Karmic Seeds Body Mind & Spirit

What is Resentment? Resentment is a powerful, negative emotion characterized by a feeling of being treated unfairly. This injustice may real or perceived and can be due to feeling you are not given the respect, admiration, importance, consideration or affection that you are due. It is a destructive emotion that rarely goes away on its own because there is very little motivation to change it.  Emotions like anger produce a significant amount of adrenaline that, after a while, exhausts the body and the anger slowly fades away. Resentment does not have the same effect on the body and thus can remain unresolved and persist for years. Most people feel resentful at one time or another but for some, this emotion becomes habitual and a way of being as opposed to a reaction to a specific event. Chronic resentment, then, acts as a magnet for future resentment. It gravely distorts thinking so that every new incident of perceived unfairness becomes magnified and added onto the existi...

Stop Thinking About Yourself   We live a competitive world where we are conditioned to look out for ourselves.  Yet one of the greatest lessons in life is that you will achieve far more by helping others than by just helping yourself.  The key is to stop thinking about what you want so much and start focusing on how you can help others to get what they want.  This begins with the simple practice of compassion.  When you try being compassionate each day you will be kinder, happier and more popular, a better team player, a better leader and more effective and fulfilled in everything that you do. If we are not careful, we can get caught up in a never-ending cycle of self-absorption and rumination. And it can make us anxious and lower our mood. As an antidote to all this self-centeredness,  we recommend that you develop your capacity for compassion by spending one minute each day thinking about someone else with genuine empathy. It may ...

Personal empowerment is about looking at who you are and becoming more aware of yourself as a unique individual.Personal empowerment involves developing the confidence and strength to set realistic goals and fulfill your potential. Everyone has strengths and weaknesses and a range of skills that are used in everyday situations, but all too often people remain unaware of, or undervalue, their true abilities.A person aiming for empowerment is able to take control of their life by making positive choices and setting goals. Developing self-awareness, an understanding of your strengths and weaknesses - knowing your own limitations is key to personal empowerment.Taking steps to set and achieve goals - both short and longer-term and developing new skills, acts to increase confidence which, in itself, is essential to self-empowerment. Personal empowerment is about looking at who you are and becoming more aware of yourself as a unique individual. Personal...

By Sarah Harvey Dec 18, 2015  http://www.elephantjournal.com/2015/12/for-the-women-who-are-meant-for-more/ Here’s to the gritty, truth-seeking goddesses who aren’t afraid to get their hands dirty. Here’s to the brave, bad ass females who have blasted through a nightmare of shit to be  standing here today. Here’s to the earthy mamas who think stilettos are a sick f*cking joke— T he luscious ladies who love feeling the raw earth beneath their bare feet, and bow down proudly to the supple, winding curves of their thick, fleshy hips. Here’s to the creative vixens who breathe their sun-soaked, moonlit, windswept, star-dusted dreams to life, every damn day—rain or shine. Here’s to the wise women who, time and time again, have chosen their own hearts. I applaud you, with every fiber of my being. I honor you.I am you. We are strong and confusing, complicated and powerful, magical and maddening—we are meant for so much more. We will never be happy stuf...

author: Elyane Youssef   Editor: Yoli Ramazzina   Photo:  Flickr/H. Michael Karshis Relationships are like jobs—we should be qualified to start one. Sadly, most of us enter relationships with the intention of finding our other half or to put an end to the loneliness we are feeling. The thing is, many of us change partners as often as we change our underwear. We jump from one relationship to another, without really examining our thoughts and emotions. I truly believe that the most successful relationships are the ones where both partners have authentically worked on their own self-development. No games, no blaming and no drama whatsoever. Just a genuine partnership where both parties know who they are and what they want. In order to stop the cycle of failed relationships, we need to start working on  ourselves. 1. Love ourselves. Loving ourselves signifies taking care of our own happiness.  Relationships can be tough to maintai...

Yoga Anatomy Muscle Exploration: Lower Trapezius   http://www.biotawellness.com/blog The trapezius muscle has three distinct parts. There is a tendency for the upper trapezius to be overactive and the importance of the middle trapezius in improving posture and reducing risk of neck and shoulder pain. The lower trapezius is the largest of the three portions of the trapezius, yet many people demonstrate weakness in this muscle. The lower trapezius originates along the center of the spine starting at the middle of the thoracic spine (the 6th thoracic vertebrae) to the bottom of the thoracic spine (the 12th thoracic vertebrae). (The thoracic spine is the part of your spine that has ribs attached to it. Since you have 12 ribs on either side, you have 12 thoracic vertebrae.) The fibers of the lower trapezius reach up and out to the shoulder blade. Specifically, the fibers insert onto the inside edge of the spine of the shoulder blade. The spine of the shoulder bla...

 Leah Fortner on Dec 15, 2015 Pathways There are infinite paths to choose, And I have chosen many. I have slammed into dead ends, Twisted through turning trails that ended at lost, Followed other’s routes to eventually realize they weren’t mine, Even dared to venture into the great unknown, Where writing a new way, Was the only way. But of all the countless roads I wandered, Endless directions I explored, And limitless possibilities I could have taken, There is one thing I have come to know: No matter what surrounds me, Lies ahead or behind me, Or who is beside me, It’s what is happening in me, That will shine a guiding light, Conquer the journey, And land me victorious after any travel. Because perfection comes, not when you’re watching golden sun sets over paradise, But when you have grown, Unbreakable, At peace, Within.

10 Principles About Life to Look at Every Day. Robert Piperon Feb 14, 2013 1. Bad situations in life are only temporary. “If you are going through hell, keep going.” ~ Winston Churchill Life is messy—bad things happen to good people. We all face hardships, but what makes us human is the ability to bounce back. We can become more resilient than we were before. Some things happen that we have no control over. You can find strength in situations that you never thought possible if you just keep moving forward. 2. Be open and compassionate. “A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of comp...

Plank Pose: Your Ticket to Power and Grace BY ANNIE CARPENTER | JAN 4, 2013 Plank is a truly foundational pose. It teaches you to hold yourself together—like a sturdy wooden plank—giving you the power you need for complex poses and the grace to glide with ease through transitions between poses. Plank will build your abdominal strength; you might even find yourself shaking as you practice it. It can strengthen your arms and keep your wrists supple and healthy. If you practice this pose, over time your upper back and neck posture will improve, and you’ll create support for your lower back as you learn to engage your abdominals. But in order to experience these benefits, it’s important to work toward creating a well-aligned Plank Pose. To get there, use the yogic tool of self-inquiry. Assess your habitual postural patterns in daily life and begin to notice how they affect you in Plank. By becoming aware of patterns that aren’t beneficial, you can apply the appropriate alignment principl...

Yogic breathing: chest to belly or belly to chest; what is the proper breathing technique? BY OLGAKABEL There is an ongoing discussion in the yoga community about the directionality of the breath – do you begin your inhalation in the chest and then fill the belly or do your fill up the belly first and then expand the chest? This seemingly innocent question can have yoga teachers argue till they are blue in the face. Is there a right answer? Yep, but before we get to it, let’s start at the beginning. First of all, let’s get our facts straight – we CANNOT breathe into our bellies (if the air does go into your belly, you are in deep trouble). You certainly do and should EXPAND your belly as you breathe in, but not because the air goes there. To understand the intricate process of respiration, we need to know two important facts. FACT 1: Air will flow from an area of higher pressure to the area of lower pressure FACT 2: Lungs DO NOT have muscular tissue, which means that you cannot mov...