Centering Tools: Holistic Counseling since 1987
Holistic counseling practice since 1987
Often times I’ll see popular websites/sources of health information as displaying somewhat misleading information about some of the alternative therapies I’ve used with great success. I was browsing the internet today and found myself at Mayoclinic’s website. I must say, I was impressed with their characterization of hypnosis. I really liked their section called "Myths …
Hypnosis has been in the news a lot. For instance, NiagaraThisWeek.com recently had a report on the benefits of hypnosis on the child-birth! With the birth of her second child, Milligan used a hypnotherapist, who she and her husband saw once per week for half-hour sessions. She learned how to relax her body using specific …
Note my new phone number, effective March 2020! Email: [email protected] Phone: (585) 210-9827 When calling, please leave a message with the following information: (NOTE: I now accept SMS/text messaging as well at the above number) Your name and number Best time to reach you Brief description of your interest Mailing Address: P.O. Box 68015Rochester, …
Here are a few quick exercises to relieve stress; my family, friends, and clients have used them with a lot of success. The beauty is, they are very simple to do and require little in the way of time. List the past: Making a list about ‘stress’ can help you look at it in a …
When we are moved to take spiritual stock, we are naturally moved to ask for and be open to receive blessings. We are then further stimulated to seek to give and, in our heart of hearts, trust and honor our power to share. An Inner Journey Here is an inner journey that you can do to …
Fifty Times-Plus Reads for The Lord of the Rings I have a confession to make. I have read The Lord of the Rings by J. R. Tolkien more than 50 times over the past thirty-two years beginning with a course requirement while in my last year of undergraduate school, many lifetimes, it seems, ago. I’ve just …
Imagination is Everything Imagination, says Einstein, is everything. Our imagination is how we envision. When we know how to access our inner vision we are able to connect with our core, and our true spiritual essence is free to inspire and greatly touch us. How can we do that? The Road to Envision The following …
The New Cardinal Sin – Take A Break More and more I hear from my clients what seems to be fast becoming an impossible wish in our culture – to take a break from being perpetually “plugged in” to a seemingly endless “to do” list. This implied societal sin has occurred thanks, in part, to …
The Lost Art of Listening Unconditionally The “center” of centering is listening without agenda. Listening is a lost art in the world. We are not taught the essentials of the art of listening in our culture. Instead we are told in many significant ways that are tied to how our culture determines its sources of …
Sometimes I like to reflect, in as many meaningful dimensions that I can consider, the emerging themes that seem to present themselves in the course of a day-evening working with clients. Today this is what emerged, in the order in which it now presents itself to me: Shame is a “lock-in” that forces us to …