Centering Tools: Holistic Counseling & Empowerment Tools
Holistic counseling practice since 1987
Courage and Cowardice The key that unlocks the door to becoming assertive is courage. Have you ever stopped to think about what that word really means? How about it’s opposite – to be cowardly? I always think of the Wizard of Oz, just finished playing in my hometown of Rochester, New York as part of …
An Increasing Request for Services I am getting more and more requests from people who are unfamiliar to my Centering practice for hypnosis, even requests to speak about hypnotherapy from area high schools, hospitals, and organized sports. I continue, throughout the scope and now-22 years of my Centering practice, to expand and experiment with the …
Before You Speak . . . 1. Know how you feel – which means, take the time to sit uninterrupted with yourself and ask yourself how you feel – then, spend at least five minutes journaling about it. 2. Be informed and objective: write down the answers to the following questions as you consider the …
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If At First You Don’t Succeed . . . Try again – but not forever – just three times, total, to really be able to be assertive. What do I mean by that? Assertiveness is a developing skill that flies in the face of your resistive ego that only wants to keep running the same …
Failing to Be Assertive is What Fails and Loses Ourselves We’re taught not to be assertive in our world. This is the way it’s been for a very long time, certainly since we decided as humans creating societies to disempower women . . . say, beginning about 5,000 years ago. We’ve all failed and lost …
Death is the Right Partner to Greatly Live Our Lives Since my husband of 18 years died suddenly of undiagnosed coronary artery disease in 1989, I have felt death peering over my shoulder. It feels quite right as a partner in how I choose to live my life, and oddly comforting, like a missing piece …
We Choose Our Lifetimes Yes, it’s been awhile since my last blog entry. A lot has happened (what else is new?) in my life, well synchronizing with all that is happening in the world. And you????? I think it’s a safe spiritual assumption that, as I believe we choose the date, time and place of …
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How to Return to Love and Being Loved We are only capable of truly loving when we unconditionally love ourselves and all others as being part of the same divine union. On this Valentine’s Day 2009, when the world is full of peaking global crises, can we dare return to an inviolate space to love …