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Articles: mind matters
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A Quiet Place
by Penelope Moon
Penelope Moon, a professional hypno-psychotherapist and teacher and founder member of Cheiron – A Quiet Place, presents a brief but informative overview of the principles behind the Quiet Place project.
A Walk Through Robin's Brain
by Mary Douglas
The following story is an excerpt of a taped dialogue between cancer patient, Robin Jones and his physiotherapist, Mary Douglas. It was taped at St Catherine's Hospice in Crawley, Sussex on 5 September, 1992. It was Robin's desire to record some of the discoveries he made during his recovery from a brain haemorrhage some 7 years previously, first in re-learning how to speak and later in the control of cancer pain.
Against Mind-Body Medicine
by Andrew Vickers
That the health of the mind and body are linked is generally seen as obvious, almost beyond question. The belief is part of our folk-lore: clichés such as "healthy body, healthy mind" and "dying of a broken heart" express the physical-mental connection in opposite directions.
Aligned Thinking for Optimum Health
by Richard Morley
High levels of stress hormones can make the immune system less effective, but most of the time our system maintains itself, despite the rigours we expose ourselves to. The best thing we can do, however, is to remove these obstacles and allow our system to operate as it is designed to.
Autogenic Therapy - the best form of self-help
by Jane Bird
But can we learn to activate our own self-righting mechanisms? Can we cause the healing capacity to work at our own command and directive, rather than giving that power to another person (a therapist)? . . .
Autogenic Therapy: A Short Term Therapy for Long Term Gain
by Sonia Saunders
Autogenic Therapy (AT) for high levels of stress which exceed one's comfort level and eventually lead to various physical and emotional symptoms such as: high blood pressure, allergies, headaches, chest pains, insomnia, irritable bowel syndrome, and various states of anxiety.
Between Loneliness and Laughter
by Zaak Fresh
Loneliness is a feeling of emptiness and hollowness inside an individual. It results from smothered, festering feelings of isolation that produce the belief of being separated and cut-off from the rest of the living, happy world.
Bolles Sensory Learning Method
by Mary Bolles
The Bolles Sensory Learning Method™ is an innovative non-cognitive approach to developmental learning that utilizes enhanced natural sensory stimulation for remediation of an individual's emergent faculties.
Can the Brain Really be Re-Wired?
by Michael Cohen
This article looks at how the brain can be re-wired and whether it can be done without the person having to work out how, why or when, through RaphaYad Bioenergy Healing treatments.
Clinical Benefits of Peak States Therapy
by Grant McFetridge
In this article the author shows us how we can fully accept and reconcile alternative therapies with what we know to be true, based on what he and his colleagues stumbled upon by accident while trying to solve what they thought was an unrelated question (which was ‘why do some people clearly have exceptionally positive experiences in life and how can other people acquire this type of state’?).
Clinical Psychoneuroimmunology - Mind-Body Integrated Health
by Dr Alexandra Concorde (formerly Pandolfino)
PNI is the scientific discipline that explains how the mind, nervous system and immune system communicate through a complex series of pathways and molecules, including the endocrine system.
Cultivating the Mind for Positive Health
by Barry Mapp
We are encouraged to exercise our physical body in order to maintain good health: To "use it or lose it". The current focus of this good sense is on our "body" and the heart. The same maxim, however, applies to the brain, the mind and the memory.
Depressed? Your Dreams Can Help!
by John Goldhammer
Dream researcher John Goldhammer has discovered, from his 25 plus years of researching dreams and techniques of dream interpretations, that the majority of our dreams have a profound intent and purpose. They focus on freeing us from self-negating and self-defeating attitudes that can create feelings of depression.
Depression - Promising Treatment Approaches
by Jonathan McGookin
This article focuses on depression --- a debilitating mental illness where the affected person often develops an extremely negative outlook on life and sees no way out of the black mood which has gripped them. In such cases, a loss of appetite and sex drive is common, as is sleep disturbance and a feeling of being constantly tired and 'flat' --- and how to treat it.
Enneagram: The key to fulfilment
by Andrew Shaw
An X-ray of the human mind is unveiled. Nine different windows through which our reality is skewed.
Finding and Releasing Emotional Causes of Disease
by Sandra Hallawi
Our emotions arise as part of our human response to life experiences. How we respond to life can also have a direct cause-and-effect relationship with the onset and progression of physical symptoms. Applying new, effective tools for releasing emotions can often be the key to rapid healing.
Focusing With One 'S'
by Jenny Brickett
When we bring our awareness into the Present Moment and begin to notice what is happening in our own inner space, we are amazed at how much is there. We begin to notice subtly different qualities of how we are within ourselves.
Frequently Frazzled - The Highly Sensitive Person
by Handan T Satiroglu
The author of this article is herself a Highly Sensitive Person and so is able to talk knowledgably about the topic. She first stumbled across the term in the book The Highly Sensitive Person: How to thrive when the world overwhelms you by Dr Elaine Aron some five years ago which was the first time she was able to understand her condition. Highly Sensitive People, or HSPs, are more susceptible to noises, lights, crowds and can overreact to situations. The condition affects around 15 to 20 per cent of the population and is seen in both men and women.
Fulfilling Your Life Potential
by Anthony Aurelius
Anthony Aurelius is a Professional Life Coach, working with clients over the telephone. In this article, he outlines strategies that can lead to a happier and more satisfying life. He stresses that individuals can enhance each strategy by consulting a Coach whenever the need arises.
Happiness and the Immune System
by Dr Shara BA Cohen
Dr Cohen is an immunologist, scientific consultant, science writer and lecturer who specialises in presenting science for non-scientists. Here she presents the biological evidence supporting the idea that your mood and emotional responses can have an important effect on your health.
How Our Beliefs Affect Our Lives
by Penny Parks
Unlike animals, humans compulsively make meaning of our experiences. When we have attached the same meaning to a repeated experience a number of times, meaning becomes belief. These beliefs, both positive and negative, are verified with new experiences and we tend to note the information that matches our beliefs, while we discount the rest. The author demonstrates that this is particularly damaging when negative beliefs are reinforced.
Inner Voices: Embracing all the Parts of our Personality
by John Kent
This article describes the theory of the Psychology of Selves, and the Aware Ego process, as well as its practical application in Voice Dialogue.
InnerTalk - Bypassing our Negative Dialogue
by Mike and Stephanie Ozanne
Subliminal communication is a most powerful technology. It can literally rescript the pre-conscious mind, stripping away negative expectations and self doubt, and replacing these destructive patterns with positive input, thereby bringing about positive changes to people's lives in an effortless and natural way from the inside out.
Inspired Teaching: Tool for Transformation and Healing
by Rick Thorn
This article focuses on teaching from the perspective of a teacher-student and healer-client, and what can be done to ensure that what we teach and how we teach can be even more powerful and transformatory.
Life Mapping: Being Your Best
by Brian Mayne
The author sums up life mapping in the phrase 'it enables you to be at your best and, when you feel your best, you naturally produce your best results'. He sees three stages to the process of developing yourself fully: discover, in which you decide what your life's purpose is; define, in which you spell it out in as few words as possible; design, in which you set about achieving it by using techniques such as visualizing a life map for 21 days, first thing in the morning or last thing at night to increase connectivity to your subconscious thereby accelerating your growth and development.
Lucid Dreams
by Dr Keith Hearne
A 'lucid' dream is one in which you suddenly become perfectly aware – while still asleep and dreaming – that you are actually dreaming.
Mastering Your Emotions - Waking WREMS State
by Ann Fillmore
WREMS – Waking REM State is a skill. Not therapy or pop-psych or new age magic – it is a practical tool that allows you direct access to your subconscious mind and the power to call up memories, desensitize emotional trauma, become calm and move on. Calm is the sensation the Dalai Lama terms mindful or being at peace. Once you learn the skill, you set off on a journey unprecedented in human exploration.
Mind Mapping for Positive Health
by Barry Mapp
Mind Mapping was devised as a memory tool by Tony Buzan in the '70s and since that time, it has evolved considerably and its applications have extended substantially. A Mind Map® is a powerful, but simple, graphical tool which provides a "key" to unlocking the potential of the Brain.
Mind Over Minefield
by Dr Harry Alder
Complementary medicine can be a minefield. Sometimes a battlefield. Its typical freelance sole proprietor can be as fiercely competitive as any ruthless corporate giant.
Moving Through Depression
by Maggie Baker
This author was diagnosed with depression at the age of forty. She felt that she had spent her adulthood lurching from one crisis to another, including a disastrous marriage and a business on the verge of bankruptcy.
Moving Through Depression, Literally
by Maggie Baker
Maggie writes about a very personal journey from a major breakdown seven years ago. She tells of how repression of her real self was at the heart of her problems and how she has overcome these to a certain extent by allowing herself to 'rant and rage' and to channel her energies in more constructive, creative and appropriate ways.
Moving Through Depression: A Few Steps Further
by Maggie Baker
Maggie Baker. A follow up to her previous article Moving Through Depression (issue 34).
Mystical Gardens of Bellenau
by Vivienne Silver-Leigh
Vivienne Silver-Leigh shares her experiences of Chateau Bellenau in Normandy, which has been restored over the past three years to provide a peaceful and magical setting for transformative groupwork for alternative therapy groups and business and coaching groups.
Natural Approaches to Depression
by Rory Myles
This article describes research linking Depression with a wide range of health problems, including Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), Back Pain, Cardiovascular Disease, Physical Decline, Heightened Perception of Pain and Impotence.
Natural Coping Approaches for Children with ADHD
by Violet-Ann Remba
In this article, the author, the mother of a young hyperactive child, discusses ADD/ADHD (Attention Deficit Disorder/Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) and how best to deal with it using alternative therapies and methods…adding that the condition is easily manageable with the right attitude.
Perceptual Enhancement Programme by Inside-Out Learning
by Jeffry and Pamela Sharp
This article describes the idea behind the perceptual learning programme developed by Inside-Out Learning, the key features of the programme and the benefits achievable.
Psychoneuroimmunology and NLP
by Nancy Blake
As practitioners or clients of complementary therapies, we are constantly made aware of the split between 'science-based' allopathic medicine, which mostly looks at symptoms of 'diseases', single causes and single 'cures', and our practice, which attempts to understand the whole individual in the context of the entire environment, external and internal.
Rediscovering Your Own Unique Reality
by Regan Duggan
In this article, Regan Duggan shows us how to put aside the worldview created for us by the experiences of our parents, teachers, partners, etc., and recreate our own unique reality. He highlights the fact that much of our time is spent making decisions around other people, looking outside for other people's approval, diverting our attention to others' problems, with no real focus on our own needs. He asserts that only by helping ourselves first can we be truly happy and able to harness our true power to heal.
Simple Memorizing Techniques
by Laura Lane
his article takes a heartening look at how our memories can be easily influenced in order to improve our capacity for remembering facts and figures, stressing that so-called poor memories generally relate to concentration levels, mental state and degree of emotional involvement rather than an innate inability to remember anything.
Survival and Transformation from Terminal Cancer
by Martin Brofman
The author takes us on his remarkable journey of self-discovery that led to a total transformation of his whole Being and complete healing following a diagnosis of terminal cancer of the spinal cord.
Taking Humour Therapy Seriously
by Wendy Lawson
Wendy Lawson introduces humour therapy as a significant aspect of integrated healthcare, as part of the three-way relationship between patient, carer and health professional.
Tempering Temper
by John Minard
John Minard, a practitioner of spiritual healing, discusses the implications of temper and outbursts, and how to overcome them. He uses the example of having his ideas interrupted in a business meeting and how this can cause sensitivity, self-pity and humiliation.
The Benefits of Thought Field Therapy
by Charles Stone
Discovered in 1980 by Clinical Psychologist Dr Roger Callahan, TFT is completely different from any other form of Psychotherapy; TFT operates at the deepest level of consciousness, at the micro level, by correcting messages in the autonomic nervous system.
The Concept of the Virtual Self
by Dr Keith Hearne
Dr Hearne has developed the concept of the Virtual Self – a psychological self-image that includes present, childhood and seeming past life information.
The Emotional Dimension in Children's Life Threatening Illnesses
by Tony Quinlan
Using the case of an eight-year-old girl, who was found to be suffering from Stevens Johnsons Syndrome - a severe allergic reaction to medication - Tony Quinlan explores the complex arena of emotions experienced by the child with a life-threatening illness and by others.
The Enneagram and Health: A tool for transformation
by Denise Coen and Jane Vukovic
The Enneagram is a tool to uncover our compulsive life patterns. We create our own intimate world, by the thoughts we hold, the words we speak.
The Enneagram: Basic Instincts
by Andrew Shaw
Are there people in your life you are attracted to even though your personalities are very different? Would you perceive yourself as the type of person who attends to their own needs first; or do you find it more important to fit in with the wishes of others; or are you always in search for that one special person with whom you can spend time?
The Experience of Depression
by Dorothy Rowe
Each of us experiences depression in an image which is idiosyncratically our own, and yet which shares a meaning with all other people's images of the experience of depression.
The Good Mood Guide
by Donna Welsh
In light of today's increasing use of antidepressants, Donna Welsh describes different holistic approaches to overcoming negative moods.
The Hidden Language of Intuition
by Susan Hannibal
Susan Hannibal, who practices in Vista, California, begins her article by discussing how energy medicine and intuitive diagnosis have become a major part of alternative and complementary medicine. She demonstrates that this approach has become more mainstream by noting that the disruption of energy balance within the body has a significant effect on physical and psychological problems.
The Incredible Dream Oracle
by David Melbourne & Dr Keith Hearne
Here, the authors explain an amazing and completely new way of getting important messages from the unconscious mind, via dreams, yet requiring no interpretation.
The Mace Method for Emotional Healing
by Jane Smith
The author of this article, a professional medical editor and writer, shares her understanding of the Mace Method on editing Dr John Mace’s book Don’t Think Like an Elephant.
The Mind Map as an Aid for Therapists
by Ian Woodrow
This article, based upon my experience using learning-to-learn models for therapeutic benefit, features visual aids and particularly Mind Mapping®. My own, mainly content-free style of therapy is not ideally suited to these techniques and I am sure that others will find even greater benefit than I.
The Mind, Metaphor & Health
by Penny Tompkins and James Lawley
This article explains why metaphor is a natural way to describe illness and health, the importance of recognizing patients'/clients' metaphors, and how working within these metaphors can activate an individual's personal healing process.
The Myths We Live By
by Dorothy Rowe
Dorothy Rowe is a clinical psychologist, acclaimed for her work on depression and the author of 12 books focusing on how we create meaning in our lives, as well as numerous newspaper and magazine articles and other media contributions.
The Power of Beliefs - How they can make or break your life
by Karen Charnock
The author looks into the power of personal beliefs and says the first step is to identify any troublesome beliefs we may have, whether it is to do with marriage, or religion or even success, money or personal relationships.
The Power of Thought over the Physical Body
by Keith Mason Ph.D
The power of thought processes and the act of thinking, and the effects upon the human organism in connection with health and illness, have largely been ignored by conventional medicine.
Unleash Your Mind Power to be in Control of Your Life
by Elena Nanos
Here the author examines the power of the mind, and states that in order to have the outcome we desire in life one must tap into mind power to achieve our goals and dreams. The mind, therefore, contains all the resources to improve health and energy levels. She maintains that it is possible to turn one's life around, and shift from the downhearted pessimist to the eternal optimist.
Why Do You Feel Fat After Losing Weight?
by Sandra Blakeslee and Matthew Blakeslee
This article looks at why people still feel fat after losing weight; why yo-yo dieting is so prevalent; and whether anorexics are really being honest in their heart of hearts when they gaze in a mirror at their scrawny, starving bodies and insist they are grossly fat.
You Are What You Believe
by Taymour Qabazard
What we choose to believe about the world and ourselves determines the quality of life we have. Our beliefs dictate how well we perform, interact, grow our businesses and spot opportunities. Ironically, what we believe has a greater effect on us than the truths that surround us.
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