Centering Tools: Holistic Counseling since 1987
Holistic counseling practice since 1987
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, …
The Essential Guideline to Healing and Wholeness The heart as a metaphor carries a number of critical dimensions. It exists as an inviolate spiritual center, meaning no matter what happens to its bearer, it has the capacity to continue. To me the essential guideline to healing and wholeness is to hold true, no matter what, to accepting …
Necessary Skills to Navigate Life offers many rich dimensions of challenges, joys, crises, successes, failures . . . and so much more . . . all opportunities and necessities for us to develop corresponding skill and capacity to navigate for healing, development, and, yes – survival. Which brings me to join the ever-growing list of …
That which Supports and Completes the Greater Whole Healing is about completing and extending a circle of beingness. It is about restoring greater balance that brings real resolution, peace, and acceptance – elements that form the end stage of grief. It has been said that all core healing is about completing the stages of grief. …
I posted this in news and events as well, but here is more detailed information about the Dr. Jeffrey K. Harris Memorial Integrative Health Care Series event. You may also download the PDF below – it contains both the registration form and the schedule of events/list of presenters. Download 2008_conference_brochure.pdf Download 2008_conference_brochure_side_2.pdf What (quoted from …
Alcohol is so widely used that its legality can be thought of as somewhat independent of its mostly alarming effects on the body. It’s important to understand alcohol from the physical perspective to appreciate its psychological component. In this post I will address the basic pharmacology of alcohol. I think this is an important piece …