Welcoming The New Year With Mindfulness
With little doubt, the New Year's holiday is a time for family, friends, and general merriment. During this time, we frequently overeat, sleep erratically, and schedule our meals erratically. While everyone's indulgent side comes out during the holidays, we need also exercise caution so that we can return to our regular routines fairly quickly.
The first step you can take to achieving your New Year's resolve for 2023 to prioritise your health and fitness is to practise self control during the holiday festivities. This can be done by practising mindfulness with everything that you do.
Wake up early
Making an early morning habit of living healthily is the first step. Not only does getting up early provide you extra time for the remainder of the day, but it also gives you a clean slate. When you get up early in the morning, you have some peaceful time that you may use to work on yourself. Early in the morning, one can enjoy unparalleled tranquilly and seclusion. This period can be used for several types of meditation, including Super Power Meditation, Breath Meditation, also known as Swaas Dhyan, Seed Meditation, also known as Aarambh Dhyan, etc. It controls your sleep cycles so that you go to bed early and maintains your energy levels when you get up early in the morning.
Monitor your diet
Monitoring your diet is the next thing you can do for yourself to start the New Year on a healthy note. Make a commitment to reducing your intake of processed food, fatty, greasy, and spicy foods. If losing weight is your aim, then make this New Year the time when you do so in a natural and healthy way. Avoid fad diets since they might harm your body and psyche over the long term while merely providing short results.
Himalaya Pranam
The Himalaya Pranam consists of 11 steps and is used to helps the practitioners in multiple ways. It allows the spirit to become humble, gives strength, increases one’s capacity, and power of understanding. This practice teaches individuals how to evolve towards divine energies.
Steps to perform Himalaya Pranam
1.Start in Pranamasana with feet together
2.Holding pranam, bend half down with your upper body to Samakonasana
3.Straighten to Pranamasana, opening your feet to hip-width distance. Inhale and bend back to Hastha Uthasana
4.Exhale hold your ankles with your palms
5.Walk your palms forward and lie down on your stomach in Advasana
6.Inahle and lift up both your legs, and palms holding pranam to Shalabsana
7.Exhale lie down, and push back to Adomukhiswanasana
8.Walk your palms back to Padahasthasana
9.Holding Pranam, bend back to Hastha Uthasana
10.Exhale, and bend half down with your upper body to Samakonasana
11.Straighten to Pranamasana
Our teachings from the ancient Himalayan tradition include Siddho Hum Kriya, Siddha Walk Abhyas, and Himalaya Pranam. These straightforward yet effective yogic techniques balance the body, mind, and spirit and have countless positive effects on our life. Numerous salutations, including Jal Namaskar, Prithvi Namaskar, Agni Namaskar, and Vayu Namaskar, are based on the Tattva or universal elements of water, fire, earth, wind, etc.
