Daily Om

I always say life is full of small pleasures. One of my small pleasures in life is The Daily Om. It always grounds me, keeps me inspired and reminds me of truth.

I was reading the new book from the Daily Om by Madisyn Taylor, Learning to Live. It is like an instruction manual for life, and I one of her 'instructions' talks about 'whole-self well-being'. As I read about this concept, as she writes about it,  I kept on thinking this sounds like all the things I learn and practice in kinesiology. So I shall share it with you, to share one of life's small pleasure. Enjoy, it gets you thinking about the role you play in your maintaining wellness and being balanced.

Whole-Self Well-being

How the body clears energy

"Whole-self well-being is, in part, the result of a harmonious flow of energy between our physical and mental selves. When this flow is thrown out of balance for any reason, the body and mind react to one another, rather than act cooperatively. Ongoing stress, saddened, anxiety, excitement, and fear can overwhelm the cerebral self, causing traumatic energy to be channeled into the body, which then responds by taking steps to organically dispel the burdening energy and expressing it by means of physical symptom's such as illness, fatigue, or disease. In some cases, these symptoms can simply be allowed to run their natural course, and recovery will come naturally. In most instances, however, health and wellness can only be restored by a dual course of treatment that acknowledges both the physical manifestations of energy clearing and the underlying emotional causes.

Many ailments you experience over the course of your life can be indicative of the body's attempts to process intellectual and emotional energy. Swollen glands, for example, can signal that you are going through a period of emotional cleansing. Even something as simple as a pimple can indicate that your body is ridding itself of toxins and old energy.

In Chinese medicine, intensive emotions are held in the body's organs as a matter of course. Grief lurks in the lungs, anger inhabits the liver, fretfulness lingers in the heart, worry is held in the stomach, and the kidneys harbor fright. Coughs or bronchitis can signify that the physical self is clearing away grief, while a loss of appetite may signal that worry is being actively addressed.

When you feel ill or imbalanced, treating your whole self rather than the physical self alone can empower you to determine the root cause of sickness. Since you understand that your physical symptoms may be an expression of emotional discomfort, you can establish a balanced treatment regimen to ensure that you quickly recover your good health"

Experiencing the balance!

Do you find that too often you focus on the end outcome and forget about the process of experiencing the journey? 

I know I do.

Today, as I walked through the sun filled street at the beginning of a new path in my journey I took a big deep breath and filled my lungs with the fresh air. Breathing in new life and experiences, the old walls and boundaries melt down into the earth and allow a sense of freedom to infuse my step.

I feel nourished. I have a fire burning in my belly. There is a sense of knowing that these steps are the right steps.

Of course, as with all new things a I feel butterflies dancing in my stomach (excited butterflies they must be). As part of  human nature we always want to know what the path will look like, how many bends there will be, who will we meet. Yet, I have made  a conscious effort to let go and flow like water and take one step at a time.

The process, the journey is the experience that guides us. Often we have a feeling of uncertainty, but within this the fundamentals of truth - fire, earth, metal, water and wood, lie. These elements thrive, dance, evolve, play and shift as we experience the journey. The fundamentals act and react to the steps we take on our path and provide the spirit, emotion and energy that we need to experience balance in our life.

The Fundamentals

FIRE, EARTH, METAL, WATER and WOOD.

In eastern philosophy and traditional Chinese medicine, these 5 elements are what constitutes all things. All these elements are apart of each everything and everyone. They guide all actions, reactions, creations, phases and evolution. This is basis of all.

Everything, including you and me have all the elements within us. Although, as each day comes and goes, we move through these elements, we wax and wane.

Sometimes we have a little bit too much fire in our belly. Other times we are stuck, by being too grounded and not using our natural resources. Then other times we need to breath in new life to move forward and then let go so we go with flow, like water and move into new phases. Once we move through letting go, it enables us to grow and reach our goals, like the tall tree in the forest reaching for the sky.

Let’s look at plant, say, Lavendar. FIRE. It grows with passion and creative to bring joy. EARTH. It receives nutrients from the soil and digests these to grow strong. METAL. It uses it energies wisely to grow, knowing to hold onto it’s energy when things are hard and cold. WATER. It sways in the breeze and takes the weather elements as they come and keeps on growing. WOOD. It gives birth to lovely scents to help calm and relax us.

Look around and you will always ‘see’ one of the five elements showing it’s true color in all things.

What do you see?

Courage and Change

We all go through change. Every new moment in time there is change.

With every new moment the wind changes, the sun moves closer to sunset, our minds think a new thought and a new feeling engulfs our body. Change is the one thing in life that is guaranteed. Change is inevitable. So why do we freak out when things change in our world?

During a week of many great changes for myself I freaked out, I cried, I laughed and ran around in circles flailing my arms in panic, then I stopped.

Change is inevitable and is always, but we can change how we respond. I STOPPED. I thought what do I need to do to accept and flow with change? COURAGE.

So, I stopped and I asked what does courage mean to me? This is what I found...

Continue to walk towards your destiny Outshine yourself from within Unify all parts of who you are Reach for your highest potential Actions speak louder than words Give to yourself and others (and be kind) Expect great things What does courage mean to you? Miss Creative gave me a lovely pendant a while back to remind me of this.

Creating harmony and balance...

Following a week of many extremes, I am in the midst of create some balance in my world.

Last week was my final day of 'having' to go to work. I took back some power and gave myself the freedom to be independent. So I chose a weekend of music, dancing and sunshine at the wonderful Jazz Fest in New Orleans. Full of colour, light and high spirits.

Now it is time to create some balance.

To help re-create my balance after a week of extremes I have began a detox. Day 1 is almost complete. Which in itself has created extremes of feeling great, to also feeling less than great as my body asks where it's morning coffee is. It has been over 10 years that I have not had my morning cup of coffee.

Creating balance to maintain harmony is a task, it takes courage, respect and clarity.

I am excited to see how this detox experience will offer harmony within my world. If all we do is work (or play) our family, friends, plants and animals suffer. We create the suffering by choosing extremes. This dis-harmony we create by living in extremes trickles into our relationships, emotions and well-being. To witness the trickle effect, that when you nurture one part of your soul, the other parts quickly flow as well. Nurturing your body and allowing it the space to cleanse, rejuvenate also creates space in your world. As old habits dissolve, it offers room for new experiences intended towards creating harmony and balance.

With juice in hand, here is a cheers to creating harmony and balance within our worlds.

In mid-air

I feel like I am flying.

There is space, there is chaos, there are possibilities

Work is coming to a close, with many possibilities ahead.

I finished my Energy Kinesiology program, which is only just the beginning.

I have that moment when you stop and you contemplate where you are at.

In one mind, I feel as though I have thrown all my cards in the air and have a sense of complete freedom. Like when you go skydiving. You take a leap of faith. As you plummet towards the earth, you have a sense of stillness, complete freedom.

Yet, at the same time another part of the mind is in complete chaos. Trying to control and figure out the next steps. It worries about the future and the past. It blindly tries to grasp to something tangible.

I am finding myself between these two minds lately. One of stillness, one of chaos.

All I know is it feels right. There is a sense of clearness and clarity. Every fiber of my muscles, every nucleus of my community of cells that work together to be me, knows that all is good.

As the talented (and very insightful) Miss Creative always says, everything is ALWAYS OK!

So as I head into the stillness and chaos of life and experience what transpires my aim is to keep an open heart and clarity of mind to follow my intuition.

Making room for the garden to grow!

It has been a BIG week…

After a trip to the beautiful city of Portland (City of Roses) I decided to clear some space and resigned from my position as a Staff Nurse after 5 years of service. At the same time I am graduating from my Kinesiology course from ICOHA after having completed my final case studies (yippee)!

The time had come to create some space for my passion of wellness in healthcare rather than the focus being on ‘dis-ease’. Also, to create room for me to practice kinesiology and help facilitate some positive energy out there in the world.

So now...

I embark on a new journey of the unknown. I feel a little bit like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz (an all time fave). I know this is a path I must walk, not really knowing what may come or where it might lead, but that is OK. It is invigorating to have that feeling of endless possibilities and the world at your feet.

I feel as though the seeds have been planted in my garden.

I am ready to nurture my garden, as the roses bloom and flourish and maybe even a few surprises, a tulip or gardenia…

So now I venture down my path as my garden sprouts with a sense of excitement, anticipation and hope…knowing that the best is yet to come!