23 June 2026
20 June 2026
Sankalpa, YogNIidra
Vedanjanam @VEDANJANAM from twitter
https://x.com/VEDANJANAM/status/2068186619669037433
Don't mistake Saṅkalpa for manifestation.
Manifestation, as taught in much of pop psychology, does not work. Saṅkalpa does.
Repetition and visualization alone are not sufficient.
The saṅkalpa must be planted in a samāhita citta (a collected, one-pointed mind).
It is usually the same saṅkalpa held over years, not a rotating wishlist that changes every few weeks.
The Upaniṣads place great importance on kratu (deep formative intention):
yathā-kratur asmiṅ loke puruṣo bhavati tathetaḥ pretya bhavati
As a person's kratu is, so their life gradually becomes.
But a real kratu is not a passing thought.
It is an intention held steadily enough to shape perception, action, and character.
The tradition therefore begins by training the citta (mind).
A saṅkalpa becomes powerful when the mind holding it has become capable of holding one thing.
A thought thrown at the universe from a scattered mind doesn't amount to anything.
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Balaji
Excellent articulation! For example a Sankalpa done during yoga nidra is immeasurably more effective than that done otherwise! Have experienced it but really appreciate your articulation 🙏🏽🙏🏽
Vedanjanam
That is one of the most effective methods to take sankalpa. We enter a beautiful state of samāhita citta in Yoga Nidra.
Balaji
When I was younger I used to be a nervous wreck. My yoga teacher helped me get into what you mention as samahita chitta and it transformed my life. Also helped me to get with less than 2 hours of sleep over a 6-8 week period. For me your articulation was spot on.
Manish S Nandal
Well explained sir..there is a reason acchman ,mudras, Pranyaam etc is to be done before sankalp for any pooja🙏
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योग निद्रा वास्तव में गहरी मानसिक शांति और संकल्प को अवचेतन मन में स्थापित करने का एक बेहद शक्तिशाली और वैज्ञानिक तरीका है। आधुनिक भाषा में इसे 'NSDR' (Non-Sleep Deep Rest) भी कहा जाता है, जिसका समर्थन आज के न्यूरोसाइंटिस्ट भी करते हैं।
यहाँ योग निद्रा की तकनीक और इसके महत्व को विस्तार से समझाया गया है:
योग निद्रा की मूल तकनीक (The Technique)
यह अभ्यास पूरी तरह से सजग रहते हुए गहरी नींद जैसी अवस्था में जाने की कला है। इसे आमतौर पर निम्नलिखित चरणों में किया जाता है:
शवासन (Preparation): पीठ के बल सीधे लेट जाएँ, आँखें बंद कर लें, और पूरे शरीर को ढीला छोड़ दें। यहाँ शरीर को पूरी तरह स्थिर रखना होता है, लेकिन सो जाना नहीं है—केवल आवाज़ को सुनना है।
संकल्प (The Resolve): जब शरीर शांत होने लगता है, तब एक छोटा, स्पष्ट और सकारात्मक संकल्प लिया जाता है (जैसे: "मैं शांत और केंद्रित हूँ" या आपका कोई दीर्घकालिक लक्ष्य)। इसे मन में तीन बार दोहराया जाता है।
चेतना का घूर्णन (Rotation of Consciousness): इसके बाद ध्यान को शरीर के अलग-अलग अंगों पर ले जाया जाता है (दायाँ अँगूठा, हथेली, कोहनी, कंधा... फिर बायाँ हिस्सा)। इससे मस्तिष्क के मोटर कॉर्टेक्स को गहरा आराम मिलता है।
श्वास के प्रति सजगता (Breath Awareness): अपनी आती-जाती साँसों को केवल देखना और उनकी गिनती करना (जैसे 27 से 1 तक उलटी गिनती)। इससे बिखरा हुआ मन एक जगह ठहर जाता है।
भावनाओं का अनुभव (Pair of Opposites): अत्यधिक ठंड और फिर अत्यधिक गर्मी, या भारीपन और फिर हल्केपन का मानसिक अनुभव करना। यह तकनीक मस्तिष्क के होमियोस्टैसिस (संतुलन) को बेहतर बनाती है।
शून्य या विज़ुअलाइज़ेशन (Rapid Visualization): गुरु, प्रकृति या शांत प्रतीकों की मानसिक कल्पना करना, जिससे चित्त में छुपे गहरे तनाव बाहर निकल जाएँ।
संकल्प की पुनरावृत्ति और समापन: अंत में, उसी संकल्प को दोबारा तीन बार दोहराया जाता है और धीरे-धीरे चेतना को वापस बाहरी वातावरण में लाया जाता है।
मानसिक शांति और 'समाहित चित्त' में इसका महत्व
योग निद्रा केवल आराम करने का साधन नहीं है, बल्कि यह मस्तिष्क की कार्यप्रणाली को पूरी तरह बदल देती है:
मस्तिष्क की तरंगों में बदलाव (Brain Waves): सामान्य जागृत अवस्था में हमारा दिमाग 'बीटा' (Beta) तरंगों पर काम करता है। योग निद्रा के दौरान मस्तिष्क 'अल्फा' (Alpha) और फिर 'थेटा' (Theta) तरंगों की स्थिति में पहुँच जाता है। थेटा अवस्था वही है जो गहरी ध्यान या सम्मोहन की होती है, जहाँ लॉजिकल माइंड शांत हो जाता है और अवचेतन मन (Subconscious) पूरी तरह सक्रिय हो जाता है।
संकल्प की अचूक क्षमता: जब चित्त बिखरा होता है, तो विचार सतह पर ही रह जाते हैं। लेकिन योग निद्रा की 'थेटा' अवस्था में बोया गया संकल्प सीधे अवचेतन की गहरी परतों में बैठ जाता है। यही कारण है कि इस अवस्था में लिया गया संकल्प जीवन के चरित्र और आदतों को बदलने में 'इमली की तरह' पक्का असर दिखाता है।
न्यूरोप्लास्टिसिटी और हीलिंग: बालाजी ने थ्रेड में जिक्र किया कि वे कम नींद में भी ऊर्जावान रह पाए। वैज्ञानिक रूप से, 30 से 45 मिनट की योग निद्रा शरीर और मस्तिष्क को लगभग 3 से 4 घंटे की गहरी नींद जितना आराम और सेलुलर रिपेयर (Cellular Repair) प्रदान कर सकती है। यह तनाव के हार्मोन 'कोर्टिसोल' को कम करके पैरासिम्पेथेटिक नर्वस सिस्टम को एक्टिवेट करती है।
30 May 2026
important blood test
BLOOD TESTS YOU CAN'T IGNORE AFTER 40 AS A MAN :
Total serum Testosterone
SHBG
Free testosterone
Homocysteine
Extended Lipid Profile
HBA1C
Homa IR
Serum Prolactin.
by useless conversations, one’s lifespan is destroyed
व्यर्थसंलपनेनायुर्नाशः कार्यो न शोभनैः ।
by useless conversations, one’s lifespan is destroyed; one shouldn’t engage in inauspicious actions. mudgala purāṇa, १२.२० how to know what act to do in a situation? śukra nīti says he who doesn’t read multiple śāstras can’t know so.
https://x.com/ganapatyarya/status/2060510212747092159/photo/1
29 May 2026
5 basic laws to great health.
5 basic laws to great health.
dont overload stomach, intestines and liver.
deep clean nose, teeth and intestines.
sleep before 10pm.
exposure to sun light 30 mins in morning.
keep clam and move around.
itna koi karega to 80 se 85 jayega aaram se
and wont see doctors face even once.
please note that
1. hard exercise is not mentioned.
2. cholesterol etc is pure bs for me.
Klotho, CKD, Phosphication, Stones, Inositol etc
https://x.com/photobiogenesis/status/1811149241202405625Bryce Hanna
@photobiogenesis
"Calcification" is a misnomer, it should be called "phosphication" or another term that highlights the process's primary dependence of phosphate rather than calcium
Calcium crystals in bone, teeth, and soft tissue are all calcium PHOSPHATE crystals
Allow me to explain, It's difficult or impossible to become "deficient" in circulating calcium because of the large reservoir that exists in bone. When calcium intake is low, hormones like parathyroid hormone (PTH) are elevated which increase breakdown of bone to release calcium.
PTH also elevates phosphate in the bloodstream, this occurs because calcium and phosphate are both released from bone, so while PTH promotes phosphate excretion it's still linked to phosphate accumulation when dietary Calcium:Phosphate ratio is off
Klotho is an important factor in aging, increasing it significantly improves longevity in rodents. While it's often conceptualized as a big-picture protein with many actions, at its heart is the simple action of decoupling calcium and phosphate metabolism. Klotho simultaneously activates channels that recycle calcium while blocking phosphate recycling, It's also a coactivator for the fibroblast growth factor (FGF) receptor family, which have various protective effects and include factors like FGF21 and FGF23
Klotho is stimulated by various factors: - exercise - sun exposure - caloric restriction - omega-3 fats - eating fructose/sugars - various polyphenol-rich foods - medicinal mushrooms - brown adipose tissue (cold adaptation and thermogenesis) - melatonin, testosterone, and T3 - nutrients like zinc and vitamin E
There are two subsets of Klotho: alpha-Klotho regulates calcium phosphate balance primarily, it drives the increase in FGF23 which is responsible for a protective increase in phosphate excretion beta-Klotho regulates energy intake, food preference, and metabolic rate by coupling with the liver hormone FGF21 which is normally responsible for the anti-aging effects of caloric restriction and methionine restriction
There's a clear axis of pro-fibrosis vs anti-fibrosis factors, and phosphication is the center of this process. Parathyroid hormone, hyperphosphatemia, and catabolic hormones like cortisol and prolactin (stimulated by PTH), all increase pro-fibrotic factors like TGF-beta
Phosphate plays an essential role in metabolism in the form of ATP Acetyl-phosphate or pyrophosphate may have served as ancient precursors to modern ATP in early life. Excess phosphate is directly toxic to cells and triggers inflammation, oxidative stress, and cancer formation.
Calcium's great benefit to early life may have been its ability to precipitate into insoluble crystals with phosphate. This allows both calcium and phosphate, which act as stress signals in excess, to be stored safely within the organism Over time this developed into bone
Calcification is dependent on phosphate, and since calcium reserves will always be present we can even argue it's caused by phosphate Low dietary calcium is what triggers the release of the stress hormone PTH High dietary phosphate blocks calcium sensing receptors and elevates PTH even in the presence of adequate dietary calcium.
he inverse of this is the anti-phosphication and anti-fibrosis factors
These include FGF23 and Klotho, as well as FGF21, both Klotho and the FGFs need to be present as they act on the same receptor
More dietary calcium is anti-phosphication as it drives phosphate into bone by stimulating calcitonin release and lowers PTH
Modern diets promote fibrosis and calcification through:
- hidden phosphate additives in processed foods
- phosphate pesticide use
- high bean/grain intake which are high in phosphate
- low dairy and leafy green intake which have a favorable Ca:P ratio
- low magnesium and K2 intake, which both reverse existing calcium phosphate deposits
Factors that increase Klotho and FGF21 are highly protective
It's most important to reduce phosphate intake and eat more calcium-rich foods
Caloric restriction, sunlight, exercise, and restriction of animal protein from methionine all raise both Klotho and FGF21
It turns out that high phosphate intake decrease FGF21, but only when paired with a normal or high calorie diet
The increase from caloric restriction or methionine restriction should be enough to offset this
https://t.co/72T3aPuY9L
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6213303/
Impaired phosphate excretion from reduced Klotho, excess caloric intake, etc, also drives sodium retention since both sodium and phosphate share a transporter in the kidneys
FGF21 increases insulin sensitivity, and insulin resistance in general drives sodium-sensitive hypertension
There's a large body of evidence that high phosphate intake causes kidney disease, hypertension, calcification and fibrosis, heart disease, diabetes, and more
Eating a better calcium:phosphate ratio (ideally 1:1) is a great way to slow aging and prepare metabolic dysfunction
Human Obesity: Is Insufficient Calcium/Dairy Intake Part of the Problem?
Key teaching points:
Low dietary calcium intake is a significant risk factor for overweight in adults.
Calcium/dairy supplementation may accentuate the impact of a weight-reducing program in obese low calcium consumers.
Calcium/dairy supplementation promotes fecal fat loss and fat oxidation.
Calcium/dairy supplementation favors a decrease in energy intake and a facilitation of appetite control in obese individuals during weight loss.
Phosphate and Klotho
It is concluded that phosphate retention induces complex aging-like phenotypes. Thus, maintaining normal phosphate levels with phosphate binders in patients with CKD with declining Klotho expression is expected to reduce mineral and vascular derangements.
Klotho is a putative aging suppressor gene encoding a single-pass transmembrane co-receptor that makes the fibroblast growth factor (FGF) receptor specific for FGF-23. In addition to multiple endocrine organs, Klotho is expressed in kidney distal convoluted tubules and parathyroid cells, mediating the role of FGF-23 in bone–kidney–parathyroid control of phosphate and calcium. Klotho–/– mice display premature aging and chronic kidney disease-associated mineral and bone disorder (CKD-MBD)-like phenotypes mediated by hyperphosphatemia and remediated by phosphate-lowering interventions (diets low in phosphate or vitamin D; knockouts of 1α-hydroxylase, vitamin D receptor, or NaPi cotransporter).
Phosphate—a poison for humans?
Maintenance of phosphate balance is essential for life, and mammals have developed a sophisticated system to regulate phosphate homeostasis over the course of evolution. However, due to the dependence of phosphate elimination on the kidney, humans with decreased kidney function are likely to be in a positive phosphate balance. Phosphate excess has been well recognized as a critical factor in the pathogenesis of mineral and bone disorders associated with chronic kidney disease, but recent investigations have also uncovered toxic effects of phosphate on the cardiovascular system and the aging process. Compelling evidence also suggests that increased fibroblastic growth factor 23 and parathyroid hormone levels in response to a positive phosphate balance contribute to adverse clinical outcomes. These insights support the current practice of managing serum phosphate in patients with advanced chronic kidney disease, although definitive evidence of these effects is lacking. Given the potential toxicity of excess phosphate, the general population may also be viewed as a target for phosphate management. However, the widespread implementation of dietary phosphate intervention in the general population may not be warranted due to the limited impact of increased phosphate intake on mineral metabolism and clinical outcomes. Nonetheless, the increasing incidence of kidney disease or injury in our aging society emphasizes the potential importance of this issue. Further work is needed to more completely characterize phosphate toxicity and to establish the optimal therapeutic strategy for managing phosphate in patients with chronic kidney disease and in the general population.
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Much of the phosphate in beans and seeds is in the form of inositol phosphates like IP6 which help reduce phosphate intake. Phosphate additives in processed foods are in the form of soluble phosphate salts. Inositol may be protective as well through its ability to form IP6 and bind both phosphate and excess iron in the body. Iron and phosphate clearance may explain some of IP6's anti-cancer effects
Corpora arenacea or "brain sand" is further evidence that it's phosphication not calcification
These are mineral deposits that form in the pineal and various parts of the brain, they're associated with neurodegeneration and aging
They're composed of a combination of calcium phosphate, magnesium phosphate, ammonium phosphate, and some calcite. The overarching common theme is the inclusion of phosphate
25 May 2026
27 April 2026
Carrer Difference
Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005
A mathematician who shared an office with Claude Shannon at Bell Labs gave one lecture in 1986 that explains why some people win Nobel Prizes and other equally smart people spend their whole lives doing forgettable work.
His name was Richard Hamming. He won the Turing Award. He invented error-correcting codes that made modern computing possible. And he spent 30 years at Bell Labs sitting in a cafeteria at lunch watching which scientists became legendary and which ones faded into nothing.
In March 1986, he walked into a Bellcore auditorium in front of 200 researchers and told them exactly what he had seen.
Here's the framework that has been quoted by every serious scientist for the last 40 years.
His opening line landed like a punch. He said most scientists he worked with at Bell Labs were just as smart as the Nobel Prize winners. Just as hardworking. Just as credentialed. And yet at the end of a 40-year career, one group had changed entire fields and the other group was forgotten by the time they retired.
He wanted to know what the difference actually was. And he said it wasn't luck. It wasn't IQ. It was a specific set of habits that almost nobody is willing to follow.
The first habit was the one that hurts the most to hear. He said most scientists deliberately avoid the most important problem in their field because the odds of failure are too high. They pick a safe adjacent problem, solve it cleanly, publish it, and move on. And because they never swing at the hard problem, they never hit it. He said if you do not work on an important problem, it is unlikely you will do important work. That is not a motivational line. That is a logical one.
The second habit was about doors. Literal doors. He noticed that the scientists at Bell Labs who kept their office doors closed got more done in the short term because they had no interruptions. But the scientists who kept their doors open got more done over a career. The open-door scientists were interrupted constantly. They also absorbed every new idea passing through the hallway. Ten years in, they were working on problems the closed-door scientists did not even know existed.
The third habit was inversion. When Bell Labs refused to give him the team of programmers he wanted, Hamming sat with the rejection for weeks. Then he flipped the question. Instead of asking for programmers to write the programs, he asked why machines could not write the programs themselves. That single inversion pushed him into the frontier of computer science. He said the pattern repeats everywhere. What looks like a defect, if you flip it correctly, becomes the exact thing that pushes you ahead of everyone else.
The fourth habit was the one that hit me the hardest. He said knowledge and productivity compound like interest. Someone who works 10 percent harder than you does not produce 10 percent more over a career. They produce twice as much. The gap doesn't add. It multiplies. And it compounds silently for years before anyone notices.
He finished the lecture with a line I have never been able to shake.
He said Pasteur's famous quote is right. Luck favors the prepared mind. But he meant it literally. You don't hope for luck. You engineer the conditions where luck can land on you. Open doors. Important problems. Inverted questions. Compounded hours. Those are not traits. Those are choices you make every single day.
The transcript has been sitting on the University of Virginia's computer science website for almost 30 years. The video is free on YouTube. Stripe Press reprinted the full lectures as a book in 2020 and Bret Victor wrote the foreword.
Hamming died in 1998. He gave his final lecture a few weeks before. He was 82.
The lecture that explains why some careers become legendary and others disappear is still free. Most people who could benefit from it will never open it.
06 April 2026
Innovation is a consequence of production.
Innovation is a consequence of production.
"If you don't make the thing, you cede your opportunity to innovate on the thing."
Google's "Attention is All You Need" paper came from trying to get a 3% gain in Google Translate.
05 April 2026
shiv and the crow
destiny is not a single event. it is not a line written once and followed for ever.
it is the meeting point of many forces, past actions, present choices and the silent rhythym of time that flows though all things.
every thought you have, every action you take, every intention you carry, become a thread.
alone each thread appears small, almost insignificant, but over time, they weave together into a pattern and that pattern we call destiny.
the crow hestitated and asked, "then why do some suffer. no matter how hard someone tries their effort seems to disappear. like foot prints in a snow."
shiva replies "becuase not all seeds sprout in the same season. some must wait beneath the soil in darkness, pressure and silence before they can rise."
you role, shiva said, is not to question the season, but remain alive within it and with that shiva clsoed its eyes again.
30 March 2026
pre-marital blood tests
https://x.com/DocPriyamMD/status/2038534124412231981
Dr. Priyam Bordoloi @DocPriyamMD
A young couple walked into my OPD today asking for 'pre-marital blood tests'
Most people think it’s just about HIV, but there is so much more to it.
Can anyone guess what else I wrote on that prescription?
MEDCRUX @medcrux
🛑 Pre-marital screening is more than just HIV
🔷 Blood group & Rh typing → prevents Rh incompatibility issues in pregnancy
🔷 Hb electrophoresis → screens for Thalassemia & hemoglobinopathies
🔷 VDRL test → for Syphilis
🔷 HBsAg → detects Hepatitis B
🔷 Anti-HCV → screens for Hepatitis C
🔷 HIV ELISA → rules out HIV/AIDS
🔷 Rubella IgG → checks immunity to Rubella (important for pregnancy)
💡 Goal: Prevent genetic disorders, infections & future pregnancy complications.
Dr. Priyam Bordoloi @DocPriyamMD
HPLC (Thalassemia screening) is the one most people overlook, yet it’s arguably the most critical for the next generation. You clearly know your stuff
Rahul Dev
Testosterone total, Sperm count morphology and motility, AMH, FSH, LH, TSH, PCOS…
Dr. Priyam Bordoloi @DocPriyamMD
That’s the advanced level! Definitely important for couples planning immediate parenthood, but for a basic pre-marital screen, I usually stick to the essentials first to avoid burning a hole in their pocket on day one
Rahul Dev @meetrahuldev
Dr. if you expand the perspective beyond exclusively medical, unless parenthood is totally out of plans….getting such tests in advance is way better than later stages when these numbers result in mental stress and in case of shocking numbers…these reports form the main annexures of divorce petitions and domestic violence / harassment cases…
I am sure everyone knows the top most ground alleged during court cases is impotency…
Nobody …
@durga_im
Imagine other party get to know Testosterone level and PCOS details . If anything wrong comes up .. not only this alliance will break but also all future alliances will become nearly impossible, given how our society works . Important but dangerous in our society.
Rahul Dev @meetrahuldev
That’s exactly what happens in court cases when these issues snowball into astronomical proportions later on…plus it creates documentary records and judges, lawyers, police and government gets involved at all stages…
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