Sweating it out.

​Dear All,

How you feel physically has a strong bearing on how you feel mentally. It's easier to be optimistic about things when you're well than it is when you're not feeling so great. Sahaja yoga meditation is great for lifting the mood and a little bit of exercise adds to the effect.

As with everything there's a happy balance to be had between too much and too little. If you're hitting the gym five times a week then that's likely to lead to an over-active right-side that can make it harder to sit still, go quiet in your head and meditate. If you rarely take any exercise then that can lead to left-sideness and the lack of a sense of progressing.

Walking more is probably the easiest route to getting more exercise. However, taking some exercise once a week that actually makes you sweat has huge benefit. This is supported by the evidence of some of the treatments in Ayurvedic medicine ie. 'panchakarma'.

There's a law of the universe* which, roughly translated, says that everything eventually ends up in a rut or eventually becomes boring. This especially the case if you're stuck in any sort of routine. The law applies to the body as well. Sweating it out is one way of kicking yourself mentally and physically out of a rut.

Having a peak meditative experience can also lead to a huge positive life shift (a massive kick out of a rut); the kind of experience reported by these people who have been practicing sahaja yoga meditation - Click Here

See you at group meditation tomorrow.

Regards

* Increasing disorder/ entropy & second law of thermodynamics