What Are You Grateful For In This Very Moment?

Gentian flowers come in a variety of colors, though bright, deep blue is the most prevalent. This inspiring flower is shaped like a trumpet and opens up with starlike blooms. Deep blue is a color associated with integrity and loyalty, hence the phrase true blue. This is a flower of faith and trust. From the deep wellspring of faith comes the starlike bloom of victory. This flower essence encourages us to move through setbacks and pessimism, giving us space to count our blessings. If you’ve learned to trust that everything is happening for you instead of happening to you, your system becomes more resilient in bouncing back from what may initially feel like a defeat. Lung 3 acupressure point is located approximately six inches or two hands’ width up from the inner elbow crease. This point is known as the Heavenly Palace. Stimulating this point allows us to deepen our breath by deepening the Lung energy channel in traditional Chinese medicine. When we can take a moment to pause and connect to gratitude, we learn to appreciate and focus on what’s important. Take this Floral Tapping moment for yourself whenever the constant barrage of terrible events in the world or your personal setbacks bring feelings of despair or depression.

Life Is A Battle

You can even do this before you get out of bed. It’s just a wonderful way to open to the day in the deepest gratitude. To begin this ritual, activate your bottle of gentian essence by tapping it eight times. Connect with the intention of gratitude. Put a drop in the palm of your hands and rub it into your palms and fingertips. If you don’t have gentian flower essence, no problem. You can visualize the flower or simply mentally repeat the name of the flower. Crossing your arms across your chest, measure about two hands’ width up from the inner elbow crease and find the general area of the point on the outer edge of your biceps. Begin tapping that area on both sides with your fingers, arms crossed. Take gentle breaths in and out. Do so for a minute or two or for as long as you feel called to do so. I open to gratitude and the beauty all around me.

Fitter And Happier

Repeat this as many times as feels right. And when you are ready to end tapping, arms still crossed, just wrap your hands around that area of your upper arms as you tune in . Allow yourself to receive whatever it is that you need. Breathe out whatever is not essential to your system. Trust that all is happening for you. Trust this journey. Open to gratitude. Open to the beauty that is all around. Sharing and receiving gratitude. Grateful for breath. Grateful for the awareness in this moment. Grateful for being present in this moment.

Outside Looking In

Feel that gratitude at the heart space, the arms and hands an extension of the heart. With arms crossed, holding the upper arms, we form the sign of infinity. Infinite gratitude from the heart. I open to gratitude and the beauty all around me. Take as much time as you need to sit in this space of gratitude. Pandiculation sounds like a funny word. I only just learned this word over a year ago, and it’s become my new favorite for so many reasons. It’s an unusual word, and the brain loves novelty! More importantly, this word is an indicator of health. It refers to that natural stretch that happens after nourishing rest. Many people tend to groggily hit the snooze button a few times and then jump out of bed as that final alarm goes off in the morning, which may inhibit our natural pandicular response. Pandiculation helps our body prepare for movement after being at rest. That’s because the brain and nervous system control muscle for movement. If our muscles are tight, it’s because they’ve been habituated and held tightly by the brain. The good news is that we can retrain and regain the instinctive reset of pandiculation. Gently pay attention when you wake up in the morning. This process only takes a few minutes. To begin, start by slowly contracting and gently tightening or squeezing the muscles in your body. Follow this motion by slowly opening, lengthening, and expanding with a gentle stretch through your body. Then come to stillness. Rest and relax for a few minutes, allowing for gentle breath. Let your brain integrate the information that your body has gathered. When you are ready, get up and move into your day. If you regularly experience tightness in your body after spending hours in front of a computer, feel free to take a break and pandiculate whenever it feels right! What if you started your day in celebration of the simple fact that you have been blessed with another morning? This is one of my favorite ways to get the day going. And if dancing isn’t quite your thing, then consider a shake and wake. Wake up the body, sing, and move around! To get the party started, first put on a song that you love and that gets you moving. Come to a standing position. Simply start with your feet glued to the ground and allow your body to gently shake. Shake it out at your own pace. Let that pace build, and then go into more movement. Shake out the feet and legs. Shake it out through the torso. Shake the arms and hands out. Move in whatever way your body wants to move. Sing it out as you move, if that feels right. Close your eyes, if that feels right, and shake it out to the music. And when you are ready, lightly pound your body all over from head to toe with closed fists. While performing this action, think about how you are waking up fasciae, muscles, tissues, organs, and bones. You are waking up the intelligence of your body. Wake up to the beauty and intelligence of your system. Ground and center your energy.