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Energetic Reflections
Summer Sanctuary is a a 5-week series of Energy Medicine videos to help you care for your Fire all summer long. Feel healthy, be present and enjoy the fullness of what summer brings.
Feeling like you can’t really stay present through Summer’s endless activities?
The fourth video in this series I discuss and demonstrate five techniques to ground yourself.
Summer Sanctuary is a a 5-week series of Energy Medicine videos to help you care for your Fire all summer long. Feel healthy, be present and enjoy the fullness of what summer brings.
Feeling hormonal havok and need help to stay with yourself?
The third video in this series I discuss and demonstrate five quick ways to work with your energy systems that link with your hormones.
Summer Sanctuary is a a 5-week series of Energy Medicine videos to help you care for your Fire all summer long. Feel healthy, be present and enjoy the fullness of what summer brings.
Is stress affecting your sleep, immune system, and your ability to feel good?
The second video in this series I discuss and demonstrate five techniques to calm triple warmer meridian.
Summer Sanctuary is a a 5-week series of Energy Medicine videos to help you care for your Fire all summer long. Feel healthy, be present and enjoy the fullness of what summer brings.
If you are feeling stressed or rundown…do NOT overlook the quality of your sleep!
The first video in this series I discuss and demonstrate easy energy techniques you can do as you are going to bed to help make it easier to fall asleep and have a restful night.
I tell my family, 'I go by feel' when I am trying to describe or decide about something. When summer rolls around I’m always struck by the feeling of time passing quickly. Even though I imagine those 'lazy days of summer', it doesn't end up like that!
We just past the Summer Solstice marking the longest amount of daylight in the year. Feels like summer is full of ‘extras’, extra sunlight, extra playfulness, extra time off. The energy of summer feels fun, full, and fast. How many times do you get to the end of summer and say, ‘the summer flew by!’
As time feels like it’s moving quickly, how do you feel good in your body and enjoy the moment that you are in?
Here we are at the end of a school year and the beginning of summer. For all the mamas out there, this is a big transition time! To me it’s a marker of my kids getting yet another year older and timing whizzing by. I used to feel really sad, guilty and self-critical this time of year—thinking to myself: ‘I haven’t done enough as a mom’ or ‘I wasn’t present enough for my kids’. I would get crabby, short tempered with my family and what was really going on was I felt really panicked inside—thinking ‘how am I messing up this part of my life that I hold most dear?’ Super tough on myself, I know. Through this process I wasn’t showing up for myself or my family in the way I really wanted to. Can anyone relate?
Beth Lynch of Roots and Wings Energy in Evanston, IL was recently interviewed on the podcast “Families Seeking Wellness with Dr. Stephanie Maj” - Mom-Centered Tools for Energy Balance with Beth Lynch, EEM-CLP, APN, RN
Well it’s a few weeks now into the new year, how is everything going? New Year’s Resolutions in full swing? Or you’ve already bagged those ideas!
For me, new changes can all get burned out very quickly if I live by the old paradigm of ‘keeping up’ and comparing to everyone else. This is where I’ve found pacing comes in.
We are always in such a hurry to ‘get there’, achieve, and do it all better and faster than the next person.
What are we rushing for?
I think Spring is almost here?! We have had just a few glimpses of the feeling of Spring and the response I see is everyone running around outside, finally! Like my 6 year son says, “It’s supposed to be spring, but it feels like winter!”
I am finally feeling the urge to emerge after the winter of hibernation. I’m recognizing that I’m not able to do anything that’s not authentic to me so that’s why you haven’t heard from me in a while!
In the energy world of cycles, the season of Winter is the Rhythm of Water, very Yin, internal, deep and reflective. As we enter Spring, it’s the Rhythm of Wood, which is Yang, all about expression, assertiveness, moving forward, sprouting branches and getting out into the world! Here we go!
So on that Spring note…
It reminds me of the importance and deep meaning of being grounded. What does that really mean anyway?
Who’s in charge of your energy? You or everyone else? I’m here to say it’s all you.
You can decide how your energy is spent (I have to remind myself of this often) and how it is restored. It’s a beautiful thing when that tipping point happens and you ‘get it’ that YOU are truly the only person that will take care of you. So, you’d better start paying attention! Ha! How’s that for bold and outspoken?
I’ve learned that each of us need to take care of ourselves because when we don’t it ends up impacting everyone around us. Especially those that are closest to us and we care deeply about. For instance, when I’m not getting enough sleep, or fulfilling everyone else’s needs & ignoring my own, or my thoughts are running those negative tapes, I end up with a headache & snapping at my kids and then the downward spiral happens from there.
On the flip side if I am working on how I can take care and nourish myself, that also leads to a ripple effect--impacting everyone around me, but in a positive way! I am more playful, I can laugh at myself and have a grounded perspective. That grounding thing is helpful when you have everyone’s energy coming at you from all sides. Helps you to stay connected within yourself and not get pulled into everyone else’s crap!
I love this quote. Especially for the New Year. There is no other expectation that anything should be any different than it currently is. This allow you to jump in right in. No judgement or prerequisites. Here in the present. Not based on the past and without worry for the future.
The energy of the New Year has this feeling of a fresh start, clean slate, another chance. Not that we can’t make changes or reinvent ourselves everyday but why not flow with the momentum of the beginning of the year with some of that collective energy?
To me, it’s not about New Years Resolutions either. I’m not sure I know what that is anyway. I think it’s more about becoming what you want to get. I know--that one needs to sink in a little.
Like Wayne Dyer, who has been called The Father of Motivation, said, "I attract what I am, not what I want."
I’m into self- empowerment. Enough of this victim mentality or blame game. Learning and using tools to help yourself feel the way you want to feel in your life. I keep repeating to myself and my kids, ‘Try to focus on what you DO want, instead of what you don’t want!’
Your body knows the way and can give you messages through intuitive signals and your energy systems. What am I talking about?
