Nourish Your Child for Life

20/03/2021

Yoga for kids.

Take some time this weekend and have some fun doing these yoga poses with your child.

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Yoga for kids helps improve concentration and strength in them. MomJunction gives you a list of yoga poses that your kids can do and benefit.

19/03/2021

Ego say: "Once everything falls into place, I will find peace."
Spirit says" "Find peace and everything will fall into place."

17/03/2021

Yoga, Tai Chi, and other similar disciplined practices.

Finding a disciplined practice that you enjoy can take some time. Here are a few to get you started, pick one and see where you go and how it makes you feel.
Yoga – there are five types of yoga, each representing a major path of spiritual development.
Bikram Yoga. This type of yoga is often practiced in a hot and humid environment, where the temperature reaches about 40 degrees.
Hatha Yoga is practiced a slow pace, relaxed, as it is focused on meditation.
Vinyasa Yoga also know as Ashtanga yoga serves as a training to increase strength and helps build lean muscle mass throughout the body.
Kundalini Yoga is also known as “yoga of awareness”. Its peculiarity is to use movement, sound, breath and meditation to relax and restore mind and body, improving strength, flexibility, and endurance. Kundalini yoga strengthens the nervous system, balance glands, purifies the blood, and works deeply on your subconscious.
Anusara Yoga is a relatively new form of yoga (1997). This form of yoga is known as one of the most spiritual, and it focuses on your inner self, your mind, and soul.

Tai Chi – is an ancient Chinese martial art. It has since evolved into a gentle form of health-improving exercise. One can describe it as meditation in (slow) motion. It’s all about controlled breathing and relaxed movement from one posture to another.

Qi Gong is an internal process that has external movements. Qi meaning “life force”, the energy that powers our body and spirit. Gong is the term meaning work or gather. Together it means a form of movement and mind using intention and mindfulness to guide qi and make qi work. It brings energy and vitality to everything internally.

You can easily find any of the these on You Tube to get a taste of whichever is enjoyable and adding value in your life.

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13/03/2021

Today's activity is to encourage your child to read.

The Treasure Hunt
Start off your child on discovering the magic of reading, by introducing him to the happiness of solving a riddle and getting a prize.

What you will need:
A bunch of paper cards
Pencil
Various objects or gifts

How To Play

Rather than turn reading into a job, let your kid start finding out how reading is so integral to any part of their lives. Hide his toys or even new ones along with a few chocolates or gifts in different parts of the house.
About those locations, write down simple clues on a piece of paper. Even a simple line as “where do you water the plants” can be enough. Make your child read it out loud, answer it and then find the hidden object.
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12/03/2021

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what is already inside of you - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

10/03/2021

Inspirational reading.

There is nothing better than to put the world on hold even if it’s for 10-15 minutes and read a great book.

Here are some benefits to reading an inspiring book:
You raise your personal vibration – you flood your brain and
change your power of thought through reading positive words and uplifting concepts.

You’re inspired to make better choices and take positive actions
more often – you get thinking about the choices you make and why you make them. You become aware of your thinking behind your actions.

It enhances your life – we don’t read inspirational or motivational books to improve what we are lacking, we read them to expand what we already have.

It challenges your perspective – you start to believe you can be more, do more and experience more. You to explore more of what you are capable of and where your limitations are, so you get through them. You get stronger and better — you dare yourself to go where you haven't gone before, so you can experience what you haven't had before. When we believe we can be more, we're pulled to do and feel more.

Reading helps you remember; it is a vehicle for reflection.

Reading helps you forget – it gives your mind a safe place to rest and like exercise offers a safe, healthy and productive replacement for negative thinking.

Here are a few books I’ve read that have made a positive impact in my life:
• The Monk who sold his Ferrari – Robin Sharma
• The Power of Now – Eckhart Tolle
• The Secret – Rhonda Byrne
• Screw it, let’s do it – Richard Branson
• Think and Grow Rich – Napoleon Hill
• Rich Dad, Poor Dad – Robert Kiyosaki
• The Breakthrough Experience – Dr. John F Demartini
• Elon Musk
• Lesson’s from the boot of my car – Reg Lascaris

I would love to hear of any great books that have made an impact in your life. Please comment below.

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06/03/2021

Today's child's activity: A nature scavenger hunt

They are a great way to encourage exploration, discovery and excitement. It allows them to uncover wonderful natural treasures all around them. Armed with nothing but a list and a paper bag, they will be challenged to find a selection of natural items, which become innately precious through the act of discovery.

Preparation:
Look at an area around you outside and draw up a list of items for your child to go and find. Here's some examples to get you started.
4 Different shaped leaves
A chewed leaf
A different coloured leaf
A smooth stone
3 Different types of flowers
A feather
An unusual shape of bark
A nut or a seed
A flower they like the smell of
A flower they like the colour of
Something prickly
Something wet

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05/03/2021

"Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt" John Muir

03/03/2021

Spending time in nature.

A study shows that spending time in nature dramatically reduces stress and is also anti-inflammatory.
For those of us based in Gauteng taking a walk on the beach is a little difficult to do on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon. If you fortunate to live at the beach, I would walk every day - the sea rejuvenates my soul.

Here are a few places in Gauteng:
Cradle of Humankind
Pilanesberg National Park
Walter Sisulu National Botanical Gardens
Melville Koppies
Dinokeng Game Reserve
Moreleta Kloof Nature Reserve
Kloofendal, Delta Park, Klipriviersberg Nature Reserve
Groenkloof, Wonderboom, Faerie Glen Nature Reserves in Pretoria
Twaing Crater
Suikerbosrand Nature Reserve
Roodeplaat Dam Nature Reserve
Beechwood Gardens Sandton
The Wilds Nature Reserve Houghton

Take an afternoon, pack a picnic basket, grab the kids and go for a little outing in nature. You'll all come back calm and relaxed ready to start the week ahead.

27/02/2021

Here's a short activity to teach your child how to practice mindfulness.
It's called Focus Flower.
Find a flower (outside) and spend two minutes looking at it closely. (No flowers? - any object will do rocks, leaves, a plant, etc.) Pretend you are looking at it for the first time. Can you notice all the intricate details? Look at the petals, the lines, the colours. What does it smell like? What does it feel like? Take time just to notice.
If you have a young child, practice with them and guide them in the activity.

26/02/2021

The definition of contemplation.
"Deep reflective thought"

24/02/2021

I recently started practising mind power exercises using contemplation. 20 minutes during my morning tea. Believe me it isn’t easy getting your mind to focus on one thing, mine seems to go in all directions as I’m sure yours does too.

The exercises are from http://ow.ly/yj4M50DHHx0 by John Kehoe the author of the #1 best seller Mind Power into the 21st Century. My favourite exercise is contemplating, probing and analysing “My personal vibration determines the circumstances and situations that happen to me. My thoughts and my beliefs create my personal vibration.” I do this one each morning along with the other exercises spending 5 minutes on each one.

Believe me when he gives you these exercises my first thought was OH NO where will I find the time to do this? But as my motto in life is, “Everything is Figureoutable” from Marie Forelo’s book I knew that if I wanted to succeed at it, I had to figure out a way to do this each and every morning. No excuses! I did. I printed the exercises and placed them in his book on my outside table where I sit for my morning tea. The result. I see it each morning and remember.

You can contemplate anything. Am I doing what I love, am I living the life of my dreams, am I preparing my child to face the world one day? You get the drift.

Start small, don’t make it complicated. 5 minutes each day and set a timer on your phone because it may feel like 5 minutes, but it aint it’s probably 1-2 minutes max.

How does this help my spiritual journey? Clarity, mindful awareness of your deeper thoughts and emotions, self-awareness, self-regulation and self-enquiry and much more.

Over the next week take the 5 minutes.

I would love to hear how it’s going. Drop a comment.

Here’s a blog post by Mark L Lockwood 21 Ways to practice contemplation. http://ow.ly/Ru6u50DHHwZ

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