The Healing Power of Play!

Loosening the grip of negative emotions through play is one of my favorite ways to shift out of misery into happiness.It’s not only fun but it’s healing as well.

 

It’s true -- love, joy, and happiness can heal what ails us, and so can facing

revealing and releasing whatever dark feelings are repressing our aliveness (and our immune system). There are many ways to do that, but for me the most fun way is to play with it, welcome it, make it bigger and more outrageous! When you crack yourself up, you crack yourself open and are more available for deep learning and healing. And, if you can laugh at something, you can be free of it.

What shadows of yours are you most ashamed to reveal? Invite them to the party, give them a party hat, exaggerate them, let it rip, and celebrate the healing power of play!

Sleep Smarter!

Too much Sleep, or not enough of it, can be harmful for your health.A British study found that getting more than nine hours of sack time a night, or less than six, doubles your risk of an early death from any cause.Aim for seven to eight hours a night.Sleeping for sufficient hours improves memory, sharpens attention, and curds inflammation which is linked to heart disease, stroke, diabetes, arthritis and premature aging,
Researcher also indicates that people who get less sleep six or fewer hours a night have higher blood level of inflammatory proteins than those who get more.

LAUGH!

Laughing not only eases stress, promotes social bonding, and lower blood pressure, but it may also boost your immune system.So bring some humor into your life,whether it's through friends or even a new Tv show.
Laughing increases you oxygenation of blood, exercises your abdomen, respiratory, facial, leg and back muscles, as well as improves alertness!

Boost brian Power with Music!

What Should you do for your brain to be fit and in shape?

Play an instrument!A study pulled together data from around the world studying the effect of music on the brain.They found that musical training, or any interaction with music including listening improved the brain's ability to handle communication,Moreover, children with musical training have better than average vocabulary and reading ability.So every time you put on your ear buds to listen to the music,You're improving your brain's fitness!

Calming Your Mind Healing!

1. Relax :-

 Learn how to ACTIVELY relax engage toe the powerful forces of the mind on the body,

  you must DO something -- you can't just sit there watching television or drinking beer.

3. Learn New Skills :- 

Try learning new skills such as meditation, deep breathing, yoga, biofeedback, and progressive muscle relaxation or take a hot bath, make love, get a massage, watch a sunset, or walk in the woods or on the beach.

4. Move Your Body:- 

 Exercise is a powerful, well-studied way to burn off stress chemicals and heal the mind, so just do it! It has been proven to be better than or equal to Prozac for treating depression.

5.Optimize your Nutrition:-

Clean up your diet from mind-robbing molecules like caffeine, alcohol, and refined sugars and eat regularly to avoid the short-term stress of starvation on your body.

6. Use Heat Therapy:- 

Take a hot bath or a sauna to help your body deeply relax and turn on the relaxation response.

7. Change Your Beliefs:- 

Examine your beliefs, attitudes, and responses to common situations and consider reframing your point of view to reduce stress.

Enjoy Your Life More easy Steps!

Here are my top five tips for rediscovering simplicity in your life:

1.Treat yourself to some silence.

Silence can mean different things to different people. The early hours of the morning, the serenity of the countryside, the few moments after you turn off the motor of your car, or even the simplicity of a clean and tidy room. Do your best to seek out this kind of silence, at least once a day. You deserve it.

2.Do one thing at a time.

Contrary to popular belief, only about 2.5 percent of people have the ability to effectively focus on more than one task at a time. So for the other 97.5 percent of us,multi-tasking makes things harder, not easier. Give yourself a break -- one complete thing is plenty to be focusing on at a time.

3.Quit trying so hard.

That might sound like an astonishing suggestion, but one of the things that we learn from meditation is that exerting effort, particularly to try to force the mind to do anything, is often counterproductive. Try to take a relaxed approach. Think of an athlete or a performer, whom you love -- do they make it look easy? It's that level of relaxed effort that you're looking for.

4.Remember the blue sky.

When you get in a plane and rise above the clouds, you see that incredible bright panorama of blue sky. The mind is no different; thoughts are like clouds, and although they may build up and even look stormy, the blue sky is there all along. Just remembering this is enough to help you get a little more clarity.

5.Learn how to meditate.

Regular readers maybe saw this one coming, but I would recommend starting a meditation practice by downloading the Headspace app and starting our beginner's course, Take10. It's free to download and only takes 10 minutes a day. And best of all, unlike the monastery, you get to keep your phone.

Accepting Change

When you think about it, your life is like a tapestry with many colors, directions, good and not so good living.

Finding your way may be difficult at times because you want so many things in life. You may want to fill your time with meaningful living but you  seem trapped in what you have to do to survive.Nature gives us many lessons on staying power. Standing strong like a tree you can find your way through life’s struggles.It may seem like a long time waiting for things to change for you.You may think that they are just trees, but they are living nature, swaying and moving with time.If you find that you are impatient about where your life is going, try some exercises that help with staying power.

Meditation is a good place to start. Begin with a deep, cleansing breath, and then silence, concentrating only on your breathing. When a thought comes to mind, bring yourself back to the breath.

Meditate every day for at least 15 minutes and you will find out that you are calmer, balanced and grounded to the Earth just like a tree.