An Asana Can Change Your Life | The Isha Blog

Isha seeks to bring back classical yoga in its purest form ? not studio yoga, book yoga or the various innovations that are brought in around the world without any understanding of basic principles ? but proper classical yoga, which is a phenomenally powerful science. It is a system that is precisely and meticulously put together as a means of reaching higher dimensions. To kick off the series ?Classical Yoga? we look at Hata Yoga, and also bring to you Isha?s work and approach in this sphere.

Let?s look at what may be considered the very basic unit of Hata Yoga: the asana. People today think of asanas as impressive body-twisting postures that are essentially about fitness, flexibility or building muscle. Whereas ?yoga,? by its very definition, means ?that which takes you on to a higher dimension or higher perception of life.? Hata yoga demands a certain involvement of body, mind, energy and the inner-most core. Unfortunately something this profound is often reduced to a physical exercise.

?Asana? quite simply means ?a posture.? Any way that we may sit, stand or position our hands is an asana. And so, innumerable asanas are possible. However, a particular posture that leads you to a higher possibility is called a yogasana. There are eighty-four basic yogasanas through which one can elevate one?s consciousness. Sadhguru says, ?When we say eighty-four asanas, do not think of them as just eighty-four postures. These are eighty-four systems, eighty-four ways of attaining.?

It?s All About Ease

In the?Yoga Sutras, Patanjali says: Sukham sthiram asanam. That which is absolutely comfortable and stable is your asana. What does it mean? Sadhguru explains: ?It simply means that your body is at ease, your mind is at ease, and your energy is at full vibrance and balance. Now you are naturally meditative.? The asana is a preparatory step to come to a state of naturally being meditative. So in a way, asanas are a dynamic way of meditating.

It is very important to understand that asanas are not exercises. Yogis have always understood that the physical body has a whole memory structure. Everything ? from how this cosmos evolved from nothingness up to this point ? is just written into this body. So when we do asanas, we are opening up that memory and trying to restructure this life towards an ultimate possibility. It is a very subtle and scientific process ? and it can become an explosive experience.

Just One Asana

Usually, Hata Yoga involves the practice of many asanas that together offer a range of holistic benefits. However, this is not to underrate the power of a single asana. Many yogis master only one asana. Known as asana siddhi, this is a gradual process where the body becomes absolutely at ease. This, Sadhguru says, is the attempt ?to get this body geometrically in line with the cosmic geometry. If you learn to just hold it right, you can download the whole cosmos. This is yoga. If you simply sit right, everything that?s worth knowing can be known to you from within.?

The 2^nd?Isha Hata Yoga Teacher Training Program has been announced! The 21-week program ?starting from July 22nd to Dec 16th, 2013 is an unparalleled possibility to acquire a complete understanding of the yogic system, and the proficiency to teach Hata Yoga. For more information, visit www.ishahatayoga.com or mail info@ishahatayoga.com.

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Android 4.2.2 binaries arrive for AOSP-supported Nexus devices

Google has just provided a veritable boon to Android devs and custom ROM makers. The Mountain View company has recently uploaded the latest Android 4.2.2 binaries to the Nexus device download page for all AOSP-supported Nexus gear: the Nexus 4, the Nexus 7 WiFi, the Nexus 7 3G, the Nexus 10, the global version of the Galaxy Nexus and its Verizon equivalent. This also means that the AOSP binaries for the Nexus 7 3G and the Nexus 4, which had been missing from previous updates. If you've been on the hunt for the latest and greatest drivers for your wares, go ahead and download the binary of your choice from the source below and get to updating it before a certain green pie update comes along.

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POPE LIVE: A 'pilgrim,' a farewell, a retirement

"Pope Live" follows the events of the final day of Pope Benedict XVI's papacy as seen by journalists from The Associated Press around the world. It will be updated throughout the day with breaking news and other items of interest.

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QUICKQUOTE: BENEDICT

"I am simply a pilgrim who is starting the last part of his journey." ? Pope Benedict XVI on the balcony at Castel Gandolfo.

? Frances D'Emilio ? Twitter http://twitter.com/fdemilio

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AMERICANS SAY GOODBYE

Catholic churches across the U.S. are opening their doors for prayer timed with the end of Pope Benedict XVI's reign.

At the Cathedral of St. Mary in Miami, school children will read from Benedict's writings, then blow out a candle in front of his photo at 2 p.m., the moment Benedict has chosen to step down.

At the same time, a Mass for the Election of a New Pope will be celebrated at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York. The Archdiocese of Detroit is planning a holy hour of prayer from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. in the Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament. Boston Cardinal Sean O'Malley, who is in Rome and will vote in the conclave to elect the next pontiff, asked churches in his archdiocese to ring bells for eight minutes starting at 1:52 p.m. to honor Benedict's ministry.

? Rachel Zoll, AP Religion Writer, https://twitter.com/rzollAP

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POPE ON THE BALCONY

As Pope Benedict XVI appears on the balcony at Castel Gandolfo, people in the crowd below start screaming his name. He must wait before he can even speak to them.

? Frances D'Emilio ? Twitter http://twitter.com/fdemilio

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THE POPE SPEAKS

Benedict XVI greets the faithful for the last time as pope from the balcony of the papal retreat.

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'BENEDETTO, BENEDETTO'

As a helicopter whirs overhead, bells start ringing more furiously than before. The crowd in the Castel Gandolfo square starts cheering and chanting, "Benedetto, Benedetto" in rhythm.

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THE PAPAL RETREAT

The Pope has arrived at the papal estate in Castel Gandolfo, as crowds in the town square cheer and wave flags.

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BELLS IN ROME

Bells are tolling in Rome as the papal helicopter leaves Vatican, flies toward the Castel Gandolfo papal retreat.

The pope's loyal secretary Georg Gaenswein was seen weeping as he accompanied Benedict in his final walk down a Vatican corridor.

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THE ARRIVAL

The Pope's helicopter lands at the pad in Castel Gandolfo, where he is greeted by well-wishers.

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TWEETING GOODBYE

A final tweet from the first pope to have his own Twitter account, (at)Pontifex, sent shortly before his departure from the Vatican: "Thank you for your love and support. May you always experience the joy that comes from putting Christ at the centre of your lives."

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PALACE DOORS OPEN

The palace doors in Castel Gandolfo have just swung open and two Swiss Guards have appeared standing at attention. Police say the town square holds 4,000 people but it's now overflowing and many are filling the surrounding streets.

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COLOMBIAN BELLS

From the steamy Caribbean to the chilly highlands, Colombia's nearly 5,000 Catholic parishes are ringing their bells in gratitude as the pope departs the Vatican.

The seemingly eternally conflict-ridden South American nation is nominally 90 percent Roman Catholic, although church leaders acknowledge that many are not observant.

Outside the parish in Bogota's lower-class 20th of July neighborhood, Florelia Buitrago, 62, had a request for Benedict.

"I ask the pope to help choose a new pope who won't betray the world, who will prevent wars and help us Catholics, because we Catholics are very poor," she said.

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CUBAN PARALLELS

The pope's retirement is echoing in Cuba.

President Raul Castro, 81, says he will step down in 2018, ending what would be 59 unbroken years of rule by him and his brother Fidel.

Resident Maria Delgado notes the pontiff's advancing age and scandals that have afflicted his papacy.

"I think it's very good for a person to resign when he's old and there are many problems he has been unable to avoid or resolve," says Delgado, a 71-year-old churchgoing retiree.

Humberto Calle, a 20-year-old engineering student, agrees.

"If you feel you aren't capable, in shape, and there are a lot of problems, you should resign and better for someone else to come in who can fix things," Calle says. "I think that's great."

Benedict visited the island in March 2012.

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HE'S OFF!

Benedict XVI's helicopter is circling over St. Peter's Square before heading to Castel Gandolfo, where he will make his final appearance as pope. Spectators around the helipad are hanging out signs that read, "Thank you."

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SAYING THE ROSARY

The crowd at Castel Gandolfo is reciting the rosary, led by a woman using a loudspeaker in final hour before the pope arrives.

As soon as sun started going down, the air in the town quickly changed from springlike to chilly. Some of the faithful have ducked inside a cafe to warm themselves as they pray.

Children are running and shrieking on the edges of the square, happy to play as their parents keep on praying.

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POPE'S MOTORCADE

The Pope has greeted his staff for the last time, and is heading in a motorcade for the helicopter that will take him to Castel Gandolfo.

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THE SENDOFF

The Swiss Guards are marching in step inside the San Damaso courtyard inside the Vatican's Apostolic Palace, preparing Pope Benedict XVI's sendoff.

Members of the Vatican bureaucracy, or Curia, have poured into the courtyard to witness the historic moment of Benedict's final departure from the Vatican as pope.

He will travel by car to the Vatican's helipad at the top of the hill in the Vatican gardens, and then will fly by helicopter to the papal residence at Castel Gandolfo.

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LAST-MINUTE ITALY

Italians often show up for events at the last minute, and the gathering to say farewell to Pope Benedict XVI in the main square of Castel Gandolfo was no exception.

As the clock struck 4:15 p.m., the crowd of a few hundred seemed to swell almost at once to a few thousand well-wishers packing the tiny, rectangular square.

Yellow-and-white paper pennants in Vatican colors were selling briskly at ?1 euro ($1.50) apiece as the town awaited the pope's arrival in about an hour.

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HOPE FOR A BRAZILIAN POPE

Sitting on a borrowed plastic chair as he awaited Benedict XVI's final public appearance as pope, Tiago Padilha speculated on what it would be like to have someone from his home country of Brazil lead the Church.

"If he comes from Brazil, it would be a big joy for a great people with great faith," he said, his 18-month-old son perched on his knee happily blowing soap bubbles. "That would develop even more the faith among the Catholic youth. That would be fantastic."

Brazilian Cardinal Odilo Pedro Scherer is believed to be to be a leading contender to succeed Benedict. Many believe that a pontiff from Latin America would help stem the losses in a region where 40 percent of the world's Catholics live.

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QUICKQUOTE: FAN

Anna Maria Togni and her friend walked two kilometers (one mile) from the outskirts of Castel Gandolfo to witness history today as Pope Benedict XVI retires. Licking a gelato of hazelnut and nougat, Togni said she "felt lucky."

"We have the pope right here at home," she said.

"We feel a tenderness toward him. I think they made him leave," she said of Benedict.

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NOT ALL FEATHERED HELMETS

Being a Swiss Guard is not all feathered helmets and puffy striped uniforms.

To even apply, you must be Catholic, male, Swiss and between 19 and 30 years of age. You need to sign up for a minimum two-year hitch and must complete your mandatory military service back at home.

Swiss Guards take an oath to protect the present pope and whoever follows him as the latest successor to the first pontiff, Peter.

Tonight, when Pope Benedict XVI retires at 8 p.m., the Swiss Guards will go inside the papal palace at Castel Gandolfo and go off duty. They won't be staying, however ? after they get out of their dress uniforms they will be driven back to Rome.

Benedict will then be guarded by Vatican security personnel.

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CARDINAL DIES

The French Bishops' Conference has announced that Cardinal Jean Honor?, who was appointed by Benedict's predecessor John Paul II, died Thursday, hours before the pope was due to leave office. He was 92.

Honor?, who was Archbishop of Tours from 1972 to 1981, was already over 80 when he was made a cardinal in 2001, so he was unable to vote at the previous conclave in 2005 and would not have voted at the upcoming one either.

He was an expert in the work of the British 19th-century cleric Cardinal John Henry Newman, who was beatified by Benedict in 2010.

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BALCONY DOORS OPEN

Just minutes ago, the balcony doors swung open at the papal palace overlooking the main square in Castel Gandolfo, where Pope Benedict XVI will say the last public words of his papacy.

Two aides came out and draped a crimson banner emblazoned with the papal seal off the balcony's railing.

The first signs of movement inside the palace set off a round of cheering from the few hundred people jamming the tiny square.

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WRITTEN IN STONE

Benedict is on permanent record as a fan of Castel Gandolfo.

A plaque on the main square in his name praises his view of the lake and "the good people" of the town of 8,500. Three hours before his arrival by helicopter, some 100 of them were awaiting him in the little cobblestone square outside the brown wooden doors of the residence where he will stay once his papacy ends.

A greeting was spelled out in silver letter-shaped balloons: "Thanks Benedict, all of us are with you." It was strung up between the second and third floors of an apartment building whose ground floor is home to the town's tiny post office and across the square from a coffee bar ? where local were sipping espresso to get a caffeine jolt for the wait.

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KNIGHTS OF MALTA

Luciano Mariani is bidding farewell to his sixth pope with a big parade.

Mariani, a member of the famed Knights of Malta who has served a succession of popes at Castel Gandolfo, met his first pope, Pius XII, as a boy. He and other members of the order help tend the grounds at the estate, where Benedict XVI will arrive later today to spend the last hours of his papacy.

Mariani and his fellow Knights of Malta will dress in ceremonial garb to greet him with a parade.

Mariani, 69, says Benedict "is a great pope. He did a lot of beautiful and big things for the church." He said his order was shocked by the pope's resignation but he says "we have to accept it as Christians and we have to have faith in it."

The Knights of Malta, which has 13,500 members worldwide, celebrated its 900th anniversary last month.

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HOME AWAY FROM HOME

Benedict is being welcomed in the town of Castel Gandolfo, but John Paul II truly made it his second home while he was pope, spending more than five years total there during his long papacy.

He had a swimming pool installed and liked to put his desk outside to work. He once caught the whiff of a barbeque and showed up as the surprise guest of a group of Swiss Guards.

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Watch the Universe Draw an Awesome Spirograph in the Sky

Oh Universe, you will never cease to amaze me, with all your galaxies and your pulsars and supernovas and your planets and your alien civilizations that never show up and all that starstuff we love so much. You know, like the fact that you draw perfect spirographs in the sky all the time. More »

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Hawaii's Cost of Living Will Increase with Minimum Wage Hike ...

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The Small Business Survivor Index and numerous other surveys and reports rank Hawaii as one of the worst places to do business in the country, so it was no surprise when Steve Forbes famously said ?doing business in Hawaii is equivalent to committing suicide.?

With all the challenges, Hawaii small business owners are imploring lawmakers this session to make changes that will allow them the freedom to make a profit, reinvest in their business and employ more people. Instead, key committee chairs are planning to increase the minimum wage and add even more regulations.

SB 331 is moving through the legislature, and if passed, will increase Hawaii's minimum wage from $7.25 per hour to?$8.25 starting January 1, 2014. The rate will increase automatically to $8.75 and to $9.25 in the years that follow, and then authorizes the Department of Labor & Industrial Relations to adjust the minimum hourly wage annually after that.

Many business owners say they will have to lay off employees or stop hiring if the minimum wage increases because all of their costs including benefits and other employees pay will increase as well.

Lowell Kalapa, president of the Tax Foundation of Hawaii, testified this session against the proposed minimum wage increase and a number of proposals to raise taxes.

?From the workers? point of view - and perhaps it is the perspective of President Barack Obama who is pushing for a federal minimum wage increase - there is no way that a person could survive based solely on compensation that it paid at the minimum wage. But then again, the minimum wage was never considered to be a "living wage," but rather an entry-level pay scale. It allowed workers who had no experience to be employed and to gain that important characteristic called "experience" something that all employers seem to want to see if they are out shopping around for potential employees,? Kalapa said.

The idea of boosting the minimum wage, whether it be at the state or federal level, has ?political appeal? because most people believe they should be earning more than what they are earning currently, Kalapa said.

?It is all about ego and self-esteem that we are all worth more than what we are currently being paid,? Kalapa said.

But he and many business owners maintain a higher wage will impact everyone negatively, even the direct beneficiaries, because the costs of goods will also go up.

?So if the minimum wage rises to $8.75 or $9.00 per hour, where will employers get the money to afford that entry level worker? Sure the employer could raise the cost of the goods and services sold by the business and if all businesses take that strategy the overall cost of living and working in this state will get all that more expensive. So, will that single mom that the President wants to help be better off with the higher minimum wage if the cost of groceries goes up?? Kalapa said.

Hawaii?s legislators are largely elected with the help of private and public union leaders and environmentalists who favor bigger government, more spending and higher taxes.

That is why Hawaii has the highest taxes on personal income, consumption, gas and diesel, electric utilities, and among the highest on tobacco and alcohol.?Hawaii has the uppermost cost of living as well as substantial individual capital gains taxes and unemployment taxes ? and there are no individual or corporate alternative minimum taxes.

Hawaii also gets poor marks from the Small Business Survivor Index for sizable state and local government spending that has been sustained for more than five years and poor private property protections. In the Aloha state, the government even taxes its residents when they die. The Jones Act, a 1920s shipping law that prevents competition from foreign carriers between American ports, increases the cost of goods by as much as 40 percent. And businesses struggle under the weight of more than 17,000 pages of rules and regulations.

?Organized labor would love to see an increase in the minimum wage as the minimum wage sets the floor of the amount paid unskilled labor,? Kalapa said. ??A higher minimum wage contributes to what is known as wage or salary compression, pushing the floor higher and bumping up against what is paid for skilled labor.?

Ken Schoolland, a professor at Hawaii Pacific University, and an award-winning author of the Adventures of Jonathan Gullible, said politicians claim to help the very people who they hurt the most with such laws.

?In 2007 the U.S. Congress passed a law mandating an annual rise in the minimum legal wage in?American Samoa. The result was a major reduction in employment as cannery operations shifted to?Thailand?where wages are only a fifth as much," Schoolland said.

"The General Accounting Office reported that despite a rise in the minimum wage, the average-inflation adjusted earnings fell in the islands. This prompted Congress to pass another law last summer to freeze these automatic increases in?American Samoa?at less than $5.60/hour, still well below the ultimate goal of matching the federal minimum of $7.25/hour. President Obama signed the freeze into law rather than to see the Samoan people suffer even more with continued increases,? Schoolland added.

Most employers already pay most workers far more than the minimum legal wage even though they are not required to do so, Schoolland said.?But he said many politicians ignore these facts because they believe that their own values and motives are superior and that they can dictate value to others through the force of law.

?They can force prices, but not value. If a person contributes $6/hour of value to a company and a business is required to pay the same person $8/hour, the employer will lay off the worker or will eventually have to close up shop, move away, or automate?and still lay off?the worker,? Schoolland said.

Hawaii lawmakers have not made a final decision on the minimum wage hike, but just today, the proposal received nearly full support from the Senate Ways and Means committee with the exception of a "no" vote from the lone Republican in the Senate, Sen. Sam Slom.

"At a time when we talk about improving Hawaii's business climate, business has been deluged with tax and fee increases, regulations and the perennial minimum wage increase. Major studies have continually shown the minimum wage punishes people, particularly young people and minorities trying to get their foot in the door with their first job. The wage bares no relationship to productivity for the business and with matching taxes, mandates and benefit costs, easily adds another 30 to 50 percent above the wage in actual costs," Slom said. ?"The current bill in the Senate also ties future increases to the Consumer Price Index, and further punishes small business."

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Higher cancer risk after Fukushima nuclear disaster: WHO

GENEVA (Reuters) - People in the area worst affected by Japan's Fukushima nuclear accident two years ago have a slightly higher risk of developing certain cancers, the World Health Organisation said on Thursday.

A magnitude 9 earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011, killed nearly 19,000 people and devastated the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, spewing radiation and forcing about 160,000 people to flee their homes.

It was the worst nuclear accident since a reactor exploded at the Chernobyl power plant in Ukraine in 1986.

"A breakdown of data, based on age, gender and proximity to the plant, does show a higher cancer risk for those located in the most contaminated parts," Dr. Maria Neira, WHO director for public health and environment, said of the Fukushima report.

The United Nations agency said for the general population in Japan the predicted health risks were low. But it was not able to say how many people were exposed in the area where the highest amount of radioactive material was released.

In the most contaminated area, the WHO estimated that there was a 70 percent higher risk of females exposed as infants developing thyroid cancer over their lifetime. The thyroid is the most exposed organ as radioactive iodine concentrates there and children are deemed especially vulnerable.

But experts said the overall risk was small. The radiation exposure means about 1.25 out of every 100 girls in the area could develop thyroid cancer over their lifetime, instead of the natural rate of about 0.75 percent.

"Due to the low baseline rates of thyroid cancer, even a large relative increase represents a small absolute increase in risks," the WHO said.

Thyroid cancer takes a minimum of three years to develop, according to WHO report co-author Dr. Roy Shore of the Radiation Effects Research Foundation in Japan.

"By the time people reach adulthood, susceptibility to radiation-associated thyroid cancer goes way down," he told reporters, speaking by telephone from Hiroshima.

LEUKAEMIA, BREAST CANCER

The WHO report estimated that in the most contaminated area there was a 7 percent higher risk of leukemia in males exposed as infants, and a 6 percent higher risk of breast cancer in females exposed as infants. Overall, girls had a 4 percent increased risk of developing solid cancers.

"These percentages represent estimated relative increases over the baseline rates and are not absolute risks for developing such cancers," the WHO said in a statement.

One-third of emergency workers were estimated to have increased cancer risks, it said.

"The risk among emergency workers would be increased for thyroid cancer particularly, and some circulatory disorders," Neira told a news briefing.

But there was no discernible increase in health risks expected outside Japan, the WHO said in a 200-page report which was based on an assessment by international experts.

"In the rest of Fukushima prefecture and in particular neighboring countries and the rest of the world, the estimated increased cancer risk is negligible. It's within the variation of normal background rates," said Angelika Tritscher, acting director of WHO's department of food safety.

Jim Smith, Professor of Environmental Science at the University of Portsmouth in England, said: "Apart from emergency workers, the most affected people were those who remained in some highly contaminated towns and villages to the northwest of the power station for up to four months before evacuation.

"The report found that these people received a lifetime radiation dose of up to 50 milli-Sieverts (MSV) and therefore have a significant, but relatively small, additional risk of contracting cancer in later life."

Smith said the average British person receives more than 150 MSV during their lifetime from background radiation.

Neira said: "The WHO report underlines the need for long-term health monitoring of those who are at high risk, along with the provision of necessary medical follow-up and support services."

Fukushima operator Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) earlier this month received approval to tap the Japanese government for 697 billion yen ($7.5 billion) to compensate those harmed by the disaster, taking the total fund to 3.24 trillion yen.

"The report was not looking at mental health or psychological impact of three major events - the earthquake, tsunami and accident at the nuclear power plant. But we know for sure that the psychological consequences and their impact will be very high," Neira said.

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