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International Journal of Applied Ayurved Research ISSN: 2347- 6362 TANMATRAS-KEY TO HOLISTIC HEALING THROUGH DOORS OF PERCEPTIONS Kaur Inderjeet 1, Pandey Reena 2, Sharma. Giriraj .G 3 1M.D Scholar in Deptt. of Kaumarbhritya at Rishikul P.G Ayurved College, Haridwar ,Uttrakhand, India. 2Associate Prof. in Deptt. of Kaumarbhritya at Rishikul P.G College, Haridwar, Uttrakhand, India 3Associate Prof. in Deptt. of Rachna Sharir at Seth JP Govt. Ayurved College, Bhavnagar, Gujrat. India ABSTRACT We are all part of an infinite field of intelligence that orchestrates all of the activities in the universe and our sense organs are truly our only means of contact with the outside world. "Nothing is in the understanding, which was not first perceived by some of the senses." attributed to English philosopher, John Locke (1632-1704). Our senses provide the keys to unifying two systems, in particular, to bridge our outer and our inner worlds. The study of the interaction between these worlds (Healing through the Senses) interfaces with psychological processes and the nervous and immune systems of the human body. Balance your senses through both inner and outer experiences of nourishing sounds, sensations, images, tastes, and smells, and your inner pharmacy which provide natural health promoting chemicals to improve immunity, relieve anxiety and depression, normalize digestive function, and keep you pain free. Treating ourselves through the 5 senses is one of the most important ways to heal our body, mind and spirit. Ayurveda places great importance on improving the acumen and strength of the five senses. What if your taste was stronger, your eyes keener, your ears more sensitive? You would have a higher perception of reality. This healing modality gently stimulates all five of our sensory organs, harmonizing us. This results in an experience of peace and calm, dissolving any stress. Keywords: Ayurveda, Tanmatras, Senses, Health, Body and mind INTRODUCTION: of who we are-body, mind, and spirit.[1] Our brain is physical but the mind is More than 5,000 years ago, the Vedic energy. We can see the brain (physical) but sages of India understood what quantum not the mind (energy). The mind is physicists are just beginning to recognize. sensitive to signals or vibrations and sends The energy and information of the world is these signals to the physical brain. The translated into subtle sensory impulses that brain transmits chemical neural are experienced on the screen of your communication through the whole body. consciousness. These inner impulses are [ 2 ] This is where the term Holistic Healing known in Ayurveda as Tanmatras. comes from. Tanmatras are internal senses of our body Ayurveda defines health not only as an and are of five types i.e.; Visual, Auditory, Tactile, Olfactory and Gustatory absence of disease, but also as a very [ 3 ] holistic level of vitality throughout our sensations. lives. As a result, the Ayurvedic approach External information’s(senses) translated, to treating any single aspect of our health transformed and then transfer in as begins with taking into account the whole Tanmatras, the internal senses. We can [Kaur Inderjeet et al : Tanmatras-Key to Holistic Healing Through Doors of Perceptions] refine these internal senses by Holistic Touch is the first of the senses to develop healing, for better perception and calmness in the human infant, and it remains perhaps of body, mind and soul. We can think of the most emotionally central throughout them as mental quanta, the subjective our lives. While many researchers have equivalent to the subtlest units of matter in appreciated its power, others have been the physical world. Awakening the more circumspect. Our mind, especially Tanmatras through active imagination the subconscious mind, is a miraculous creates an alert mind and vital body. In tool. And we must understand that any Ayurveda, sensory impressions disturbance in the mind causes disturbance (Tanmatras)are considered crucial to in the body. So you have understood the health. mind in order to use the mind to heal Ayurveda is based on five senses illnesses. Touch may also increase levels therapies, and teaches that what we take in of melatonin and of the feel-good through our five senses determines our hormone, serotonin. health. In other words we are not just what Touch is extremely powerful. There are we – Eat- but also what we See, Smell, even studies that show how what’s called Feel and Hear! ‘touch deprivation’ (an interrupted mother Stimulation with a balanced life style is care) stops babies from growing and how we heal. We are imperfect and need developing properly. More recent studies stimulation of our 5 senses by [ 2 ] -- have corroborated these findings. 1. Touch Therapy “Kangaroo care,” to keep babies close to their mothers, decreases the rate at which 2. Sound Therapy they develop blood infections. Touching 3. Color Therapy also improves weight gain.[ 5 ] After 4. Aroma Therapy extensive study years later, the American 5. Taste Therapy psychologist Harry Harlow concluded Touch is a key componenent of traditional that the infants died from lack of touch. healing too. An Ayurvedic ancient text A study by Rush University Medical Charak Samhita said in its Sutra Sathana Center in Chicago found that infants who chapter 11 verse 38 [ 4 ] , that all senses were held, snuggled and touched had [i.e.; Visual, Auditory, Tactile, Olfactory better mental and motor skills than those and Gustatory] are intermingling and who were not.[6] inherited in the Sparshendriya (Touch But we need physical touch not only as sense) especially in reference of epithelial babies; we also need it as adults. The need line of body. The sense of touch is for human touch present in infants as well present/pervades in all the senses. It is as in an adult. Studies have shown that inherently associated with mind. The therapeutic touch benefits adults in the internal sense and mind is pervaded in following ways: [7] sense of Sparsh, perceived all senses. Reduces stress (touching releases two || Ch.Su.11 / 38||[4] feel-good brain chemicals, serotonin and I. TOUCH THERAPY: dopamine) Medicines and words both have healing Lessens pain power, but so does touch, and it is perhaps Reduces symptoms of Alzheimer's the most widely available, financially disease such as restlessness, pacing, responsible and safest tool in the healing vocalization, searching and tapping arts. When we touch, we connect, and Touch, a key component of traditional when we connect, we create a healing healing, is being increasingly studied in bond for which there is simply no mainstream medicine, with some trials substitute. showing symptom benefits in a number of 1336 www.ijaar.in IJAAR VOLUME III ISSUE IX JUL-AUG 2018 [Kaur Inderjeet et al : Tanmatras-Key to Holistic Healing Through Doors of Perceptions] areas, from asthma and high blood convergence of the ancient and the modern pressure to migraine and childhood methods of healing, mind, and spirit.[ 10 ] diabetes. Other research findings hint that Sound therapies include music, Tibetan not only does touch lower stress levels, but singing bowls, chanting of some mantras that it can boost the immune system and viz. Om mantra, Gayatri mantra, halt or slow the progress of disease. Mahamrityunjya mantra etc. [ 11 ] It has carried out more than 100 studies Music affects health as it influences into touch and found evidence of digestion, endurance, productivity, and significant effects, including faster growth feelings of romance. Used along with in premature babies, reduced pain, other healing modalities, mainstream or decreased autoimmune disease symptoms, otherwise, certain types of music are seen lowered glucose levels in children with as helpful and prescriptive sources. diabetes, and improved immune systems in [8] Mantras, or hymns, became interwoven people with cancer. with all actions related to healing. "Research has demonstrated that patients Mantras, as sacred sounds, are known to who receive healing touch experience affect our vibratory being and accelerated wound healing and relaxation, consciousness as the word mantra itself pain relief and general comfort," said a means both protection and instrument. spokesman, several studies are showing Om ‘the sound of all sounds’ is one of significant benefits in wound healing, pain the most interesting aspects of the Vedic and anxiety. It says touch therapy may also mantra .Om is that its uttering and have positive effects on fracture healing [8] meditating upon it connects us to a higher and arthritis. vibratory rate, linking us to the origin of Marma Therapy (Touch Healer in Prakruti. [9] Ayurveda): In Ayurveda sound has been used mainly Marma therapy is an ancient practice to balance constitutional energies i.e.; whose focus is the directing of subtle Vata, Pitta, Kapha doshas or constitutions. energy (prana) in the body for purposes of Ayurveda promotes the use of particular supporting the healing process. This sounds and chants (mantras) to bring therapy is based on the utilization of 107 transformations by raising the body’s points in the body which are considered to vibration frequency.[12] be access points to the body, mind and In the Vedas, sound was understood to consciousness. have a healing effect on its listener and, When you are touched, the many nerve not surprisingly, various instruments were endings in your skin send messages back used to enable particular vibrations of to your brain. This is the way signals sent sounds to prevent increases in particular to your brain translate into feelings of doshas.[11] moral and emotional values with For example: happiness and graceful life. The instrumental sounds of the II. SOUND THERAPY: Bamboo flute are thought to prevent the Sound Therapy can be prescribed to increase of Vata as it emits soft notes and transform discord into harmony based on has a soothing effect on its listener.