Increasing your "RESONANT FREQUENCY"

As our meditation night at Camberwell approaches, I look back on our previous month and remember the wonderful shared experience of laughter in our Laughter Yoga session with Merv. The feedback from this night was most encouraging and I expect that there will be a lot more laughter around certain neighbourhoods in Melbourne!

This month reducing stress by increasing resonant frequency (a powerful stress reducing response) will be a theme and for this evening we will be demonstrating the remarkable benefits of biofeedback training to effectively manage our stress responses.

We will be showing with the help of a volunteer how you can actually influence and train your body's physiological responses to achieve a deep experience of calmness.

Kati and I will be joined by John Coates to show how resonant frequency can be generated. This enables us to process the consequences of anxiety, depression as well as a whole array of negative states of mind that minimise the joy of our life (at our recent August Saturday afternoon seminar our biofeedback demonstration was thwarted by an unexpected technological failure ... we believe this has been rectified now).

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This month's newsletter features:

• Friday 28th August Group Meditation evening program including BIOFEEDBACK DEMONSTRATION

• Five Stress-Reducing Strategies you can use daily!

• More than Meditation 6 week course - BEGINS 27th AUGUST

Group Meditation - Friday 28 August

The program for this evening will be designed to stimulate your regular practice of meditation.

Friday night Group Meditation

• Date: Friday 28th August

• Time: 7.30pm to 9.30pm

• Where: Camberwell Community Centre, 405 Camberwell Road, Camberwell

• Cost: $10 supper provided

• Further details: click here

Program:

SILENT MEDITATION

CHANT

BIOFEEDBACK DEMONSTRATION and finding the resonant frequency for reducing stress effects on body and mind

GUIDED MEDITATION

Please feel free to invite a friend who may need it and please indicate your intention to attend by clicking here.

Five Stress-Reducing Strategies You Can Use Daily!

According to C. Eugene Walker, a professor of psychology at the University of Oklahoma:

"Essentially, we are stressed mentally, which doesn't require a physical response. We are stepping on the gas and the brake at the same time, producing fatigue, tension, stress, and over time, chronic diseases like heart disease."

"It's like driving a Ferrari in a 20 m.p.h. speed limit," says Walker. "When (we are) presented with a stressful situation, adrenaline is released into the bloodstream, our muscles get tense as we prepare to react, blood pressure is increased, and breathing becomes shallow and rapid."

The solution: Regular exercise

"Basically, when we exercise, we get back to what our bodies were designed to do, we increase our heart rate, take in more oxygen, our blood circulates better and faster."

Along with the well-known physical benefits, exercise has been shown to "increase one's sense of well-being, mood state, self-esteem, stress responsivity, (and) body image, as well as decreased depression and anxiety," says Jesse Pittsley, PhD, a spokesperson for the American Society for Exercise Physiologists.

Five Easy Ways to Ease Stress

I know what you're thinking: How on earth can you find time to head for the gym at the most stressful times when you're diary is overloaded?

Those are the perfect times to take a mini-stress break.

Here are a few do-anywhere moves that will help get your heart rate up and your stress level down:

1. Increase walking distances
   
   Walk to someone's office or workplace instead of calling on the phone, get out of your chair and get your legs moving for a few minutes at a brisk pace. Instead of driving around the shopping centre car park for 10 minutes looking for that great parking space, save your time, petrol and health by taking the furthest spot in the lot. There is nothing like a brisk walk to get your legs moving and heart pumping.

2. Make your lunch break count
   
   If you have a half-hour lunch, spend 20 minutes of it exercising, and then grab your lunch and eat it at your desk. You'll feel a lot better in the afternoon after you exercise.

3. HUP, two, three, four
   
   You might want to close your door before you start, but march in place, do high marches to really get your blood going.

4. Chair squats
   
   When you're sitting in your office after a stressful encounter with the boss, chair squats are a quick and easy way to release some energy.
   
   Activate the large muscles in your legs by doing a set of 10 squats, to do this, simply find a chair and slowly lower yourself until your behind slightly touches the chair.
   
   Finally, raise yourself back up slowly.
   
   After a set or two, you should feel ready for another round with the boss (or whoever is stressing you out).

5. Focusing the mind
   
   Multitasking-keeping a million balls in the air-this is the sign of a successful person, right? Wrong! Productivity and sense of well-being decrease when we have a scattered focus. In addition, when we are overburdened by details it is harder to be present in the moment, making it harder to connect with people and feel supported.
   
   There are inherent rewards to having a single-minded focus. Our attention, sense of well-being, concentration, memory and productivity are all improved. Slowing down and taking in one thing at a time gives us the space we need to respond to stress, rather than merely reacting to it. We can use techniques such as meditation to cultivate this single-pointed focus.
   
   The next time you realize that you are feeling scattered and overwhelmed, take a moment to just breathe and notice the sensation.

More Than Meditation 6 Week Course - Begins 27th August

Still a chance to reserve your place, please book today!

A course to help you develop mental and emotional clarity

For more information, click here.

For details and to register: http://www.pathways2wellbeing.com.au

People who practice meditation say they have less stress, more energy, better sleep, and less tension in their life.

There was some amazing feedback from our meditation course just completed check it out

I invite you to join us. Click here for details.

Kind regards,
Bill and Kati Patterson
Email: billp@mbsolutions.com.au