Have Your Child Shake Like A Tree To Be Happy & Healthy

This simple, yet powerful exercise, while designed for children, is for hearts of all ages. You will enjoy it too!

When the wind blows, all the dust and dirt on the leaves of a tree gets blown off. Then the leaves can breathe easier. They feel happier.

Sometimes, you have things that need to be blown off your leaves -- your body. You can do this by pretending to be a tree shaking in the wind.

You can shake off everything that keeps you from feeling full of joy and health.

Exercising like this will give you the energy, vitality, and wisdom to really enjoy life.

It will help you and your child sing, dance, speak, paint, write, study, love, or do anything else better than if you are out of shape, huffing and puffing for air.

Harmonizing Musical Vibrations by Robert Anthony Aviles, the Jimi Hendrix of the Electric Violin

Transcript

Tree Shaking When a wind blows,

All the dust and dirt on the leaves of a tree gets blown off.

Then the leaves can breathe easier.

They feel happier.

Sometimes,

You have things that need to be blown off your leaves,

Your body.

You can do this by pretending to be a tree shaking in the wind.

You can shake off everything that keeps you from feeling full of joy and health.

Stand with your feet about shoulder width apart with a little bend in your knees.

Close your eyes and imagine you're a tree.

Any kind of tree you want.

Feel the bottom of your feet,

Your roots against the earth.

Even imagine them growing down into the earth.

Breathe deep into your tummy.

Let it fill up like a balloon as you inhale and empty as you exhale.

Keep breathing deep and imagine that you're breathing in through every cell of your tree,

Your body.

Relax your shoulders and let your arms dangle at your sides.

Drop your chin a little relaxing the back of your neck.

Now slowly start to bounce in place by bending your knees over and over again.

Let your heels lift off the ground a little as you bounce.

Gradually bounce faster and faster shaking off all the dead leaves.

When you practice this on your own you can bounce about a hundred times.

Right now,

Bounce faster and faster and then slowly start to slow your bounces down.

Slower and slower and slower until your body becomes totally still.

Feel like you're still bouncing on the inside and keep breathing deep into the trunk of your tree your spinal column.

Exercising like this will give you the energy,

Vitality,

And wisdom to really enjoy life.

It will help you sing,

Dance,

Speak,

Paint,

Write,

Study,

Love,

Or do anything else better than if you are out of shape huffing and puffing for air.

Reviews

Reminds me so much of Mary Oliver’s beautiful invitation in her poetry ‘when I am among the trees’ 🌲 Thank you Timothy