Paris Lockdown: Inner Fire then Fun
Some are enjoying this (Photo by Lewis Primo)
Day 8 (I think) :
France just announced 8 more weeks of confinement. When this is all over, it’ll be interesting to compare notes. Was it harder to be shut in with a 16-year-old as I am or with a two year old as are some of my family members? For teens, isolation feels like punishment, add in peer pressure to dismiss and defy the restrictions and you get a perfect recipe for risk-taking and conflict with parents. A bad mix, for them and for us, adding to everyone’s frustration, uncertainty, and fear.
How to remove fear (fun info follows)
Trying the following recommendations from a Russian friend, Svetlana Nikandrova, psychologist, yoga master and bio-energy healing specialist. The only person in medical history to have had a pacemaker removed and live to tell the tale, she wrote two books about her journey back to health and helping others. (links below)
From Svetlana’s Energy Notes:
“Highly relevant. Prevention techniques for those who do not want to get sick.
– To remove all fears: in the present, future and even in the past.
Tool: conscious sensory breathing
– Set the mood for fire breathing (you can breathe with a candle).
Heartbeat rhythm. 4 inhale, 4 pause, 4 exhale, 4 pause.
-Warm up the heart, liver, spleen. Listen to the pulsation of these three organs and synchronize them. Saturate the whole triangle with fiery energy.
– Circulate heat from the heart in a small circle around the circulatory system first in the head, neck, shoulders, chest, arms. Then, in a large circle from the heart to the stomach, buttocks, hips, and feet.
– Then circulate the energy in a fiery figure eight, alternating the upper and lower circles.
-Continue to warm the entire circulatory system: heart, blood vessels, large, small, veins, capillaries.
-Observe how blood warms the entire body.
-Complete a few cycles until you feel a pleasant calm in the heart, or see a glow in and around the body.
-Continue to track the pulsation in a 4–4–4–4 rhythm.
-And then, listen to your renewed heart. Let it bloom with love, tenderness and gratitude.
Thank the universe.”
Svetlana’s books Heart Breathing: Healing the Heart and Heart and Fate, are currently available in Russian only:
English speakers can follow her on Facebook and Instagram, just hit the translation button.
https://www.facebook.com/people/Светлана-Никандрова/100003687823326
https://www.instagram.com/svetnik45/
Now, ready for fun?
Escape from confinement with Velvet & Toads, the gorgeous, delicious YouTube channel by my friend Letitia Ferris Toussaint, about wild edibles, gardening, shopping, sights and all things fabulous and French. Relax and fantasize:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVQbKGPFnZlxJTrq3jyuRmQ/videos
Or pick up healing tips like her latest, “Two ingredient natural recipes for cough and sore throat”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI-oxEQY_xI
We’ll get by with a little help from our (multi-talented) friends.
xxxxxx Aliss
