A Shirodhara Relaxing Treat for Mothers
Tomorrow is Mother’s Day and it is that time of the year once again where you make a special treat for your mom for all the love she has showed you since the day you were born. Unlike Christmas where you get to celebrate the season throughout the month of December, Mother’s Day is only celebrated once a year. Sometimes we become so busy with work or school that we forget the little things that matter most. I couldn’t imagine a world without loving and caring parents, but even worst is being motherless and while paternal males are often objective in their thinking (i.e. has to be the one who needs to provide for his family, protect his family from harm, choosing an ideal job and residence where it will benefit his family the most, etc.); it is the, sometimes irrational, maternal instinct of women that inspire kindness and gentleness in all of us. Without which we would be brought up in this world as inherent psychopaths.
Mother’s Day Treat Choices
There’s practically a thousand ways to give your mother a special treat this coming Mother’s Day, but if you really want to make this Mother’s Day memorable, then give her something that she will always remember throughout her 
lifetime. It can be a dinner on a special place, a gift, an airplane ticket to go see relatives that she had always wanted to see but was always preoccupied with work or something else or even just a simple small cake and a happy Mother’s Day greeting. They say that mothers are so tolerable that even the tiniest and cheapest gift from their children is worth a thousand joys to them. That is an absolute truth. You would rarely hear any mother complain about a gift from their children as it is a very big deal for them and they will cherish it in their hearts forever. Since your mother is in charge of most things she is naturally busy on an average day, heck even in her days off she is still keeping herself busy around the house – it’s just instinct and there’s nothing you can do about it. But you can give them a soothing and relaxing Shirodhara massage!
Shirodhara Rejuvenating Therapy
Shirodhara is a variation of the ancient Hindu Ayurveda therapy that according to the myths and legends has been passed on directly from one of the Hindu gods Dhanvantari (one of the incarnated avatars of Krishna). The process of Shirodhara is actually a religious ritual that involves pouring liquid substances on a person’s forehead and the liquids could be oil, coconut water, buttermilk, milk or even plain water. Over 97% of the patients undergoing this type of therapy show positive and outstanding results in terms of rejuvenation and the healing of one’s state of mind. Neuro-Scientists determine that Shirodhara creates a brain wave coherence and an alpha state that’s measurable with modern medical electronic equipment. Allow your mother to sit back and relax throughout the weekend with a rejuvenating Shirodhara therapy, especially since Mother’s Day will fall on a Sunday, May 12, 2013. And in case you’re having second thoughts about it just look at the benefits of Shirodhara in the next paragraph.
The Perfect Relaxing Gift for Busy Mothers
A lot of patients who have undergone the Shirodhara massage therapy reported being healed from a variety of medical conditions 
that includes certain eye diseases, Ménière’s disease and certain types of skin diseases like psoriasis, insomnia, tinnitus, neurological disorders, allergic rhinitis, memory loss, graying of hair, hearing impairment, vertigo and sinusitis. Some conditions in this list are still considered irreversible or extremely difficult to treat (e.g. graying of hair, vertigo and psoriasis) and yet a 5,000-year old eastern alternative medicine could go around the difficulties that modern science hasn’t been able to surpass. Now I don’t know about you but I would definitely want my mother around to see her grandchildren born and Shirodhara has been known to reverse the ageing process by as much as 5 to 10 years! Not only will this treatment make your mother very happy but it will also make you great pals for life. Trust me, there isn’t a better Mother’s Day gift around this season and you don’t even have to empty your wallet in getting it.
Science Confirms the Benefits of a 5,000-Year Old Therapy
Perhaps there has never been a time in all of Earth’s history where a generation is extremely skeptical when it comes to stuff that promises unbelievable miracles like the Shirodhara. Ayurveda, from which Shirodhara comes from is believed to have began around 4,000 B.C., but India’s Vedic experts believes that it may have started out as far back as the 7th millennium B.C. or maybe even older. It’s no wonder most western experts doubt the validity of this method of healing as they contend that there wouldn’t have been such an advanced knowledge in medicine for primitive people in those times. Any unorthodox and unscientific methods that claims to cure diseases or vastly improves a person’s health will be heavily scrutinized and tested with advanced scientific tools just so that mainstream science could prove its validity. Yet the funny thing with Shirodhara is that it exceeds the expectations of any experts that have tried to discredit it, because science has confirmed that it is beneficial to man and may one day become a requirement more than just an alternative.
Recently Indian scientists have conducted an experiment to see how effective Shirodhara therapy is among people with 
congenital diseases and the results were impressive. The conclusion from their experiment shows subjects were relieved of any signs and symptoms of each of their individual illnesses for a certain group was 100% efficiency, while on another group who has experienced marked improvement the rated efficiency was 77% – 99%. Meanwhile the third group of subjects who experienced moderate improvement shows 50% – 74% of the majority in the group. There was a 25% – 49% of the subjects on the fifth group who reported mild improvement on their signs and symptoms and finally there were only less than 25% of the subjects in the sixth group who have reported that their condition was unchanged. This is hard scientific evidence that proves beyond any doubt that Shirodhara rejuvenating therapy is very effective.
Your Mother and Mine
This Mother’s Day keep in mind that the only thing that your mother really wants from you is for you to share your presence with her and our suggestion about the Shirodhara rejuvenating therapy is merely a side treat and not the main dish, if you will. So don’t forget to visit her whether she’s near or far and tell her how much you love her and that will surely mean a big deal to her if you do that.
Johanna Oosterwijk ND