Sparkle 42 - #10 7 September 2021 (Sep 07, 2021)

NB: No meeting at the Paradise Hotel on Tuesday

Join Zoom Meeting info:

https://zoom.us/j/7189478380?pwd=MFZ2a25pZmlOYkNtdzBuTVZPTmQzQT09

Meeting ID: 718 947 8380

Passcode: 106183

Last Week's Meeting

Gym and sports get up abounded!!! John Henderson was having Jane Fonda hallucinations most of the meeting, but never mind!!!

Reports

PP PHF Emma Clarke – Community

PP PHF John Shaw PP PHF Gloria Hargreaves and Susi Wilson, application district funding $100k plus for storm recovery fund. With Belgrave and Monbulk connected to rescuing fallen wood. Mental health is being looked at thanks to Susi for looking at the family in need.

Di Dall’Oglio - Emerald Pilates

Di has 2 studios in Emerald.

670 million breaths in an average lifetime

Di is a Clinical Teacher – people with injuries and recovering from surgery

Pleasure, enjoys every day she runs group reformer classes to maintain health, Yoga and pilates for health.

There are 3 aspects - Breath, Pain and Movement

Breathing

Breathing and movement can be the enemy of physical and emotional pain

Don’t spend a lot of time thinking about the breath

Breathing makes you feel calm and peaceful – breathe in as deep as you can and exhale as much as you can. Coming to your breath and breathe deeply can assist with anxiety, stress, panic, preparing for a speech, being with family, teaching – breathing can help you ground yourself and feel centered.

Nasal breathing, expands the sinus and expands the space at the back of your skull, clears sinuses, reduces headaches, blood pressure reduction. Can change the shape of our face. Research that indicates our jaws are becoming smaller because of the mouth breathing we do. Can help with sleep. Sleep apnieo due to mouth breathing. Nasal breathing increases sense of smell – bring mind to memory or something pleasant. It helps use aerobic systems in our body and can make exercise more enjoyable.

Breathing and focusing in the present, not past or future. Helps us just stop and breathe deeply. Something we can all do to help have more patience, understanding, concentration, emotional control.

Pain

Pain isn’t just physical, can affect emotional and mental wellbeing. If you live with pain you already know this.

There are 3 types of pain - Acute, Chronic, and cancer.

Acute – short

Chronic – ongoing after surgery

Cancer pain – early stage and advance disease, debilitating side effects

The cost of chronic pain economic as well as personal it is estimated $139bn at the moment and going up to $220b by 2050

Movement

Di has an important job to help people get of pain. Moving is the enemy of pain

Tolerance to pain – how do you tolerate pain? We all tolerate it differently.

Quality mindful movement can assist with pain management. It isn’t our lot in live to live with pain, we are not meant to live with chronic pain - it is absolute nonsense you have to continue in chronic pain.

Pain a result of compression in our body can be in our spine or in our joints. Our nerves tell us we have pain – the body is actually asking us to do something about it. However, quality, good mindful movement can relieve pain,

Some things you can do to avoid pain

Movement and relaxation!

Movement education – walking and outside exercise but sometimes we are unaware of patterns in body contributing to an inefficiency. Keep muscles strong so we don’t have nerve pain. Teaching you how to activate muscles is gold.

Gentle daily exercise is really good for you but the following are also important:

Other tips ....

Laughing

Yoga

Listening to music

Nutrition and hydration

Don’t forget - coming to the breath can help with all aspects of your health.

Rotary and Mental Health

The below link may be useful at this time :)

https://www.rotary.org.au/

Just something from a RC in Sydney ...

The child - "How old are you, Grandpa?"

Grandpa - "I'm 81, dear."

The child - "So does that mean you were alive during the Coronavirus?"

Grandpa - "Yes, I was."

Child - "Wow. That must have been horrible, Grandpa. We were learning about that at school this week. They told us about how all the schools had closed; how mums and dads couldn't go to work so didn't have as much money to do nice things; how you weren't allowed to go and visit your friends and family and couldn't go out anywhere. They told us that the shops ran out of lots of things, like bread, and flour and toilet rolls. They said that the Easter holidays were cancelled. They told us about all those thousands of people that got very sick and who died. They explained how hard all the doctors and nurses and all essential workers worked and that lots of them died, too. That must have been so horrible, grandpa!"

Grandpa - "Yes, that is all correct, but I was just a kid back then. But to tell you the truth, I remember it differently... I remember playing in the garden for hours with Mum and Dad and having picnics outside and lots of BBQs. I remember making things with my Dad and baking with my Mum. I remember learning how to do handstands and backflips and having quality time with my family. I remember Mum's favourite words becoming 'Hey, I've got an idea...' Instead of 'Maybe later or tomorrow - I'm a bit busy'. I remember having a movie night three or four times a week instead of just one. You’re right - it was a horrible time for lots of people, but I remember it differently."

Remember how our children; family members and friends will remember these times.

Help take control of the memories they are creating right now so that despite all the awful headlines and emotional stories they will come to read in future years, they can only actually remember the happy times.

We need to have the right PERSPECTIVE and try to maintain a POSITIVE attitude.

NB: No meeting at the Paradise Hotel on Tuesday

Last Week's Meeting

Reports

Di Dall’Oglio - Emerald Pilates

Rotary and Mental Health

Jackpot $217.50

Events

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Emerald Village Community

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in the wellbeing of our community and beyond