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Whole brain living – Jill Bolte Taylor
Jill Bolte Taylor is a neuroscientist who suffered a massive stroke that took out almost the entirety of the functioning of her left brain. She wrote an amazing account of this time and what she learned about brain function in her first book, My Stroke of Insight, which I highly recommend. Her second book, Whole Brain Living details the ways different parts of our brains function and how knowing this can greatly empower us to manage and eventually begin to pick and choose which centres we want to operate from primarily. I’ve started giving out this sheet: The four Characters outlining the four parts of our brain and what they do, to all of my clients, as I feel it...
Read MoreWim Hof – Breathing and Cold Water
Have you got into the Wim Hof techniques? A lot of people have and with good reason. Breathing The links below outline the breathing method that I find is the quickest way I know how to calm an overactivated nervous system and get your parasympathetic circuits back on line – it’s a great tool to use anytime you’re feeling super anxious: An initial tutorial Guided Wim Hof breathing Once you complete the breathing cycles, you begin processing things differently once as your brain chemistry changes. I experience it as a disconnection from the loud, terrified, chattering mind, almost as if that anxious voice cannot function under these conditions. The in-breath...
Read MoreForgive yourself
I love Martha Beck, a coach and author whose Sunday ‘Gathering Room’ I can recommend on Facebook where she gives helpful tips on how to navigate the world, mainly internal! Last week she spoke about a new book by Stephen Mitchell about self-forgiveness (not out yet) and the technique he describes for how to do it. Here it is: Find a thought about yourself that feels bad. Let it know you know it is a lie (anything that feels bad or restrictive is not the truth of who you are). Thank it for appearing to you so that you have to now see through it to the truth. Reverse the thought (find it’s opposite). Ask yourself for examples of how this opposite thought...
Read MoreChange is possible – here’s how
The exciting thing about being a therapist for a number of years now is how over time the methods, theories and techniques that I use begin to make more and more sense and with increased knowledge the mechanics of why they work becomes more obvious. Before the age of 8 – the subconscious mind If someone could sort out a problem by conscious thought and effort alone, they would have done it by now. The fact is that what we are dealing with is programming that has been stored in the subconscious mind before the age of 8 and 95% of our mind is subconscious and running the show without us even being aware of it. And that’s not our fault, it’s about...
Read MoreHo’oponopono – the internal cleanup
Ho’oponopono is a practice that originates from Hawaii where instead of trying to rectify problems ‘out there’, we do an internal cleaning, a wiping of our inner emotional slate and allow the effects to filter from the inside out. It’s super simple: you think of the disturbance that has come up, it can be an action, an emotion, a person, and you say internally, in no particular order: I’m sorry Please forgive me I love you Thank you You don’t need to know to whom you are addressing this, it could be the other person, it could be your inner child, it could be divine intelligence, it could be someone from your past that you have wronged in a...
Read MoreMeeting Keith Hunt MBE at the Royal Alexandra Children’s Hospital
Deborah Mairesse, Alison Walters and I, the Reiki therapists at the Royal Alexandra Children’s Hospital in Brighton, had the wonderful opportunity to meet Keith Hunt, MBE, who has been organising and championing complementary therapy at the Royal Free Hospital for 50 years now! He has immense experience, passion and insight and it was a real inspiration to meet him. Here is a video of him explaining his work and how it benefits patients.
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