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Some Fabulous Exercises to Strengthen and Tone Your Wrists
Sep 28th
Strong wrists are very important for providing you with a firm grip and strengthening the muscles around your hands. Moreover, well built and strong wrists are less prone to fractures as compared to weak ones. Not only strong wrists help you achieve good results in many sports, but they are also very useful in avoiding certain diseases such as carpal tunnel syndrome. Therefore, it is very important that you especially focus on strengthening your wrists and maintaining strong muscles around your hands to avoid injuries, fractures and diseases.
Resistance training can play a vital role in strengthening and toning your wrists’ muscles. There are different weight exercises that especially focus on firming muscles around your wrists in just 6-8 weeks. If you are a beginner, it is important to perform wrist exercises in the supervision of a professional gym trainer. He not only will design you a right combination of weight exercises to transform and strengthen your wrists, but will also show you how to perform them safely. It is important to keep in your mind that many wrist exercises need a right angle and perfect technique to execute them safely. Otherwise, you could end up with torn wrist muscles or can even damage your wrist bones.
Among different wrist workouts, push-ups make a wonderful exercise to incorporate in your daily training session. You can perform slow push-ups on your fingertips to strengthen and tone your wrists. During this wonderful exercise, make sure that your fingers stay firm and straight. Another good way to shape your wrists is to grasp a tennis ball in your right hand, squeeze and hold it for 10 seconds. You can do 3 sets of 15 each. Repeat the same process with your left hand.
If you want to strengthen and tone your wrists with weight exercises, hold a small weight bar in your hands, which is specifically designed for wrists’ exercises, with weight plates on each side. Make sure that your palms are firm and facing up. Next step is to slowly bend your wrists upward and then lower the weight handle to its starting position. If you feel a little stress or strain on your wrists, it is better to add the weight plates to weight bar to increase the difficulty level of this magnificent exercise. 3 sets of 20 each make a good routine to be incorporated, 3-5 times a week in your regular training session to shape and tone your wrists.
Among “Do-it-Yourself” exercises, you can place your forearm on a table or a smooth surface with your thumb pointed towards the ceiling. Next step is to move your wrist down and up. Another effective exercise to strengthen your wrists is to lock your elbow against your side and turn your palm down to the floor and then up to the ceiling.
Chakra Balancing Meditation – Read and Relax Right Away
Sep 23rd
When the chakras are out of alignment it can often lead to having a life out of alignment too. When the chakras are out of balance they can reveal the discord in all sorts of ways – illness, bad moods, emotional baggage, uncertainty, and many other life issues. A chakra balancing meditation can help bring those pieces of you back into alignment and get back on track. Below is a very simple process for you to try, it is an easy meditation to guide yourself through.
To get started, get into a comfortable position. This can either be lying down or sitting in a chair, whatever is more comfortable for you. Once you are comfortable you will need to take a few moments to relax your body further. Starting at the tips of your toes, picture a soft, warm, white light travelling slowly up your body. As it moves your muscles begin to relax. It travels up your feet, easing any tension. The white light continues over your ankles, leaving your feet relaxed. It continues to move up your calves and knees, which warms and melts away any discomfort or tension. The soft glowing light move up your thighs and hips, it fills your pelvic bowl with warm and comforting light. You feel your muscles soften and release as the light continues over your belly and lower back. The warm light moves up your chest and shoulders releasing those muscles. The light flows down your arms and out your fingertips. The warmth travels up your neck and around your skull. It flows over your face releasing your muscles, allowing your face to be completely relaxed.
Now allow your attention to go down to the bottom of your spine. This is the place where the base chakra sits. The base chakra is red in color. Take a moment to explore your red chakra and see how bright it is. See how fast or how slowly it is spinning. See if there are any messages here for you. This chakra is connected to your base life needs. Clean off this orb, brighten it up, and get it spinning clockwise.
Move your attention up your body to a place somewhere between your pelvic bowl and your navel. This is the sacral chakra. It is orange in color. Explore this power center and see what comes up. How bright or dim is this point? See how fast or slow it is spinning. This chakra is connected to creativity and to desire. Clean off this orb, brighten it up, and get it spinning clockwise.
As your two bottom chakras continue to spin, move up to your solar plexus. This is the chakra of will. It is yellow in color. Pay attention to any messages that come to you from here. Is this point spinning quickly or slowly? How bright it is? Clean off this orb, brighten it up, and get it spinning clockwise.
Move your attention up to your heart. This is the heart chakra and it is green in color. This chakra is connected to love and compassion. How bright is this center? How fast is it spinning? Pay attention to any messages you get here. Clean off this orb, brighten it up, and get it spinning clockwise.
Allow your focus to continue moving up your body as your lower chakras continue to spin and glow in their respective colors. Let your attention come to rest at your throat. This is the blue power center connected to communication. What messages are waiting for you here? How fast or slow is the spin? How bright is the glow? Clean off this orb, brighten it up, and get it spinning clockwise.
Move your attention up to your third eye region – right in the middle of your forehead. This is the chakra of psychic abilities. It is purple in color. How fast is it spinning? How bright does it glow? Pay attention to any messages that are waiting for you here. Clean off this orb, brighten it up, and get it spinning clockwise.
Finally move up to your crown, the top of your head. This chakra is connected to the higher powers and is violet in color. How fast or slow is it moving? Check the brightness of the color. Pay attention to any messages that are waiting for you here. Clean off this orb, brighten it up, and get it spinning clockwise.
When you have finished moving through all of the chakra centers, feel what it is like to have all your chakras clean and spinning. Allow that energy to move through your entire body. You should feel energized and refreshed. This chakra balancing meditation can be done at least once a week to help your energy centers and to help you stay more in balance.
