Ahhh-- GREAT tips, Grinity!
This part is especially resonant for me:
If you can�t go for a walk, try this very simple movement: inhale deeply and slowly, raising your arms, then exhale deeply and slowly, lowering your arms. Feel that it is the energy of your heart, rising and falling with your breath, that powers the movement of your arms.
2. Contract, then expand. The feeling of your mind becoming clear, and your thoughts becoming smooth and unhurried comes from the relaxation of your mind, which itself comes from working your mind intensely through very focused concentration, in which you contract the mind to a single-pointed focus, then releasing that concentration, allowing your mind to expand. I suggest using an object of concentration that I know will interest you: your heart, the source of all your passion, all that you find most interesting, engaging, and all that you long for.
Those are common Tai Chi warmups. I'm a huge fan of Tai Chi-- it's basically meditation in motion, and it increases body awareness and acceptance.
What a wonderful bit of serendipity to my day. I'm in the process of signing DD and myself up for a Push Hands course at a local community college today.
We are hoping that it will help her with her insomnia and racing thoughts.
