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Whenever we think about our health and well-being these days, we can find lots of information about diet, exercise, food supplements, and very little is spoken of about rest. It can seem like something we have forgotten all about, and that’s hardly surprising in our present society that places such a huge emphasis on ‘doing’.
Even rest has become something that we do. It is almost as though we are so afraid to appear to be ’doing nothing’ that we have to make ‘doing nothing’ sound like we’re doing something! So we have curious conversations that sound like “What are you doing?” “Oh just hanging out.” Hanging out seems to be our socially acceptable way of doing nothing.
Yet really doing nothing, or non-doing, is an essential part of our spiritual path. Rest is essential, not only for our health and well being, but for our spiritual growth. It is when we connect with the Divine subtle energies of the Universe, and replenish and rejuvenate our body and spirit.
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| | Everything in nature has cycles. Nature breathes in, and breathes out. We cannot breath out continuously and forget about the in-breath, yet that is what we try to do on a daily basis! Our modern lifestyle has become about ‘productivity’: doing, action, creating, production, putting out, putting out, putting out, in other words breathing out.
Yet the most effective part of any exercise system, whether it be a training program at the gym or a regular yoga practice, happens when we stop and allow ourselves to receive the benefit. This is why in any yoga practice ‘resting’ postures are built into the plan. The key to health is balancing the output, with the input. We expend energy, and then relax and allow ourselves to receive the benefits of that expenditure. The correct balance between “breathing out and breathing in” is the key to our health, well-being, and spiritual growth!
So now let’s look at your chart. It’s a few months since we last looked at positive and negative signs, so remember, we’re not talking about ‘good and bad’ but the direction of energy flow. Like the + and - poles of a magnet, or electricity. Neither one is better than the other, they are just different, like the tide coming in or flowing out. Like breathing in, or breathing out.
Positive signs are more electric. Their energy is naturally pushing out. Radiating. Negative signs are magnetic. They naturally pull things towards them. Receiving.
Here are the positive and negative signs again:
Aries - positive +
Taurus - negative -
Gemini - positive +
Cancer - negative -
Leo - positive +
Virgo - negative -
Libra - positive +
Scorpio - negative -
Sagittarius - positive +
Capricorn - negative -
Aquarius - positive +
Pisces - negative -
If you have a balance of planets in positive and negative signs then you should find it relatively easier to strike a good balance between rest and activity although in our modern society you will still have to buck the trend of ‘constant doing’ to weave in some downtime and really rest deeply enough to replenish yourself!
If you have a dominance of magnetic (-ve) signs then you may need more rest than others. Rest for you is when you draw in the energies of the Universe, nurture, replenish, and rejuvenate yourself. However, in order to take in a good deep, breath, we need to breathe out fully! So for you, even though you are naturally good at magnetizing energy towards you, the balance comes in doing enough of the right kind of activity (breathing out), to maximize the benefits of your 'in-breath'. It is also vital that you find the time for quality rest involving some yoga or meditation-type practice that maximizes the benefit of your ability to draw in vital pranic energy to yourself. Watching TV or playing games doesn’t cut it… that’s still essentially 'doing’, and you may find such activities drain you even further by cutting you off from your vital source of natural prana!
If you have a dominance of electric (+ve) signs, ironically, you might have to work harder at ‘resting’. Like a Duracell bunny you do seem to have an infinite innate source of energy, and you may feel as though you need less rest, which is partly true. But then you may have periods were you feel totally burned out. Even a fire needs oxygen to keep on burning. Doing some kind of active meditation, where you regularly ‘do’ your resting as part of your lifestyle, is essential to maintain a healthy balance, connect with your spirit, and help you to avoid periods of exhaustion and burn out.
During this Mercury retrograde period (until June 11th) it is an important time for rest, to allow your body and mind to breathe in, and replenish your energy, ready for the next ‘breathing out’ phase!
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That's all for now! See you next week and, in the meantime... happy exploring!
Best Wishes, Ruth PS. If you don’t have my eBook “So You Think You Can’t Meditate?” you can get your copy here.
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