The Benefits of Exercise for Mental Health
To celebrate World Mental Health Day, we’ve compiled a list of the many benefits of exercise for mental health. We all know that movement and staying active are good for our well-being, but sometimes reading the stats isn’t enough – so below are some real stories from our STARSEEDS team about how yoga, Pilates, swimming, and staying active helped them overcome significant mental health challenges…
Exercise can help you deal with the mental challenges of illness
We’re a pretty healthy team of yogis, but even the healthiest of us can still be faced with physical challenges such as chronic illnesses. Chronic pain, and the stresses of a health scare (even if short term), can have implications on our mental health, such as depression.
Movement not only helps with the physical side of living with a condition, such as easing chronic pain and reducing the rate of flare ups, but it also helps us process the difficult emotions that come up from these through improving mood, and even alleviating the depression and anxiety that can result from ill health.
“One thing you learn in yoga is to live and see pain in a different way. It’s okay to not be able to do all the poses, it’s not about ego, it’s about listening to your body and finding the sweet spot between the edge of discomfort and the beginning of pain, and knowing when to back off. Discomfort is not the same as pain, and pain is not the same as suffering. “ – Cristian Blanch, STARSEEDS’ Ambassador
“It took my focus away from being unwell and helped me move into a more healthy and positive state.” – Karolina, STARSEEDS’ Team Member
Exercise can help improve self-esteem and self-worth
Studies have shown exercise can have a significant impact on boosting self-esteem and feelings of self-worth. The improvement we see in our performance over time heightens our confidence, connection with our bodies and self-belief over achieving a task, and in turn, our levels of self-esteem and self-worth increase overall.
“Another facet of healing happens through the changes experienced in the physical body thanks to a regular sustained practice. Seeing yourself suddenly get into asanas you once deemed impossible, noticing how you have become increasingly more flexible and strong can heal the negative self-talk of what your body is, what it ought to be – the constant compare and despair. The body itself orchestrates this process, inviting us into its own deeper layers. The more patient and gentle we can be in this journey, the bigger the transformation.” Marta Wanderlust, STARSEEDS’ Ambassador
Exercise helps us cope with everyday stresses and busy lives
The benefits of exercise for wellbeing are well documented, and studies have shown that exercise can have a positive affect on stress management and stress reduction. Physical activity can help relieve muscle tension, which can build up through stress; it boosts our moods and can also help us relax. Stress can contribute to more serious mental health issues, so working through it with movement is a wonderful way to look after our mental wellbeing.
“Mentally I often have lots going on – flitting between yoga teaching and the performance industry – so yoga and meditation is my tool to reel everything in and feel sane again. Yoga simplistically means to unify and I feel that by channeling this unification of the senses to the breath, I am able to feel stronger and more prepared to take on whatever I might be doing in that moment.” – Matt Penman, STARSEEDS’ Ambassador
Exercise can help treat depression
The NHS state that exercise can be helpful to people living with moderate to mild depression, and it’s also been shown to generally improve our mood. Exercise releases both serotonins and endorphins, which are both chemicals in our bodies that help us to feel happy and can empower people to feel more in control of their depression.
“I have lived with depression all my life, sometimes it’s manageable, and sometimes I really struggle. Taking up pilates, body weight exercises and yoga was what got me through a dark two year period. No matter what help I sought or what I did, I couldn’t seem to shift the fog. As soon as I started a regular routine that consisted of these three, my mood began lifting pretty much immediately. Over time it was like it worked me out of the fog. As my physical strength increased, so did my mental strength.”
Humans have lived on planet Earth for millennia, and our advances during those years have led us to understand that worlds and galaxies exist beyond our own. Many other planets exhibit tantalising hints that they may be capable of supporting life, and so our minds are drawn to the idea of visitors from the stars. For some, this manifests in a desire to look outwards in quest for UFOs, but for others the answers lie within. In this article, we want to discuss the latter, and explore the fascinating world of the starseed.
What is a Starseed?
The universe is not random, but is a grand drama between light and dark that’s being played out on a cosmic scale. In a very real sense, it is a “Cosmic Game”, and every soul has a part to play. Some souls specifically volunteer to come to Earth during periods of transition, temporarily forgetting their cosmic origins. These souls are known as starseeds.
A starseed is a person who has lived previous – usually extraterrestrial – lives (you may have encountered this idea within the concept of reincarnation). Earth souls reincarnate on earth, but starseeds are conduits between other realms and the Earth. An otherworldly spiritual aura inhabits their human form. They have a profound connection to the cosmos and, using mediation, they can communicate with other galaxies. They can also communicate with “light language”: a way of bypassing conventional limitations and making connections via the language of the soul.
Starseeds are sent to change the world. They can be activists, healers, or catalysts of social change, and are sometimes known by other names, such as star people or indigo children. The souls of starseeds carry inner wisdom, and they may possess unique and special abilities that can remain dormant until an appointed time. Their main goal is usually to serve humanity with their unique abilities. Having gained divine wisdom over numerous lifetimes, starseeds seek to fulfil a higher purpose that guides others to a golden age of reawakening and possibility. In most cases, the mission of a starseed will be a positive one, although malevolent starseeds do exist, and are opposed by the actions of their positive counterparts.
The idea of star people was first popularised in 1976 by Brad Steiger, an American writer and author of Gods of Aquarius, who speculated about the idea of humans who came from a gene pool that was affected by extraterrestrial visitations. LINK!
Article 4: Quantum DNA Activation & Attunement
Over a 4 Part Series of Articles, I share with you the ancient wisdom of DNA Activation & Attunement including the awakening of your Pineal Gland-Primordial Cells communication patheway.
Article 1 – Awakening your Pineal Gland >
Article 2 – Primordial Cells – Powerhouse of Qi >
Article 3 – Pineal Gland-Primordial Cells Pathway >
Article 4 – Quantum DNA Activation & Attunement (below)
Article 4 – Quantum DNA Activation & Attunement
What is DNA ?
DNA resides within the nucleus of every cell in the body – and there are approximately 100 trillion cells within the body. DNA is responsible for directing cellular function and is a genetic blueprint that encodes skin, eye and hair colour, height, blood type and fingerprints. It also carries our ancestral and cultural imprints including disease traits.
The ‘old’ scientific view of our DNA
‘The Human Genome Project’, an international scientific research project established in 1990 set out to map the human genome. By 2003, the entire Human Genome had been decoded.
It was found that human DNA encodes for approximately 30,000 genes and that humans use less than 5% of their DNA. The remaining 95% of DNA is referred to as ‘junk DNA’ and is believed to have no function within the human body as it is a redundant leftover of our evolution.
The Human Genome Project thus fully mapped the 5% of our functioning DNA (Codons / Genes) to understand how this genetic coding controls functions, behavior and development of the human body.
This 5% of functioning DNA was found to CONTROL the function of humans, and hence DNA was deemed the brain of the cell.
The ‘awakened’ scientific view of our DNA
Whilst western science was focused on The Human Genome Project, a Russian research team headed by Dr Pjotr Garjajev and comprising of molecular biologists, physicists, embryologists and linguistic experts also commenced investigations in 1990.
Their research uncovered that the 95% junk DNA was in actual fact a highly intelligent combination of Codon sequences that spoke a ‘language’. This biological language not only explained the origins of human language but was also a text that could be altered. That is, DNA is reprogrammable and DNA codon sequences can be inter-changed and activated.
Cellular Biologist Bruce Lipton (Biology of Belief, 2005), is one of thousands of scientists that are re-writing the old science regarding our knowledge of the functioning of our DNA. Bruce Lipton’s years of research uncovered that the DNA within the nucleus of every cell is simply a response unit to the environment. Receptors on cell membranes (the walls of cells) ‘read’ the messages from the environment and ‘tell’ the DNA how to respond accordingly.
Thus it is the ‘environment’ that either inhibits or promotes the functioning of DNA, and it is the environment that has the capacity to reprogram / activate the non-functioning DNA.
The environment is considered to be a combination of:
- Food / Water / Nutrients that we consume;
- Sound, Colour, all frequencies that our body’s are bathed in;
- Cosmic energetic forces (planetary, solar, radiation, electromagnetic etc..);
- Speech, thoughts, emotions, feelings etc;
- Auric Field – as a direct mirror image of our Soul Star expression
- Nature – Earth’s Crystalline Field, devic energies, vibrational essences etc.
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Our Ancient Ancestors… wisdom for the future
The wisdoms of our ancient ancestors provide a much more detailed picture of the structure of our DNA, both physical and energetic.
This wisdom is held deep within the Crystalline Grid of Gaia (the Akashic Earth Records) and is a rich history of information from all life forms that have walked the Earth, as well as the higher dimensional wisdoms of the Pleiades, Sirius and the Galactic Centre. These light-records of creation are also accessible via the ancient OmAhOm Symbol of life.
The Akashic light records unveil that our ancient ancestors were fully versed in the different levels of DNA – the 13 levels of consciousness of our DNA.
The first two levels, relate to the 2 strands of physical DNA creating the double helix.
The next 11 levels relate to the 11 Energetic Bodies (auric levels) that surround the DNA.The Diagram below, as studied during our Crystal Light Healing® Practitioner & Teachers Courses, shows our double helix (2 strands) of DNA as well as the 11 Energetic Bodies that surround each DNA Helix – representing our 13 levels of DNA consciousness through Metatron’s Cube (also referred to as our 11:11 Genetic Code).
Whilst each of the 11 energetic bodies of our DNA appear to be separate layers built on top of each other (a little like Russian Babushka dolls), in actual fact each outer layer contains all layers directly beneath it.
There are many people on Earth that refer to this DNA configuration as 12 stranded DNA (Physical DNA + 11 additional strands). This appearance of 12 strands may result as a holographic phenomenon when viewing the energetic bodies of DNA remotely.
However, Crystal Light Healing® remains true to the teachings of our ancient ancestors, thus the structure of our DNA is the physical DNA double helix + the 11 energetic bodies, creating 13 levels of consciousness held within our DNA.
Our ancient ancestors consciously worked with the 2 physical strands of DNA + the 11 energetic bodies of DNA (thus the 13 levels of DNA consciousness) in order to activate aspects of their DNA that in today’s terms are referred to as ‘junk DNA’.
Each energetic body of the DNA relates to one or more junk ‘codons’ on the DNA – referred to as DNA Light Codes. Just like our ancient ancestors, we have the same potential to turn ‘on’ our Light Codes and awaken those aspects of our DNA that are ‘asleep’.