Healthy Holiday Habits

 Happy Holidays!

I love this time of year and it can also be stressful. We've been through a time change which can throw body rhythms off, New England weather is all over the place and then all of sudden the holidays are here. Below are a few ideas to keep this holiday season healthy.

I have been measuring my stress and energy levels, heart rate variability and more with an app called Welltory - www.welltory.com  The numbers are not where I would like them as healing from Lyme and co-infections has been challenging. However, this app is quite thorough and relatively inexpensive and gets to know you and your patterns. It is a tool to increase awareness of how your body is handling a normal day, a workout day or a stressful day.

Cooks Hook-Ups is an energy exercise that has been used for decades. The Cook Method, developed by Dr. Wayne Cook, a chiropractor and expert in electromagnetic energy, is an exercise that helps shift energy from the survival center in the left back brain region to the reasoning center in the mid-brain.
This shift decreases stress, improves reading ability, helps create clear listening and speaking skills, increases attention span and improves overall balance and coordination.

Part 1 

In a sitting position, cross your LEFT FOOT over your RIGHT KNEE.

Place your RIGHT HAND over your LEFT ANKLE BONE.

Wrap your LEFT HAND around the ball of your foot so that your fingers reach around the little toe to cover the top of your foot. 

Put your tongue on the roof of your mouth and breathe in through your
nose. As you breathe out, let the tongue relax.

Repeat the breathing 7 times.

Part 2

Release your leg and sit comfortably.

Put your fingertips together and breathe as above 7 times. 

This exercise can be done any time you feel sad, angry, frustrated or
confused. Emotional centering is just one of many wonderful rewards with
Cook Hook-Ups.

 

Water, water, water! Often when we are tired, hungry, irritable, we just need water. Recently I started drinking hydrogen water to increase my overall energy, especially with my brain. I will report back with an assessment when I have used the hydrogen water for a period of time. Meanwhile, if you are interested:

www.hydrohealth.com

 

Fall Tune Up Time

I love New England in the Fall! I can still wear my flip flops even though I have on jeans and a sweater. Boots are close by and ready, though. I need to add blankets at night because the temperature usually drops, and I feel extra cozy. I get to cook my favorite soups and stews. In fact, I have beef stew smells wafting into my office as it cooks in the crock pot.

Fall is also a great time to bring back some of the simple, energy exercises that support the immune system.

Thymus Spleen Tap and The "Tarzan Tap"

• Get your energy moving

• Boost immune system

• Increase your vitality

The Tarzan Tap can be done with your fist or 4 fingers of one hand, tapping the sternum below the throat, over your thymus gland.

Tap for around 20 seconds several times a day.

 

The Thymus Spleen Tap adds your other hand tapping over your spleen which is on the left side of the body where the ribs stick out and below the nipple line.

Tap over the Thymus Gland and the Spleen at the same time for about 20 seconds, several times a day. If you want, add a tap over the liver on the right side.

ZIP UPS - Strengthening Central Meridian

Central Meridian is an energy pathway in your body that runs from the pubic bone to the lower lip. This meridian energizes your brain and your eyes. This exercise is especially helpful for those who do a great deal of thinking and reading and for children who have learning difficulties.

This exercise also helps protects the body from negative energies.

"Flush" Central Meridian by bringing your hand up the pathway - zipping up - 3 to 4 times.

On the final flush, I like to to twist my hand at the lower lip to lock in the energy. It looks like I am turning a lock on a door.

 

An Energy Boost Exercise

There can be many days when your energy feels "off" or drained. You many feel some brain fog. It happens to everyone. Luckily there are many simple exercises that can be done in  1 - 2 minutes that can boost or balance the energy in your body.

HOOK UPS ENERGY BOOST

• Place your thumb or middle finger on your forehead between the eyebrows and the other in your belly button

• Slightly pull up the skin in both places, close your eyes and take a deep breath and relax.
  

•  Continue until you take a spontaneous deep breath or sigh.

The Hook Ups connect the energy between your head and you body, connect Central and Governing Meridian and strengthen your aura. 

 

A Simple Polarity Exercise

The following is a daily energy exercise to help keep you clear, focused and integrated.

• Start with your feet together;

• Place the thumb of each hand on the baby fingernail of each hand (looks like the Boy Scout/Girl Scout salute);

• Place the 3 fingers of each hand on your forehead;

• Bring you feet apart and keep them apart;

• Take your hands off of your forehead and massage below your clavicle (collar) bone, close to the mid-line of the body. This is a Kidney Meridian point that will also energize your eyes.
  
  
  
  

When you take a deep cleansing breath or feel that you are done, bring your feet together.

Doing this exercise will integrate the right and left side of the brain and body, allow for a cross-patterning energy flow, thus making you electrical. This exercise also re-balances the polarity (+ and - ions) in your body. It is like putting in fresh batteries! 

Figure 8 Energy Flow Exercise

 Figure Eight (8) Energy Flow 

Energy travels in, around and from your body. It functions very much like the historic Energizer Bunny ... when you are in a balanced state.

Your energy constantly moves, crossing and recrossing the middle of your body in a figure 8 pattern. The energy flows not only across your shoulders, hips and legs, but also within every joint, including the joints of the fingers and toes. When this energy is blocked or interrupted, you become aware that you don’t feel quite right. You might experience headaches, dizziness, pain in the joints or even a feeling of vulnerability.

The Figure 8 Energy Flow Exercise increases energy circulation throughout the body as well as increasing your protective force field around the body. This is especially helpful for those who are highly sensitive to people and environment. This exercise gives you a protective bubble and support so that negative energy bounces off or goes around you, instead of through you. 

EXERCISE ( 1 - 3 minutes)

• Place two fingers of one hand on your navel and the palm of the other hand on your forehead. Hold this connection for about a minute or until you feel pulsing under your fingertips or hand.

• Focus on taking deep breaths.
  

• Once you feel pulsing or you take a deep cleansing breath, change hands and repeat the exercise.

You will notice that the position you are holding looks very much like a figure 8.  8's are recognized in healing because 8 energy flows throughout your body, around your body and throughout all body systems and circuits. To learn more, read any of Donna Eden's books, watch her video's on YouTube and also explore Prune Harris's YouTube videos. The graphic below is credited to Prune Harris, a wonderful healer and teacher.