Centering Tools: Holistic Counseling & Empowerment Tools
Holistic counseling practice since 1987
We are all heroes, say all great ancient spiritual traditions, or we wouldn’t be here adventuring and evolving on the earth plane. Whether we talk about designated recovery from addictions, trauma, self-healing, empowerment, therapeutic intervention, they all, to me and actually Carl Jung as part of his definition of archetypes, challenge us to become who we truly are – heroes.
We are endlessly flowing, paradoxically intact patterns of energy. We have the power to shift our the pattern of our energetic field and thereby “raise ourselves up” to a higher frequency level, which changes not only how we respond to our experience but our experience itself.
We truly earn our wisdom through being wholly responsible for our lives; and daring to choose what we come to know in our heart of hearts is right and supports our authentic selves is a sacred act of separating out and choosing with higher clarity and awareness. These choices, in turn, always support the greater good.
Personal retreats clear, relax, inspire, transform, uplift, energize and empower. A classic example of a year long personal retreat is Thoreau’s autobiographical On Walden Pond.
I think of my personal retreats as an “unfolding” as well, as if I had secret wings that here can open up, spread, and take me far away to a special, secret, transcendent place of healing, higher power and new creation. It is your unique “breakaway” from which you will return changed – for the better.
How to radically heal from emotional trauma All healing from disease involves radical responses. How can we best involve ourselves as initiator and best assessor of what constitutes radical healing? First we need to know the core elements that initiate and produce a particular state of dis-ease. When we can access our freed inner observer and …
Its a Signal That Needs to Be Rightly Acknowledged Yes, its true – we live in an increasingly anxious world. Anxiety probably offers the greatest impairment to empowerment and function in our time. Ask yourself in the course of a typical day, how anxious are you? How anxious do others around you seem to be? …
Why Meditate? Meditation continues to be more and more recommended as a wellness, de-stressing and self-healing practice, Clinical research says its benefits lower blood pressure, relieve migraines, boost immunological systems, erase pain, improve oxygenation, relieve stress, depression and anxiety, heighten insight, problem-solving and intuition . . .the impressive list goes on and on. When we …
An initial consultation is always free for prospective clients. This is where I’ll provide you with an opportunity to discuss what’s going on in your life, your medical history, your personal history, and what goal(s) you may have. Call (585) 244-6210 to schedule a free consult I’ll ask you about what kinds of experience you …
Do You Know the Real Benefit of Experience? As our lives go on and on, so do our experiences . . . and so do our interpretation of our experiences, including related judgments/belief systems…that always become significant burdens that can interfere with moving forward. Ask yourself what the real purpose of experience is – what …
The Way to Resolve Challenges is NOT to Begin by "Analyzing" Over and over again clients, in sharing their heartfelt concerns and key challenges, sincerely attempt to, as they typically say, "analyze" them as how to find right solutions. What pretty much quickly reveals itself, though, is what I call "the real agenda", otherwise known …