These times are quite surreal with this pandemic upon us. Within all the lock down’s and virus threat it is a powerful time to RESET and to RE-ADDRESS our health and what self care really entails on all holistic levels of our body – emotional health, mental health, physical health, spiritual health. Making sure we balance and nurture all of these for ourselves and our families.
There is a silver lining in this lock down time and a true gift of paused time and for some of us even paid by our government’s! Being in the first world we have it so easy – we can isolate and stay warm, fed and housed in our ‘family bubble’ and we can catch up on this slowed down specific time together.
I feel very blessed to be in New Zealand with amazing space and we can safely walk our animals and keep distance. I have a local river and local beach I can visit safely and keep distance. I have come up with some tips to help you all at this time in isolation – some ideas to keep you in a routine as we can really have productive days as well as restful and more mindful together. Tuning in and getting to all those things we ‘put off for a rainy day’..
Here are 4 more health tip’s for you as PART II of my Isolation/ reTREAT tips…
1. Breathe work – are you breathing FULLY and CORRECTLY?… Full oxygenation of the body system’s is crucial for cellular health. To check you are breathing fully and deeply enough: I want you to sit comfortably and with a straight spine. Start to observe your uncontrolled natural breath and it is more than likely shallow and just in your upper abdomen/ diaphragm area.
I want you to intentionally make your in breath intentionally much longer and deeper. We need to be breathing in this full ;Yogic Breath; which is in 3 parts.
The start of inhalation starts in the abdomen expanding, ‘abdominal breath’ – then this goes up to ‘thoracic breath’ to the diaphragm and then the 3rd part of our inhalation needs to expand our upper chest/ upper lungs right up to our collar bone – into the ‘clavicular breath’.
This is all in ONE long inhalation… then I want you to allow the out breath to be looooonger than your inhalation as this can help calm and detox the system as well. Repeat at least 10 rounds of this full 3 part Yogic breath 2 – 3x a day.
Watch if you get dizzy as this new deeper breathing brings a lot more oxygen into the cells and a purging/ clearing of toxins can be a result of this, so you may feel a bit light headed at times. If this happens take a break with just normal breathing.
‘Sounding’ or chanting different sounds/ chants is also a very powerful way to help unblock the throat chakra and to really get the breath moving. The sound & vibration of this sound, also calms the nervous system and brain.
There is more Pranayama, (specific breath techniques), that are useful for well being and health. If you would like me to send you some, just ask 🙂
2. Doing practices to help you center, calm, ground, energize including: Yoga, Qi Gong or Tai Chi. Any of these spiritual practice have been studied and used for literally 1000’s of years and many Yogi’s or Masters have studied the benefits of directing Qi/ Prana. Yoga for example translates: ‘Uji’ or ‘union’ as it brings into union our mind, body, emotions and spirit. Many of these practices help bring you into your center and will help calm/ de-stress the brain/ central nervous system. You will become more aware of how to control/ direct your Qi/ Prana (life force energy) and this in turn can help energize you, clear energy, ground you and/or calm you. There are many wonderful free classes now on line and look out for my Yoga Flow sequence with core and callanetics all combined on YouTube. I will keep you posted on this YOGA C-C release coming! 🙂
3. Cardio/ Callanetics/ Core Work – it is amazing what you can do on a just a Yoga Mat(!) and now with more isolation time, no excuse uh! Running on the spot, star jumping, skipping, knee up’s or… on a tread mill or re-bounder is helpful to get the cardiovascular system worked and boosted. Up to 45 minutes cardio is a good amount, 5 – 6x a week minimum for effective results. Remember – we don’t start burning fat until after 20 minutes. Callanetics is an old favorite for inner and outer leg work, some also use a band for extra resistance training. The usual squats and lunges help strengthen and tone buttocks and thighs. Plus to hold and pulse your counts to get more isometric/ resistance training in there. There are also numerous curl up’s, leg extention drop’s, isometric/ pulse hold’s – all you can do for core strength. Plus remember your obliques (side abdominals as well) – lie on your back, legs bent and bringing your opposite elbow to an opposite crossed knee for more oblique strength.
4. Using CPTG Essential Oil’s from topical use, to diffusing to internal application* There is a LARGE array of single CPTG Essential Oil’s and Blend’s that can assist you in emotional support from grounding & calming to uplifting & mental clarity. There is Essential Oil (EO) Blend’s that assist bringing balance to all body system’s and help sleep, digestion, immune support, respiratory support, cellular health to helping general ailments from headaches, migranes, indigestion, insomnia to pain. Ask me what specific Essential Oil (high purity plant medicine) helps with what. I am happy to help after using Essential Oil’s for 30 years in my Clinic. We dilute EO’s and apply them topically with a Rollerball bottle OR.. we can diffuse EO’s in a diffuser that occilates cold water very fast to puff out the EO’s into our environment to breathe directly into our olfactory system which goes straight to our limbic system. CPTG purity is literally recognized by the body on a cellular level and the body takes this plant medicine where it needs it! It takes only 20 seconds to get to our brain/ blood and 20 minutes systemically around our body. Finally we can also ingest EO’s. *CPTG assures you of a food grade quality after 8x vigilant & traceable laboratory test’s for impurities. This is the ONLY grade that is safe to ingest. Check the Supplement Facts on the bottle. Seek Practitioner advice. I am happy to help advise. If you are interested in any of these things mentioned please email me for further info and help with these! We are all creatures of habit, so give yourself time to create and settle into a ‘new norm’. I strongly recommend application and consistency with the above tips and you will be surprised what starts to evolve, transform, heal and the clarity and energy that can then arise from these habits! If you get stuck with anything I am just a quick Skype 1:1 call away through: https://go.oncehub.com/MelissaPotter and I am happy to share with you so that you can GET MORE REAL WITH YOURSELF about ANY BLOCK’S YOU MAY HAVE or where you MAY BE STUCK! Let’s do a body scan for you to un-stick and be able to embody/ associate fully on a cellular level to really balanced and ENLIVEN your own body, mind, emotions & spirit!! I am humbled to be your Practitioner/ Mentor toward more – EMPOWERED HOLISTIC HEALTH! Now more than ever we need connection and communication.
Yours in vibrant health, Melissa
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