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Balance, Health, Control.

5/9/2013

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Balance, Health, control. Yoga teaches us to be flexible with things that come to us in life that we cannot control.  We learn how to stand strong through different challenges and bend with the wind. This is balance and with practices that helps one balance their body with movements and breath, their mind with movements and breath, then one's spirit is calmed and balanced within.  A central balance is the goal to maintaining health and well being. It is when one is tense, stressed, foggy, worry-filled and more that their body takes on different forms.  Some days holding one asana (yoga pose) for a long period of time works and feels right, other times it doesn't and the energy needs to be focused on another asana to help move it out, or balance it within.

When the understanding of Prana and Qi arrive one can see how different exercises are needed in life.  When one feels a tense muscle, there is stagnation in the tissues and more blood flow and movement is needed to help shift the toxins out of the tissue and push them out of the body through the detoxification pathways. With regular movements this happens naturally, yet our society is in various routine patterns of physical movements that lock one's body into patterns for many hours at a time. That can lead to Qi stagnation and later blood stagnation if the body isn't moved in other ways.  After working on a computer for hours, one may naturally jump up and stretch in different ways, this is of high importance. Stretch it out, look silly for a minute if other are watching.  You may be actually showing them a healing technique or even a way to free them from a locked patterns they are in. They may even jump up and show you a stretch, ahh.

Control, the more flexible we are with our body the more control we can have over our health.  Once one's detoxification pathways are more open, our muscles are more nourished as they are used and our mind is calmed as we shift out different emotions that may be hidden.  This leads into the reiteration of the importance of diet as the food one eats directly affects the tissues of the body giving one strength and vitality. Healthy food, clearer mind, stronger body.

Namaste


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Emotion Balancing

2/23/2013

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There are many teachings on clearing out emotions that have been collecting.  In Chinese Medicine there are Five main emotions that govern the Organs and the flow of Qi and Blood which regulate the whole body. The emotions all have ways of clearing out through the Meridians (energy channels) that correspond to the different organs, out of the body and into the universe to transform into good for the greater whole. If they aren't cleared out in the right way, they are directed in the body into different patterns that may show up as something helpful to build the system, or lead to an imbalance that can result in a dis-eased state. It is important to learn ways to balance and regulate ones emotions especially when excess ones show up, for example the main Five Emotions of -  Fear, Worry, Anger, Melancholy, and Grief.

If any of these emotions are showing up in your life more than another it is important to learn different ways to balance them.  This can happen over night through rest, or after different sessions of therapy including through Chinese Medicine and Ayurvedic Medicine.  It can happen through doing a sport to changing one's diet. Learning ways to help balance one's emotions and direct them in a healthy way in the world can help make it a better place.


Be well.

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Self Care Stress Relief Tip 2~

10/30/2011

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Just Breathe.

A great, simple and free tip that I love, is to take three slow, deep breaths  before opening a door.  This is a wonderful reminder for one's body, mind and emotions to calm down, regain focus and nourish our systems with oxygen.  When we feel stressed or hurried we tend to take in less oxygen as we take shallower breaths. By taking in a breath through the nose and feeling our belly expand with it, and then our chest, as we breathe slowly out we are helping our body detox many elements that make us feel tense.  After taking a few moments to remind our selves to breath deeper and recenter, our overall health regains strength and we gift our life with more vitality.

Just Breathe~

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Self Care Stress Relief Tip 1~

10/15/2011

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Foot Massage ~ Massaging your feet for just 10 minutes at night before you go to sleep can make a huge difference in your body's recovery from the stresses of the day. It also helps to nourish your body in many ways so you can seize the day when you wake up.

Cheers to your health!
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