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Ease travel fatigue with yoga: these poses will energize you once you reach your destination - Yoga notebook: better health through movement

Natural Health , Dec, 2002 by Rachel Schaeffer

PRACTICE THESE POSES BEFORE you unpack to limit the negative side effects of a long journey. The gentle back bends and twists soothe lower back pain, improve digestion, and clear your thinking. Legs Up the Wall also helps relieve swelling in your legs.

Caution: Avoid all three poses if you`re pregnant or have hernia or disk problems. Avoid Legs Up the Wall or Bridge if you have eye or neck problems, heart disease, unmedicated high blood pressure, a sinus infection, or if you`ve had a stroke or are menstruating.

Double Knee Twist

1. Lie on the floor on your back. Hug your knees to your chest, holding your shins just below each knee. Your head and shoulders should remain on the floor. Rock your torso slowly from side to side to gently massage your lower back against the floor.

2. Return your torso to center. With your legs still bent and close to your chest, stretch your arms out to your sides with your hands palm-side down on the floor to form a T. Inhale deeply.

3. As you exhale, use your abdominal muscles to slowly lower both knees to the left and turn your head to the right, as pictured. Your left leg may not be able to touch the floor, so only go as far as feels comfortable. (You may want to place a pillow or blanket under your left knee to support your legs.) Inhale and return your knees to center.

4. Exhale and gently lower your knees to the right and turn your head to the left. Inhale and return your knees to center. Continue to move slowly back and forth five times on each side, exhaling as you lower your knees to the floor and turn your head, and then inhaling as you return to center. On the sixth time, rest on each side for five breaths.

5.To finish, return to center. Grasp your shins and rock slowly from side to side as you did in step 1. Return to center and lower your feet to the floor, keeping your knees bent. Move your feet a little wider apart and rest your knees against each other for several minutes.

Legs Up the Wall

1. Place a folded mat or blanket or a firm pillow on the floor next to a wall. The higher it is, the deeper your back will bend, so start small. Sit on the mat, blanket, or pillow with your right leg and right shoulder against the wall, and your legs stretched out in front of you.

2. Lie down, and then lift your legs up against the wall as you pivot your torso to make it perpendicular to the wall. Scoot your buttocks close to the wall, and make small adjustments to make yourself comfortable. Your buttocks should be on the blanket or pillow, with your head and shoulders on the floor, as pictured. Rest your arms on the floor next to you, with your hands palm-side up. Close your eyes, or cover them with a cloth.

a. Relax. Imagine your back melting into the floor, and your eyes and brain settling gently in the back of your head. Breathe deeply for 2 to 10 minutes before bending your knees and rolling onto your side. Slowly return to a seated position.

Bridge

1. Lie on your back on the floor with your hands palms-down next to you. Bend your knees so your feet are flat on the floor. Separate your feet and knees so they are hip-width apart. Your toes may naturally point in or out, but try to keep your feet parallel to each other. Tuck your chin in toward your chest.

2. Press your feet into the floor as you lift your buttocks off the floor. Lift your spine off the floor one vertebra at a time as you raise your hips toward the ceiling, and then immediately lower your spine and buttocks back to the floor. Lift and lower your spine and buttocks two or three times to give your spine a gentle massage against the floor; And then lift your spine off the floor once more, raising it one vertebra at a time. When you have raised your hips as high as feels comfortable, move your arms together and clasp your hands under your body, as pictured. Press down into your arms to give yourself additional support.

3. Hold for 3 to 10 breaths. Imagine that you have strings attached to your thighs, hipbones, and heart, lifting you as high as you can go.

4. To release, unclasp your hands and slowly move your arms apart. Gently lower your back to the floor, one vertebra at a time. Lift your knees and hug them to your chest, rocking from side to side to massage your lower back against the floor. Relax completely and rest in this position for 5 to 10 minutes, breathing deeply.

Success Story

Paula Coughlin, 55 Woodstock, Conn.

Her Story: Coughlin, an environmental educator, travels often for pleasure. In fact, she and her husband have taken at least one long trip a year for the past 25 years. As a result, Coughlin was no stranger to jet lag or feeling tired and out of it once she reached her destination.

How Yoga Helped: In 1992, Coughlin took a week-long yoga seminar, which jump-started her yoga practice. Now she integrates yoga into her trips. She usually seeks out a relatively quiet area to practice in airports and does seated stretches and deep breathing after she boards a plane. She also practices once she arrives; her practice locations have ranged from the banks of the Salmon River in Idaho to a beach in Greece. As a result, she`s healthier while traveling. "I feel the difference [when I do yoga], so I make it happen wherever I am," Coughlin says.

How to Develop the Habit of Intuition - Brief Article

Training & Development , March, 2000 by Arupa L. Tesolin

Beyond emotional intelligence lies the ability of intuitive intelligence, closely aligned with common sense. Though emotional intelligence involves a wide realm of people skills, communication, and creativity, intuition involves a deep level of self-knowledge.

Intuition involves deep listening, irrespective of reality or social and cultural conditioning. Through intuition we learn what is right by us, how to live and work with integrity, and how to express our truest selves. The fulfillment and freedom are beyond measure.

Geniuses, shamans, mystics, and visionaries throughout the ages have been able to access nonordinary states of consciousness for direction, power, and wisdom. Such states have been connected with reverence for life, healing, continuity, extraordinary skills and feats, quantum leaps of thought, inventions, breakthrough ideas, and bursts of creative power.

As our lives become more filled with information, the value of how it is used--and for what purpose--becomes more important than the information itself. Information is getting cheaper and having a shorter and shorter life cycle. Consequently, selfknowledge becomes all the more valuable--the new gold standard.

We need new explanations of the new mind skills required for our current age. In the last century, people became accustomed to using their logic habits more than their intuition. The 2lst-century mind needs to operate on a multidimensional front. We need to regain balance in order to reduce our anxiety and unproductive, unfulfilling busyness. We can be more productive, more creative, and happier when we relax and let our intuition flow.

Perhaps the best way to describe the value of intuitive intelligence is what a physicist said recently: "A deeper level of self-knowledge creates an energy reservoir that is capable of producing a desired outcome almost instantly by directing one`s desire and intention." That can mean real power in today`s world, where anything can happen and almost everything is unprecedented.

For most of us, not following our intuition has been at times expensive and regrettable. We can usually look with hindsight and see that all of "those feelings" or "early warning signs" were there, but we dismissed them--too touchy-feely. Now, we realize that learning to work with intuition isn`t only necessary but is vital to business and personal success.

People who are more in touch with their intuitive skills are better listeners. They hear the whole story--the part you`re telling and the part you`re not telling. They`re better able to discern when the pieces don`t fit because information is missing or conflicting, or when to ask more questions because the underlying agenda is speaking louder than the words. Intuitive people tend to have more energy and synchronicity because they`re able to maintain a flow state that sustains the body and creative spirit.

The good news is that you can train yourself to use your intuition better, and it`s not that difficult. It does, however, require the discipline of practice. Even five to 10 minutes a day of meditative or self-awareness training can make a difference. Just turn off the information, and close your eyes for a bit.

Here are some ways to tap into your intuition:

Meditate. Watch your breath for five to 10 minutes. See the inhale, see the exhale. Imagine inhaling pure essence and exhaling all negativity. Choose a meditative approach that suits you. Even a power walk can be a meditation.

Catch yourself with awareness. During the day, become aware of your thoughts and feelings. Watch a video, let thoughts pass.

Make a decision based on "intuitive facts." We all have certain ways of getting information, solving problems, thinking, and behaving. The next time you have to make a decision, turn your attention within and listen to what your intuition is telling you--beyond any facts . Notice whether there is unresolved energy. You may need to ask questions, clarify another person`s intention, or change your approach. Look at possible paths: Good ones fill you with energy and a sense of power; bad ones raise doubts and other negative feelings.

Keep an intuition journal. Capture dreams, insights, and ideas that come to you without effort. Reread them after a few weeks to see how they relate to what has been going on in your life.

Use mini intuitive exercises. Teach yourself how to get a quick yes or no answer. I visualize a speedometer, with a needle and one side green for yes and one side red for no. Practice asking clear yes or no questions. Then, ask questions with unknown answers. When you become good at that, you can use the exercise effectively even in a pressure situation.

It doesn`t matter how you start, just so you start!

Arupa L. Tesolin is principal of Intuita.com, which produces intuition mindware, Rockwood, Ontario, Canada;

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