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relaxing music Overcome a Fear of Speaking in Public

You hear again and again that practice makes perfect, and this also applies to speaking in public. Any kind of presentation, even when you talk to a group of friends and family, can make you feel like you are giving a formal presentation.

Here are a few actions to take to alleviate your fear of speaking in public:

1. Be prepared. In most speeches you can bring notes. Make certain you prepare your notes into a list of several key speaking points. If you are not able to use notes, make it a point to practice your presentation until you feel comfortable with the entire speech. You could be afraid, but being well prepared to give your speech can unquestionably counter this feeling and give you an edge of confidence.

2. Do not expect it to be perfect. It’s essential not to expect perfectionism. As a matter of fact, chances are your audience does not expect it either. They understand that everyone has fears and everyone mistakes. They’ll probably never notice if you skip a part of your presentation or fumble a bit, these are all normal human traits of nervousness and are to be expected.

3. Present to small groups. If you feel awkward talking to a large group, and most people do, then begin small. Present to small groups and invite feedback after the presentation. You can distribute a confidential evaluation, or you can simply ask audience what they thought about your presentation.

4. Have a alternative plan. It’s wise to have a alternative plan in life and giving presentations is no exception. Think about what you should say if you get stuck in the middle of the presentation. If your mind goes blank, take a couple of deep breaths and begin your alternative plan. Usually you’ll quickly find yourself right back on track.

5. Relax. It’s crucial to get yourself into the right mind-set before you begin speaking. Consider beginning a ritual that relaxes you to keep your mind away from your fears. You could meditate or listen to calm music, whatever it is, just choose that helps you relax.

The Audience

The audience is the reason that you are afraid of making your presentation, but it helps to know that they are on your side. They are really rooting for you. Be confident and keep a positive mental attitude because chances are excellent that the audience wants you to do well in your presentation.

Ultimately, it is important to remember that even if you do mess up, it’s not all doom and gloom. As long as you have prepared yourself and have a back up plan in place, you will be able to pick yourself up if you slip up anywhere in your presentation.

After your speech, take mental and physical notes and review how well you feel the presentation went. Write down your observations on what you did well as well as areas that need improvement.

As you continue to practice your presentation skills, you’ll improve your skills and become more comfortable.
Listening to music while you are meditating – not a good idea. … Anything you do with the thought that you are meditating is meditating. There are many ways to meditate. Personally, I find music to be distracting, but paying attention to sounds in your environment is part of insight meditation.

Types of meditation
Loving-kindness meditation. With the many types of meditation to try, there should be one to suit most individuals. …
Body scan or progressive relaxation. …
Mindfulness meditation. …
Breath awareness meditation. …
Kundalini yoga. …
Zen meditation. …
Transcendental Meditation.

Meditation is a habitual process of training your mind to focus and redirect your thoughts. You can use it to increase awareness of yourself and your surroundings. Many people think of it as a way to reduce stress and develop concentration.
Basic meditation music simply provides a way for an individual to go deeper with their meditation by adding a new layer to their experience. … Unlike many other music forms, the binaural beats work with the brain to develop a frequency most associated with relaxation.

Brainwave Entrainment Brainwave Entrainment – Learn How Your Brain Can Repair Itself

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Scientists have come to the conclusion that our brain generates new brain cells all the time. After these general purpose cells are created, they are divided and start to self-transform and move through areas of the brain containing damaged or unhealthy cells. The new healthy cells are then taking the place of the destroyed cells.

Your brain creates a pathway for cells only, so they can move from one area of the brain to the other, replacing damaged cells on the way. The understanding of how this complicated cell pathway works is really important and scientists all over the world are making experiments to discover how this system works.

What challenges the scientists is to understand how these new cells are created and how they are moving through the brain identifying problem areas and transforming to replace the old and unhealthy cells. Is there a way to help this process of generating, new cells? After years of research on rats scientists have discovered that we can actually increase the production rate of healthy cells and we can further clear the way (cell pathway) for the cells to move through the brain into problem areas and replace destroyed cells quickly and effectively.

Here are some more facts you need to know:

Your body is one magnificent self-repairing mechanism/system. Its core/base lies on the brain. For years, this ability of our brain to repair itself (and the rest of the body) has been underestimated and replaced by conventional ideas/medicine. Its time for people to learn that they can actually heal themselves and recover from any condition/illness/disease by only using their brains and understanding the facts.

The more we look and understand how our brain and body works the more we can develop the ability of natural self healing. Illness comes from within and can only be healed from within. The more we realize that chemicals, drugs or medication have nothing to do with genuine health, the better we can achieve a natural self-healing body.

Use your brain to actively help your body regenerate and heal itself. But how can you do that? The first step will be to fully understand and believe in the idea that your brain is a self-healing machine. Belief is the key concept. So, believe. Take full responsibility for your condition/situation and use your mind to start a self-healing process. It’s up to you really.
Brainwave entrainment is a method to stimulate the brain into entering a specific state by using a pulsing sound, light, or electromagnetic field. The pulses elicit the brain? ?requency following?response, encouraging the brainwaves to align to the frequency of a given beat.

This ?requency following?response of brainwave entrainment can be seen in action with those prone to epilepsy. If a strobe flashes at their seizure frequency, the brain will ?ntrain?to the flashing light, resulting in a seizure.

On the positive side, this same mechanism is commonly used to induce many brainwave states; such as a trance, enhanced focus, relaxation, meditation or sleep induction. The brainwave entrainment effectively pushes the entire brain into a certain state.

Brainwave entrainment works for almost everyone. It is a great way to lead your mind into states that you might usually have difficulty reaching, allowing you to experience what those states feel like.

THE HYPE
There is a lot of marketing hype around brainwave entrainment. It is sold with promises of increasing IQ, promoting weight loss, ?ind-tripping? enhancing creativity, concentration, inducing spiritual states and more.

While these claims are not entirely true, they are not altogether false either. In practice, the claims are based on an overly-simplistic view of how the brain and the brainwaves function.
THE RUB
People are very seldom deficient in a certain brainwave type in all areas of their brain. Usually the distribution is much spottier, with an excess in one area and a deficiency in another.

We are all different, especially when it comes to the distribution of our brainwaves. Boosting a certain brainwave state may be beneficial for one person, and emotionally uncomfortable for another. Without knowing each person? starting position, entrainment can be rather ?it and miss?

If brainwave entrainment leaves you with unwanted side-effects (see below) or discomfort, you?e probably encouraging a range of brainwaves that are already excessive in some area of your brain. The way around this is to get a brain map to see what your brain? strengths and weaknesses are, and see what (if any) brainwaves could use some encouragement.

sleep meditation The Benefits of a Phone Psychic Reading – Burn Bright – Not Out

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Unbeknown to me at the time, I was stretching myself too far. Taking on extra shifts, helping at the children’s school while racing the clock to keep the home fires burning.

My friends, family and work colleagues would often ask me how I managed to do so much? I couldn’t tell them I was questioning that myself, along with my sanity!! The happy go lucky person they saw was exhausted, emotionally confused and drained. I thought if I worked harder and smarter I could get myself back on track. Looking back now, it is funny how things work out. Trying to work harder and smarter pushed me to my breaking point. I was suffering from burn out. Go figure!

I needed a month off work to recharge my batteries while thinking about the direction I wanted my life to take in the future, and at what cost to my health?

It felt quite foreign to me; to be resting instead of ‘DOING’. after all I was usually running around managing everything perfectly before wasn’t I??

I decided my life was too precious to not enjoy it. My burn out had forced me to make some changes toward removing stress from my life. I needed some help to find direction in my life, so I decided to have a psychic phone reading to help me find the clarity I was needing.

This was to become my new life mantra! Here are some of the ideas I came up with to create my new life, to walk my walk, talk my talk and live by my Burn Bright – Not out mantra.

Follow Your Heart

Previously I had walked (or in my case RUN) to the beat of everyone else’s drum. I burnt out trying to live up to what others expected of me. I was not honouring myself, I felt disappointed for not following the direction my heart was offering. I decided to get to know who I was again. Taking time to find out what made my heart sing. I wanted to lift my heavy energy and discover what brought me enjoyment. I began to shine when I allowed myself to follow my heart and walk my own path.

See the Flip Side

I taught myself, one step at a time to watch my thoughts and feelings.

Rather than getting bogged down in the ‘drama’ learn to flip the situation/ problem. I chose to look at what benefits may actually come from this so called terrible situation. What opportunities may come after this storm passes? What does this situation actually make ME feel, rather than joining in on what everyone else feels, I learnt to take the time to have and explore my own thoughts and opinions.

It is not always easy to look beyond the problem at hand, or to hold positive thoughts when things seem to be going wrong.

Sometimes what seems like a bad situation can be an opportunity to make positive change. Be the change you want to see is a message that was frequently shared during my phone psychic readings.

Compassion verses Competition

Taking the time to stop and listen to someone who is having their own problems or difficulties can be a healing process for both parties. It is human nature to be competitive and at times feel the need to defend ourselves or behaviour. If we are too busy stressing over our own issues, we are more open to being competitive and defensive, often leading to being misinterpreted, misunderstood and at times creating relationship breakdowns.

We have all found ourselves at times feeling the need to compete against others, or sit in judgement of their choices.

Refocus your perspective, stop and find your compassionate side. Allow others to have their time to express their thoughts and feelings, while choosing not to become entangled in their energy. Once you start being aware of your thoughts and actions, allowing your compassion for others to be present, you will feel more positive within yourself. Meanwhile those you showed compassion and understanding will feel more validated. They will feel their problems, opinions and perspectives are also important.

I call that a win win situation.

Release the build up

When we live in overdrive like ‘my old life’, our heads are rarely in a state of clear thinking. Often feeling heavy frustrated and confused, we may think we have everything under control. Only to find ourselves juggling many unfinished projects at once.

Due to the lack of clear thinking, we often remain stuck in this never ending cycle of non achievement, often repeating the same cycle over and over again. I don’t need to tell you how draining that can be.

Find ways to de-clutter your thinking.

You will find yourself achieving more, using less energy in your progression, often finding yourself becoming more efficient in many directions of your life. There are no hard and fast rules to spring cleaning your mind, so take the time to experiment with a few different activities to see what works best for you.

The following suggestions may help, or find your own favourite activities that allow your head some quiet time.

Meditation, reading, gardening, walking, listening to music, spending time in nature etc. Are all great ways to release the build up in your head? There are endless ways to find this peace and quiet, start finding yours today.

Toxic Situations and Relationships

As you practise ways to simplify your life, you may notice some of the relationships and situations in your life, may very well be one of the areas that you need to take a good look at. For example – you may come away from certain people or situations feeling drained and totally wiped out. Take some time to recognise how good or not so good you feel when you around certain people or repetitive situations. Honour yourself by either reducing the time you spend interacting with these people and make a conscious point not to keep repeating unhealthy experiences or relationships.

Small changes to the way you feel about who you are and where you are heading in your life often bring big changes to the way you now handle things. You will find yourself attracting new and more like minded people and positive opportunities into your life.

Is Your Compass Correct

I was burning the candle at both ends while working hard to build a strong and successful career. Although I was enjoying what my work involved, I would often find myself feeling tense and stressed by the time I arrived at work. I found myself struggling to stay motivated and productive. I started to notice feeling physically sick each morning as I drove to work.

I could no longer ignore that fact this uncomfortable feeling was associated with my work. I learnt to be guided by my inner compass. I needed time out to create moments of peace. Moments to think about what was right for me, to feel what it was like to feel my own feelings.

If it felt right, I would do more of it. If it felt wrong, I stepped away from it, consciously distracting my thoughts and feelings back to what felt right. One step at a time guiding myself back in the right direction.

I chose to resign from my position and follow what felt right. Now I am not saying if you are having a hard time at work that you just throw in the towel and give up! Just take the time to ‘check’ your feelings before, during and after work.

Check for ways of improving difficult situations. Once you can identify what is not working you can then find ways to correct them and change. Affirmations are great for creating positive changes in life. Imagine how great it would feel looking forward to going to work each day and enjoying it.

Be Kind to Yourself

We all know that life has lots of good moments, and some not so good moments. How you choose to respond and react to the good and the not so good, will actually effect your future progression. If you take the time to enjoy what is important to you, you will gradually work your way towards achieving your long term goals. You will have the time, energy, $$$, relationship or whatever it is you are working towards.

The kinder you are to yourself and others, the simpler your life will become. After all, we are meant to enjoy life. Try it!! What have you got to lose?
Listening to music while you are meditating – not a good idea. … Anything you do with the thought that you are meditating is meditating. There are many ways to meditate. Personally, I find music to be distracting, but paying attention to sounds in your environment is part of insight meditation.

sleep meditation How to Understand Your Spirituality

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As humans we long to soar through the air, like the birds in the sky. There is a subconscious drive to feel fast-physical movement from a very young age. From wagons, amusement rides, bikes and onto fast cars, planes, skydiving and even climbing hills or mountains we long to feel the wind in our faces and not want our feet to touch the ground. Why?

In physical form our spirits are confined with the mass of a body. Being in a life form has purpose and I believe we have chosen this journey. Yet, in our subconscious mind we miss the freedom of being limitless which the astral plane provides.

An example of this was a scene from the movie Titanic. Picture when Rose, stands with Jack at the bow of the ship with her arms spread wide open. Didn’t you want to be there with them? For those that saw the movie Inception, did you relate to the many levels and dimensions relative to time and place? Imagination can tie into the unknown truth.

Now take a moment to ask yourself what offers you personal exhalation? This joy or pleasure is fleeting in this physical plane and cannot be permanently sustained. Although, when we are no longer in physical form, our energy can create this experience at any time with thought, though it is processed at a different level.

Most of us, at some time in our life, get a glimpse of the unexplainable. Messages are constantly transcending the dimensions. Has a light or the television ever came on by itself or a person seem to move in a photo? Maybe a bird, animal or insect magically appeared that you felt brought you a direct message.

Can you recall a strong feeling before something happened, an inner knowing or inner voice you can’t explain? We usually identify these experiences as hunches, instinct or intuition. Actually, this is your brain working with the emotion of faith, which attaches to a wireless network that opens a connection to your higher self and your creator.

It is a proven fact that our minds can perceive eight seconds into the future. Even so, this does not explain how some people receive communication, warnings or premonitions about the far future, get messages from departed loved ones or channel guidance coming from a higher source.

As an energy reader, I can tell you there isn’t anything humanly different about those who accomplish this. It is a gift, not unlike those who are born with a talent for music or art. What comes through I do not retain. I am just the messenger.

A psychic, mystic, prophet, or master of spiritual arts uses this wireless connection to receive higher guidance. It is a personal connection to an unseen, unexplainable place that truly does exist, just not in this dimension. It has been called a higher realm of consciousness, the astral plane or spirit world. Physically you cannot remain in this space, but it is possible to visit there for a while.

Note that through meditation, spiritual disciplines; near death and hypnosis many individuals have documented these experiences of mental transcendence. Personally I received my past life name (Itasia) while under hypnosis and discovered that I had lived in Greece. My advise to anyone who is naturally intuitive to open your heart and mind to this gift and have faith in what it offers.

If you feel inclined to seek further enlightenment there are many spiritual masters whose writings and teachings you might find interesting. Some of my favorites are Deepak Chopra, Khalil Gilbran, Eckhart Tolle, Gary Zukav, Dr. Wayne Dyer and Shirley MacLaine.

You can visit Spiritual places that call to you, like Egypt, Machu Pichu, Greece and the cradle of civilization. Follow a well-known spiritual teacher or go on a Vision Quest of your own. All these paths will offer you enlightenment.

What this intuitive gift has given me is a greater understanding of what is behind the veil. This knowledge offered me great inner peace, especially after my son was killed in a car accident. For those who seek more knowledge you can Google: Afterlife, Astrology, Quantum Mysticism or the Supernatural. I will close by sharing my latest personal insight. A few years ago my path crossed with an amazing, talented woman who decorated my home. We instantly had a strong connection, but what was to follow I still find hard to fathom.

She was the first person who ever said to me, “I think I’ve known you in a past life.”

Well after reading her Tarot cards, we discovered that she had always wanted to go to Greece, like I did. When I pulled out the brochure I’d been saving, she gasped, because she had been saving the exact same one.

That’s not all. When our husbands met, they too, connected and instantly became friends. It is uncanny how we all feel like we’ve known one another all our lives.

Then last year, the four of us took a cruise to the Mediterranean together. We never spoke about it, but learned our anniversaries were two days apart and celebrated them on the cruise.

My special friend is very intuitive, but hadn’t explored this very much. She loved the Tarot cards and after giving her a few lessons she has had some very strange things happen. She would get a physical tingling down her spine to validate the truth of something she said. Soon she started receiving messages from my departed son.

Recently, on the night before my son’s birthday something woke her up and she couldn’t go back to sleep. Drawn to her computer she put in his name (actually misspelling it) and discovered a U-tube video of my son singing for an audition. She was so excited when she called to tell me that next morning about it. I was sure she was mistaken because there was no U-tube or the Internet when he passed away in 1992. My friend was sure it was my son even though they had never met and said that she would send me the e-mail with the attached video.

I could hardly believe it as my eyes filled with tears. There was my sixteen-year-old son in 1987, at a singing audition for a special Arts School. (It was posted on u-tube as an anniversary re-cap for the school). My husband and I had never seen this video and he sang to us on his fortieth birthday. Unexplainable….That’s not all.

There had to be an explanation why she would be getting these messages. I prayed for this to be shown to me.

I learned that it was tied to a past-life karmic debt between my husband, my son and me. Years ago I had a vision from another lifetime. I recalled that while I sat on cement bench, my husband approached me and was dressed in Roman soldier He announced that he was going off to battle and came to say goodbye. I had a strong feeling that he would not return and told him that. He dismissed my warning and said, “I promise to come back to you.”

Well, he died and did not return. Later I was told that he gave up his life to save a young soldier. My heart knew that soldier had been my son in this lifetime and that he settled this debt by giving up his life now so that I would grow old with my husband.

What I learned was the reason he had offered his life for this young soldier is that his mother in that lifetime was my best friend. Now in this lifetime our paths have crossed again and we are best friends. We are still figuring out how her current husband, a great guy like mine, fits into this.
Listening to music while you are meditating – not a good idea. … Anything you do with the thought that you are meditating is meditating. There are many ways to meditate. Personally, I find music to be distracting, but paying attention to sounds in your environment is part of insight meditation.

brain waves How to Deal With Stress in Our Day to Day Life

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Meditation music is music performed to aid in the practice of meditation. It can have a specific religious content, but also more recently has been associated with modern composers who use meditation techniques in their process of composition, or who compose such music with no particular religious group as a focus.

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All of us face different challenges and pressures in life. These challenges can be frequent or constant. Sometimes it is too hard to tackle them. How we deal physically, mentally, and emotionally with these difficult situations determine the stress in our life. If we react to the challenges of life by feeling overwhelmed or frazzled, we experience stress. Stress is a common fact of life and everybody feel stressed at one point or another in life. Small amount of stress is good as it keeps us motivated, engaged, alert and focused to do the best. But high levels of stress can prove to be very dangerous. It affects our physical as well as mental health. Too much stress makes you unable to think properly, it decreases your efficiency and productivity and disturbs your emotional equilibrium. Stress can be managed by controlling and balancing your thoughts and emotions, by adopting a positive attitude towards life and by changing the way, you deal with the stress. Here are some simple tips to reduce the hold of stress in your life.

Identify the sources of stress

First of all, try to find out what stresses you the most. Sometimes outside sources like work environment, too much workload, colleagues, or spouse or family issues are main stressors while sometimes your own thoughts, worries, emotions or habits can be responsible for your stress and it is very easy to neglect your own behavior. Maintain a diary and pen down when did you feel stress last time, the sources that caused it, how did you react to it, and what did you do to cope with it. This diary will really help you to keep the track of the main stressors in your life and once you identify the sources, you can easily deal with them.

Analyze your time schedule

If you are juggling with a lot of responsibilities, try to analyze, organize and prioritize your tasks by making a to-do list and highlight the tasks that are most important and must be done immediately. Then, divide your time slots according to the priority of the task. If some task is too big to handle at one time, break the task in small parts. Don’t overload yourself and try to find some time for yourself to relax. It is said that time management is the key to success and if you manage your time well, then you feel more focused and energetic and stress goes far away from you.

Don’t suppress your thoughts and emotions

Don’t bottle up your thoughts and emotions. If somebody’s behavior is bothering you and making you stressed. Speak to him politely and tell him about that. Take charge of your thoughts and emotions, give your 100% to tackle the challenges of life, and you will see that the command of life is in yours hand.

Learn to say ‘no’

It is very difficult to say ‘no’ in personal or professional life as you think that by refusing the other person will get annoyed. Be firm and confident about your limits and don’t give the steer-ring of your life in some other person’s hand. Focus on your own goals and targets first and give priority to them as it gives you more satisfaction and prevents you from stress while by taking more responsibilities than you can handle will lead to stress. So sometimes it is better to refuse others in order achieve your goals and dreams in life.

Keep some time for yourself

It is said that all work and no play makes jack a dull boy. So try to keep sometime to unwind and relax. Spend sometime with your family, read a book or watch your favorite movie. Keep in touch with nature as it soothes you and brings harmony and pleasure in life. You can play your favorite sport or indulge yourself in some hobby. It really calms your mind and releases all the tension and stress.

Connect with positive people

It is said that a man is known by his company as the people surrounding you, play a very important role in determining your personality. Spend sometime with the people who are more focused about their goals in life and have positive attitude towards life and limit the amount of time you spend with the people who have the negative approach towards life and make you stressed.

Have a healthy, balanced diet

It has been seen that when the people are in stress, they start eating junk food more frequently, increase the intake of tea or coffee, alcohol, and start taking sleeping pills. All these things further elevate the stress level and lead to severe traumatic conditions. A person should always have a healthy and balanced diet daily that have all the nutritional components of different food groups as it really help to cope with stress. Use green tea like chamomile or kava kava tea as these herbs have claming properties. Go for organic foods and include green leafy vegetables and fruits in your daily diet as these foods have anti-oxidants and vitamins that help to lower the stress releasing hormone. Avoid alcohol, smoking, tea, coffee and soft drinks. Increase the intake of carbs like whole wheat, brown rice or whole barley as they help in stimulating the release of serotonin chemical that helps to calm the mind.

Music therapy

Music works like a magic to calm your mind and gives relief from all the tension and stress. So listen your favorite music or play a guitar or piano when you feel stressed.

Exercise daily

Stay active and exercise for at least 30 minutes a day. When we exercise, our lungs expand and we get a lot of oxygen that improves the blood circulation in our body and helps in decreasing the stress level. Exercise also helps to get a proper sleep. It increases the endorphin level a brain chemical that induces feel good factor and also relaxes your muscles. You can do mild exercises like walking, swimming or aerobics to beat the stress.

Get enough sleep

Sleep for at least 6 to 8 hours daily as it rejuvenates our body and makes it ready for the next day. If we don’t get enough sleep, our body remains tired, it does not have the enough energy to concentrate and work properly which further leads to stress.

Meditation

Meditation is a great stress buster. When we practice meditation, total energy of our mind concentrates on one word, or a sound or a symbol. It calms your mind, gives you relaxation and increases your mental focus and concentration. It releases all the negative thoughts, fears, and anxiety, fills you with positive energy and switches your focus from past or future to present. While practicing meditation your spine should be straight and you should choose same place and time schedule everyday for better concentration.

Abdominal breathing

Generally, all of us breathe from our upper chest which means we take shallow breath. We don’t breathe from our abdomen or diaphragm. When we are stressed, then our breath becomes shallower which means less oxygen in the body. Our heart beat gets faster, muscles get contracted and we feel stressed. Whereas, diaphragm or abdominal breathing not only involves lungs but also the abdomen or diaphragm. It provides more oxygen in your blood and cleanses your body. Abdominal breathing helps the brain to create long and slow waves that relax your mind and helps in reducing the stress level. For abdominal breathing, sit straight on your spine, keep your hand on the navel, inhale slowly form your nose. Your abdomen should expand when you inhale. Now wait for few seconds and then exhale slowly. Do it for at least 5-10 minutes. It relaxes your mind and body instantly.

Yoga

Yoga involves asanas and breathing techniques called pranayama. Yoga helps a lot to fight against depression, stress and anxiety. It stretches and tones your muscles, improves blood circulation and concentration and makes your immune system strong. Yoga involves all the important organs of your body and releases all the toxins. It gives you immense energy boosts, mind and body co-ordination and enhances the sense of well-being. But if you perform the asanas incorrect, there are chances of injuries. So it is advisable to take some yoga sessions under a yoga teacher.

Massage and acupressure

Massage and manipulating the pressure points with finger also help to release tension and stress. When the pressure points are pressed, there is a mild aching sensation. There are many pressure points on our body. Some self massaging techniques are as follows. Close your eyes and put pressure with your fingertips on the third eye point between our eyebrows on the forehead, it gives relief from stress. Place your one arm on the other shoulder and press the muscles on the shoulder in a circular motion for 5 to 10 times. Now repeat it with the other shoulder. Acupressure gets more beneficial when you take deep breaths at the time of pressing the pressure point.

Good sense of humor

It is said that laughter is a good medicine. If you have a good sense of humor, you are less prone to stress, depression and anxiety. If you face some difficult phase in life, don’t loose your heart, maintain a smile on your face and deal with it as a fighter and don’t ever curse your destiny.

Take a warm bath with some herbs

Aqua therapy also works wonders in relaxing the mind and body and reducing the stress level. You can also put some aroma oils or herbs in your bath tub like rose petals, lemon and neem half an hour before your bath, these herbs have a soothing effect on your senses and make you relaxed you as well as rejuvenate your body. Alternate Bath with hot and cold water is a great stress reliever.

Sexual intercourse

Sex helps a lot for physical as well as mental relaxation. When we have sex, endorphin level which is a mood boosting chemical in the brain, increases. This is why we feel calm, and relaxed after sexual intercourse.
Listening to music while you are meditating – not a good idea. … Anything you do with the thought that you are meditating is meditating. There are many ways to meditate. Personally, I find music to be distracting, but paying attention to sounds in your environment is part of insight meditation.

brain waves Do We Need Anxiety? Thoughts for Entering the New Year

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As the music builds and fades, so does your own feeling of excitement. A crescendo is like the climax of a story, or the inspirational moment in a good speech.

Maybe you’ve also heard a song with no crescendo. It doesn’t go anywhere. Without a rise in intensity music might be relaxing, but it’s often boring.

On the other hand if music were all crescendo, the constant loudness would be too much. You would want a way to turn down the volume.

Anxiety can motivate.

Anxiety is like that – a little is a good thing. Anxiety can help you get work done on time and make thoughtful decisions about money. It can help you pay your bills, clean the kitchen, give a presentation, or take a test. Anxiety helps you get started and make things happen – especially things you don’t really want to do.

Without intensity, life would feel flat. Important tasks wouldn’t seem urgent. People with little energy or intensity often fee depressed or disconnected with life.

People with AD/HD can also have trouble building the intensity they need to motivate themselves and get started on tasks and projects. Often their efforts are scattered and their energy dissipated.

But too much anxiety is exhausting.

Peak performers know how to find the “sweet spot”

Peak performers, like athletes and musicians, know about crescendo. They know how to motivate themselves to do their best. They also know how to tell when they’ve reached their peak, and how to keep their energy from turning into anxiety.

In 1908, Harvard Psychologists Robert Yerkes and John Dodson proposed that performance and arousal, as they called it, are related. The more aroused you are, the better you perform – to a point. After that point, you become anxious and don’t perform as well. A little anxiety motivates, but too much gets in your way.

Research shows that we need some anxiety to feel energized and motivated – and to warn us when there’s a problem. But too much leaves us feeling overwhelmed and frazzled, like there’s danger around every corner.

Know your “sweet spot” for the New Year

As we move into the new year, you might be setting goals about getting things done, having fun, getting organized, losing weight, or spending time with friends. Some people are inspired by their New Year’s goals. Their goals provide just enough motivation to make important lifestyle changes.

But for others, moving into the New Year seems overwhelming. Resolutions and expectations – especially if you’re already falling short of what you had hoped for – create anxiety.

To lessen the anxiety, you need three things. First, you need to notice when your motivation, excitement, and energy are building to a crescendo. Second, you need a signal to let you know when you’ve reached the peak, before the feelings get too intense. And third, you need a way to stop right at the sweet spot.

How to get to the crescendo

How do you tell when you’re at just the right spot – when you’ve reached the crescendo?

If you’re someone who feels like you can barely hear the music, you might be struggling with low arousal. With low arousal, you might feel tired, unmotivated, spacy, distracted or even depressed. As you move into the new year, your task is to find what motivates and energizes you. At this time of year, I help many of my clients put together the building blocks of motivation.

If you’re someone who feels like the music is too loud, you might be motivated – but anxiety gets in your way. Signs of anxiety are physical tension; feelings of worry, fear, and panic; fretting or racing thoughts; and a focus on the future or the past. I help clients notice these indicators of anxiety earlier along the performance curve, when they are much easier to quiet.

Learn to be a peak performer

There are many ways to move from anxiety to peak performance. You can find a way that works for you by following these research-based principles.

1. Be positive. A common New Year’s resolution is to “be less anxious.” A more positive goal might be to “stay calm” or “enjoy my mornings.”

2. Be specific. Research shows that change is more likely when you focus on one particular part of a problem rather than something more general. If you’re trying to create a calm morning, you might start your morning 10 minutes of meditation. If you’re trying to stay calm in a conversation, you might take 2 full breaths before responding.

3. Start small. Break down your goal by thinking about a particular situation or time of day. For example your goal might be, “Step outside and breathe the fresh air first thing every morning” or “When I hear a request, take three deep breaths before responding”.

We do need anxiety – but just enough to stay safe, motivated, and do our best. A little anxiety is a good thing. Too much is overwhelming. Just as the intensity of music affects our joy in listening, how anxious we feel affects our joy in life.

Learning how to enjoy the moments of crescendo – or turn down the volume when the intensity is too much – are the keys to doing well and feeling good in the new year.
Listening to music while you are meditating – not a good idea. … Anything you do with the thought that you are meditating is meditating. There are many ways to meditate. Personally, I find music to be distracting, but paying attention to sounds in your environment is part of insight meditation.

Brainwave Entrainment Binaural Beats – How They Can Help With Anxiety

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Brainwave entrainment is a method to stimulate the brain into entering a specific state by using a pulsing sound, light, or electromagnetic field. The pulses elicit the brain’s ‘frequency following’ response, encouraging the brainwaves to align to the frequency of a given beat.
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Living with stress and anxiety can be exhausting. It can take over your life to the point where you have no energy, suffer from illness, have a lack of concentration and end up feeling very alone. There are lots of different methods of dealing with anxiety. I have personally found binaural beats to be one of the quickest and most effective aids in combating stress and feeling like a more well balanced and positive individual.

I decided a long time ago that anxiety was simply a part of life. The trick is to not allow it to take over your life and to not allow it to sink you. I have tried many different methods to help cope including:

Meditation
Affirmations
Deep breathing
Exercise
Journaling
Though each of these methods have helped me at different points in my life and I may still incorporate some of them, I found that none of these were easy for me to stick with. I needed a fool proof method to help anxiety that was easy and I did not want to use drugs or medication.

I found binaural beats several years ago and decided to give them a try. I found that they worked within minutes. It took about five to ten minutes for my body to relax and another ten minutes or so for my mind chatter to stop.

After twenty minutes I was not only relaxed but I felt like I was floating. Actually I often fell asleep after a single session. If I was REALLY stressed out I would sometimes listen to my binaural beats recording twice. That would always do it and the balanced and relaxed feeling would last most of the day.

How do Binaural Beats Work?

They work with your brain frequencies. They are completely safe and scientifically proven. By lowering your brain frequencies the binaural beats will bring your body back into the parasympathetic state (relaxed) and out of the sympathetic state (fight or flight).

They will make you very calm and help you to focus your energy in the right direction. Essentially they help your brain to work at a much deeper and clearer level while working directly with your subconscious mind. You can experience many different altered states of mind and the benefits and results are awesome.

There are many different levels of anxiety and no matter how bad you get it, binaural beats can help and make a big difference in your life. There are lots of brainwave entrainment products to choose from and they can be very affordable. Many can be downloaded online which means you can start using them as soon as today and get anxiety relief right away!
Brainwave entrainment is a method to stimulate the brain into entering a specific state by using a pulsing sound, light, or electromagnetic field. The pulses elicit the brain? ?requency following?response, encouraging the brainwaves to align to the frequency of a given beat.

relaxing music How to Get Motivated For Your Morning Workout to Burn the Baby Fat

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1. Organize to Get Back to Size

The most efficient way to ensure that you can burn the baby fat with a morning workout each day is to plan ahead. Plan to give yourself some extra time in the morning to do what needs to be done to accommodate a workout into your morning schedule. The day before you can prepare and organize your breakfast, workout clothes and exercises you are going to do and have it all ready to go.

2. Get a Good Nights Rest

Sleeping is a necessity for the human body and if we don’t get enough sleep it can wreck havoc on us physically and mentally. A well-rested mom makes a better-adjusted mom. Sleeping re-charges and repairs your body to burn the baby fat and cope with the demands of being a mom for the next day.

3. Adopt a Positive Outlook

We have so many blessings in our lives yet we tend to focus on the negative things. Instead of stressing about your finances, family life, or your itinerary, you should begin your day by focusing on the positive things in your life. Do something that will put you in a positive mind set. Read a section of your journal or a just meditate on the reasons “why” you are losing pregnancy weight and “why” it’s important for you to burn the baby fat to achieve your goals.

4. Give your Body some Time to Wake Up

In the early hours of the morning, we all love to hit that snooze button on our alarm clock but instead of getting more sleep, you can ease into your morning by listening to some soft or classical music while you do some light stretching. A great way to re-hydrate yourself and wake up your body is to drink a tall glass of water. So, instead of waking up in a mad rush to beat the clock, give yourself a few minutes to wake up to complete an energizing morning workout and deal with the family morning rush.

5. Eat a Healthy Breakfast

There is no better way to kick-start your metabolism to burn the baby fat than to eat a good breakfast. Just choose a quick and easy breakfast such as a Blueberry Protein smoothie or a nutritious meal replacement bar or drink to provide energy for your body and have a good workout.

Mornings are not for everybody, but it’s the best time of the day to workout to burn the baby fat. Starting your day with a workout keeps your moods positive, your self-esteem up and makes you feel less stressed and more energetic to face your day. Plan ahead and give yourself some time to wake up, fuel your body and get in your workout for the day. Keep a positive attitude regarding your goal to lose the pregnancy weight and focus on the positive outcomes of a lean and toned body. And as the Irish say, “A top of the morning to you!”
Listening to music while you are meditating – not a good idea. … Anything you do with the thought that you are meditating is meditating. There are many ways to meditate. Personally, I find music to be distracting, but paying attention to sounds in your environment is part of insight meditation.

Brainwave Entrainment Boost Your Brain Power in 4 Steps

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Brainwave entrainment is a method to stimulate the brain into entering a specific state by using a pulsing sound, light, or electromagnetic field. The pulses elicit the brain’s ‘frequency following’ response, encouraging the brainwaves to align to the frequency of a given beat.
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There has been plenty of talk about making the most of the power of the mind and while there is a lot of information out there, understandably, one can be easily overwhelmed by the sheer amount of information out there. So this article will teach you a little basic steps in which you can take to boost your brain power. Of course to say that you will see some results in these four steps is something of a stretch, especially when you see the last step as something of an acquisition of technology that you need to acquire.

The first three steps are something that you can do on your own, and they actually set up the mind for a sort of reprogramming and help you to relax in ways that you never thought possible. One thing you need to know is that the power of the mind is all dependent on whether or not we are going to recognise that it is there in the first place. One mistake that we are doing is that we are going around in this world today with every notion that what we have is all we are getting. So one thing that we need to do is to first and fore most, realise the fact that the power of the mind is only limited by our realisation of how much we can use.

Once we know this, then we are much more liberated in every sense of the word. The first thing we need to do is to set ourselves up for some mental relaxation, and we need to be able to master some deep breathing techniques that will help us to focus and relax our mind. The first step is the most important step, and it allows us to open up the mind and filter out the bad elements that rule us. The second step we need to take into consideration is to be able to talk to our inner voice, and this is our subconscious. We need to be able, through these relaxation techniques, be able to ourselves. If it sounds hard, then do not be worries.

One thing that we need to understand is that through this, we are able to move on to the third step pretty easily, in which we take advantage of some affirmation techniques, using positive messages to speak to our subconscious mind. The last step is acquiring some good brainwave technology that will allow you to be able to reprogramme the mind in some really effective ways. One thing that you need to take into consideration is technology like brainwave entrainment technology. Do some research into this and you will be able to take note on how much benefit technology like this has been doing for people all round the world. In the end of the day, you would be able to be a better person and boost your brain power in 4 easy steps that anyone and everyone has the ability to do.
Brainwave entrainment is a method to stimulate the brain into entering a specific state by using a pulsing sound, light, or electromagnetic field. The pulses elicit the brain? ?requency following?response, encouraging the brainwaves to align to the frequency of a given beat.

relaxing music Marina Lighthouse and Harmony in Your Environment

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She started to study Feng Shui in 1991, and became a certified practitioner in 1996. In 1998, she joined a mentorship program “The Art of Placement”. She also began studying under His Holiness Grandmaster Rinpoche. Together they made two CDs – the second CD includes chanting, music, and readings, and can be meditated upon.

Marina traveled extensively and gave consultations and lectures on architectural design and Feng Shui. In 2001, she partnered with Deborah Gee – a Feng Shui expert. Together, they created an educational video that aired on PBS in 2003, and brought more attention to Lighthouse. Following the airing, numerous Bay Area corporations and individuals started to contact her for consultations and readings. Her office answered questions on styling for large corporations like Hewlett-Packard, Cisco Systems, and Mercedes-Benz.

Today, Marina Lighthouse assists individuals and corporations in regard to feng Shui. Additionally, she offers specific Mah Jongg readings and predictions. Marina is a resident of Los Altos, California; she runs a successful company – Harmony in Your Environment.

Marina has helped many people find solutions to their everyday issues using interior design and Feng Shui. She helps people discover what has to be “gained or lost” to come into balance. She believes that places and people have energy that is connected in seen and unseen ways. She knows what has to be paid attention to, in order to improve the life of a person in every aspect. Marina Lighthouse believes that balancing your life is all that is needed to gain luck, success and happiness. Once your energy channel is opened to prosperity, it will come. She helps individuals, entrepreneurs, small businesses, and corporations identify and boost good energy, and eliminate bad energy from their lives.

Marina Lighthouse conducts Feng Shui consultations, where she observes and listens deeply to the client and their environment. She feels and notices patterns. She perceives the subtle energies in the surroundings that she visits, and makes suggestions for improvement.

For instance, a person may be constantly bumping their shins against the edges of a sharp table, and tend to avoid that table. Adjusting that table will not only create space; it will also eliminate the tension. The energy that was wasted to avoid the table can be freed and used for something much more important. Another real-life example – a person and their dog suffered from unrelieved kidney problems. When visiting their home, Marina noted two things: an unattended indoor aquarium and stagnant water in the backyard. Once the aquarium and the backyard were fixed, the person and their dog’s kidney problems were gone.

In both of the examples above, the culprit was the blocked flow of Chi energy, which needed to be eased. Marina Lighthouse helps people boost their relationships, lives and businesses using Feng Shui.
Listening to music while you are meditating – not a good idea. … Anything you do with the thought that you are meditating is meditating. There are many ways to meditate. Personally, I find music to be distracting, but paying attention to sounds in your environment is part of insight meditation.