When we choose to work with our body energetically to create health it becomes very easy to recognize which choices energize and support our physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health and which choices deplete us of energy in these areas, creating ill health and disease.

Disease within the body is simply our physical body communicating to us that there is incongruence somewhere within our emotional, mental and spiritual choices. Simply speaking, ones mind and heart aren’t reading from the same page. What you think isn’t congruent with what you feel and when decisions are made from this misalignment of personal truth our physical bodies are our first reminder for this incongruence!!  

Balancing our Ph is one way we can help our physical bodies maintain a healthy constitution to support us as we grow and expand our consciousness across our mental, emotional and spiritual experiences in life.
 
What we choose to eat, drink, think and believe impact on both our body’s ph balance and energy system.

Just as certain types of foods can push you into a  more acidic or more alkaline state, the same is true for exercise. Choosing high impact cardiovascular or strength resistance training will stimulate a rise in acidity. This is perfectly fine if your body is able to find its way back to homeostasis and a balanced ph post workout. However, if your body is already in a chronic state of acidity it is highly recommended that you choose exercises that will help the body achieve an alkaline state to support your body to physically heal from the inside out. When you combine the right choices of food, drink, exercise, thoughts and attitude that have alkalizing effects on the body, you can assist the speed and effectiveness of any healing process.

The masculine and feminine energies principles within exercise

Energetically speaking a PH balance of 7 reflects the balance and harmony of the masculine and feminine energies within our bodies. The masculine represents the acidic scale and the feminine the alkaline scale. When they are working in balance and harmony with one another our bodies experiences a state of wellness between all systems and their functions. Wellness is “a state in which a human being functions at an optimal level of integration between the elements of body, mind and spirit. The well individual is one who is happy, healthy and whole and who perceives his/her life as one with meaning and purpose” Richard Gerber, M.D. Vibrational Medicine, 1986

It is common in today’s society to approach exercise from the masculine energy in its extreme, believing that the harder one works out the greater the physical results will be. It’s this masculine energy in its extreme that adopts the no pain no gain attitude that plagues our gyms today and is why so many struggle to experience a state of wellbeing despite there “healthy” food and exercise regime. It is also this approach that creates further challenges for an individual to balance their PH.

If you are someone who is out of balance energetically, with a high acid ph, low on energy, suffers from digestive disorders or high levels of stress then you would benefit from adopting more of the feminine energy principle within exercise to help balance your body’s ph. The feminine principle adopts the less is more attitude that is associated with ‘working in’ verses ‘working out’, the difference between expending energy (the masculine principle) verses cultivating energy (the feminine principle).

Choosing low impact exercise such as walking, Qigong, Tai chi, Pilates or Yoga are all aligned to the feminine energy principle. However, by simply working with your breath you can take any weight resistant exercise and turn it into an energy building exercise to energize your body as opposed to an energy expending exercise that increase acidity and further depletes an already depleted body of its energy and vitality.

Let’s take a squat for example. It is a primal movement pattern exercise using every muscle in the body!
Follow the instructions below. I recommend that you commit to performing at least 50 breathing squats a day. If you are unable to do 50 in a row then do as many as you can. Then, at intervals throughout the day, do a set of 10. This is an effective way to energize the body and combat the effects of sitting, which is an activity that the body is not designed for and is stressful to the lower back. Many of you will find that as you get better at breathing squats, your flexibility, digestion, elimination, energy, ph balance, appearance, concentration and mental clarity all improve.

• Take a comfortable stance that is wide enough for you to squat down between your legs. Place your arms at your sides or up in front of you for a more advanced version.
• Inhale through your nose and then lower yourself down as you exhale through your nose. Go as low as you comfortable can, inhale through the nose as you return to standing.
• Keep your torso upright and your weight between the balls of your feet and your heels.
• The pace at which you lower and raise yourself should perfectly match your breathing rate. Your breathing rhythm should stay the same throughout the exercise. If your breathing speeds up,reduce the depth you go down.