How To Reconnect to Nature and Restore Your Energetic Balance

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This visualisation technique came from one of Deepak Chopra's books read in French at the time. If I could I would give you the name but can't. It is an excellent relaxation technique to reconnect yourself when taking a walk under the trees or in the woods, to restore your energetic balance.

We all - well, most of us - live in stressful environments and need recharging, the natural way.

I previously included it in Take a little time each day to commune with nature unfolding. I have practised this a lot and man, does it work to help me zone out into another place.

Chopra says use either your senses sight, touch, hearing or smell - don't use all four at the same time and from experience, you will gravitate naturally to one particular sense. Nothing wrong with that but try all four. Also, if your olfactory senses are as sensitive as mine, pay attention to your location!

Briefly, you can sit anywhere and do this to give yourself a 5-minute mental break however, being in a natural setting will be the most beneficial.

A VISUALISATION TECHNIQUE 

1 - Create some quiet time for yourself in a calm space that is yours.

2 - Time yourself if you wish.

3 - Sit down or lie down and position yourself where you are facing Mother Nature's representative; either a plant, a live flower or a tree outside.

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If you can do this outside in natural surroundings, even better.

4 - Take a few deep breaths and relax.

5 - Focus on the plant leaf, the tree's new buds or the flower and examine it closely as if you are seeing it for the first time (because you are).

6 - Relax and let your vision expand.

7 - You will either come out of this state naturally or your alarm will sound (if you timed yourself).

8 - After your "rest" of 5 minutes or 20, you will feel light, refreshed and energetic. Write down what you observed, if anything, during your time-out.

9 - This works because you were "being" instead of "doing".

The same goes for sound. Relax, listen and try to identify every single sound you hear from the most obvious to the almost inaudible. There are more than you think and once you "capture" the obvious noises you'll begin to hear more. Don't strain youself as if you have to hear something. It is not a contest.

A park or the woods or at home is best for practising your sense of smell and finally, use your body to practise your sense of touch - with your eyes closed - get to know you.

This activity disconnects your thinking brain and pushes the stress away. Sure, it will still be there on your "return" but you will feel differently about it and see it from a distance.

Keep practising. Your new world is completely accessible and return refreshed. Practise expanding your senses; it changes your perspective and reconnects you with what is happening around you on another level. Keep at it.

It is a great resource to have to use and abuse with joy!

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Thought for Today: Maintain Your Internal Equilibrium

Today's post is all about maintaining your internal equilibrium. My horoscope gave me the idea. Isn't it fabulous when you hear good news? You punch your fist in the air in triumph - yes, somebody loves me! - you holla.

You have been waiting so long for good news and here it is! Yippee!!! You go all to pieces and you feel incredibly wonderful; you feel so good you could roll around on the floor if people wouldn't think you're crazy. Gosh, isn't life great!

You're feeling really really happy. That smile is plastered across your face and it feels like it's never going to come off. You go about your business for days feeling buoyed up and your feet don't seem to touch the ground. No thing can bring you down.

But something does eventually, it's called reality. In your buoyant mood you neglected to take care of business as you're supposed to; you let things slide because suddenly they didn't seem so important anymore but they were, and still are.

Maintaining a proper perspective, in other words, a balanced outlook, is essential for healthy living and hell no, it is not boring at all. It's an essential part of everyday spirituality and is part and parcel of becoming aware.

What I'm talking about is enjoying the moments when they happen all the while knowing that that external joy does not and cannot last. It's way too high, and I'm not trying to be a killjoy here. However, it's important to say this.

Real joy which suffuses your entire being and can be with you constantly if you allow it and deliberately nuture it comes from the inside all day and all year long. It's a simple as a smile.

Maintain a natural balance in your life by acknowledging that the excitement and the unnatural highs do not last and what's more, neither do the lows. Remember that.  

Here's what my DailyOm horoscope says about balance:

We serve ourselves well when we strive to maintain a balanced outlook whether we are confronting great joy or great sorrow. Intensely emotional circumstances can throw our lives for a loop, making us feel as if the world will never be the same again. But all situations, no matter how fraught with feeling, eventually wind down, becoming just another part of the status quo.

When we make the most of our emotions while recognizing that our circumstances will eventually pass, we do our part to maintain the internal equilibrium we have worked so diligently to achieve.

Little can put us off balance, absorbed as we are in the knowledge that stability can be everlasting if we let it. Since you do not allow your reactions to overwhelm you today, you can take pleasure in good news without disregarding other aspects of your existence.

Drop me a line and let me know what tips, tricks and habits you use to maintain your internal equilibrium.

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