Emotional Stress -- Impossible to Change?

What You Think Is What You Get
Marcelle Pick, OB-GYN N.P.
"A wonderful place to start is by noticing how you think.

Are you talking to yourself in a negative way every day or every time you look in the mirror? The first step is to notice.

And then you may get to a place where you can catch yourself before running those negative scripts and shift them to positive scripts.

Once we start to say more positive things to ourselves, our bodies will eventually feel those messages, and our lives will change."

Check in with how you feel each day.

"Check in with how you feel each day.
Are you tired?
Irritable?
Craving sugar?
Or do you feel energetic, even-keeled and satisfied?
Can you connect the way you feel with any of your food choices?

Marcelle Pick, OB-GYN, NP 
has seen some women take gluten and sugar out of their diets and see incredible results.

Some women just add protein to each meal and snack and find a renewed energy they thought they'd lost in their 20s.

Some feel better on a Mediterranean diet, while others enjoy a vegetarian or a low-fat diet.

The point is that you are the only one who can tell which way to eat is best.

Once you find foods you love (and the ones that love you back), you'll be amazed at how good you can feel!"

Your mind is like a computer!

Think of your mind like a computer.

The unconscious mind operates automatic body systems in the same way as a computer’s operating system.

The subconscious operates like a hard drive by storing information.

The conscious mind functions like RAM choosing what information is to be acted on moment by moment.

In order to update any files, the subconscious must be engaged. We cannot change memories, but we can update how we feel about them.

Hypnotherapy helps change perceptions of memories, which in turn helps change perceptions of the self and hence, behavior.

Our emotional and intellectual attitudes toward past, present and future events can be transformed into something that supports us in getting the results we want, achieving our goals and creating the life we desire.

Hypnosis Research

http://www.comfortcareconnection.com/clinical-research-overview/

Basic scientific research, much of it done at Harvard University by neuroscientist Steven Kosslyn and colleagues, has shown us that when people imagine things, the part of their brains involved in the senses they are using become active.

Using modern technologies like functional MRIs (fMRI) and SPECT scans, brain scientists can see which areas of the brain get activated when mental tasks are performed.

The studies show that when people imagine seeing something, the occipital cortex, the part of the brain that processes information from the eyes, becomes activated.

When people imagine listening to music, the temporal cortex, where music is processed, becomes active.

When people imagine moving, areas of the brain (the prefrontal motor cortex) that instruct the body to move become active.

Martin L. Rossman, Guided Imagery for Self-Healing 2000 HJ Kramer/New World Library.

Your B S… And Why You Should Care

"Your B S – or Belief Systems – are what can make or break your success. Left unexamined, they can actually create a lot of undesirable results. Even more challenging are the Belief Systems you don’t know about…

Many people know that they have both conscious and unconscious beliefs, and that the unconscious beliefs are the ones that block you from living your best life and expressing your true life purpose.
Of course, the trouble with that is… they are UNCONSCIOUS!

You can’t reach them by using your linear mind, which is what we’ve been conditioned by society to do as our default strategy.

Just as you can’t see the wind but you can see where it’s having an effect by blowing leaves around, you can’t see your Belief Systems – but you can see what they create."

Please see: http://mycreativecatalyst.com/entrepreneurial-breakthrough-session/

Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)

Please see: http://www.bradburyac.mistral.co.uk/nlpfax02.htm

Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is a set of models of how communication impacts and is impacted by subjective experience. 

Richard Bandler and John Grinder, in their book on NLP, Frogs Into Princes:  "We call ourselves modelers.  What we essentially do is to pay very little attention to what people say they do, and a great deal of attention to what they do." 

Neuro-Linguistic programming is concerned with the patterns or programming created by the interactions among the brain, language, and the body, that produce both effective and ineffective behavior.

Genuine NLP-related techniques focus on process and largely, if not completely, avoid content.

NLP makes little or no use of psycho-analytical style "psycho-archaeology"

Because, whenever content and/or raking over old memories become the primary focus, control passes from the client/subject to the person using the technique.

...Results brought about by the client/subject are far more effective than results imposed upon them - as expressed in the presupposition that people already have, or can find, all the resources they need.

 (NCBI - National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Accessed at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh?term=%22Neuro-linguistic%20Programming%22, May, 2011)

grounded and openhearted

 

http://selfleadership.org/the-larger-self.html

 

"When I can be deeply present to my clients from the core of my being, free from anxiety about how I'm doing, or who's in control of the therapy, or whether the client is following the correct therapeutic agenda, clients respond as if the resonance of my Self were a tuning fork that awakens their own. It's this deep, true, and faithful presence of the therapist  that every client yearns to connect with."

 

"Keep ourselves firmly grounded and openhearted. Without being tossed about by our own reactive emotions. We have to be able to tap into something at the very core of our being that provides a deep keel for our sailboat in the storm, so we can ride the roiling waves without being submerged by them. We can't become centered in what I call the Self – the deep ground of our being – by trying to flatten, suppress, deny, or destroy the feelings we don't like in ourselves or others."

"Once you've attuned with your client, the session begins to flow, and there's an almost effortless quality to the work, as if something magical were unfolding almost by itself. I don't even think about what I'm going to say – the right words just come out, as if something were speaking through me. Afterward, I'm full of energy, as if I'd been meditating for an hour rather than doing hard, demanding, clinical work. In a sense, of course, I've been in a state of meditation – a state of deep mindfulness, full-bodied attention, centered awareness, and inner calm. And even after all these years, I still have the sense of being witness to something awe inspiring, as if the client and I both were connected to something beyond us, much bigger than we are."