15.06.20 / Reiki / Author: dewdrop / Comments Off on In Spiritus Reiki, Yoga and Meditation Timers
A 5 minute timer for Reiki and Yoga practice with the most beautiful and popular music I have ever uploaded “In Spiritus” by Christopher Lloyd Clarke from Enlightened Audio
29.05.20 / Quotes / Author: dewdrop / Comments Off on Beautiful Quotes by Rumi
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29.05.20 / Well-being / Author: dewdrop / Comments Off on Nature Music with Reiki Timers
A Youtube playlist of Reiki Timers with beautiful music from the Album Nature by IChill Music Factory:
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13.03.20 / Health, Weight Loss, Well-being / Author: dewdrop / Comments Off on 5 PRACTICAL WEIGHT LOSS TIPS
Tags: bach flowers for weight loss, easy weight loss tips, how to lose weight naturally, weight loss tips
Is there such a thing as permanent, easy and natural weight loss? I believe there is. I believe that permanent weight loss is not only possible but inevitable when we make just a few small and simple changes and stick with them. If you are ready to stop overcomplicating weight loss and are ready to make it easy for yourself if you are ready to stop trying to lose weight and are ready to lose weight permanently and move on with your life then read on.
If you want to lose weight permanently think nutrition, not restriction. Nourish yourself – I know that for myself if I am not getting the nutrients I need, I feel constantly hungry and I am hungry for things that are not good for me.
For years I struggled with just a few extra pounds of weight and tried many diets and exercise, I eventually thought that I was just always going to have that extra fat around my thighs and stomach until I started a diet that had nothing to do with weight loss but focused only on creating health. It was then that I realized that maybe I was not so much weak-willed but just malnourished!
You see I had been gradually improving my diet but I still had a strong dislike for anything raw, especially fruit, and so without realizing it I was depriving myself of some key nutrients and digestive aiding enzymes and this lack of nutrients was causing me to experience cravings for sweet foods like chocolate to give me an instant hit of energy. By introducing nutrient-dense spirulina along with vitamin, mineral, and enzyme-laden raw fruit and vegetable juices I had found the key (for me) to permanent weight loss.
To this day and that is 20+ years on, I still enjoy my daily juice, and I can honestly say that I no longer experience food cravings and although I have nothing against chocolate, I almost never eat it or any of the sugar and fat-laden foods that I used to find irresistible.
Now you don’t have to have juice and spirulina (although I highly recommend it), you just need to make sure that you are consuming some raw fruit and dark green leafy vegetables and/or spirulina. Of course, smoothies are another easy way to get your daily dose of raw foods. How you do it does not matter, just make a point of upping your raw food intake and get some dark green goodness in there too and you will be ensuring that your body is getting a shot of easily digested goodness every time you do, and hopefully, you will have the same fantastic results I did!
I recommend creating a clear written routine that works for you – not someone else’s idea of what works – to keep you focused on what you want and make it easier for you to say on track.
Make sure that you are eating regularly (breakfast, lunch, and dinner), remember that regular eating keeps your metabolism fired up and aiding weight loss, whereas skipping meals slows your metabolism making it more difficult to lose weight.
Creating a routine also helps you to avoid the possibility of binge eating, by ensuring that you eat before you are too hungry, and making it easier for you to stop eating before you are too full.
You will notice, that there are times of the day where you feel more positive about your weight and these are the best times to plan your meals, the food that you will buy, what exercise you will do, and any other routines that will support you in your weight loss goals.
Resist the urge to overdo, as when you are feeling positive it can be tempting to create routines that later seem unachievable, this is just another form of self-sabotage that needs to be avoided. Be realistic in your plans, make everything as simple and easy as possible so that you will have no reason, later on, to avoid following through.
Make sure you have plenty of your favourite healthy foods on hand as much of the time as possible. Plan your meals in advance or at least have a variety of quick, easy, healthy options that you can go to in a hurry so that you won’t be so easily tempted by less healthy fast food options. Take advantage of online shopping to make your life easier, and to make it easier to make good choices.
Have healthy snacks on hand at all times and eat these if you need to.
While I don’t like to snack myself, it is better to have a snack than let your appetite get out of control. Fresh fruit and vegetables are the best options as they won’t interfere with your next meal, bananas are good if you need something that will last a bit longer and nuts and seeds are also good at keeping you satisfied.
Your body produces hormones that help you to sense when you are full and when you need food, these hormones are affected by sleep. Being chronically tired can hamper your weight loss efforts by triggering false feelings of hunger when it may be that all you really need is a rest.
Your change in diet and routine will temporarily increase your need for rest and sleep as your mind and body adjust to the changes. Allowing yourself more time to rest, relax and sleep will make that adjustment phase quicker and easier. Remember that this approach to weight loss is not a quick fix, but a long-term solution that requires a calmer, steadier attitude. You’ve got plenty of time to get this right, take a rest when you need to.
Do you love and appreciate your body the way it is?
If you don’t, you are making it harder for yourself to lose weight. So how do you love what you don’t love? Don’t focus on it – focus around it, or completely ignore it.
Take your weight out of the equation. If you are going to think about your body and have goals for it then think more in terms of improving health, strength, stamina, and vitality.
If you can find nothing about your body that feels good when you think it then just get off the subject altogether and focus on other aspects of your life that are more pleasing to you.
This is another reason why a written routine works so well, as once you have it in place you no longer need to spend time focusing on food. If you spend a large part of your time focused on what you will eat, when you will eat, how much you will eat, you become obsessed with food and your weight and your problem just gets bigger. Try to forget about your weight, I know that is not easy but it can be done. Get your attention onto something interesting, something that will just blast out those thoughts about weight and fill you with positive emotion. Avoid all images, conversations, writing, anything that has you focused on overweight, underweight, healthy weight, any weight at all. Don’t think about it unless you really have to. Hide the scales, I got rid of mine years ago and I don’t miss them, and don’t spend any time criticizing yourself in the mirror. Just do what you need to do and get on with your life. You may think that you need to try hard to lose weight, but you don’t, your body will find its perfect balance and you can trust that it will happen far quicker and easier without your negative focus.
Without even changing what you eat and without the need for an extreme reduction in your food intake you will absolutely lose weight if you simply reduce the amount you consume at any one time.
When I talk about portion control, I mean just reducing what you eat by a small amount, up to a third, but no more than that because if you reduce your intake by too much your body tends to go into defense mode, thinking that it might be facing starvation and can slow your metabolism – not what you want! So just go easy with it, eat enough to satisfy you but no more, and remember that if you leave your plate while you’re feeling still slightly hungry, within 5 – 15 minutes you will feel full. This approach requires less self discipline and pays off big-time over time you move easily towards your ideal weight without starving yourself.
11.03.20 / Quotes, Well-being / Author: dewdrop / Comments Off on The Power of Positive Thinking ~ Law of Attraction Quotes
When most people think of Law of Attraction they think of it as a New Age or New Thought idea, but the truth is that the concept of Law of Attraction and Positive thinking is not new but can be found weaved into all the great teachings. Whether it is the teachings of Buddha, Christ, or Rumi, or the modern-day spiritual teachings of Eckhart Tolle, Abraham Hicks, or Louise Hay, the message is clear – what you think about you become.
But despite the clear message and the obvious truth of it, it can be too easy to forget as we get carried away by our busy lives.
Taking time each day to remind ourselves of the power of our own thoughts, is not only useful but (I believe) essential.
I have always found Quotes to be a quick and easy way to refocus. I love to browse through Pinterest looking at positivity quotes and law of attraction quotes and as I do I always notice the improvement in my mood, the lifting of my spirits, the raising of my vibration.
As you watch, listen, and read these divinely inspired quotes it is my intention that the same will happen for you.
Look at your life and you will see it clearly.
The day that you wake up feeling bad is the day you can’t find a thing to wear, your hair won’t sit straight, you can’t find your keys and your dog trips you up on your way to what you know will be more of the same!
It’s not bad luck, it’s Law of Attraction.
Then there are the days when you wake up feeling great, you jump out of bed and your clothes fit perfectly, your hair looks great and you’re ready in record time for what you know will be more of the same.
It’s not good luck, it’s Law of Attraction.
But what preceded these “good” or “bad” days?
It was thought, focus, and action. What did you mostly think about the day before? What were you mostly focused on? Who did you spend time with? What TV shows, Youtube videos did you watch?
It’s all Law of Attraction ….
Whatever you hold in your mind on a consistent basis is exactly what you will experience in your life
Tony Robbins
Everything is energy and that’s all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. It is physics.
Albert Einstein
Whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it and it will be yours.
Mark 11:24
A person is what he or she thinks about all day long.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale
Watch your thoughts, they become your words
Watch your words, they become your actions
Watch your actions, they become your habits
Watch your habits, they become your character
Watch your character, it becomes your destiny
Lau Tzu
No one can deny you or grant you anything, it all comes to you by virtue of your vibration
Abraham hicks
Prentice Mulford
When you say to yourself, "I am going to have a pleasant visit or a
pleasant journey," you are literally sending elements and forces ahead
of your body that will arrange things to make your visit or journey
pleasant .....
Our thoughts, or in other words our state of mind is ever at work
'fixing up' things good or bad in advance.
Prentice Mulford
The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.
Marcus aurelius
The optimist is right. The pessimist is right. The one differs from the other
as the the light from the dark. Yet both are right. Each is right from his
own particular point of view and this point of view is the determining
factor in the life of each. It determines as to whether it is a life of power or of
impotence, of peace or of pain, of success or of failure.
Ralph Waldo Trine
Buddha
Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting his troops in action.
Sigmund Freud
Be thankful for what you have, you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never have enough – Oprah Winfrey
If you want it and relax, it will happen – Abraham
Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? For your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.
Matthew 6:32,33
10.03.20 / Bach Flower Remedies, Well-being / Author: dewdrop / Comments: (9)
Gentian is the Bach Flower Remedy for releasing feelings of doubt, skepticism, uncertainty, and pessimism that stop you from taking your first steps towards your goals and also the disappointment that can surface when things don’t work out as well or as quickly as you had hoped.
Taking Gentian increases self confidence, positive expectation and certainty in your ability to do whatever you put your mind to.
These feelings of doubt can be a general attitude that you have to everything in life, or it can be a temporary state that you encounter when you start something new, it can also surface at any time that delays or setbacks are experienced.
Has this ever happened to you?
In a moment of peace and clarity, maybe when you first wake up or after meditation or while taking a walk, an inspired idea pops into your head and you just know what you want to do. Later that day however your peaceful state has left you and you are now left with feelings of doubt and pessimism as your mind presents to you reason after reason why this idea will not work! If you are sensitive to how you feel and you try to push through these negative feelings with action you then start to feel so bad you become convinced that this must not be good for you after all, and then the inevitable happens and you give up. This is the Gentian state, and it is just that, a state.
When you feel like this, remember how you felt when you first received the idea. If you felt elated, joyful, excited, any type of good emotion then this is a good idea that will lead you to good things, so don’t let this temporary state of doubt faze you. In fact, you can actually be happy for these thoughts that negate what you have decided to because they are not the big problem they appear to be, they are in fact very helpful guidance. Those negative thoughts are showing you the beliefs that you hold that will stop you in your tracks until you find a way around them and are attempting to guide you towards another way of thinking that will lead you to your goal.
So the first step for me in this situation is to make up a Bach Flower Remedy containing Gentian and get sipping.
The next step is to get to work on building a way around those limiting beliefs, and the way to do this is to amplify the wanted and to play down the unwanted.
Take a pen and paper and write all the reasons why you believe this is a good idea, the ways it will improve your life and the types of feelings you expect to feel. Focus on why you want what you want. Keep writing until you feel just a hint of negativity and then stop. At this point, it is a good idea to change the subject and get on with something completely unrelated. In other words, distract yourself, and then you can come back and repeat this later. In a very short space of time – a few days to 30 days tops, you will strengthen your belief in what you want and your doubts, well, they are the ones that end up giving up due to your lack of attention.
Gentian can also help in some cases of depression where the cause is clearly known.
Gentian is very helpful in cases of depressive feelings evoked by a known circumstance. Examples are the death of a marriage partner, continuing unemployment, children torn to and fro between divorced parents, loss of a loved pet and old people shoved into a home.
Mechthild Scheffer, Bach Flower Therapy – Theory and Practice
In cases such as these, Gentian can give much-needed courage and strength during difficult times as well as hope for a brighter future.
21.07.19 / Bach Flower Remedies / Author: dewdrop / Comments Off on Cherry Plum
The Cherry Plum state comes about from a fear of losing control which leads to an attempt to try to control even more. This then creates even more emotions and situations that reflect back to us our lack of control which we try to control ………. and so it is a negative cycle of increasing tension as every attempt to control fails.
The solution lies not in greater control but in letting go of the need to control and simply trusting that everything will work out in the end.
What a big ask! Thank goodness for Cherry Plum!
As well as trying to control outer circumstances, Cherry Plum people tend to repress anything that unsettles them. Over time, this leads to such a large build-up of physical and emotional pressure that it feels as though even the smallest thing could send them over the edge, and sometimes it does.
Cherry Plum helps to release this tension by making it easier for you to let go inwardly and relax into uncomfortable inner sensations and outer situations.
This is Cherry Plum in its more extreme form, but any situation that makes you feel uncomfortable could benefit from the Bach Flower Essence Cherry Plum.
Cherry Plum is commonly used to help with Weight Loss and is contained in the Bach Emotional eating kit, where it helps with compulsive and binge eating.
It is also used for bed-wetting, insomnia, urinary incontinence, and diarrhea – any illness or physical condition that has a mental/emotional aspect to it that feels like a loss of control.
I have also seen Acne improve greatly when taking Cherry Plum.
Cherry Plum is very helpful for those suffering from general stress right through to full-blown anxiety or panic attacks. Consider Cherry Plum for children (and adults) who become easily overexcited to the point where they “lose the plot”; for anyone who is prone to outbursts of uncontrollable anger or laughing; for premenstrual and menopausal emotional instability. Any time you are experiencing a situation that is unusually demanding either physically or emotionally, Cherry Plum will help.
Compulsive cleaning and handwashing (along with Crab Apple), checking and double-checking the doors are locked at night, and even checking your Facebook and Instagram accounts will benefit from Cherry Plum, helping to bring about more self-control.
Cherry Plum can also be taken to help curb the urge to scratch, pick at sores, and fidget.
For uncontrollable coughing, sneezing, “the giggles”, a nose that drips in social situations (yes, that’s a thing!), or a feeling that you have something on your face when you’re with others….. we are such interesting creatures are we not?
Consider the possibility of Cherry Plum where you need the courage to take a leap of faith in some way. Whether it is to fly when you are afraid of flying, public speaking, meeting someone new, or even just trying new food.
Cherry Plum is also one of the remedies contained in the 5 Flower Remedy known as Rescue Remedy, where it calms the feeling of losing your grip on reality that can come any stressful situation but especially with shock.
Over time taking Cherry Plum increases your emotional strength and stability so that you more often feel calm and clear-minded, even in the midst of chaos and confusion.
07.06.19 / Bach Flower Remedies / Author: dewdrop / Comments Off on 5 Bach Flower Remedies for Insomnia
Can’t sleep because you’re thinking too much, worried or overstimulated? These are common problems that can often be helped with Bach Flower Remedies.
White Chestnut is the go-to remedy for most sleep problems, dealing with worrisome thoughts that prevent you from going to sleep or that wake you in the middle of the night.
For the White Chestnut type, the demands of daily life usually keep them from excessive worrying during the day. But when the evening comes and they are lying in their beds with no distractions, those thoughts that were more easily forgotten during the day now re-surface, and without anything to draw attention elsewhere, they gain momentum, making their minds race and bodies tense, not exactly the ideal conditions for falling asleep!
White Chestnut soothes worries and quiets mental chatter creating a mental environment that encourages physical relaxation and sleep.
I recommend including White Chestnut in any sleep remedy you make.
A simple remedy you can try that will help in most cases of insomnia is 4 drops of Rescue Remedy and 2 drops of White Chestnut in a glass of water or in a treatment bottle. You can sip this during the day, just before bed and as often as you need during the night, aim for a minimum of 4 doses every 24 hours.
If you are using a treatment bottle, take 4 drops AT LEAST 4 times daily, and take one of those doses at bedtime.
Impatiens are for those who, for whatever reason, feel like it is taking too long to get to sleep. It could just be a temporary situation where you really want to get a good night’s sleep because you have something important to do tomorrow, or that you only have a few hours available for sleep before you have to get up again. Or, it could be a more chronic situation where you often feel like everything in life happens too slowly.
Either way, Impatiens will help soothe that uncomfortable uptight feeling, helping you to breathe deeply, relax and allow sleep to come in its own good time.
Similar to Impatiens, when you need Vervain you will feel tense and uptight but the reason for your tension is slightly different.
Vervain is for those who are so wound up over something that they can’t relax and sleep and they don’t really want to sleep either. Vervain types are so full of enthusiasm that they would be just as happy to get up and get on with whatever is on their mind, but they are also aware of the need for sleep and so they “try” to sleep, often unsuccessfully.
If this is a temporary situation where you have something to do and you have the energy now, then it’s not really a problem to miss out on a few hours sleep. But if this temporary situation has become a way of life, if you are running on super high energy and not sleeping properly, you really need to find a way to relax and get the sleep and rest that we all need to function at our best.
Vervain will help you to relax mentally and physically. It will balance out your energy so that you can sleep when you need to so that you have the energy and stamina to work and play when you want to.
Elm will help you to sleep if your insomnia is a temporary problem bought about by a situation that has you feeling mentally and possibly physically overwhelmed. Any event that you need to organize or that produces a sudden increase in your normal responsibilities, or physical demands can produce the Elm state. For those that are empathic, it will take less to trigger this state.
Examples of these types of situations include:
You may have some aches and pains from strained or tense muscles but you will definitely feel over-tired and desperately in need of rest. Unfortunately, rest and sleep does not come easily when you are in the Elm state and even when you do manage to drop off your sleep tends to be restless and your dreams full of anxiety.
Luckily this state is normally temporary and will pass on its own once the increased demands on you have ended, or you have adjusted to them, but taking Elm will help you to adjust more quickly and cope better with your responsibilities both now and in the future.
Elm gives you that little boost of strength and confidence which is all you really need to get past this bump in the road. Often just one day of use will give you relief from insomnia, but keep taking it until you are feeling like your old strong capable self again.
If your sleep problems have come about after a traumatic experience then take Rescue Remedy on its own or along with any other remedies you choose. The effect of Rescue Remedy is relief from stress and so you can also add Rescue Remedy to any combination of remedies you have chosen to give a general relaxing effect.
Make your remedy up by adding two drops of each to a glass or bottle of water. Add 4 drops if you are using Rescue Remedy.
Sip regularly during the day making sure that you have a minimum of 4 doses each day, take one of those doses at bedtime.
Or Make your remedy into a Treatment Bottle so that it will last longer.
01.05.18 / Well-being / Author: dewdrop / Comments Off on Just for Today – Reiki Principles
Just for Today
I will not worry
I will not be angry
I will be grateful for my many blessings
I will do my work honestly
I will be kind to every living thing
I have many versions of this lovely Reiki Prayer available for instant download over at my Etsy Shop, take a look today!
23.04.18 / Bach Flower Remedies / Author: dewdrop / Comments: (12)
Bach Flowers can help you to achieve and maintain a healthy weight by dealing with any emotional issues that could cause you to overeat and sabotage your weight loss attempts. These 5 Bach Flower Remedies for losing weight will not eliminate the need to make some changes with regard to diet and exercise, but they will improve your chances of losing weight and keeping it off permanently.
Agrimony – for comfort eating – using food to soothe emotional upsets. A person who will benefit from Agrimony will look emotionally balanced, cheerful, and in control on the surface but will, in fact, be harbouring deep sadness, grief, or some other emotional turmoil. They are normally unaware of the negative emotions they are hiding having found many ways of avoiding them, overeating is one of those ways.
Signs that you may benefit from taking Agrimony
You are unhappy with your weight AND
Taking Agrimony will help you to begin acknowledging your negative emotions, and releasing them, rather than attempting to suppress them by eating food. Weight loss is inevitable and easy when you are no longer driven by a compulsion to overeat.
Cherry Plum – One of the Bach Flowers in the Bach Emotional Eating kit, Crab Apple helps with compulsive or binge eating and yo-yo dieting. Cherry Plum relieves feelings of inner tension, but unlike Agrimony the negative emotion is acknowledged and feels more extreme so that there is a feeling that you might just lose control completely and undo all your good work by bingeing. These feelings are just the natural result of tension that has built up over time from your attempts to control your eating through willpower. Cherry Plum will help you to release the tension and leave you feeling your calm and in-control self. Once you have regained your composure it is time to get to the root cause of your Cherry Plum state. Consider the possibility of easing up on your diet a little, because the fact that you are feeling so uptight about it is an indication that you are being too hard on yourself. Holding yourself to an overly high standard nearly always backfires and results in behaviour that takes you in the opposite direction. You can avoid this rebound effect by having more realistic goals and expectations. It may take a little longer than you would like but you stand a much better chance of reaching your weight loss goals when you are kind to yourself, AND you will have more fun along the way 🙂
Cerato – Do you look to others to guide you to your perfect weight? Do you have a mountain of information gathered over years of searching for the perfect weight loss plan? Are you still overweight after trying them all? Then Cerato is the Bach Flower Essence for you. Cerato will give you confidence in your ability to make good decisions regarding your diet and exercise. It will help you to make sensible food choices wherever you are without being influenced by those around you, advertising or any other factors. It will also help you to resist the temptation to try extreme diets for the sake of quick results, and to feel at ease with your weight – no matter what that is.
Chestnut Bud – One of the Bach flowers in the Bach Emotional Eating Kit. This is the Bach Flower for those who try the same sort of approach to weight loss over and over and still fall into the same old traps that lead to “failure”. Unlike Cerato, Chestnut Bud is unlikely to look to others for guidance but will tend to rush into action without thinking things through. When attempts to lose weight fail, instead of taking stock and trying to gain insights from their experience Chestnut Bud types prefer to forget about it immediately and move quickly to the next action. Perhaps it is trying too hard and then ending up bingeing and rebounding; perhaps it is not planning ahead so that you have the food you need; perhaps it is joining the gym again and then not going, perhaps it is buying those diet pills that didn’t work last time hoping that this time might be different – if you make the same “mistake” repeatedly then Chestnut Bud is the essence that will help you break that self-destructive cycle. While it is never a good idea to dwell on your failures, it is good to learn from them, and then move on. Chestnut Bud will help a person to slow down enough that they can learn from their experiences and no longer make the same mistakes.
Crab Apple – the physical and emotional cleansing remedy. Crab Apple is one of the 3 Bach Flowers in the Bach Emotional Eating kit.
It is so much easier to lose weight or maintain your ideal weight when you feel comfortable with yourself as you are rather than fighting against feelings of unworthiness. You may not think that it is possible to love yourself at your current weight, but until you make peace with where you are you will always find weight loss a struggle. Crab Apple will help you to release any negative thoughts and feelings you have about yourself and restore you to your natural feelings of self-love and self-acceptance allowing you to move towards your ideal weight with ease, loving where you are and who you are, every step of the way.
Taking Bach Flowers is one way of making the process of weight loss easier, potentially quicker, and definitely more enjoyable. If you take Bach Flowers as you lose weight you will not only feel lighter in your physical body at the end of it but also lighter in your spirit too.
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