For hundreds of clients who’ve experienced the therapeutic benefit of cathartic movement through boxing with me, there is no doubt about its transformative effects. Still, I’ve grappled with how to define what it is that I actually do for work. How can I explain that boxing is a healing modality? Over the last several years, Somatic therapy or Somatic release has become the new therapy of choice for those seeking relief from PTSD and stress-related “disorders”. Finally, a shift from outdated ineffectual talk therapies and drug pushing to recognizing the importance of the mind-body connection. Sharing personal experiences, especially those …
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How to Trust in Yourself by Finding Your Inner Compass
A key component for how to trust in yourself is finding your inner compass and maintaining a connection to it. The Solar Plexus is often referred to as the ‘seat of personal power. ‘Experiences in early childhood will largely influence one’s connection to this energy center. Energetic imbalances or ‘blocks’ may manifest in ways that negatively affect a person’s self-esteem, confidence, and feelings of personal power. Outwardly, one may express apathy, insecurity, or a seemingly opposite extreme of seeking power and control. Often this disconnection results in a lack of body awareness and diminishes the ability ‘to know’ based on …
Boundaries: An Important Life Skill
Setting boundaries and honoring boundaries is an important life skill. Early experiences with poor, non-existent, or inconsistent boundary-setting lead many to ignore inner sensations and knowing. If an important life skill is rarely or never modeled well, it easily becomes a skill deficit that has great impact on a persons experiences later in life. You CAN trust that what is right for you will feel right. We always have a choice to get ‘unstuck’; to leave a job or a relationship, set a limit, say “no,” or move away from a situation, location, person, or substance for our higher good. …
The Most Potent Form of Communication is Embodying Your Truth
Define Yourself By Embodying Your TRUTH. There is power in this form of communication! The longer you harbor words and ignore or stuff emotions, the more the energetic holding blocks the natural flow of creating. The withholding itself causes harm to the holder and those within the immediate environment. No amount of pretending or hiding can conceal the vibrational pollution that occurs from negative stored emotions. Authentic, honest communication is healing and empowering and has the power to heal ourselves, others, and our relationships. Communicating in this way is the beginning of embodying your truth. Harmful Communication Protecting yourself and …
Benefits of Focused Attention
You deserve to experience the benefits of focused attention. Multitasking and scattering your energy across many different tasks and roles leads to lowered feelings of self-efficacy, increases your stress hormones, and decreases feelings of fulfillment. Make time for yourself and uncloud your mind. Practicing body-centered exercise helps to improve your focus and mitigates many of the negative consequences of spreading yourself too thin. Over a short period, this will translate into an improvement in one’s overall wellness. Self-efficacy Unrealistic expectations, either self-imposed or from outside people or entities, will quickly erode your feelings of how well you may consistently stay …
Release of Suppressed Emotion Thru Movement
To live fully is to honor and experience the full range of human emotions. By allowing for the channeling of suppressed emotion, you provide a space for those vibrations to shift, move, and pass. Imagine how liberating it will be to entertain your emotional life in ways that allow greater self-acceptance. Strong emotional reactions or underlying vibrations of fear, anger, or rage are part of the human experience. Denying those aspects of your inner world does not allow for appropriate channeling, release, or healing to occur. The adverse effects of withholding are substantial to self and still felt vibrationally by …