Centering Tools: Holistic Counseling & Empowerment Tools
Holistic counseling practice since 1987
A quick meditation on courage on this Valentine’s Day 2026, to warm your hearts! Courage strengthens, opens, clears, uplifts and feeds the heart. Courage opens higher thought – feeds and unleashes instinct and integrity – showers intuition where it’s needed most. Courage transforms us and our worlds, embracing all to whom and what we connect …
In our challenging, outrageous, and a-long-time-in-coming times of major change we are meant to know ourselves as spiritual beings, which means we must know how to care for ourselves accordingly.
These are beyond troubling times. In these – the current word to describe coronavirus’ world-wide outbreak is pandemic – and peaking times, we acutely search for meaning as keys to responding and resolving.
To uncover meaning and transcendent ways to cope, heal, protect, and grow through and beyond is all of what I want to offer – and as as a working definition of empowerment and transformation.
It’s very natural for us, when we come to recover living our lives and perceiving ourselves as endlessly loving, unconditionally choosing from this place of love, to extend that to all other life, actually – and create and respond accordingly. So, for example, with partnerships we love ourselves, so we want to experience loving partnership and adventure accordingly… We feel right when we come to be in a state of endless loving and corresponding self-worth – kind and compassionate towards ourselves and others, as well as clear and clean in our inner and outer perceptions, creations and responses. This is how we change ourselves and the world as well.
Interoception is a form of mindfulness meditation that can help you restore your ability to self-examine. It should be used on your own emotional, moment-to-moment thought patterns as well as on your sense of your physical, bodily sensations.
Our personal past as well, however it is emotionally incomplete, does profoundly and endlessly haunt us. It will wait forever for authentic healing and resolution; and therefore is a central challenge to restore equilibrium. . .We know how to restore equilibrium when we access and trust our authentic self. We are here to heal and evolve in order to create and extend a spiritual vision of love without exception, which shares infinite power to create to support the greater good, restoring equilibrium in wonderfully new, higher ways.
Through a full, multidimensionally integrative meditative and expressive practice which can be greatly enhanced through accompanying journaling we go higher, become greater, and experience corresponding ease and the desired release of trauma. We confront trauma at its emotional source and create ease from dis-ease.
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.
How to radically heal from emotional trauma All healing from disease involves radical responses. How can we best involve ourselves as initiator and best assessor of what constitutes radical healing? First we need to know the core elements that initiate and produce a particular state of dis-ease. When we can access our freed inner observer and …
Its a Signal That Needs to Be Rightly Acknowledged Yes, its true – we live in an increasingly anxious world. Anxiety probably offers the greatest impairment to empowerment and function in our time. Ask yourself in the course of a typical day, how anxious are you? How anxious do others around you seem to be? …