Our Overdoing Is Our Undoing. Part 1

The Yoga Nurse Prescription for Cleaning Up Your Act

“Flowing water never goes bad. Become as flowing water.” This ancient Chinese proverb is stellar advice. If you are suffering from obstruction in your body mind heart or spirit, then you are not in the flow and you are either experiencing ill health or your obstruction is putting you at jeopardy for developing illness. The purpose here is to teach you a promising new way of life that will help you restore and maintain your flow. Not only will this information  help you to flow today, it will help you flow every day for a lifetime.

Flowing water never goes bad

This is an urgent wake up call. By implementing the enlightening prescription you’re about to be introduced to, you will learn how to flow and let go of all the crap (both literal and figurative) that is weighing you down. As a nurse and a yoga therapist, I feel both a moral and spiritual obligation to help you to wake up to the physical roots of your constipation and to the deeper mental, emotional, and spiritual issues that are obstructing your ability to lighten up!

Now I ask you, honestly, who wouldn’t want that?

*The Problem

Where there is obstruction there is disease.

*The Solution

Where there is flow, there is ease.

“Flowing water never goes bad. Become as flowing water.”This principle is one of the primordial laws of nature—and one of the keys to excellent health. We are living in terrifyingly stressful times. You know this intimately; no statistics are needed to demonstrate this point to you. Sadly, stress is the common wretched condition of our era. The American Psychological Association recently announced that we live in a constant state of “chronic anxiety,” and we do some crazy, unhealthy things to manage our stress that only make things worse.

Yoga Nurse Diagnosis: Our overdoing is our undoing = Pain and suffering in the body, mind, heart and spirit.

Yoga Nurse Prescription: Yoga Nursing therapy based on the combined wisdom of East and West.

This could be a picture of your Mind and/or your Body. obstruction, blockage, constipation, clogged pipes big time!

Obstruction or we could say blockage, clogged pipes or indeed constipation of the mind and body is a ginormous reason that many of us are sickly. Physically, the problem has two sources: blockage (obstruction) and excess consumption. We get blocked cuz we consume too freakin much of everything and anything! Ingesting too much food—especially the wrong foods—and too many drugs, chemicals, and mood-altering substances. Mentally, the problem has to do with thought processes and behaviors based in addiction to thinking—and offshoots of this behavior, such as over analyzing, overdoing, over eating, and over stimulation. Both sadly lead to OVERWHELM excess weight in the body/mind and obstruction. Hence, Our Overdoing is Our Undoing.

TRY THIS YOGA POSTURE TO HELP YOU TO LET GO AND GET BACK INTO THE FLOW. Helps chronic back pain and releases rigidity in the body and oh yes rigidity as in rigid thoughts in the mind.

HALF MOON

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Ardha Chandrasana

1. Standing with your feet parallel and hip width apart, shift your weight toward the balls of your feet and press the soles of your feet downward.

2. Bring up the squeeze. (squeeze your buttocks to protect your lower back drawing energy upward)

3. Press the crown of your head away from your shoulders.

4. Allow your fingertips to rise overhead, interlacing your fingers with your index fingers extended, and press your fingertips away from your shoulders.

5. Press your right foor downward as you press your right hip out to the side. Allow the pressing to extend your torso and arms to the left.

6. Press your inside hipbone and chest point slightly forward as you press your opposite upper wing point back, to rotate your torso into a true side stretch, leaning neither forward nor back.

To release the posture, press the sole of your inside foot downward and allow your body to return to the starting position.

Repeat the posture on the opposite side.

Stay tuned for Part 2.