Embrace Walking Meditation to Double Your Health Benefits

We already know that walking delivers a measured health benefit to your physical self. It provides cardiovascular benefits, helps you burn calories, and improves blood flow to various parts of your body.

But what you may not have considered is combining your walking time with a mental and spiritual meditation program to enhance the benefits walking has to offer you.

Usually, when most people take up walking, they do it because it’s a form of exercise that minimizes injuries and isn’t complicated to learn.

There’s no special equipment needed. You just put one foot in front of the other and you’re instantly on your way to better health.

But pair this with meditation, or mindful walking, and you get more out of your time spent putting foot to the pavement.

Walking meditation is when you aren’t walking mindlessly, but instead focus on each step.

You don’t have to increase your speed, and in fact, you might even walk slower than usual at first until you get the hang of meditating while walking.

When you focus on your walking, make mental notes of how light or heavy your foot feels as it lifts off the ground and returns to the pavement after each step.

Walking meditation is rooted in the art of Ayatana, a Buddhist concept where you’re in touch with your senses.

When you’re using walking meditation, you’re focused on the experience of walking, keeping your mind focused, not on the troubles of your day, but on the process you’re using – the details of each step you’re taking with your right foot, then left foot.

Traditional meditation often has the person shutting their eyes to concentrate on their mental clarity. With walking meditation, you have to see where you’re going, so you’re absorbing your outside environment and processing it with mental clarity.

It’s best to conduct your walking meditation in an area that feels calm and inviting, not right in the middle of a downtown construction site. Try to endure your walk for at least 20 minutes at a time.

Begin walking with a god posture and concentrate on the sensations your feet feel. Let your arms hand down and keep your focal point about 3-6 feet in front of you as you walk.

Walking itself will help your body in many ways, including providing more serotonin to help boost your mood. Add meditation to the mix and you have an even more powerful exercise program that improves your mind as well as your body.

Natural Ways to Get Rid of Headache Pain

Headache pain can be a precursor to something more serious happening in your body – but most headaches are not life-threatening and are caused by temporary maladies such as allergies, stress, tension or diet.

Migraine headaches are in a different classification, but some natural remedies can be helpful in alleviating the intense pain.

Over 45 million Americans have headaches that make them reach for over-the-counter medications. Many times these analgesic products can have side effects that are ultimately more serious than the headache itself, especially if you’re taking other medications.

There are natural ways to treat headache symptoms without taking a chance on having a negative reaction from prescription or OTC medicines. Here are some natural remedies that might help your occasional headache:

• Lemon – Drink a cup of tea in which you’ve squeezed the juice of about four slices of lemon. You can also try making a fine paste of lemon rind by placing in a blender or food processor, then rub the paste on your forehead.

• Avoid Allergy-Inducing Foods – Foods such as milk, chocolate, alcohol, cheeses and chicken can cause headaches. If you sneeze or have bouts of diarrhea after eating these foods, you’re probably more inclined to get a food-caused headache.

• Herbs and Spices – Cinnamon, made into a fine paste by mixing with water, then applied to the forehead can relieve headaches caused by exposure to cold temperatures. Rosemary should be boiled in water and inhaled until the headache subsides. A cup of tea made from the herb, marjoram, can be used for headaches caused by tension or nervousness.

• Hot Foot Bath – Putting your feet in a bucket filled with hot water for at least fifteen minutes can be extremely beneficial in relieving the pain of headaches.

• Apples – Remove the core of the apple, but leave the skin on. Sprinkle with a bit of salt and eat first thing every morning to relieve chronic headache pain.

The best prevention of headaches is to practice a healthy diet, physical exercise and periods of quiet meditation.

Yoga techniques such as deep breathing and drinking lots of water on a regular basis can also drive headaches away and keep them from returning.

Consult your health professional if you have recurring headaches. They could be a sign of high blood pressure, eye strain or allergies.

Let Lavender Offer the Therapeutic Benefits You Need

Aromatherapy is often used to help treat some minor conditions we face in our everyday lives. It’s been proven to be effective in many areas that are both physical and mental in their origin.

Different scents help with different conditions. Lavender is one of those scents that actually work for several types of conditions. It can induce romantic feelings for a couple.

If you’re planning a nice evening at home with your significant other, add a little lavender scent to the mix and spice up your romantic rendezvous together.

It gives you that extra little edge to make your evening a more memorable one.

Lavender is also a scent that helps enhance relaxation and calmness. The light, flowery scent gives almost instant relaxation to a tensed, stressed out mind and body. It’s perfect to help unwind after a hard day at work.

It can affect the nervous system in a positive way. Lavender encourages faster healing from ailments such as skin burns and wounds. It also helps heal various conditions from digestion problems to respiratory issues.

Lavender is a scent that can help relieve the toll insomnia can take on your body.

Those who have problems getting to sleep and staying asleep tend to have mood swings from the irritability derived from not catching enough shut-eye.

Because it’s not known to cause allergies, Lavender’s sometimes used in nursing homes to calm agitation episodes and improve dementia conditions with some of the people who reside there.

It’s known as a scent that most people will love - or at least tolerate well - so it can be used in situations like these without being too intrusive to the olfactory.

Lavender is a scent of choice when a person wants to alleviate symptoms of overall depression.

It helps with the anxiousness, tensed feelings, stress, irritability, agitation and even enhances a more pleasant mood just by its aroma.

It comes in many different forms to use in your aromatherapy program. Some people use traditional candles to spread the scent around the room.

There are also dried flowers that give off their natural scent, oils that can be simmered in potpourri pots and even oils that are placed in your bath water.

You can also see it in hand creams, body spray and room air fresheners.

Reaching for Lavender will help you enjoy the instant perks it offers with its light, aromatic scent.

You can combine it with other light scents and enjoy the medicinal effects of a pleasurable aromatherapy experience.

Want additional ideas for useful alternative health practices? Check out:

Alternative Health Practices Guide

Energy Healing Practices Guide

Natural Herbal Remedies Guide

What are your thoughts about this?
Do you agree or disagree with using alternative health practices?

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Cheers, Helene Malmsio

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