If you are feeling stressed, overwhelmed or a little out of control – try these quick fixes to ground yourself into your body again.

 1.       Breath.  Breathe deeply into your stomach until you feel your body internally relax.  No holding your breath!  Flow.

 2.       Touch.  Massage your lower abdominal muscles.  Rub the space between your stomach and pubic bone in a circular motion – creating heat.  Notice your shoulders relax and your breath deepens…

 3.       Heat.  Place heating pads along your core (front or back) and/or shoulders to release tension.

 4.       Short guided meditation; try my new podcast on the right – guided to relaxation.  Less then 5 minutes to better thinking…

 Let me know if you have any questions…Enjoy.  

Recently I’ve been discussing in podcasts and blogs about the energy of Spring.  I discussed the Eastern idea that Spring is the season of liver which is directly associated to anger and it’s repression.  So through this lens, these random acts of violence (4 police officers killed in Ca last week, 13 killed yesterday and another 3 officers killed this morning) are only random to the victims.  The perpetrators were vulnerable to snapping already, just something was that final straw…  

 So, invite you to be a little softer with yourself and all those who you come into contact with.  Maybe you are feeling the excitement of new opportunities on the horizon as well as the stress of what changes these opportunities mean in your life. 

 If you are feeling a bit edgy or angry yourself, try one of these quick fixes: take a salt water bath, sit in the sun, go for a walk, eat a piece of fruit, meditate…but if you need something more, try acupuncture, or talk to someone such as a therapist or life coach. 

 Sometimes just being reminded about the qualities of the Spring’s energy, both good and bad, helps you to regain balance and take better care of yourself.