Beyond the usual worn out advice to get a massage, here are a dozen beautiful ways to nurture yourself. If you feel run down, neglected, overwhelmed or frazzled, you need to get back in harmony with the Earth element. Practice these Earth grounding tips and they’ll restore not only your body, but mind, emotions, and spirit as well.
How to Nurture Yourself: Understand the Earth element first.
Four 18-day periods of the year called Earth occur between the major energetic seasons of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). These are Spring–Wood, Summer–Fire, Fall–Metal and Winter–Water.
Earth is one of the five elements of TCM.
If you’re out of balance with the energies of Earth, you’ll feel stuck or stagnant. You might feel unable to complete projects or exhaust yourself taking care of other people at your own expense.
You’ll also find your skin gets toxic. Blemishes, acne, and enlarged pores will show up in your skin.
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How to Nurture Yourself: Start by being conscious of what you allow into your body, mind and life.
Be conscious of what you put in your body.
Learn to create a yin/yang balance through food choices. This promotes health and longevity and you show your body some real love.
Be sure to incorporate produce from all colors of the rainbow but especially try to focus on consuming produce the color of the current energetic season. For example, during energetic Spring, eat lots of fresh green produce. Green is the color that associates with Wood, the element of the season according to TCM.
Read food labels. Go conscious grocery shopping and see how great that feels. Don’t just buy food because you’ve always bought it or because it looks good. Know what you’re putting into your body. Love your body enough to understand the relationship between your food choices and how you feel. Buy more food in the produce department than from any other department in the store.
Be conscious of what you put on your body.
Consider clothing that helps your body heal and sleep better.(2) Opt for quality rather than quantity and you'll feel so much better. Choose organic cotton if you can.
Surround yourself with colors that resonate with you and make you feel at ease.
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Be conscious of what you allow into your mind.
Turn off the news and play beautiful music.
Take some time to do something creative. Contribute your creativity not your negativity to the planet. It’s through giving we receive.
When past memories or worries arise, catch them quickly. Be ready with a small arsenal of pleasant thoughts or ideas you can immediately divert your mind to. Make this a practice and notice the peace you’ll feel.
Practice mindful fitness. Mindful fitness is a catchphrase and another way of saying, meditate.
Just take time every morning to be still and relax. Let the thoughts flow through the mind but don’t engage with them or judge yourself. Eventually, the thoughts will stop and you’ll be in the sublime place that goes beyond the concept of nurture.
Join a meditation group. You may enjoy the quickening benefits of plural meditation and make new friends as well.
There are many ways to meditate (e. g. mantra-based, focused attention). Use this time to explore them and find the methods that resonate with you. This can be a fun process of discovery for you.
Take time out in the middle of a stressful day to reconnect with yourself. Take time to learn to slow down the breath to a maximum of six breaths per minute to achieve ultimate longevity and vitality.
Practice yoga, a martial art, or weight training and cardio workouts. You will be amazed at how wonderful a newfound exercise practice can make you feel on all levels. You’ll breathe differently. Your posture and entire physiology will improve. Your confidence level will soar.
Nature. Nature. Nature. Walk in it. Connect with it. Listen to the sounds. Be conscious while the breeze blows on your face and body. Literally hug a tree.
Bring some green plants into your home. They’ll help transform the air you breathe and bring a sense of calm to your environment.
Take a day trip. Get away from it all. Appreciate a change of scenery. It’s inexpensive and you’ll feel wonderful.
Find three simple things you love to do, pastimes that are fun for you and then do them one by one.
It’s vitally important to have fun and experience pleasure as often as we can in life. We limit our ability to create what’s good, beautiful and true when we come from a place of chronic angst, worry, misery, or boredom.
Enjoy natural fragrances and their healing benefits. When you squeeze an orange or chop fresh herbs, take a moment to really drink in the fragrance. Stop at the fresh flower bouquets in the stores and breathe in their healing essences.
Beware of synthetic essential oils sold in stores today. Did you know that very few perfumers actually use real flowers in their fragrance formulations?
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Enjoy an alternative wellness therapy like Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). It’s becoming increasingly practiced having now reached 183 countries and regions around the world. Based on the theory of the five elements and the five phases, TCM guides you to live in harmony with the Earth and its energies. Enjoy TCM in action with PHYTO5’s five element lines of skin and haircare.
Slow down. If you feel like you’re always in a rush or stressed and pressured to get somewhere or do something, you’ve got to slow down. The alternative is burnout and compromised health on all levels and that’s not what you want.
By slowing down and enjoying as many of the preceding tips as possible, you’ll find you are able to get all you need to get accomplished perfectly.
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(1) dharma: the principle of cosmic order
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Startup Lumiton offers light-energized apparel powered by laser technology that is designed to deliver multiple wellness benefits including producing red and near-infrared light whose wavelengths, they argue, increase collagen and muscle growth and reduce pain/inflammation.
Some companies are weaving ancient wellness healing and herbal properties into fabrics and clothing. Venice, California footwear designer Astara has created negative ion earthing shoes, using crystals like black onyx and blue apatite to make the shoes resonate at the same vibration as Earth’s magnetic field (7.83 hertz). It’s said the shoes make you feel like you’re walking barefoot on grass or sand.
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