Energy Balancing Tools

Balance your energy, find inner peace, and create healthy boundaries with the Energy Balancing Tools program.

In today’s fast paced, evolving world it’s easy to get knocked off balance, feel stressed and overwhelmed, and take on other people’s energy, emotions and problems. With energy awareness, you can be in the present moment, manage your energy, and easily release what’s not yours.

In this experiential course you will be guided through the following processes:

Centering ~ Finding inner stillness so you can go through your day aware of yourself as a spiritual being, bigger than your thoughts and reactions, and maintain a sense of peace and calm no matter what takes place around you.

Grounding ~ Creating an energy connection between your body and the earth so you can be more present in your body, have an appropriate amount of energy, and easily release emotions, problems and other people’s energy.

Aura Boundaries ~ Being aware of your personal space and owning your aura (the electromagnetic field of energy surrounding your body) so you can create healthy boundaries, keep your energy within your space, and keep other people’s problems and emotions out of your personal space.

Reclaiming Your Energy ~ Easily and quickly calling back all of your energy from people, projects and places so you can be replenished and re-energized during the day.

Energy Cleanse ~ Using a high vibration to energetically cleanse your aura and body, clear your space of foreign energy, and feel refreshed and rejuvenated.The Energy Balancing Tools program includes the 5 sessions listed above plus an introduction and conclusion. It is slighty over an hour long, but you may want to take additional time in between sessions to fully integrate each experience. Implementing these tools and ways of being into your life will support you to feel peaceful, balanced, and in charge of your energy. Give yourself the gift of empowerment!!!!!!

What is meditation?

What is meditation? It is not what this world teaches you. It is not the absence of external sound. It is not a focus on an object. It is not the listening to music, it is not the burning of incense, it is not the idol, it is not a picture. Meditation is you, the incense that you burn and the beautiful sweet smell that is emitted, must teach you to emit that sweetness to the world. But is done when the incense stick is burnt. The smell is not emitted without the burning. Permit yourself to be burnt, knowing that in this burning you emit your sweetness to the world.

The shutting of eyes is not at all essential, unless it points to you that illusion must be blinded to you. Illusion is glamorous, it disguises itself as beauty, yet it is illusion. When you are meditation you blind yourself to all that is illusion. When you are meditation you make yourself deaf to all that which is illusory. When you are meditation you become the idol, you become the picture, you become that energy which to you symbolises divinity.

When you sit in silence that silence is not the absence of noise. That silence is the stilling of the ‘ego’. When every sound that you hear externally means nothing, because the ears are deaf to illusion. When the world around you is bewildered and agitated and means nothing to you because you are blind to illusion.

When you are meditation the flame that you light is your attempt to reach and illuminate your inner core. To let that flame burn so bright that all around will be illuminated. The oil that you put in your small diya has to burn. It must heat and it must evaporate. If the oil is selfish and says, ‘I will not burn, because in this burning I will disappear’, there is no flame. Make yourself the oil that burns, without any thought of your own disappearance. Because you know, that the burning itself is only an illusion. That is meditation.

When you are meditation the flowers that you offer are not mere flowers. They represent that which is in you; Soft and tender, gentle and beautiful, spreading sweetness. And yet the flower knows that ‘in my very beauty lies my death’. The more beautiful the flower, the quicker will someone pluck it and kill it. And the flower is joyous, because it knows that in its death it has spread the sweetness of life to another.

That is meditation!

7 Tips on How to Not Let Stress Affect Your Weight

Is stress affecting your weight loss battle?

Stress brought on by dieting is added to the personal and work life stresses that we face every day, often resulting in a "vicious cycle" of increased stress and increased food intake. People under stress tend to engage in self-defeating and unhealthy behaviors such as binge eating and there is strong biologic evidence that stressed-out people may tend to put on the pounds faster. "I'm stressed, therefore I eat." Many people complain that they overeat in response to workplace or personal stress. If this sounds like you, read the following tips for managing stress-related overeating to help you check this unhealthy habit.

1. Practice waiting. Postpone your instant gratification when hunger hits. Tell yourself you'll wait 10 to 30, minutes to eat. Chances are good if your cravings are only stress-related, they'll disappear when you allow yourself to become distracted.

2. Keep a food journal of what you eat each day. Knowing you have to write down every snack or nibble can be a good way to remind yourself to think before eating.

3. Enlist a friend's help - ideally one who also is tempted by stress-related cravings. When you feel like eating, write him/her a quick note or make a phone call.

4. Keep yourself nourished. Eat regular, healthy snacks to maintain your energy level. Skipping meals while under stress only prompts you to eat more, and unhealthily, when you do get around to eating.

5. Post some reminder messages wherever you're likely to see them when stress-related cravings begin. Use any message that works for you. Examples might be "Are you really hungry?" or "Think about why you're eating."

6. Physically remove tempting food items from your home or office. Never go shopping while hungry and always make a list of food items prior to shopping; bring home only what you feel good about eating.

7. Take time for yourself every day. Whether it's 10 minutes to reflect and relax, or whether it's some fun activity that will revitalize you, it's critical to do it. Health is not just physical, mental well-being is just as important, you deserve to mentally de-stress everyday!

How to Relax

Mind-Body Medical Institute has been studying the relaxation response since the 1970s and has linked its use to reductions in high blood pressure. The idea is simple: just as the body responds to certain cues and situations with a stress response, it can also respond a relaxation response. With 20 minutes a day, you can learn to use the relaxation response to reduce stress and to improve blood pressure.

Difficulty: Easy

Time Required: 20 minutes a day

Here's How:

1.      Sit

Find a comfortable place to sit. Sit with you back straight and feet on the floor. Be comfortable, but alert.

2.      Close your eyes

Just relax. Close your eyes. Let everything fall away.

3.      Breathe in

Breathe in through your nose. Feel the breath fill your body.

4.      Breathe out

Exhale through your nose. Feel your body collapse. Breathe out fully.

5.      Repeat

Continue breathing. After each time your breath in and out, say (or think) the word “One”. Continue for 20 minutes. You can change the word to anything meaningful for you.

6.      Practice daily

Repeat this everyday. Have a set time to do it. Don’t worry about setting an alarm, just have a clock nearby that you can see. If you start drifting in thought, gently return to your breathing.

7.      Mini-relaxations

During your day, stop a few times and ‘do a mini’. Just breathe in and out for about a minute. This will relax you and begin to teach your body how to respond to stress in a calm way.

What You Need:

• Place to sit
• 20 uninterrupted minutes

A Balanced Life

Bring your life into balance with these tips on good nutrition, family fun, and healthy activities.