When in Doubt, Go Back to Basics The last post explored how anger disrupts the process in both emotional and physical healing. I promised actual techniques to help remedy anger that is disruptive. In searching through my own material gathered over the years and researching other literature, the most extensive and successful strategies that I [...]
Strengthen the Body Core Benefits of physical activity can add new depth to the lives of seniors and the disabled–they simply have to discover the right exercises for their particular abilities. The exercise/fitness market offers so many products, it becomes difficult to find the exercise equipment that will be the best to meet specific needs. [...]
Primarily, It Is Still An Inside Job In the big picture, numerous aspects of your learning and makeup either complicate your efforts to control stress or promote coping and healing. Resilience is the key. How well do you bounce back? What are your adaptive skills? What is your capacity to thrive and live to your [...]
Stress Management Is Primary The need for stress management ranks high for everyone, even though we are affected individually by different pressures. Ignoring stress may result in serious and difficult problems to solve, indeed it is linked to many negative health conditions such as heart, blood pressure, and immune problems, healing ability, and many more, [...]
Research Links Stress To Health Problems– And Solutions Using the power of the mind to affect bodily symptoms (illness) is the underlying premise of mind-body medicine. Reducing stress is a primary concern for therapists and all health care professionals, and has been found to be a viable means of improving health. The physical and emotional [...]
She Rose Above Stress! Purrly came from an adoption shelter where the span of life was likely to be shortened unless a home was found, usually quickly! She was quiet, and the process of getting used to her new surroundings took a slow integration into the family. One other cat sibling had much more confidence, [...]
Finding Peace Through Self-Development Does the level of happiness or peace you feel give you a doorway to evaluate your quality of life? Can you look around your life and know what ratings you would assign to qualities of your life? Can you decide what you are missing, what goals you might set for yourself [...]
Let’s Put it In A Bottle And Sell It On The Street Corner Capturing a formula for zestful living is like trying to deify “one size fits all.” We each know intriguing persons who epitomize a zest for life. Their essence is somewhat inexplicable, yet you can usually point to some fairly concrete behaviors, and [...]
Stopping Obsessive Thinking After a therapy session focused on her distress about obsessive thoughts constantly running in her head, my client and I decided to try the rubber band thought-stopping technique: snap at each unwanted thought, insert a positive one in its place. She returned a month or so later, her regular appointment schedule due [...]
Discovering Your Wise Inner Voice Before I even started to speak, I knew that the twinkle in my eye had given it away. He has been a client for a long time. He had had numerous traumas eating at him from his childhood when he first began personal growth therapy several years ago. We methodically [...]
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