Majid Ali, M.D. After delivering babies, nearly all women gain extra fat in the waist and lower abdominal region. In Punjab, Pakistan, this fat is removed partially or wholly by grandmothers with mustard oil skin rubs over the abdomen. In my clinical experience, castor oil skin rubs are more effective that mustard oil for slimming the mid-region. This is
Read moreA Day of Personal Divinity Majid Ali, M.D. In this Part Four of my Personal Spiritual Realism Series, I offer what I consider to the core part of my best personal health plan. What is a A Day of Personal Divinity? Here is my attempt at an answer : A Day of Divinity is: A Day of Divinity is a
Read moreMajid Ali, M.D. Love to consciousness, Consciousness to openness, Openness to humanness, Humanness to oneness, Oneness to Divinity, Divinity to love, And so completed The cycle of the soul. Love to Divinity, Divinity to Love. (Taken from my book “Drone Democracy” (2011) available at http://www.aliacademy.org)
Read moreMajid Ali, M.D. I invite you to put me to a test. Consider taking one of my three spice breakfasts in rotation for just one week. My breakfasts are very time-efficient, very low-cost, and very delicious. Here is the best part of my suggestion. You prepare them yourself in your own kitchen. The links for my recipes appear at the
Read moreMajid Ali, M.D. Nothing Causes More Unhappiness Than Search for Happiness A young woman takes a look at her first newborn and experiences intense bonding. Is that a matter of biology or an issue of psychology? Does this bonding arise from months of shared biology or created by some elements of psychology? For an answer, we need to consider what
Read moreWhat Is Spirituality? Majid Ali, M.D. The longer I work with my patients, the more aware I become of the fundamentality of the spiritual in health and disease. Here is just one observation concerning the phenomena I refer to: An open heart does not close its arteries, and a closed heart cannot keep its arteries open. I anticipate snickering
Read moreHuman Sparrows in Terror Cells Majid Ali, M.D. America now is a land of terror cells. I see the biological effects of terror toxicity with increasing frequency. Following is a conversation with a 67-year-old woman who was hospitalized in a New York university hospital for five days after collapsing in a subway station. It unmasks one ugly
Read moreMajid Ali, M.D. Time heals all wounds. Time, of course, also wounds all heels—all souls, to be more precise. In life pain is inevitable. Suffering often is optional. Some years ago, such thoughts led me to look at tears as the sweat of the soul. In my Soul’s Sweat Series, I offer a selection of my healing stories
Read moreDr. Ali’s Spicy Breakfast Smoothie Majid Ali, M.D. I am a spices enthusiast. I prescribe them for all my patients. My preferred spice prescriptions are in the form of spicey protein shakes or spicy omelettes. Following is the recipe for my spicy protein shake. I suggest that you reduce the amounts of spices by 50% or more when you
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