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Healing and self healing
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Breathing is more importance than diet
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Building up more muscle mass will increase your basic rate of energy consumption even when you aren’t running. Don’t be surprised if at first you actually gain weight after starting |
| your exercise program: muscles weigh more than fat tissue. However, after three to four months, your weight will have levelled off at your “competition weight”. | |
| Ideally, in spite of any weight gain due to building muscle mass, this should be near your ideal weight (110 lbs plus 4 lbs for every inch over 5 feet; i.e. for 5 feet 9 inches, 110 lbs + 9 times 4 lbs = 146 lbs). If your weight was much higher than that before you started working out and you can’t seem to get there, that’s okay. Also, if this is the case, you shouldn’t try to starve yourself until the last ounce of fat is gone. Rather, you should make sure you feel good and that you exercise regularly. While it is true that breathing is more important than food, it’s also true that deep breathing, as you do when exercising, which provides your body with more oxygen, is more important than dieting. The problem with dieting is that you’re scaling down on the food supply. After the diet is over and you’re back to “normal” eating, however, you will put on that weight even faster. This is what is known as the yo-yo effect _ it’s that simple. Your metabolism cannot reach a balanced state. It needs exercise and an ongoing, high rate of energy consumption to achieve that. | |
Energy life and balance light
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| one of the best energizers there is. Standing on your toes strengthens your feet and ankles and relieves congestion, stagnation and fluid retention in the legs (Life). To stand on tiptoe and look up calls for balancing skills that sharpen the brain (Light). If your sight or hearing is impaired you will find balancing a challenge, so hold on to something, or practice with your back against a wall for support.SQUATTING To begin squatting, try leaning against a wall for support. Keep your heels a little way away from the wall to help you balance. Stand with your feet apart and hands on hips. Align the spine and tighten the muscles of the lower trunk. Breathe OUT as you bend your knees to the sides and lower into a squat, keeping your spine upright. Breathe IN as you rise to standing again. Avoid bending forward as you lower yourself down – hold on to the edge of a table if needed. STANDING STRETCH
1 Stand tall, aligning your spine and distributing the weight wvwnly on both feet. Tighten the muscles of the lower trunk (life) for strength to stretch up and open chest (Love). 2 Breathe IN, raising arms to sides and overhead, and coming on to your toes. Breathe OUT to lower arms and heels. Repeat vigorously until glowing with energy. |
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The nervous system
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Running a wonderful challenge and the best medicine
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Have you ever wondered at how many people nowaday manage to run a marathon? All over the world, weekend after weekened, an ever-increasing number of people take on this challenge, even though it is not entirely without risk. Why is this? Among citizens of the Western hemisphere, the marathon has become an adventure that ranks among the top things people would like to experience at least once in their lifetimes. |
| “If you want to run, run a mile. But if you want to experience an entirely new life, run a marathon!”
This concise description of the marathon experience stems from none other than Email Zatopek, also known as the “Czech locomotive”, the incredible runner and multiple Olympic champion, and he really couldn’t have described it any better: The historical origins of the marathon are shrouded in legend. The story begins with the death of an ancient athlete who died as a results of running from Marathon to Athens in order to deliver the message of a Greek victory over the Persians. And yet that original distance was not even as long as today’s 26 miles and 385 yards. During the 1908 Olympic games in london, the British Queen ordered the distance extended by 385 yards. so that the runners would have to pass by the Royal Box. This led to the modern distance, which is still valid to this day. Today, the mythical marathon has turned into a symbol for the modern, prosperous citizen, who takes the ancient challenge in order to connect with the heroic. Indeed, a marathon requires all the qualities that count in today’s achievement-oriented society: persistence, strength, stamina, motivation, patience, good selfassessment and, last but not least, the ability to endure something painful in order to come out stronger than before. And just as in other aspects of life, the marathon’s special appeal lies in the fact that you never know for sure in advance: the surprise effect can be intense, since your performance party depends on luck and the shape you are the shape you are in on a given day. This adds further to the fascination of an actually quite predictable challenge. |
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Chakras
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We can change the state of our autonomic nervous system from the fright-fight-flight syndrome to “all is well” by working with the chakras. Use awareness, movement and stillness in those areas of the body that feel closed or weak and are in need of energy. healing AND rebalancing. THE THREE LIFE CHAKRAS 2 At the sacrum. This chakra is concerned with sexual/social interaction. Here we enjoy (positive) or shrink from (negative) the company of others. Yoga helps us to have more fun and friendship in our lives. 3 Behind the navel. This chakra is concerned with self-cinfidence. Here wo work to succeed (positive) or are absessed woth self-image (negative). Yoga helps us to live our lives with enthusiasm and commitment. THE TWO LOVE CHAKRAS 5 Situated behind the throat (and including speech and hearing). This chakra is concerned with creative communication. We express our thoughts and feelings while listening to those of others (positive) or we choose to “hide behind words” without hearing (negative). Yoga helps us to share our truth more honestly. THE TWO LIGHT CHAKRAS 7 Situated on the crown. This chakra is concerned with our attitudes and spiritual purpose. We grow in wisdom (positive) or stagnate in self-centredness (negative). Yoga helps us to relax and embrace ourselves and others. |
Breathing exercises
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unexpected exertion such as running for a bus. Peaceful, rhythmical breathing engages the lower part of the chest and especially the diaphragm. Yogic three-part breathing uses all the breathing muscles around the bottom, middle and top of the lungs. Stand, sit or lie and settle your breathing before you start. just three deep yogic breaths may be enough to trigger the “all is well” response when we are feeling stressed. This is the quickest and easiest way to control our nervous system and to calm it down when our mind and emotions have revved it up. All yoga techniques exercise and relax mind and body. Alternate nostril breathing also restores the balance between them. Being too introverted makes us depressed or mentally exhausted and being to extroverted makes us physically exhausted. Mind and body are designed to work in harmony. People who spend too much time “in their heads” as well as those undergoing physical exhaustion, trauma or a life crisis, can benefit greatly from this simple exercise, followed by deep relaxation. You need to practice it on a day-to-day basis though, before turning to it in a crisis. Build up the number of rounds very gradually. |
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