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There are many religious concepts that relates ambiance to the peace of mind and soul of a person. In order to get into the thought of the Super power one need to concentrate and meditate. This can be done by using various techniques and one of the methods, which the Buddhist use for their mediation is the Tibetan Singing bowls. They are even referred to as a Himalayan Singing Bowls as it has instigated mainly from Nepal, Bhutan, Mongolia, India, China, Tibet, and Afghanistan.

The popularity of the singing bowl is expected to have spread through the trade routes. It is also believed that Buddha, Padmasambhava, may have travelled across Himalaya from India to Tibet. Historians cannot determine the exact time from when singing bowls came in practise but they were first used in India almost 3000 years ago and in Tibet 1000 years ago.

Different people have different beliefs and it is same when they talk about the singing bowl. Some say it was initially used as a begging bowl and for food. Some monasteries even use it as a trophy or prize to give it to others. Smith, who used to travel from one place to another usually collected the things and materials in the journey and made the bowls out of It., while some thought it was the make of monks. Theses all the stories related to a singing bowl but the fact is that it is a special type of bell. This bell is not hanging but it rests on its bottom. Although there were so many stories behind this bell but still it is used by the people for medication and offering prayers and is a holy thing.

Ancient Tibetan singing bowls were generally made from seven different metals including gold, silver, mercury, copper, tin and iron. Theories are also there that these bowls were made from the remains of meteorites. The sound produced by the singing bowl would differ upon how the different quantities of metals are mixed together. The metals were mixed to form an alloy, which was left to cool before being beaten up in the form of bowl. Evidences have been found that many bowls had been made from more than seven metals, which support the myth of travelling smiths. Because of all the precious ingredients in the alloy, ancient bowls have a much richer sound than the bowls made today.

The singing bowls, which is made of a cast metal, does not possess good quality. These bowls are very smooth and an easy to play. You can get a bowl, which is made by a hand hammered method, but still the ancient bowl are heavenly. If you want to play a bowl, it is not a difficult task you can play any types of bowls within few minutes only.

For playing a Tibetan singing bowl you just need to circle a stick outside the bowl very slowly, a continuous circling will produce a steady rhythm, and the slight hum will rise. It has even a capacity of producing multi-phonic sounds along with multiple harmonic overtones. The fact of this sound produced is the use of an alloys as individual alloy mixture produce various sounds. The sound produced b the modern bowls are not of very high quality and only mono phonic sound but if they are made of cheap alloys if made of bronze then can produce multiple harmonic sounds.

Tibetan Singing Bowls are of great help for the one to mediate, concentrate, and think about the super power. One of the prime places of application of bowls in is yoga classes. One can play the bowl and other can listen which will create an atmosphere that soothes one ear and mind a lot. T he sound that comes out from the bell is so powerful that keep your surroundings free from the bad souls.

This is a belief of the Buddhist to use this bowl but you can even use it in the outside environment and even at your home. In the west, you will find the people knowing about it more and used by them as a sacred thing and even for yoga exercise. You can even use it to produce water memory effects. Tibetan singing Bowls can be used by you to gift other or even as one of the decorative items for your home.

Our 17 years old daughter Spasimira Lyubomirova Hristova is diagnosed with Epilepsy ” Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome. The illness has been found when she was only 8 months old. During the recent years she was treated with all kinds of drugs in different doses and combinations without any long term effect on the seizures. Her overall condition got a lot worse when she entered the puberty. That happened when she was almost 10. She had seizures every day, lots of them, but until puberty they were lighter and the duration of the seizure was shorter. She was having mioclonic seizures (slight movements of the head similar to nodding) usually 60-100 in a row couple a times per day and more severe seizures (with falling and loss of consciousness for about 20-35 seconds) 1- 3 times per day but every day, every single day. After her 10th year she started having the severe seizures more often and the loss of consciousness this time was with duration of about 50-60-80 seconds. There were many days when she wasnt even able to say a single word, she wasnt reacting when were calling, no facial expressions whatsoever, no smiles no nothing because of the storm of seizures and the stiff drugs that she was taking. The loss of consciousness that was going with the seizures led to a lot of injuries all-over her body. Broken nose, lots of smaller injuries on her face, tons of bruises and I mean tons of bruises, broken teeth, (she lacks some of her front teeth now and she needs expert dental help, but thats another story).

This constant storm-like state of the brain led to serious mental retardation, lack of speech (she doesnt speak at all), and serious damage to the way she moves and handles her everyday needs (she is not able to even get up from the bed or eat on herself).

She has never attended school because of her illness.

After a consultation with professor Elger in the clinic in Munich, Germany it became clear to us that surgery is not a solution because it will have no effect in her case. She has disturbances in the electrical activities in both hemispheres of the brain. Thats why the only solutions in her case should be the drugs. This type of treatment in her case is not successful or at least not in the long term. The type of Epilepsy that she has is strongly resistant to medications. They have good influence on her condition initially but after time her body gets used to them and they have almost no effect.

They only reasonable and trustworthy alternative to drug treatment to this kind of epilepsy is the ketogenic diet. This type of treatment is widely used in the USA. There is a whole branch of the food industry that is dedicated to producing Ketogenic diet products. There is a movie dedicated to the Ketogenic diet treatment of drug resistant epilepsy ” First do no harm with Meril Streep.

This diet can be applied only under a very strict supervision from expert dietologists. Here in Bulgaria we dont have such specialists. Noone here is able to apply that kind of treatment. For Spasimira to be able to try this diet, this alternative treatment that can relieve her sufferings, she needs to either go to this clinic in Munich or search for alternative in the USA. But as we are situated in Europe it will be cheaper to undergo that treatment here in Munich. Even though, she will need 2 personal assistants for the period of the treatment. One of them will be 24/7 next to Spasimira as she is not able to take care of herself and to make sure she is taking her pills regularly as the drug treatment will not be cancelled during the time she will be on Ketogenic diet. This person (most probably her mother) will have to prevent her from being injured while having seizures and also will have to attend lessons which will teach her how to apply the ketogenic diet later on when they will have to do it at home.

The second person that will have to take care of everything else: transportation, food, hotels, luggage, information, translation services ( a translator will be needed as well as neither one of the parents of Spasimira speaks German.) All this requires serious financing for example just the stay of Spasimira in the clinic in Munich will cost 450 EUR per day. Apart from that the people that will have to assist her (probably her parents) will need to have spare cash for the transport and food, hotels and translation services. The translator will have to attend the training everyday and make sure the information is being relayed correctly. As that is crucial for the further application of the diet in home environment.

After she starts to get better we will hire massagist to help her start moving her legs, hands, to start walking again, otolaryngologists to to help her start speaking again…

We plan to start a blog here on this website to keep you updated with whats going on so all of you kind-hearted people who decide to help us will be able to keep track of her condition.

God Bless you all! We thank you, the ones that help us from the bottoms of our hearts. Thank you for all the kindness and understanding. We will keep you in our prayers. Love and Light! From Spasimiras Family