January
January – reflective, profound and courageous
- Look at your insecurities and address them.
- Avoid the tendency to overdo things and become totally exhausted!
- It’s vital for health in winter to balance the intake and output of your energy in the form of food, feelings and work in order to combat stress.
- Add an hour to your sleep time.
- Do some memory exercises and mind training
- Read the book ‘My Best Year Yet’ by Jinny Ditzler
Psychological Health
- Positive: Alert, restful, balanced lifestyle, inner direction, peace, adequacy, courage, calm
- Negative: Evasive, over sensitive, panic, stressed, suspicious, fretful, anxious, neurotic, unnecessary, worry, dread
Fitness
- Yoga: Develop spine flexibility, flow through each vertebrae of the back, introducing flow yoga into your personal practice.
- Energy: Bend forwards knees bend and hold ankles for 6 breaths
- Chi Kung: Focus on spinal alignment and flexibility
- General Fitness: Balance the energy-expending/high impact exercise with quieter, energy-accumulating, internally rejuvenating practices like Yoga, T’ai chi, breathing and relaxation. Aqua aerobics is also good as you are in the water element; make sure you are warm to go outside.
Diet
Be mindful of your liquid intake and definitely not iced!
- Plenty of hot homemade soups and stews to keep the body temperature high.
- Keep your diet alkaline and avoid to many acid-forming foods
