How it Works

Your mind and your body are intertwined; your emotions and feelings affect every organ and system in your body. Feelings of stress release a cascade of hormones designed to help your body "fight or flee." Your blood pressure, breathing rate, metabolism, and heart rate all increase. Even low-level stress over the long term can create disease or distressing symptoms. Low-level stress can exacerbate symptoms of illness.

Examples of some of the conditions exacerbated by stress include Infertility, Painful Periods, Menopausal symptoms, Insomnia, Headaches, Anxiety, Depression, Chronic Illness (Cancer, Hypertension, Diabetes, Irritable Bowel, Fibromyalgia, TMJ), Chronic Pain, Lacking in Life Direction, Low Self-Esteem, Fear of trying something new, Weight Issues, Low Immunity.

The Relaxation Response is the exact opposite of the "fight or flee" stress response. When you elicit this response on a regular basis, your body becomes less responsive to the stress hormones. You begin to feel more in control, more alert and aware. There are many different relaxation techniques that will help you to elicit this response. Some of the techniques include breathing, muscular relaxation techniques, and emotional relaxation techniques. One very powerful tool is imagery.

Deepak Chopra states, "What we focus on expands." Imagery allows you to build the picture of what you wish to achieve, building cellular memories deep within your body.

Imagery is one technique that can be used to elicit the Relaxation Response. This is a powerful technique that can help with physical, emotional, or spiritual effects of stress. Imagery is simply focused daydreaming using all of your senses. Your brain does not know the difference between an image that is real and an image that you think about. Imagery allows you to provide your body with the images that you would like to be real.

Remember…A substantial body of scientific evidence demonstrates that our bodies respond to the messages we give.

Imagery works best after you have quieted the body with a general relaxation exercise. Once your body is quiet, your mind is very receptive to the images you bring.

Our bodies, down to each individual cell, are vibrating. Healthy cells vibrate at a very high rate. Negative events or emotions decrease a cell's level of vibration. Disease can only be present in low vibrations. Releasing negative thoughts, emotions, and memories increases the body's vibration, healing mental and physical disease and building strong immunity.

Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) transforms and eliminates negative emotions that keep you from living completely and fully. EFT is a gentle energetic process that works to rebalance the body’s energy system. Imbalances in the energy system can cause both physical and emotional upset.

EFT is a process that combines gentle tapping on specific areas of the body along the energy meridians and verbal phrases to help realign the energy system.

This work is unique in that it stays in the present, clients receive nearly immediate relief and the effects are permanent. When combined with relaxation techniques and imagery, clients can have a toolbox full of coping techniques to be able to live as fully and as happily as they wish.