Do you familiar with the chakras? Welcome to our chakra cycle.

Today, let’s talk about our first Chakra: Muladhara (aka Root Chakra)

• sits at the base of our spine; at the base of the Chakra system

If Muladhara is blocked or imbalanced, we might experience anxiety, fear, panic attack, anger, overthinking, depression, disconnected from the body, problems in the colon, etc.

Having Muladhara balanced, helps us increase the sense of belonging and self-worth, feeling secure in our actions and choices. Improve our concentration, persistence and the ability to prioritize. Feel grounded and trust in life.

5 Yoga Poses to Balance Your Root Chakra
1. Warrior II (Virabhadrasana II)
2. Standing Forward Fold (Uttanasana) This standing forward bend can bring a sense of peace and calm to the busy mind.
3. Garland Pose (Malasana) As we rest in this pose, we bring ourselves closer to the earth and breathe slowly to quieten the chattering mind.
4. Head to Knee Forward Bend (Janu Sirsasana)
5. Easy Pose (Sukhasana)

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呢篇係前排寫嘅有關失眠嘅文章，希望幫到大家，又順便學到英文。⁣
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【What happens/ed when I have/d insomnia — how I’ve come to see insomnia in a positive light】⁣

There are articles out there like this one, which enumerates and elaborates on the causes behind insomnia and systematic and science-backed ways to relieve or cure it.⁣
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This is not one of them.⁣
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The purposes of this piece of writing are simple — to document the pain insomniacs suffer, and to compare and contrast how I used to combat insomnia and how I do so now.⁣
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This article is written in the hope that it will empower those who suffer just as I have done to understand this:⁣
There are simple ways to put insomnia into the right perspectives, and when this is done, sleeplessness doesn’t have to feel as debilitating as it could.⁣

=== 𝐖hat used to happen when I had insomnia ===⁣

I used to dread having insomnia like I dreaded having my period.⁣
During days when I couldn’t sleep, I felt like shit and I absolutely hated every waking second when I could have been sleeping but for insomnia.⁣
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Here was what I felt:⁣

I felt forced to deal with all the thoughts racing in my head alone when my partner was asleep.⁣
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I felt grumpy that I needed to slow down and quieten down any movements I make so as not to wake my partner up.⁣
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One part of me feared waking my partner up, the other part of me wanted to wake him up so that he would have to suffer this together with me.⁣
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Because the insomniac in me hated him for being able to fall asleep so much more easily than me.⁣
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It wasn’t until around half a year ago when it dawned on me that one of the best ways to relieve insomnia is actually to stop obsessing. It dawned on me that dreading insomnia doesn’t make it go away. When this realization hit me, insomnia suddenly stopped feeling so scary. Almost magically, this paradigm shift has caused me to have had so much fewer bad nights since.⁣
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=== 𝐖hat I found out about how to cope with insomnia ===⁣
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I found out that one of the best ways to battle insomnia is to stop obsessing over having this problem itself.⁣
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When you stop TRYING so hard to fall asleep, sleep comes to you.⁣
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“Happiness is like a butterfly, the more you chase it, the more it will evade you, but if you notice the other things around you, it will gently come and sit on your shoulder.”⁣
― Henry David Thoreau⁣
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This applies to sleep too. The less you’re bothered by your temporary inability to sleep, the less you’ll be affected by it.⁣
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Now, these are what I do whenever I come to be faced with insomnia these days.⁣
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Continue reading » https://bit.ly/3dMGemc⁣
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【#每日跟讀單元 847】垃圾食物可能擾亂大腦的食慾控制與消耗熱量的坐姿

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摘要:
The findings suggest something is amiss in the hippocampus - a region of the brain that supports memory and helps to regulate appetite. When we are full, the hippocampus is thought to quieten down our memories of delicious food, thereby reducing our appetite.
研究結果顯示問題出在海馬體，這個區域在大腦中支援記憶力，協助調節食慾。我們吃飽之後，海馬體被認為會使美食記憶不再活躍，從而降低食慾。

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