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RELAXATION CD Simple Relaxations for health and wellbeing. Sale Now £6.95
Track 1. Introduction. 3.22 min
Track 2. Beautiful breath. 24.00 min,
Track 3. Delicious Bones and Muscles. 23.00min.
Track 4. The Meadow. 21.00

This cd consists of my talking you through diffirent meditations which teach you to learn to relax your whole body, the healing use of breath and imagery for health.

Benefits of using this cd
  • These relaxations are easy and simple to do and make you feel better!
  • Experience feeling layers of tension melting away.
  • Afterwards you will feel as if you have had a long rest.
  • You can learn to stay calmer during the daily stresses of your day.
  • It teaches you tension is something you are doing with your muscles and it is not just happening to you.
  • You will feel more control over feeling stressed, stiff and tired.
  • It will aid healthy sleep.
  • Less stress helps your body function more efficiently and heals everyday sypmtoms.
  • You will feel healthier and more alive.
  • Symptoms are not random. Most symptoms happen because of too much tension and not enough circulation in that area of your body. Through listening to these relaxations your body can learn to relax. This helps your circulation improve and releases the tension and so helps heal your sypmtoms.
  • Learning to relax keeps you healthier for your future as it prevents symptoms from developing.
  • You will have more energy and feel less tired.
COST: £11.95. Sale now £6.95. Order now and I can post it to you. Please ring or email me with your address and your post code. The postage is £0.70 if you would like it to be posted in England or £1.80 if you would like it to be posted abroad.If you would like 3 copies or more postage is free.
You may also pick one up before or after a yoga class in Bradford on Avon, Bath, Box, Corsham or from my home in Box Village.Please ring first.
You may also think of one as a present for a family member or a friend

ABOUT THE CD

Most of us do not know how to really relax. This cd will teach you how to relax, which will benefit every aspect of your life and health. Tension is exhausting and is often the cause of ill health.
We are not just our mind and our thinking we are also our body and our body is us. In my experience we have layers of tension which build up over our life time, but we are mostly unaware of this tension unless we have pain or stiffness. Your pain and tension are your bodies alarm, which tells you 'this is where you are holding'. This tension runs through your whole body. We often do not know how to allow ourselves to let our tension relax. Over the years I have developed techniques to teach my clients and students to learn to deeply relax down into their body. This cd will teach you very simple ways you can relax these layers of tension.

HEALTH TIPS

HEALTH IS SOMETHING WE CAN PRACTISE, YOU CAN TAKE BETTER CARE OF YOURSELF.
WE CAN ALL FEEL BETTER WITH ONLY A LITTLE CARE EACH DAY

Pain is our bodies alarm system - pay attention if your body is tired or uncomfortable and ask ‘What is my body telling me’- e.g to stop and take a break, take a breath, do something else, rest, move and stretch, talk to someone to get more support.

# CIRCULATION. HEALTHY JOINTS ANS MUSCLES
Stretch more - with pleasurable long sighs, go gently to start with - if it is painful slow down as you are going to quickly.

# Joints - while breathing deeply, move each joint in circles: up and down: shake them, every day to keep the blood flowing and to release stiffness.

# Rub the whole body starting at arms, working down to legs everyday esp round breast area for wommen to help keep well.

# Tap head to feet where it feels nice - use fingar tips on face and head - a soft fist or soft hands on bigger joints and muscles - this helps ciculation and works your meridians.

# After bathing get a little organic body cream, add a little water to hands and rub all over your skin, great for toning, celilite and circulation. Your body won’t believe its luck!

# Eyes. Splash closed eyes with warm and cold water - ending with cold. Roll eyes in sockets, up and down, side to side - with breath - this relaxes and improves circulation.

# Allow tiredness - change what you are doing - take a break.

# Your heart is a muscle - get out of breath in a way which feel good, every day.

# POSTURE Practise standing on both feet or sitting on both sides of hips - think long spine, soft relaxed shoulders.

# Breath out longer, breath in deeper - sigh more - notice that we all hold our breath esp. when we concentrate.

# Think soft jaw - relax by opening wide with breath out.

# Relax neck by dropping to chest - roll around - add deeper breaths.

# Skin - Daily use a loofah or rub your body vigorously with a towel to get off dead skin and improve circulation.

# Take off dead skin gently on feet. Keep some cream by your bed and massage feet all over. Particularly where there is yellow skin, warts, around verrucas, bunions, numb or sore areas, as these all relate to internal areas that are holding tension in the body.

# Yoga 'dead pose' Lie straight on the floor, being aware of where you body is touching the ground - breath - allowing your bones to get heavier - melt into gravity. Be aware of the sensations in your body, smell, taste, hearing, seeing and touch and breathe. Don’t fight tension, simply allow it and let it add to the feeling of heaviness. Do this for 10 - 20 minutes. End by gently pulling kness to chest. DON’T RUSH GETTING UP; YOU CAN TAKE YOUR TIME!.

# Back excercises
A. Focus on keeping breathing going. While sitting begin to curl head down slowly to chest - your hands can rest on thighs if your back is sensitive or let arms hang down. If sore stop you have come down to far - work up to this SLOWLY. Think floppy upper body, shake head, lengthen neck and arms using the pull of gravity. Curl back up slowly with breath, letting arms relax and head hang - head comes up last.

# B. Standing version. Stand, with feet parallel, lengthening up through the ground. Keep ankles relaxed, breathe out and let head drop to chest, soften knees over ankles, arms hanging into the pull of gravity, let head down towards floor on one or two out breaths. If your back is sensitive don’t go down very far and rest hands on thighs, keeping upper body as soft as you can. Hang down and if comfortable shake out head and neck. Place your hands on legs and arch you back by breathing in and looking up. Let your jaw be soft and look up as far as you can with your eyes. This exaggerates the tension already in your back and waist area. Then curl spine down again, breathing out. Roll up slowly with lots of long breaths, keeping knees soft. Lastly the head comes up, legs and neck lengthen. Keep jaw soft.

# C.Lie on floor, rest feet on floor by hips, toes slightly pointing in, knees pointing upwards. Feet need to be parallel, hip distance apart, elbows soft, palms face down to support your lifting. Take a deep breath and as you breathe out, gently begin to roll and lift tail bone towards ceiling. You will end with the weight going down through the feet, shoulders and neck. To start with you may only lift lower back off floor. Try and keep the back of the neck long and relaxed. Roll down the spine as if you are separating the spine like a string of beads, on one or more breaths. Completely relax spine onto the ground between rolls.

# D. Lie on floor bring knees towards chest, rest hands on knees and roll gently side to side, keeping thighs wide and soft. Next put hands on and pull knees to chest on out breath, release away on in breath. Repeat.

# Water. Sip and drink water though the day. This is a simple way of flushing out toxins. If you do not like water, think of it like a medicine that you need to take regular sips of. You will build up to a thirstwhich is normally out of your awareness. Always have a bottle of water with you - you can refill the little ones. Water is better room temperature. If you check your mouth and it feels sticky you are already dehydrated. Drinking water can stop the body feeling so painful and prevent body odour.

# Diet & Digestive disorders
Eat food that is as alive as possible. 5 - 8 portions of fruit or vegetables every day, including at least one green veg such as kale or broccoli. Avoid too much fried and greasy food. Avoid hydrogenated fats, this is found in many products - check labels esp margarine, butter is better. Buy organic if you can. It is easy now to get organic milk. Try and eat whole grain – brown bread, brown rice or pasta.
# Eat oily fish every week e.g sardines. As you get older you need less protein, try legumes instead.
# Don’t snack between meals; let yourself get hungry.
# Limit sugar, tea, coffee and alcohol.
# Drink red bush tea, herb tea, bamboo. . What ever you eat or drink enjoy it and savour it rather then thinking, ‘I shouldn’t be doing this.’ Bear in mind that you are what you eat and what you think is also a food.
# Buy fruit muesli. Soak over night to make it more digestable. Add your own nuts, extra died fruit, sunflower & pumpkin seeds (for soft healthy skin) live organic yogurt - yeo valley is good, stewed fruit – apples plums, nectarines, pears, peaches, apricots, figs, prunes. Have for breakfast or as a snack when you get the munchies at night. Your bowel will be in heaven. Or add same to porridge. Regular oats keep down cholesterol levels.
Healthy bowels are essential. We need one or 2 pleasurable movements a day. See food above.
# If loose keep off fruit; coffee, spicy hot food.
# If constipated eat more natural fibre -whole grains, fruit, veg, raw food. Eat live yogurt – a few spoons after meals.
# Take a dose of acidophilus tablets or natural fibre tablets to cleanse and regulate the bowel. Do not put up with an unhappy bowel. What foods upset you? Don’t eat them. You are what you eat. Eat well = feel good. Try to enjoy being hungry.
# Don’t snack between meals or have a piece of fruit instead. Eat fruit away from veg pref in mornings.
# Don’t drink with food. 1/2hr before. An hour after. Lie on left side for 15mins after meal.
# Chew your food slowly, great for your digestion and you eat less! Put knife and fork down betwwen mouthfuls. 'Drink what you eat, eat what you drink.'

These are just guide lines. Whatever you choose to eat or drink it is not helpful to then say ‘I shouldn’t be doing this’. Allow what you are choosing. Think ‘My body can take what it needs from this and let go of what it does not need.’ Even if you are choosing wine, cigarettes, medicines, chocolate, cakes and biscuits. If it is bad for you at least let your self savour and enjoy. This is less confusing for your body. Your body is made to eliminate and assimilate. Remember your thoughts are an important moment to moment food. You can practise nourishing and kinder ones. If you practise something enough, it will become a new habit. Most of us have a constant gabble of negative thinking and rushing thoughts. Bring your thinking to your awareness. Be kind – turn them around as your thinking is your future and creates you life. Breath more, sigh more, yawn more. Slow down, get into you body and notice smell, taste, seeing, hearing in each moment – touch your life and be in senses. Be in the moment as tomorrow never comes. Treasure each moment as it will never come again – with all the joy you can muster and be kind to the difficulty – it is part of being alive and is the way we learn and grow. Happiness is a choice. How can you practise more happiness and then be gentle and simple allow, stay open and name this is sadness, grief, loss, pain, fear and discomfort that let you know you are here and alive and it too will change.
Rheumatism and arthritis, joint pain.

# Reflux . Avoid as in above. Chew more and more. Don’t drink near meals. Have fruit on it’s own or with cereal. Take Aloe Vera juice daily. Slippery Elm powder is also great.

# Exercise at least 3x a week. Let yourself get out of breath by walking quickly, then more slowly or stop and catch your breath. This is good stress for your heart which is a muscle and need excercise. Find something which you enjoy. Get a friend to go with you to help you get there each week. Get your heart going, gently to start with and build up. This can change how you feel and make you feel great and is worth the effort. Don’t wait till tomorrow as it never comes, you are worth it.

# Joy. Find things that bring you joy and make you feel good and practise them. Be out in nature, laughing, dancing, singing, talking, stretching and breathing. Joy is good for your body, mind and spirit. If you do not know what might bring you more joy, ask it as a question to yourself and wait, allowing not knowing and the answers will come. Warm wishes to you on your journey to better health.

# Feet and hand Reflexology
Our health is mirror in our feet and hands. Every area of the feet are related to your internal body and your body systems. The point on the feet may feel numb or sore or if there is hard skin, warts, rashes, verrucas, on a part of the feet, this is an area of our body which is out of balance in some way. If you can gentle remove any hard skin, massage the feet or tap the feet regularly, this can help bring these areas back to health. I encourage people to gentle tap their feet every day, to help health improve. Putting feet in cool/cold water is also helpful.

# Water retention. Rub and massage in centre of arch of feet and between thump and 1st finger. Drink more water. Rub legs, shake them, keep them higher than body, rotate feet, knees and hips. Shake legs gently in air above you while breathing, think soft ankles, knees and hips.

# Restless Legs. Shower with warm/hot and cool/cold water several times twice a day esp before bed.

The secret of change is not trying not to do something, but simply to practise doing something else. The old habit will fall away from non-use. We are creatures of habit which we create and can change - not through rigid ‘rights’ or ‘wrongs’ but with allowing of our humanness and gentleness to our past habits that were appropriate at the time. Remember your body is always changing moment to moment and so change is natural to your body.

Please feel to ring me if you would like some support or advice.