Mini-Retirements

...boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as to the novelist who is overcertain of his plot... (P. Theroux, To the Ends of the Earth)

from the forest to the concrete jungle - yoga an international affair

First of all i wanna post a subject that is all too frequent in blogs and other ways. But that is similar to practice it. You always learn something new, it will never stop.
Yoga is for bodily and spirit fitness and started by study of nature and envirement. These historical monks imitaded the moves by animals and Co in the forest and their surrounding. So the asanas (yoga posture) were called by names like dog, crow, bridge...

Sneak peek

Next time i will post  several parts of yoga postures and spiritual exercises and their optimize integration in your life. To put it straight: yoga is breathing and around it there are many strategies which you can assimilate in your everyday behavior. Someday you never have to think about it, to go without saying. You do it naturally. A lifestyle of health and sustainability.

apropos sleeping

By the way to the topic sleep (scroll down)

To take siesta is an issue of dispute. Some people say it´s necessary to have a break in the day for filling up the reserves of energy. They cloisters themselfs at home or at another place at work in lunchhour and make "short napping". In Japan it should be normal.

Strategy for finding peace and quite

Some using an audio as a pacifier. There are a special kind of sound which produces certain brainwaves like alpha, beta, delta, ...-waves. You can use a mindmaschine as a brainwaves- stimulation.
In some big or very modern companys it is possible to go for "short-napping".

But other voices argue that its better to hang on the whole day and find a healthy sleep only in the night. But please without coffee in the afternoon ;)

Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose...

A rose is a rose is a rose ...is written by Gertrude Stein in 1913 and part of the poem "Sacred Emily". It became a famous statement and means "things are what they are" and the fact that simply using the name of a thing, in that case "rose" in repetition, already invokes the imagery and emotions associated with it.

Let´s hear it for flowers

My intention for that post. Buy or pick some and give as a present to yourself or somebody else.

Beautiful flowers, beautiful curiosity. Why are you so fragnant, aesthetic and still short-lived...

In addition to sleep

condition for a perfect sleep:

First of all have a quite room, short ventilated before and nippy. At best without any heating. Better to find the warmth under your blanket. The perfect pillow is an individual decision. Important is that your neck and head got the right position otherwise you got tensions and you feel sleep-deprived.
Although you need a complete dark room without any light howsoever small. Because it´s  important for your melatonin production. Melatonin is a hormone which regulated your sleep.

At the end in that post my lovely dreamer you should have a glass of water (within reach). Human being loses a half liter liquid per sleep.

Then have beautiful dreams...maybe of a heavenly place like that...

Sleep the cheapest beautymaker ever

SLEEP - I think this could become a big topic and will go into series. There are so many aspects about this simple thing sleep like dream, condition and preparation.

How curios human being is falling in sleep every day
We need this rest and relaxation average from six to nine hours per day. What happen in this state of unconsciousness. The literature and fiction is full of speculative stories. At organic level we need the stages of sleep for recovering several part of our body. There is a definition of time of day and one specific organ. For example at roundabout 2h am its time for regeneration of hepatic and so on. Universal valid: you have to go to bed before midnight and sleep ideally 8 hours. Then your organs get the best chance for revival.

weakness of connective tissue

continuation of the line "acid-base-balance" (skroll down)

Short explanation of phenomenon "cellulite" and the cause and consequence by a acid-base-balance.

Weakness of the connective tissue comes into being by an excess of acid in your body. It effects premature aging and atrophy of connective tissue. After a long time (it needs a time of development, you never get it quick!) connective tissue would be more and more weakened and lost its flexibility. The result: pockets of orange-peel skin

They say often this is genetically determined but that´s not quite right.

You can beware a healthy connective tissue by practice a base oriented conduct of life. Sure it needs a while for adaptation but it´s worth it. Because you feel better in many ways.

moringa - whats that?

This plant is nutritionally a multi-talent. It has got several names like horse radish tree, moringa oleifera  or drumsticktree. It is said that of all plants on this planet, Moringa is the one with the widest range of nutrients. Moreover the components are complementary in such a special way that the function of bioavailability is highly guaranteed.

If you buy some seeds (look at the photo at beginning) you can grow moringa at home.

Here you see the whole tree

and here the powder. Buy it and put it in your shake or stuff like that everyday.

Content top 7:
- roughage
- enzyme
- essential fatty acid
- minerals
- proteins  here: 18 of the 20 amino acids
- vitamines
- phytamines

have fun to keep the balance

here a lil´ special by the way: To check your intensity and your flow inside you can use this funny thing.

You start to stand with both sides till you got the calm inside and stand still. Then start to count your breath and/or close your eyes and hold the balance.

Next step is to find this stability on one side and pull up your other leg, maybe food up. But play with the variations. Its fun and you feel better after.

Selftest and test result

Depending on the time of the day and food assimilation the acid -base-status varies

Conduct the test 2 times: early in the morning - normal result = yellowish
                                         mid-afternoon           - normal result = strong bluish

                  If no normal color: Eat four time "base-food" like potatoes, fruits, vegetable, still water, spice-herb blend like parsley and raw milk as much "acid-food" like meat, products with a lot of sugar, alcohol and coffee and repeat the test after a week.                

acid alkaline balance

Before we´re talking about the background of acid-base equilibrium and the procedures of acid base metabolism, i advice to do the test with stripes. You get it in drugstores or wherever, maybe online pharmacy.
Based on the stripes you can find out your acid alkaline status.
Why it´s important for your body and what does it mean in relating to beauty and health, i will explain next time.

pimp your water

Apropos "drinking water" (see next article)

Here´s a variation of water. Self-made

Put gemstones like amethyst and berg crystal in a pot, fill it up with water and let it brew a few hours

skin and water

To be beautiful is to have a beautiful skin, too. As much as fingernails, teeth and hair. But of gravitation, genetic and lifestyle your skin´s loosing flexibility over the years. That´s normal and nature. But there are also tricks to put off the evil hour. Most people don´t want to be an ascetic-freak who renounces of everything like alcohol, fast food, sun and smoking. It´s safe to say, they are all baneful in an excessive way, but to practise self-denial could be more stress than to do it. Apropos frustration and stress makes skin significant older, too. But that´s another topic one day.

How to keep the skin refresh

To keep the body and particularly the skin refresh it´s necessary to drink. Ideally still mineral-or  natural spring water, herb tee and that´s 2-3 liter per day.

But well spottet! Human being isn´t a camel. So drink these piles of water averaged. Best a glass per hour. As a tip: Drinking a half liter warm water after awake is good for metabolic, because you lost a half liter water during sleep.