Feeling and looking good doesn’t have to be complicated. By empowering yourself with self-care and grounding yourself in natural beauty you’ll have powerful tools to create the life, and look, you want.
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Natural Beauty
From a general human being perspective it is a gift to be able to see the beauty in everything – and there is beauty in everything. Even in pain and destruction comes growth and rebirth and to me that is beautiful. Beauty associated with people is tricky because in today’s world we sometimes have other people dictating a very narrow idea of what beauty is but this is changing. We now recognize being different is beautiful! We’re all unique and that in itself is beautiful and since the dawn of time beauty has been defined by the people who love them; as they say, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Some people have a certain something, a “je ne sais quoi.” That “something” is inner beauty. The reality is inner beauty is a very true and tangible quality. I spent ten years in the field of beauty during my Tony&Tina 1.0 years and I have seen first-hand how inner beauty creates aesthetic beauty. A part of the beauty biz is to have lots of events and Tony and I traveled around the world…event after event giving us the opportunity to connect with so many different kinds of people. No matter where we were one truth stood out clearly…The people who felt good about themselves looked great! I’ve seen stereotypical “beauties” look not so great and stereotypical “plain Jane’s” look stunning and it had nothing to do with the make-up or fashion. It is our inner radiance that exudes beauty.
Looking beautiful is all about how you carry yourself and what kind of energy you are generating. It goes without saying that you have to take care of yourself, physically, emotionally, spiritually. It’s really not that hard. It can be as simple as making sure you wash your face and moisturize every morning and night. You can’t get lazy at night because then the day’s dirt and grime just sits there and your complexion will suffer. No matter what skin challenges you have you deserve more than a dull complexion. It’s also about your energy. If you are energetically clear and balanced and live in love and joy you will look it and that’s beautiful. Don’t just try to look beautiful…be beautiful…to yourself and to everyone in your life.
All that said their are some natural remedies to keep us looking healthy and youthful and that’s always nice self-care. There are some good tools in this post but also check out the Radiant Beauty Visualization , A Night Of Beauty and the Healing Bath.
You will find in this post beauty tips, energy remedies, energy facial, facial exercises and food and spices that promote healthy radiant skin.
General Make-up Tips
My number one rules are…Less is always more… Blend, Blend, Blend…Glitter is pretty much appropriate anywhere, anytime, any age!
If you are wearing dark lipstick go light on the eyes
If you are wearing heavy eye make-up go light on the lips…a natural / sheer rose or plum is usually great for everyone.
Use any color you like on your lids but just a hint of it; a smear / dusting. Any Tony&Tina make-up fans…if you have any of our Universal Color Dust it is perfect for the effect!
Apply your shadow normally but then gently use your fingertip, or a make-up brush but I’ve always liked using my finger to smudge my eye shadow or eyeliner. It’s best to smudge it from the inside out and just make sure you wipe away any obvious streaks. I sometimes leave a little of it on so it looks like a very faint “shadow” upward and away from the eye.
Make-up is meant to accentuate your beauty not cover it up…and usually wearing tons of make-up can actually make you look older…
My usual routine is:
- A very light / sheer foundation, if any. Luminizing is extra nice.
- A lip and cheek tint. I use a sheer color and always have it with me for a quick touch-up.
- I still use the Tony&Tina Herbal Glitter Pencil (I might have some back in stock by November 2019). I never leave home without it.
Energy Facial:
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- Activates and increases your life-force
- Increases circulation
- Decreases stress
- Figure-8 the energy onto any part of your body that needs balance and healing.
This video I have showing this is a very rough sloppy video but the information is there. I will be redoing this video shortly, ha I think I’ve been saying that for a year, all in good time. But it’s simple, increases your sense of radiance, creates a youthful healthy glow to your skin and activates your life-force.
How too:
There is an important energy point on your back – right behind the bellybutton. If you put one finger on your bellybutton and the other where that would be on your back – that is what is called the Ming Men point. Some say it’s an inch or two lower than your navel – I have found a few debates online but if you just massage that entire area you can’t go wrong! Everyone agrees that it’s considered a powerful life-force center in Chinese and Energy Medicine.
– On your back Ming Men point, it’s on your spine, use your fingers to firmly massage it, this awakens the radiant healing energy. Take turns doing this for a few seconds with both hands. I do it twice usually.
– With the palms of your hands you then drag this energy around to the front of your body and touching your body, in a continuous motion, bring your hands up to your face as if you are splashing water onto your face gently and slowly – you can make a circle with your hands and / or let them rest on your face allowing that healing energy to soak in. This brings a new and deeper energy to your face this usually gives you a beautiful radiant youthful glow inside and out. I love it!!!
Facial Detox:
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- Releases toxins / Lymphatic Drainage
- Increases circulation
- Decreases fine lines
- Figure-8 eye massage you will program your energy to crossover, which has numerous benefits.
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The following all great self-care tools.
Getting Rid of Toxins
You retain a lot of toxins in the skin cells of your face, so it’s a good idea to massage your face every day, which accelerates circulation and gives a radiant youthful appearance. It can help reverse signs of aging as well as being a powerful preventive care technique.
With the tips of your fingers, massage in a circular motion, concentrating on your chin, cheeks, temple, eye sockets and forehead. Where it hurts is where the toxins are being stored, so really work on those areas. This kind of lymphatic drainage, or clearing as I like to say, is very effective! Remember that when you release toxins you have to wash them away, so follow up by drinking plenty of water. Do this for a few minutes twice a day, this can be extra benifical when using our Rose Hip Seed Oil. Doing this before you wash your face and apply your moisturizer is a great routine to get into.
Another version is to vigorous give yourself a facial massage will release toxins and Using the back of your hand (this has less of a dragging effect) rub vigorously back and forth all over your face with special attention to the forehead and around the noise, chin and mouth area.
Around the eye area is especially important and this Eden Energy Medicine so here is an easy, simple an effective technique. With your fingers massage or firmly press down around the entire occipital lobe (NOT in your eye or on the inner soft area) – do it on the bone around your eyes. An important variation of this is to massage the eyes with a figure-8 motion. For example start pressing into the upper right eye and massage down to the bottom left eye. Continue massaging around the left eye until you land on the upper left eye and now you crossover to the bottom right eye, massaging / pressing down in a circle up to where you started – the upper right eye. Do this at least three times with a continuous flow – doing this while lying in bed is a relaxing self-care ritual. This has benefits beyond releasing toxins – it will ensure your energy is crossing over which important for our overall health, motivation and happiness.
One important note: Use this deep self-massaging tool all around your chest area, we have many important lymphatic points there that can store toxins if we do not release them and since the lyphatic system does not have it’s own pump / manor of circulation we have to do it for our bodies. So let me say strongly to woman what my teacher Donna Eden preaches…“NO WIRE BRAS!!!!!!!” They can trap toxins in the breast area and that can be physically harmful to us. Also keep in mind that our Spleen Meridian runs right through the sides of your chest…we do not want anything to hinder the spleen meridian as it is responsible for so much of our well-being.
For sexier bras I just cut the wire out but for everyday use I wear Coobie Bras and they are beyond comfortable and fit all sizes and have great colors. I bought the rainbow so that I have colortherapy options for everyday, no matter what I wear on top of it.
Other Great Self-Care Healthy Skin Tools:
The Natural Face-Lift
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- Facing a mirror, open your mouth and, while tightening your cheek muscles, move your mouth as far as you can to the right and then the left. Then, puff up your cheeks with your mouth closed, sort of as if you were blowing something up. Repeat at least two times, twice a day.
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Chin Tuck
Holding your head and neck up, slowly pull your chin and head back and then forward as far as you can. Repeat several times. Then, with your shoulders back and head held high, use the back of your hand to tap under your chin. Repeat several times.
Chin Definition
Lift your chin, stick out your tongue and try to touch your nose. Repeat several times.
Sinus Drainage
Using the tips of your middle and index fingers, apply pressure first on the inside of your brow bones and then underneath your cheekbones. When you begin, feel around until you experience sensitivity to the pressure. Push in and up for thirty seconds. Repeat at your brow bones.
Relaxing The Face and Neck
Let’s face it, sometimes we all work and worry too much. When you experience a day fraught with pressure and anxiety, try the following relaxation technique. Crunch up your face as tightly as you can while squeezing your shoulders up and in. Hold for four counts and release. Repeat three times. Then, pretend your face, neck and body are like a rag dolls and shake everything loose. Don’t forget about your hands and feet. Afterwards, do some light stretching…forward and backward and side-to-side.
Other Thoughts On Beauty
Make-up
Less is more, blend, blend, blend… I hope to bring our therapudic cosmetics back at some point but until then there are some good brands that do care about the health of your skin. Seek them out. Credo Beauty has a great selection. Basically, the fewer chemicals the better.
Skincare
“Don’t believe the hype” as Public Enemy says….use common sense and read your ingredient lists. I really stand behind my products, read about how I create them and I’d add that I consider all my ingredients sentient and respect them as such. I give gratitude to them, infuse them with healing energy and program increase your benefits. Through my energy work I raise the vibration of the ingredients and product and that gives you greater benefits. I am also on a mission to get people steaming their face on a regular basis. The benefits are immediate and a great time to take a moment for yourself to breathe in beauty, health and any energy you want to take in. Our Flowering Facial Steam is amazingly effective and delicious! It’s instant radiance!!!
Positive Thinking
If you always look on the bright side of things, you create a happier you. What you think about creates your reality, so by loving yourself and giving yourself positive affirmations you actually become your ideal self. High self-esteem is evident in the way you hold your head up and the way you walk and speak. Think beautiful and become beautiful. Try Visualization – Radiant Beauty and Sending Yourself Positive Energy.
Sleeping
Getting enough sleep is crucial…it’s true, we all need out beauty sleep! Your body and mind need to rest and recuperate at the end of the day, and not getting enough sleep makes you irritable and look bad, and it actually ages you! Getting 8 to 9 hours of sleep is a great anti-aging treatment and a way to achieve energetic wellness.
Tips For Healthy Youthful Skin
These are pretty much common sense:
– Get eight hours of sleep as often as you can.
– Drink at least 4 to 6 glasses of water a day.
– Exercise. And, be active in general.
– Be a vegetarian, or least a respectful eater. Eat Consciously!
– Eat mostly whole, organic foods. Stay away from all processed foods and NO GMO.
– Keep your GUT healthy. Gut health has gotten much attention recently and rightly so as it affects us physically and emotionally. An easy gut maintence meal is having some Kefir in the morning and throw in tons of nutrients. I grind up flax, chia, hemp, quinoa, sprouted millet and groats, and also add in some matcha and papaya enzymes and I can feel the gratitude from my body every time I have it. Feels amazing!
– Do not smoke and limit alcohol intake.
– Give yourself a facial steam every week!
– Give yourself cleansing masks on a regular basis and always wash and moisturize your face – morning and night.
– Be aware of your facial expressions. If you find you’re tensing your facial muscles, affirm to yourself that your face is relaxed and soft.
– Give yourself facial massages on a regular basis. Moving out the toxins on a regular basis creates a noticeable difference. Ever notice how amazing your skin looks and feels after facial? Well, it’s partly because you’re massaging your face for an extended period of time, or shorter versions throughout the day.
– Be happy. Studies show happy people look and feel younger, helping them to be healthier as they age.
– Breathe in pink. Visualize pink energy with every inhale. It gives a youthful glow to you and your skin.
– Fall in love. Even if you are already in a relationship, fall in love with that person all over again. Or, fall in love with a garden, a painting, a song; best thing ever is to fall in love with yourself. Love everything and it will show beautifully.
More of this information to come in a longer post but here’s a quickie list for you.
Skincare Foods
Healthy fats like Coconut oil, olive oil and avocados: Essential Fatty Acids (EFA’s) are a powerhouse for skincare. They plump the skin by building healthy cell membranes.
Leafy greens, like spinach, kale and swiss chard: Among other great things they have a high % of Foliate, which is a vital nutrient for DNA repair and helps to keep your skin looking its best — from the inside out.
Green and yellow veggies like squash and yellow peppers: High in Vitamin A and C, and iron, niacin and are rich with anti-oxidants.
Carrots: High in vitamin A and C and antioxidants
Foods high in Omega-3’s – like sardines or walnuts if you are vegetarian. Omega-3’s are: Anti-inflammatory, which reduces the appearance of fine lines, hydrating and super moisturizing.
Beets: High in vitamin A and C, minerals, iron and cleanses your blood of toxins thus helping oily or acne prone skin.
Red / purple cabbage: Rich in beta-carotene, vitamins B1, B6, K, E, C and a number of minerals, such as calcium, iodine, magnesium, iron, Sulphur so cabbage is considered as an extremely beneficial vegetable for your health, skin and hair.
Sunflower and pumpkin seeds: Sunflower seeds contain other polyphenol compounds that work as natural antioxidants. They are rich in Vitamin E. Pumpkin seeds are rich in vitamin E, zinc, and omega-3’s and contain many antioxidants.
Unprocessed soy: Rich in vitamin E, balances oily skin and super moisturizing. Soy isoflavones called aglycones has been shown to greatly diminish fine lines and firms up the skin.
Dark chocolate – I like pure coco nibs or Green & Blacks 70 or 90%: High in antioxidants and greatly lowers stress hormones, which can stop the breakdown of your natural collagen. High in Flavonols which are antioxidants that help protect your skin from UV damage and it increase blood circulation for glowing skin.
Fruit Peels & skin: The inside of bananas and oranges are great antioxidants and are super moisturizing.
Lemon: Rich in vitamins B and B. Clears and brightens your skin and is a great antioxidant. Balances oily skin thus decreasing acne
Kiwis: Rich in vitamins A and C and has many antioxidant properties.
Papaya: Very high in vitamin A, C vitamin E and minerals like phosphorus, iron, potassium, copper, manganese, calcium, and magnesium. Rich in anti-oxidants and is very hydrating.
Kefir: Healthy bacteria for clear glowing skin. A healthy = healthy skin!
Black sesame seeds: Packed with vitamins, nutrients and minerals that are fantastic for healthy skin and especially for your scalp if you have any issues there like dandruff.
Green tea: High in antioxidants and is and effective anti-inflammatory agent. Increases your skins elasticity and is high in vitamin K, which reduces darkness and puffiness under the eyes.
Water (of course): Hydration…need I say more? Sure, I’ll add that it flushes toxins out of your body, which leads to clear healthy skin and more elasticity in the skins texture.
Skincare Spices
Cinnamon and Cardamom (I like it in tea): Cinnamon helps eliminate acne, soothes dry skin, aids skin conditions and increases blood flow and oxygen which creates a glowing complexion with less fine lines. Cardamom is rich in Vitamin C, B2, B3 and essential minerals like calcium, magnesium, potassium, manganese, copper, iron and has antioxidant properties. Keeps the skin toned and youthful and both these spices keep the digestive system working optimally plus are considered an aphrodisiac!
Chamomile and Lavender (I like it in tea): Chamomile is one of the most useful skincare herbs; it is antibacterial, anti-fungal, anti-inflammatory and antiseptic. It is also considered to be hypoallergenic with the ability to reduce skin irritants. Aids acne, sooths the skin and the mind. Lavender soothes skin conditions such as eczema and is a great antioxidant and an antibacterial – it detoxifies internally and externally. It’s boosts circulation and oxygen into the body promoting healthy glowing skin, where skin cells can naturally rejuvenate. Both are very calming to the body and mind. They aid sleep, stress and depression.
Hot pepper flakes: Rich in vitamin C and E, which decrease fine lines and it has powerful antioxidant properties. It Fights acne and some consider it a “master” for good skincare as it increases circulation creating radiant skin. Also considered and aphrodisiac.
Turmeric: The health benefits a beyond numerous so I’ll stick to skincare here. Super rich in vitamins A, all the B’s, C, D, K and rich in minerals such as calcium, iron, magnesium, potassium, zinc, copper, manganese, selenium and fluoride. It’s a powerful anti-inflammatory and antioxidant. It slows the formation of lines; wrinkles and many believe it even slows down aging. Decreases acne and stretchmark’s. Sooths the skin and aids in sun damage and wound recovery.
Ginger: A powerful antioxidant and high in vitamins and fatty acids, it increases blood circulation creating radiant youthful healthy skin. It can reduce cellulite, acne and tones the skin. It heals wounds on the skin, especially burns. It is also considered an aphrodisiac.
Ginseng: it contains a large amount of phytonutrients, which can stimulate and activate the skin’s metabolism / circulation which decreases fine lines and promotes new cell growth. It tones and increases collagen and elasticity for firmer skin. It’s a powerful antioxidant, which detoxifies the blood promoting glowing healthy skin. It can also diminish dark circles under the eyes. It’s also considered and aphrodisiac.
Paprika: Rich is vitamins and antioxidants, especially vitamin A so it promotes healthy glowing skin. It’s a powerful antibacterial and diminishes acne. Diminishes spider veins as well! It increases the production of melatonin, serotonin norepinephrine levels promoting a stress free, and happy, day and night.
Nutmeg: Antioxidant, antifungal and anti-inflammatory. It wakes up your skin cells and plumps the skin naturally, which reduces the appearance of fine lines. It can reduce acne and is extremely moisturizing. It is also considered and aphrodisiac.
Clove: It’s rich in minerals, such as potassium, sodium, phosphorus, iron and Vitamins A and C. The antioxidant, antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties reduce acne and diminish fine lines. It also sooths your emotions, reduces stress and is an aphrodisiac.
Fennel: Rich with vitamins A, B, C, E and beta-carotene It is a rich source of minerals like magnesium, iron, cobalt, potassium, phosphorus, sodium, silicon, and zinc. It also provides high levels antioxidants, carotenoids, and flavonoids, which, decreases free radical reactions in the body, which helps prevent cell damage while creating healthy youthful skin.
Saffron: very moisturizing and has powerful antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties, which neutralize free radicals and reduces acne and other skin conditions. It can reduce dark circles from under your eyes and helps create a bright glowing complexion. Also considered an aphrodisiac.
Garlic: High in vitamins A, C, E, K as well as niacin, folates and riboflavin it boosts circulation and the appearance of healthy, glowing skin. It has allicin (good for healthy hair), sulphur, zinc, and calcium that have antibiotic and antifungal properties which can help acne. It is also a rich in selenium, which has great antioxidant powers and can help skin conditions such as eczema. It stimulates circulation, which promotes new cell growth and so it can reduce stretch marks and cellulite, as well as promoting healthy glowing skin. The antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties help the body reduce stress, which then reduces the signs of aging.
Dandelion: Rich in vitamin A, C and K it has great properties for youthful healthy skin. It’s a great detoxifier, anti-inflammatory and antioxidant, which aids acne and other skin conditions. It really nourishes the skin increasing elasticity and firmness. It can also help lesson dark circles under the eyes.
Calendula: Very moisturizing and is amazing for damaged skin! It has anti-inflammatory, antibacterial antioxidant properties that promote the regeneration of the skin and these restorative properties help prevent the thinning of skin while promoting elasticity and bright clean healthy skin. It also helps to sooth skin conditions and irritations.
Fun, and good, fact to know:
Parsley and Celery are internal breath fresheners. Trust me on this…being in the beauty business you get up close and personal with people and eating these two things will help you feel confident about your breath. I always have a bunch of parsley in a mug on my dining table when I have a dinner party…why not, right…
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Awakening Awareness
This is a time of transformation. Our inner healer has awakened. Many are experiencing emotional issues coming to the surface, I sure have, and that is because we are ready to release what does not serve us. Some of us were taught to brush difficult things away / under the carpet to maintain the status quo so giving yourself permission to think and speak about these things can be helpful. It may not always be comfortable but I always find it rewarding. I have had clients, and friends talking about the dark night of the soul and I understand! When I go dark, I go dark…but I know there is always light and that is what I walk toward again and again. God, Guides, Universe (that’s usually how address my higher power) is always ready to help.
I find myself feeling more sensitive to my own, and others, energy. I’m not alone in this, all consciousness is raising its frequency, so attention to our energy is very helpful; it’s important to keep it clear, balanced and harmoniously interacting. All of us interact with each others energy everyday so energy mindfulness and hygene is important. Our energy intentions are powerful. They of course greatly affect us but also everyone around us so we should use them for good. I tend to think of it in a SYFY fashion, like in Star Wars, I must use The Force within and around me for good. I like to say give good energy.
It’s like the dawn of mindfulness. I feel an awakening, a sense of oneness with the world and that changes my thoughts and actions. I remind myself to always think, speak and act with loving-kindness, I remind myself to feel present and not carry old stories and emotions into that presence.
I do a few things to encourage this process…. but right up front I have to say the most important thing is HONESTY about the relationships and situations in my life. If I can’t be honest I can’t see where to improve, and I need to see through illusions I may have created and these illusions take up space so seeing them and releasing them is vital. Illusions are restricting and honesty is freeing. Being free, in everyway, is better, always. It allows for expansion. Here are a few things I find useful.
Awakening
1. Clearing and balancing all the chakras is very effective to heal old wounds and to see our life clearly. Do this by first using your left hand in a counter clockwise motion over them and then with your right hand make a clockwise motion over the chakras.
2. Opening your crown chakra (top of our heads) can make your internal clouds drift away and there are a few ways to do this. Visualization is always fantastic and super easy! Also a great way to clear the mental negativity and clutter is the crown pull, which has many benefits but one of them is opening your crown chakra.
3. Affirm you are open – I like “I am an open channel to the love and light of the universe” But it’s important you use words that resonate with you so whatever words feel right to you, are right.
4. Keep your 3rd eye chakra (between your eyebrows) clear. This is a great way to increase your intuition but also to have a clear perspective about live and situations. Use the same clearing and balancing for this chakra as you did for the crown chakra. I also find it helpful to visualize windows on my 3rd eye and I imagine these windows opening and all the clutter easily blows out the leaving this chakra clear and healthy. I always take a big breath in when I do this visualization and it feels amazing.
5. Make sure all your energy systems are buzzing happily and harmoniously with each other and the world around you – you can achieve this with some Eden Energy Medicine basics like the three thumps (spleen, thymus and k27), Wayne Cook, Connecting Heaven & Earth, Crossovers, Celtic Weave and the Hook-Up and the Zip-Up. See the video links highlighted here and feel I have a 25 page booklet with pictures and how too’s that I can email you upon request.
6. Be aware of the signs. God, Guides, Universe, your higher power, is sending us messages all the time. Trust the gentle guidance that can come in any form, a passing conversation or an invitation to help a friend with a project and on that project you meet someone who perfectly complements something you need in your life. As The Fixx song says One Thing Leads To Another – so go for it! I linked the song because I like it and maybe you can dance around and have some fun with it. Fun is important!
7. Spend time in nature. Nature is so healing and forest bathing has become very popular. Also check out this research on earthing. It is wise and if you sit quietly with it for long enough it will begin to speak with you and asking the earth to support you in feeling safe, grounded and protected enough to fully “open” can be powerful. I talk about this in detail in my grounding post. I once had a great teaching from a tree!
8. Know how to calm your triple warmer, our flight or fight response. Change can scare our energy so to be open you have to feel calm, safe and protected. During your journey of opening learn to stay in vibration with love and radiance, not fear. Also worth mentioning is that sometimes we feel anger from old wounds, so let the easy triple warner exercise(s) above support you but one of my favourite energy medicine tools I use all the time is the blow out / expelling the venom. It not only releases anger but also clears energetic space within you.
9. Get out of your comfort zone – this shakes you up a bit, which helps us awaken. Like a refreshing splash of cold-water let yourself see with new eyes.
10. One of my favorite teachers told me to always have the eyes and mind of a beginner. #Wisdom!
11. Make sure you are laughing and having fun – joy opens and balances our energies, our radient energies .
Actions That Support Your Awakening Awareness:
1. Be a kind and loving person. Simple.
2. Mindful eating – really look at what you put into your body. You are what you eat after all! A clean and flowing physical body helps the mind stay clear – you want to be awake with all your senses and sometimes when we focus on the spiritual we forget about the physical and vice versa – remember everything is connected.
3. Mindful environments at home and work. Look around and think how can I improve my home or workspace. Changing your external landscape supports the internal. Surround your self with things you love and things that represent the energy you want in your life. I talk about this a lot in my book Color Energy.
4. Surround yourself with like-minded people – we all inspire each other! As they say your vibe attract your tribe.
5. Honestly look at your relationships to see if any are toxic and if they are cut them loose – energetically and literally if you can.
6. Meditate. It is almost a cure-all!
7. Tap into the collective energy – globally and universally. Most see those two things as the same thing and yes they are but I see it as a microcosm (our world) and macrocosm (the infinite universe, multi-verses). We are consciously connected to everything, everything is connected, everything is energy! Very often meditators will describe their state of mind of being like that – the sense of complete oneness, when everything else falls away and you are in blissful awe of the beauty that is life.
8. Be in the right vibration and use the law of attraction. Choose to awaken into love and radiance.
If You Are Not Feeling It:
1. Explore clearing your chakras – you may be holding onto an old story that is blocking your forward movement.
2. If you have had any traumas, most of us have, tune into yourself and see if you can find any part of you that has disconnected from yourself and life. You may want to see an energy healer for soul retrievals – I do this but so do many wonderful energy healers. The goal is to be truly “whole” in who you are in every way. When this happens for you it will more than likely bring your life-purpose into focus and that my friends is a real gift!
3. Explore whether you are isolated in any way. Many of us can go about life just thinking only of ourselves and what’s in our world / reality and this restricts us. We have to see our existence in its entirety – everything is connected and our ego can block us making our worldview small and that cheats us out of the wonder, awe and greatness that is “everything’. There are so many amazing things that come into our lives when we let go of ego.
4. Enjoy everything! When you enjoy life the more your health improves so the more you enjoy everything the more health and happiness you will have. It’s all about connections. We need to be fully “connected” to ourselves and have all our energies connecting so we can be the best version of ourselves. The daily energy medicine tools I link too above are a great place to start.
I fully believe everyone has a loving compassionate heart so during this time of awakening go out of your way to share your love and friendliness. Say please and thank you. Say, “Have a great day”. Smile at a stranger. Give a loved one a break if they are having a tuff time. Be kind to each other and be kind to yourself.
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Healing Bath
I take bathing very seriously; it’s seriously deep Self-Care and a Self-Soothing activity that will activate your pathways of joy…your Radiant Circuits. It’s an important part of a Positive Energy Home Lifestyle.
Fill the tub to the top; you want to be submerged up to your neck area, even if you have to have your feet popping out the other side. We have an amazing formulation but have hit some hiccups that we are working out but until then it’s easy to do it yourself! My bathing formulation is stress relieving, toxin-extracting blend of Epson Salt, Himalayan salt crystals, and Baking Soda. Epsom Salt to release energy blockages, extract toxins and ease sore tired muscles. It’s also great to use after a plane ride because helps rid your body of radiation. Himalayan Rock Salt to energetically ground you and to soften the skin. Finally baking soda to extract toxins and cleanse and strengthen and heal your auric field. This is a very healing combination – A Energy Healing Trifecta.
Add Aromatherapy
Any essential oil you like / have is perfect but try and make it as pure as possible; because I tend to need the support that lavender and bergamot offer I pour in some of my Healthy Aura Spray. You can also try my single note oils and / or chakra oils. Smell is the most powerful sense we have and therefore it truly shifts our mood and energy.
Add Colortherapy
Bed, Bath and Beyond sell these amazing inexpensive under water lights, AquaLuxe, that change through the spectrum of the rainbow gently feeding your body some color energy and also creates a soothing ethereal atmosphere if you turn all other lights out. I also have one in my bedroom too and it’s very relaxing to lie in bed watching the colors transform, a nice way to gently fall into a happy dreamland.
Add Soundtherapy To Create A Calm Mood
Have music on as the backdrop to your beautiful dreams and harmonious environment. I have some nice CD’s and this article on soundtherapy is very interesting.
Have A Great Daydream
See yourself happy, beautiful and loved. Imagine your in your ideal situation…really get into it, to the point where you know what you are wearing. What we think we create, Law Of Attraction, so be in vibration with positively wonderful fantastic beautiful things.
Our hands and feet need to be cleared on a regular basis to allow our energies to freely flow in and out of our bodies, which we need for every aspect of ourselves – energetic, emotionally and physically. When the energy can’t flow it can get stuck and this can cause us to feel stuck or to even have pain in our bodies because it is trapped energy – set it free by opening your gaits!!!
You want to deeply massage between each toe and finger, starting at your wrist or top of your foot, near your ankle. Massage towards the end of the toe or finger and then pull the energy off your hands and toes. It you have any pent up energy this can feel like a great relief!
For example the hands – if I am massaging between my pointer and middle finger I would be massaging and dragging with my fingers of my other hand from just above the wrist to the end of my finger, and I pull the energy off and out. For your feet you can use both hands, which is nice. Massage the top and bottom at the same time – I would be massaging and dragging with my fingers of both hands from the back/middle of each foot to the end of each toe. Massaging your feet is also very grounding.
Make sure you pull the energy off the top of every toe and finger. If you take an extra minute you can pull the energy out from in-between your toes and this not only opens your energy in a new way but it can also help you keep a cold at bay so try it if you feel you are coming down with something. Beyond all this it is very grounding and opening to do this – you will feel much better for it but also it is a self-soothing behavior and this activates your radiant circuits, which increases your sense of joy – so you are multi tasking☺
Doing this not only supports the flow of energy in your body but it also supports meridian health as all meridians begin or end on the fingers and toes.
Give yourself heart energy – make little hearts on the pads of each toe and finger, it feels nice.
The Electrics in Eden Energy Medicine is smart energy that connects with all the other systems in your body and it knows where healing is needed and goes directly there. There are two main electrical points on the back of the head – the two mounds at the base of the skull and these points can be held for you by a practioner in a formal session.
The Heart Electrical Kook-Up as I was taught – and I do caveat this with knowing there are always slight variations to many EEM modalities as they evolve but this in no way lessons the therapeutic affect of how I learnt this amazing technique. This is considered an electrical “quickie” but I have personally found it to last just as long as the “main modality” can – by using the main electrics on the back of the head.
You can do this “electrical quickie” to a loved one but I will be explaining this as a self-care exercise. You will essentially be hooking up your heart electrical system with your body in various ways. For detailed hand positions and a deeper explanation of the electrics check out the Eden Energy Medicine link. This is a great resource and I highly suggest reading it! I practice a more free form version.
1st – Find the main heart electrical point – this is on the left side of your chest. Straight up from the nipple and about 1 inch down from your shoulder – this will vary from person to person as all our bodies are different but using either a three finger notch (thumb, pointer and middle) feel around that area slowly and gently. You will feel a subtle pull and this is where your left hand / fingers hook into the heart electrical point.
2nd – Place your left hand lightly on the inside and just above your right pelvic hipbone.
This is your 1st position and you hold it until you feel heat begin to generate on both points and this indicates the electrical energy healing has begun.
After a time, again this is different for everyone and for you at different times, you will feel the heat in your right hand begin to lesson and now you can move your right hand to wherever your body needs healing – there is a step by step protocol for where to place the right hand but I do it free form and for this forum it simplifies it. During your self-care session it is very important you do not move the left finger notch from the heart electrical point – you can slightly adjust it if you feel you are not in the exact spot of course but do not let go. You will probably begin to literally feel like your fingers are electrically hooked in and this is great!
So now I usually move my right hand to my adrenals, one inch up and out from belly button and leave it there and let it heat up / hook up and then move on – I always place my right hand over my spleen on the left side of my body and I can feel it soaking up the healing heart energy – it’s amazing!
Trust your intuition and that your right hand will be drawn to where it need to be. You are directing this healing energy where to go but do not forget that this smart energy system will still spread and go where it is needed in a place where you cannot hold both points no worries the electrical energy will automatically go there and take care of you.
The electrical system can be very sensitive so when you feel you are wrapping up your self-care session tell your body “ok I am going to let go and disconnect in three or five breadths and you are save and loved”, use whatever words work for you but let your energy know that you are lovingly and gratefully about to let go.
As you let the three-finger notch release let your fingers now make figure-8’s over the heart electrical point so it feels loved and nourished.
I do this in bed all the time, sometimes when I watch TV and an hour can pass and all of the sudden I feel like wow what a great healing session I just gave myself and my body and energy feels loved, protected and taken care of – you deserve this and it’s so simple!
Any questions just email me. – Enjoy!
It’s important to set aside a night of beauty each week. Let this be your time to nourish and pamper yourself, you absolutely deserve that. Take at least one or two hours to cleanse, steam, deep clean, replenish and moisturize yourself from head to toe. Set the intention this will be a relaxing night of releasing all negativity and blocks that get in the way of your most radiant self. Dream about the ideal you. Create a new reality, Law of Attraction. It’s good for your body, soul and mind.
One basic: Please, please everyone wash your face morning and night no matter how tired you are. It really makes a significant difference in how you look and age; and in how you feel. You can affirm you are washing away your worries, or hurt, or angry, or whatever you want to wash out of your energy field. It’s a great opportunity you get twice a day to make a positive affirmation!
Environment is everything!
Set the stage for your night! Make sure you have some great lighting, meaning dim lights and candles. Relaxation CDs, and of course some healthy snacks and lemon water…
Steam
This is pure luxury, seriously! Our Facial Steam is pretty heavenly if I do say so myself. If you don’t have the right herbs or oils it’s fine; you can buy herbs that are specifically meant for steaming at your local health food store. Just boil some water and pour it into a large bowl and let it simmer down. (Please use common sense, don’t scald your face.) With a large towel, cover your head as you hold your head over the bowl, about 6 to 8 inches above the steaming water. Steam your face for about 10 minutes. It will really open the pores and brighten your complexion. Breath deeply if you can. I like to intend I am breathing in earth’s purity and breathing out toxins, physical and emotional.
Cleanse
Immediately after steaming, while your pores are still open, apply a mud or clay mask (a mixture of both is best) to your entire face and neck. Make sure the mask is as pure as possible, meaning you don’t need fancy fragrances in it. I’m playing with a new T&T formulation now and will keep you updated on that. Until then, Ahave Dead Sea Mask is a good one and you can probably find an all-natural mud mask at your local health food store. Follow the instructions. But in case they don’t mention it – don’t let it completely dry, meaning look crackly on your face, that can really dry you out. One more insiders tip: Using a wet washcloth scrub the mud off in circular motions to exfoliate and wash away the toxins that the mask brought to the surface. Scrub with gentle to medium pressure – never hard! And, of course be mindful of your eyes, you don’t want to get any in there so I always wash the area off first.
Moisturize
Apply a moisturizing mask (again, your local health food store should have one) and I’m playing with a few formulations but they will be bespoke only probably. You can make your own! Readers Digest has some easy suggestions as does Livestrong.
Bath time!
I take bathing very seriously so this will be the longest section, ha ☺ First of all fill the tub to the top, you want to be submerged up to your shoulders. We have an amazing formulation but have hit some hiccups that we are working out but until then it’s easy to do it yourself! Our bathing formulation is stress relieving, toxin-extracting blend of Epson Salt, Himalayan salt crystals, and Baking Soda. Epsom Salt to release energy blockages, extract toxins and ease any sore tired muscles. It also helps rid your body of radiation, great to use after a plane ride. Himalayan Rock Salt to energetically ground you and to soften the skin. Finally baking soda to extract toxins and cleanse and strengthen your auric field. This is a very healing combination – A Healing Trifecta.
Add some aromatherapy
Try our single note oils, chakra oils, or whatever else you like or have on hand, but try and make it as pure as possible. Smell is the most powerful sense we have and therefore truly shifts our mood / energy.
Add some audio therapy to create a calm & mood
Have music on as the backdrop to your beautiful dreams and harmonious environment. We have some nice CD’s and this article on sound therapy is very interesting.
Add some colortherapy
Bed, Bath and Beyond sell these amazing inexpensive under water lights, AquaLuxe, that change through the spectrum of the rainbow gently feeding your body some color energy and also creates a soothing ethereal atmosphere if you turn all other lights out. I also have one in my bedroom too and it’s very relaxing to lie in bed watching the colors transform, a nice way to gently fall into a happy dreamland.
Have a great daydream
See yourself happy, beautiful and loved. Imagine your in your ideal situation…really get into it, to the point where you know what you are wearing ☺ What we think we create, law of attraction, so be in vibration with positively wonderful fantastic beautiful things.
Self-Care time
While bathing it is the perfect time to do some self-care. I always hold my neurovasculars (holding head gently) and do lots of deep breathing.
Get your sleep!
Get into bed early and get good night’s sleep. Maybe do a meditation or visualization for radiant beauty before bedtime. Remember that whatever you go to sleep thinking about is what you will energetically keep with you all night, so even if it was a bad day, or night, think positive thoughts before bed; visualize yourself or your situation, as you want it, not what it necessarily is. Really see it, believe it and totally get into the positive thoughts / stories you create.
If you don’t believe me believe about the benefits of sleep believe Harvard and this one from WebMD
For people who think pampering only isn’t enough (Whaaaaat?) Here are some Night of Beauty Add-On’s
1. Meditation can and will change your life, if you so choose ☺
This can take only three minutes if you want it too. Any amount of time given to mindful breathing creates relaxation and many other benefits.
2. A few yoga moves never hurt anyone
Just enough to release and expand your energy, not to have a workout! Here is a nice bedtime yoga video.
3. Stretching – release some energy & create some space
Here are some gentle ones from our sister site, Cristina’s Energy Center – and this stretching video is so calming and gentle – very basic & only upper body but still – all openings are great openings!
Enjoy Your Night!!!!!
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A New Year
Begin your new year with radiantly positive and loving energy☺ I feel nothing needs to happen right away just because its January 1st – there is a 1 month grace period as far as I’m concerned so ease into it. Too much pressure could make you say forget the whole thing, and we don’t that☺
This is our time of transformation; we are hard wired for it!
“Feeling” transforms, so feel it all! Feel your happiness, joy, health and love, feel your radiance. Feel your connection to earth, nature and the heavens. When we feel something as if it were true now and not in some abstract future, we create a morphogenic field around us attracting things that support those feelings – law of attraction.
What we believe we create and science now supports this intuitive and innate knowledge. Our biggest limitations can be our thought patterns of self-imposed boundaries. Let the fear of saying yes to life fall by the wayside and feel how amazingly lovable and valuable you are.
These self-care suggestions are good for anytime of year, see which resonates with you!
Find Your Gold
This is anything that brings you joy – painting, writing, dancing, singing – whatever it is make time for it!
Let Go Of The Past
♥ Write down what you want to leave behind and burn it. Burn it over a large bowl, outside or in your kitchen sink, just be mindful when doing this! I’ve done this ritual many times and it’s very powerful. You can also burry it in the earth.
♥ Dr.Sara Allen, once asked me “Who Packed Your Suitcase?”. Meaning what baggage are you carrying around that is not yours. Usually it’s our family, the media, society, etc. She suggests that we all take a look at what’s in our suitcase and how it got there. Then, unpack anything that makes you unhappy, or what is not yours.
Create Space For New and Improved Things
♥ Do the Eden Energy Medicine Blow Out
♥ Rake your hands across your entire body, this is opening energetically but it will also send a signal to your fascia (the connective tissue in your body) to open, which will relax you.
♥ Throw things out! Not only does it create space, literally but figuratively also – it allows the energy in your environment to flow easier. You will truly feel lighter and better.
Dream
Make time to dream beautiful dreams of your ideal life – really go for it! See it, feel it and be in vibration with it as if it already exists. Support your dream everyday by starting each day with a smile and with the intention that in this new day you will do at least one thing that brings you closer to the vision you have of yourself and your life.
Create a Visualization Map
This can be any size, using any materials. You can use drawings, pictures or the written word – or use all of these things, which is what I tend to do. You can find more information on this in the visualization section.
Write Down Your Intentions
This can be in any form – affirmation words or sentences, or full on stories of what you want – create your own world and watch it manifest. The written word is powerful!
Some Basics
♥ Laugh more – it’s medicine! It gets your radiant circuits going☺
♥ Love yourself more deeply – give yourself a hug everyday!
♥ Honor others – if you practice loving compassion with everyone you interact with daily you will be amazed at how your world will change!
♥ See the beauty in all things
♥ Trust your gut instincts
♥ Drink more water
♥ Move your body more – this can be just dancing around the house☺
♥ Be present
♥ Have fun!
Empower yourself by feeling the power of your own energy. We are electromagnetic beings cable of sensing and using this energy to heal ourselves. Our hands are amazing transmitters of electromagnetic energy so when we move our hands the energy in our body follows. This means we can correct imbalances that may be hindering us from living up to our fullest potential. Another important aspect of moving and changing energy is intent. We can shift our energy to whatever vibration we want to focus on, healing, release, balance, joy, love, as examples.
Once you become comfortable feeling / sensing it you will begin to practice self-care on a deeper level. You will begin to trust your feelings and your internal voice. You will begin an energetic conversation with your body. Amazing and empowering. And, this is just the beginning. You can keep developing this skill and help friends, and loves ones. Animals love it too!
Where To Start?
Play With It. To begin with you just want to “feel” the energy in your hands. It’s always a good idea to rub your hands together and shake them off before you start, this activates your healing energy. Close your eyes bringing your attention to your hands and see if you can feel the energy, it will be subtle. It will be different for everyone but you can feel the energy or even see it in your minds eye in the center of your palms.
Now place the palms of your hands facing each other, about 6-8 inches apart. Be present and connected to feeling the energy between your hands. Move your hands slowly & gently in and out an inch or two and you will feel a pushback, or it will feel as if you are touching a cloud. Where you feel this subtle resistance it is your auric field bouncing off itself. You are feeling your non-physical body!
You can play with this energy by making a ball of energy between your hands. With intention create the ball and try to make it larger or smaller. Be playful and do this with a friend and feel their energy by placing your palms a few inches from theirs. This is a glimpse into the collective power we have. It’s wild and an amazing testament to our innate powers.
Follow It. The best time to start and play with this is as you go to sleep and are making yourself comfortable. Put your conscious mind on hold for a second, as if in meditation, and trust that your instincts will guide your hands to where they need to be and just lay them there for as long as you like. You might fall asleep this way or could always shift your hands to another area. If it feels right it is right.
This is where intent becomes especially important. Set the intent for what you want – this can be general healing or specific – “My hands are generating calming energy”, “My hands are healing”, etc.
Go deeper. There are so many ways which we can use our energy for self-care. Once you begin to play with your own energy you can learn specific techniques or just use your intuition. I will say there is a great relevance in knowing certain protocols, such as clearing / balancing your chakras or activating your radiant circuits. There are so many ways you can improve your own health and happiness. Just start wherever you feel comfortable and go with it. Very possibly you could feel better than you ever imagined. You never know so why not give it a try.
With eyes closed, breathing deeply and slowing in your nose and out your mouth imagine you being your ideal self. See yourself healthy, happy, confident and surrounded by love.
With each breadth in take in an aspect of who you want to be, who you are becoming. You are already everything you want to be, you now just walk forward to step into it.
Visualize your best possible self standing a few feet from you and with each breadth in you take a step closer to your ideal self and after a few steps you easily step into the power of who you are.
Once you feel comfortable in your new skin sit with yourself for a few minutes, you have now created a new energy pattern. Your ideal self is your birthright, claim it and feel how beautiful you are. Breathe that in.
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Perfect Health
Take a few deep slow breadths and close your eyes. In your minds eye see a beautiful radiant color in the core of your being and see this light spreading through your entire body bathing every part of you with color radiance. You can use different colors for different areas of your body – let your inner physician guide you. Feel yourself being bathed in these illuminated colors and see this radiance spreading though your cells, organs – though your entire body. This light is now spreading beyond your physical body out into your auric field, your non-physical body, and you feel yourself expanding into perfect health. This light is putting your body and your energy into perfect health and harmony. Know that every part of you is in perfect health. Breathe it in.
Close your eyes and take deep slow breadths in your nose and out your mouth. Let yourself feel as if you are floating deep down inside yourself. Create a safe, soothing landscape in your mind. Really spend time creating every part of it. Smell it, feel it, see it and let your entire being be there. You can sit, lie down or walk around – whatever feels right to you.
This is a place of complete peace. Healing energy surrounds you and it baths your entire body, every cell with health and radiance. This is a place of support and hope. No worries can enter this space. If worries come into your head let them float gently away like clouds. You are completely protected here, it is your private healing space.
Ask your helpers, guides or angles to come and shower you with healing. Just be in this space and let it bath you in love, peace and hope. Sit in this space as long as you like.
The first time you create this space take your time but you can return to it anytime and even in a public situation you can connect your energy to this place to calm and empower yourself.
Get comfortable, close your eyes and begin to breathe deeply and slowly in your nose and out your mouth. Let your minds begin to connect with a color that feels healing to you. In your minds eye begin to imagine this beautiful color showering down from the top of your head, through every part of your body and out your feet.
Now see this color bathing each organ. Start from the top of your body, with your brain and imagine what it looks like and see the color bathing it gently and say to yourself “All of my brain functions are in perfect health and are making healthy connections – thank you brain” and work your way down, eyes, throat, lungs, heart, liver, spleen, stomach, gallbladder, small and large intestine, kidney and bladder. See each organ bathed in a beautiful radiant color (or colors) and affirm it is in perfect health and thank it for doing its job so well. Send gratitude to each and every part of yourself. Once you are done let your hands rub up and down the sides of your arms and tell yourself what a great job you are doing, because you are. Breathe that in.
Helpful Colortherapy hint: A Color Shower Quickie. You can do this with your eyes open if you are, for example, waiting on line. Just imagine the color you feel most drawn to and see it showering down through your entire body or bathing a specific area.
You can never go wrong bathing yourself in colors, affirming your own health and thanking yourself – it goes a long way.
Holding Neurovasculars Benefits:
- Relieves stress and anxiety
- Balances your meridians and organs
- Balances your hormones
- Very relaxing and increases your sense of happiness
- Reprograms your response to stressors
In Eden Energy Medicine these are the reflex points between the meridian and nervous system and can be used to reprogram our emotional responses to stress and trauma. The longer you hold the points the more the stress will fade. You want to hold your hands gently on your head – you need very little pressure to achieve powerful results. Keep your hands on all these areas until you feel better.
Hand Placements:
- Place the palms of your hands gently on your forehead so that the tips of your fingers are touching and the base of your palm lies over your temples. By recounting a stressor while holding these points on your forehead you can change your emotional habits or responses – you can re-train the mind not to react stressfully in any given situation.
- Place one hand on your forehead and the other on the back of your head.
- Place hands on your temple and your fingers rest just above your ears.
- Rest hands on your cheek and ears.
You can do this for your-self anywhere but it’s nice to lie down and use pillows to hold up your elbows. It’s also very nice to do this for someone else. Trust your instincts and let your hands gently hold wherever they feel drawn to.
In Eden Energy Medicine the balance and strength of your spleen meridian is essential to your overall health and happiness. Watch my video of the Spleen thump.
Strengthen and Flushing Spleen Benefits:
- Activates the metabolism of food, medication and thoughts
- Increases energy
- If you are under the weather it speeds recovery
- Keeps the body functioning at its best
- Helps you adapt to new situations
- Clears stagnant energy
Tracing Spleen Meridian Forward to Strengthen It
Place your hands on the outside of your big toe and trace up the inside of your foot, the in-side of your leg, out at the hip, up the side of your torso, up to your armpit and down to the bottom of your ribcage.
Flush Spleen Meridian to Clear Blockages
First trace your spleen meridian backwards, so you begin at the bottom of the ribcage, up to your armpit, down the side of your body to your hip, in to the inside of your leg, down the leg, the inner foot and off the big toe. Do this once. Now trace your meridian forward, three times.
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Lymphatic Massage
Lymphatic massage Benefits:
- Gets the Lymph system going, it doesn’t have its own pump so it needs to be massaged, thumped and/or activated through exercise
- Clears toxins
- Balances the organ associated with the lymphatic reflex point
In Eden Energy Medicine the lymphatic system are points on our body that stimulate the removal of toxins in our bodies. The lymphatic system does not have it’s own pump, so to say, so we have to make sure this system does not become clogged. You know when a lymphatic point is clogged when you feel soreness in that area. Once identified you want to massage or tap the point with a very hard touch in order to bring movement to that area. These points are related to and affect the meridians they are associated with it.
The main areas you want to massage, deeply, are the entire area surrounding the breast, around the ribs and all sides of the thigh area. Don’t worry about finding the exact spot, wherever it is tender is the area you need it. If you are new to this don’t over-do it and if you feel nauseous know that is because you have released toxins and stop for the time being. Drink lots of water after doing this.
If you have a friend or loved one willing you can have them massage deeply on either side of the spine. From neck down to the bottom of the spine / top of your bum. Just remember to not press directly on the spine.
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Adrenal Support
Adrenal Massage Benefits:
- Restores and balances the adrenals
- Increases energy
- Decreases stress
Eden Energy Medicine has some wonderful techniques to revitalize your adrenal system. Your adrenal points sit one inch above and out from your bellybutton. Everybody’s body is different so firmly feel around and find the sore part – you will feel it! Now you want to deeply massage both these points at the same time for at least one minute, or as long as you can take it.
Another version of this is the adrenal pump where you press firmly into one of your front adrenals and then press in deeply with the other hand on your back – directly opposite to where you press on the front. You create a see saw rhythm – press deeply in the front and then firmly on the back. Continue this back and forth for at least one minute on both the right and left sides.
This is a two-part visualization is inspired by John Perkins who led a group of us through this in the Ecuadorian Rainforest and you can make it as short or as long as you want. Read through it first and then get comfortable and take a few deep slow breadths.
Imagine you are comfortably lying naked in a shallow river and the water is rushing around your body. Feel yourself letting go of fear, grief and any obstacle that you want to get rid of. Feel the river washing it all away. It’s washing away everything you do not need or want in your life. Whether it is emotions, situations or an unhealthy connection to someone let the river take it and feel it flowing away. Feel the release in your body, the lightness you feel from being letting go and being cleansed. Sit with this as long as you need to.
Now that you have let go and released its time to renew and refill the space you have just created. Step away from the river and walk into the forest. In your minds eye find the perfect place to lie on the ground. Imagine you are a seed and plant yourself into the earth. Feel yourself rooting and grounding. See yourself sprouting from a seed into a sprout and you slowly begin to grow into a tree. Your roots grow deeper and your trunk begins to grow strong and grow branches and leaves. You are growing tall and feel the sun feeding you and the earth strengthening you. Stretch out your branches and take in from the sun, from the heavens what you want. Take in love, strength, hope and everything positive you can imagine. Now let your inner light, your hearts light, shine out through your branches / arms just like real leaves and branches do. Really let yourself feel power and connection you have – feel it in your mind, body and spirit. Breathe it in and sit in this energy for as long as you like. End by getting up and stretching your physical body and give yourself a big hug. And if you are near a tree give it a hug as well:)
Awaken your own Inner Physician through Self-Care. Here are some easy ways to increase your immune system.
- Thymus Thump. In the middle of your sternum or right above and between your nipples. It’s the hard spot on your chest. Thump this very hard. (You can even do a King Kong move, hitting your chest as he would – and if you feel like adding sound effects, go for it, this is meant to be fun, too.) This is will increase your immune system and decrease stress. When we are low on energy and/or stressed out our thymus gland shrinks and thumping it will stimulate it, giving you more strength and vitality.
- Spleen. If you are already sick do the Thymus Thump and add in the Spleen Thump. This thump begins three or four inches under your armpit and continues along your bra-line to under the nipples. This area is bound to be very sore because many toxins build up here. You are stimulating your spleen, which is responsible for processing everything, the food you eat and the medications you take as well as your emotions. It keeps things moving so if you are not feeling well, in any capacity, the Spleen will help it process. Once you start doing this every day the pain will significantly subside because you will have gotten the toxins and energy moving and flowing out of you.
- Some natural immune boosters are: Yogurt, oats, barley, garlic, ginger, food with omega-3’s, fruits with vitamin C, chicken soup, sweet potatoes, mushrooms, elderberry, food with zinc, watermelon, cabbage, almonds and wheat germ. Blue/Green Algae is a super supplement that saves me everyday! I use and trust E3Live and can get you a friends and family discount upon request.
Orange juice and Ginger. Freshly squeezed Orange and Ginger – heavy on the ginger – will knock a cold right out of you. It does for me. - Mind over matter. Try this Visualization:
Radiant Health
Close your eyes, take a deep breath slowly in your nose and out your mouth. Turn your attention inward. In your mind’s eye see that your feet are deeply rooted to the center of the earth and its life force and purity fills your body with strength, balance and vitality. Now, opening the crown of your head, healing energy is flowing in and gently washing through your body. It washes through you, cleansing you… it is awakening your inner physician and your body becomes abundant with healing energy… every part of you is transforming into perfect health… every cell in your body is vibrant and healthy… you are in perfect health. Breathe that in.
Practice Good Energy
It has now become essential to know how to maintain healthy energy in yourself and to protect yourself against the energetically cluttered world we live in. All this information will be helpful whether you are a practioner, of any sort or not, because these exercises will help anyone maintain health and balance.
Energetic hygiene is incredibly crucial to everyone working with people, especially if you are practicing any hands on treatments. Learning to ground, hook and protect yourself will fundamentally change your experience and the people you work with. I hope to share with you how to optimize your energy allowing for a deeper and more fulfilling healing session for your client and for you.
I am a complementary care practioner myself and have a deep understanding of the practioner / client relationship through my own clients, the Eden Energy Medicine Community and because at Tony&Tina I have spent countless hours with make-up artists and estheticians and I know how draining and challenging the work can be.
This information is great if you practice some form of healing modality and especially helpful if you are new to this field and work with clients in any hands on experience. Most of this is based on Eden Energy Medicine which is simple, effective and easy to incorporate into any traditional spa service. My intent is to give you tools to bring a deeper, healthier, experience to your clients and a more rewarding experience for yourself.
The below suggestions are all written out in detail (if they are not yet they will be as this post will be evolving as time goes on) at the end making this a quick reference if you are already versed in these techniques. Plus you can find video and audio of many of these on our sister site – Cristinas Energy Center.
Before your client:
- Increase energy – the three thumps
- Increase intuition – forehead soothing
- Create a healing space (holding space and intention, aromatherapy and cross-over’s)
- Ground yourself
- Hook up
- Protect yourself (Celtic weave, weaving the outer aura, trace governing and central, and zip-up)
- Make sure your flow of energy is complete (Celtic weave, connecting heaven and earth)
- Project happy balanced energy (Wayne cook and intent)
- Hold your client in love
Watch videos here for most of the above suggestions with this link. If you have any questions for anything that has been left out email us. All the information in our posts will constantly be evolving.
After your client:
- Maintain energy hygiene between clients (expelling the venom, auric fluff, Celtic weave and zip-up)
- Disconnecting your energies after a session / treatment
- Pull the energy off your hands
- Wash your hands from the elbow down
- Stretching is a great way to release energy – do any stretch you feel drawn to and then connect heaven and earth
- If you feel like you are having a hard time letting go of energy thump your spleen lymphatic and/or flush spleen
In Your Workspace:
- Feng Shui your space – there are some very simple things you can do for your space such as inviting in good chi and abundance.
- Holding space – this sets an energetic intention for your environment.
- Aromatherapy – smell is the most powerful and effective sense we have. Smell is registered in the amygdala, we feel a smell before we think about it. Our sense of smell is deeply tied to our emotional state of mind casting aromatherapy as a staring role in any healing session. You want to spend the extra few dollars and have real essential oils in every treatment room. Use either a candle or a diffuser. Lavender and bergamot are especially relaxing and lift the spirits. You may want to offer your client a choice.
- Audiotherapy – the right music can transform your space and every session. There are specific CD’s that evoke healing and meditative states. See our CD’s. Note – when giving a facial and having to move around the room to prepare treatments be very aware of yourself. Do not make any loud abrupt sounds. Setting a soft environment keeps the client relaxed and happy.
- Lighting. Bad lighting can ruin a session. Soft low lighting sets the mood and invites relaxation.
Helpful hints
- Your clothes absorb energy so change them when you can
- Clear and cleanse your environment – sage your environment, use rose spray to cleanse environment, spin a pendulum counter clockwise / clockwise, singing bowl and visualization
- Lay flat on the ground letting the energy absorb into the earth – if you can’t get outside lay on a natural fiber or just use your intention. Let the roots of your feet sink deep into the earth to find a solid stone or tree to wrap around and allow earths strength to flow up into you.
- Tapping fresh cold water on the back of your neck, feet and top of head is a good quick refresher, mentally and energetically
- Always shower at the end of the day to really sweep all the energy off you that you collected during the day
Some helpful visualizations
Cleanse and Ground
This is a two-part visualization and you can make it as short or as long as you want. Read through it first and then get comfortable and take a few deep slow breadths.
Imagine you are comfortably lying in a shallow river and the water is rushing around your body. Feel yourself letting go of fear, grief and any obstacle that you want to get rid of. Feel the river washing it all away. It’s washing away everything you do not need or want in your life. Whether it is emotions, situations or an unhealthy connection to someone let the river take it and feel it flowing away. Feel the release in your body, the lightness you feel from being letting go and being cleansed. Sit with this as long as you need to.
Now that you have let go and released its time to renew and refill the space you have just created. Step away from the river and walk into the forest. In your minds eye find the perfect place to lie on the ground. Imagine you are a seed and plant yourself into the earth. Feel yourself rooting and grounding. See yourself sprouting from a seed into a sprout and you slowly begin to grow into a tree. Your roots grow deeper and your trunk begins to grow strong and grow branches and leaves. You are growing tall and feel the sun feeding you and the earth strengthening you. Stretch out your branches and take in from the sun, from the heavens what you want. Take in love, strength, hope and everything positive you can imagine. Really let yourself feel power you have – feel it in your mind, body and spirit. Breathe it in and sit in this energy for as long as you like. End by getting up and stretching your physical body and give yourself a big hug.
Protection
Close your eyes, take a deep breath and turn your attention inward. In your mind’s eye see the person, situation or aspect of yourself that is causing you distress…and now see beautiful shimmering white light showering down around and through this object of distress. This light is clearing away all negativity…you can see shimmering light gently flowing through and clearing away any darkness, effortlessly creating harmony and love. You have let go of all unnecessary emotions…you feel positive and cleansed…you have created a positive change within yourself. Breathe that in.
Gratitude
Close your eyes, take a deep breath and turn your attention inward. See your life, the people who have touched it, good or bad, and be grateful, see their faces…your family, friends, the people you work with – and send them thanks. See our planet and send it love and gratitude. Connect with the truth that we are all one…people, animals, earth, the universe…that everything is connected and you honor that…you are sending everyone and everything deep love and gratitude…and that is what is being sent right back to you. Breathe that in.