Self Reflection

Self Reflection

Today's practice and subsequent daily tasks have me in a thoughtful mood. I am analyzing the emotions I've experienced around loss after reading "The Fable of  Final Sunset" in Tori Hartman's "Chakra Wisdom Oracle Toolkit" where she ask you to consider how you respond to the endings in your life. In reality endings are as inevitable as well... death and taxes. I realize that I often hang on to the nostalgia and the memories at the expense of moving forward. I've lost so much that it's sometimes hard to remember that in new beginnings I have the potential for so much to gain at the other side of new beginnings. Today I'm turning this concept around in my hear and allowing it to be whatever it is, letting feelings come and go, taking it with me into meditation and also allowing for the insights from the meditations from Briana and Dr. Peter Borten's "Rituals For Transformation" to sink into my mind. It has helped me to remember that we are one with Divinity and Divinity is one with me and the Universe. I spent nearly two weeks on this concept because it's just that deep. I'm still pondering it... pondering... life

Moving Bravely Ahead

Moving Bravely Ahead

Today's yoga practice was chock full of warrior poses and sun salutations, making it the perfect practice for me to face the day and get back into things. I started my herbal remedies with Bach's Flower Essences and crystal meditation and I already feel brighter about the coming day! Yesterday was a no-go with the photojournalism assignment and so I'm going to try again today. I'm hoping that I can get some pictures in. Of course there's a late breakfast/brunch and tulsi herbal tea to balance my doshas and my cup of coffee later at the coffee shop. Later on it's more photos and singing at jazz club as I begin to start pursuing my passions again. I am hopeful for the rest of the day. We have a few more days of Mercury Retrograde to go and I am arming myself with lavender, peppermint and melissa essential oils, yoga and letting go what needs to be gone. I got this!

Taking A Lazy Sunday...

Taking A Lazy Sunday...

Today I'm taking it step by step, starting with allowing myself to sleep in before trying out a yoga sequence for detoxification and digestion on the SaraBeth Yoga channel. It was definitely more rigorous than yesterday's flow of asanas, but not so fast-paced a flow that I couldn't handle it. I think I will take a few more practices like this 15-20 minute sessions before moving on to 20-30 minute routines. I'm being smart about this and honoring my body's current capacity for energetic movement. I think that I might try my hand at pictures for my photo story after a leisurely bath if the coffee shop where I proposed doing my photo story project for my photojournalism class is still open. I also decided that I will probably drop my swim class and take it easy for the rest of the semester by focusing on my photojournalism class, math, and of course work. The rest of the evening should have me snuggling in Jay's arms, preparing to face the week ahead.

Pacing Myself As I Go Forward

Pacing Myself As I Go Forward

This short simple yoga practice on the SarahBeth yoga YouTube channel primed me for the day ahead. It was energetic, but not too enthusiastic for a day when I still felt rough around that edges and was plagued by off-and-on-again bouts of fatigue. I ordered my vitamins off Amazon and have my protein smoothies and my whole foods based shopping list ( and by whole foods, I mean processed and not the famous grocery store. I'm going make some more anti inflammatory soup tomorrow and a big green salad with organic cherry tomatoes. I kind of fell off the wagon today and ate some processed foods, but I realized that it was just a gut reflex (literally) and that I didn't even really want to eat it. My body needs the simple whole ingredients to repair itself. It craves the herbal teas and homemade soups and dishes that I make myself. Time for more healing aromatherapy baths, chi energy sequences, Reiki, and of course yoga!

The Comeback Kid

The Comeback Kid

So, as I mentioned yesterday, I feel as if I'm making a comeback. I plan on using the last 10 days of Mercury to tie up loose ends, spring clean the house, do some deep thinking and meditating and of course some yoga. Duh! LOL. I couple more gentle asana flows before I transition into more lively practices and try my hand at vinaysa or kundalini yoga. Of course I plan on finishing out the Yoga With Tim challenge within the month of April and use May to prepare for June. I am returning to my body makeover plan. I'll be returning to my every-other-day high intensity interval training (HIIT) sessions soon and my twice weekly swim classes. It's time to rock and roll!

Tapping Into Inner Reserves Of Strength

Tapping Into Inner Reserves Of Strength

I'm learning how to access the core of my being -- my Higher Self -- that place that no one and nothing can tarnish. It's the eternal part of my very being that guides me through my life choices and has my back when I don't think I can move forward any longer. It's the part of me I access in my daily meditation practices. And it's telling me to move ahead with my goals no matter what. My energy is coming back and I purchased some supplements, teas, essential oils and crystals for my health and well-being. I added another part to my yoga/meditation/journaling routine and that is qigong exercises for raising energy in the body along with Sapien Med's healing frequencies I mentioned yesterday. The exercises in question are from a book called "5-Minute Chi Boost - Pressure Points for Reviving Life Energy, Avoiding Pain and Healing Fast" by William Lee and Sasha James. I don't whether it's this book's exercises for raising chi, Sapien Med's healing sounds, the Vata-friendly yoga sessions, the healthy servings of fruit and vegetables, the anti-inflammatory turmeric and ginger soup and teas, the crystal grids, self-acupuncture, aromatherapy baths or maybe a combination of all of theses things working together, but I am finally starting to feel like my old self again. For this I am so grateful that words cannot express! I was really sick. Now let's let the healing commence. I'm ready to get back into the swing of things again!                                  

5-Minute Chi-Boost

Throwing My Hat In The Ring

Throwing My Hat In The Ring

Fresh from balancing my excitable and anxious Vata Dosha, I'm throwing my hat back in the ring. The ring of what? Well I'm going back into the ring of life, albeit this time with more of a focus on mindfulness and keeping my energetic equilibrium more stable. I'm grounding myself and digging my heels in for the long haul, armed with the insights I'm gaining from Tori Hartman's lessons on perseverance from week 14 in her "Chakra Wisdom Oracle Toolkit". I am discovering so much about myself and what often triggers me to give up just before I've won the battle.

I'm fortifying myself by listening to some isochronic tones from one of my favorite frequency guru's on YouTube, Sapien Med's channel. What are isochronic tones? Shortly described, they are rapid pulses of sound created to align with the rhythm of your brainwaves and create various states of being through the mind/body connection. There are isochronic tones for everything from healing to beauty to mindsets. I am listening to among a plethora of others, tones specifically for increasing (chi, prana, qi,) energetic levels in the body to help me to recuperate from my body's recent illness, and to fortify my overall health and immunity. I will post four videos from Sapien Med's Internal Alchemy series part 1-4 below. I listen to them two times per day each at roughly five to six minutes each, that's not a lot of time to invest in my health and well-being. In fact, I feel it's time well spent. I can literally feel the energy coursing through me when I listen to these. After napping and falling asleep to these today. I woke up feeling refreshed and much stronger. I highly recommend these videos and indeed, exploring all the videos on Sapien Med's YouTube channel. The work he does to encourage mind/body/soul healing is invaluable! Try it and see for yourself.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4