Centering Tools: Holistic Counseling & Empowerment Tools
Holistic counseling practice since 1987
Crises Leave Multiple Energetic Imprints The Chinese translation means both “danger” and “opportunity”. We live in a time of multiple global crises which can even more intensify individual crises. In the course of a well-lived lifetime one will experience serious, multiple crises. The all leave their significant traumatic imprints in our psyches and, I believe, …
Courage and Cowardice The key that unlocks the door to becoming assertive is courage. Have you ever stopped to think about what that word really means? How about it’s opposite – to be cowardly? I always think of the Wizard of Oz, just finished playing in my hometown of Rochester, New York as part of …
Before You Speak . . . 1. Know how you feel – which means, take the time to sit uninterrupted with yourself and ask yourself how you feel – then, spend at least five minutes journaling about it. 2. Be informed and objective: write down the answers to the following questions as you consider the …
If At First You Don’t Succeed . . . Try again – but not forever – just three times, total, to really be able to be assertive. What do I mean by that? Assertiveness is a developing skill that flies in the face of your resistive ego that only wants to keep running the same …
Failing to Be Assertive is What Fails and Loses Ourselves We’re taught not to be assertive in our world. This is the way it’s been for a very long time, certainly since we decided as humans creating societies to disempower women . . . say, beginning about 5,000 years ago. We’ve all failed and lost …
How to Return to Love and Being Loved We are only capable of truly loving when we unconditionally love ourselves and all others as being part of the same divine union. On this Valentine’s Day 2009, when the world is full of peaking global crises, can we dare return to an inviolate space to love …
Magical Lists to Empower and Develop You Years ago I developed a simple but transformational lifestyle-balancing and empowerment self-help journaling tool that centers around creating four categorized lists of ten daily accomplishments. I still use it to acknowledge and honor my commitment and freedom to choose what uplifts and reminds me of what we’re here …
My Top 10 Reasons to Be Grateful That I Belong in A Multidimensional Spiritual Universe A most propitious Thanksgiving, now almost upon us. Here is what most moves me as we enter this holiday season heralded by our national holiday for which we are to give thanks . . . 1 . . . That …
Rules from Your Center Guide and Uplift You Yesterday in my monthly memoir writing group I was moved to offer the following journaling exercise that I wanted to share with you on considering how your unfolding life has gifted you with its own unique "Rules to Live By", and how to expand these rules to …
Its a Bad Combination I am impulsive. I used to have hair-trigger responses that have not completely gone away despite my ever-advancing age, including a temper. It is an odd combination with being extremely shy as a child, which also has its residuals, as well as quite sensitive; and carrying lots of old imprints of …