Reflexology For The Spirit

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Stress Busting Starts Here!

Let’s face this right now.  Diets are stressful.

So is everything else when you’re dieting.

Even before you settle on the diet you’re going to adopt, find your stress busters.  .

The bottom line is this:  choose activities to do when you feel stressed.  You don’t want to eat to combat stress.

Choose your healthy coping mechanism from dancing, gardening, journaling, meditating, puzzles, reading, singing, volunteering.

If you are a member of the right gym, you’ll be able to take advantage of stress busting activities offered.  These may include yoga, zumba, spinning, and dozens of other activities.

Cultivate simple things you can do at home and at work to lift your spirits.  These can include midday walks and  playing relaxing music.

The idea is to have activities which don’t include munching on nuts and candies.

Walking 10,000 steps daily is a good stress reducing goal.

A weekly bodywork session can only be good for you and your diet success.  Of course, I recommend reflexology, reiki therapy, or mindfulness meditation.

Your options are in the hundreds.  Choose the most relaxing options for you and your lifestyle.

Two effective stress-reducing habits which can help you include keeping an appointment calendar and an ongoing to-do list.

Life is filled with small stressors which can be avoided with a calendar and a list.

For example, with a to-do list at the grocery store, you won’t leave out a key ingredient for a meal.  This seems like a small enough thing but if you’re stressed already, that missing item can be the one that complicates your life.

A calendar will make sure you don’t miss an appointment.   Your life can be streamlined and easier if you use it to help you shop, keep up with friends and relatives, make appointments.

In reality, you’ll lose less time because you forgot something or someone.

When you include a gym membership in the mix with the calendar and the to-do list, you’ll be much more organized.    You’ll be more physically fit.  Your new diet will be an easier experience.

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Thurman Greco

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Your Sleep Sanctuary

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Better sleep includes getting enough sleep at night and  waking  gently in the morning.  That’s what alarm clocks and cell phone alarms are for.  Use them to remind you to begin to calm down in the evening and to gently wake you in the morning.

Sleep Encouraging  Techniques for you

As you journey down the path toward a better night’s sleep, don’t think of your bedroom as just a bedroom.  Think of it as your sleep sanctuary.

Some people report they get to sleep easier if they use a diffuser   with a lavender essential oil.  You may want to try this.  Lavender is one of the most popular and calming essential oils out there but not everyone likes it.

If you like lavender, you can use it knowing that studies find lavender essential oil improves your mood, decreases the heart rate, lowers the skin temperature and   blood pressure a bit.

A bonus here is that lavender is not one of the most expensive essential oils.  So, this may be an economical solution for you.

Do you have any plants in your bedroom?  If not, you may want to add one or two.  They purify the air as  they reduce mold,  filter toxins, release oxygen at night.  And, plants are fun to look at.

Lower Lighting is Important for a Good Night’s Rest.

As you prepare for sleep each night, lower the lights in your sleep sanctuary.  Bright lights  just before getting into bed can trick you into wakefulness.  You need light as you get ready for bed, but you just don’t need so much.

When You are Ready to go to Sleep, Turn out the Lights.

Then, when you get into your bed, set your intention.  My intention is always for a deep, healing, relaxing sleep so that I will wake up refreshed in the morning when it is time to get up.

Follow your intention with a short breathing exercise .

Begin this sleep breathing by getting comfortable in your bed.  Take a deep breath and hold it for an extra moment.  When you release this breath, focus on releasing  all tension and worries.  Blow them far away.  With the next breath, let go of any discomfort your body is holding.  With every exhale, focus on the word “relax”.

Breathe in peace…breathe out relax.

Hold your breath for a moment and then repeat:  Breathe in peace…breathe out relax.

Now, breathe in peace…breathe out relax.

Finally, enjoy your final peace breath and then breathe out relax.

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Thurman Greco

 

Self-Care for you, Reflexologist – 2

Working a full day is challenging.  Only  another body worker or healer knows what a  day full of appointments means to you, the reflexologist –  physically,  spiritually, mentally, emotionally.

There are things you  can do to minimize the fatigue encountered on just such a day.

One thing you can do that will help immensely is  release the  appointment when your client partner’s session comes to an end.

What you want is to release the person, the issues, the intention, the time spent to the universe.

When you do this, do not forget to “cut the cords” between you and the person to emphasize that the session is over.

You have done what you can for this person in the time allotted during the session.  It’s time now for him/her to accept your healing efforts and return to  the  world.

Once you release the person, both the your client partner’s body and  issues are gone from you until the next appointment.

The whole release may not take but a few moments.  A suggestion is that you write a script for release and mentally repeat it as each client partner leaves your table.

If you are a ceremony person, you may write a ceremony of release to practice in your space at the end of each shift.  This ceremony may include essential oils, smudging, prayer, Reiki therapy.

This releasing gesture seems easy enough but many people don’t do it.  This release makes a  difference in your health, your energy, your career.

Whatever you do, it’s important to  release each and every client partner who comes to your table.

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Jennette Nearhood provided the artwork for this blog.

Thurman Greco

4 Things You Can Do To Breathe Properly

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While it’s true that we don’t come into embodiment with a book of instructions, I wish we did at least show up knowing how to breathe.

Many of us breathe much too shallowly which  keeps the body tight.  Relaxation is difficult and body functions have a tendency to be stagnant.  This makes all the little mundane things we do everyday  much harder.

In the ideal situation, a person breathes slowly, deeply, consciously.

When you breathe slowly,

your mind relaxes,

your body purifies,

your energy level increases,

you maintain a sense of well-being.

When you breathe properly, you exercise your intuitive skills.  Many people mistakenly believe they are not intuitive when, in fact, they are.  The problem is they are breathing so shallowly that their body is too uptight to know when the intuitive sense is working.

If you feel you aren’t breathing properly, take yoga classes.  Find a yoga teacher who will admit that s/he can teach proper breathing techniques.

OR

Take some breathing classes from a breath instructor if you can.  That’ll only make you a better reflexology practitioner or client-partner.

OR

Singing classes may be an option for you as well.

OR

Set aside 2-3 minutes a day in which you simply breathe mindfully.  To do this, begin by sitting comfortable in a quiet, safe place.

Focus on your breathing.  It may help to close your eyes here for a couple of minutes.

Find a place on your body where you can actually feel yourself breathing.  That may be your nose,  your abdomen or your diaphragm.

Now – just pay attention to your own breathing and nothing else.  Notice the quality of each breath, how your body moves, how it feels to  breathe.

As you do this, you should begin to feel some burdens lifting and some stress melting.

Try doing this exercise daily for several weeks.  This may be something  you find yourself doing daily over a long period of time.  Or, this may be something that eventually becomes a meditative exercise for you.

In the meantime, try to spend a few minutes each day consciously breathing in through your nose and out through your mouth.  As you do this, be aware of your abdominal muscles contracting as you inhale.  As you exhale through your mouth, feel your abdomen softening, expanding.

Some behaviors indicate poor breathing habits:

yawning a lot during the day

taking a lot of deep breaths,

holding your breath mid-conversation,

poor posture

When this happens, you may not be getting enough carbon dioxide in your blood or not enough oxygen to your brain.

Notice your own breathing each day and observe how your client-partners breathe.  Encourage better breathing habits for both you and your client-partners.

Guideline:  Breathe slowly, deeply, consciously.

Thank you for reading this blog/book.  I hope you will enjoy this  next series of posts which make up the wellness part of the textbook.

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Peace and food for all.

Thurman Greco