Understanding the power of your mind, body, and spirit connection is essential in healing, health and wellness. Stay RAW… Relaxed, Aware, and Waiting. Your body’s health and intuitive wisdom will guide you toward holistic health. Learn the basics…

I. Relaxation techniques

Diaphragmatic breathing

Breathing is a powerful way to energize and relax your mind and body. Diaphragmatic breathing or abdominal breathing fully aerates your lungs and is a natural way to breathe when relaxed.

Increasing awareness of your breathing patterns will quiet your mind and body. This breathing technique will enable you to overcome many anxiety-provoking situations, such a public speaking nervousness, physical pain, or emotional tension.

Relaxation Response

The Mind Body Medical Institute of Harvard researches and embraces techniques to relax your body and initiate healing and recovery from illness and disease.

The relaxation response is a powerful stress-reducing tool that combines diaphragmatic breathing, muscle relaxation, and repetition of a calming word or phrase. This technique facilitates healing and improves health.

II. Guided Imagery

Guided imagery is a powerful technique that focuses your thoughts inward, allowing your imagination to create changes within your body. The body doesn’t differentiate between what your mind imagines and what you actually do.

Research findings have demonstrated the effectiveness of guided imagery on health, creativity and performance. Imagery can reduce blood pressure, decrease anxiety, lessen headaches, and reduce pain. Training your body to respond to inner cues will also increase athletic skill, sports performance, and music and artistic expression.

III. Meditation

Meditation teaches the body and mind to tune out the outer world and tune inward to harness inner strength, intuition, and energy.

Research studies show that when we are in a relaxed state of mind, we are capable of intense healing and growth. Our brainwave activity and biochemistry shift to enhance learning and performance. Our thoughts and mood become more creative and intuitive.

Cognitive Interventions

Mindfulness—The Magic of the Mind

Mindfulness is learning to pay attention to the world around you…at that very moment in time. Focus your attention fully and completely on what you are doing and notice how it makes you feel.

Take a moment to smell the roses!

MAKING MINDFULNESS MATTER…

Live with intention

Focus on the moment… bring your awareness to each action and thought
Develop a keen awareness of your body, your interactions, and your world
Be authentic… be true to yourself.

Recognize your own strengths

Eliminate self-defeating behavior and irrational beliefs.
Dwell on positive beliefs and affirming self-talk.
Look inside yourself for direction and make those desires become a reality.

“I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.”

-Anna Freud

Set life priorities

Clarify what is important in your life.
Define your goals and create an action plan.
Embrace the sense of accomplishment when a task is done.

“The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.”

-Stephen Covey, author, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Reframe your thoughts

Change your perception… focus on positive thoughts.
Assume the best… give a person the benefit of doubt.
Control situations that you CAN change and LET GO of situations that you can’t

“When it rains, I let it.”

-113-year-old man in response to the secret to his longevity

For more THOUGHT-PROVOKING ideas, schedule a consultation or seminar! It is a guaranteed path to mindfulness and wellness!

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