Centering Tools: Holistic Counseling & Empowerment Tools
Holistic counseling practice since 1987
We Run from Despair, But Can Never Really Get Away from It Have you ever experienced real despair in your life? I have, more than I would have ever thought or expected I would experience or withstand. Many say these are despairing times; and now more than ever, it seems, a lot of the clients …
What Condemns You to an Inner "Dead Zone" Core fear frustrates and freezes us in stuck, static, and constantly stirred-up positions that unfortunately lead us nowhere. These form false limits that can keep us in our own self-created dead zone for indefinite periods of time. How can we push past what so tragically and stupidly limits …
Is it Enough to Do Our Best to Deal with the 'Hand of Cards' We've Been Dealt? Who said life was fair? It isn't, within its "blow-by-blow" unfolding events It doesn't take a rocket scientist, as the saying goes, to figure out through simply looking around and noting accordingly that for many people – …
The Only Thing Within Us That Stops and Threatens Us Fear is the most basic and challenging reactive emotion we possess. It centrally stimulates the "flight-fight" response, which throws us into being singularly tied to whatever self-determined threat to our survival we perceive, creating overwhelming stress and "dis-ease" in our lives. I think fear is the …
Power Struggles Destroy Individuals and Relationships Have you ever felt trapped in a power struggle with anyone? It feels so frustrating and helpless, with no way out – the more the struggle, the more trapped we feel. Power struggles shatter self-esteem, shut down creative problem-solving, and destroy love and trust. All power struggles twist people into …
Stress Damages and Wounds Us It has been said that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. However, decades of body-mind research tell us that stress profoundly interferes with physiological, mental, emotional and spiritual functions; and can, in fact, kill us. The stress response was extensively researched by Dr. Hans Selye in the nineteen-fifties. He …
What If The Bottom Falls Out What do you do when life is truly, hugely overwhelming and you really know, in your heart of hearts, you can't do anything that will make any kind of difference to well handle things? What do you do when you experience several major crises at once and it looks …
Chakras as the Foundation for Body-Mind Healing Chakras are energetic centers located up and down the spine up through the top of the head. They are understood to be a foundation of Eastern spiritual healing, centering and development practices. As holistic healing and wellness techniques, or energy medicine, have continued to be more and more …
Here is an empowering, centering, healing hands-on and intuitive exercise you can try . It will lead you to fully access the Reiki wave and receive its powerful energetic transmissions of healing and development. The Guided Meditation Settle back comfortably, close your eyes, and place your body in an aligned, open position (for example, if …
We are a wonderfully complicated, highly-developed multidimensional organism with great creative capability and adaptability. We have the power to transcend and cope with the most difficult challenges and not only survive, but prosper. All of these are qualities that produce self-healing, and also empowerment and personal development. As we swing into this pivotal, intense, …