Healthy Happy Loving Life: Meditation for Change

19 Thursday Jan 2023

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Sure, you’ve thought about it, but have you tried meditation lately? There are many forms of meditation, generally with great benefits, like relaxing you, and clearing your thoughts. Another benefit can be opening up your reception to the Divine, if that interests you.

Today I’m sharing an easy form of Special Meditation. This one is for drawing to you a change that you have been wanting, to illumine the path, and to speed the manifesting of that change.

Special meditations may be used to shift the energy of situations and places. For any special purpose meditation, begin as you:

Go to your special quiet practice place.
Take a minute to think about your purpose.
Write out your vision for your desired results.
Include emotions, sights, sounds, tastes, smells, and sensations.
Be as vivid and complete in your vision as possible.

Now take your time as you try this Meditation for Change.

Sit comfortably and quiet your breathing. Be aware of Luke 12:32 (KJV), “it is the Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.” Feel your heart slow and relax. Feel your core pleasantly melting toward the floor. Know deeply that you are grounded in the Earth’s creative energies, uplifted by the Holy Spirit, engulfed by God’s love, and protected by God’s power.

Extend your awareness from your heart, up through your mind, and upward and outward toward Heaven. Feel yourself connect strongly with the Heavenly Source, and feel the Source Energy flowing down through you, comingling with the Earth energy that is rising. Now you are in your most creative space, or state of being. Now bring your vision of a desired thing into your consciousness. See the images, hear the sounds, taste the flavors, smell the fragrances, and feel the sensations and emotions of your desired reality. Take your time.

When you are ready, go deeply into knowing that your vision is now true. Feel your gratitude. Give thanks to God/Spirit/Source. Repeat this step whenever you think of the situation you want to be different.

Notice how different your mind and body feel after this meditation. You may want to explore other forms of meditation, a number of which are in my book, Sacred Meditation. The more you meditate, the more your life will shift in the ways you want it to.

And that will be you, ever more Healthy Happy and Loving Life^sm!

Kebba Buckley Button is a stress/energy management expert, holistic healer, and award-winning author who celebrates life. She has a longtime natural healing practice and is an ordained minister. Among her books are: Discover The Secret Energized You (http://tinyurl.com/b44v3br), Inspirations for Peace Within: Quotes and Images to Uplift and Inspire, and Sacred Meditation: Embracing the Divine. The books are available on Amazon and through Kebba’s office. They are also available in Scottsdale, Arizona, at the Franciscan Renewal Center bookstore and at the bookstore at St. Barnabas on the Desert Episcopal Church. Or simply email us to order: kebba@kebba.com . Thank you!

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: How You Can Feel Good All the Time

03 Sunday Jul 2022

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As a result of my multi-year healing adventures, I have developed skills to offer a Holistic Healing practice that helps people, without prescriptions or surgery, to feel great. I continue to study, by topics, or by techniques, to learn the fastest way to alleviate pain and unhappy emotions, whatever a person’s starting point. My idea of fun is taking a spiritual retreat or special neurobiology training. I recently took a retreat experience with Peter Pearson, on the subject of Thomas Merton and what our spiritual paths may be. I also just completed a 19-week class on the Vagus Nerve and how to access its powers for quick shifts. Soon, I will be taking a Jin Shin Jyutsu refresher class with a medical doctor. Fun, fun, fun!

So, yesterday, I talked some about my pain journey and mentioned some of the approaches I developed to beat an intense idiopathic pain situation I had for 8 years. This year I continued to apply all I have learned about keeping myself strong and healthy, as I went through a full year (starting July 2021) of chemotherapy. Yes, the full year just ended this week! I never lost my hair or had elimination issues, and I shocked the doctors with my positivity. One doctor quipped, “I just brighten up when I see your name on my appointment list for the day!” You can be this patient, too.

Because my holistic healing range is extensive, I have created a partial list of the areas I use to help people feel great. Here are some categories we cover in sessions, on Zoom or in the office (Central Phoenix):

Holistic coaching

Strategies for stopping collecting stress
Strategies for dissolving or trading in stress
Options for discomforts, possible origins
Steps for dealing with difficult people or situations, including phrases to use
Effective living strategies
Ways to access and maintain personal peace
Recommendations of nutritional shifts and supplements
Intuitive readings
Personalized re-scripting (formerly “affirmations”)

Energy medicine

Pendulum chakra reading and balancing/clearing
Pulse reading for meridian balancing
Energy balancing with Jin Shin Jyutsu, Reiki, Healing Touch, and Vagus nerve balancing for the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems
Food energy reading
Self-help routines for those interested

Coursework (materials also available in individual sessions)

Dealing with difficult people energetically
Self-help Jin Shin Jyutsu
Instant relaxation for busy people
How to unwind your stress and live the way you meant to
How to meditate (multiple methods)
How to use a labyrinth for meditation and prayer
How people pray, and how you can
Cleansing and rebooting the energy of your space
Energetics of food and supplements
Basic Feng Shui for your home and car

Goals

Trade in your stress for energy
Relieve odd symptoms
Speed up clearing/healing from impacts of illness, accidents, surgery
Dissolve fatigue
Get better sleep
Feel happier and younger
Feel good enough to be grateful and embrace Life

Do any of these phrases resonate for you and your needs? Now I am Healthy Happy and Loving Life^sm! And in my daily series this month, I hope to strongly convince you that positive living is the way to be, and that it results in greater health and happiness and joy. It’s more fun! And that would be me and you, shaping our lives anew, ever more Healthy Happy and Loving Life^sm!

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: What Would it Be Like to Feel Good All the Time?

02 Saturday Jul 2022

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When I was 26, one night I became aware that I felt odd. I realized the large knuckles of my hands were burning. I thought, oh, no problem. Mom has had aching joints since she was 27, and that has been mild for her. Oh no! Within a year, I was burning from head to toe, and anti-inflammatory medications barely touched it. Here began my multi-year healing journey, as well as a new career.

I used my body as a laboratory and experimented with what might help dissolve this crippling pain. I talked with anyone I could find who had pain that had begun inside the body– not due to accidents– and they offered great insights. They said it mattered greatly what you ate and drank! This was new to me. In my life circles, people ate by calories, at that time. I found a no-sugar diet helped, and eliminating certain other foods helped also. As food has changed greatly, the diet changes I made then are actually not applicable today. So I will write another article about what diet I use today.

I found that smooth exercise, such as stretching dance moves and yoga, helped. Exercising for 20 minutes or more helped. Exercising to the point of sweat helped greatly.

Meditation helped, and prayer time helped. Practicing being peaceful helped, and helped me to feel a part of “The Flow”. This eventually led to my teaching meditation and prayer, and to the publication of my book, Sacred Meditation.

Oriental energy therapies really powered up my healing and establishing my new health balance, so I could enjoy life again. I found Reiki and Jin Shin Jyutsu especially powerful. Today, I see these as arts that access the nervous system and can ultimately relieve almost any conditions.

I became so interested in natural pain relief that I left engineering for my own natural health practice. I now give trainings in stress management and how to trade in your stress for energized living. My first book on this, Discover the Secret Energized You, was published in 2008. I then realized people needed a personal base of peace within, so I began teaching personal peace. My book, Inspirations for Peace Within, was published in 2017.

So today, over 30 years since pervasive pain attacked me, I have a thriving practice, teaching others how they, too, can thrive. I believe that most conditions can be healed– and why not try? With energy medicine, stress management and effective life strategies, the right food, the best spiritual practice, and healthy movement, great changes come about.

I am Healthy Happy and Loving Life^sm! And in my daily series this month, I hope to strongly convince you that positive living is the way to be, and it results in greater health and happiness and joy. It’s more fun! And that would be me and you, shaping our lives anew, ever more Healthy Happy and Loving Life^sm!

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: Instant Calm for Busy People

26 Tuesday Apr 2022

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I recently shared a brief way to break into meditation practice, in 8 quick steps (https://wp.me/pw4HM-1dw). Many loved it, and some said they couldn’t meditate because their minds were too busy, like the yogini above, and just too full of chatter. I promised to write a piece on instant calm for busy people, and that’s what brings us to today. There are many ways I can share, to instantly calm yourself. Here are 3 hand poses that will take you to calm very fast.

1. Gently place your hands together, palms touching. The palms access your central nervous system and calm you instantly. Now exhale. Drop your shoulders. Hold for one minute. Feel the difference. Feel the sides of your head let go and relax. Feel your brain slow down.

2. Place your hands in the classic prayer position, fingers intertwined. You have now connected most of the meridians in your body to each other. Exhale. Drop your shoulders. Hold for one minute. Feel the difference as your whole body calms. Try bringing your hands toward your forehead and leaning in. Feel the difference.

3. Place your hands together, palms touching. Bring this position back to your chest and feel the heart connection. Hold for one minute. Notice your face relaxing. Feel the contrast as your mind, body, and spirit calm down.

Apply these moves whenever you need calm. And let me know (kebba@kebba.com) what you notice in your thoughtstream, your body, and your skin. And that would be you, increasingly Healthy Happy and Loving Life^sm!

Kebba Buckley Button is a stress management expert, holistic healer, and award-winning author who celebrates life. She has a longtime natural healing practice and is an ordained minister. Among her books are: Discover The Secret Energized You (http://tinyurl.com/b44v3br), Inspirations for Peace Within: Quotes and Images to Uplift and Inspire, and Sacred Meditation: Embracing the Divine. The books are available on Amazon and through Kebba’s office. They are also available in Scottsdale, Arizona, at the Franciscan Renewal Center bookstore and at the bookstore at St. Barnabas on the Desert Episcopal Church. Or simply email us to order: kebba@kebba.com . Thank you!

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: 8 Steps to Meditating Today!

24 Sunday Apr 2022

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How would you like to be so mellow that your shoulder tops feel like pudding? Yet you are not tired, just deeply relaxed? A great way to get there is through meditation. And you don’t have to convert to Hinduism and use Indian words in order to meditate. Meditation is also a Christian practice going back centuries. The current Pope uses the word “meditation” in several ways daily. So don’t worry about your faith origin. If you’ve been curious about meditation, maybe now is the time to give it a whirl.

A major key is to set up a comfortable place to sit, away from distractions, preferably for 20 minutes at a time. For the meditation time to work for you, of course you will close your laptop and turn off your smartphone. Change the lighting to soft. Think of it as a set of agreements you are making with yourself! And the more you meditate, for example twice daily, the more you will feel your thoughts, your body, and even your skin relaxing. This feels so good and so healthy, that you might get addicted to it! There are many sources for meditation music, seats, drums, and electronic devices that are offered as helps for different types of meditation. But I have found that low tech, no-additive meditation is really great: refreshing, inexpensive, no-fuss, and life-changing. The beneficial medical effects of true meditation have been documented since the 1970’s.

Here are 8 steps, to try this amazing practice at home:

Sit in a quiet, undisturbed area, in a comfortable chair. Uncross your legs and place your feet on the floor. Sit up fairly straight; this allows the spinal energy to flow well. You may want to be barefoot.
Select some quiet music or turn on a humming room fan if something is needed to screen background noise. To use music or not is up to personal preference.
Exhale and drop your shoulders. Find a comfortable balance in your posture.
Notice your shoulders releasing tension and dropping pleasantly.
Set a pleasant-sounding timer and continue your meditation for 15-20 minutes. Notice how your different body/mind/heart/spirit systems are responding. You may find your eyes are pleasantly streaming tears and your entire system has a deep sense of relaxation. Your breathing may be much more comfortable.
After your selected time, gently open your eyes. If you have trouble opening your eyes, rub your hands together until they are warm, then hold them to your eyes for a half minute or so.
Gently allow your system to come back into consciousness. Take your time.
Journal your observations and realizations for a few minutes. Notice any change in your body, your spiritual perspective or sense of connection.

Let me know (kebba@kebba.com) what you notice in your thoughtstream, your body, and your skin. Has your sense of stress shifted? Notice any changes in your relationship to stress over the next week or month. Notice if some of your routine aches and/or pains are subsiding. Now you are in Upbeat Spiritual Living^sm! To learn more about the history and types of meditation, you may want to check out my book, Sacred Meditation.

And that would also be you, increasingly Healthy Happy and Loving Life^sm!

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: 5 Secrets to Tap the Power of Journaling

23 Sunday Jan 2022

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Journaling is one of the great tools of a successful and fulfilling meditation practice. And the most difficult aspect of this practice is remembering to spell the word with one “l”. It can multiply the effects of your meditation and accelerate your spiritual growth in the Divine slipstream. There are 5 secrets to tapping the power of journaling:

Do it. Set your intention to do it, then do it. Don’t worry about rules like “journal at the same time each day” and “set aside the same amount of time to journal each day.” Open that journal whenever you have a comment to make to it.
Find the format that works best for you. This may be handwritten napkin notes you save in a drawer, scribbles on loose paper, neatly dated . Or it could be a gorgeous bound volume. You may like a spiral-bound notebook so the front can be folded easily back. Play around with what feels best. Some like to journal for several minutes at a time, in the Notes app on their smartphone. Since most people have their smartphones with them all the time, they can quickly open their journaling folder/documents and record some thoughts. They can even take notes during a counseling session or class. Then they can email the notes from their phone to their email cache and pull the journal paragraphs out into a word processor document. For those who are writers and keyboard-fluent, simply keyboarding into a word processor document may be most satisfying and easy to file. Sometimes, you may feel moved to include drawings or photos. Then do that!
Keep different journals for different areas of interest. Yes, some people have a few journals! I know a woman who has seven! One might be for your thoughts on your workplace and career, one for relationships, one for world affairs. Or perhaps you are in a recovery program, and you want one journal simply for your observations, questions, resources, and progress.
Find a private place for your journal, and keep it there. This will allow you to feel safe about writing whatever is on your heart and writing as many details as you feel you want to. If you live in an unsafe environment, your journal may be safest hidden under the driver’s seat of your car. Another safe format, if you journal by word processing, is to name your journal something irrelevant (i.e., “Records”), and store it in an irrelevant drive (i.e., “Accounting”) Then, from time to time, back it up to a thumb drive and hide the thumb drive in a safe deposit box. And be sure to use the special Protection Meditation (Sacred Meditation, Chapter 15).
Notice how different you feel with journaling. Notice how much more clear and relaxed you are as you have been practicing journaling and trying different formats. It is beautifully liberating to “speak” with complete candor, as you can when you share your thoughts and feelings in your journal, in perfect privacy. Notice how the “next steps”, the things you need to work on next, the areas in which you know you want to grow, become crystal clear. Notice your heart becoming lighter as you sit down to meditate. Notice how receptive you are becoming to Divine Guidance. Make notes on these experiences in your journal.

The late prominent writer Anais Nin was said to have started journaling at age 11, for a total of over 10,000 pages, plus novels and contributions to other works. (How did she have time to write all those pages?) She was a leading cultural influencer of the Sixties and Seventies. No one is asking you to compete by volume. You may be more concise than Ms. Nin, or you may be even more prolific. Try weaving journaling into your spiritual practice and your secular hours. The Divine can take you places you’ve only ever dreamed of.

And that’s Upbeat Spiritual Living^sm!

And that would also be you, increasingly Healthy Happy and Loving Life^sm!

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: Peace Meditation

22 Saturday Jan 2022

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This is the next-to-last piece in our series on meditation, based on excerpts from my book, Sacred Meditation: Embracing the Divine. Today, we offer a type of Peace Meditation.

This meditation is a type of Special Purpose Meditation, which may be used to shift the energy of situations and places. For any special purpose meditation, begin by going to your special quiet practice place. Write down your vision for your desired results. Include sights, sounds, tastes, smells, and sensations. Be as vivid and complete in your vision as possible.

Sit comfortably and quiet your breathing. Be aware of Luke 12:32 (KJV):

It is the Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.

Feel your heart slow and relax. Feel your core pleasantly melting toward the floor. Know that you are grounded in the Earth’s creative energies.

Extend your awareness from your heart, up through your mind, and up toward Heaven (or out into the Universe). Feel yourself connect strongly with the Heavenly Source, and feel the Source Energy flowing down through you, comingling with the Earth energy that is rising. Now you are in your most creative space, or state of being. Now bring your vision of a desired thing into your consciousness. See the images, hear the sounds, taste the flavors, smell the fragrances, and feel the sensations of your desired reality. Sit with this multisensory vision for a few minutes.

In this moment, know that your vision is now true. Feel your gratitude. Give thanks to God/the Divine/Spirit. Repeat this step whenever you think of the situation you want to be different.

PEACE MEDITATION

Now consider a Peace Meditation, a meditation directed at bringing peace, to yourself, to people, and to the Planet. We live in times of much conflict in many areas. Mass shootings and bombings shatter communities. A global pandemic threatens travel and supply chains and hospitals like never before. Nations disagree with nations, and supranational terror groups are claiming to be nations. Even in the US, conflicts may seem to dominate at the highest levels of government. Many yearn for personal, local, and global peace.

For your peace meditation, begin with contemplation or prayerful listening, using prayers such as this short prayer for peace, from the Church of England:

Gracious God,
We pray for peace in our communities this day.
We commit to you all who work for peace and an end to tensions,
And those who work to uphold law and justice.
We pray for an end to fear,
For comfort and support to those who suffer.
For calm in our streets and cities,
That people may go about their lives in safety and peace.
In your mercy, hear our prayers,
now and always. Amen.

Sit, saturated in the feeling and knowing of peace, for a few minutes. Now journal out your feelings. Observe any change in your relationships over the next day and week. Repeat as desired. And that’s Upbeat Spiritual Living^sm!

And that would also be you, increasingly Healthy Happy and Loving Life^sm!

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: Mantra Meditation Quickstart in 9 Steps

21 Friday Jan 2022

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Today, we continue a series on meditation, based on excerpts from my latest book, Sacred Meditation: Embracing the Divine. Mantra Meditation is a powerful yet simple controlled practice of opening the mind. It takes the meditator to a deeper brain state, increasing awareness, insight, and relaxation. It then allows release of stress: negative thoughts and feelings a person has been holding. Emotional attachments and judgements will tend to soften and disperse. The beneficial medical effects of true meditation have been documented since the 1970’s.

Here is a quickstart in 9 steps, to try this amazing method on your own:

Select a harmonious word, or mantra, to repeat. To start, try “Om” or “Spirit” or “Love”. For a deep treatment of the subject of mantras, refer to the work of Herbert Benson, M.D.
Sit in a quiet, undisturbed area, in a comfortable chair. Uncross your legs and place your feet on the floor. Sit up fairly straight. You may want to be barefoot.
Select some quiet music or turn on a humming room fan if something is needed to screen background noise. To use music or not is up to personal preference.
Exhale and drop your shoulders. Find a comfortable balance in your posture.
Close your eyes and repeat your selected harmonious word or mantra. Notice your shoulders releasing tension and dropping pleasantly.
Set a pleasant-sounding timer and continue your meditation for 15-20 minutes. Notice how your different body/mind/heart/spirit systems are responding. You may find your eyes are pleasantly streaming tears and your entire system has a deep sense of relaxation. Your breathing may be much more comfortable.
After your selected time, gently open your eyes. If you have trouble opening your eyes, rub your hands together until they are warm, then hold them to your eyes for a half minute.
Gently allow your system to come back into consciousness. Take your time.
Journal your observations and realizations for a few minutes. Notice any change in your body, your spiritual perspective or sense of connection.

Change the mantra you try from time to time, and find out which takes you deeper or relaxes you faster. Try meditating like this twice a day for two weeks, and notice your unpleasant emotions dissolving. Make notes on what you experience. Consider making this a long-term part of your spiritual practice. Remember that you attained this new level of BE-ing absolutely free, in exchange for simply choosing to try it out. Celebrate!

And that’s Upbeat Spiritual Living^sm!

Now journal out your feelings. Has your sense of stress already shifted? Observe any change in your relationships over the next day and week. Email us at kebba@kebba.com with any questions you have on meditation. And now you are in Upbeat Spiritual Living^sm!

And that would also be you, increasingly Healthy Happy and Loving Life^sm!

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: Protection Meditation

20 Thursday Jan 2022

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Today I offer a type of Protection Meditation. This is part of a series of articles on meditation, based on excerpts from my book, Sacred Meditation: Embracing the Divine. The more you play with these methods, the more you will find your stress shifted and the closer you will find yourself with the Divine. Meditation is a powerful stress management tool. It will increase your productivity and magnify your efforts in every good thing you put your mind to. Bless you in your journey!

This special purpose meditation should be done whenever you realize you are feeling unsafe, due to financial hazard, the loss of a loved one, neighborhood crime, or a stalker. It is also a good meditation when you feel unsafe due to international conditions of conflict or contagion. This would also include feeling vaguely unsafe, even though you don’t know why.

Any special purpose meditation can shift the energy of situations and places. Begin by going to your special quiet practice place. Take a minute to think about your purpose. Write down your vision for your desired results. Include sights, sounds, tastes, smells, and sensations. Be as vivid and complete in your vision as possible.

For the Protection Meditation, try beginning with contemplation of this portion of Psalm 91 (NIV). Or study the entire Psalm, when you have the time:

⁹If you say, “The Lord is my refuge,” and you make the Most High your dwelling,
¹⁰ no harm will overtake you, no disaster will come near your tent.
¹¹ For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways

Vision in detail how safe you and your family truly are. Remember to give thanks that all this is true. And repeat whenever you think of these feelings. Consider posting a sign on your mirror that says, “He will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways.”

If you are threatened by a particular enemy, such as an aggressive ex, a stalker, a nasty neighbor, or an abusive boss, you may want to begin with a contemplation of this scripture, Psalm 25: 1-3 (NIV):

¹To you, O LORD, I lift up my soul;

² in you I trust, O my God. Do not let me be put to shame, nor let my enemies triumph over me.

³ No one whose hope is in you will ever be put to shame, but they will be put to shame who are treacherous without excuse.

Now journal out what you hear and experience while contemplating and meditating on God’s protection. And, as always, give thanks for what you are visioning for. In this case, it’s your safety.

Now journal out your feelings. Has your concern already shifted? Observe any change in your relationships over the next day and week. Email us at kebba@kebba.com with any questions you have on meditation. And now you are in Upbeat Spiritual Living^sm!

And that would be you, also, increasingly Healthy Happy and Loving Life^sm!

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Deadline Stress: Three Brain Boosters to Beat It!

05 Sunday Jul 2015

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It’s the dread Deadline Stress again! With your deadline looming, you’re sitting at your computer or iPad or with your yellow pad, and the words aren’t coming. You know your topic and everything about the piece. But the moments are slipping away, and still the words aren’t getting into the article. You’re really stuck!

Most advice about writers’ block is all about using your thoughts to control your thoughts. But that won’t work when your brain is stuck, and you can’t grasp your thoughts in order to control your thoughts! Your brain is depleted right now.

So don’t use your mind! Use these physical brain boosts to get yourself going. Here are three of my favorites:

The Shoulder Shift. Roll your shoulders up and forward, then around, slowly, stretching, for one minute. Watch the clock. No cheating. Now roll the shoulders up and back and around, slowly, stretching, for one minute. Notice the warming in your ankles and feet. You have now opened up the circulation to the whole body, and you’ll feel it in the brain in one minute. Notice a warming sensation flowing up the back of your neck. This is energy, and it’s recharging your energy-starved brain. You may notice your mood changing already, with positive emotions rising. Cool, huh?
The Chocolate Churnover. Earlier, were you craving chocolate? Now is a great time to munch an ounce of dark chocolate to help your brain. The antioxidants and theobromine in the chocolate will lift your energy and metabolism. Stimulating the tongue and mouth, by eating, lifts the energy of both the Fire- and Earth Meridians. The bitter flavor in the chocolate stimulates the Fire Meridian, and the sweetness energizes the Earth Meridian. If you heat your chocolate in almond- or dairy milk, the warm drink will raise the energy of the entire digestive system, which stimulates brain function, increasing clarity. Also, the potassium in either form of milk will assist brain optimization. Now you have churned your whole energy system, and it is pumping in support of you.
The Latte Lift. If you love lattes, try this trick first. Get your favorite latte and set a timer for 20 minutes. Drink your delicious liquid, and lie down or relax in your recliner for those 20 minutes. You get a break, and as you’re rising again, the antioxidants and caffeine (or in tea lattes, L-Theanine, theobromine, and theophylline) are just hitting your blood-brain barrier. Now you’re rested and refreshed, yet your blood, oxygen, and energy are flowing well.

Now, your brain has what it needs, and your words will be flowing. You no longer have to dread Deadline Stress! Play around with these brain boosting techniques and make them part of your regular writing practice. You never need to be stuck again. Now you’ll be beating all those deadlines and soaring as the writer you are meant to be.

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Energy – Peace – Meditation

Kebba Buckley Button is a stress management expert and award-winning author. She also is an ordained minister and has a natural healing practice. Among her books are: Discover The Secret Energized You (http://tinyurl.com/b44v3br),and Peace Within: Your Peaceful Inner Core, Second Edition(http://tinyurl.com/mqg3uvc ). Her newest book is Sacred Meditation: Embracing the Divine, available through her office. Just email SacredMeditation@kebba.com.
Reach the writer at kebba@kebba.com.

Healthy Happy Loving Life!

~ Your source for energized, fulfilled, joyous living!

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