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Yoga for a Healthy Heart

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beach sand heartHere is a series of 9 yoga poses for a healthy heart (pdf) from the innovative work of Dean Ornish, MD.

For over 30 years, research has shown how comprehensive lifestyle changes can often halt, and even reverse, heart disease.  Program components include a low fat diet, exercise, social support, and stress management (yoga, guided relaxation, breathing, meditation).  Reversing Heart Disease, Love and Survival, and other books and articles by Ornish contain the details and data you’ll want to have about the lifestyle for a healthy heart.  This yoga series was originally published in Yoga Journal (March 06).

LINK: 9 Yoga poses for a healthy heart (pdf)

A great resource for guided relaxation, breathing and meditation is Yoga Meditations: Timeless Mind-Body Practices for Awakening.

Awaken and Embody the Feminine Chakras

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Are there chakras (energy centers) that are feminine in nature while others are masculine?  “Yes,” accordChakra jeweling to Christine Page, MD.  She says that gaining an understanding of the chakras’ spiritual qualities and how they influence our daily lives, makes a real difference to our personal health.  With this knowledge to awaken & embody the feminine chakras, we can begin to appreciate how we relate to the world as well our soul’s potential, allowing us to live life with optimal meaning and purpose.  In addition, she says we no longer need to be limited by the idea that there are just seven chakras, primarily associated with the body, but need to return to the ancient teaching to include two other chakras, the earth-child beneath our feet and the star-child chakras above our heads. To augment this understanding, there are sound yoga practices that enable us to embody this awareness quickly and deeply.

You can be one of the first to benefit from this new understanding and put it into practice.  Here’s how:

Enjoy this free article on Awakening the Divine Feminine from The Healing Power of the Sacred Woman, Christine’s latest book due out November 2012.

Join us for a special seminar, Embodying the Divine Feminine, being offered by Christine Page, MD, and Julie Lusk, M.Ed., RYT from Dec. 6-9, 2012 in Hilton Head, SC.  21 CEU’s .  Learn more & register here.  It’s filling fast and space is limited.

Wabi Sabi – The Power of Imperfection

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Wabi-Sabi is my new favorite concept.  It refers to the beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete.

Wabi is a Japanese word that connotes rustic simplicity and the understated elegance found in both natural and man-made objects.

Sabi is the beauty or serenity that comes with age, when the life of something and its impermanence are evidenced in its patina and wear as well as in any visible repairs.

What a wonderful concept that softens the sting of aging and the illusion most of us are under that demands that we always get it right. Not only does it soften it, it elevates imperfection to an art to be treasured.

So, the next time things don’t seem to go right, simply smile and say “Wabi-Sabi”.  It’s a real time-saver too.

Please give us examples of how you are celebrating the spirit of Wabi Sabi in your life.  Add your comments below.

Honoring Mother’s Day with Story, Poems & Quotes

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The idea for Mother’s Day originated in 1870 by Julia Ward Howe, the author of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic.”  She IMG_1258believed that peace and equality were two of the most important world causes and challenged women to rise up against war in all its forms.   She wanted women to unite by coming together across national lines to recognize what people have in common over what comes between us in a “Mothers Day for Peace.”  Although this didn’t happen, Julia inspired Anna Jarvisto to start her own crusade to celebrate a memorial day for mother’s in 1907.  The rest is “herstory.”

Here’s to peace and equality for all.  Julia’s declaration follows:

Arise then…women of this day!
Arise, all women who have hearts!
Whether your baptism be of water or of tears!
Say firmly:
“We will not have questions answered by irrelevant agencies,
Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage,
For caresses and applause.
Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.
We, the women of one country,
Will be too tender of those of another country
To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.”

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Memory, Multitasking & Mindfulness

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How has your memory been lately? Is it easy to remember things that happened years ago but you have a hard time with what happened this past week? Can you remember what was for lunch yesterday? Do you get home from shopping and realize that you forgot to buy what you went after. Then there’s remembering conversations and what happened at meetings. Perhaps you’re starting to worry if your memory is starting to fail for real.

People like us regularly need to get more done in less time so we go online/watch TV/or work while eating. We talk on the phone and listen to music while driving. Perhaps go online to look something up and end up checking mail, reading some news, and looking at the weather forecast while there in the hopes of being efficiedesktop diva 8-31 bnt and to save time. We all do it, right?

It’s possible that multitasking may be a big factor in not being able to recall things.

Multitasking seems smart but it does not work in the long run. While it can be useful in rote tasks that require little intelligent brainpower, multitasking is detrimental in tasks requiring brainpower. It contributes to stress, wastes time, lowers productivity, and hurts short and long-term memory.

The brain is not capable of taking in and dealing with two different streams of information simultaneously. It is impossible for the brain to encode more than one stream of information fully into short-term memory at a time. Information will never make it into long-term memory if it does not go into short-term memory first. Either way, information cannot be recalled and put to use. This pattern contributes to forgetfulness, poor memory, and more stress.

From Yoga Nidra for Complete Relaxation and Stress Relief by Julie Lusk

Solutions include:

  • Stay focused by doing one thing at a time
  • Don’t let yourself get distracted from the task at hand
  • Increase your brainpower, ability to concentrate, and improve your memory with

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