Five Minute Practices for Inner Peace
Spirituality and Wellness
Date Published: December 14
Publisher: Acorn Publishing
Have you ever wondered exactly how yoga impacts your nervous system? This book explores yoga practices ranging from as little as five minutes, to up to an hour to support you in overcoming common imbalances such as panic attacks, depression, inattention, and more. This book will help you design a step-by-step program that promotes your journey towards a balanced nervous system, allowing you to customize the duration and intensity of your home practice.
Explore pranayama (breathing exercise), namaskars (salutations or movement meditations), asana (poses), mudras (hand gestures), mantras (repeated sounds to control and focus our mind), and meditation. Learn how to synchronize practices with nature, use the elements to heal and enhance life-experience, and take advantage of increased energetic junctions such as the full moon when they occur. Craft a yogic home practice that is tailormade for your constitution and rooted in tradition that will ground, balance, and allow you to find optimal wellbeing.
Excerpt:
Yoga, initially, through the breath, can help stimulate
the nervous system toward balance. Even three minutes of smooth, mindful, deep
breathing without the addition of more refined or sophisticated yogic breathing
techniques, improves attention, relaxation, and the ability to cope with a
challenging situation.
Yoga, as a complete system and way of life, works to
promote your well-being by grounding you. It slows you down to a point where
you can turn inward and tune into your true inner essence, which is part of the
whole. By slowing down we are able to move beyond the chatter of mind and
connect with our soul. This soul is just part of the greater soul or life
force, that encompasses everything. Some people would refer to this life force
as god or goddess.
As yoga practitioners, we also use nature to connect with
the all-encompassing life force. Actual well-being relies on your ability to
slow down and listen to your real needs, not your preprogrammed needs.
To use this system optimally it’s useful to have an
established practice of about twenty minutes a day to connect back to. To more
effortlessly access the flow state, you first need to establish a familiarity
with it. It’s like filling up a pot with water. If it’s already full, it’s
easier to make it overflow with just a few drops.
The greatest misunderstanding of our kind, is that we have
to “become” something and that we have to accumulate wealth in order to fill
our inner void. Most societies reinforce these views, so very few of us manage
to live in the moment without striving. We end up wasting our short time on
this earth by chasing desires that, when consummated, only leave us feeling
more empty than before. We can accumulate what we believe to be the ideal life
or the perfect career or a garage full of luxury cars, only to feel that void
greater than ever. Because the chase has ended, we got what we wanted, but we
are still not fulfilled. At least as long as you’re chasing, you are occupied.
But for the ”lucky“ few who get there, the void becomes unbearable. Or rather
the lack of knowledge of how to fill that void. The emptiness that you feel
inside you, that can sometimes threaten to engulf you, wants to be filled with
life force, not material objects.
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This book looks very interesting. Thanks!
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