My 4 Steps to healing: Practice
Engaging in self-discovery tools is a profound commitment to your personal growth. My support lies in guiding you to establish a daily practice that serves as a cornerstone for physical fitness, mental balance, spiritual connection, and emotional strength. Through my guidance, you'll learn wellness routines, spiritual practices, and movement therapies, gaining the understanding of seamlessly incorporating them into your daily life. Together, we pave the way for a holistic approach to well-being that fosters sustained growth and fulfillment.
My 4 Steps to healing: Become Wise
During my self-discovery, I also discovered the power of Functional Ayurveda for profound healing. Ayurveda, meaning 'knowledge of life,' encourages us to trust in our own bodies' wisdom and experience. Like functional medicine, Ayurveda looks beyond symptoms to address imbalances within the physical, emotional, and energetic bodies, extracting dis-ease from its root.
My 4 Steps to healing: Become Aware
By engaging in inspiring conversations, utilizing a variety of resources, and receiving individual support, we can see the world and ourselves as they truly exist. Through this process, we can gain an understanding of the nature of reality, which generates love and compassion.
winter season in ayurveda
Ayurveda supports an intuitive connection to your body. Stay connected to your natural rhythms this Winter season. Take 5 minutes each day to practice mindfulness of the body. Place your hands on your stomach and heart and check in with your body. How does your body feel? What does your body need?
detaching from dis-ease
It is very challenging, when dealing with illness, to stay positive at times and to trust in the process of your healing. When we are diagnosed with an illness or even a genetic issue it is easy for our egoic mind to attach to the illness or issue.
food for folate
The number one thing to do is to make sure you eat your leafy greens! They are packed full of Folate and do wonders for your health. The second thing that is equally important is to remove folic acid from your diet and supplements.
breaking patterns
How do you know what patterns to change? Seems obvious but sometimes we just don’t realize that something we do is bad for us. We may think we are making a good choice or a different choice when it leads us to the same conclusion.
the importance of self-massage
Benefits of oiling the body:
Reverses aging of the skinBenefits sleep patternsNourishes the bodyStimulates the organsPacifies Pitta and Vata
Tongue Scraping
Benefits of tongue-cleaning:
Removes bacteria and reduces the toxins that cause bad breathAids digestionStimulates the organs
how to heal your nervous system
Ashwaghanda – This is an Ayurvedic herb and is also an adaptogen. Ashwaghanda becomes what you need it to be in the body. It also happens to be an herb that helps your nerves reach out and re-connect with one another. I recommend Banyan Botanical’s Adrenal Nourish; one cap in the morning and one cap at night.
food allergies
Utilize the Food Sensitivity Tracking Template found on enlightenmentpie.com/purifcationprogram to track your eating habits and emotional triggers for thirty days. This will support you in tracking what and when you are eating to better understand how food affects you physically and emotionally. Begin to notice patterns of behavior; i.e. I was stressed so I ate a cookie, or I feel bloated each time I eat cheese. Through food journaling you will begin to see how to change your diet to nurture your body vs. punish it.
activties to heal your lineage
Whether we like it or not; we are our family. We carry their bloodline and more, so we carry the many genetic traits the line has within it. Our level of intelligence, our ability to connect with others, our creativity, our eating habits, our emotions; these are all pieces of the ancestral ‘pie’.
connecting to your emotions
Meditate on your body of glass and to begin to understand the emotions that you carry in your physical body. Utilize the following self-inquiry questions throughout the week to begin to identify your emotional contributors to your weight.
mindfulness of the body activity
How many times have you found a bruise or cut on your body and you do not even remember how it got there? Has your body become stiff or sore and yet you are unsure of what might have caused it? Do you sometimes feel bloated or nauseous and thought perhaps you just weren't feeling well? Do you take aspirin for a headache without wondering why the headache was there in the first place?
create a pie chart for your life
Draw a circle on a piece of paper. This circle represents 100% of your time both awake and asleep. Contemplate what compartments exist in your life and how much time you are spending on each.
Self-inquiry
The art of self-study can help you understand the patterns in your life; why you need them and how to break the pattern. Once you are able to overcome the ‘destructive emotions’ that arise with self-inquiry; you will find release, acceptance and forgiveness.
journaling
Do you keep a diary or write in a journal? You may have two or three journals you have either bought, or been given, just lying around your house.
contemplation
When you are completing self-inquiry exercises you will want to use contemplation to gather information. You ask yourself a question and then you think about it. Our first reaction to a question asked of oneself is usually reactionary and from the egoic mind.
sacred space
A sacred space is defined as a space distinguished from all other spaces. A space where all the actions, thoughts and intentions within this space can bear spiritual meaning. Sacred space is where you can meditate, journal, throw an oracle card or even just sit in contemplation.
meditation
Meditation is the act of coming in to the present moment through breath and focused intention. Meditation is where we connect to our Truth. Truth with a capital T is defined by one of the Yamas in the Yoga Sutra, Satya. Satya encourages us to live and speak our truth at all times. This idea of truth is about understanding the difference between making a judgment through one’s own perception and actual observation of reality or the facts of a situation through growing self-awareness.