Introducing Grief and Loss Support

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Introducing Grief and Loss Support

I would like to introduce my new services of Grief and Loss Support.

My focus as a Hypnotherapist has been more in the Medical field and I have studied extensively in Cancer and Palliative Care.  As a result of this, whether purely by chance or fate, I have met many very brave people who have shared their stories of death and dying, grief and loss and their own personal experience of this journey. In my role as a Registered Nurse I have had the privilege to assist patients and their loved ones in the final weeks of living often up until the time of their last breath. To be able to be of assistance and share those profound moments in family’s lives is a gift I will always be grateful for.

Having had to deal with some of these issues myself, and working so closely with others I realized how important it is to have the right support services in place to support the emotional healing process. When an emotional injury takes place the bodies natural healing begins just as it would with a physical injury.

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New Medical Hypnosis Qualifications

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As of last month I am now qualified as a Certified Medical Hypnosis Practitioner.

cmhpI am so excited by my recent studies and being able to share with you principles and techniques of Medical Hypnosis. I am now able to combine my wealth of medical knowledge and experience gained in over 40 years as a Registered Nurse with Medical Hypnosis to support you to gain optimum insights and clarity into your health and well being.

When you understand the Mind Body Connection and difference between good and bad stress you will be inspired to experience stress release processes and feel increased levels of motivation for change. Reducing stress supports your immune system to function at optimum levels, which is vital in the healing process.

See here for more information about new treatments available.

Some Thoughts from Virginia Satir

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Some Thoughts from Virginia Satir

Virginia planted the seeds of hope toward world peace. She once said- “The family is a microcosm. By knowing how to heal the family I know how to heal the world.” The Satir Model – Virginia developed became a powerful framework for examining self your situation and choices. Counselling sessions encouraged the client to face pain and problems, to accept the present and to discover inner joy and peace of mind.

Problems will always be with us. The problem is not the problem; the problem is in the way people cope. This is what destroys people, not the problem. Then we learn to cope differently, we deal with the problem differently, and they become different.

– Virginia Satir

I would like all of us to live as fully as we can. The only time I feel awful is when people have not lived a life that expressed themselves. They lived with all their ‘shoulds’ and ‘oughts’ and their blaming and placating and all the rest of it, and I think ‘How sad.’

– Virginia Satir

Words don’t have any energy unless they spark or trigger an image. The word in and of itself has nothing, nothing. One of the things I keep in touch with is , ‘What are the words that trigger images for people?’ Then people follow the feeling of the image.

– Virginia Satir

The Practice of Mindfulness

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The Practice of Mindfulness

The practise of Mindfulness enables us to bring our minds back home, which is Meditation.

The practise of mindfulness of bringing the scattered mind home brings the different aspects of us into focus.

All the fragmented aspects of ourselves settle and dissolve and we begin to understand ourselves more.

The practise of mindfulness diffuses our negativity, aggression and turbulent emotions.

Rather than suppressing emotions or indulging in them, here it is important to view them, and your thoughts and what ever arises with an acceptance and generosity.

Gradually as you remain open and mindful and focus your mind, your negativity will slowly be defused: you begin to feel well in your own skin.

From this comes release and profound ease.

This practise is believed to be one of the most effective forms of therapy and self-healing.

(Taken from the Tibetan Book of Living and Dying Study and Practise series)

Reflection and Change

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Reflection and Change

This is a section from the book titled THE TIBETAN BOOK OF LIVING AND DYING by Sogyal Rinpoche, one of my spiritual teaches. The chapter is titled REFLECTION AND CHANGE.

How hard it can be to turn our attention within! How easily we allow our old habits and set patterns to dominate us! Even though they bring us suffering, we accept them with almost fatalistic resignation, for we are used to giving in to them. WE MAY IDEALIZE FREEDOM BUT WHEN IT COMES TO OUR HABITS, WE ARE COMPLETELY ENSLAVED.

Still, reflection can slowly bring us wisdom. We can come to see we are falling again and again into fixed repetitive patterns, and begin to long to get out of them. We may, of course, fall back into them again and again but slowly we can emerge from them and change.

The following poem speaks to us all.

“AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN FIVE CHAPTERS”

I walk down the same street,
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk
I fall in.
I am lost…. I am hopeless.
It isn’t my fault.
It takes forever to find a way out.

I walk down the same street,
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk,
I pretend I don’t see it,
I fall in again’
I can’t believe I’m in the same place,
But it isn’t my fault,
It still takes a long time to get out.

I walk down the same street,
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk,
I see it is there,
I still fall in …it’s a habit
My eyes are open
I know where I am
It is my fault.
I get out immediately.

I walk down the same street,
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk
I walk around it.

I walk down another street.

I feel this is so pertinent for us all to contemplate and reflect on our own lives and repetitive behaviours especially if we feel the urgency and need for change.

CHANGE IS POSSIBLE FOR US ALL. AS HUMAN BEINGS WE ARE ALL WORTHY TO BE FREE OF NEGATIVE AND HABITUAL PATTERNS.