Deep Relaxation for Good Health

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Deep Relaxation for Good Health

The relaxation response is the body’s way of returning to balance—or homeostasis. Our systems have a surprisingly narrow range of tolerance when it comes to vital signs like blood pressure and glucose levels. Stress disrupts that balance, initiating physiological changes meant to keep us alive during emergencies. But we’re not meant to stay in that heightened state for long periods of time. Learning to consciously initiate deep relaxation ensures you don’t burn out.

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Stress and Your Body

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Stress and Your Body

When you experience stress-whether real or perceived-your body goes through a series of physiological responses to help you overcome the challenge.  The stress response is helpful when stress has a beginning, middle and end. That way, your body and mind can recover once the stress is over. Stress is a problem when it becomes chronic and there is no opportunity or not enough opportunity for the mind and body to recover and regenerate.

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Hope Happens When You Do This

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Hope Happens When You Do This

We are in very turbulent economic and political times right now. There seems to be a general feeling of not only worry and anger, but heartbreak and grief. Grief and heartbreak are often felt physically in the chest, like a heavy weight pressing down. Hope has the opposite mind-body response and is uplifting and expansive.  If you've been feeling heaviness in your heart, here’s a few ideas to keep hope within reach.  

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Need a Boost? Energize with these 3 mudras

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Need a Boost? Energize with these 3 mudras

Are you thinking about any of these things: getting your garden ready, deep spring cleaning, organizing your shed or getting your bike ready to roll? And are you doing them? If you said no, I’m right there with you! When this happens, we need to ask ourselves two questions: Have I been doing too much? or Have I been doing too little? The answer to that question has 2 different remedies. Check out my blog to see which one is your best option.

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Hand Shapes that Heal

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Hand Shapes that Heal

Our hands are the extension of our selves. They are the appendage that touches and feels. Next to our face, hands are the most expressive part of our body. They express through touch and gesture. The power of gesture is what the ancient yogis harnessed and systemized into hand shapes called mudras. Mudras can bring about mental, emotional and physiological balance.

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When Worry Gets You in the Gut

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When Worry Gets You in the Gut

In addition to joy and love there can be a sense of anxiousness and overwhelm during the holidays. Stress, if left unchecked, causes challenges for almost every system of the body including the digestive system. To help manage stress during the holidays you can practice a simple meditation technique using hand gestures called mudras; a tool at your fingertips!

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How Self Reflection Can Lead to Joy

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How Self Reflection Can Lead to Joy

This exercise in self-reflection has 2 important outcomes:

First, you learn what charged you up and what depleted you in the past year so you can do more of what charges you up in the new year. Secondly, you see a clear picture of your gifts. The best part about this exercise is, if you ever doubt yourself, you have strong evidence to support the validity of your special and unique gifts right there on paper!

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Bolster Self-Esteem by Banishing Shame

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Bolster Self-Esteem by Banishing Shame

My sisters are funny as hell. The three of us recently spent a weekend in Syracuse, where my artsy sister lives in a beautiful house built in 1929. There’s lots to laugh at when we get together. We are all over 60. But there’s a sinister emotion under those ripples of laughter. Shame.
Banish shame with these 3 tips. Your self-esteem will thank you for it!

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Do You Feel It?

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Do You Feel It?

There is a stirring in the air. A pulse. Seemingly silent and still all winter, the great Potential is now making itself known. Spring is here.

The contrast between winter and spring somehow seems more stark this year because we are also coming out of pandemic-enforced stillness. We’ve been holed up in our homes for much of the time, only coming out for essential things.So if you are feeling a little hesitant to jump into spring and a vibrant busy life again, it’s totally understandable. Read on to find out how you can tap into the vibrant energy of spring.

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