorsed by a lot of prominent people. As explained in her book, Energy Medicine (Eden, 2008),  you can use some really simple ways to boost up your mental and physical and improve your daily performance at work. Her methods combines ancient practices like Meridians, Chadkras, and many other “spiritual methods” which are found in other cultures. By the way, she also claimed to be an clairvoyant who can see the energy fields around human bodies which others are unable to see, making her able to diagnose someone’s energy problems in seconds.

Sat Kriya

Sat Kriya is one of most important yoga exercise, if not the most important of all. Some people claim that if one can learn only one yoga posture in his life, then it has to be this one because it contains almost all of the benefits that Kundalini Yoga can bring. One can gain from this exercise in multiple ways. Firstly, it is helpful to rejuvenate the mind while strengthening the body. More importantly, it also helps to awaken the so-called Kundalini energy, which is said to be a life force that is usually hidden dormant at the end of the spine.

Breathe of Fire

Breathe of Fire represents a technique performed within meditation to sustain, and in some cases, increase your natural body temperature keeping you immune to the effects of cold climate. This technique is ancient, going back nearly 900 years in Tibet. There are monks sitting outside in very cold conditions, often with snow on the ground, be shirtless and stay within a harmonized state of meditation. I would also see people dumping freezing cold water inside a bucket on them and they would remain in meditation completely unharmed by it.

The “Recovery Oil”

Cryotherapy, or “cold bath therapy”, is a popular recovery method among athletes. According to experts, coldness constricts blood vessels and decreases metabolic activity, which reduces swelling and tissue breakdown. “Ice baths don't only suppress inflammation, but help to flush harmful metabolic debris out of your muscles,” says David Terry, M.D., a runner who has finished both the Western States 100-Mile Endurance Run and the Wasatch Front 100-Mile Endurance Run 10 consecutive times.

The Master Key Exercises

American businessman, philosopher and visionary Charles F. Haanel (1866-1949) is the most well-known thinker in the field of New Thought movement. His most famous book, The Master Key System (Haanel, 1916), had allegedly sold over twenty hundred thousand copies worldwide fifteen years since its publication. The book is rumoured to be the source which encouraged Bill Gates to drop out of Harvard and began his company known as Microsoft. It is also the origin of inspiration of many other famous classics of later generations, like Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill (1937) and The Secret by Rhonda Byrne (2006).

The Secret of “The Iceman”

When it comes to defying the limit of the human body, the Dutch world record holder Wim Hof immediately springs to mind. Hof has earned himself the nickname “The Iceman” because of his immunity to extreme environments. Wearing only shorts, he climbed onto Mount Everest under harsh coldness and scarce oxygen in 2007. Two years later, again only in shorts, he completed a marathon in five and a half hours above the polar circle in Finland. In 2011, he proved that he was as good against extreme heat by completing a full marathon in the Namib Desert without drinking any water at all.