It has been said that… “Love is the most powerful and still the most unknown energy in the world.” Pierre Teilhard de Chardin How can it be so? We, along with everything else, live in, contribute to and are sustained by the universal energy field. Signals from this universal field or environment affect our state of being…we are in … [Read more...]
Empowered Choice through Embodied Awareness
June 29, 2020 by
“Earthly things must be known to be loved;Divine things must be loved to be known.” Blaise Pascal Mindfulness practice is the key to mental stability, emotional balance and a calm, centered, empowered presence. Learning to quiet the mind and noticing what you are noticing begins with choice and is mastered through practice. Thoughts, at the … [Read more...]
Repatterning your way to Personal Freedom
June 9, 2020 by
– an Awareness Training Protocol The moment you realize the cause of your suffering is a moment of liberation. That moment of insight is an opening in awareness of an internal pattern that’s kept you stuck and in pain. Personal liberation then, is a process activated by awareness and pattern recognition, followed by a process of … [Read more...]
Awareness is the Greatest Agent of Choice
May 21, 2020 by
There are 5 Facets of Mindfulness Non-reactivity to Inner Experience Observing, noticing, attending to feelings, thoughts, sensations, perceptions Acting with awareness Describing/labeling experience with words Non judging of experience "It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how things are in themselves. The … [Read more...]
Mindset – Key to Liberation or Enslavement
September 5, 2018 by
I see it time and again…how what a client believes shapes their perception and limits their experience. What does it take to have an “open” mind? Why does it matter? The assumption is that if your mind’s made up, you’ve come to a judgment and require no more information. Your mind is therefore closed and you direct your available energy to … [Read more...]
In Giving We Receive–Therapeutic Touch®, Mindfulness Practice in Action
August 30, 2018 by
In my early days of learning Therapeutic Touch, I discovered its brilliance and was in awe at the wisdom of its founders, Dolores Krieger, RN, PhD and her mentor, Dora Kunz. It was at a Practice Group meeting in the middle of offering a healing session that I realized quite suddenly that in this simple act of helping another, I felt better – I … [Read more...]
Is your Caregiving Genuine or Strained?
July 24, 2018 by
Selfless services span a continuum of care. One extreme might see selfless caregiving as genuine, effortless and authentic, a charitable act of unconditional love and compassion-in-action embodied and expressed in spiritual saints epitomized by larger than life figures like Mother Teresa, Gandhi and Jesus. At the other end of this spectrum are … [Read more...]
Therapeutic Touch Works! For Healing and Wellness in Hospital and Long Term Care Settings Field Research Report, Spring 2018
July 5, 2018 by
The Therapeutic Touch Network of Ontario’s annual CARE150 Therapeutic Touch Awareness Week May 7 – 13, 2018, provided an opportunity to conduct a modest research project on respondents’ experience of their Therapeutic Touch® sessions. Therapeutic Touch (TT), an evidence-based, complementary, biofield therapy affects body, mind, emotions and … [Read more...]
Therapeutic Touch – Mindfulness Practice in Action
April 23, 2018 by
Therapeutic Touch® is a holistic, evidence-based, integrative therapy that incorporates the intentional and compassionate use of universal energy to promote balance and well-being in all aspects of the individual: body, emotions, mind and spirit. Developed in the early 1970’s through the pioneering work of Dolores Krieger, PhD, RN, a professor … [Read more...]
Stress Kills, if You Let It… Learn to Relax!
March 1, 2018 by
Every living system is equipped with two modes of being – growth or defence. Peace and harmony are requisite conditions for growth. When these conditions are right, the living system’s growth experience has characteristic qualities of flow, rhythm, strength and symmetry. Growth, however can be frustrated, hindered or arrested by stress, triggered … [Read more...]
