OneTrueWater Therapeutic Touch

Take care of yourself 🙏❤️

Always.🙌💯❤😊

“You cannot become Happy, you can only Be Happy.”

I cannot tell if what the world considers ‘happiness’ is happiness or not.

All I know is that when I consider the way they go about attaining it, I see them carried away headlong, grim and obsessed, in the general onrush of the human herd, unable to stop themselves or to change their direction.

All the while they claim to be just on the point of attaining happiness.

~Chuang-Tzu

In our most difficult experiences we learn our most profound lessons. In every opportunity there is difficulty. In every difficulty there is opportunity. 🙏
~via

Being your true self isn’t just about your own growth and happiness.

It’s also about what you bring to the world.

Each time you hold back your authenticity, you’re not only limiting your potential but also withholding something special from everyone else.

Your unique perspective and talents are gifts to the world – don’t keep them hidden!

Gabe and I went to the Kripalu Center yesterday for the day. It was so rejuvenating and restful to be in an environment that is conducive to conscious living, being in the company of like minded people. I used to live there as a resident in my 20’s and have only been there once in the past 5-6 years with another friend. Being so close I hope to make it more frequently in the future.

This is such a great idea. You can even get the same tree each year. ❤️

Touch is the primary sensation

The average length of a hug between two people is 3 seconds. But the researchers have discovered something fantastic. When a hug lasts 20 seconds, there is a therapeutic effect on the body and mind. The reason is that a sincere embrace produces a hormone called "oxytocin", also known as the love hormone. This substance has many benefits in our physical and mental health, helps us, among other things, to relax, to feel safe and calm our fears and anxiety. This wonderful tranquilizer is offered free of charge every time we have a person in our arms, who cradled a child, who cherish a dog or a cat, that we are dancing with our partner, the closer we get to someone or simply hold the Shoulders of a friend.

A famous quote by psychotherapist Virginia Satir goes, “We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.” Whether those exact numbers have been scientifically proven remains to be seen, but there is a great deal of scientific evidence related to the importance of hugs and physical contact. Here are some reasons why we should hug::

1. STIMULATES OXYTOCIN

Oxytocin is a neurotransmitter that acts on the limbic system, the brain’s emotional centre, promoting feelings of contentment, reducing anxiety and stress, and even making mammals monogamous. It is the hormone responsible for us all being here today. You see this little gem is released during childbirth, making our mothers forget about all of the excruciating pain they endured expelling us from their bodies and making them want to still love and spend time with us. New research from the University of California suggests that it has a similarly civilising effect on human males, making them more affectionate and better at forming relationships and social bonding. And it dramatically increased the libido and sexual performance of test subjects. When we hug someone, oxytocin is released into our bodies by our pituitary gland, lowering both our heart rates and our cortisol levels. Cortisol is the hormone responsible for stress, high blood pressure, and heart disease.

2. CULTIVATES PATIENCE

Connections are fostered when people take the time to appreciate and acknowledge one another. A hug is one of the easiest ways to show appreciation and acknowledgement of another person. The world is a busy, hustle-bustle place and we’re constantly rushing to the next task. By slowing down and taking a moment to offer sincere hugs throughout the day, we’re benefiting ourselves, others, and cultivating better patience within ourselves.

3. PREVENTS DISEASE

Affection also has a direct response on the reduction of stress which prevents many diseases. The Touch Research Institute at the University of Miami School of Medicine says it has carried out more than 100 studies into touch and found evidence of significant effects, including faster growth in premature babies, reduced pain, decreased autoimmune disease symptoms, lowered glucose levels in children with diabetes, and improved immune systems in people with cancer.

4. STIMULATES THYMUS GLAND

Hugs strengthen the immune system. The gentle pressure on the sternum and the emotional charge this creates activates the Solar Plexus Chakra. This stimulates the thymus gland, which regulates and balances the body’s production of white blood cells, which keep you healthy and disease free.

5. COMMUNICATION WITHOUT SAYING A WORD

Almost 70 percent of communication is nonverbal. The interpretation of body language can be based on a single gesture and hugging is an excellent method of expressing yourself nonverbally to another human being or animal. Not only can they feel the love and care in your embrace, but they can actually be receptive enough to pay it forward to others based on your initiative alone.

6. SELF-ESTEEM

Hugging boosts self-esteem, especially in children. The tactile sense is all-important in infants. A baby recognizes its parents initially by touch. From the time we’re born our family’s touch shows us that we’re loved and special. The associations of self-worth and tactile sensations from our early years are still imbedded in our nervous system as adults. The cuddles we received from our Mom and Dad while growing up remain imprinted at a cellular level, and hugs remind us at a somatic level of that. Hugs, therefore, connect us to our ability to self love.

7. STIMULATES DOPAMINE

Everything everyone does involves protecting and triggering dopamine flow. Low dopamine levels play a role in the neurodegenerative disease Parkinson’s as well as mood disorders such as depression. Dopamine is responsible for giving us that feel-good feeling, and it’s also responsible for motivation! Hugs stimulate brains to release dopamine, the pleasure hormone. Dopamine sensors are the areas that many stimulating drugs such as co***ne and methamphetamine target. The presence of a certain kinds of dopamine receptors are also associated with sensation-seeking.

8. STIMULATES SEROTONIN

Reaching out and hugging releases endorphins and serotonin into the blood vessels and the released endorphins and serotonin cause pleasure and negate pain and sadness and decrease the chances of getting heart problems, helps fight excess weight and prolongs life. Even the cuddling of pets has a soothing effect that reduces the stress levels. Hugging for an extended time lifts one’s serotonin levels, elevating mood and creating happiness.

9. PARASYMPATHETIC BALANCE

Hugs balance out the nervous system. The skin contains a network of tiny, egg-shaped pressure centres called Pacinian corpuscles that can sense touch and which are in contact with the brain through the vagus nerve. The galvanic skin response of someone receiving and giving a hug shows a change in skin conductance. The effect in moisture and electricity in the skin suggests a more balanced state in the nervous system – parasympathetic.
Embrace, embrace with your heart.~~

art: Dorina Costras

📸 💜

https://youtu.be/6XDgKhvteB8

Touch is the Primary Dimension of Spiritual Experience. From, The Realization of "Now" by Adi Da. This audio excerpt is from the Talk, The Realization of "Now", given by Sri Adi Da on December 16, 1996. This Talk is in print by the Dawn Horse Press and is...

ADI DA SAMRAJ: You are not obliged to sit around and be bombarded all day. Turn off your TV set! Do not participate in worldly communications. We are not obliged by law to watch television or read newspapers or endless magazines all the time.

Therefore, until the law requires it, we are free to simplify our lives. What if we somehow hear that a new Pope was elected four months ago? Well, then, it is a surprise! If we did not even notice the names of all the latest gimmicky soaps, deodorants, and shavers, we would not need to eliminate them from our thoughts or to overcome the effects of such nonsense.

The nervous system need not be forced to confront endless, confusing communications about the world. The traditional yogis realize that the nervous system is constantly stimulated and negatively affected by all kinds of communications when one lives an ordinary worldly life.

Thus, the extreme solution of the yogi is to withdraw the nervous system from any contact with arbitrary communications. But, more practically for our more ordinary way of life, we must simply restrain the nervous system's association with the endless number of possible communications it may receive in any moment.

Why put yourself in a position of being constantly vulnerable to superficial communications? Just because most people in the downtown world allow themselves to be so subjected, you need not live in the same tunnel of confusing information. You need not be bombarded by endless voices, endless media, endless hype, and endless noises that shock the nervous system.

Go somewhere else. Turn off the instruments. Disassociate yourself from these things. To put an end to them is a responsible act, and you are free to do it. Just as the yogi is free to withdraw from society in general, you, as a kind of yogi or spiritual practitioner, are free to concentrate and simplify your life and not be open to endless disruptive phenomena.

If there is something you want to consider, then give it your attention, but do not live with superficial communications constantly in the background of your life.

You are free to concentrate. If you do not concentrate, you will be confused. The nervous system will be incapable of judgment and integrated activity. We are blitzed by media if we live the downtown life, but we need not live the downtown life.

In fact, I urge you not to live the downtown life! The obligations and conditions of living you are given as devotees make it possible that you will not live the downtown life.

This does not mean that you should never read a magazine or watch television, but when you occasionally do such things your participation should be intentional. Buy TV Guide, decide what you are going to watch, and turn the TV off the rest of the time. And do not watch the commercials!

Avatar Adi Da Samraj

©2013 ASA

A Water crystal from water exposed to a song "We are all water" by John Lennon

Happy World Water Day, everyone!

An old Japanese warrior, Yosh*taka Kuroda, who created five principles that asserted that the nature of water represents how we should live and we would like to introduce that on this world water day.

Five Principles of Water

1. Water can move other things by moving for oneself.
2. Water always seeks its own course and never stops.
3. Water multiplies the power one hundred times when it encounters obstacles.
4. Water gracefully makes others clean and can accept both clean and unclean together.
5. Water fills a vast ocean, vaporizes, making cloud, rain, snow and hail, and freezes like a clear and smooth mirror, but its quality is essentially the same in any form.

Today I had a chair massage gig at an accounting firm, where it’s tax season and the employees are working 15 hour days. With just 10 minutes in the chair I watch as each one softened and received my touch, feeling great relief from the stress.
It’s such a joy to me to see the power of touch transform a person in a matter of minutes.
Touch is the primary sensation, more fundamental than the other five senses.
I’m so grateful to have been trained in massage and to be able to provide this service to others🙏

Helpful tips for the new year. ❤💯