Ayurveda is an ancient holistic healing system which treats the mind, body and spirit as a whole. Ayurveda translates as ?the science of life? and is still India's mainstream health care system. It works on the philosophy of ?Prevention is better than cure? and uses medicinal herbs, oil therapies, massage, yoga and meditation together with diet and lifestyle choices for specific body types and temperaments - in order to restore and maintain well being.
Legends say that about 3 million years ago, a group of Indian sages travelled high up into the Himalayas in search of enlightenment. They wanted to banish all disease from the world because only those who are physically, mentally, and spiritually healthy could reach enlightenment. So they meditated collectively on how to get rid of illness ? and eventually the secret of true health and happiness was revealed. These findings were preserved in the ancient vedic texts. The Ayurvedic sages believed that a healthy state is a natural state, and deviation from this natural state by taking on stresses found in modern living, and from an inappropriate diet, will ultimately lead to ill health. There is a direct link between emotional distress and physical disease ? and ayurveda treats both mind and body to cleanse and rejuvenate one back to their true balance.
The concept of the 3 ?doshas? is at the heart of Ayurveda. Vata (like ?air?, or wind), Pitta (like ?fire? or bile) and Kapha (like ?water?, or phlegm). These are the 3 forces that work within us all and they determine our body shape, colouring, metabolism and emotional temperament ? among other things. Your individual type is known as your ?prakriti? and this gives clues as to which types of disease you will be prone to, making prevention easier. Illness occurs when the dominant Doshas in prakriti ?take over? or when your dominant Dosha becomes imbalanced, which normally causes an increase in its main element, e.g. - imbalanced Pitta usually results in excess ?fire? element, resulting in symptoms such as burning sensations or inflammation.
Everyone has the three Doshas, yet normally, there are one or two that dominate in our prakriti. e.g. a pure ?Vata? type is someone who has lots of Vata energy compared to Pitta and Kapha energy. A dual type such as a Pitta-Kapha, would have relatively more Pitta and Kapha compared to Vata. Ayurveda in a complex science, but it can be easily simplified and used at home in everyday life. If you are suffering from a 'fire' imbalance - with which you could be feeling hot emotions such as anger, or experiencing hot rashes or fever - it makes sense to cut out foods such as hot spices and alcohol, and replace them with options that have cooling properties. However, if you experience symptoms that indicate you do not have enough of the 'fire' element - such as sluggish digestion or chills - it will help to eat foods with heating properties, as well as massage with warming oils.
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Let's first begin by setting our discussion in the proper context. Bandwidth can refer to many things depending upon the application being discussed. When it comes to radio, bandwidth often refers to wave length. In optics it is the width of an individual spectral line or the entire spectral range. For our discussion, we will be speaking of bandwidth in terms of digital communication.
Even here the term can be misleading. We will use the term as it is most commonly referred to in reference to the internet. That is as a unit of measurement that represents the rate at which data or bits of information may be transmitted through a system.
Think of bandwidth as a pipe or a hose. The bigger the pipe or hose, the larger the volume of water that you can put through it. Do not confuse this with pressure. By constricting a pipe, one can cause water to be expelled very rapidly. However, did more volume of water actually flow through the pipe? Now apply the same concept to telecommunications. Bandwidth is the pipe or hose of the communications industry. The larger the pipe, the more information that can be passed through it. Assume that there is a small campfire. If we have a regular garden hose, we should be able to get enough volume of water through it to put the fire out. Now imagine your house is on fire. Your little garden hose won't be of much help in this instance. You need a large diameter hose such as that used by your local fire department. Even more importantly, they don't come and hook their hoses up to your outside spigot do they? No, they use the large pipes connected to the local fire hydrant.
Now let's get back to our garden hose of telecommunications. This is actually a regulated flow, with a number of control mechanisms.
First there is the diameter of the water pipe. It only allows a certain amount to flow through it. There is the hose it'self. This is usually even smaller in diameter, so flow is restricted even more.
The spigot acts as the final control mechanism. You can open or close the spigot to increase or decrease the desired flow.
What are the purposes of these constraints? To help control the flow of water through the system. Enough is let through to meet our needs. If more were allowed to flow through, we may experience flooding or over saturation. The control mechanisms help to avoid waste.
Now imagine our housefire situation again. Even opened up to it's fullest, the garden hose can not allow enough volume through it to put out the fire. A larger hose and pipe are needed to get adaquate flow to do the job.
Bandwidth is similar to this. Bandwidth is the range of frequencies that can be carried across a given transmission channel. The more information being sent, the more bandwidth is necessary. A typical analog telephone line requires 3-khz to handle voice communications. The phone company actually breaks the electromagnetic spectrum into 4-khz slices. These slices are limited with bandpass filters (think spigot). Now this works well until we introduce data into the equation. At that point there is not enough capcity in the typical phone line to handle the additional information that must be moved through the system.
These services are can be likened to the fire companies' hoses and the firehydrant. They are Broadband Services. In telecommunications, broadband refers to a system capable of carrying a relatively wide range of frequencies. These frequencies can then be divided into channels. Each channel can then be used to transmit information. The more frequencies or channels, the more information can be transmitted. In other words, more frequencies equals a bigger hose. This hose then connects to the central office of the telephone company or a bigger spigot, much like the fire hydrant. This is why most companies are moving away from the typical dial-up service and into either DSL, Cable Modem, Satelite or T1 service. They are simply looking for a bigger hose to put more information through in order to satisfy and extinguish the ever present demand (fire) for more information.
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