The Healthy Living Lounge

By Carole Fogarty

Comfort on the Go: A regular feature:

Chaos may frequent your life often or visit your weeks occasionally, either way a quick exit from these over stressful times is needed.

You simply need a few proven, reliable and time saving solutions waiting safely in your well being tool box that you call on and use in an instant.

I’m all for simplicity and low maintenance. If its low maintenance it means I can get the well being benefits I need without any fuss, worry or wasting time and energy.

If it’s simple then I can easily understand and create my desired outcomes with delightful ease, grace, lightness and flow. Simplicity rocks!

Child Pose - Balasana:

Dehjahthoris

Above is a picture of child pose. I’m addicted to this pose and probably don’t do it often enough. When my children see me doing this they know its time to leave me alone for a few minutes. You can find me doing it on the kitchen floor, in the lounge, outside in the garden or even at a friend’s house.

It’s my personal quick fix healthy living tool and I have added it to our personal Well Being Tool Box

Symbolic and energetic benefits from this nurturing pose:

• turns your back to the world
• allows your five senses to withdraw from the events around you
• draws your focus and awareness inwards connecting to your inner guiding voice
• calms your breathing
• releases the heaviness of stress and worry
• allows your mind to slow down
• creates breathing space in between your thoughts
• Releases pressure and tension from the back and spinal discs
• Encourages blood flow to the head which oxygenates the brain for clearer thinking
• Stimulates the third eye
• Above all allows you to LET GO

When you withdraw your senses from your surrounding environment they have nothing to cling too, be distracted with or engage in. It’s just you and your body. Your awareness and energies have no option after 30 seconds or so but to turn inwards. Imagine the relief and lightness you will now feel.

Once you have unplugged from your external world a natural rhythm and balance begins to re-enter your body and all situations can be now viewed from this calm, internal, quiet place.

I personally also ask for guidance and direction in this pose.

A quick fix well being tool for your kids:

It’s even fabulous for your children to do if they are over excited, ill, overwhelmed or simply over tired. My children actually enjoy doing it with me. I believe it to be a valuable well being gift that I can pass on to them for life. How cool is that.

Guidelines for resting in this pose:

Before you start remember the whole aim of any yoga pose is to be comfortable at all times and not restrict your breathing at all. Restricted breathing means the body needs more space and you need to come out of the pose a little.

1. Begin by sitting on your heels with knees together or slightly apart whatever feels more comfortable

2. Gently bend forward so your head rests on the ground.

3. You may feel more comfortable placing one or two pillows under your forehead. Comfort is the key.

4. Place your hands, palms up on either side of your feet.

5. With your eyes closed focus on your breathe allowing all worries and tensions to simply dissolve from your head and off your back.

6. Breath slowly and deeply by imaging you are gently pressing the belly against the thighs on your inhale

7. Feel distance being created between you and your stresses

8. Linger longer or simple spend 2 or 3 minutes enjoying spaciousness and lightness enter your body.

Modify this pose:

You can widen your knees to feel more comfortable and/or place pillows under your forehead.

This is not an ideal pose if you have knee problems.

It is gentle and often beneficial for back tension and stiffness

The big “well being” bonus from this pose:

The big bonus from resting in this pose for 2 or 3 minutes is you are saving yourself bundles and bundles of energy from unnecessarily being wasted on perceived stresses and problems. It’s definitely an energy efficient pose.

The perfect pose to help you get to sleep at night:

Yes, this pose is very beneficial if you have trouble getting off to sleep at night. Your body, mind and soul will all thank you for the fabulous nights sleep afterwards

Thanks for reading this article.

Peace, love and calm living to you all, Carole.

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