Stress is your experience of your body’s fight, flight or freeze response to stimuli whether internal or external. Your experience of pain - temperature, sound, aggression and your response to it – the story you tell yourself are two inter-related contributing factors that shape your experience. While there’s not too much you can do to control the … [Read more...]
Embodied Wisdom – Your Body Loves You!
November 24, 2014 by
Awareness is the greatest agent of choice. You can get stressed by a million different things; all of which act as your system’s information up-setters and distorters. When you are healthy and relaxed, life energy flows freely and unobstructed, through you. Stress, illness or dis-ease are both contributing factors and an indication that there … [Read more...]
How is Stress Affecting your Quality of Life?
November 3, 2014 by
Stress is a recognized cause of 80% of today’s illnesses – so what are you doing to mitigate the risk of chronic stress in your life? “If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.” Marcus Aurelius The choices we make, how … [Read more...]
THERAPEUTIC TOUCH IS A LIFE SKILL
September 18, 2014 by
Therapeutic TouchTM as a body of knowledge and practice has numerous benefits for both the recipient and the practitioner. Stress is widely recognized as one of the leading causes of illness and accidents in the home and the workplace. There is a direct connection between the demands placed upon one's life and the physical and mental health of the … [Read more...]
Mindfulness Coaching for Physicians and Healthcare Professionals
September 2, 2014 by
Can mindfulness coaching help physicians and healthcare professionals sustain their professional commitment and preserve their integrity amidst the turbulence of constant change, increasing demands and shrinking resources? Today’s healthcare professionals and executives are called upon to facilitate change in a health care industry with … [Read more...]
Overcoming Fear in 5 simple steps
July 24, 2014 by
When you experience fear, it is likely not at all important for you to know what fear is and how it happened. You simply feel caught - frozen in time - unable to act - stuck! The stress response has kicked in manifesting in one of three ways Flee, Fight or Freeze and you are no longer in control. Overcoming fear is your priority. Your response … [Read more...]
Becoming Fearless
May 7, 2014 by
Many of our fears are tissue-paper thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them. Brendan Francis Imagine exploring your interior landscape in much the same way you might explore a new region. What might you encounter? What might you learn about yourself? What might you discover? All it takes is to give yourself … [Read more...]
Benefits of Therapeutic Touch™ for Healthcare Professionals
March 18, 2014 by
Florence Nightingale knew the body to have its own innate intelligence and that the systems of the body are interrelated, functioning separately while at the same time, as a whole. She said “Nature alone cures, all we need do is create an environment for nature to do its work”. Therapeutic Touch assists the process of natural restoration, using a … [Read more...]
Getting to Wellness – A Mindful Approach to Cultivating Wellbeing
March 14, 2014 by
You can get stressed by a million different things all of which act as your system’s information up-setters and distorters. Stress is your experience of your body’s fight, flight or freeze response to stressors, whether internal (feelings, perceptions, beliefs), or external (temperature, sound, aggression) and is cause of 80% or more of today’s … [Read more...]
THERAPEUTIC TOUCH FOR HEALTH PROMOTION AND SELF CARE
February 15, 2014 by
Stress relief and self care are important components to overall health and well being. The stress response creates a cascade of chemical and hormone releases in the body that provide us with the ability to react appropriately in dangerous situations. However, when those same chemicals cannot effectively be released due to chronic unmanaged … [Read more...]
