Article on Yoga

Welcome to Hot Power Yoga by Linda R Halbert BA of Olive Branch Retreats.

Yoga can change you, reduce stress and help you regardless of your age or fitness level.

In our retreat program we integrate, breath and movement with intensive relaxation techniques.

Aiming to build suppleness, strength and improve general fitness in mind and body.

The hot temperature is important as it detoxes the body and warms the muscles, reducing the chances of injury.

The power aliment comes with each posture being done with purpose and full attention, therefore relaxing and rejuvenating the mind.

True power comes by focusing the mind on the breath and the postures,

Instead of chasing our thoughts around, thinking of the past or the future and worrying about things we can’t change.

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We at OBR teach with some of the postures flowing continually and some postures being held longer to enable building strength and grace.

We teach you to develop true strength of body and mind, better health, happiness, energy and control over the stress in your life, though the practice of ease of breath, steadiness of mind and the importance of respecting the limitations of your own body.

Yoga benefits everyone; there is no need to push ourselves.

It is more important to be consistent with our yoga practice.

This is why we teach you how to build yoga into your normal daily life without needing to put aside regular chunks of time every single day.

You can in fact do yoga in the car, sat at your desk or waiting for the kettle to boil, the choice is yours.

We all have choices to make every day, little ones we do all the time hardly being aware of them, such as cleaning our teeth or not, however if we don’t clean them we must take the reasonability and the results of loosen them.

Other choices are more urgent, like, we could choose to not pay our mortgage, however if we did this, we must take the reasonability and results of loosening our home.

You could choose do nothing to control your stress levels the choice is yours along with the reasonability and the results of developing health problems.

So come on an OBR and discover how you can learn (Hot Power Yoga) and so much more to reduce your stress and improve your well-being and happiness.

We are expert in well-being here at OBR please don’t ignore your stress levels, let us help you.

Most of us think we know the importance of a positive mental attitude, an attitude of mental toughness to get us through the hard times. Most of us will never have to put it to the test the way Gary Faris did. Gary was a Life Coach in California back in the 80’s, long before it became fashionable. At 38 he was still an enthusiastic athlete and competitive runner at a decent level. He was a very positive person and life was good for him, but then something happened that would test him to his limits.

One day while he was out running on a country road he was struck by a truck. The impact threw him 120 feet into a field. In the emergency-room the doctors weren’t even sure he would survive, such were his injuries. He had the first two of six operations that he would eventually need. When he was out of danger the doctors told him he would never walk normally again, and certainly would never jog, much less run.

Over the next two years Gary was in sports rehabilitation. He rebuilt his damaged body, overcoming incredible physical pain as well as the doubts of his doctors. Within three years not only was he walking normally but he was back running at a competitive level. The story of how he achieved this is a superb example of the power of a positive mental attitude.

Gary had always had an interest in sports fitness, now he turned that interest to sports-injury rehabilitation. Let’s face it, he had a very personal and compelling reason for doing so. Rather than complaining about the unfairness of life, he decided to analysis the core characteristics of those athletes who succeeded with their full rehabilitation. During his own physiotherapy he talked to those making good progress, and read about others to see what they had done. He looked beyond their stories to examine their underlying mental attitudes.

He found that there were six distinct mental patterns or characteristics that were possessed by every successful rehabilitated athlete that he had met or read about. So he applied them to himself. They were invaluable in helping him keep a positive mental attitude all through his sometimes painful rehabilitation program. This was in spite his medical team repeatedly telling him not to get his hopes too high about the eventual extent of his recovery.

After his complete recovery he published his research in professional journals across many fields. He was surprised and delighted with the response he got. As others used Gary’s insights with business clients, health professionals and even teachers found that these six mental patterns could be applied to a whole range of situations as diverse as parenting, pole vaulting and politics. They turned out to be the core characteristics of any positive mental attitude.

Here are the six mental patterns that Gary found?

1. Inner Motivation; 2. The Value of High Standards; 3. Breaking Down Goals; 4. Combining Present and Future Frames; 5. Personal Involvement;  6. Self-to-Self Comparisons.

No one characteristic is more important than another. Rather it’s the simultaneous interaction of all of them working together that creates the synergy for a solid positive mental attitude.

Attitudes are a choice. They may not come in bottles or little pills from your pharmacy, but they are never the less real. We have all experienced how a negative attitude has held us back, and how a positive attitude has propelled us towards our desired goal. This is your chance to choose to have an attitude that can make a difference to the quality of the rest of your life.

In my next article in the New Year I will expand more on the six mental patterns and how to incorporate them into whatever you are striving to achieve. Have a very positive New Year.

Gerry

Personally, I don’t believe there are very many things in life to feel guilty about. If you are honestly trying to do your best, why feel guilty?  Guilt saps our strength and our power. Allowing others to make us feel guilty is not productive. It is usually their own insecurities that cause others to try and make us feel guilty.

Choose right now, not to allow anyone to make you feel guilty.

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I hope you didn’t have enough things to fill out all ten lines, but if you did, you will find yourself feeling amazing self-confidence once you have eliminated each of these things from your life.

Now, I want you to take each of those things that you are feeling guilty about and write what it would feel like (What you would feel like), if there was no reason to feel guilty about them anymore. How would it feel, if you weren’t carrying around all this guilt-baggage?

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Now, I want you to get real creative – real creative – and list three reasons why you shouldn’t feel guilty for each of these things.

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Now, I want you to refuse to feel guilt from this point on. And notice how you life and feelings begin to change, especially your self-confidence.

I was sent this article and found it very interesting; I am passing it on to you though our blog, hope you find it interesting also.

Linda