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De-Stress, Emotional Healing, Holistic Health, Mind-Body Connection, Relaxation & Meditation, The Science of Happiness
Bringing Healing to Pain: The Mind-Body Connection and What May Be Behind Your Pain
Are you experiencing pain or know someone who is? While it is good to get checked out by a qualified health care practitioner to determine if there may be a physical solution to your physical pain, there may be more behind your pain that you may be able to heal. According to the National Institutes for Health pain affects more Americans than diabetes, heart disease and cancer combined. Pain is cited as the most common reason Americans access the health care system. It is a leading cause of disability and it is a major contributor to health care costs. Dr. Herbert Benson, who coined the term the Relaxation Response, stated that 60%…
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De-Stress, Emotional Healing, Energy Healing, Guided Imagery, Holistic Health, Intuition, Mind-Body Connection, Positive & Negative, Prevention, Relaxation & Meditation, Self Care, The Science of Happiness
Mindfulness and Acceptance – What Does it Mean?
Mindfulness is all a buzz now, and for good reason. Mindfulness shows us how to be with and accept our reactions to our experiences in a non-judgmental way. It can help us to learn to love and accept ourselves and others more, lower stress, anxiety, depression, pain, enhance our health, help us prevent disease, and create sense of calm, peace, and joy. It is a skill that allows us to be with our senses without reacting to them in a negative way. What resists persists, and if we resist our experience we can feel worse. Mindfulness Meditation has its roots from the Buddhist Meditation known as Vipassana – which means…
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Emotional Healing, Guided Imagery, Holistic Health, Mind-Body Connection, Positive & Negative, Prevention, Self Care, The Science of Happiness
Happy Valentine’s! How Much Do You Love Yourself?
With Valentine’s just around the corner, we often turn our attention to “that someone special” or romantic love. Intimacy and connection with others is important to us, but how much do you love or even like yourself? After 7 years of providing deep emotional support and healing after being trained in “Emotional Clearing”, a form of interactive guided mindfulness meditation, similar to Vipassana, a Buddhist meditation which means “clear-seeing”, and what Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction is based on, and providing Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), I have witnessed how all types of emotional, psychological, spiritual, and often, physical pain go back to how much a person loves and accepts or rejects…
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Holistic Health, Holistic Occupational Therapy, Mind-Body Connection, Relaxation & Meditation, Spirituality, Touch Therapy, Uncategorized
Lowering Stress and Pain During Cancer
I recently had the honor and pleasure of helping a woman during her cancer treatments and one of the most difficult times of her life. She was diagnosed with breast cancer. Her medical treatment included surgeries for a lumpectomy, port placement, two rounds of chemotherapy, and radiation. I provided her with Intuitive Coaching, Spiritual Counseling, Relaxation Therapy, Energy Healing, Reflexology, Acupressure, CranioSacral Therapy, Myofascial Release, Guided Imagery, Emotional Clearing – Guided Mindfulness Meditation, and Aromatherapy. I taught her skills that she then incorporated into her life to lower her stress, anxiety, nausea, pain, and neuropathy. She viewed this time in her life as an opportunity for deep Soul Work and…
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Art and Healing, Emotional Healing, Guided Imagery, Holistic Health, Holistic Occupational Therapy, Intention, Intuition, Manifestation, Mind-Body Connection, Self Care, The Science of Happiness
See it! Feel it! Believe it! Achieve it!
Welcome to 2014! Many people begin the new year with new goals and intentions for what they want to release in their lives and what they want to invite and bring into their lives. What is it you want to create in your life? You probably know what would be ‘good’ for you. However, there are often things that get in our way of manifesting what we desire. A universal principle is that we attract into your lives what is occurring in our consciousness and often the subconscious. We often have deep learnings around our most difficult challenges. In fact, many Spiritual Teachers believe that is when we learn the…
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What is Guided Imagery?
Here is an article I wrote for ADVANCE Magazine for Occupational Therapy Practitioners that shares what Guided Imagery is. If you are interested in learning Guided Imagery I have upcoming courses in local and distant learning formats this September listed Here. If you would like a private one to one session contact me at [email protected]. What is Guided Imagery? OTs can tap a person’s inner wisdom for health, healing and wellness. By Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L Posted on: July 30, 2013 Guided imagery is a mind-body-spirit healing approach that is expanding in to mainstream health care as research continues to demonstrate its powerful healing effects. Guided imagery bridges the communication between…
