I have a friend in America who works as a medical Doctor. Occasionally I will consult him on issues to do with my psychotherapy practice as we have a sympathetic comprehension of how biology, psychology, and the social environment (amongst other things) effect each other in the process of disease and healing.
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Here are three signs that you are progressing in your psychotherapy:
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Previously – Part Two: Know the Cause
Once you know the cause of your stress and what feelings signal it you can begin to work on your options.
There are essentially two ways to reduce stress.
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Previously – Part One: Read the Signals.
Identifying that you are suffering the effects of excessive stress is the first step on the path to healing its negative effects in your life.
Once you have done that then you can look for what conditions in your life might be causing it.
Most of the time we know what situations and circumstances are causing us to feel stressed. We feel it.
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I count myself fortunate to be in a profession in which I get to see positive shifts in peoples lives. Seeing people overcoming the negative effects of stress is one of them.
Being able to identify stress and how it is showing up in your life is the first step to reducing its negative effects.
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This quote by Anias Nin got me thinking.
‘My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws, and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.’
The question I am confronted with fairly often by clients in response to statements about self love is “How?”
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What you feed yourself in food, in thought, in word, and in deed, becomes you.
In the same way that your diet effects your body, the language you use and the thoughts you have influence your psyche – your psyche being the sum total of your conscious and unconscious, mental and emotional life. Your Soul if you like, which, I would like to add is not the counterpart to your body, but rather, the flip side of it.
You may have heard me use the allegory that consciousness, and, by extension, life, as being like standing on a shore between two great oceans; one within and one without.
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Not everyone needs therapy, although I know plenty of people who have benefitted from gaining a more comprehensive understanding of the principles that are at play behind promoting and maintaining their own emotional and mental well being.
Some people benefit greatly from 1 to 1 therapy.
What prevents people form seeking therapy? For some it can feel like a weakness to seek help, so they struggle on, doing everything they can to try and fix the issue for themselves. For others it can be a question of efficacy and cost.
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It’s highly likely you have heard it all before, people touting systems and formulas as cure all’s to life’s ills and misfortune. Laws of attraction and resonance and reciprocation. How to collapse the quantum wave function and manifest your hearts desires. Candle magic for love. Chaos sigil magic for sex. Inner alchemy breath work to reconfigure your essence. Inner Child work to heal your past. Spiritual Endurance to strengthen you in the moment. Mindfulness to stay in the moment. Online marketing to cultivate passive income steams to bolster your path to financial independence. Pyramid schemes, affiliate marketing, drop shipping.
I could go on, but I trust the point is made.
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Life has a tendency to live itself when left alone. If there were any simple formula for living your best life I would say it is that. Relax into the experience of being you as best you can and trust that things will work out once you learn to trust yourself.
Of course, for some people that might be all they need to hear.
For others, they will be asking, “O.k. How?”
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