Location: Well open up your mind and see like me Open up your plans and damn you're free Look into your heart and you'll find love love love love Listen to the music of the moment babay sing with me I love peace for melody And It's our God-forsaken right to be
Posts: 23,160
bee stings? i have no bees...but i am seriously curious.
Location: on my knees, thanking Him for the beauty in my life!
Posts: 6,310
I've got degernerative disk disease as well as bone spurs in my lower back and am in severe pain, it truly sucks
The physical therapist gave me some stretching exercises to do at home, twice a day. He wants me to work on my stomach muscles, I think he said they're "core exercises"
And it's related to my weight loss. My poor muscles and my poor body were abused for so many years with excess weight and now they are so out of shape and out of order, they don't know what to do with themselves.
__________________
~Patty, married to Ron (4/87) and Mama to Daniel (5/99)
Would you want to try yoga? Maybe try your library. It has been on my mind to start yoga again and work up to working out regularly again. I injured both knees awhile back and need to strengthen them prior to fully working out again.
google back chakra, that will give you some insight to the emotional aspect of it. I am sorry your back is hurting. I am doing cranial sacral work to help my back pain, coupled with a chiropractor. I am lucky because I have access to practitioners who believe in community and accessibility, they base their fees as such. In me, it has even lead to belly fat, and about 3 inches of my spine that is totally stuck.
I hope you are able to work this out, and you are feeling better soon.
Location: Well open up your mind and see like me Open up your plans and damn you're free Look into your heart and you'll find love love love love Listen to the music of the moment babay sing with me I love peace for melody And It's our God-forsaken right to be
Posts: 23,160
whoa.
when i googled "back chakra" i found information on all of the chakras...this would be either the first or second chakra.
Location: Well open up your mind and see like me Open up your plans and damn you're free Look into your heart and you'll find love love love love Listen to the music of the moment babay sing with me I love peace for melody And It's our God-forsaken right to be
Posts: 23,160
can anyone talk to me about crystals and balancing things? as in...how? if i do the labyrinth this weekend and focus on this...what can i use? how do i do it?
<nods> My dr wanted me to have the bee thing for some stuff but we're not for sure if I'm allergic. You can get uumm, something at like a homeopathy or health food store, I forget what it's called.
I can do honey just fine though, so I do local honey for allregies if I can get it.
On the other stuff I can only go by what I feel is right, not by things I've studied and done. Again, I wish some of you ladies lived even a little by me. My bil is a practicing chinese medical dr [has special lisc for accupuncture, massage, etc] and would know all that stuff.
Like, if I knew you enough that it wouldn't weird you out if I touched you I could walk into the room you were in and know just how and where to rub to make it stop hurting, and while I was doing it I'd go "see, now this is where you carry the stress about x and you really shouldn't be blaming yourself" blah-blah-blah. It's one of the few things my mother admits she misses about me.
can anyone talk to me about crystals and balancing things? as in...how? if i do the labyrinth this weekend and focus on this...what can i use? how do i do it?
Crystals are a wonderful tool in that there isn't much to know. Your body and the earth just naturally work together and there is no wrong way. I use them a lot in support to my cranial sacral work. Often I'm just supported by having them in the room. I have a large smokey quartz that has been self healed and is full of rainbows that I usually have under my massage table. She's such a powerful stone that just her presence seems to provide support for people trying to let go.
I meditate with my crystals quite often. Sometimes its just holding them and looking into them, other times I do stone layouts and match up colors with the chakras. Other times I find a need for some other color energy in a particular area. As an example, for me I often need deep centering and grounding colors brought up into my heart chakra. Sometimes rhodonite with its inclusions of black is enough. Sometimes I need to pull onyx into the heart area, other times obsidian, iron or hematite are necessary.
I have a large collection of crystals. But you don't need that. One stone may be all that is necessary. Some of them purchased, some gifts, some hunted, some just found at the side of the road. Two of my most used pieces are a piece of flint my daughter found in the back yard and an agate my son dug up in a river bed. There are traditional associations with particular minerals and colors, but that doesn't necessarily mean anything. Its an intuitive discipline. As my mentor told us in my first class, a handfull of gravel from your driveway holds all sorts of colors and has the potential to have as much energy as the special totally clear quartz wand you purchase for hundreds of dollars.
Here's my suggestion for a method of integrating stones with your labrynth walk. Maybe do a short walk before hand and find a stone. Whatever appeals to you. Hold it in your hand and feel its weight. As you walk you can direct the negative feelings toward the stone, letting it absorb the grief that is too much for you to hold. When you are done, put the stone gently back to the earth. It will let the energy dissipate.
If you aren't into this, you might try a stone layout with stones matching the colors of your chakras laid on your body to support the vibrations and bring them back ito balance. Layouts can be very simple with just a single stone per area, or more complex. Many of the layouts I've participated in are works of art in themselves, just beautiful and mandala like.
Lots of options with crystals and nothing is wrong. If the stone isn't supposed to be there it'll roll away. If its supposed to be there they somehow find their way.
Have I babbled crazily enough? Hope I haven't turned you off to them. They have such potential as a healing tool. I admit though that I rarely explain to most of my clients what I'm doing. Most end up with at least a crystal in each hand, two at their feet and one on the third eye while I'm working-- and very few bother to ask why, they just appreciate the peace.
Location: Well open up your mind and see like me Open up your plans and damn you're free Look into your heart and you'll find love love love love Listen to the music of the moment babay sing with me I love peace for melody And It's our God-forsaken right to be
Posts: 23,160
fascinating, hastings. no, you've not turned me off to it. i'm intrigued.
i'll see what i can locate around here before i head out tomorrow. i found a lovely journal this afternoon at the feminist bookstore (they were celebrating their 35y birthday of being open so xt and i went) and will go tomorrow to the labyrinth, provided i am not at a birth.
i will take whatever stones or crystals i can find as well as my journal and sketchbook, some pens and pencils, and my birth notes.
Linear Mode
