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It’s HOT! This weekend features a potentially stressful Mars-Saturn square, which can stimulate feelings of frustration, impatience, stagnation and anger. Add high August temperatures, which affects our moods and energies, and it’s a perfect moment to place our awareness on ways to help ourselves to cool down.<\/p>\n
–collagen\/hydro-jelly face masks<\/a> cools a hot head, where many of us generate too much heat with our thoughts.<\/p>\n –ice face masks<\/a> also bring down surface temperature of skin (also helps with heat based breakouts). Just make sure you only leave it on for a few minutes or you will generate red splotches.<\/p>\n -iced latte with collagen and adaptogens<\/a>, to bring down excess stress\/heat. Make it cool butterfly pea blue<\/a>!<\/p>\n -yin movement flows, like yoga and xi gong<\/a>. Both decrease Yang (heat) and increase Yin (coolness).<\/p>\n -cold washcloth on the back of neck and bottoms of feet. Also fun bonding time with your partner \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n -play in the yard with the garden hose and sprinklers – like you did when you were a kid.<\/p>\n -un-cooking – eating more raw, cool and juicy vegetables, berries, fruits, salads<\/p>\n -stay hydrated, and in air conditioning* as much as possible.<\/p>\n -do more Yin or COOLING activities: gardening, sleeping, napping, bathing, resting, reading books, doing quiet creative activities, slowing down and de-stressing, generally<\/p>\n This is also a great list for peri-menopausal and menopausal women. According to Chinese medicine, during this time of life we are deficient in YIN, or feminine\/cool, and have an excess of YANG, or masculine\/heat energies. Becoming conscious about and intentionally incorporating more YIN activities into your life balances out the excess YANG in your body right now, thus reducing uncomfortable symptoms of peri-meno, like hot flashes, sweats, mood swings etc.<\/p>\n In addition to doing things on the list above, I recently had our air conditioners cleaned (who knew I needed to do that?!) and it made a huge difference in the output of cool air and its more energy efficient. With such high heat AC’s are a necessary luxury. The reality of climate change makes this fact a double edged sword; we need the AC more than ever now but it’s also a contributor to the problem. I remain humbly grateful for the ability to stay cool.<\/p>\n Stay cool, friends!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The post STAY COOL<\/a> appeared first on Jessica Shepherd<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s HOT! This weekend features a potentially stressful Mars-Saturn square, which can stimulate feelings of frustration, impatience, stagnation and anger. Add high August temperatures, which affects our moods and energies, and it\u2019s a perfect moment to place our awareness on ways to help ourselves to cool down. \u2013collagen\/hydro-jelly face masks cools a hot head, where [\u2026]<\/p>\n The post STAY COOL<\/a> appeared first on Jessica Shepherd<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n