Centering Tools: Holistic Counseling & Empowerment Tools
Holistic counseling practice since 1987
Heroic Myths Since Our Beginning Inspire and Help Us Survive We have always, as a species, research confirms, seemed to repeatedly tell each other our favorite stories. In ancient days we sat around tribal camp fires in a great listening circle, spellbound at hearing again and again heroic myths. They both explained the world and …
We Always Have the Power to Create and Sustain This is a precipitous week nationally. As a nation we're about to hear (by tomorrow, presumably) whether we'll be saved beyond the eleventh hour as I write this from economic default, which has not happened in our history. We truly live in times of great change …
When We Know What Gets in the Way of Being More Compassionate in Our Lives We Open The Door to Healing and Success In my work lately with clients I have heard more and more, within their key processes of growth, emerging awareness about the transformational power of being more greatly and unconditionally present in …
Align Yourself with Your Higher Power’s Faith and Trust in Your Power to Achieve Your Goals Your dreams are really communications from your higher self in faith and trust in your power to create a better and more balanced life for yourself. Although the details of your dreams may change as you grow, the themes …
Are You Up to the Supreme Sacrifice? Maybe it really is the supreme sacrifice. Nothing really is, in analytical terms, perfect – nothing goes “perfectly”. Life isn’t perfect. Death isn’t perfect. Nobody’s Perfect Love isn’t perfect. Work isn’t perfect. Health isn’t perfect. We aren’t perfect. Can You Face – Even Live with the Truth? There …
Cancer is such a complex, extended, life-threatening disease. My not-for-profit organization established in 2008, Centering for Wellness, Inc., www.centeringforwellness.org, in its holistic vision to offer self-healing and empowerment classes to at-risk populations as an extension of my work in Centering Tools, is offering as a celebration of National Survivors Day on June 5 a free …
What Heals and Develops Us Best Supports Us This is a key upcoming week in Judeo-Christian religion. It begins with the onset of Passover, the celebration of the book of Exodus in the old testament, with the story of transcending the challenges of longstanding slavery to become, in full understanding, responsible, enlightened, free, and transformed. …
Conflict Offers Great Opportunities for Central Healing and Growth Conflict is a fact of life. Spiritually and therapeutically conflict offers great potential to catalyze equally great healing and growth. When we are centered, we are balanced, and when we are balanced, we are peaceful. To that end, conflict doesn’t “set well” with anyone. Follow Ten …
Perpetuating Drama Is The Nature Of Dysfunction And Hopelessness I hear lots of stories involving big dramas from clients that I see individually, in partnerships, small groups, and large workshops – within organizations and from halfway around the world. We can experience a lot of terrible and extended suffering in our lives – a lot …
It’s interesting to note the number of sci-fi movies that focus on what shaman’s would call shapeshifting ways to alter the past and future. This has long been a recommended metaphysical technique to energetically change how we view and “code” our experience and responses. In therapeutic practices the above is a key goal in both …