Wellness Every Day
Any regimen designed to promote wellness must take a human being’s complex nature into consideration. It must promote balance and harmony and promote positive attitudes and relationships. That means your regimen must consist of things you will do and things you will avoid doing.
Avoid doing things that have a negative impact on your health and wellness. These could be anything from self-doubt and negative relationships to hazardous chemicals. It might help to make a list of the things that you think have a negative influence on your life and contribute to disease. Then stop worrying about them. Instead, pick out those things you could change with little or no effort and make a commitment to do so immediately.
Next, pick out the things that have a negative influence on your life but would be hard to change immediately. Begin changing them by releasing the distorted energy that supports them. Finally, for those things you can’t change, find a way to change your relationship to them. For example, if you drive to work and you’re continually caught in traffic distract yourself by learning a new language.
Avoid lumping stressful events and stressful people together. Instead, spread them out and budget your time so you can return to relaxing activities as quickly as possible. Pay attention to your body and slow down when it gives you warning signals such as a backache or a headache.
Of course, it’s essential to avoid dwelling on negative things. Instead, find time to do the things that reduce stress and make you feel good. Even if you only have a few minutes, you can practice yogic breathing or take a negative ion bath.
Regularity is important, so be consistent. Start each day with chakra balancing and a short meditation. Twenty to thirty minutes is enough to start the day right. Have a hearty and nutritious breakfast. Try to make breakfast the biggest meal of the day. If you have free time between breakfast and lunch, practice mental projection. If you’re walking between appointments, try the exercise the walking yogic breath. As you walk, inhale deeply for four steps (taking a deep yogic breath), and exhale deeply for four steps. Keep breathing in this rhythm, without separation between inhalation and exhalation. If you practice the walking yogic breath regularly, in a short time you will find it easier to remain centered in your subtle field and you will experience more vitality radiating through your body.
Lunch should be your second-largest meal, and you should try to eat it at the same time each day. Remember that regularity at meal times cues the body clocks and keeps them rhythmic. Try to take some time to relax after you’ve eaten.
Daily exercise is an important part of a daily regimen of good health. So, take every opportunity to exercise. Start a weekly workout schedule. To stay in peak condition, you should exercise vigorously (work up a sweat) at least three times a week. However, for those of you who haven’t done strenuous exercise in some time, or for those of you who are over forty, begin by seeing a doctor and be sure to take a stress test. A stress test will tell you the condition of your cardiovascular system. Always begin an exercise program slowly, and always stretch before and after you exercise. Consult a fitness expert before you embark on a comprehensive exercise program or pick up books on the subject. They will give you hints on what to do and what not to do.
Dinner should be the smallest meal of the day. Try to put aside one day of the week to fast. If this is too much in the beginning, then start by fasting for dinner one day a week.
The time after dinner is a perfect time to unwind and do a long, healing meditation. It’s also the perfect time for the family to get together, so try to arrange a family meditation once or twice a week.
Once every two weeks create the mutual field of prana with your partner and children. All of you will benefit immeasurably from meditating and sharing prana with one another. Not only will it bring you closer together, it will also make your meditations more profound because of the dynamics of the group.
Avoid stimulants and get the rest you need each night by getting sufficient sleep. And remember: to achieve wellness, always strive to stay in balance and in harmony with your environment and the world around you.
A Final Note
Spiritual healing is an ancient art and science. Those of you who learn its techniques and practice will be stretched to the limits of your creativity. The healer, by becoming a channel of healing energy, transcends the finite and becomes a conduit for infinite love and power. Those of you who have a sincere desire to be healed and to heal others must follow your desire to be of service and to heal. Your desire is your key. Use it to open your inner doors through which your vast resources of healing power will flow.