STEVEN COOPER | LPCC, CHT
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For the Body
COCOON
The butterfly hug includes you sitting, standing or laying flat on the floor, gently crossing your arms over your chest in an X, and slowing your breathing down. Slower and slower, deepening your inhales and exhales. Feel free to tap your hands against your shoulders, alternating left and right. Your heartbeat can be used as a guide for the rhythm. You can also gently rock back and forth as you settle into your Cocoon. Stay here, rocking and breathing, as long as you need.
SPREAD EAGLE
Embrace the earth underneath as you lie on the floor, Body fully outstretched with arms and legs fully extended into Spread Eagle. Here, imagine breathing in relaxation and out tension. In relaxation, out tension. Progressively relax every muscle from head to toe, fingers to toes, embracing the flatness of the spine against the floor. Pair this with gentle nature sounds playing in the background on a speaker.
WARM HANDS
Gently rub your hands together for ten seconds, generating heat between them. Gently lay that heat onto your closed eyelids, holding for a few seconds and breathing deeply. Release, return your palms together again and rub together to again generate heat, this time laying them gently around your neck. Hold and breath, again returning your palms together and rubbing them to regenerate more heat. Now place palms throughout other parts of your bare abdomen, thighs, bottoms of feet, or wherever your body senses a need to ground and self-soothe.
MUDRAS: Hand & Finger Form Exercises
Prepare your hands! Simply follow along with your own hands.
This set of mudras hail from Gertrud Hirschi's Mudras for Body, Mind & Spirit
Ice Facial
Retrieve a piece of ice from your freezer.
Simply sit or lay down in a resting place.
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Take the cube in one hand, and if it is too cold, utilize a cloth or paper towel to hold it.
Apply the cube by smoothing it all over your face directly, taking extra care around the eyelids.
Focus particularly on your forehead and cheeks.
Allow the ice to melt and let your skin soak and drip to your comfort level
Once your face is well watered, use a cloth to pat dry.
Discard the ice
Sit with the fresh cool sensation as your body sends blood rushing to your head region
Breathe deeply and fully for several moments, resting your eyes and reawakening.
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Heartbeat
Sit in a comfy position. Take both hands, and use your finger tips on both hands to make contact with your left chest region, locating the heartbeat. Once you've made contact with the heart, apply light pressure so you are anchored into the beat. Really feel it. Now, slooooow your breath. Slower. Slower. Especially the exhales. Slooow. Over time, can you literally slow your heartbeat down, if you so choose? Use your natural breath to slow your heart beat. Embrace the stillness of the pulse. At a calm resting pulse, remain for as long as needed.
Inhale for Relaxation...Out for Tension...
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Healing Qigong​
with Sifu Love