Obi petting me.
Put aside the cares of the world for a moment. Put aside the house that needs to be cleaned. Take a moment to be you.
In my first blog post, I mentioned that I was three pages into Christiane Northrup’s book Goddesses Never Age when I became excited about creating this blog. We need a place to talk about how it is to be 50 and beyond, or coming up on it, and the issues and concerns that swirl around us now.
Perhaps with that extra testosterone we are getting, we are more able to put aside the BS. Maybe I'm missing my women's group, where we talked about anything, our feelings, hurts, emotions, spiritual path, and our body parts. They all work together, and when you squelch one, whatever the issue, it will squirt out someplace else.
Although my motivator of this blog, Dr. Christian Northrup, said that when she comes up a group of women having an "Organ Recital," (Not a musical instrument) she moves on, we will talk about organs here. But not in a gleeful way, like sharing how much we suffered in childbirth to get sympathy from those who have yet to experience it.
“Let’s make it easy to be healthy and happy.”
I hope
the word holistic or “Mind, Body, Spirit" doesn’t become cliché, for it is
thrown around like peanut shells on a bar floor. Holistic means it's all working together, which is the way the body works. I am sensitive about using the holistic approach, for my husband has had health issues for the past year, and we have gone to one "specialist" after another as though the body is divided into zones.
Okay, here is what I set out to talk about today before I got carried away:
The Breath.
And the Lymph System.
You know about the circulatory system. The blood has a pump, your heart. Yet your cells are bathed in lymph, which has no pump and relies on body movement and deep breathing to move it.
Of course, breathing is automatic most of the time, but if you include some deep breathing and hold that breath, it will help move the lymph through your body, thus giving your cells more oxygen and washing away waste material and dead cells. As a result, you will have more energy and vitality.
Lymph contains many substances, including proteins, minerals, fats, damaged cells, cancer cells, and germs. The movement of the lymph can wash them away. Lymph also transports infection-fighting white blood cells (lymphocytes).
A study on chicken cells kept in a clean substance—like lymph—caused those cells to almost achieve mortality—well, 30 years instead of 11.
Plasma passes from your blood into the lymph system, where it bathes every cell, providing oxygen and nutrients and removing waste material, dead cells, and such. Close to the heart, it is absorbed back into the blood, where the waste is removed and dumped from your system.
Two
things move the lymph: body movement and deep breathing. So, take a few deep
breaths on purpose. (If you are sitting at the computer, stop, breathe in one for second, hold for 4 seconds, exhale for 2.)
Remember the ratio: 1-4-2
You can double of triple those numbers. Inhale for inhale for the count of one, two, three, four, hold for 16, exhale for 8.
4-16-8--same ratio.
If you feel strong, go for 6, 24, 12.
That feels good.
Try this breathing exercise 10 times a day for 10 days and see if your energy isn’t more incredible.
See, it’s easy, breezy, beautiful.
I'd love to hear how this breathing exercise works for you. Share your experiences in the comments below.
Or, what do you want to talk about?
