Wholesome Resources for Mind-Body Mastery through Yoga, Meditation, Guided Imagery, Stress Relief, Wellness
Are you feeling the peace and joy of the season? Hopefully taking time for deeper quiet and reflection, and for setting the stage for renewal in the new year?
Actually, it’s too common for there to be extra stress and busyness for nearly everybody during this amazing season. It’s a particularly alarming time for folks who already are running on fumes.
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gery and relaxation are important life skills to know about and practice regularly. They are powerful mind-body-spirit techniques that are so much more than nice things to do if there’s time. Both volumes of 30 Scripts for Relaxation, Imagery and Inner Healing will easily and quickly help you:
Enjoy and benefit from over 30 scripts for learning and leading guided relaxation and imagery techniques. Volume 2. CLICK on the blue title link above to find out more...
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Are you looking for a handy relaxation, imagery and meditation book for stress relief?
Here's the perfect book!
Help yourself and lead others with these scripts for relaxation, imagery, visualization & more.
Easy-to -follow scripts are here to
* Achieve deep, positive relaxation
* Benefit from stress relief
* Healing guided imagery
* Awaken intuition
* Increase self growth and understanding.
CLICK the blue title link above to find out more...
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Are you looking for a handy relaxation, imagery and meditation book for stress relief?
Here's the perfect eBook!
Help yourself and lead others with these scripts for relaxation, imagery, visualization & more.
Easy-to -follow scripts are here to
* Achieve deep, positive relaxation
* Benefit from stress relief
* Healing guided imagery
* Awaken intuition
* Increase self growth and understanding.
CLICK the green title link to find out more...
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Enjoy and benefit from over 30 scripts for learning and leading guided relaxation and imagery techniques. Volume 2. CLICK the green title link to find out more...
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How to Balance & Tune
Chakra Energy
Using Healing Sound Vibrations
Page Summary | Chakra Energy | Sound Healing | Chakra Tone Chart
Chakra Energy
Chakras are spinning wheels of subtle energy. The major chakras span from the base of the spine to the crown of the head. They guide the wellbeing of our bodymind and
lifeforce energy. You can learn more about chakras and their influences here. Get info related to chakra elements, directions, sounds, senses, and other attributes here.
Chakra energy is often out of balance. It can run too high or too low. This can negatively influence your actions, relationships, as well as your physical, mental, and emotional health.
Use my Chakra Chart to help you in knowing if your energy is balanced, excessive, or deficient. A variety of helpful strategies are given to improve your wellbeing.
There is a lot you can do to gain balance and have better health by either increasing or decreasing chakra energy. This can be supported through intentionally using sound, color, crystals, and mantra. Yoga postures and pranayama (breathwork) influence the chakras. Healthy lifestyle choices make a difference. Meditation, guided relaxation and imagery are very effective. Using hand and finger positions called Yoga Mudras are also powerful.
Sound Healing
Sound healing intentionally uses musical instruments and vocals to help with harmonizing the body, mind, emotions, and spirit into wholeness. A positive impact on wellbeing happens when these dimensions are tuned and in balance.
Sensing calmness, connections, mental clarity, emotional equilibrium, insightful awareness, and balanced energy often happen.
A variety of instruments can be used including
Tibetan and crystal bowls, tuning forks, drums, bells, flutes, gongs, chimes, strings, and keyboards. Vocal singing and toning are powerful as well.
The tones, frequencies, and vibrations used in sound healing are experienced both physically and energetically. Obviously, sounds are heard with the ears. Not so obviously, they are experienced and absorbed through the skin, by the cells, and in the energy field.
Sound healing facilitates vibrant health by activating the relaxation response, synchronizing and activating brainwave frequencies beneficially, and supporting heart coherence. It has been shown to regulate the nervous system. Chakra energy is often toned and harmonized. Chakra disharmony is discussed below.
Sound healing is based on age-old teachings and backed up by modern science. It’s interesting, relaxing, and fun.
Chakra Tone Chart
This Chakra Tone Chart can help balance your chakra energy to improve your wellbeing. These sound vibrations are based on ancient Vedic (Yoga) and Tibetan notes and tones, and western music.
Use this Chakra Chart to help you know if your energy is balanced, excessive, or deficient. It gives you a variety of helpful strategies to improve your wellbeing.
Try all the healing sound vibrations to find out what you like and works best for you. Notice your felt reaction to each of these scales, notes, and sounds to determine how your bodymind responds to each vibration.
Handy Links
Chakra-Based Guided Meditations
Real Relaxation Yoga Nidra takes you into a deeply relaxing and powerful restful state of being fully aware while being in the state of deep yogic sleep. It helps with balancing chakra energy, and can improve immunity, heart health, relieve stress and give you inner peace and balance.
Get it from Amazon, iTunes, Spotify & other online stores
Who couldn’t use some extra shut-eye? Sleep is vital to our health and sleep experts tell us we need an average of eight hours at a shot. 
Even if there’s time for sleep, many of us have trouble getting to sleep or staying asleep. Let’s take a look yoga nidra and sleep. Yoga nidra can help in replenishing ourselves, can be used as a natural sleep aid, and more.
Yoga nidra means “yogic sleep” and has many documented benefits for your body, mind, and spirit. It is when your bodymind is actually in deep sleep but with one big difference – you remain consciously aware. This is done by going through a series of techniques to systematically get physically, energetically, mentally, emotionally relaxed. In addition, yoga nidra sparks intuition, unconditional joy, and a timeless, spacious sense of being. Witness consciousness is experienced and even surpassed. Due to the fertile brainwave states experienced, it’s also entirely possible to make positive behavior and personality changes. See the yoga nidra FAQ on setting intentions and sankalpas here.
In fact, while not a substitute for actual sleep, one hour of yoga nidra practice is equivalent to four hours of sleep. This is due to the series of brain waves experienced along the way. (Saraswati 1998, Kumar 2008) With practice, you’ll eventually be able to enter the delta brainwave state but remain aware. It resembles what it feels like to be on the verge of being awake and asleep. The conscious experience of deep sleep is what makes it so restorative and unique.
Yoga nidra can also be practiced at bedtime as a sleep aid. Layer after layer of stress is cleared out so it doesn’t follow you to bed and disturb sleeping. Using yoga nidra techniques as a sleep aid should not be confused with the yoga nidra experience itself. Be careful or you will find it difficult to practice yoga nidra itself and will fall into deep sleep instead.
Yogic sleep is also a play on words of sorts. It refers to how most of us are walking around “asleep” and unaware of our True Self, the indestructible aspect in each of us that is already peaceful, joyful, wise, soulful, luminous, and loving. Whereas, the yogi is awake to one’s True Self no matter what the state of consciousness – waking, dreaming, deep sleep. Realizing this enables us to recognize the true nature of oneself and reality so we are not swayed by the changeability and unpredictability of thoughts, feelings, beliefs and such. Yoga nidra helps us experience and realize this.
In short, yoga nidra is super sleep!
Like all worthwhile things, regular practice yields the best results.
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Julie Lusk, MEd, E-RYT 500, has over 35 years of expertise in stress relief, yoga, relaxation training, 
guided imagery, and meditation as an international author, recording artist, and workshop leader. Julie is the author of Yoga Nidra for Complete Relaxation and Stress Relief, Yoga Meditations, two volumes of 30 Scripts for Relaxation, Imagery and Inner Healing, and Desktop Yoga®. Her CDs include Wholesome Relaxation, Power of Presence, Blue Moon Rising, and many others. Learn more at WholesomeResources.com
What a pleasure to specialize in balancing and strengthening the body-mind-spirit connection through yoga, meditation, positive relaxation, and guided imagery. I feel so fortunate to have discovered yoga and meditation as a young woman in the 1970’s and to continue to study and practice till now. What a joy it has been to teach all these years and to be the author of the many books and recordings listed below on yoga nidra, meditation, guided imagery and similar practices.
My professional counseling training, certification, and work has been invaluable, providing me with an enriching perspective on mind-body interventions. Professionally, I have been a regional director for a large hospital-based holistic health and wellness program, director of health management and wellness at a well-known medical clinic, an assistant dean of students for career planning and placement at a college, director of special services at a community college, and an educational awareness counselor. Thousands have been touched through my volunteer work.
Most of all, I love sharing all this with others. This has given me a practical sensibility of what works and what doesn’t as well as all the benefits that happen. It’s a real joy for me to teach others as a teacher and trainer.
Graciously,
Julie Lusk, M.Ed., E-RYT-500
White Lotus Foundation – Advanced Teacher Training, 1996
M. 1995; Bill O’Hanlon,
