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Sunday, 22 February 2015
Life reaches our Being
Life reaches our Being with ultimate closeness when we experience feeling. Here resides the importance of learning
how to breath deeply,
how to eat wisely,
how to engage in the moment,
how to face apparent failure with a smile that anticipates understanding and inner growth.
All these teachings become real through adequate training of our body. Involve in practicing movement that is unknown to you up to now: challenge your body and trust it to generate the feeling of renewal, strength, happiness, grace, determination, joy, inner peace. Also failure followed by learning and triumph.
The Life Mentoring Method® gives you education which proves that Life is, indeed, the result of your practices, your behavior, your thoughts and emotions, as well as your hard work which is accompanied by joy.
by Sofi Naik
LMM Reviewed
Life Mentoring Method® Reviewed
But there’s another
way of making this. By the Zen Martial Arts. Apply the martial arts spirit to
life, the Zen to your soul. It will provides strong body, strong mind in a
strong soul. And actually it will help on some diseases as anxiety, diabetes,
and cholesterol and so on. And in one thing it will help too: we will get a
perception of life, time and space like never before. We will have more in
making less and chilling. The practicing will promote high levels of dopamine,
serotonin and a quick thinking as well as good waking up/sleeping times and a
higher immunity system security. Coordination and review by Prof’ Pedro Proff
By Profº Pepe C.
Spirit is
everything to health. Every illness derivate from some disturb on spirit and
the cure is always at the spirit too. But one thing need to be clear: body is
one thing, spirit is other totally different. So if we get connected to
earth/god/universe and if we get a full commitment to our inner mentor we will
get not only a well strong spirit but also a strong and healthy life and body.
The way? Not getting blind by drugs, media or illusions and really know ourselves,
our real I. Remember, changes begin inside, outside will be just the mirror. Applying
a Mind Body Spirit work with spiritual focus will bring us regeneration of our
health, knowledge of the real I and make us see the INner potential
One way to do
it is by the Chi-Kung that is just an ancient form of Taoism. With this we can
manage the Chi (energy from universe inside us, our energy). Chi-Kung connects
the individual to the universe in every possible scale (macroscopic and
microscopic). The Chi-Kung consists on making the energy flows between an orbit
(called microcosmic) that is formed by two meridians in the back and front of
the body. Tongue on the top of the mouth, make a perfect circle and meditate.
This will help the Chi flows between the 12 meridians and regenerate all the
organs.
But there’s another
way of making this. By the Zen Martial Arts. Apply the martial arts spirit to
life, the Zen to your soul. It will provides strong body, strong mind in a
strong soul. And actually it will help on some diseases as anxiety, diabetes,
and cholesterol and so on. And in one thing it will help too: we will get a
perception of life, time and space like never before. We will have more in
making less and chilling. The practicing will promote high levels of dopamine,
serotonin and a quick thinking as well as good waking up/sleeping times and a
higher immunity system security.
Mind Body Spirit Work can also include outer work which may involve
relationships with others. Applying some Therapy there is lots of techniques
and beliefs called 'Brief Interventions'. They are time-effective techniques,
solution-based concerned on what is
currently preventing to overcome some issues.
'Brief Interventions' is a non-directive counselling. It seeks to aid
clients to sort their problems out and move on with their lives. Through
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, the Mentor can help the client by notice that the
individual can identify their beliefs and challenge their thinking. This is a
quite important process because establishes proximity between these practices
and Therapy.
So as U can
see, is all about the spirit. Make spirit changes applied to some body changes
and a new level of orientation/focus and your Inner potential will be awesome
and increase. Applying to life is hard but when you do it, it just getting you
connected to the real you in a connection that includes body, soul and mind.
Sunday, 15 February 2015
Is It Time to Fire Your Physician?
Feb 12, 2015 - by Ruschelle Khanna, LCSW
In one of my first visits to the Functional Forum, the Founder, James Maskell MD, said something I will never forget. He reminded the audience that the days of patients coming into an office and blindly taking the physician’s word as gospel are antiquated. Instead, he reminded us that today’s healthcare consumer is educated and seeking answers to chronic conditions. He went on to say that functional medicine is at the forefront of this because it focuses on finding the root cause of disease rather than masking symptoms. Unfortunately, many people are unfamiliar with the benefits of functional medicine.
As a psychotherapist specializing in the integrated healing of chronic disease and chronic mental illness, I couldn't have been happier. In ten years of clinical practice in nonprofits, I was far too familiar with physicians who were eager to over medicate and disregard the myriad ways we come to heal outside of pharmaceuticals. Due to my experience, I am an advocate of functional medicine as a starting point and an integrative way to heal both physical and mental disease. If clients come to me, genuinely seeking answers to their issues, some of my first questions begin with the relationship they have with their physician. Below are my top three tips to ‘know when to fire your physician’ and begin seeking an integrative healing professional.
As a psychotherapist specializing in the integrated healing of chronic disease and chronic mental illness, I couldn't have been happier. In ten years of clinical practice in nonprofits, I was far too familiar with physicians who were eager to over medicate and disregard the myriad ways we come to heal outside of pharmaceuticals. Due to my experience, I am an advocate of functional medicine as a starting point and an integrative way to heal both physical and mental disease. If clients come to me, genuinely seeking answers to their issues, some of my first questions begin with the relationship they have with their physician. Below are my top three tips to ‘know when to fire your physician’ and begin seeking an integrative healing professional.
- He/She doesn’t listen. It is difficult to expect to be healed if your physician’s visit consists of a 10 minute chat, reviews of tests, and a quick prescription. Your time is also valuable and you deserve to pay someone, who will hear your entire story. Whether you have insurance or are paying out of pocket, you are still a consumer. Improved quality of care begins with the willingness to pay certain providers over others.
- Treatment rationale is not explained. Does your physician expect that you listen to him/her without question? As more information is available to consumers, the physician can no longer assume that they know more about your body than you do. The market is moving toward a more collaborative approach to treatment. Some physicians offices even offer case management services to assist with care plans after you return home.
- Pharmaceuticals are his/her only reference. A quality physician understands that your lifestyle and attitude drastically affect healing. If your physician is unaware of other healing tools besides pharmaceuticals, you are receiving sub par care. A quality physician assesses and develops strategies to healing, that fit your lifestyle.
Monday, 9 February 2015
F.E.A.R
In LMM® we believe that FEAR is addressed, digested, incorporated into yoUr personal evolution and strength if you educate yourself to
Inward focus means awareness with respect to personal ethics, discipline in actions and thoughts. It brings about insight: the ability to identify what is actually important and requires change. Thus, inward focus empowers you ... to address, challenge and overcome FEAR.
Feel
Emotions
As
Reality
We know, through our Method, that emotions reflect the reality that yoU hold within. The truth ... in your mind, heart, soul, spirit and body.
Indeed, emotional distress is a consequence of conflict ... between what you are doing and that what you actually needed to do!!
On the other hand, health is a consequence of facing your emotional state, coping and then acting accordingly.
In this sense: emotion is the reality which we, so often, try to numb, disguise and run from. Running from emotion brings about anxiety, turmoil and, normally, illness.
Life Mentoring Method® holds several procedures that you can bring into your life. These personal processes follow from Life Mentoring, from Physical Training, from Art and from Science. Once these actions belong to your being, to your personal hygiene in life ... inward focus will occur.
Friday, 6 February 2015
LMM Reviewed
Life Mentoring Method®
Reviewed
By Profª Sofi Naik
Mind body
spirit medicine uses applied spirituality to bring about health. This concept
medicine states that all illnesses result of a spiritual disturbance and
complete healing of the illness can only be achieved through healing at the
spiritual level.
Although conventional
medical therapies have much control over the superficial expression of health
in the physical body, they are not able to address the deeper spiritual root of
each illness with the use of pills or surgery. The truth is that that inner
turmoil will be (somewhat) numb and will find a new form to express itself in
that person's life, if left unaddressed. Mind Body Spirit Work is the
discipline that truly engages the spiritual base of the
illness/distress/unbalance. It is based on two important principles. Firstly:
by sincerely wishing to connect to
Earth/Universe/God (whichever of these entities relates to the person in
question), we cultivate our Spiritual
Self (our inner Mentor). Secondly: the quality and depth of our work towards
our Inner Mentor is determined by the profound
understanding that, somewhere along the line, we will feel exactly as we caused
other (any and all) beings to feel.
To connect
spiritually, we need to maintain truthful/loving intentions (empathy) towards
all people, in all situations (including ourselves, our thoughts and feelings).
To do so: our attention is to be focused
inward; we must be aware that the mind creates many false stories and hides
what really matters, whereas the heart never lies. It is our ability to feel that reveals the truth of our intentions. On
the one hand any uncomfortable emotion is
a sign that we have or had
non-loving/non-truthful intentions. On the other hand, we must learn to validate
our emotional state, we need to accept the inner discomfort and stay
with the feeling inside of us. Eluding ourselves with busyness, drugs, medication,
lies, food, social media and so forth are escape mechanisms that will allow our
emotional conflict to eat us away from the inside: our perception will cause us
to have negative thoughts, we will be overwhelmed, physical issues will arise
(tiredness, pain, and indigestion). If signs of inner conflict are ignored, then
structural illness occurs (tumours grow, organs deteriorate, arteries get
blocked). Although these are the diseases that conventional medicine can modify
more effectually, we must remember that the root cause is on the spiritual
level. Instead of jumping to only fix
that body part which is damaged, we must cultivate our Inner Mentor so as to
gain insight into what needs changing.
Mind Body
Spirit work consists of three areas, all of which must be pursued 24/7. Outer work is to review our life,
identify and change all that lies outside
of ourselves (relationships, job, and home place) and has a negative impact
on our emotional/spiritual health. Inner
work consists of personal practices that will nourish our being whilst improving our focus inward, such as Yoga,
Chi-Kung, Art, Journaling, Meditation, exercising outdoors in Nature. Applied inner work consists in
maintaining the inward focus as we go about our day (awareness), finding a
better understanding of our emotions and intentions, being clearer in the
diagnosis of non-loving aspects in our life. Persistent application of Mind
Body Spirit work, with a spiritual focal point, will bring about INsight, the experience
of health and regeneration, knowledge of
ourselves as loving souls, release of a burden that you did not realized that
you carried.
One of the
personal practices amongst inner work,
is Chi-Kung (Qigong): an ancient form of Chinese Art, rooted on Taoism.
Chi-Kung allows the individual to harmoniously manage the Chi (the energy from
which the universe first resulted). The
energy flows between the Universe and the individual, as well as within the
person. Chi-Kung hence connects the universe/nature with the person (at
cellular level), as well as what is macro and micro in scale. Qigong consists
of sequences of smooth, quiet, yet precise movements that are accompanied by
strict observance of breathing. Consciousness in breathing is a spiritual
exercise in itself as it is about inward focus, awareness of being, feeling
grounded to earth through our own body. Chi-Kung is a personal discipline that
allows us to self-regulate and regenerate the body, mind. It is one of the
mechanisms through which we can heal our spirit and consequently our whole
being.
Chi-Kung
contains several exercises and systems, one of them is the Microcosmic Orbit,
which consists of a circle formed by two meridians through which the Qi flows
along the front/back of the body, on a vertical axis (Conception and Governal vessels).
Meditating on the Microcosmic Orbit means that you are seated, relaxed, with
your tongue pressed against the upper mandible (so that the two meridians are
connected to each other), whilst you visualize the flow of the Qi through the
meridians, reaching all organs, all cells (the flow through Conception and
Governal vessels brings as a consequence the flow of the Chi through the other
12 meridians associated with organs in the body and, also, the flow through an
energy path related to the soul). Meditating on the Microcosmic Orbit may be
accompanied by chanting of mantras and must be preceded by the practice of the Six
Healing Sounds. This is a process by which the excess heat produced by
inner organs (the accumulation of heat results of physical/emotional distress) is
released through the digestive tube. This meditation will bring about cell
regeneration, harmonization of the Chi.
Another
form of inner and applied inner work
(areas of he Mind Body Spirit Work) is the Zen Martial Arts Medicine.
It is based on the fact that Martial Arts (MA) contribute to positive changes
in the body's natural healing processes, as they strongly influence the function
of most organ systems, as well as chemistry of our brain. Scientific studies
agree the MA practitioner shows brain neurotransmitter balance, mood elevation,
enhanced self-esteem, lower anxiety levels, resistance to depression, improved coping
ability. Moreover, heart rate is slowed, hypertensive blood pressure is reduced
toward normal, and improvement is verified in blood sugar, blood lipids, blood
supply to muscles, in the function of the liver in storing carbohydrate. These changes translate into overall risk
reduction of illnesses as type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease, chronic
respiratory disease, osteoporosis, obesity, and anxiety, mild to moderate
mental depression, chronic fatigue, breast and colon cancer.
Observe,
in face of this data, that it does make sense that Chi-Kung (and Meditation on
the Microcosmic Orbit) also bring profound positive change in our mind, body
and spirit. All of these physical activities are sound proof that health is
spiritual based: once there is personal discipline associated with education
(physical, emotional, spiritual, artist, scientific) we are indeed our own healer.
MA
training combines dosage, distance (or time), intensity, frequency and
technique. MA are dose responsive in the sense that there is an optimal maximal
level of training: if it surpassed then the body will decline in physical and
mental health. MA training movements are classified as aerobic, strength,
stretching, skill and fun. Of these 5 categories, only the aerobic is able to
change metabolism and chemistry in such a way as to bring about a wide range of
health gains in the practitioner (other than MA, running, skating, aerobic
walking are also in this category). These health gains include the rebalancing
of the sympathetic (fight and flight) and parasympathetic (rest and repair)
halves of the autonomic nervous system (increased parasympathetic tone was
acknowledged in MA trained subjects). Moreover, it is also proved that the MA practitioner
shows higher levels of serotonin and dopamine, quicker mental reaction time,
improved fluid intelligence quotients, rebalance of sleep/wake cycles and
improvement of the immune system integrity.
In cases
where there is less elasticity of the air sacs and the entire chest wall, it
has been proved that rigorous MA training results in less dyspnea and increased
respiratory capacity. Although the myocardium responds to exercise differently,
even in coronary disease accompanied by partly blocked coronary arteries, Kardio
Kickboxing or KatDoFit training together with a low-fat diet, result in
increased opening of the blocked vessels. MA practitioner exhibit greatly
increased capacity of the liver to storage glycogen (hence lowering the release
of glucose into the bloodstream), as
well as a consistent lowering of fat-to-lean ratio (translating in subjects
that were lean before starting a Kardio Karate program, later reporting losing
inches around thighs, waist, hips, chest, upper arms without change in weight).
Adequate aerobic exercise training keeps resistance levels high, hastens
recovery from illness and injury.
We have
mentioned important improvement in a person's health due to practices like
Chi-Kung and Martial Arts, as seen from a pure biological standpoint: blood
pressure, heart rate, sugar blood level, cholesterol and so on. The spiritual
impact of these practices is also huge, as the practitioner is involved in
searching for their Inner Mentor, finding awareness, feeling connected to the
Universe, nourishing their whole being (as an undivided entity which depends
and influences all that exists around them), accepting and facing their
emotional state as opposed to invalidating it, devoting time to be quite and on
their own, maintaining the inward focus, finding a better understanding of
their intentions, enforcing discipline that will allow them to understand what
needs to be changed in order to regenerate/heal.
Mind Body
Spirit Work also includes outer work which
may involve relationships, family, work, the place where we live, our
community. Frequently these matters are relevant in Life Coaching (LC), Life
Mentoring (LM) and therapy (seen here as a general medical practice that seeks
to help people in emotional/inner turmoil). There are three key factors that
separate LM (or LC) from therapy. Firstly, the Mentor is a professional whose
goal is to empower the client, help them connect to their Spiritual Self so
that they will have insight as to what holds negative impact, how those issues
can be turned into opportunities, which options are to considered, set an action
plan and hold the client accountable (the GROW model is key in this work). In Therapy,
the professional defines and implements the treatment plan, thus removing
initiative from the client (various schools of Therapy utilize different takes
on the professional's authority in the process). Also: in LC/LM the client is
to leave the process as a person that is able to lead their life, whereas in
therapy there seems to be no prospective of the client leaving. Secondly, LM is
about knowing where the client wants/needs to go, starting from a relatively
stable position they hold now. Therapy, on the other hand, is about what is
holding the person back. So LM looks at now/future whilst Therapy dwells mostly
on the past. Thirdly, the LM client wants to achieve a particular/objective
goal (a goal that can be completely physical like 'feeling stronger, feeling
fit') whilst the Therapist's client needs to address an issue/problem (there is
ambiguity as to what is an issue as opposed to a problem).
An
important aspect that separates LC/LM from Therapy is that the client in the
latter may have no control whatsoever of their emotions, may hold a mental
health issue, may suffer drug/alcohol/medication dependency, and may have a
history of abuse. A LC/LM client is a person with a cognitive stable base which
allows them to set a path (rational, spiritual and physical) from here towards
the better person in them, grounded on their own skills, abilities. That
cognitive stable base of the LC/LM client enables the professional to apply the
GROW Model, Goal Mapping exercise, ask the client to keep a reflexive diary,
draw up an action plan, engage in scheduling exercises. These are instruments
that help the LC/LM client in a tightly focused process to address their issues
as swiftly and efficiently as possible. In LMM we believe that the Body is the
true instrument through which we can reach emotion, spirit, change, health.
Therefore we believe in nutrition, in physical training and education.
Naturally, disciplines like Yoga, Chi-Kung, and Martial Arts require that the
client has a stable core from which to evolve. That is another reason why LMM
is not adequate for clients with deep structural problems- these people need to
be referred to other health professionals. LMM shares the belief that Mind Body
Spirit work also involves Art, journaling, science ... again these are personal
disciplines that cannot be asked of person with characteristics that are
adequate only to Therapy.
In Therapy
there is a range of psychotherapeutic techniques and beliefs whose common
thread is to assist the client to accept, manage or solve their problems as
swiftly as is possible- the 'Brief Interventions'. They are time-effective
techniques (opposed to long-term counselling relationships), solution-based
(rather than problem oriented), less concerned with how problems arouse than what
is currently preventing them to be overcome. 'Brief Interventions' is a non-directive
counselling, an active process that is geared toward the now and future. It
seeks to aid clients to sort their problems out and move on with their lives.
It is apparent that Brief Interventions' holds proximity to LC/LM in
fundamental concepts. Moreover, the Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), is one
of the techniques in 'Brief Intervention Therapy'. Through CBT, the Mentor can
help the client notice and avoid the pitfalls of 'cognitive distortions' such
as labelling, fortune-telling, catastrophizing. The individual is encouraged to
identify their core beliefs, challenge their thinking, turning what if into then what and consequently empowering themselves from negative thinking/
beliefs. This process enclosed in CBT is
important in LC/LM thus establishing proximity between these practices and
Therapy.
In itself,
the search for spiritual health (and, as follows, all health), the search for
awareness, for clean positive intentions towards all, the path towards our
inner Mentor requires that we keep an open mind and heart. In this sense, the
LMM does not place judgement on Therapy - LMM is open to positive influences
that might arise from it and embodies that in the feeling 'I'm a LM but I'm not
blind to Therapy or any kind of activity that is meant to nurture an individual
into inner growth, spiritual health, wholeness with their body, mind and the
universe.'
Coordination and review by Prof’ Pedro Proff
Monday, 5 January 2015
Life, Health, Emotion and The Body
IN: From Math to YoUr Life: Life, Health, Emotion and The Body:
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From Math to YoUr Life: The Wonder in Zero
From Math to YoUr Life: The Wonder in Zero: Zero is an object. An awesome construction of human mind. I know that I'm I bit odd ... I suppose that you fe...
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