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Have you Loved Your Guts today?   

 

Love Your Guts?  Why love your guts?

 

Your guts work hard for you.  They are on duty 24/7.  The cycle of digestion - ingestion, assimilation and elimination - really do keep your gut working around the clock.

 

They are responsible for taking in your nutrition, assimilating your nutrients, synthesize important vitamins, hauling out the garbage, and much more.  They work non-stop to keep you as healthy as your lifestyle and habits will allow them to.

 

 

Isn't this a good reason to send them some love?

 

 

How do you love your guts?

Here's a start.  When do you feel most loved?  When someone notices you?  Witnesses you?  Pays attention to you in an admiring way? 

Let's begin there.  Focus your attention on your abdomen.  Not just the abdominal muscles, but feel what's underneath. 

Get into a comfortable seated position, place your hands over your belly - like in the photo above.  Now just begin to breathe into your abdomen.  Allow your breath to expand your belly, moving your hands apart on the inhale, and bringing them back together on the exhale.

With each inhale, draw in love through your breath all the way into your abdomen - surrounding and infusing your guts with love.  With each exhale, allow your belly, your organs and all of your connective tissues to relax, release tension and absorb the love energy that is surrounding them.  Repeat for 5 minutes, 15 minutes, 30 minutes - as long as you'd like.

If your guts start talking to you, just be patient and listen with love just as you would for a child, and just as you would want for yourself.


Happy Valentine's Day to you and your guts.

 

Have a Joyful Day! 

Debra Graugnard

 

P.S. Make every day Valentine's Day for the guts you love!

 

 


New website is almost here!

really - not kidding this time!
That means lots of goodies for you!!  
Look for the new website to be live this coming week.  What does this mean for you?  Lots of good stuff coming your way.

Starting with my new ebook - Unlocking Hidden Messages Behind Stress & Digestion - to help you understand the impact of stress on your digestion, and to help you understand how your body sends you messages through the ways in which it responds to your stress.

A guided meditation exercise comes with it to help you discover where you are holding stress in your body, and begin to bring healing energies to places of tension and discomfort.

The launch of the new site is just in time for National Colo-Rectal Cancer Awareness Month (March).  I'll be offering special programs during the month of March to help you tune in to your body's systems that influence your eating patterns and digestion, to develop a listening relationship and understand what your guts need to feel loved! 

By the way, Love is healing.
Wishing you a Happy Valentine's Day!

"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."
~Oscar Wilde

 I'm wishing for you and your guts a most blessed lifelong romance
- a key ingredient to a fulfilling, healthful life.

Be in peace, love and joy.
  

If you find this information helpful, please share this newsletter with the people you care about. 

Comments, questions, suggestions?  I'd love to hear from you.

 

Sincerely,
Debra Graugnard 
Joyfully Living Wellness

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Have you Loved Your Guts today?
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Holistic Hints
Coming in March

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Holistic Hints

Sometimes feeling our emotions can be uncomfortable - even scary.  This goes for the "good" ones and the "not-so-good" ones. 

 

We can create many barriers and defense mechanisms that keep us from experiencing our own feelings. Keeping up these defenses takes a lot of precious energy and keeps us from living our lives to the fullest.


But under every scary emotion is a need or a yearning, and every need or yearning is connected to an innate divine truth.

Be true to yourself; trust yourself; get to know yourself. At your core lies truth, and in this truth is strength and safety.

Take refuge in this ship of safety.
"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."
             ~Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Coming in March 

March is National Colo-Rectal Cancer Awareness Month! 

 

In honor of our traditionally hard-working under-appreciated guts, I'll be offering a number of ways to help you fall in love with your guts.

 

Here are some of the programs:
  • Plus I'll be teaming up with Susan Hamblen of Serenity Massage and Movement to offer a workshop combining yoga, movement, self-massage, meditation and healing - all for you and the guts you love! 
Debra Graugnard
Hi, I'm Debra Graugnard, Spiritual Healing Practitioner, Nationally Certified Licensed Massage Therapist and Nationally Certified Colon Hydrotherapist. I hold Masters of Divinity in Spiritual Healing & Counseling with a focus on healing the body with foods, food relationships and proper eating habits. I am passionate about helping you to recognize and care for your body, both inside and out, as the sacred vessels of you soul and spirit.  I look forward to serving you.