Maria McCarthy Yoga & Health in East Gosford, New South Wales, Australia | Alternative & holistic health service

Maria McCarthy Yoga & Health

Locality: East Gosford, New South Wales, Australia

Phone: +61 2 4324 0209

Address: East Gosford 2250 East Gosford, NSW, Australia

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22.01.2022 The places in your body where the energy gets stuck are the energy centers associated with the issues you’re dealing with. When energy becomes stuck in our body..., it cannot flow to the higher centers. Since emotions are energy, these emotions get stuck in different centers and we cannot evolve. If, for example, a person has been sexually abused or has been conditioned since childhood to think that sex is bad, their energy can stay stuck in the first center, the center associated with sexuality, and they may have problems accessing creativity. If, on the other hand, a person can access their creative energy but doesn’t necessarily feel safe enough to use their creativity in the world (instead feeling victimized by their social and interpersonal relationships), or if they have been traumatized or betrayed by another person, they might hold on to that energy in their second center. Such a person would be likely to feel excessive amounts of guilt, shame, suffering, low self-esteem, or fear. Now, if a person can get their energy flowing up to the third center but they have ego issues and they feel self-important, self-absorbed, controlling, domineering, angry, overly competitive, and bitter, then their energy gets stuck in their third center and they may have control issues or motivation issues. If a person cannot open their heart and feel love and trust or if they are afraid to express love or how they truthfully feel, energy can also become frozen in the fourth and fifth centers, respectively. While energy can get stuck in any of the energy centers, these first three centers are where it tends to get stuck most often. And when it’s stuck, it can’t evolve and flow to the higher energy centers where we’re in love with life and want to give back. Getting that circuit flowing the way it was designed to do is the whole point of doing the Blessing of the Energy Centers meditationwe bless each of these centers so we can get stuck energy flowing again. To join our live stream on September 18th were you will learn the science behind this in-depth and then align your energy centers...click there: bit.ly/AlignYourEnergyCenters If you would like to register in a foreign language click here: https://linktr.ee/drjoedispenza

22.01.2022 This should be an informative, research-based course. I've joined up to join in the discussion!

20.01.2022 There are so many forms of meditation, one for everyone.

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18.01.2022 More good reasons to do yoga!

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12.01.2022 Some science behind the benefits of yoga.

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07.01.2022 A call to avoiding busyness and including reflection & nap time

05.01.2022 THE "DANGERS" OF MEDITATION AND MINDFULNESS. Yesterday I asked you if you thought there could be problems associated with excessive amounts of mindfulness pract...ice, or for that matter with any form of meditation or spiritual activity. I was delighted that many of you identified problems that have been documented in research studies: losing touch with outer reality (getting spaced out) by spending too much time focusing inwards, using meditation to avoid real life situations or to distance oneself from valid feelings and emotions, increased anxiety, and the possibility of releasing traumatic memories without having the skill or support to work with them. But I was equally surprised by the number of people who felt that more was better. Actually, the research strongly suggests that briefer forms of mindfulness and meditation, done more often throughout the day, will bring the greatest benefits, especially if you mindfully ENGAGE with others when talking, planning, and resolving conflicts. As you all know I'm a big fan of adding mindfulness to your daily life, and there are 6000 peer reviewed studies to back up the importance of this secular form of meditation. But most forms of meditation are down privately and silently, removed from the social interactions needed to achieve many goals. Our research shows that brief conscious periods of mindfulness in the workplace, and in important social situations, generates greater happiness, satisfaction, and contentment. As the chart below shows, created by Willoughby Britton at Brown University (who is a leading researcher and proponent of meditation), the potential negative effects of too much self-reflection can increase stress, anxiety, depression, pain perception, and social discomfort. It can also people to become disconnected from their feelings, emotions, and body sensations, even to the point where they may dissociate, have out-of-body experiences, or experience an increase in trauma-related symptoms. Long-term practices show significant changes in functionality, connectivity, and structural density but again, too much can disrupt the normal ways people function when pursuing goals and developing social intimacies. I’ve put quotations around those terms that are poorly defined or researched. But what, exactly, is too much or too little? Not enough research has been done to fully answer that question, but some researchers suggest that you can create a balanced practice by alternating between different forms of attentiveness. For example, you can consciously shift between of states of inner awareness (focusing on feelings, thoughts, sensations, etc.) and outer states of awareness (observing other people without judgment, or the environment, or a specific work-related task, etc.). The research I’ve reported on our previous books led me to make the following suggestions that I believe can lead to a better balance of the major brain networks described in the literature and the emotional networks mapped out by Panksepp). 1. If you normally do formal meditation, add brief periods of informal practice throughout the day. Set a timer to go off several times an hour and then do (10 seconds to 3 minutes of any meditation or relaxation exercise that you find pleasurable. 2. As you meditate, consciously shift your attention between different network activities and explore how each one feels. Visualize a pleasant memory. Gaze at a beautiful object. Focus on a desired goal. Focus on an obstacle that stands in your way. Let your mind wander and daydream. Play with your imagination. As your intuition for an insight about something you are wrestling with. Explore a different emotion each time you sit down to do a 3-5 minute mindfulness practice. Keep a list of the different topics you are mindfully exploring. 3. Alternate between nonjudgmental observing of negative thoughts and feelings, and savor the positive ones and pleasant experiences that occur throughout the day. 4. Experiment with meditating as you speak and listen to others. 5. Add a relaxation mediation to each day and practice it for 60 seconds each hour or two, especially when working. 6. Experiment with mindful eating, mindful walking, mindful free-form movement, and mindful exercise and aerobics. 7. Don’t make anything habitual (you’ll get little neurological change from any repetitious practice). Change the times you do formal meditation, and change the length of time you meditate every day. 8. Experiment with unfamiliar meditation practices from other cultures (our research shows that such people are more open-minded and tolerant of others!) 9. Guide others every week, if possible, at home and work through a brief mindfulness exercise. Make them playful! 10. Develop dialogs and friendships with people who have different meditation practices. Meditate together as you share your in-the-moment experiences. Each of the exercises described above exercises a different network in your brain, and the more you can consciously intuit the subtle shifts in your mental states and moods, the more you will know that you are helping to balance the functions of those networks. And remember: there is no right or wrong way to meditate. There is no correct dose or right posture or position. You can slouch when you meditate, or lie down, or cuddle with your partner or puppy as you mindfully lose yourself in the experience. Be creative, be playful, and ollow your curiosity and intuition. Your brain gets bored with repetition and it is always seeking new and different experiences that promise short-term rewards and the long-term development of meaningfulness, purpose, and life-satisfaction. ----SOURCE----- Can mindfulness be too much of a good thing? The value of a middle way. Britton WB. Curr Opin Psychol. 2019 Jan 7;28:159-165. Read the full article here: PDF)

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