Tool’s Day – Calm Palm
Looking for a quick, fast and say technique that calm your mind and body. Check out the calm palm. It can be done anywhere and is easy – check out the YouTube Video fro instruction.
https://youtu.be/_UGMvW0tuMo
Share your experience with this new technique and many happy moment to you.
This is so easy to make and use and can lift your mood in your home and office setting. And if you are anything like me you will soon have several of them around the house to use at any time.
Air Freshener | Tools Day
In a spray bottle combine:
Play around with the amount of essential oils you are using, some are stronger than others and some of our noses are more sensitive than others.
Here are just a few ideas of which essential oils to use:
Lavender will help to calm the senses.
Peppermint will be more uplifting.
Rosemary has been proven to help concentration.
Lemongrass can help with those lingering cooking odors.
Most important is trying different options and learning what works best for you. Maybe get really creative and mix a few oils together.
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Is a hobby of waste of time?
Did you know that January is National Hobby month? I didn’t. January is normally the time of year we set New Year’s resolutions or new goals. But this year I wanted to do something a little different. I started thinking about ways to have more FUN. And when I started to ask others what they did for fun, people mentioned all their hobbies. Then I got the question what are your hobbies? I had a hard time answering this.
When I think of a hobby, I think of something you do for fun on a regular basis. I take my dogs to the dog park for fun on a regular basis, but I don’t consider that a hobby. I call friends for fun, but I don’t consider that a hobby.
I started to think I didn’t even know what a hobby actually was. “Hobby is an activity done regularly in one’s leisure time for pleasure”, according to the dictionary. A hobby is an activity you may complete in your free time that brings you pleasure.
Articles go on to describe some ideas of what hobbies are – collecting items, participating in a sport or activity or working on creative projects.
Further defining a hobby as “When you’re actively pursuing something outside of work hours, you’re participating in a hobby”. This got me thinking more about the things I enjoy and are they hobbies? I definitely having trouble defining exactly what my hobbies are, I knew how I want them to make me feel.
I wanted to do something I enjoy and had fun with. That fun could just be fun to me. I was hoping that a hobby would stretch me or help me grow a little. I wanted it to feel like a challenge but at the same time a mental break from the “work” and “daily life”, so I wanted to feel less stressed or overwhelmed when I was part of this hobby. And for good measure, I am circling back around to having more fun!!
Now I know how I want to feel when I’m search for and being a part of a hobby. I believe, like so many, in my pursuit of a balanced life I have neglected hobbies or things that truly bring me joy. Watching children and dog play reminds me that play and joy and even hobbies don’t have to have the perfect structure of my calendared life. 
I’m at the beginning of this journey of development and finding new hobbies, but come alone with me. Let’s experiment and play. Let’s find joy in things outside of work and if we want to create hobbies from them wonderful, if not, we tried them that’s great too!!
So, in honor of national Hobby Month, I encourage you to get out, do your hobby, create one, re-design one or rekindle one you had forgotten about. There are so many benefits to having these activities outside of our norm. You don’t even have to call it a hobby but find something that bring your pleasure outside of work and ENJOY!
Stay tuned as I start to find and share some of my new hobbies.
Welcome to 100 Hours of Healing 2022! This ongoing fundraiser launches each year on our birthday (Veterans’ Day) and continues through to the end of the year. We are looking for new friends to support and empower our charitable mission: fostering healing into wholeness through community, education, and treatments.
As a 501C3 nonprofit organization we rely on the support from our community to help adults in need. Our focus is to allow access to integrative therapies as an additional to traditional medical care (meditation, yoga, Reiki, nutrition, and coaching). Currently, we are raising money to provide free or low cost classes to veterans/military, first responders, educators, healthcare workers, disaster victims, and elders. Please feel free to donate at any time–welcome to our community.
The primary goal of this year’s 100 Hours of Healing event is to make 100 new friends. We are offering a full integrative healing conference online–no geographic or scheduling barriers. Access content from your own space in your own time. These offerings are gifts in exchange for your charitable donation of just $5. The market value of these healing talks, demonstrations, meditations, and exercises would drive a retail price of $20-100 a session. We are offering these gifts as part of our service to the community. We don’t want to price to stop anyone from connecting with us.
In fact, if you are not in a position to donate at this time, we want you to join the community anyway. Follow this link to register for a FREE guided meditation Grounding: Feeling Present to Feel Better. All are welcome here, and we are so excited to have you join us!
In addition, some FREE content will be offered LIVE on our Facebook Page. The program below lists all events according to the times they were promoted on Facebook. However, each presentation is available whenever and wherever you like. As the event continues, the program below will be updated with those offerings as well. Happy birthday!
Listed below are the complete offerings as part of the 100 Hours of Healing program. Each presentation is offered as a gift in exchange for a $5 donation, and you can register to receive the private link to as many topics as you like! If you would like to donate more than $5, please consider a $50 donation level, we will thank you with an All Access Pass to each presentations.
Follow the links (click the titles) to access the presentation listing/make donations. Links for LIVE offerings will take you directly to the free Facebook link to view the offering immediately.
This campaign will continue through to January 1, 2023, when we will focus on offering classes, events, and treatments. So if you want access to any parts of the program, please donate or connect with us soon! The private links to the presentations will be accessible on into the future. We do reserve the right to republish this content publicly at our discretion, but are pleased to offer our donors this exclusive access. Thank you!
Kickoff Video – Overview of Whole Self Unity and Coming Attractions, meet the co-creators and find out more [Link to facebook free discussion coming soon]
What is Reiki |World Peace Meditation – Amy Alward, find out about what Reiki does, how it works, and sample a little Reiki meditation as we send Reiki toward world peace inside ourselves and in the world. All are welcome, especially those with no experience with Reiki. All practitioners also welcome, any lineage, any level.
Nutritional Goal Setting – Moana Schwertsik If many individuals are already setting goals, what need is there for information regarding goal setting? The short answer is that individuals generally do not set goals that maximize positive outcomes. In essence, the problem is getting people to set the right kind of goals—ones that provide direction and motivation.
Breathing, Mindfulness and Meditation – Tracey Payton, Breathing, mindfulness and meditation are always to reduce stress and create awareness. Come learn some new techniques experience a guided meditation and learn more about these strategies.
Stretching Clinic – Amy Alward gives a 60 minute talk on the benefits and mechanics of therapeutic stretching. With 10 years of experience as a sports massage therapist, this is information her clients generally get over a number of visits. If you are struggling with muscle pain, or how to best stretch productively, or need help staying flexible, do not miss this presentation!
Portion size – Moana Schwertsik LIVE on Facebook [link coming soon], Over the years, portion sizes have been steadily increasing. What used to be a large-sized drink or side dish at restaurants is now often a medium or small-sized order on modern menus. We will learn how to better understand this often overlooked subject and discuss methods for creating healthy portion size.
Mountain Meditation – Tracey Payton, join for a short meditation.
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Why Boundaries are Essential | Energetic Hygiene – Amy Alward, part of a larger series on Energetic Hygiene directed at folks working on their own healing or learning to help others heal. This is a core piece of Amy’s Reiki classes, but you don’t have to be learning Reiki to benefit–just as you don’t need to be a doctor to understanding why keeping wounds clean just works better for good healing. Energetic Hygiene is about vibrational wound care, something we all have.
Creating Healthy Habits – Moana Schwertsik Creating healthy habits is a real world challenge and can be overwhelming. From the variety of food products available today to the hectic schedule and social media pressure. Eating healthily can seem challenging in most of these situations but it does not have to be. We will explore how to prepare and plan for different situations in the real world.
Getting Unstuck – Tracey Payton, Feeling stuck in your life, health, relationships, or all of the above? This workshop will help you build and create awareness about where you are stuck and how to move away from stuckness. We will create a mantra and also learn about mindfulness exercise that help relieve and move stuckness.
Feel Better in Your Body | Energetic Anatomy Basics – Amy Alward, part of a larger series on esoteric anatomy, and the constructs of Energetic Anatomy of the Human Energetic Field. There are parts of ourselves we cannot touch, see, or hear (as a general rule), that can be influenced with thought, intention, visualization, and meditation practices. This talk offers a quick overview of the major structures. If you have heard of chakras, but don’t really know what they are or how they are supposed to “work” this talk is for you!
Influences of Food Choices – Moana Schwertsik Health and wellness are two of the hottest buzz words in the nutrition industry. But what do those terms really mean and how do they relate to each other? There are numerous things that influence where a person lies on the spectrum of health, ranging from pathology to a state of optimal well-being. One of the biggest components of a healthy lifestyle is nutrition. Just like a person’s overall state of health and wellness, food choices are greatly influenced by the world around us. We will learn how to choose foods which will support out health and wellbeing. It is time to make smart choices with our food and I will get you started on that path.
Overcoming Overwhelm – Tracey Payton, Join Tracey for an intentional workshop to support you with Overcoming Overwhelm. Who couldn’t use pointers with that?! This workshop will give you simple actions and tools to create more space in your day, reduce stress and deliver more peace of mind and productivity. Does this sound like something you need?
Karuna Reiki Sound Healing – Amy Alward offers a complete meditation/healing session for FREE, all you have to do is register at the link. Bring your healing intentions, sit back, relax and receive. Karuna Reiki is a compassionate form of energy healing for relaxation and stress reduction. Karuna is often used in combination with singing and chanting to empower the compassionate vibration of unconditional love.
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Crystal Empowerment – Amy Alward, offers a quick talk about the properties of crystals that make them ideal for computing AND for energy healing. This talk also includes some tips for success if you want to use crystals to aid your healing–including how to cleanse and charge your crystals and pitfalls to avoid that can slow or set back healing progress. This presentation includes a 20-minute guided meditation for healing the earth, your crystals, and how to empower your rock friends to aid your journey.
Hydration – Moana Schwertsik Water constitutes a greater percentage of body mass than any other substance. It helps fill the spaces inside the cells, outside of the cells, and in all major vessels. All the cells in our bodies contain and are surrounded by water, so having the right balance is very important. Adults can survive several weeks without food, but only a few days without water, because we cannot store water like we can store food.
Finding Your Life’s Purpose – Tracey Payton, we will walk you though an exercise on finding your life purpose, vision, mission statement. Using simple fill-in-the-blank tool and a powerful guided meditation, by the end of this presentation you will have a complete reflection to help guide you to the next direction you desire.
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Gratitude!!
Looking for some more ways to express gratitude. Check out this quick one minute video on gratitude.
So much goes into our overall health, and yes, diet is definitely a huge part of that. But there is so much more to consider. This topic has been contemplated for a long time. The association between diet and disease has been investigated and reported for thousands of years. The Greek physician and “father of modern medicine,” Hippocrates (460–370 BC), was perhaps one of the first scientists to recognize the connection between diet and health:
If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health. –Hippocrates.
And as one of my teachers stated: The whole constitution of man must be taken into consideration, not merely the treating of the body as a chemical or mechanical machine. – Dr Stone
That statement was a turning point for me, it made so much sense. Of course food is top of the list, we cannot survive for long without it. But looking at our overall health and wellbeing we need more to thrive. Our mental and emotional health is important and well.
Healing nature with grounding rocks
Key factors to staying healthy are these six dimensions of wellness; emotional, occupational, physical, social, intellectual, and spiritual. Therefore addressing all six dimensions in our lives builds a holistic sense of wholeness and fulfillment. We have to remember that we are living beings and our journey through this life is continuously changing and evolving. Wellness views health from a holistic perspective- mind, body, and spirit. And as such all of these dimensions work individually, but also need support from each other. Let’s dive a little deeper into these dimensions.
Our emotional wellness depends a lot on our outlook on life. Are we being positive and mindful? Are we beating ourselves up when negative emotions come up? How is our relationship with food and our health? How can we improve on our relationship with food?
What is called occupational wellness is considered what we do in life. Are we enjoying our job? Are we volunteering and enjoying the company we interact with? Is there a personal satisfaction related to these activities?
Physical wellness encourages the balance of exercise, rest, nutrition, and mental-health. Are we respecting the responsibility for taking care of our bodies, both physical and emotional?
Improving social wellness can also improve our emotional wellness. Are we enjoying a healthy social network? This can help give a positive outlook on life.
Intellectual wellness expands your horizon and will give us a sense of fulfillment in life. Never stop learning and participating in activities. This in turn supports your emotional and occupational wellness.
Spiritual wellness means having personal faith in something that deepens feeling of belonging and peace with oneself and the world. Our spiritual wellness can be defined in terms of religious faith, personal values, ethical/moral beliefs. Or simply a general acceptance of an underlying mind-body-spirit connection. It helps to create a greater sense of meaning and purpose in life which enhances all other dimensions of wellness.
Meditation walk on spiral staircase
In conclusion, there is much each one of us can do to improve our health and wellbeing. So many of these ideas mean that you have to tune in to yourself and trust your inner self. Acknowledge what your body is asking for, it is usually right if we are honest.
Forget what is best for others, be selfish here. What is best for you is not best for the person next to you. I am on my journey of the best well-being path I can be on for me. And I understand that we all have a different path, but we can share our experiences and share our stories and with that help someone along on their journey. I hope in some small way I could support you and let you know you are on the right path if you are trying something new, even if it something very small, to improve your well-being.
If you want to learn more about me and my journey check out Whole Self Unity and maybe join me there to learn more about yourself. You can also find different tools on our Youtube channel.
Wishing you a happy and successful journey.