Trauma
Benefits of Guided Visualization
Guided visualization is a process where you use your imagination to focus inward while being guided by a soothing voice. The voice and the sounds provide a focus that helps you to maintain concentration. Guided relaxations are ways to help people with suggestion and peaceful imagery, to practice relaxation. In working with clients you can ‘practice’ the experience of relaxation and encourage them to remember this experience in stressful situations. The following are ways that visualization can be helpful; Read the rest of this entry »
Living consciously improves self esteem
How we live our life affects our self-esteem.
Working on building a positive self esteem is a life long task, no-one has a completely positive self esteem, nor negative. as long as our relationship with ourselves last, so our self-esteem will evolve and change. It changes in relationship to life events and hormones as well as an ongoing relationship with self. I am going to talk here about how living our life with integrity, or not, will affect our self esteem.
Letting go of trauma.
I want to share an experience recently of some personal work I was doing that completed and let go of an early trauma. I want to share how powerful working from a mind-body approach can be. I have always been fairly inflexible especially around my hip area. As years have gone by my thigh muscles have become chronically tight. I would stretch them out and it was like an elastic band, they would stretch and then snap back in. This has caused me a lot of pain and discomfort for many years. Read the rest of this entry »
