If you can't afford to heat your home this winter:
Some practical tips.
Action: Obviously search with all your might for the answers to your problem.
Look for money from a job, benefits, ask for help from friends and family.
And anything else you can think of.
Don't wear yourself out to the point of stress though. The exercises at the bottom
should help here to unwind, just be, fill yourself with love, relax, enjoy the gifts
of this earth - the natural, free gifts.
Clothing:
Wear a hat in bed, if your hair is wet, and in the house in the daytime too. (A headscarf/bandanna if you have one and are style conscious or embarrassed) Winter hats will keep you warmer if it's very cold.
Wear a scarf in the house. Once more if you're style conscious and you have one to hand, wear an 'indoor' scarf eg. satin, silk, cotton, wool, pashmina, etc. Winter scarves may keep you warmer though!
Wear tights, leggings, long johns or long socks under your trousers.
Wear socks or tights in bed (a fresh set of clothes and shower beforehand if you're going to bed clothes so your skin has time to exfoliate, renew and breathe)
Wear a vest under pyjamas, wear long sleeved pyjamas with long trousers.
Wear a third layer if necessary!
You don't want to overheat but you don't want to be cold.
Buy a furry, fleecy or woolly sole for your shoes, boots, even trainers if you like! So warm for your toes, they can really make a difference.
Wear gloves if needed -
Material Choice for Scarves, Hats, Jumpers and Gloves
I recommend fleece if you are buying anything new as it's the most durable, doesn't shrink in the wash/dryer, seems to be the warmest of all fabrics (take thinsulate for example) - woolly gloves just don't warm up my hands enough on the coldest days?
Exercise
This makes an incredible difference.
I used to go for a run for twenty minutes in winter mornings and I was warm for the whole day from the circulation boost.
Today, a day's worth of housework and walking really helped me to stay warm!
Wiggling your toes can really help avoid frostbite and general exercise to boost whole body circulation.
I did get colder in the evening, as the temperature dropped and I became more idle, so I covered up with a more fleecy hoodie with longer sleeves, covered my head with the hood, and later was blessed with warm food and drinks, and had a shower, sat in front of the fire.
Cups of Tea and Soup
Worldwide money saving choices, as they are mostly water, these are great for winter - I really find that eating warm food or drinking a warm drink helps me to stay warm for an hour or so after.
Warm water or warm salted water are really really money saving. Hope it never gets that bad for you guys although natural (sea or rock) salt on the tongue provides a wealth of essential minerals if you can't afford vitamin pills, although I'm not sure if it contains b vitamins or vitamin c.
Fire
A fire made with found wood, if made safely, can obviously be very warming and is very peaceful if you look into it meditatively, gaze at the beauty and warmth of its colours, and really enjoy the feeling of warming seeping, radiating into your bones and skin, deep into yourself.
It's like love - we often associate love with warmth. A gift, perhaps, from creation.
The Sun's rays too can be incredibly healing in winter. Warming, especially if felt from the inside of a double glazed window, and cleansing, loving, gentle, beautiful, when outside. Piercing light, that cleanses our souls and minds in winter.
Allow that love from the loving, conscious light of your soul's vibration equivalent - your soul's healer the sun to envelop you. The sun is a gift. To us as humans - the gift that created us, that enabled us to exist! That continues to enable us to exist. The sun is a loving, conscious, pulsating and radiating, breathing gift of life.
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