Underneath the busyness of our everyday lives and the incessant mental chatter, we are all infinitely wise and inherently intelligent. The greatest difficulty to accessing our inner wisdom is in stilling the mind and getting out of our own way, as learned from personal experience and then witnessed in my clients over the last ten years of coaching … [Read more...]
The Best Medicine: Relax and Focus on What Excites You!
February 4, 2015 by
Taming the ‘monkey mind”, entering the stillness, quieting the mind, finding inner peace may all be ways of saying the same thing….the experience of Mindfulness, defined in 2003 by Jon Kabat-Zinn, who popularized it in North America as, “Paying attention in a particular way on purpose, in the present moment, without judgment.” So … [Read more...]
Is Active Listening Possible When You’re Upset or Angry?
January 21, 2015 by
It's well recognized that the capacity to innovate is a function of active listening and is often compromised by chronic job and life stressors and energy traps. Your ability to listen and actually hear is influenced internally, by what you are feeling and what you are thinking and externally, by stimuli that distracts you. Active listening … [Read more...]
Crafting New Year’s Resolutions that Stick is an Art and a Science
January 16, 2015 by
According to a recent article in Scientific American, “Getting discouraged by setbacks is one of the most common reasons people fail to meet their goals.” This, I am sure, is no great news. What’s important to learn is how to set and manage expectations. In doing that right, you’ll soon experience fewer and fewer setbacks. The small steps, kaizen … [Read more...]
Self Compassion and You
January 14, 2015 by
It is no surprise to me and I expect won’t surprise you either that people who treat themselves with compassion feel better about themselves and have better coping skills – are more able to respond rather than react to disappointments and setbacks. The September 2014 research study at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, by Kelly et al., 2014 … [Read more...]
You Don’t Stop at Your Skin!
December 30, 2014 by
In Therapeutic Touch™, the healing field is the subtle, non-physical energy field, generated by the healee, that is palpable beyond the body’s physical periphery – that is beyond the skin. The Therapeutic Touch practitioner, through practice, learns to guide the natural, orderly flow of energy coming out of the palms of her hands so as to … [Read more...]
