Self Acupuncture for K2, SP 4,3,6, 36, 9, LV 3 GB4

ACUPRESSURE SELF-CARE DISCOVERY: After 43 years practicing Acupressure, I had a new realization of how to stimulate key healing points without using any hands! I was lying down for 2 hours with my mouth wide open in my dentist's chair, "getting worked on" while I explored new self-acupressure methods with my feet. With one leg bent outward, I rested my other heel on the arch of my foot to press K2, Sp4, Sp3, even Sp6 & St36. But that’s not the best part; I had done that before. It’s when I started to use the bone on the side of my foot, closest to my little toe to stimulate Sp9, Sp6, Sp3, Sp4, plus Lv3 & GB4 that was so powerful & exciting. I realized my denist had no idea I was multi-tasking when he guided me to move my jaw to the left, so he could drill way behind my deepest upper molar.

brilliant water play ideas

http://happyhooligans.ca/25-water-play-ideas-backyard/

my daughter asleep David Whyte

MY DAUGHTER ASLEEP

Carrying a child,
I carry a bundle of sleeping
future appearances.
I carry
my daughter adrift
on my shoulder,
dreaming her slender
dreams
and
I carry her
beneath
the window,
watching
her moon lit
palm
open
and close
like a tiny
folded
map,
each line
a path that leads
where I can't go,
so that I read her palm
not knowing
what I read

and
walk with her
in moon light
on the landing,
not knowing
with whom I walk,
making
invisible prayers
to go on
with her
where I can't
go,
conversing
with so many
unknowns
that must know her
more intimately
than I do.

And so to these
unspoken shadows
and this broad night
I make
a quiet
request
to the
great parental
darkness
to hold her
when I cannot,
to comfort her
when I am gone,
to help her learn
to love
the unknown
for itself,
to take it
gladly
like
a lantern
for the way
before her,
to help her see
where ordinary
light will not help her,
where happiness has fled,
where faith
cannot reach.

My prayer tonight
for the great
and hidden symmetries
of life
to reward this
faith I have
and twin
her passages
of loneliness
with friendship,
her exiles
with home coming,
her first awkward
steps with
promised onward leaps.

May she find
in all this,
day or night,
the beautiful
centrality
of pure opposites,
may she discover
before she grows
old,
not to choose
so easily
between past
and present,
may she find
in
one or the other
her gifts
acknowledged.

And so
as I helped
to name her
I help to name
these
powers,
I bring
to life
what is needed,
I invoke
the help she'll
want
following
those moonlit lines
into a future
uncradled
by me but
parented
by all
I call.

As she grows
away
from me,
may these life lines
grow with her,
keep her safe,
so
with my open palm
whose lines
have run before her
to make a safer way,
I hold her smooth cheek
and bless her
this night
and beyond it
and for every unknown
night to come.

MY DAUGHTER ASLEEP
© David Whyte
River Flow
New & Selected Poems
Many Rivers Press

Photo © David Whyte August 2014
Rowing to Shore, Lone Lake. Washington State.

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yin energy support pg

http://imaginalhealth.com/blog/?p=277&utm_content=buffer54241&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
yin energy support

Cetacic brains

Humans have the rhinic, limbic, and supralimbic, with the neocortex covering the surface of the supralimbic. However, with cetaceans we see a radical evolutionary jump with the inclusion of a fourth segment. This is a fourth cortical lobe, giving a four-fold lamination that is morphologically the most significant differentiation between cetaceans and all other cranially evolved mammals, including humans. No other species has ever had four separate cortical lobes.

This well-developed extra lobar formation sandwiched between the limbic and supralimbic lobes is called the paralimbic. Considering neurohistological criteria, the paralimbic lobe is a continuation of the sensory and motor areas found in the supralimbic lobe in humans. According to Dr. Sterling Bunnell, the paralimbic lobe specializes in specific sensory and motor functions. In humans, the projection areas for different senses are widely separated from one another, and the motor area is adjacent to the touch area. For us to make an integrated perception from sight, sound, and touch, impulses must travel by long fiber tracts with a great loss of time and information. The cetacean's paralimbic system makes possible the very rapid formation of integrated perceptions with a richness of information unimaginable to us

grief

At the heart of the experience of grief is a sharp and painful focus on what is 'missing', on what is 'not here' anymore, on what has been 'lost'; on the absence of something or someone, rather than their loving presence.

Grief contains the loss of a familiar dream of how things 'were going to be', a shattering of the status quo, exploded expectations, ruined hopes.

Healing involves a subtle shift of focus – from what is absent to what is present, from what has been lost to what was never lost, from what is not here (and will never return) to what is still here. From death to life. From lost love, to love in spite of loss.

~ Jeff Foster

psoas and foot pain and other...

http://blog.corewalking.com/psoas-major-pain-and-your-foot/

prevent negative energy absorption

http://earthweareone.com/9-ways-to-stop-absorbing-other-peoples-negative-emotions/

 Seek the source. First, ask yourself whether the feeling is your own or someone else’s. It could be both. If the emotion such as fear or anger is yours, gently confront what’s causing it on your own or with professional help. If not, try to pinpoint the obvious generator.

•     For instance, if you’ve just watched a comedy, yet you came home from the movie theater feeling blue, you may have incorporated the depression of the people sitting beside you; in close proximity, energy fields overlap.
•     The same is true with going to a mall or a packed concert. If crowded places upset or overwhelm you, it may well be because you’re absorbing all the negative energy around you.

3. Distance yourself from the suspected source, where possible. Move at least twenty feet away; see if you feel relief. Don’t err on the side of not wanting to offend strangers. In a public place, don’t hesitate to change seats if you feel a sense of depression imposing on you.

4. Center yourself by concentrating on your breath. Doing this connects you to your essence. For a few minutes, keep exhaling negativity, inhaling calm. This helps to ground yourself and purify fear or other difficult emotions. Visualize negativity as gray fog lifting from your body, and hope as golden light entering. This can yield quick results.

5. Flush out the harm. Negative emotions such as fear frequently lodge in your emotional center at the solar plexus (celiac plexus).

•     Place your palm on your solar plexus as you keep sending loving-kindness to that area to flush stress out.
•     For longstanding depression or anxiety, use this method daily to strengthen this center. It’s comforting and it builds a sense of safety and optimism as it becomes a ritual.

DE Em for dying and loved on

 In the EEMCP group, I posted an exercise from Sara Allen and Barbara Scholz's class on EEM for the Dying that also seems like a good option for loved ones going thru the process of accepting this:
https://www.facebook.com/.../permalink/789517917739296

Using the energies of Spleen and Liver to facilitate acceptance of the dying process. Holding Spleen 21 with any appropriate elemental NV point to bring about comfort (metabolizing difficult emotions); holding Lv3 with any appropriate elemental NV point to reinstate the appreciation of the person's own power and importance (Liver as energy of self-worth).

On the NV hold with SP21 and LV3, the main frontal "Oh My God" points are great as they connect with many different elements. On NV used for the 5 elements - check EEMCP charts or the EM book (figure 36). You might choose based on the related emotion, your intuition, or energy test: Water (fear), Wood (anger), Fire (Panic), Earth (sympathy), and Metal (grief).

August 15 at 7:05pm · Like · 6

 found with my father passing last December, the best thing is to spend time together, ask questions and resolve issues. Assess insight level and any limiting thoughts/fears about death - can they meditate on inner plane to ask the loved one if there's anything they want your client to know? I might consider testing to do chakra balancing, radiant heart/Element and grounding work - and lots of acceptance that physiological-limbic pain is a reality - and that also, sadness is normal. Continue with daily regimen of self care, sunshine, Nature, etc. Remember and celebrate good memories, acknowledge the love, express gratitude.

Work with Metal element, especially with neurovasculars

make certain your client has a blood vitamin d level of 80 up to 100 ng/ml. The vitamin d test...scores the client between 0 to 100 ng/ml. Once, when I was feeling sad, Dr. Jeff Passer in Omaha said this is the most overlooked cause of sadness. Doctors never check this and if they do, they dont help get the patient to optimum levels. Waste no time, and it takes alot of d, like 5000 iu each day.http://m.psychologytoday.com/.../vitamin-d-deficiency-and...

 Bach Flowers for her. They are extremely gentle and work quite well especially in acute situations like hers. Star of Bethlehem and Sweet Chestnut would help with sadness, grief and heartache. Also Red Chestnut would be good for worry about loved ones. Mixing 2 drops each of the mother formula into a small carrier bottle mixed with spring water and 5 single drops taken at least 5 times a day will gradually help with all she is going through. Blessings for them bot

• Kelmie Blake http://www.aromahead.com/.../introduction-to-essential-oils

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  Kelmie Blake http://www.bachcentre.com/centre/remedies.htm

  
  
• FES makes their own versions of the Bach Remedies:http://www.fesflowers.com/healing_herbs.htm

http://blog.corewalking.com/quadratus-femoris-stretch-standing-pigeon/

Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen  http://blog.corewalking.com/scapular-rotation-bonnie-bainbridge-cohen/

he video above is from one of the true geniuses of the moving body. Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen is the creator of Body Mind Centering and is simply off the charts when it comes to all things about the body and mind (hence the name). Here the explanation of scapula rotation is simple and concise and if you enjoy this there are many more at the Body Mind Centering YouTube page.

In the last hundred years there have been a number of women who have simply torn the cover off of the ball when it comes to understanding the body and movement. Bonnie, Mabel Todd, Ida Rolf, Lulu Swiegard, Therese Bertherat,  Irmgard Bartenieff etc, have led a movement awareness revolution that I humbly hope to take to the masses with simple phrases like “Give your butt a room of its own” and “Go ape”. Anything I understand and am able to share simply comes from the rather profound and sometimes subtle teachings of the women listed above.

In one of the stars i shall be living.

"In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night . . . You--only you--will have stars that can laugh!"

And he laughed again.    The Little Prince

Ch 26  http://www.angelfire.com/hi/littleprince/framechapter26.html

Robin Williams d 8/11/14 b7/21/51

http://preventdisease.com/news/13/021913_The-Top-10-Healthiest-Seeds-on-Earth.shtml

10 Ways to Show Love to Someone With Depression
1. Help them keep clutter at bay.
2. Fix them a healthy meal.
3.Get them outside.
4. Ask them to help you understand what they’re feeling.
5. Encourage them to focus on self-care.
6. Hug them.
7. Laugh with them.
8. Reassure them that you can handle their feelings.
9. Challenge their destructive thoughts.
10.Remind them why you love them.       Michael Hudson-Medina

You know how I always say that laughter is carbonated holiness? Well, Robin was the 
ultimate proof of that, and bubbles are spirit made visible.    Anne Lamott

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/robin-williams-death/robin-williams-recaps-showbiz-career-typical-madcap-fashion-n178591

contented dementia

lifewithout a centre  Jeff Foster

Calf muscles and heel

http://blog.corewalking.com/anatomy-of-the-calf-muscle/

http://blog.corewalking.com/the-alignment-of-the-achilles-tendon/

Enter lightly and Shadows by hand

http://www.ramdass.org/enter-lightly/

dying

http://www.ramdass.org/dying-consciously/

mindfulness....grandparenting

http://leftbrainbuddha.com/mindful-mantras-for-kids/

http://kidsrelaxation.com/uncategorized/spider-man-practicing-mindfulness-and-increasing-focus/


http://www.handinhandparenting.org/article/supportive-grandparent/

piriformis

Muscles to Know: The Piriformis

August 4, 2010 at 5:32am

The PiriformisLOCATION:
Posterior aspect of pelvis, deep to Gluteus Maximus and just inferior to Gluteus Medius

WORD ORIGIN:
Piriformis is Latin, meaning “pear-shaped”

ATTACHMENTS:
Axial (origin): anterolateral sacrum
Appendicular (insertion): greater trochanter of the femur

ACTIONS:
With thigh flexed less than 60 degrees...
* Lateral rotation of the thigh at the hip joint  

With thigh flexed more than 60 degrees...
* Medial rotation of the thigh at the hip joint
* Horizontal abduction of the thigh at the hip joint

NOTES:

• The position of the thigh will determine whether the piriformis is a lateral or medial rotator of the thigh at the hip joint, as well as what actions must be created to stretch it (the thigh must be flexed to at least 60 degrees for the piriformis to become a medial rotator of the thigh) 


• If your student has a tight piriformis, when they sit cross-legged their knees will be really high (which is a reflection of the femurs not being able to laterally rotate to drop the knees toward the floor); they should avoid pigeon and anything lotus-related until they get a little more flexibility in the hips, as these postures can compress the medial meniscus if the femur doesn't laterally rotate enough


• The following yoga postures can safely stretch the piriformis (in all of them the thigh is flexed more than 60 degrees):  Thread the Needle pose, Flying Crow prep pose, Cross-Legged pose (folding forward),  Lizard pose (with the knee dropping out to the side) 


• The piriformis can protectively tighten when the sacroiliac joint is sprained or in distress 


• Piriformis syndrome is when a tight or inflamed piriformis muscle compresses the sciatic nerve (which exits nearby) and can mimic sciatica (traveling pain down the lateral buttocks and posterior thigh/leg)   https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5731942054795182483#editor/target=post;postID=8326682167180580746

brave songs
http://www.amightygirl.com/music?music_theme=68

Wake up, wake up the sun can not wait for long
Reach out, reach out before it fades away
You will find the warmth when you surrender
Smile into the fear and let it play

You wanna run away, run away
And you say that it can't be so
You wanna look away, look away
But you stay cause its all so close
When you stand up and hold out your hand
In the face of what I don't understand
My reason to be brave!

Hold on, hold on so strong
Time just carries on
All that you thought is wrong is pure again
You cant hide forever from the thunder
Look into the storm and feel the rain

You wanna run away, run away
And you say that it can't be so
You wanna look away, look away
But you stay cause its all so close
When you stand up and hold out your hand
In the face of what I don't understand
My reason to be brave!
Oh, oh, oh

Songwriters
GROBAN, JOSH / SALTER, THOMAS / KREVIAZUK, CHANTAL

Published by
Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC

"Brave" is a positive track about always speaking your truth.  Sara Bareilles album

---

You can be amazing
You can turn a phrase into a weapon or a drug
You can be the outcast
Or be the backlash of somebody’s lack of love
Or you can start speaking up
Nothing’s gonna hurt you the way that words do
And they settle ‘neath your skin
Kept on the inside and no sunlight
Sometimes a shadow wins
But I wonder what would happen if you

Say what you wanna say
And let the words fall out
Honestly I wanna see you be brave

With what you want to say
And let the words fall out
Honestly I wanna see you be brave

"Wonder"

Doctors have come from distant cities
Just to see me
Stand over my bed
Disbelieving what they're seeing

They say I must be one of the wonders
Of god's own creation
And as far as they can see they can offer
No explanation

Newspapers ask intimate questions
Want confessions
They reach into my head
To steal the glory of my story

They say I must be one of the wonders
Of god's own creation
And as far as they can see they can offer
No explanation

O, I believe
Fate smiled and destiny
Laughed as she came to my cradle
Know this child will be able
Laughed as my body she lifted
Know this child will be gifted
With love, with patience and with faith
She'll make her way

People see me
I'm a challenge to your balance
I'm over your heads
How I confound you and astound you
To know I must be one of the wonders
Of god's own creation
And as far as you can see you can offer me
No explanation

O, I believe
Fate smiled and destiny
Laughed as she came to my cradle
Know this child will be able
Laughed as she came to my mother
Know this child will not suffer
Laughed as my body she lifted
Know this child will be gifted
With love, with patience and with faith
She'll make her way

Young people and mindfulness, Tina Payne Bryson, Sara Rudell BEach

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sarah-rudell-beach-/8-ways-to-teach-mindfulness-to-kids_b_5611721.html

Now that we've got the preliminaries out of the way, here are some suggestions for how you can begin to introduce mindfulness to your children:

1. Listen to the bell. An easy way for children to practice mindfulness is to focus on paying attention to what they can hear. You can use a singing bowl, a bell, a set of chimes or a phone app that has sounds on it. Tell your children that you will make the sound, and they should listen carefully until they can no longer hear the sound (which is usually 30 seconds to a minute).

2. Practice with a breathing buddy. For young children, an instruction to simply "pay attention to the breath" can be hard to follow. In this Edutopia video, Daniel Goleman describes a 2nd-grade classroom that does a "breathing buddy" exercise: Each student grabs a stuffed animal, and then lies down on their back with their buddy on their belly. They focus their attention on the rise and fall of the stuffed animal as they breathe in and out.

3. Make your walks mindful. One of my children's favorite things to do in the summer is a "noticing walk." We stroll through our neighborhood and notice things we haven't seen before. We'll designate one minute of the walk where we are completely silent and simply pay attention to all the sounds we can hear -- frogs, woodpeckers, a lawnmower. We don't even call it "mindfulness," but that's what it is.

4. Establish a gratitude practice. I believe gratitude is a fundamental component of mindfulness, teaching our children to appreciate the abundance in their lives, as opposed to focusing on all the toys and goodies that they crave. My family does this at dinner when we each share one thing we are thankful for. It is one of my favorite parts of the day.

5. Try the SpiderMan meditation! My 5-year-old son is in to all things superheroes, and this SpiderMan meditation is right up his alley. This meditation teaches children to activate their "spidey-senses" and their ability to focus on all they can smell, taste, and hear in the present moment. Such a clever idea!

6. Check your personal weather report. In Sitting Still Like a Frog, Eline Snel encourages children to "summon the weather report that best describes [their] feelings at the moment." Sunny, rainy, stormy, calm, windy, tsunami? This activity allows children to observe their present state without overly identifying with their emotions. They can't change the weather outside, and we can't change our emotions or feelings either. All we can change is how we relate to them. As Snel describes it, children can recognize, "I am not the downpour, but I notice that it is raining; I am not a scaredy-cat, but I realize that sometimes I have this big scared feeling somewhere near my throat."

7. Make a Mind Jar. A mind jar is a bit like a snow globe - shake it up and watch the storm! But soon, if we sit and breathe and simply watch the disturbance, it settles. As do our minds.

8. Practice mindful eating. The exercise of mindfully eating a raisin or a piece of chocolate is a staple of mindfulness education, and is a great activity for kids. You can find a script for a seven-minute mindful eating exercise for children here.

Above all, remember to have fun and keep it simple. You can provide your children with many opportunities to add helpful practices to their toolkit -- some of them will work for them and some won't. But it's fun to experiment!

A version of this post first appeared on Sarah's blog Left Brain Buddha. You can follow Sarah on Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter.

Tina Payne Bryson!!

10 Brain-Based Strategies for Helping Children Handle their Emotions: Bridging the Gap Between What Experts Know and What Happens at Home & School

Dr. Bryson discusses how to reduce the backwards steps taken when a child leaves the therapy office or classroom. Therapists and teachers often feel they make good progress with a child, only to have that progress undermined when the child goes home to parents who mean well but sometimes don’t understand foundational parenting principles. Using stories, case examples, and plenty of humor, Dr. Bryson explains ten simple, scientifically grounded strategies that will help children handle their emotions better and make better decisions—even in high-stress moments.

Attendees will be exposed to the most important and frequent lessons Dr. Bryson teaches parents in her own office.  As a result they will learn to:

• Understand why emotional responsiveness is an essential intervention strategy for developing the brain and creating long-term mental health and resilience;
• Identify when parents need to make shifts at home, versus when a child actually needs therapy;
• Comprehend the connection between reactivity and the threat-detection system in the brain;
• Reinterpret seemingly maladaptive behavior as purposeful, adaptive behavior with a meaning, and how to shift it.
• Learn to communicate these basic concepts to parents;
• Understand the importance of emotional responsiveness
• Develop creative questions that reveal more about a child’s temperament, the parenting style, and family life;
• Use a sensorimotor lens to decrease emotional reactivity;
• Understand the importance of emotional responsiveness, regardless of the context or situation;
• Wait for the teachable moment, and know when to avoid talking about feelings and problems;
• Understand when to uncover and challenge a parent’s theory about a child’s reactivity;
• Distinguish between a child’s “can’t” and a child’s “won’t”;
• Allow development to happen, even if it’s not on our preferred schedule. 

No-Drama Discipline and the Teenager

Based on the ideas from Dr. Bryson’s book No-Drama Discipline (with Dan Siegel), this workshop focuses on how to nurture your child’s academic and emotional health.  Dr. Bryson highlights the fascinating link between a teenager’s neurological development and the way a parent reacts to misbehavior, providing an effective, compassionate roadmap for dealing with the inevitable difficulties and conflict that arise during this crucial time of life.  Complete with candid parenting stories and a great deal of compassion and humor, this presentation shows you how to work with your child’s developing mind, peacefully resolve conflicts, and inspire happiness and strengthen resilience for everyone in the family.  

The Whole-Brain Teen:  A Conversation with Teenagers

Stressed.  Disappointed.  Conflicted.  Confused.  When teenagers get stuck in negative emotions like these, a little brain science can help.  

Dr. Bryson will introduce teens to a few key basics about their brains, including  

• how their brain is changing
• how emotion affects their choices
• how they can access their power to choose how they respond to both their internal world and their external circumstances
• how they can make decisions that help sculpt their adult brain.  

Students will walk away with practical ways to apply their new understanding of the brain to help them balance their emotions, make good choices, and enjoy better relationships.

Parenting with the Brain in Mind

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Gluteus m and m mashup articles and mason jar candle

http://blog.corewalking.com/weekend-mashup-august-9th/
http://blog.corewalking.com/gluteus-medius-and-minimus/



http://www.handinhandparenting.org/article/getting-started-parenting-connection/

http://msdawn.com/masonjarcandles/

HIn H picky eaters

http://www.handinhandparenting.org/article/help-for-picky-eaters/

piriformis and more

http://www.learnmuscles.com/books_kines.html


fascia  https://www.facebook.com/ASFYT  tom Meiers article

Muscles to Know: The Piriformis

August 4, 2010 at 5:32am

The PiriformisLOCATION:
Posterior aspect of pelvis, deep to Gluteus Maximus and just inferior to Gluteus Medius

WORD ORIGIN:
Piriformis is Latin, meaning “pear-shaped”

ATTACHMENTS:
Axial (origin): anterolateral sacrum
Appendicular (insertion): greater trochanter of the femur

ACTIONS:
With thigh flexed less than 60 degrees...
* Lateral rotation of the thigh at the hip joint  

With thigh flexed more than 60 degrees...
* Medial rotation of the thigh at the hip joint
* Horizontal abduction of the thigh at the hip joint

NOTES:

• The position of the thigh will determine whether the piriformis is a lateral or medial rotator of the thigh at the hip joint, as well as what actions must be created to stretch it (the thigh must be flexed to at least 60 degrees for the piriformis to become a medial rotator of the thigh) 


• If your student has a tight piriformis, when they sit cross-legged their knees will be really high (which is a reflection of the femurs not being able to laterally rotate to drop the knees toward the floor); they should avoid pigeon and anything lotus-related until they get a little more flexibility in the hips, as these postures can compress the medial meniscus if the femur doesn't laterally rotate enough


• The following yoga postures can safely stretch the piriformis (in all of them the thigh is flexed more than 60 degrees):  Thread the Needle pose, Flying Crow prep pose, Cross-Legged pose (folding forward),  Lizard pose (with the knee dropping out to the side) 


• The piriformis can protectively tighten when the sacroiliac joint is sprained or in distress 


• Piriformis syndrome is when a tight or inflamed piriformis muscle compresses the sciatic nerve (which exits nearby) and can mimic sciatica (traveling pain down the lateral buttocks and posterior thigh/leg)
• https://www.facebook.com/notes/anatomy-studies-for-yoga-teachers-movement-professionals/muscles-to-know-the-piriformis/115375658512796