Being Kind

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https://mywellbeing.com/therapy-101/power-of-kindness

Nicole Pecorella, MSW-LP, is a New York-based therapist. She specializes in depression, anxiety, self-esteem, fear of failure, life transitions, imposter syndrome, burnout, and trauma.

I read her article about being kind and wanted to share it with you. Being kind to others not only helps them but also helps ourselves. Being kind and compassionate is much needed and also being kind and compassionate to yourselves. Not being overcritical to ourselves or other people. Being critical doesn’t help it only increases any negative feelings and feelings of rejection if we are critical to someone else. Being kind and compassionate to other people has a ripple effect where people feel uplifted and then this positive interaction enables them to continue being positive perhaps for the rest of their day and makes it more likely that they will have further positive interactions with other people that day. All our interactions with other people affect them negatively or positively in some way, however small.

If you are having a difficult day/week try being extra kind and compassionate to yourself and other people. This is one way to focus on positive emotions instead of negativity. Helping other people also helps you too.

If you had judgemental or critical parents or siblings it is much more likely that you will be overly self critical and harsh to yourself without realising, so try to be aware of how you talk to yourself and foster self kindness and compassion for yourself to make up for this. Don’t push yourself too hard. Ask for help, don’t struggle on with problems without reassessing and finding ways to make the situations easier and finding options and ways to overcome difficulties. Being self critical, overly harsh and pushing yourself too hard, often makes a difficult situation or problem worse rather than improves it, as we don’t make good decisions when we are too critical and harsh.

Being kind to yourself, practising self care and kindness and compassion every day for yourself.

Listen to your own feelings and take time to relax. Have people in your life who listen to you, respond to you with concern, care, compassion and kindness.

Guided Imagery

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When I do guided mediation along with this is guided imagery, guiding clients during mediation to imagine and picture e.g. that they are walking along a beach or in a forest. I read this with interest about guided imagery and thought I would share it with you.

The following is guided imagery connected to psychology and cognitive behaviour therapy and it’s usages to help people recover from e.g. anxiety or post truamatic stress disorder.

https://positivepsychology.com/guided-imagery-scripts/#work

Sometimes in the past, I have imagined situations with alternative endings to them, happier endings, more comforting endings than what actually happened. And although, it can not change the past, it did help me to feel better even thought nothing had actually changed except my emotions. I think it did help as well, to realise that sometimes what we feel about something that has happened that upsets us is more to do with our ideas and interpretations of it rather than the occurance itself, so if we imagine alternative happier outcomes, we can see sometimes that the differences are not so drastic, and maybe in turn that the event itself was not so drastic and we can feel differently about what has happened and be more accepting of ourselves and that we do not always make good decisions and forgive ourselves for this.

Pranic Healing

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Pranic means life force and the aim is to bring balance to the energy flow within the body.  When giving a treatment the Prantic healer first scans the body without touching, by sweeping their hands over it, about a foot or two away from it, to see if they can sense energy blockages or imbalances.  When they find an area that they want to work on, they work on that area and remove the negative energy.  When that is gone they send fresh life force energy to the body to bring health and positive energy to it.  They draw this energy from the sun, air, earth, trees, and other things in nature.  When this restortation happens in the body, it releases any negative emotional charge along with any dark energies that can cause disease.  

The benefits of pranic healing are: it reduces stress, anxiety and depression, it boosts self confidence, it helps to decrease panic attacks,  phobias and social anxiety.  It helps remove negative blockages and brings the body into balance.  It is healing for physical problems.  It makes you happier and more content.  It assists sleep.  It improves your immune system.  It helps people be more energetic.  It is good for spiritual development.  

Spiritual counselling

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What is aromatherapy as it relates to spiritual counselling?

Aromatherapy is the use of essentail oils which can be burned for their scent to be inhaled or used combined with a base oil for massaging onto the skin or putting in the bath.  Essential oils go into the skin when they are used on the skin so their benefits can be profound.  With regard to spiritual counselling, there are oils which can be used to help connect someone to their soul more deeply, the scent of the oils resonates with our soul, there are essential oils which can be used to heal the soul and to help solve problems within it or the person’s spiritual journey,  there are essential oils with can assist spiritual growth and oils which can be used to help improve our emotional wellbeing.  Some oils help to manage one’s moods and part of this is our thoughts so they can help to relax and improve one’s emotions and thoughts from negative to positive, which is helpful to some people who come for spiritual counselling if they have anxiety or struggle to think positive.  Some oils help people be more spiritually open or to help them listen to the messages of the universe or their intuition.  So there are many oils which help in someone’s spiritual journey in various ways and help to reduce any problems which are a blockage to their journey and to reduce and assist problems in their life.

Aromatherapy can be combined with other spiritual counselling modes so it will boost their work/power as well.  A spiritual counsellor could make a blend of oils specially suited to the person’s particular needs and combine it with other modes of spritual counselling, so the person can use the oil at home, or it can be used which having the other modes of counselling.  For example some counsellors have the oil burning or diffusing which they are doing the counselling.