Discover your inner motivation with WALKING MEDITATION

 

 

 

 

 

 

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This is a RADIO interview informing how WALKING MEDITATION can help you introduce new healthy habits, change the chip and become fit, relaxed and energized.

 

Enjoy your day, everyday!
Open up for new ways to deal with your current situation, switch to a positive mindset, create your experiences and face the moment.
Have fun!

 

For more info, coaching via Skype or tailored workshops contact Manuela at +1 310-600-5144 or EmailManuela@gmail.com

Walking Meditation for Stress Release

If you go to your Doctor for stress related problems, she or he will likely tell you that perhaps the best treatment for stress is Meditation….

In our culture we are not educated to practice meditation. For many people it results difficult to sit down and be quiet. The mind is always busy.
Walking Meditation is a simple playful way to learn to direct and calm down your mind during Aerobic Walking exercise in the nature.

You approach relaxation from both sides: physically by using your body an adequate way and mentally by learning how to focus your mind. Meditation is not hard work, nor is Walking. It is easy. You learn it by regular training. Even 5 Minutes regularly are good to get started.

I teach Walking Meditation in different ways, according to the clients current understanding and openness. We combine  stretching and  breathing exercises, direct the focus from mind to body, do core muscle exercises to adjust body posture, use metaphors and visualizations. Information on how the body, metabolism, hormone system, fat-burning work help at the beginning to understand how the ¨system¨work and satisfy the mind with facts.

The actual meditation starts with becoming aware of the nature of the mind which is always busy thinking -  like a ¨monkey mind¨ moving from one issue to the next problem. Once you become aware that you can have control over your mind once you learn how to temporarily let thoughts go and find tranquility and peace is the step to relaxation and stress release. There are a few simple little exercises that help you to do so: observing your thoughts, just walk and wait for the next thought to come. ¨Label¨ the thought (business, family, health concerns, planning future, pondering about past…) as if you would drop it into a drawer and wait for the next thought to come…..

One step is learning to release the tension. We do a stretch and then focus on the tension in the stretched body part. Now we do a breathing exercise to learn how to release the tension.

¨The elevator exercise¨ is a step to learn direct your mind and at the same time have great physical benefit. A core muscle exercise using the image of an internal elevator helps you gain inner strength, a flat belly and cope lower backpain. You straighten up you body posture from inside. The physical posture has a positive impact on your mental attitude. You gain inner strength.

Once the mind starts calming down you become aware of your abilities beyond pondering over problems to find new solutions and choices that you could not imagine before. You might see problems as a hint to change something and take decisions that fit for you rather  than a never ending range of clouds preventing you from seeing the sun. Once you start the routine, only 5 minutes regularly, you quickly change from tension to release, from monkey mind to being in the moment.

For a little Audio Intro to guide you into Walking Meditation please email: emailmanuela@gmail.com or call 310 600 5144!

Enjoy the walk!

 

 

How to trust in the Good?

Faith is trusting in the good. Fear is putting your trust in the bad. Rhonda Byrne

We sure prefer to trust in the good rather in the bad. However, if you have experienced a lot of bad in the past you easily expect more bad things to happen. When you are stuck in problems you might even attract more problems if you are in a problem-thinking-mode until you become aware and change this consciously.

Giving the problem thinking a break means consciously forcing your mind to focus on something else, e.g. a yoga class or a guided meditation, breathing during a walk or similar. Doing this will improve your current state of mind as well as your immune system and allow you to be in the here and now. Taking a relaxing break opens up the space ¨beyond the dark¨. Especially in stressful times this is the way to new solutions beyond plain thinking.

If you are conditioned or trapped in a negative way, it is our responsibility to become aware of this and step out to see new possibilities and create new solutions. Walking Meditation and Yoga are ways to enable yourself step out into a bigger reality.

At the end of the day what counts is how you lived that day!!!

Having great days! (via Manuela Stoerzer Vogt)

Yes! This is what change your life means on a daily basis. Make a difference in the little moments at the store, during work, in the way you usually deal with people or situations…. step by step, making a difference

The little moments offer great opportunities to bring zest into your life and make the difference between mediocrity and great days!!!     … Read More

via Manuela Stoerzer Vogt

From being stuck in problem thinking to focus on ¨the light inside¨

If you find yourself stuck in problem thinking in all kind of problems over and over again it is time to reset. Good health, money, work, contentment, inner peace, energy, motivation, good relationships are out there, yet, you might have to switch your attitude, level of energy, expectation and focus to a positive setting. Tuned in into a negative ¨radio station¨ you send and receive negativity.

How can we tune into a positive vibration after having been conditioned in a certain way and probably experienced, taught or inherited negativity? In Asian cultures Meditation is part of their tradition. Learn to shut off the thinking, reprogram the mind and learn to appreciate what is already there.

Manuela Stoerzer Vogt has developed this fun, easy and effective YADUMA Walking Meditation technique to help you shift your focus from what you do not like to your already existing inner beauty and perfection, a place of peace and wellbeing – a practical time and budget friendly meditation tool for Westerners.

Stock Market causing Strokes?

Last week the stock market went down rapidly, the 9th strongest fall, they said. Then yesterday an even bigger drop, the 5th biggest drop. Lots of people lost a lot of money within days. And even more people are very concerned about the world economy and the consequences for world population.

Imagine the mental and physical chain reaction this major issue causes:

Read the paper, hear the news, check the Internet and get this shocking message. Thoughts coming up about the money lost that day, or the influence of this on the national economy and the world as such. A mega worst case scenario might show up, followed by worst case steps to take, rising heart rate and blood pressure, nervousness, maybe sleeplessness, the nervous system may collapse due to this fear of something we cannot directly influence that day.  Certainly, the effects on the stock market has major effects on the health of people, unless we learn to step out of this circle.

Working with thousands of clients I observed that  a client who is afraid of loosing 2 out of 10 million can be exactly as fearful as someone loosing 2000 out of 10 000 or someone loosing or having lost their job.

It is crucial to step out of this negativity and learn to think differently. It is a mental exercise you can train yourself not only to prevent further health risks but also to allow new ideas of dealing with the situation at one`s best and creating some solutions.

I teach what I call Yaduma Walking Meditation. It is a mixture of Meditation, Walking Exercise, Auto-Hypnosis and some exercises I developed. First you learn to concentrate and focus, then to consciously relax, then to choose constructive thoughts whenever you observe destructive thoughts come up. Combining mental exercise with moderate aerobic workout has a very beneficial effect on your cognitive skills.  It is fun and therefor easy and motivating to do.  However, the most beautiful experience you may have is discovering your door to inner peace. Once having experienced this and knowing, it is there, makes you calm and confident.

You won´t directly influence the stock market but your happiness, health and the probably the people around you.

For classes or coaching please call me at 310 600 5144 or email me to Emailmanuela@gmail.com