Today I felt a definite shift in my energy levels. I was still really tired and had a lot of chest congestion but I felt more steady and sure. I went to the college campus today and took my math test but didn't do anything else. I decided to go home and convalesce, as well as take care of some much needed purging around the house. I feel like I really need to focus on me and my health -- regroup. Do some self-healing and energy work, lay in some crystal grids and drink crystal elixir, practice reflexology, acupressure, yoga and qigong to strengthen my body for the tasks and goals ahead. This Vata dosha balancing practice was just what the holistic doctor ordered.
Today's practice was another slow and easy one followed by a Triple Warmer acupressure point session. I'm giving myself the TLC that I need to recover and being gentle on my body. Plenty of rest is in order. It's time to take care of myself. Speaking of care -- I'm going to get some rest and crystal healing with amber and elestial quartz today and perhaps amethyst. Tomorrow I start my spring cleaning and Mercury Retrograde and the releasing energy of the full moon in Libra are a great time both to purge, reset and find balance.
So I needed another blissful yoga practice today. I'm still healing. I couldn't handle anything too vigorous, but I feel that I will be able to do so in the near future. Then I can resume my Yoga With Tim sessions. Today however, I practiced a brief but nurturing heart opening yoga by Caren Baginski. It was just what I needed. I've also been practicing self-acupressure to aid my body's healing practice. Of course I've been drinking plenty of water and trying to eliminate toxins from my body and strengthen my immune system. I feel like I am purging on a deep energetic level in preparation to move ahead to a newer, brighter future -- the beginnings of positive change.
It was one of those days where I had to drag myself out of bed to start the day. Again I diverged from Yoga with Tim's energetic session in favor of this gentle Vata-friendly session on the SarahBeth Yoga channel. I worked a half shift at work after taking cold medicine. I almost fell asleep 😴 in the Uber there, but I made it in one piece. Now I can chill out at the end if the day. I've got my herbal tea ☕ so it's all 👍 good.
Yesterday evening because I was bored after watching an entire K-Drama called "Best Lover" on Netflix, I decided to investigate my waning energy levels through the lens of Ayurveda. I believe the Universe and my guides led me in the direction in which over the course of investigating three different sites where I was diagnosed with three different doshas (the Ayurvedic descriptor for health profile). The three site I'm referring to are linked below just in case anyone wants to find out their predominant dosha. My second most prominent dosha was Kapha followed by an almost equal amount of Pitta. It was clear thought, that after taking the tests that my main imbalance in all three, even though I got varying mixtures of other doshas, was Vata. Vata imbalance is characterized by anxiety, being all-over-the-place, constantly busy and not always giving self-care and the list goes on. So I decided to practice balancing my Vata, which means establishing and regular bedtime and wakeup routine (I will try. LOL.), cutting refined sugars and processed foods (I've been doing that), meditation and pranayama (I've been doing that. Yay!), TLC. With that goal in mind I started decided my yoga practice today would be a 20 minute gentle ground sequence by Sarah Platt-Finger of Ishta Yoga. I will have to say that it really did help a lot. Now I'm going to take an aromatherapy bath and perform a self massage with oils before eating a nourishing meal. I am taking all this good advice to heart.
The hacking and coughing aside, I was really weak yesterday and so I'm taking it slow today and doing my best to practice nurturing and self-care. I think I got sick somehow on that 10 hour bus ride to SoCal either to or from the Journalism Association of Community Colleges (JACC) convention. Then there's the abrupt weather changes from cold and rainy to sunny and bright, the not-so-healthy fast food at truck stops, and being crowded on a bus with at least 40 other journalism students. Of course this is also Mercury Retrograde season which decided that I needed to have my period throughout the SoCal trip and might have just decided that I needed to slow down and repair my body. Hey it's better to get sick during Spring Break than during the rest of the college semester. Maybe it's time to rest and regroup. If that's the case, I've got the message loud and clear!
I wanted to try, but I just couldn't hang with a long, strenuous practice today from Yoga With Tim, and so I had go with a tried a true practice for when I'm feeling under the weather on the Yoga With Adriene channel I'm just relaxing into the fact that I can't really do very much right now and forgiving myself. I was going to use this week to accomplish so much... And maybe I am. Maybe being sick is just what the doctor ordered to help me slow down this Mercury Retrograde season.
