Where are you heading? Do you feel fully capable and like you’re on the path you want to be? If so, keep chugging. If not, read on.
The Art of Conscious Living
19 Mar 2013 Comments Off
in awareness, Ayurvedic Medicine, healing, holistic health, mind-body health
The Butterfly of Winter
26 Jan 2012 Comments Off
in Ayurvedic Medicine, DNA, healing, healing systems, health, holistic health, mind-body connection, mind-body health, Reiki Tags: butterfly, butterfly effect, Claude Bernard, constitution, crystalline structure, DNA, genes, ki, life force, Masuro Emoto, messages in water, prana, sharir prakruti, snowflake, vital force, water, winter
There is something magical and oh-so-peaceful about snow falling and flying from a deep and veiled sky; something about the cover of a endless white created by a countless number of snowflakes- each one of them with a different set of wings, each one of them beautiful and perfect. The universe replicates itself at each level of existence and if we pay close attention, we can come to know how these same stories of winged snowflakes are told inside each of us.
photo credit: 80 weeks, Smugmug
“Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action, our problems are most complex and, too often, silently borne.” -Alice Childress More
Flying in the Face of Gravity
08 Nov 2011 Comments Off
in Ayurvedic herbs, Ayurvedic Medicine, healing, health, holistic health, mind-body health, psychological health, stress, trauma, Yoga Tags: abhyanga, body movements, emotional trauma, energetic nature of body, energetics of herbs, fascia, injury, massage, meditation, muscles, nasya, physical memory, physical trauma, shirodhara, snehana, tension, Yoga asanas
If you have ever dealt with a physical injury perhaps you can remember how areas of your body compensated to deal with the injured part. If you had a knee injury maybe you limped for some time, one side of your body becoming stronger, tension and aches resulting in some areas while other areas became more flexible. This is what happens with a physical injury. What about an emotional one?
photo credit: Annak, 2bemag
Body structure changes with both physical as well as emotional trauma. With a physical injury, though apparently local, a systemic effect results with changes in neural activity, blood and lymph flow, and muscular contraction. Since the body acts as a unified whole, collectively responding to injury, any minute change will have a profound effect on the structural function of all aspects of the body.
When an emotional trauma exists, the body likewise responds in this manner. More
That Pink Ribbon
20 Oct 2011 Comments Off
in breast cancer, cancer, environment, healing, health, holistic health, interconnection Tags: breast cancer, breast cancer awareness month, environment, Ling and Pollock cell model, prevention, solid state biochemistry, Zeneca Corporation
Did you see her run? Did you see her smile? Did you see her do all this despite the pain, in the face of the pain, growing stronger and stronger, more and more beautiful THROUGH the pain?
Breast cancer. You can purchase a container of salt dressed in the pink ribbon, buy coffee dressed in her finest. All the money invested in research goes towards finding the cure. Because we (women and MEN… yes, they get breast cancer too) can’t live without a cure.
Where is that research going? More
Love: The Fountain of Youth
10 Oct 2011 Comments Off
in healing, health, heart health, holistic health, meditation, mind-body connection, mind-body health, stress Tags: anger, appreciation, awareness, calm, care, compassion, cortisol, DHEA, fear, fountain of youth, heart intelligence, heart rhythms, longevity, love, pain body, positive emotions, stress hormones
As the stories go, many have sought, battled towards, and even claimed to have discovered the “fountain of youth.” Perhaps we can imagine the emotional state of these mythological and historical figures while embarking on their journeys. What did they feel as they were searching, when they failed, or when they uncovered this supposed fountain of youth? Their journey was outward, a search for a tangible site, but the search continued today has been conducted by modern scientists and they may have unlocked at least one source: the heart.
Have you ever felt the ache of a broken heart? The swelling of pride in your chest for someone you love? The sensation of calm washing through you when you exercise compassion?
This is your heart displaying heart intelligence. This is your heart sending signals More
Miracles, the Mind, and Mystery: Unraveling the Mind-Body Connection
26 Sep 2011 Comments Off
in cancer, chronic illness, electromagnetism, healing, healing systems, health, meditation, mental health, mind-body connection, mind-body health, miracles, physics Tags: cancer, chronic illness, electromagnetism, healing, health, meditation, mind-body connection, mind-body health, miracles, paralysis
The mind-body connection. How far connected is it exactly and what does this mean?
photo credit: tejiendoelmundo
Many have heard the wonder stories of people who have miraculously cured themselves of cancer, even recovered from paralysis. What has your reaction been? Amazement? Wonder? Hope? Disbelief? –even anger? For an individual living in relative health the stories are often just stories. For those struggling with a chronic illness or condition or having watched someone else do so, the mind may see-saw from one of enthusiastic inspiration to frustrated despair. More
