Mind-Body Connection
I sit on my green cushion resting on my yellow rug that covers the honey-wood floor in the front room of my rented space, and close my eyes to meditate. A single thread of incense smoke, sweet and pervasive, rises as if pulled heavenward by some unseen force, like a wispy prayer into the ether. […]
Meditation is an incredible way to calm the mind and clear away the noise of the day that we all tend to carry well into the late evening. With regular practice, the mind will naturally get into the rhythm of starting to calm down and meditation will get easier for you. It is not about having NO thoughts; it’s about letting those thoughts pass by like clouds in the sky and coming back to your calm center.
I’ve been a student and practitioner of energy healing for several years. I’ve learned so many different techniques and modalities that I’ve lost count. I love both giving energy healing and receiving it. A session with a trustworthy healer can absolutely help shift energies and guide us to living a more balanced life. But lately, I’ve come to realize that some of the most powerful energy healing techniques are already in our toolbox, just waiting for us to dig in.
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Rather than make New Year resolutions about your health, choose to ‘edit’ your health story. The ‘narrative choices’ we make about the traumas, choices, and events in our lives informs how we live, and how we feel about life. CHOOSE your narrative in 2017!
Find your mental health destiny in the kitchen cabinet NOT medicine cabinet. Eating right could prevent mental illness and even treat it. Researchers predict that mental illness rates will rise as more people adopt a sedentary lifestyle and sugary, fatty Western diet.
Do you work before 10am? You’re likely laughing at the question, as your alarm forces you out of sweet dreams and you play mind games each and every morning to pull yourself from the covers, douse yourself in water, drink a cup of coffee, and head to the office.
Give these steps a try (you’ll be surprised to find the answers are right in front of you!) to see if you start feeling less inflamed. Treat the underlying causes of your illness and you will begin to experience vibrant health once more.
Next time you feel these negative emotions…pretend that you are inside the pain and give it a voice. Let the pain cry, whimper, or scream. Use your imagination and give voice to the negative energy. It will quickly release from your body! Good Riddance!
When one thinks about altered states of consciousness, psychedelic plants and other substances might be the first things which come to mind. Although these substances can be used in this manner, as well as for medicinal purposes (and more), such states can also be achieved through other means.
As the first entire continent legalizes marijuana, supporters across the world are hopeful that now, other continents such as North America and Europe will do the same.
