Ingredient Number 2 for our Health - Being Calm - Creating the best year EVER!!

Do you think being calm sounds boring? You are probably not alone. I feel excited about life and always found being calm could wait until I am 99 years old - but, of course I understood at least since I started looking at life and the human conditions from a different persepective (that was when I was quite overwhelmed and stressed when studying pharmacy and having to look after myself and my own little household for the first time in my life) when I started studying with my amazing yoga teacher, that the calm within is the solid foundation from where to act. So being internally calm is another pillar of our health. When we are calm it means that our nervous system is relaxed and tension free - it is the starting point for either any “fight-or flight” responses OR for any kind of higher thinking and decision making, as we are not in the chains of following our inbuilt patterns of reacting to situations and thus we can more consciously choose to act rather than react.

When we are calm there is a certain vibratory frequency in the body. Ancient cultures, including Indigenous Australain and Native American, know the power of chants, song and music to influence these frequencies.
I remember when I visited Alice Springs last year and sat in the back yard with a friend who lived next to the Lutheran Church, that we heard this old man chanting on the front lawn of the church - this ancient chant to “connect with the ancestors” as my friend said, was “out of this time “and even carried us into a different space though we were sitting some twenty/thirty meters away from the indigenous chanting man. We both noticed that we simultaneously took a deep breath in and long relaxed breath out.

So please find a means to enter that deep calm state of being - let sound or music help you with that. The singing bowl I am using at the end of a massage has the “frequency of the earth” and is very calming. You can use sound baths or compositions based on the solfeggio frequencies (check out the link) - or of course you can learn some ancient yogic chants from me. In my FB group “Yoga - Living Consciously Now” I am offering them once or twice a week.

And what should you do with this calmness? That was my question, maybe it is yours, too? Be calm and vibrant.

Sit or stand with your arms stretched out on shoulder level and if you want to, bring them behind the back as you can see on the image below. Then feel the openess of your chest area, your heart and lungs and be aware of being open and receptive to all the good that is there for you. It is a good time to repeat mentaly or aloud your sankalpa (your resolve, or just an intention for the day). Feel the power of the calm and be creative and get into action.