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Achieve Instant Calm - The Wise
Woman Way
By: Susun
S. Weed
In her newly updated best-selling classic, New
Menopausal Years The Wise Woman Way, Susun Weed offers a number of
approaches women can use to calm jangly nerves, achieve greater overall
calm, and cope on-the-spot with stressful situations.
For instant calm, Weed suggests one or more of the following simple
calming exercises, herbal allies, or movements, and can give you more
details on how and why they work:
· Unfreeze yourself: Curl up in a fetal position (on your side with
keens drawn up), breathe deeply, and hum. You may want to rock back and
forth. Concentrate on what feelings want to emerge. Do not be surprised
if grief is what you are really feeling.
· Focus your eyes: Look at anything, steadily, with concentration, and
breathe deeply. Feel a warmth in your upper abdomen; breathe; focus.
· Conjure an image of safety: Imagine a huge image of safety, such as a
cowrie shell, the palm of Buddha or Christ, a giant mother’s lap, or a
cloud of pink light. Surround the object of your anxiety with this
image. Fear locks up movement and speech; a clear visualization can
unfreeze you.
· Take an herbal calmative: Tincture of red clover is a profound relaxer
and soothing calmative. Its salicylic acid content (similar to aspirin)
makes it an excellent pain reliever, too. Motherwort is also effective.
Motherwort is not sedating, but calming, leaving you ready for action,
not flying off the handle or bouncing off the walls. Try 10 to 20 drops
as soon as you feel your nerves starting to fray or just before a
stressful event. Repeat every five minutes if needed.
· Try yoga postures. Yoga postures, yoga breathing, and quiet, focused
medication soothe the sympathetic nervous system instantly. Regular
practice alleviates anxiety, often permanently.
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If you liked this excerpt by Susun S. Weed, you will want New Menopausal
Years The Wise Woman Way available from
www.ashtreepublishing.com.
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Woodstock, NY 12498
Fax: 1-845-246-8081
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Bio:
Vibrant, passionate, and involved, Susun Weed has
garnered an international reputation for her groundbreaking lectures,
teachings, and writings on health and nutrition. She challenges
conventional medical approaches with humor, insight, and her vast
encyclopedic knowledge of herbal medicine. Unabashedly pro-woman, her
animated and enthusiastic lectures are engaging and often profoundly
provocative.
Susun is one of America's best-known authorities on herbal medicine and
natural approaches to women's health. Her four best-selling books are
recommended by expert herbalists and well-known physicians and are used
and cherished by millions of women around the world. Learn more at
www.susunweed.com
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