Centering Tools: Holistic Counseling since 1987
Holistic counseling practice since 1987
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.
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.
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 idea for this post was motivated in part by Heather Plett's "What it Really Means to Hold Space for Someone"– after reading it, ask yourself how the concept of holding space might apply to yourself? And be sure to read the article on UpliftConnect.com Conflicts of Caring Interfere with Creating and Developing I …
Look as hard as you can, take as long as it takes to be hopeful about as many things as you can sincerely acknowledge in your life – is my sincere and heartfelt wish for you this year that’s almost ended, to birth what is new for all our greater good – Namaste, Marjorie
What are the Real Benefits of Creative Coloring? Throughout my practice I have offered and encouraged clients to draw with crayons in their meditative journeys for healing and transforming; and to creatively record their inner “dives” and heart’s visions. I am beyond delighted that “adult coloring” has exploded as a most sought-after way to de-stress, …
If You Could Choose Five Key Words By Which You Could Live Your Life . . . What would they be? Think about it – settle back, close your eyes, take ten full, deep, easy breaths…and then ask the question to what you imagine is a clear, core place within you. When you feel complete …
What About Death? Death is so final. It changes us, wakes us up to its nightmare with no alternative end, nothing pretty, happy, better. No wonder we run from it, put forth all our energy to deny it. It breaks us, our hearts, our souls, makes us grow up terribly and wipes the smile from …
Terror is the Great Disease and Challenge of Our Time I recently read an amazing book by Erik Larsen titled In the Garden of the Beasts: Love, Terror and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin, about Ambassador Dodd’s personal and heroic transformation as FDR’s last choice for US ambassador in 19933 to Germany. The title …
Even Being a Hapless Victim Doesn’t Destroy Hope My youngest daughter turned 23 about a month ago, and decided to take me up on my offer to pick the play she wanted to see at Niagara-on-the-Lake’s annual Shaw Festival, deservedly acclaimed throughout North America. We have gone nearly every year to this idyllic and very …