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Crystal Healing
Using Crystals and Yoga Meditation to Detox Stress http://chakrayoga.suite101.com/article.cfm/using-crystals-and-yoga-meditation-to-heal-and-detox-stress
Sun in Virgo August 23 – September 22
Sardonyx is the Virgo birthstone, strong and stable, supports search for meaningful existence, supplements willpower, enhances self-control, helps to find stable relationships and attracts good friends.
Herbs that actively stimulate the bowels to promote movements. Example: Senna Pods (Cassia angustifolia).
Herbs that have a beneficial effect upon the nervous system. Example: Oats (Avena sativa)
Herbs for chest or respiratory disorders. Example: Elecampane (Inula helenium)
A herb that causes the skin to become red as a counterirritant. Example: Mustard (Brassica alba)
Herb that calms the nervous system and reduces stress and nervousness throughout the body. Example: Valerian (Valeriana officinalis)
An herb that controls muscle spasms. Same as antispasmodic.
- Helps purify and improve quality of blood
- Increases resistance to colds and other respiratory diseases.
- Expands chest cavity, develops diaphragm and improves general health and appearance
- Strengthens nervous system and lends alertness and clarity to mind by increasing amount of life-force (prana)
- Sit in a cross-legged posture, breathing normally. First movement is to use abdominal muscles to push your abdomen out as far as possible. This movement enable air to be taken into lower lungs during breathing.
- Practice pulling in with the abdomen and pushing out first in the lower chest and then upper chest areas. Raise your shoulders, keeping your hands on your knees.
- Slowly lower your shoulders and relax your chest and abdomen.
- Practice to make step 1 flow easily into step 2.
- Next, practice only the breathing. First exhale completely through your nose so that there is no air in your lung. Now inhale slowly, so it will take you 15 seconds to complete your inhalation. It may take a few attempts to slow down your breathing sufficiently so that you can do this inhalation in 15 seconds.
- Retain air in lungs for 10 seconds.
- Exhale through our nose during a count of 15 seconds.
- Practice steps 5, 6, and 7 until the count of 15-10-15 is achieved.
- Combine physical movements of steps 1, 2 and 3, with breathing steps of 5, 6, 7, push out the abdomen as you inhale during the first 5 seconds. Next pull in abdomen and push out chest area during the second group of 5 seconds. Hold the air for 10 seconds. Exhale through your nose slowly and return to normal position during a count of 15 seconds.
Inhale
- 5 seconds from the abdominal area
- 5 seconds from the chest area
- 5 seconds to lift the shoulders
Exhale – 15 seconds
Start with 5 times; then work up to 10 times.
Insomniac
Blueblack, with the much-poked periods of stars
Letting in the light, peephole after peephole . . .
A bonewhite light, like death, behind all things.
Under the eyes of the stars and the moon's rictus
He suffers his desert pillow, sleeplessness
Stretching its fine, irritating sand in all directions.
Over and over the old, granular movie
Exposes embarrassments--the mizzling days
Of childhood and adolescence, sticky with dreams,
Parental faces on tall stalks, alternately stern and tearful,
A garden of buggy rose that made him cry.
His forehead is bumpy as a sack of rocks.
Memories jostle each other for face-room like obsolete film stars.
He is immune to pills: red, purple, blue . . .
How they lit the tedium of the protracted evening!
Those sugary planets whose influence won for him
A life baptized in no-life for a while,
And the sweet, drugged waking of a forgetful baby.
Now the pills are worn-out and silly, like classical gods.
Their poppy-sleepy colors do him no good.
His head is a little interior of grey mirrors.
Each gesture flees immediately down an alley
Of diminishing perspectives, and its significance
Drains like water out the hole at the far end.
He lives without privacy in a lidless room,
The bald slots of his eyes stiffened wide-open
On the incessant heat-lightning flicker of situations.
Nightlong, in the granite yard, invisible cats
Have been howling like women, or damaged instruments.
Already he can feel daylight, his white disease,
Creeping up with her hatful of trivial repetitions.
The city is a map of cheerful twitters now,
And everywhere people, eyes mica-silver and blank,
Are riding to work in rows, as if recently brainwashed.
by Sylvia Plath
Horizon’s Place And Time Meet by Cara E. Moore Chapbook
Poem from this collection http://www.gaias-garden.co.uk/library/ACheerfulCanvas.html
Amazon link
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Music
Cara E. Moore http://www.reverbnation.com/controller/audio_player/detachable_player/artist_487603?autoPlay=true
Christina Aguilera - Beautiful
Grammy 2004 performance
Beautiful Lyrics
Don't look at me
Every day is so wonderful
Then suddenly, it's hard to breathe
Now and then, I get insecure
From all the pain, I'm so ashamed
I am beautiful no matter what they say
Words can't bring me down
I am beautiful in every single way
Yes, words can't bring me down
So don't you bring me down today
To all your friends, you're delirious
So consumed in all your doom
Trying hard to fill the emptiness
The pieces gone, left the puzzle undone
Is that the way it is
You are beautiful no matter what they say
Words can't bring you down
You are beautiful in every single way
Yes, words can't bring you down
Don't you bring me down today...
No matter what we do
(no matter what we do)
No matter what we say
(no matter what we say)
We're the song inside the tune
Full of beautiful mistakes
And everywhere we go
(everywhere we go)
The sun will always shine
(sun will always shine)
And tomorrow we might wake on the other side
All the other times
We are beautiful in every single way
Yes, words can't bring us down
We are beautiful in every single way
Yes, words can't bring us down
Don't you bring me down today
Don't you bring me down today
Don't you bring me down today
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