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Last month in this newsletter, Josh told you he has just 12,927 days to live. Discovering that number inspired him to leverage Chiro1Source to give back now rather than later. He started with a $5,000 donation to Chiro Congress, and he also set up a new system in our office. Now, every time our team meets a quarterly goal, one of us chooses a charity and Chiro1Source makes a donation!
MEDITATION NOT WORKING FOR YOU? TRY A SOUND BATH As is the case with many self-care trends like yoga and meditation, what’s old is new again. The latest relaxation practice with ancient roots to make waves in modern times is sound baths. Celebs from Charlize Theron to Laurence Fishburne say they help promote relaxation and reduce stress. Kendall Jenner, who’s been public about her struggles with anxiety and sleep paralysis, also swears by the practice’s healing powers and has even started creating her own sound baths and sharing them on Instagram.
This quarter, our in-house business consultant, Randy Alexander, had the floor. He chose Operation Veggie Box (OVB), and we donated $250 to support their efforts. If you don’t live in North Carolina, you may not be familiar with this charity. It’s a hyper-local group based in Arapahoe that runs community gardens and distributes food boxes in Craven, Jones, and Pamlico County. OVB was founded in 2013 at Bethany Christian Church, and Randy has volunteered with the group for the last four years. “One facet of Operation Veggie Box is running the community gardens [they support 4–6 each year at schools, churches, and summer camps] and the other is our boxing activities,” he says. “We actually have one coming up this weekend! It’s the fresh veggies. We put together 1,500 boxes every spring, and each box includes white potatoes, sweet potatoes, onions, and corn.”
While you can create a sound bath experience at home, most practitioners “bathe” at in-person sessions with “sounders” — those who create the soundscape. These sessions typically last 45–60 minutes. The idea behind the sonic experience is that bathers sit or lay in a relaxing position while gently focusing on the sounds they are immersed in. Sounders commonly use singing bowls, chimes, gongs, and other instruments to create a meditative and relaxing vibe. In fact, sounders say the vibrations of some instruments facilitate relaxation by literally changing the brainwaves. Health practitioners put it differently, saying that the practice promotes a parasympathetic autonomic nervous system response, aka a stress reduction response. Either way, the practice is a nice alternative to standard sitting meditation, which often focuses on the breath and can be difficult, especially for new practitioners.
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While there hasn’t been a lot of medical research done to test the efficacy of the practice, it is becoming a more widely used supplemental treatment for stress, anxiety, addiction, and post-traumatic stress disorder. If you get the chance to experience one yourself, try to approach it with an open mind and open ears. You just might be surprised.
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