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Immunity to Quiet the Spirit

Quiet your Emotions to increase your Immunity.

Did you know there is such thing as Spiritual Immunity?

Focus on breathing & bring yourself back to your true essence of calm.

Pranayama – Energy breathing exercises for immunity.

We all (should) know how our thoughts can affect things & create a cascade of activity within our body.  Now is a great time to shift from negative thinking to positive thinking.

The mind-body link is so very important for our wellness but if we focus on the present drama & get hooked into it, then it will constantly be driving the mind perhaps to madness.

This kind of impact reduces our immune system – simply known as stress! Why run on the hamster wheel of negativity?

Shifting thoughts to – ‘What can I be grateful for?’ is a quick & easy exercise to shift the mind & embrace a healthy outlook.  Look, see & find the smallest things in your life you can be grateful for. Acknowledge what is going right….right? Recognizing the subtle small thing, triggers our ‘YES’ response – to acknowledge the ‘things’ that are going well! So be sure to inquire honestly and drop the mask(s).

Integral to Wholeness.

Future projecting will not help us in this time, nor is it productive to mourn the past. Be fully present to empty out, deal with & complete any unfinished business with yourself. This is a good time to clear the slate & avoid rehashing the same old patterns. Get back to zero when you can. Some of us are still working, so when you have 5-10-30 minutes do nothing but rest, on your back, or relax & sit alone. Take your time & eat consciously at every meal. Daily get up at a regular time & move your bodies, meditate, meditate, meditate, then go to sleep & keep that time regular as well. (eg; up at 6am, asleep by 10pm) Routines are good for us, we are creature of rituals, aka habits.

Realize that everything we do & every thought _is_ significant, though we may not realize it.   Open up the doors of perception to greater potential & when you do ride the positive waves. Remember the saying: “What we think about most of the time comes about”. Become a Master of your inner dialogue & be part of the solution.  The ancient yogic Sages taught: “What we focus on expands”. What do you want to grow?

Sadly, many people are drowning in fear & panic, at this time.  However, many people were drowning in fear and panic even before this event. We need to choose not to contribute to it any longer – the choice is yours.

What humanity – our world – needs now is a Collective Consciousness to maintain greater balance, more peace, more hope, more gratitude, a greater sense of acceptance, coherence & positivity from our inner being toward the greater good.   “What the world need now, is love sweet love”

Meditation is a huge tool to bring that quietness to our minds.

Be Still – Concentrate

Stress, biologically is hard on our immune system.  To put it simply, our amygdala & the brainstem produce cortisol, then the stress hormone affects our digestive system, etc. If our gut to brain communication is negatively affected then we produce less serotonin & eventually get depressed. The result is an ever lower immune system. To have a good strong immune system, we need to reduce stress. To increase our physical & spiritual immunity be careful to watch what is hooking you…..on the media roller coaster. Unplug & disengage by coming to a place to quiet your emotions & settle down your central nervous system. This too shall pass.

What is hooking you?

Thinking on a long-term basis, make the subtle changes now in your life to harness your inner power for wellbeing & turn on your spiritual immunity.  Ask yourselves: “Who Am I?” , then arriving at “Know thyself” – a Greek aphorism; come to know who really you are… beyond your roles…. beyond the masks you wear in this life. Avoid trying to rehearse your future, for now!

Spiritual Immunity

This experience will one day seem to be a just blink of the eye. This time – is real & it is just a small blip compared to our cosmic existence.  Not saying it is not happening, of course….

Yoga & Ayurveda teaches that we are not just this physical body. There are many layers to ourselves, & these layers or Kosha, (which I teach especially in the Primordial Sound Meditation Course,) helps us understand who we are.

We are infinite & our potentially able to create more power.

The Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga:

  1. Law of Pure Potentiality
  2. Law of Giving and Receiving
  3. Law of Karma
  4. Law of Least Effort
  5. Law of Intention and Desire
  6. Law of Detachment
  7. Law of Dharma

Tat Tvam Asi,” meaning: “I am that, you are that, all this is that, & that’s all there is.”

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A Heart for Yoga?

Yoga at the Heart of it

I’ve been asked a few times: “Why do you & other people do YOGA?

Most people come to experience yoga with a mindset of becoming more flexibility. Others reasons, stress relief, health & physical fitness. (all good) This is how I started.

In my experience & over time, a large percentage of people grow into the ‘practice’, eventually having a change of heart for continuing with Yoga.

The reason for the Shift? To cultivate Spirituality & Self-actualization.  Developing spiritually becomes the theme & with that a sense of fulfilling our potential begins to bloom. 

Yoga, in all it forms, nurtures the shift as it engages in self-reflection, the practice of kindness, self-compassion, & growth toward greater awareness, to name a few.

The health benefits of Yoga, well they are very real, my friends.  With time yoga can increase flexibility, improve balance & lower blood pressure, decrease cholesterol, stress hormones, depression & anxiety, etc.

Our brains & bodies like to learn new things. Yoga is best at providing healthy creative-interaction ways to keep our brain young – firing up new pathways. Yoga helps the brain grow, like the thousand petal lotus.

As a result, the ‘practice of yoga’ becomes so blissful that the benefits actually ripple out – into Oneness. Our true essential-self experiences more joy & happiness, so everyone benefits.  Yoga encourages us to feel good, as we seek to be comfortable & still in the posture, breathing, relaxing. Modifying (using as many props as you need) also helps keep us in the comfort zone – think breath-body connection.

Yoga’s aim is to transcend (above and independent of the universe, time, space etc.) all things.

Aligning our True Self, Transcends all Things

When people explain to me how they want to try yoga but aren’t “flexible enough,” I tell them yoga isn’t about attaining the perfect pose – oh & head stands are not what we all strive for…..  Becoming friends with your body, as your friend, is key.

Yoga asana practice draws us into present awareness, being you in the moment sometime with movement, sometimes in stillness – here & simply now. Presence brings us to become genuinely our true self & genuine with other people & in our community around us. 

A Sanctuary of Inner Peace

Yoga will change your heart – not just blood pressure. Yes, in more ways than I could have ever imagined, Yoga changed my life & my heart, for the better.

Namaste, Lynn Callisto Pell, Cl.H.

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Let Love Live

CONNECTED BUT NOT CONTACTED

From an early age, we are taught independence. And, as social beings we are forced into self-reliance, mostly due to North American cultural pressure.

“We are responsible for each other” someone once told me, and this was not just some philosophical babble my friend reiterated. I ponder this statement from time to time.

Modernized broadcasting “we are not_enough” is constantly bombarding our civilization. Maybe it is meant to deceive us to buy more, but it also generates a kind of dissatisfaction with our human interactions – fully  baseless. Sad to say, but our ‘On-Demand’ economy is paralyzing one-on-one relations.

In 2007, at my insistence, my husband & flew to Las Vegas to see the theatrical production of  ‘Love – The Beatles’ musical by Cirque de Soleil.  The shows storyline was magical and most impressionable was the performance of Eleanor Rigby; with the anthem…. “Ah, look at all the lonely people”.  We left in astonishment, full of Love & wonder. However, just outside The Mirage Hotel, I could see all sorts of ‘lonely people’.

For some time I’ve been contemplating just how lonely society is honestly becoming. No matter what challenges people face, the underlying truth is most people are lonely and have emotional pain because of it.  The disconnection of not being in contact conjures up being abandoned or excluded.  Belonging, as members of society, is not just good for us but a necessity for life.

Scientifically, we know our immune systems and response to physical, psychological and emotional stress is fine-tuned by human exchange, and such interactions are necessary.  

So why are so we rigidly standing alone, creating solitary confinement bubbles for ourselves?  What is going to make us psychologically healthy is not achieved by avoiding each other and our emotional states. How many of us obsess over exposing ourselves to ‘normal boundaries’, we set with dread, attempting to be shielded by the seemingly weak or ‘sensitive’ nature of others?   There is no shame in needing people; the bridges we build today will continue to support our health and each other!

One solution is to seek comfort in conscious gatherings. Take time for a coffee or lunch, together. Fewer people join clubs anymore, so why not take classes and make an effort to spend quality time to know thyself & be with others.

I believe the bedrock of humanity is in our connections to each other. And these days, we seem to value achievement more than relationships in pursuit of success.

Devices are distracting enough, right? They boost the impression we are ‘too busy’ for anything else.  Left to our own devices (literally) we will suffer more, confused by the fantasy, like a hallucination. All the machinery, gadgets, accessories, mechanism, will only satisfy for as long as the stream of entertainment allows. What this convenience appears to be doing is making us forget what we know about life.  And that being in community, sitting together, conversing, enjoying a meal, sharing in our human heritage is our birthright.

Sure scientific advances in technology do a lot for us, but does that mean that we should roll over & permit it to take over?  If all this technology continues to leads to more isolation, greater loneliness will abide and people will not know whom they can turn to for help. Can life be lived without a purpose, or a feeling that we are not needed or valued? Not so.

There are actual places that thrive and bring people together. Agree to become a part of something outside the ‘bubble of isolation’ and come to ‘know thyself’ better. Avoid the working-class struggle to stagnate. Say hello to your neighbors and all passerby’s. 

To repair the structure of society, we need to make contact with people in the flesh.  Redirect the erosion of endless hours of distractions; quest to work for our wealth-being of those you love and would love to know. We can all switch off the malaise of loneliness by getting to know someone better.

Stay in contact and Let Love Live.