Dear ,
I hope you are feeling wonderful and enjoying your holidaytime!
I'm feeling pretty wonderful, and I also feel the pull of culture in me.
Isn't it weird how powerfully we are influenced by the culture around us?
For example, I am hardly ever interested in shopping and buying things, but in early December, I'm thinking about going into stores and browsing amazon.com!
Do you notice that at all?
It's paradoxical that during the stillest and quietest time of nature, we humans are at our busiest and noisiest.
If you go for a walk in the woods tomorrow, you will notice that nature is indeed very quiet. Animals are hibernating, birds have flown south, and the trees have lost their leaves.The energy (qi) has moved deep down into the roots and core.
There is no buzzing, fluttering, chirping, busyness, and no business (if you know what I mean)...just a deep and cold quiet. This is the energy of the Water Element! Nature rests so that when the warmth of the sun returns in the Spring, the potential energy generated during winter can EXPLODE into life!!!
Some of us may experience the dichotomy between cultural influence and natural movement as feeling overwhelmed, stressed, or on edge. If that's the case, I encourage you to stop and take a break. You have the full support of the natural world to slow down right now. Listen to the wisdom of nature and tune into that powerful potential energy builds within you when you rest!
Below are some gifts to help you with this. Feel free to share this with anyone who might benefit!
For your virtual stocking stuffer, I would like to offer you 2 questions to contemplate right now, for 1 minute:
1. How would your life be different if you used this time of year to rest deeply, rejuvenate and refill your energy reserves? [set timer now!]
2. What are 3 ways that you can sync up with the deep, dark, powerful, quiet energy of wintertime? [set timer now!]
If you had trouble with that second question, read on!
For your main holiday gift, here are some Winter Practices: Try each of these for a minimum of 1 week and see your life change.
1. Meditate: Set aside 10-30 minutes per day to simply sit upright, be still, pay attention and let go of your relationship to your thoughts and feelings. DOWNLOAD: Enjoy this FREE 3 Minute guided Stillness Meditation from my online meditation course.
2. Sleep: For one week, go to bed early and wake up late! Up until the last 100 years, we have gone to sleep and awoken in sync with the sun! In summer we slept less and in winter we slept more. Imagine that! Our genes are actually programmed for non-electric light.
How to Create a pitch-black bedroom experience
- cover alarm clocks
- put up light-blocking shades
- throw the TV out
- If you don't throw your TV out, install this on your computer for night browsing.
3. Eat: For one week, eat more cooked root vegetables and winter greens (like kale). Eat more grass-fed meat. Make soups and stews and eat lots of good fats (coconut oil, almond oil, olive oil, ghee, grass-fed animal fats). Eat warming foods like ginger and Cinnamon. YUM! Avoid raw and cold foods that deplete energy.
These practices can help to strengthen your mind, body, and spirit and tune you into the gifts that Winter energy offers.
Thank you for your commitment to a brighter and more beautiful world.
Wishing you and your family the most wonderful & peaceful holidays!!!
With SOOOO much Love,
Loads Love,
P.S. Interested in Astrology? take our super affordable 5 part course that starts Jan 5th with Kevin! You will learn the basics so you can begin to interpret your Birth Chart! Learn more!
P.P.S. There are. still a few more days to enter our Holiday time Raffle ($500 value) by purchasing instant Gift Cards.
P.P.P.S. We are doing a limited Fundraiser run of this super awesome T-SHIRT! now through Dec 29th. 50% of proceeds go to fund our holistic medicine Scholarship fund & 50% goes to The Church of the Eagle and Condor!
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