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Dancing with Pain

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greenPainYou’re healing along fine from an injury, and all of a sudden the progress stops. You aren’t getting better, nothing is helping and the pain and limitations are still there. You’re doing all the “right” things; physical therapy helped, massage helped, other things have helped, until now.

You’ve been stopped dead in your tracks. Do you have to live with it the rest of your life? Maybe it’s just that you’re getting older and this is just what happens. Do you have to settle for increased aches and pains as the days and years pass by?

I had a client that had been in a collision and was taken to the hospital, unconscious. She was tended to and sent home, with a prescription for physical therapy. She followed the protocol and received benefit from it, but now she was stuck. She wasn’t getting any better – the pain, limitations and poor bone healing was causing a lot of stress in her life. She didn’t know what the problem was, she didn’t know what to do and she didn’t know where to get help.

How frustrating is that?!?!

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Back Pocket Grounding

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What IS grounding anyway?

It’s a way of feeling solid in your being; emotionally, mentally and spiritually making it easier to flow with life.

Think of a tree – deep roots to ground solidly into the earth, a trunk – it’s core – supported by the root structure so it can stand strong in this world and more easily allow the branches to flex and blow with the wind. Without the core strength and root system, the branches could snap and get lost in the winds of change unable to connect back into its home, the wholeness of the tree. The tree needs to be grounded into the earth for it to fully thrive in this world – and so do you.

If you feel spacey, anxious, disconnected or continually flit from one thing to another, you may not be grounded. Having trouble listening and learning or focusing can also show up, as well as trouble walking or balancing. When you are not grounded, you just don’t feel all the way Here.

The obvious choices such as a healthy lifestyle, time in nature and walking barefoot in the grass are very important, but what about when you’re at work and need to ground. What then?

Try this Back Pocket Technique (as in Keep it in your Back Pocket)

  1. Using your middle fingers hold between your eyebrows and your navel and gently pull up on both points. After a couple of breaths you may find yourself taking a deeper relaxation breath. Good.
  2. Place your hands at the sides of your waist
  3. With your thumb in the front and your fingers toward the back, slide your hands slowly and firmly down your legs.
  4. When you get to your feet, squeeze the sides of your feet.
  5. Hang there for at least 2 deep breaths. As much as possible, let you body and head hang freely giving into the pull of gravity.
  6. Glide your hands from the big toe up the inside of your legs, flaring out at the hips, up the side of your rib cage and down to the bottom of the rib cage.  Here you are tracing the spleen meridian, which helps us to metabolize all things – substances, energies, thoughts…

Take a couple of nice deep breaths. Feel better?

 

Other ways previous introduced:

Daily Energy Routine, especially the Hook-Up, Connecting Heaven and Earth, Wayne Cook, Three Thumps

Using Breath Intentionally

Radiating Core Energy

Time to Blossom – these are quotes – they can also help you tap into something deeper to ground into but you need to feel it in your body, not just as a mental exercise

Necessary Loss

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Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
~Albert Einstein~

Life is full of necessary loss – the loss of a job, a loved one, an item of significance, agility or grace – it can be many things, but whenever there is a sense of loss there is some degree of grief. Something that was a part of you is now gone.

The process of grief has many twists and turns and is not a linear process, but there are several stages that one must travel through in order to fully embrace, release and move on from the loss.

The stages are commonly understood to be shock or disbelief, denial, anger, bargaining, guilt, depression, acceptance and hope.

The key is to keep the movement – keep riding the bicycle. Allow your feelings to be expressed, allow the natural process of grieving to occur and trust that the emptiness within will absolutely be filled. There is no hurry to fill the void; it will happen naturally.

In dealing with my most recent loss, I diffused a blend of essential oils, turned on music with a strong earthy beat and cleaned house, pausing to cry as I went along. It was very nurturing and healing and exactly what I needed at that moment.

The one constant in life is change. Life is not stagnant. If you get stuck or attempt to stop by resisting what is, are you not then in the process of losing your balance, falling over and, by default, in the process of decay as you lay there?

Don’t wither away by default – find a way up and get the help you need. The world needs you.

How do you smell?

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Ok, I’m not really asking how YOU smell to others but how do you personally take in the scents of the world? The forests, the oceans, the restaurants, the earth, the chemicals, the garbage.

Some of scent-ual things you may want to completely inhale, absorb and infuse into every cell in your body. And others, well, you’d rather not breathe it in at all.

Can you do that? Yes, of course – to a degree anyway.

Scents that delight you and nourish your well-being are abundant. They are often found in or arise from nature – trees, flowers, water, earth, home baked bread … the list is endless. With these, slowly inhale through your nose deeply filling your belly then your chest. Feel the nurturing life force enter your system and feel, sense, think about, imagine or intend for the energy of that scent-ual experience to fill your whole being and expand out beyond your physical body into your energy fields all around you. And exhale gratitude for the joy of being alive and the ability to enjoy this luscious experience. Do this a few more times deepening and slowing the process, allowing yourself to bask in the juiciness of this sensory experience.

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The 36 Jin Shin Breaths

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The simplest and most important self help tool we have is our breath:  the exhale and the inhale.

When we exhale consciously and deeply, we release tension and stress. When we inhale naturally, we receive an abundance of life energy. This life energy connects our body, mind, and spirit.

Simply and consciously exhale while dropping your shoulders as if they were touching your feet. The smile comes naturally as you release and gently welcome the inhalation.

Each day use this formula to exhale consciously and inhale naturally 36 breaths. You can do this all at once or you can do 9 complete exhales and inhales four times per day. Use your breath!

Tap into Your Peacefulness

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As you grow in awareness and expand your consciousness you will find that your view of your world also expands. As you view the dramas and pain and anguish of your brothers and sisters it is important that you balance detachment and compassion.

It is to be in that place of support, open heartedness and unconditional love; to show forth tenderness and giving of yourself, without becoming hooked into the story; without reinforcing feelings of victimhood or powerlessness. ~P’taah~

 

How’s life? I bet it isn’t boring. Everyone I know, including me, is riding the waves of cha cha cha change and challenge. Can you find your peace in any given moment? Here are a few ways to tap into your peacefulness, hold your energy and not sink into the situation at hand:

  • Remember to breathe!!! You might find yourself holding your breath or holding your body in a rigid way. It’s part of the fight or flight response and is an automatic response. Pause. Take a few deep belly breaths and pause for another moment. You may need to JUST focus on a slow rhythmic breathing pattern to calm down. That’s fine – just do it.
  • Movement always helps. Can you go for a walk? Do something active? If not, get some movement into your body as soon as you can. Don’t sink into the story of the situation and let it settle into your body. Too often we “freeze” the trauma and stress in our body in an attempt to shut it down.
  • Step back to see the larger perspective and deeper truth. What can you focus on that will help the situation? Perhpas you are aware of someone’s strength or courage or patience or any other attribute that you want to energize right now. Focus on that attribute, helping it come to the forefront to assist everyone in this situation.
  • Run your own core energy. It will not only help you, but help them as well.

And when you can’t hold your center – no worries. Just get yourself up, shake yourself off and start all over again.

Living the Juicy Experience

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I absolutely adore the journey of personal growth and evolution. It offers me an opportunity to really love and appreciate the juiciness of healthy relationships (both with myself and others).

It reminds me of muscle tissue. Having tight, hard muscles is not healthy; there’s no fluidity, flexibility, grace or ease (same with relationships). When faced with a tense muscle most practitioners engage it head on for a battle of wits and strength to force that muscle to give up and give in. Someone wins, someone loses (muscle vs practitioner or person vs person). That’s one way.

Another way, my favorite, is to graciously say hello, back off, and slide right past that tight muscle into the depths of the system to gently release from the inside out (what is the REAL issue), supporting the system (client or current drama) to release on its own, rather than by force, which opens the door to create a deeper, longer lasting change (into healthy muscle tissue or win-win encounter) as the new way of being ripples out to the denser structures of the body.

Perhaps that is what ‘engaging with life’ is all about. Letting go of the fight, the struggle, the hardness that we’ve come to accept as normal and embrace the deeper feelings, the softness, the grace and ease of gentleness and begin to source our true power from there. As Han Suyin said “There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.”

Hot Flashy Women

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For all the jokes (and fear) of menopause I find it hilariously engaging. Initially I was going to design an aromatherapy kit called Hot Flashy Women, but I lost interest as I became seduced by the incredible power surging through my body.

Why would someone want to deny themselves of that pleasure, that primal power, that wonderfully warm sensation when one has generally run cold all her life? Oh to be warm….I adore it.

I certainly understand why some humans could fear a woman surging with that kind of power – it’s intense. And I wouldn’t want to be on the receiving end of a misdirected, off-balance power surge. But alas, I won’t. I’m on the giving end of this.   heh  heh  heh  :)

This is often about the time that we shift our focus from raising our families to more personal pursuits. It’s time for us to tap into our innate wisdom. It’s time for reflection, creative venture, radical self care and yes, power surges.

So YOU GO GIRL!

Forget the Words, Create the Sounds

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“In virtually every culture throughout history, human beings have used toning, chanting and singing to praise their Creator and to heal their bodies and spirits. Our conventional Judeo-Christian culture is almost devoid of this healing tradition. Perhaps to fill this need, toning – the sustained, vibratory sounding of single tones, often vowel sounds, without the use of melody, rhythm or words – is quickly becoming a valuable tool for spiritually awakening people. Bypassing language entirely, toning allows us to express the heart and soul directly, quieting the over-active left brain.“      (The Healing Voice by Joy Gardner)

I don’t know about you, but I was brought up to smile, sit still and be quiet. Making sounds was not encouraged and as an adult my tendency is still towards the quiet end of things.

That said, I am now finding the freedom that sound has to offer. I am realizing just how restrictive language can be and how unbounded sound vibration really is. Our entire world is made up of sound vibrations (but that’s for another post).

Try this for yourself:

How are you feeling? What 3 words describe how you are feeling right now in this moment? Now take each word, one by one, and sound that feeling. What sound express your feeling? Go ahead, no one can probably hear you.

Do you notice a difference between when you state a word describing your feeling and when you make a sound describing your feeling? Does one set the feeling free to either release the energy around it (frustration, anger, confusion, for instance) or to dance with the energy in celebration of it (joy, happy, peaceful, for instance).

Words are left brained and limited by language. As humans we can “cap” our emotions and feelings through words, moving them into a more intellectual experience. Sounds are the universal language and can communicate so much more than words could ever do. They express an aliveness that words struggle to achieve.

Can you sound out your feelings to express them as honestly as possible? Next time someone asks you how you are, sound it out. I’m sure there will be a good laugh, or a terrified questioner, but either way, they’ll get it.

Hummmmmmmmmm…..