{"id":399,"date":"2007-07-03T09:37:53","date_gmt":"2007-07-02T22:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/2007\/07\/03\/the-benefits-of-footsoaking\/"},"modified":"2007-07-03T09:37:53","modified_gmt":"2007-07-02T22:37:53","slug":"the-benefits-of-footsoaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/2007\/07\/03\/the-benefits-of-footsoaking\/","title":{"rendered":"The Benefits of Footsoaking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/sahaja-yogi-footsoaking.jpg\" title=\"sahaja-yogi-footsoaking.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"3\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/sahaja-yogi-footsoaking.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"Sahaja Yogi footsoaking\" title=\"Sahaja Yogi footsoaking\" \/><\/a>One\u00a0lady had been to only two or three Sahaja Yoga programs,\u00a0but she\u00a0had been meditating and footsoaking and giving her eight-year-old son footsoaks for two weeks.\u00a0Her son has always had poor behaviour at the Steiner\u00a0School he attends, and she is in regular communication with his teacher.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The teacher spoke to her recently and said, &#8220;I can&#8217;t believe the change in your son.\u00a0What are you doing to bring about such an enormous change?&#8221;\u00a0From being an unruly, disruptive influence in the class he had become a positive influence, even saying to his classmates, &#8220;You don&#8217;t always want to do things, but sometimes you need\u00a0to do it, anyway&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She told\u00a0the teacher that the only change was that\u00a0her son was footsoaking, and that she herself was meditating and footsoaking. The teacher was very impressed and asked her to bring some\u00a0Sahaja Yoga literature along so that she could find out more for herself and for her students.<\/p>\n<p>Footsoaks can also be very positive for the elderly.\u00a0Some time ago my mother (aged 87) went\u00a0downhill in her mental capacity.\u00a0She was so worried about forgetting what to do and who was coming and so on, that she spent most of her time standing in front of the calendar trying to work out what day it was and what she should be doing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Footsoaking was only part of the changes we put in place for my Mum, but I am convinced that the biggest factor in getting Mum back to &#8220;Living in the Present&#8221; was the footsoaks.\u00a0Mum is not a Sahaja Yogi and\u00a0she doesn&#8217;t meditate, but she recognises the benefit of\u00a0footsoaking. If several days have gone by without\u00a0our doing a footsoak, she reminds me.\u00a0It is an amazing and simple tool to get us back in the present, to suck out the negativity that builds up from everyday life and to keep us in balance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Maxine Whitnell<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One\u00a0lady had been to only two or three Sahaja Yoga programs,\u00a0but she\u00a0had been meditating and footsoaking and giving her eight-year-old son footsoaks for two weeks.\u00a0Her son has always had poor behaviour at the Steiner\u00a0School he attends, and she is in regular communication with his teacher.\u00a0 The teacher spoke to her recently and said, &#8220;I can&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27,10,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-27","category-meditation","category-personal-experiences"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4h1Q1-6r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}