Resentment-Free Living…How To

A memory of abuse or of a traumatic event, when triggered can make a person feel powerless. In this situation, everything is beyond their control.  The memory may not be in the foreground of the mind but deeply repressed, as a pattern, dormant in the subconscious mind. It can be triggered through association – a smell, a touch, a look, a word … [Read more...]

Love as Medicine – Thoughts on how to Enhance Immune Function

It has been said that… “Love is the most powerful and still the most unknown energy in the world.” Pierre Teilhard de Chardin How can it be so? We, along with everything else, live in, contribute to and are sustained by the universal energy field. Signals from this universal field or environment affect our state of being…we are in … [Read more...]

The Healing Journey: 9 Steps towards Wholeness

“Tend to your vital heart and all that you worry about will be solved.” Rumi Career and workplace success can naturally conflict with a person’s desire for inner peace.  What if you knew that a 10 to 20 minute gentle self-care practice could support you in healing from major health challenges, help you manage stress, move through grief and … [Read more...]

Empowered Choice through Embodied Awareness

“Earthly things must be known to be loved;Divine things must be loved to be known.” Blaise Pascal Mindfulness practice is the key to mental stability, emotional balance and a calm, centered, empowered presence. Learning to quiet the mind and noticing what you are noticing begins with choice and is mastered through practice. Thoughts, at the … [Read more...]

Repatterning your way to Personal Freedom

– an Awareness Training Protocol The moment you realize the cause of your suffering is a moment of liberation. That moment of insight is an opening in awareness of an internal pattern that’s kept you stuck and in pain. Personal liberation then, is a process activated by awareness and pattern recognition, followed by a process of … [Read more...]

Awareness is the Greatest Agent of Choice

There are 5 Facets of Mindfulness Non-reactivity to Inner Experience Observing, noticing, attending to feelings, thoughts, sensations, perceptions Acting with awareness Describing/labeling experience with words Non judging of experience "It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how things are in themselves. The … [Read more...]

Reflective Practice – A Practice for Peace, Courage and Inspired Action

“Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.” Peter Drucker Reflective practice is learning that is directly linked to our actions, thought and feeling – to our direct experience. As a practice, reflection offers us a way to explore and direct the development of our abilities, … [Read more...]

Mindset – Key to Liberation or Enslavement

I see it time and again…how what a client believes shapes their perception and limits their experience. What does it take to have an “open” mind? Why does it matter? The assumption is that if your mind’s made up, you’ve come to a judgment and require no more information. Your mind is therefore closed and you direct your available energy to … [Read more...]

In Giving We Receive–Therapeutic Touch®, Mindfulness Practice in Action

In my early days of learning Therapeutic Touch, I discovered its brilliance and was in awe at the wisdom of its founders, Dolores Krieger, RN, PhD and her mentor, Dora Kunz. It was at a Practice Group meeting in the middle of offering a healing session that I realized quite suddenly that in this simple act of helping another, I felt better – I … [Read more...]

How to Activate Your Blueprint for Optimum Health and Wellness

Your blueprint for optimal health and wellness is within you as the oak tree is to the acorn. Imagine it as always being there – at the centre of your being. To activate self-healing, call upon this blueprint for optimal health. Think of it as shifting a handheld kaleidoscope to the select view – the view you want to call into focus….your … [Read more...]