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Happy New Year and Nurturing Your Child's Mind 

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Happy New Year
The Whole Brain Child
Dr. Gillian's Pick

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Happy New Year!

Welcome to 2012! We hope your year is off to a happy and healthy start. If things are challenging, we are here for you! Come see us and let us design a plan for you to have your healthiest year yet.

The Whole Brain Child  

I recently interviewed Dr. Daniel Siegel on my Healthy You! Radio Show about his book, "The Whole Brain Child." I was so impressed with the succinct way he and his co-author wrote and presented information that I thought I would share it here. They wrote all of the 12 strategies for nurturing children's developing minds into what they call a "refrigerator sheet." Click here to download it. Please print it out and use it if you are a parent or someone who loves and works with children. Then buy the book and read it for great information that will help you with ANY relationship, not just with children. It's wisdom we can all use. Enjoy!

Dr Gillian EhrlichDr. Gillian's Pick - The Daily Routine

 

Happy New Year!

 

Around the world, New Year's traditions abound. Even the dates honoring the New Year change by culture, country and according to solar or lunar accounting. The Iranian New Year is the spring equinox, Chinese New Year happens late January or early February and the Jewish and Irish New Years happen in the fall, around harvest times. Australian New Year is still January 1st, but happens at the height of summer and calls for swim suits and beach parties. Although here in the United States, we agree that the New Year begins on a date named 'January 1st', which occurs in the middle of winter, this plethora of tradition gives us lots of room for interpretation.

 

The commonalities: each New Year is a time of celebration, renewal, and a clear point at which we often collectively reset our clock. In Ayurveda, transitions are called sandhis, they are the sunrises and sets that link day and night and the joints of the body that link bone to bone. They are points of vulnerability with opportunities for great change. It is an excellent time to set our intentions for our year.

 

With such a far-reaching plan, it seems wise to start small and form a strategy to carry us through all the cycles, personal and seasonal, of this coming year. Ayurveda calls the Daily Routine dinacharya, and it has formed the backbone of health for over 5000 years on the Indian subcontinent. By developing a solid daily routine, our body and mind can develop a rhythm that anchors us during challenge and allows us to pace when we stretch and grow, and when we retreat and regroup.

 

CLICK HERE to get a free copy of Fern Life's most complete version of the daily routine. It includes guidance on awakening, morning cleansing, meditation, exercise, meals, dressing, breathing, attitude, and rituals for closing the day and going to bed. The best plan for stability and continuity is to pick a few elements off the daily routine handout, or create your own, that are reasonable to expect of yourself every day for the next 365. This may include things you already do, like brushing teeth and eating breakfast as well as some new habits, such as deep breathing practices or a few minutes of morning meditation. Make it reasonable, make it enjoyable and see what happens!

 

We are also available at Fern Life for any needed assistance. This might include lessons in pranayama, the traditional Ayurvedic breathing practices, nutritional counseling (perhaps your daily routine will include daily green vegetables?), physical cleansing through colon hydrotherapy, emotional cleansing through hypnotherapy, or both through panchakarma. We also have delicious spa services which may be a wonderful treat!

 

To Your Health, 

Keesha Ewers

ARNP, Functional and Ayurvedic Medical Practitioner

Founder and Medical Director of Fern Life Center

Founder of the Healthy You! Radio Network

Host of the Healthy You! Radio Show

 

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