Breathing Deeply and increasing Energy

These are a few exercises that are quite light but very good to start your day. They will help increase the energy flow through your body. Do as much or as little as you wish and remember that after you have woken up your energy then you can set your 'intent' field for the day and work towards calling into manifestation those qualities, events and experiences that will nourish the growth of your soul and being.

For all the exercises, keep your body as relaxed as possible and practice deep breathing - using your diaphragm.

You might want to start by becoming aware of your breathing. Notice but do not judge where your breath comes from, are you taking short breaths through your mouth or deep breaths from your belly.  

When taking short breaths, you take in less oxygen than you need, and rarely use your diaphragm when shallow breathing. Yoga Breathing or Huna Breathing can helps us all to breathe more deeply.

By using our diaphragm the deeper breath will bring more oxygen to your body to strengthen and build our stamina, and supply more oxygen to the brain. Part of increasing our energy flow through our body is becoming aware of the benefits of deep yoga breathing.

This way of breathing deeply by bringing the breath through the solar plexus allows us to be come more aware of the nourishing goodness of oxygen upon our body and so more fully conscious of the flow of energy through our body and energy centres.

The deep breathing is done through the nose and by visualising the inhalation through our solar plexus we become more aware of breathing deeply from our belly. 

Place 1 hand on your solar plexus and one hand on your chest so you become aware of how your breath and energy are flowing. We use this method when centring our energies and this is also useful when practicing mindful meditation by meditating upon our breath.

 

Daniel B Holeman - Meditator

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Sit in a comfortable position, on the floor if possible, or in a chair with your back supported. Ensure your head, neck and spine are in alignment. However if this is not possible, be assured that your intent for alignment will suffice. 

Take a deep breath in through your nose, feeling your lower hand rise as your belly expands, your lungs inflate and your diaphram moves downward. Push the air into your belly, and try not to raise your shoulders as you normally would to bring in the breath. Relax the shoulders and breathe into your solar plexus.

Exhale through your nose, visualising the breath flowing out through your solar plexus, feeling your hand fall as the abdomen empties and your lungs deflate. 

Be aware of the pause between each inhalation and exhalation. Do not focus on that pause merely be aware of that pause.

Breathing is a four stage process 
1) Inhalation
2) Pause
3) Exhalation
4) Pause

When starting to be aware of your breathing, the ratio of breath should be the  normal 1:1:1:1. As you become more practiced you may change the ratio to whatsoever suits you. Be aware that there are medical constraints concerning some breathing practices so before you experiment with advanced yogic breathing techniques be mindful of your own health and act accordingly.

As you continue to practice this deep breathing you may move onto different rhythms as you find they suit you. You may breathe in to a count of 4, hold that breath for a count of 4 and release for a count of 4.

This is not to be attempted if you have low blood pressure or any medical issues concerning the heart, blood pressure, or respiratory issues

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 So as you wake in the morning, the following exercises will help you to increase your energy and awaken your energies, senses and mind.

Flexibility Exercise for the Feet


This will help your muscles to become more flexible and supple and help you do the later exercises with more ease and comfort. You may do this while sitting on something low such as a bed.

 1. Put the lower part of your left leg on top of the other knee. Hold it with your left hand by putting your hand over the ankle with the thumb over the Achilles tendon [Do NOTpress the thumb in the space between the tendon and the ankle]

 Hold the soul of your foot with your right hand by putting your hand over the ball of that foot. 

Now rotate the foot with your hands for about 20 times in total. Use your judgement in this matter. Turn in both directions  and keep  your foot relaxed

2. Hold left foot with your left hand on top. Hold all the toes with the right hand by putting your fingers on top, and your thumb around the big toe and the top part of the palm under the toes. 

Rotate the toes in both directions - about 20 times. Keep your foot relaxed.  Again use your best judgement on this. 

Repeat with the right foot.

Exercises Done While Sitting Cross Legged

These are fairly light exercises and good to do at the start. 

Sit cross legged on a mat or on a bed.

• Hold your ankles  with your hands and slowly bend your back backwards and forwards. Do 4 -10 times.

 

•         Sit with your legs tucked under you, with your buttocks on your heels. Slowly bend forwards and backwards, while keeping your hands on your knees.  Do 4 -10 times

• Cross your fingers and put them in your neck. Alternate moving your upper back sideways, to the left and the right. Let your elbow almost touch the ground at each side. Do 4 -10 times

•   Turn your head to look back over your shoulder. Do this twice on both sides.

• Gently pull at your ears on all sides. As the ears contain acupuncture points that access the whole body it is a good idea to enhance your connectivity by this exercise.

Exercises Done While Sitting

This helps to open the Meridians in the legs. 

• Sit on a bed with your legs straight. Alternate turning both of your feet to the right and to the left. Turn far enough for the sides of your feet to touch the surface.  Do for about 1 minute.

Exercises Done While Standing

These will help you become more alert and consciously aware

Get up on your feet and stand with your feet shoulder width apart. The knees should not be locked  but relaxed so the energy may flow freely around your body. 

• Walk in place by alternately standing on the toes of each foot. Move the opposite hand forwards as if walking. Do 10-20 times.

•   Move your shoulders around, up and to the back, to below and to the front. Do 4 -10 times

•   Turn your arms in front of you in windmill fashion. Do 4 -10 times

•  Turn your arm out at the side, holding the muscle right under the armpit with the other hand. Do with both arms 4 - 10 times.

• Gently stretch on arm up and on arm downward, the upper hand with palm facing upward, fingers pointing to the opposite side, the lower hand with palm facing downward, fingers pointing to the front.  Keep this position for 1 or 2 seconds, then slowly relax and change positions with palms facing each other. Do 4 - 10 times

• Put your hands on your hips and turn your bottom around by moving it to the front, then to the right, to the back and the left, the front and so on. Twisting and moving your bottom.  Also move counter clockwise.  Do 4 - 10 times

• Let your arms dangle at your sides and turn your upper back around to the left, the right, and so on. Keep your arms and upper body relaxed, move from your hips.

 Setting your Intents for the Day

The area in front of your Solar Plexus is your 'Intent Field' where you can set your Intentions for the day. Whether you intend to manifest new connections and synchronicities that nourish your growth; or you wish to bring peace and healing to the day, this is the field into which you can set your 'Intention' for the day.

Take a deep breath in through your Solar Plexus bringing in Love and Light. As you exhale release all that no longer resonates with your being. As you take the next breath in breathe in Pure Light energy and set your intentions for the day into your intention field.

 

Dana Mrkich - Evolution Revolution: Step into the New....Literally

Last night we discussed Chakras, alignment and the shifting energies! I came across this from Dana Mkrich this morning and felt it was appropriate for this blog.

Dana Mrkich - Evolution Revolution: Step into the New....Literally:  

For the last year or two, particularly since the beginning of our new cycle, a lot of us have felt a strange sense of being in limbo,like we’re floating in a void between the old and the new.  So much of who we used to be no longer feels right, or fits exactly as it used to. I was thinking of this the other day, and received the message that it’s like when ghosts don’t realize they are ‘dead’ to their old life. They are confused, and for a time can get stuck in between worlds. To move on, they need to see the Light and step through it, so that they can get on with their life in some other place and space. 

          We may not have died physically, but we have died to huge parts of ourselves. We have died to great chunks of our old identities, missions, purposes, and karmic contracts. We have died to much of our old wounds, patterns, beliefs, and ways of being. They just don’t and won’t work anymore. We are like snakes that have slid out of their skins. Some of us try to crawl back into the old, others hang around the remains of the burning building knowing we can’t go back in, but having no clue as to where to go next. This 'death' has resulted in all kinds of grief, depression, frustration and confusion. For some a lot has physically changed, but for others it hasn't been the kind of death we can tangibly put our finger on, and that has made it all the more difficult to understand and deal with. 

          This shift is happening on all levels and layers. For some this means major changes to significant areas of your life. For others, the change will be more internal – yet, this also can’t help but impact the external in some way. Even if we are in the right job or relationship, we still might feel ‘squirmy’ and be wondering why?  It is because our Soul is wriggling out of her or his old skin.  For some, yes, as you wriggle out of the old skin, you will wriggle out of old relationships, jobs or geographical locations that are no longer a right fit for you.  For others, those aspects of your life are a right fit, but your former inner wiring around how you have related to those aspects are no longer a fit. Maybe your work is right, but you are wanting a healthier work/family balance. Or you want to move into a more creative or prosperous direction with it. Maybe your relationship is right, but your old way of expressing your inner masculine and feminine is changing thus changing the dynamic between you, helping you both be better, more balanced versions of yourselves.

Many relationships are being called (forced) to grow, as one partner sheds their skin and moves into a new version of themselves, the other partner eventually has to do the same or they will no longer be able to relate to each other in a harmonious way. 

Our souls are calling for greater balance, more heart, and total authenticity with everything we do and that can’t help but shift, well, everything. 

If you have been feeling like you are in the void, an exercise you can try is: close your eyes and feel the emotional space that you have been in that you would now like to move on from. See that your new life is right before you, but like those ghosts, we just haven’t realized. Your higher vibrational self is right there in front of you, waiting for you to step into more of YOU, waiting for you to embody more of YOU, waiting for you to realize that this is, and always has been, the YOU that you have been waiting for.  Take a step forward, with the conscious intention that you are stepping forward into your new life and self, out of your old skin. Literally, not in meditation, but physically, with your two feet on the ground…step…step…into the new. Open your eyes. How do you feel?

© Dana Mrkich 2014

Aligning to spirit, Linking to your Higher Self/Will

The Higher Self is also known as Will,Source, or The Light, Soul Self, or even Monad. It is a free flowing current of energies that carries everything towards a higher evolution and allows the vibrational frequencies to rise to bring about this evolution.

When we talk about serving the Light or God or aligning to the Higher Self  - this is the gentle stream of the energy of Love and Spiritual Energies that leads everything in all the kingdoms, realms and dimensions - mineral, plant, animal, devas, faeries, and humans - to growth, vitality and a higher vibrational state of being. Spirit/Source/God is increasing the vibratory frequencies of the energies to move this world, and all consciousness in it towards its highest evolution. You have complete Free Will  to react in any way you want to these energies; so if you want to use them to grow spiritually, they will greatly help you.

If you want to connect to this current of evolutionary energies, and have your life take on a higher calling - simply be open to allowing and accepting good things in your life. Believe you deserve to have the best life you can imagine. As you align with Higher Self/Will/Light/ Spirit, your life will become more harmonious and satisfying.

Be Open to allowing and accepting good things into your life.

 There is a higher purpose to your life, a special contribution you came to make. Part of your reason for coming to Earth is to evolve yourself and to serve humanity in some way. You have a special role to fulfil, something to which you are uniquely suited; there is a path that runs through your life that becomes more obvious when you align to Spirit. You will come to realize that as you serve others beings, you will evolve, radiate more light and your soul self will shine through into this world. 

Your soul mission for this life will take on many forms throughout your incarnation on this planet, and indeed it may change from month to month or even week to week, so keep in touch with the Spirit Within as your vision expands, grows and you evolve spiritually. Look towards the subjects and cultures that inspire you, interest you and the skill you are developing to discover your soul mission for this lifetime. Whatever you love to do that brings light and love to others will be some part of your life's purpose and will be aligned with Spirit and the Soul Self.

copywright Stephen Dickey - Mount Erigal,Donegal

Your dreams about your ideal life, bring messages to show you your potential and higher path, so don't dismiss your dreams and fantasies as merely wishful thinking, but honour them as messengers from Spirt and your Higher Self, that deepest part of your being that sends you knowledge of why you are here, and what you came here to do. You will find that the synchronicities and opportunites will come so much more easily when you are linked into Spirit and your Soul self.This is where your intuitive voice comes from, your intuition is another name for the Soul/Higher Self. 

Take action only when it feels open, inviting and you feel this action resonates as something which will nourish your soul/Spirit and personal growth.  Your Higher Self is constantly sending you messages, and these will be very gentle, do not worry, you are rarely asked to make radical changes without many, many simpler suggestions first. 

You are meant to live a joyful life, and you are here to create your dreams, to co-create this world in alliance with Spirit. 

Do what you love and follow your heart, and your intuition in every area of your life and you will be in alignment with Spirit and the Higher Will.

Spirit Within - Artist - Gilbert Williams copywright

 ALIGNING TO SPIRIT  - Orin & Daben

I take a deep breath in 

and connect with my Inner Self

I let go of all my cares

and focus on expanding

my potential

for evolution and growth

as I link with Spirit.

I ask my Higher Self

to show me a synbol

that represents my

highest evolution for this incarnation

I know that whatever picture 

comes to mind

will be the perfect symbol

toimbue with energy

at this time .

I observe my symbol

note what it looks like.

It may be something that

I recognise, or remember

a scene, an object, animal

or patterns of light and energy.

I now imagine that I am

standing in front of this symbol.

I picture energy coming from 

my Higher Self

directly onto this symbol

My symbol is filled with Light

As I look on this symbol

I hold it up to the Great Spirit

I invite the Great Spirit

to come into my symbol

so my path is in alignment with

Great Spirit.

I imagine placing this symbol

on top of a mountain.

I connect it to myself with a path

that stretches in front of me

all the way to the top of the mountain

where my symbol is.

This path represents my Soul path

in this lifetime.

I look at this path, noticing if

it is a long, winding path,

or a steep, direct one.

I visualize a path that is just right for me

I imagine myself going joyfully

along this path

all the way to the top

of the mountain.

I am balanced  and calm

I do not let anything or anyone

pull me off this path.

I now visualize myself

at the top of this mountain.

I congratulate myself

on my single-minded dedication

to my purpose.

I imagine how I feel as I reach

the top of the mountain

manifest my highest potential,

and become a source of light to others.

As I stand on top of the mountain

I visualize my symbol 

in front of me,

radiating light and energy to me,

until every cell of my body

is aligned with my spiritual growth

and higher purpose.

I bring my symbol into my heart

and merge with it completely,

Great Spirit flows through me

and into my life

It flows down into my heart centre.

I surrender to the divine plan for  my life

I am linked to Spirit

and I am in the flow of the Universe

I unfold my highest potential

in this incarnation.