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Your symptoms are trying to tell you something
Dialogue with your body to discover the messages within your illness. The next time you experience a physical symptom, whether it is a headache or an illness you have been struggling with for a long time, stop your automatic response to fight it. Do not stop yourself from seeking medical care if it is warranted,…
Read MoreWhat is Stress Anyway?
How to go beyond managing it and actually get free from it’s grip. Stress, Stress, Stress! If you’re like me you’ve heard about how bad “stress” is for your health over and over again. It is a well proven medical fact that stress has negative affects on the heart, immune system, digestive system and many…
Read MoreDIY Healing Tips
OK it’s been 3 weeks or so now…you’re home, maybe with others, trying to deal with all sorts of challenges on a bunch of levels..financial, physical, emotional, even spiritual…Here’s the first of many: DIY HEALING TIPS FROM BODYMIND REPATTERNING or…How to help yourself Heal through challenging times. Lots of posts are talking about how to stay…
Read MoreThe third level of the Body-Mind Connection: The realm of symbol and metaphor
or: How seeing illness as a messenger, can give you hidden clues to healing mind body and soul. Nobody wants to get sick. We are fortunate to live in a culture and age where modern medicine can treat, if not cure, many illnesses. We have interventions for repairing damaged bones and organs, correcting biochemical imbalances…
Read MoreWhat is STRESS? How to move beyond managing it, to resolving it!
The Body-Mind Connection: Level One Most of us are familiar with “The Stress Response”. This is the automatic biological reaction that occurs when we perceive a threat to our safety. The perception of danger stimulates a neurological response in the brain which in turn stimulates the release of hormones that travel to other organs in…
Read MoreThe Structural / Postural Level of the Body Mind Connection: How Your Body Postures the Stories of Your Life
Alexander Lowen, the father of a powerful body-oriented psychotherapy called Bioenergetics said that: …energy is involved in all the processes of life-in moving, feeling and thinking-and …these processes would come to a stop if the supply of energy to the organism were seriously interrupted. We understand scientifically that all body movements, from the gross to…
Read MoreAre we in a “new” age of healthcare or back where we started?
The Holistic perspective on Health: revolutionary idea or ancient philosophy? We are in a very exciting time in the evolution of Western medicine. Since its birth in the Renaissance era, the field of modern science has taught us about our world and in many ways given us the lives we know today. Medical science and…
Read MoreThe Bodymind Principle™
The Bodymind Principle™: Understanding how the body-mind connection really works so you can use it to break through stubborn health and emotional challenges, and enhance your ability to heal your life. A series of articles over the next 6 months. The notion that you can enhance your physical health and healing by addressing your mental…
Read MoreYour Personal Bodymind Posture: Help and Hindrance
Have you ever noticed that you can tell a lot about a person’s mood, attitude, and even personality just by observing their body? Let’s talk first about mood and the body. A depressed person can look like their overall energy, or life force is literally “de-pressed”; pressed down. They may have a sunken or collapsed…
Read MoreBodymind Health Tip of the Month: Notice the subtle ways your body “postures” your moods and experiences throughout your day.
When you feel sad or inadequate; do you collapse, loose energy and get still? When you are irritated or angry, do raise your shoulders, clench your jaw and hold in the pressure of your emotion? When you feel threatened or intimidated do you: collapse and get smaller than everyone else? Do you freeze and go…
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