Posts tagged Perfect Balance
How You Can Experience More Balance and Make Time for What Matters
Sep 25th
Achieving perfect balance in your life can seem as simple as holding a soap bubble in your hand – which it to say, not simple at all. That little soap bubble seems so tangible and real, but as soon as you reach out and touch the glossy surface, it disappears into nothingness.
Achieving balance in your hectic life may seem impossible, but it isn’t as hard as you may think.
First, you must commit to achieving a better balance in your life. This requires you to openly acknowledge that all is not well in your personal kingdom. Resist the urge to tackle all of your problems at once or to do a massive clean sweep of your life. Instead, carefully and calmly assess your current situation.
Mentally walk through an average week of your life. Look at each day and note all of your activities. Consider that your time is a valuable currency. Where are you investing it? What type of return will your actions produce? What is getting overlooked?
There are many reasons a life may feel unbalanced. Maybe the majority of your time is being spent in one area of your life, such as work, while other areas, like family and relationships, beg for attention. Maybe you’ve overcommitted yourself and feel like there’s more on your plate then you can possibly handle. Most of these reasons indicate a loss of command.
Openly assessing your life will clarify exactly where the imbalance is coming from and help you see how you need to go about redeploying your time investments.
Now is the time to act. Prioritize the areas of your life that are most important to you. If family and friends are crying out for more attention, figure out how you incorporate them more into your life. This may mean pushing something else out.
Another benefit of life assessment, is you may be surprised at how much time you spend on things that are not all that important to you, such as watching television or surfing the Internet. Weed out these time wasters and use that time on the things that really matter to you, such as making dinner every night for your family or getting that weekly massage you promised yourself forever ago.
To regain command of your time, utilize simple tools such as daily planners, online calendars and even a small notebook in your purse. The Internet contains a slew of useful tools that can send you alerts and help you track and manage your time more easily. Whether you plug your schedule in online or track it using pen and paper, just create a system that works for you and stick with it.
Good intentions are about as solid as those soap bubbles. Real change comes with commitment and action every single day. After you determine the changes you want to make, begin moving toward your new goals. If your goal is to get eight hours of sleep each night, commit to going to bed an hour earlier. Follow through each and every night.
The more you repeat a positive action, the stronger your good habit becomes.
Give yourself time to make changes and recognize that old habits are difficult to break. A few steps back are to be expected. Just keep moving forward, keeping reminding yourself of your commitments and use the tools available to you to keep you honest.
Lastly, be kind to yourself. Everyone has a little dust under the carpets even if everything sparkles on the surface. Walk your own path and discover a life balance that works for you. Decide what success and productivity looks like to you, and then go for it girl!
Keep your goals in mind and always remember that your time is your own personal currency. You can spend it however you like, but certain investments will offer little or no return, while others will enrich your life beyond your wildest dreams.
Chakra Balancing And Meditation The Essential Tools
Jul 10th
Hindu teachings tell us that the chakras are the important energy centers which are present in every human being. Our chakras are the places at which energy flows through our body. The proper flow of this energy is vital to maintaining our physical, mental and emotional health. You can’t actually see your chakras, but you can see their physical manifestation; major components of our endocrine systems.
Chakras are responsible for regulating the energy that flow into and from our body. This continuous interplay of energy within our body, the environment and objects we come in contact with ultimately requires that our chakras remain in balance in order to be able to function as best as possible for our benefit.
Each of the seven major chakras have their own corresponding functions related to a particular endocrine gland in our body. They are responsible for every sensation, awareness, feeling, sensory and emotional experience we go through as an individual whether positive or negative.
Any kind of stress, whether mental, physical or emotional can negatively affect the balance of our chakras. We can have a loss of energy, even illness as a result of this imbalance. This is a clear sign if there ever was one that our chakras are out of balance.
To get the most of the harmonious function of our chakras, chakra balance must be maintained. Regular chakra balancing is key to keeping in good health, similar to the way that a machine needs preventative maintenance.
Importance of Chakra Balancing: Many different methods can be used to keep our chakras in proper balance. The goal of those who want to lead a happy, healthy and productive life is to keep their chakras in perfect balance with one another.
This all begins with an understanding that each chakra resonates to a different frequency; these frequencies are naturally occurring and help the chakras to perform their important function of transmitting and receiving energy; also known as prana or chi.
During periods of illnesses, our chakras are still functioning but may be out of synch which can hamper the free flow of energy to further aggravate our physical and/or mental and emotional illness. Other contributory factors to the malfunction of our chakra system are undue stress or the inability to cope, suppressed emotions, unhealthy food intake, and lack of exercise.
Though they may be out of synch and not function at their best from time to time, their balance can be restored.
Tools of Chakra Balancing: The methods which are most commonly employed to restore chakra balance are crystals and gems, light, sound, color and aromatherapy.
Colors: Commonly used colors and their corresponding chakras are red (root chakra), orange (sacral chakra), yellow (solar plexus chakra), green and turquoise (heart chakra), blue (throat chakra), violet (crown chakra) and white for all chakras.
Crystals and Gems: For millennia, laying gens, crystals and stones on the body at the location of the chakras has been used to restore chakra balance., Each chakra corresponds to a different color; so laying a stone of this color on the bodily area which corresponds to it can help to reach the proper balance, which in turn helps the body to heal.
The light reflected by these stones can also help by getting this light into the body (and your chakras).
Light: Light therapy employs light not only on the eyes, but also on the reflex points and the meridian points of acupuncture to restore chakra balance. The broad spectrum of light is very beneficial here, including both visible and invisible frequencies, including those corresponding to the chakras.
Aromatherapy: Aromatherapy uses essential oils, scented massage oils and scented bath soaps to assist in the restoration of chakra balance and to help the physical body heal. Aromatherapy can also relieve depression and stress, provide relaxation and aid in meditation.
Sound: Sound therapy utilizes music, tuning forks, quartz, Tibetan singing bowls and other sound creating objects to create a state of well being and to generate frequencies which are resonant with the chakras. Sound has a natural soothing and therapeutic effect due to its direct appeal to the emotions. A beautiful sound can create a state of serenity, while a harsh, discordant on will produce anxiety. Sound can in fact bring about faster healing and a higher state of consciousness.
Chakra balancing up until recently was a quite time consuming process, but recent advances in audio technology such as listening to binaural beat frequencies, subliminal messaging and self-hypnosis meditation recordings have made the process of chakra balancing far easier and quicker for most people.
