Body Vitality, Safety, & Self-Image
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Using EFT While in a Yoga Posture
Julie Thompson writes: I discovered something kind of interesting: I was doing a yoga pose that’s supposed to open up your hips—it’s basically sitting with one leg out in front of you at a 45 degree angle and putting the other leg on top of it at the same angle and just sitting and breathing,…
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Thought Viruses and the Fears Associated with Movement and Pain
If we can understand pain signals and the healing mechanisms at work when we feel pain, we can begin to understand how the protective mechanisms of the body can often become overprotective. Pain has a “threat value” that on a primitive level seeks to insure our survival. Yet, the threat sticks around often long after…
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What We Call Our Symptoms
Mike Adams recently wrote an article about disease and how western medicine names diseases in ways that both obscure their true causes and make it easy for drug companies to market medicines that “treat the disease” without really treating the underlying causes. I have included some of the paragraphs from Mike’s article with comments. There…
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Enhancing Range of Motion with EFT
*Stacey Vornbrock (http://www.breakthroughperformance.net/) is an EFT practitioner who focuses on sports performance. Her approach to improving range of motion (the ability of the body to move fluidly and without unhelpful restriction) using EFT is applicable to both athletes young and old, amateur and professional, as well as anyone who has suffered an injury and wants…
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Make Way for Baby
Last night was one of those client sessions that leaves me feeling so grateful to have the opportunity to do this work. I have been working regularly with Jennifer, a friend and one of my former classmates in massage school. She is 37 weeks pregnant with her second daughter. The baby has been sitting head-up…
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Transforming Pain into Optimal Health
Is it possible to transform pain into optimal health? Yes, absolutely. In fact, most of us do not make an effort to optimize our health practices without the help of pain signals to bring our attention to problem areas. Intense (even life-threatening) pain and disease can give us permission to seek out alternatives and to…