Good morning!
Welcome to Day 3 of our Root Chakra Cleanse.
If you would like to know more, here’s the info on the Daily Guide and What Are CHAKRAS.
If you would like to join me in cleaning my chakras, I would love it!
Today we want to focus on mindfulness.
Mindfulness can be achieved by concentrating on our awareness on the present moment without judgement, while acknowledging and accepting our feelings, thoughts, and bodily sensations. Being mindful makes it easier to enjoy the pleasures in life as they occur, it helps us become fully engaged in activities, and creates a greater capacity to deal with adverse events. By focusing on the here and now, we will be less likely to get caught up in worries about the future or regrets over the past, and less preoccupied with concerns about success and self-esteem. We will be better able to form deep connections with others. It has been discovered that practicing mindfulness can help relieve stress, treat heart disease, lower blood pressure, reduce chronic pain, , improve sleep, and alleviate gastrointestinal difficulties.
1. Mindfulness
Take as much time as you need to practice mindfulness.
Basic mindfulness – Sit quietly and focus on your natural breathing or on a word or “LAM” and repeat it silently. Allow thoughts to come and go without judgment and return to your focus on breath or mantra.
Body sensations – Notice subtle body sensations such as an itch or tingling without judgment and let them pass. Notice each part of your body in succession from head to toe.
Sensory – Notice sights, sounds, smells, tastes, and touches. Name them “sight,” “sound,” “smell,” “taste,” or “touch” without judgment and let them go.
Emotions – Allow emotions to be present without judgment. Practice a steady and relaxed naming of emotions: “joy,” “anger,” “frustration.” Accept the presence of the emotions without judgment and let them go.
The Muladhara or Root Chakra is the first chakra is associated with security, safety, basic survival needs such as food, sleep, shelter, and self-preservation. You may notice it out of balance if you jump at noises, have bad dreams, experience lower back pain, etc. So this is where we need to accept our experiences rather than react to them with aversion and avoidance and heal our Root Chakra.
We still want to use meditation, yoga pose, food and an affirmation because this awakens and strengthens our chakra. We need all the help that we can get.
2. Meditation:
Here’s an app for Insight Timer Meditation
Here is the YouTube video for Binaural beats to use with earphones.
Meditate for as long as you would like and it's even better if you are out in nature feeling the grass and trees around to ground you.
Close your eyes and feel the earth beneath you. Inhale taking in fresh nourishing energy, exhale releasing all of the things that no longer serve you or help you move forward.
Sit with your shoulders back and your spine straight. Try to relax all your muscles as you close your eyes and breathe deeply. Inhale through the nose, pulling the breath as far down into your body as you can, and exhale through the mouth.
Chant LAM while meditating
Llllllllaaaaaaaammmm
Focus a red, warm healing,light at the end of your spine.
3. Food: Red
A healthy root chakra vibrates at the color RED.
Therefore, red foods provide the vibration needed to help balance the root chakra. Nutritionally, red foods usually have high levels of vitamin C–a nutrient utilized by several body parts that the root chakra oversees, like bones, teeth, skin and adrenals. Some red foods you could try are tomatoes, strawberries, apples, pomegranates, cherries, red beans, potatoes, etc. These are all grounding foods so incorporate them into your meals.
4. Yoga pose: Warrior
Warrior is a standing yoga pose named after a mythological Hindu warrior who was was fierce and powerful. It teaches us body awareness and increases the body-mind connection. The internal rotation of the back foot, combined with the squaring of the hips and full plant of the front foot, requires that we have a great perception of where our body is in space. This mental challenge develops coordination and an overall sense of connection with our physical self.
Warrior pose opens our heart and we will develop courage. This pose has us standing very strong: one leg back, one leg forward, hips facing forward, and our chest lifted. This powerful stance can help us gain inner strength and courage, letting us open up to ourselves and others.
If you have any medical concerns, talk with your doctor before practicing yoga.
Place your feet hip-distance apart. Focus on the present moment. Breathe deeply and evenly, calming your mind.
Turn to the left.
Exhale as you step your feet wide apart, about 4 to 5 feet.
Turn your right foot out 90 degrees, so your toes are pointing to the top of the mat.
Pivot your left foot inwards at a 45-degree angle.
Align your front heel with the arch of your back foot. Keep your pelvis turned toward the front of your mat.
Press your weight through your left heel. Then, exhale as you bend your right knee over your right ankle. Your shin should be perpendicular to the floor. Lift through the arches of your feet, while rooting down through your ankles.
Reach up strongly through your arms. Broaden across your belly, lengthen the sides of your waist, and lift through your chest. Keep your palms and fingers active and reaching. You can keep arms in front of you if you choose.
If you are able to, keep your arms parallel, or press your palms together.
If you want, gently tilt your head back and gaze up at your thumbs. Keep your shoulders dropped away from your ears. Feel your shoulder blades pressing firmly inward.
Press down through the outer edge of your back foot, keeping your back leg straight.
Hold for up to one minute.
To release the pose, press your weight through your back heel and straighten your front leg. Lower your arms.
Turn to the left, reversing the position of your feet, and repeat for the same length of time on the opposite side.
5. Affirmation: The Universe will always provide for me.
When you state an affirmation you are stating a truth. Affirmations are sentences aimed to affect the conscious and the subconscious mind. The words composing the affirmation, automatically and involuntarily, bring up related mental images into the mind, which could inspire, energize and motivate.
Repeat all day long and if you look in the mirror while stating this, even better!
Broken To Blissful Diary
What did you accomplish today to make your life better?
What are you feeling right now? This is just for your heart and soul.
Let me know if you have any questions LiveLikeJacqui@gmail.com.
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