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De-Stress, Emotional Healing, Holistic Health, Integrative Medicine, Meditations for You!, podcast, Relaxation & Meditation
New “Healing Connections” Podcast – Listen Now!
Healing Connections Podcast – First Episode I just recorded the first episode of the “Healing Connections” podcast this November. You can listen now. Click the play button here. In this episode we discuss how most of us are affected by negative stress with tips and suggestions on how to manage stress, induce the relaxation response to help prevent disease, and in certain cases possibly even recover from illness or disease. I was joined by Carisa Hillman who is an occupational therapy student who has been completing her Fieldwork with me this fall through December. “Healing Connections” was initially created with hopes of it becoming a radio show. It lay dormant…
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Intuition, Love, Meditations for You!, Reflexology, Relaxation & Meditation, Self Care, Spirituality, The Science of Happiness
Listen to Your Heart – For these Benefits
Heart as the Center of the Seat of Consciousness You probably often hear “Listen to your heart.” How often do you really do this, and what does the really mean? Shouldn’t we be rational and not too overly emotional? If I’m listening to my heart does that mean I’m not listening to another part of myself? When I was learning meditation, energy healing, and developing my intuitive abilites one of the constant themes was “getting out of the head,” and into the heart or the intuitive self. A few practices I was given were to directly bring my attention to and into my heart, and another was to develop the…
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Radio Interview on Reflexology Benefits 4/9/16
I will be interviewed on the health benefits of Reflexology by the very cool and spunky “Aging But Dangerous” community on Saturday, 4/9/16 at 9:30 a.m. CT on KLBB 1220 AM – you can stream it online anywhere for free! If you will not be able to listen to the live broadcast you can listen to the podcast recording after 4/11/16 on their website under Radio/Podcast. Reflexology can be helpful at any age for health, wellness, recovery, and prevention. We are all aging and I am so grateful to be able to share all about Reflexology with you and their audience!
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Occupational Therapists Complete The Power of the Mind in Healing Class
I just finished up teaching the “Power of the Mind in Healing” class. We met for four Saturdays in February. I had the pleasure of teaching two occupational therapists who have been practicing for nearly 20 years. In fact, they were in the graduating class right after me at St. Kate’s. We covered topics on the foundations of Holistic/Integrative Health Care, the Mind-Body-Spirit, meditation, relaxation, spirituality, and intuition. They loved it! Here they are practicing muscle energy testing. This is different than testing muscle strength. It assesses the body’s wisdom about if something is good for you or not, and can answer “yes” and “no” questions. Examples of what they…
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Intuitive Psychology ~ Accessing Inner Wisdom for Guidance, Direction & Mental Health
One of my favorite ways of helping people and for my own self care is to access Intuition or inner wisdom. There are various ways for you to connect with your Intuition. In fact many of us may do this many times throughout our day and not realize it. You may wonder when you are intuiting, how to access it, trust it, and count on it. Intuition can be accessed when the mind is calmer, more reflective, and detached from every day thoughts and emotions. This is why meditation is the preferred method of choice that has been around for thousands of years cross-culturally – it quiets the mind. When…
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Holistic Health, Meditations for You!, Mind-Body Connection, Prevention, Relaxation & Meditation, Self Care, Spirituality
The Power of Meditation
“The Power of Meditation: This practice of focused attention can reduce pain and stress while enhancing health and healing” This article was originally published on ADVANCE for OT Practitioners October 1, 2015 by Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L Meditation is the practice of focused attention that can help calm the mind and body, returning it to a homeostatic balance. It can regulate emotions, lower pain and stress, ease depression and insomnia, create clearer awareness and insight, improve spirituality, compassion, and quality of life, and has many health benefits. Modern science has caught up to what Eastern philosophies and many spiritual traditions have known and practiced for thousands of years.1 A nationwide survey…
