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Is Your Energy Field Healthy?

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What does your body energy field say about you and your health?

Every one of us has a magnetic field that emanates from our body, so that when we approach another human being, our two fields meet before our physical bodies interact as we greet and touch to shake hands or give a hug. We register the vibe intuitively and subconsciously, before we engage consciously and physically.

Every electrical signal, within cells, between individual cells, among clusters of cells that form an organ, signals from organ to organ, signals along the nerve fibres to the brain and back to the body, the millions of electrical firings that are continuous and constant in the living body, generates a magnetic field. This body-field is unique and constantly moving, expressing into the outer world the electrical activity of our inner workings.

The field you create when you are healthy and vibrant is very different from the field you emanate when tired, depleted, unwell, angry, frustrated or depressed. Learn how to balance your energy field with Touch For Health kinesiology muscle and energy balancing.

Bruce Lipton tells us that “the mind is an energetic field of thought.”

The energy of thoughts and intentions contribute to your body-field. Wiring up the brain to an electro-encephala-graph, EEG, every thought produces its own firing pattern of neurons that is recorded on the graph printout. Functional Magnet Resonance Imaging, fMRI, measures blood flow changes occurring as you process a thought or visual stimulus. Now we can also read the field around the brain with an MEG, a magneto-encephala-graph, without using probes or contacts on the body at all. The whole head activity measured by MEG can capture the result of the brain processing visual stimulation, or spontaneous oscillating activity, such as alpha rhythms.

So, what does all this mean?

In the documentary movie, The Living Matrix, Bruce Lipton said, “the magneto-encephala-graph is a probe outside of the head, and it reads the fields of neural activity, without touching the body. Basically, it says when you are processing in the brain you’re broadcasting fields.”

What kind of field do your thoughts and body activities and health broadcast?
What do others intuitively pick up about your body-field?
Some people have the specific gift that allows them to read the body-field without MEG. Not everyone has developed this gift, but everyone can get feedback about the inner body and brain activity through muscle response monitoring. When you learn Touch For Health kinesiology a whole new world of awareness opens up.

Touch For Health 1 is due 7th & 8th October. Contact me for details.
anna@annamcrobert.com.au
Cheers, Anna
PS. Scientists and researchers call it the body-field. You might know it as the body’s aura.

Tension, Pain, Thinking – What Is The Link?

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Are pain and tension linked to thinking? How? Do we experience physical pain more than mental emotional pain? Is limited body movement and limited thinking inevitable as we age? Which comes first, the body’s lack of flexibility or fixed and limited thinking? Is rigid body and thought pattern a sign of aging? How much of our physical and mental deterioration is our stuck thinking based on childhood belief and expectation? Do you ever ponder these questions?

These are the kind of questions you may not ask yourself until your body is in pain. Then the questions come unbidden. What have I done? How bad is the damage? Am I getting old? Can this be fixed? What do I do to fix it?

So, what do you need to know about your body and aches and pains to stay healthy and to repair readily when there is a mishap, overload or accident? How can you avoid a recurrence of the pain? What do you need to know?

Habits Serve and Shape Us
All of us have habits that serve us well and other habits that get us into trouble or limit our progress. These habits will shape our body, our thinking, our health, our relationships, our joys and our distresses. How can we increase the life enhancing habits and identify and reduce or eliminate the life sapping habits?

Teaching kinesiology and stress managing skills I interact with people of all ages. Some are dealing with young children and want safe and simple techniques to help them. Some are looking to change career or add to their existing health care training. Some have had a health wake-up call and want to make changes. Some are curious about how the body works and want be more aware of the best ways to improve energy and health or to stay healthy as they age. Many are interested in how their thinking influences their body function.

Habits Grow With Us
As we grow older our habitual thoughts and emotions make their stamp more and more visible on the shape of our muscles, our posture, walking gait and range of flexibility in movement. How does this happen?

As a baby, a toddler, a youngster we were curious, instinctively experimented, reached for anything new on our horizon, till we became familiar with what was constantly in our home world. This became our comfort zone, a place to retreat to when outer world was too difficult, too demanding, or too stressful.

In familiar territory we didn’t need to make an effort to master something new. We could switch off, relax, zone out, and do only what was comfortable. Our comfort zone is a useful place to rest and recuperate in but once recovered, got our second wind, we need to venture out again and engage in the unfamiliar, the difficult, the new, to stimulate and expand our ability and capacity. This is our life journey of self-discovery and self development. Along the way we learned to recognize stress and tension.

We Know More Than We Realize
Have you ever looked at a person and thought, “he/she is tense,” even before you spoke with the person. What made you recognize and use the work “tense?” We are often good at reading body language. It’s not an intellectual process but an immediate and instinctive assessment of a person’s current state. We know the signs even if we can’t articulate them.

Chronic anxiety for example, wreaks havoc with muscle tone, tensing muscles not for movement or work activity, but as a reflex to the anxious thoughts. We tighten muscles of the body to create a hard shield against the world, against fear of emotional pain, “holding our self together” physically, in an effort to counter or avoid the emotional “melt down” or to prevent “falling apart”.

Our Language Reveals Our Knowing
The common expressions in our language are metaphors highlighting just how familiar this experience is for many of us, either living in anxiety our self or recognizing it in others. Chronic anxiety can set our body tone and over time becomes our habit and our norm to the degree that when our muscles are not tense we “don’t feel our self”. It becomes part of our internal feedback system and self-image and we only recognize self through the anxiety produced body posture, tension, aches and pains.

Our entire history is progressively recorded in our muscles. Each stage of development of physical and mental habits is the foundation for further postural habits that reflect the impact of life events and how we coped.

As the years go by the stress patterns bow us, bind us, trap us in degenerative habits within ever narrower ranges of comfortable activity. We avoid what is not comfortable, what stretches our capacity because it’s uncomfortable. With narrower ranges of extension and flexibility we lose power and strength and become narrower in our range of thinking and effort and connection with our outer world.

Awareness Opens Solution Options
Without awareness of this process happening we make no attempt to slow, stop or reverse this linked mental and physical decline. Releasing the limited muscle range can also release the mind’s range of thought, allowing for new mental exploration, for creative invention, and shifting our view to new or different possibilities to engage in for fun or interest or other benefit.

Various styles of hands-on bodywork like massage and kinesiology address the body/mind habitual patterns, releasing stress held in the physical tissues caused by our challenges, anxieties and fears. Bodywork is not just physical, it also moves the stuck energy patterns and supports the release of body/mind tension.

Regular Body Care
A regular appointment for de-stressing the physical and mental/emotional body accumulations is anti aging and health and energy preserving. Regular muscle and energy rebalancing prevents habits becoming dis-ease. As your body loosens under the influence of caring hands so does your thinking and your interest and choice of activities that you can include in your life regularly.

Attend a workshop in Touch For Health Kinesiology to learn safe and effective stress reducing skills for tension, pain and thinking. Your health and life can become better with Touch For Health Kinesiology.

Emotional Stress Release for Stress and Muscle Tension

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It is natural for muscles to tense up when there is stress on line. It is also natural for muscles to release and relax when you are not in stress. So tension can come and go with different ups and downs of life. Muscle tension is how your body tells you that you need to do something to change what is going on so you are not wearing yourself out or making yourself sick.

Trouble is we often don’t recognize that we are carrying stress as muscle tension. Because it can be such an every day part of life it feels “normal”. We are often hurrying to get things done, get kids off to school, be on time, arrange events, keep appointments, complete work tasks, plan projects, or whatever. We may be dreading some coming meeting. We may have stirred up old fears. Our thinking and self-talk can easily reinforce stress and make it all worse.

Some people are habitual worriers and always stressed to some degree, and it shows in their muscle tension. Our muscles can be 75% contracted and that tension can still be out of our conscious awareness, till someone touches a tight muscle and we become aware it is hard as a rock. Or we are snappy or irritable and realize we are “holding our self together” with muscle tension.

So once you are aware of muscle tension, or stress, or worry, you can consciously choose to do something about it. Sometimes it is when there are headaches, or shallow breathing, or tight chest, or some other symptoms that finally you have to take the time to deal with the cumulative effects of daily stress.

When you realize muscles are tight you can take the tension out of the tight muscles with Emotional Stress Release, a technique from Touch For Health Kinesiology, as a first step to reduce muscle tension.

For Example, you may have been rushing to get things done before closing time. Following is what you can do to ease muscle tension gently.

Emotional Stress Release technique for Stress & Muscle Tension

First is always to acknowledge what is, the truth of your current experience.

Place one hand across your forehead and say to yourself:
1. “My muscles are tense, and my breathing is shallow and tight. (breathe in & out).
2. “I can feel the tension as I focus on it and realize my breathing is tense too. (breathe in & out).
3. “I recognize the tension has been building for a while.” (breathe in & out).
4. “The tension is adding to my tiredness / irritability / muddle-head feeling / etc.” (breathe in & out).

Acknowledge till the tension in your thoughts and your body starts to reduce and your breathing becomes a bit easier. You may need to repeat steps 1 to 4 a couple of times. Be sure to pay attention to your breathing between each statement. You may notice the warmth increasing under your hand on your forehead. That’s a good sign.

Next accept what is.

5. “Its not surprising there is tension in my muscles, its been a busy time, I’ve been rushing.” (breathe in & out).
6. “I’ve got some things done and there’s more to go.” (breathe in & out).
7. “I’ll be glad when its done.” (Breathe in & out)

Notice as more of the tension leaves, your voice becomes less harried, your body eases and your breath slows down.

Next look forward to when you will be more at ease.

8. “The more efficiently I get it done the sooner I can wind down.” (breathe in & out).
9. “Then I’ll have a cup of tea / glass of wine / ring a friend / smell the roses / or whatever.

The stress goes down as you acknowledge the problem, accept it, and look forward to when its over and dealt with. You have diverted your brain blood flow away from stress survival program area to problem solving front brain.

I may not have covered your particular cause of muscle tension so I hope you can get the idea of the process that you can apply to your situation. There are more techniques in Touch For Health Kinesiology you can use to help yourself.

Let me know how you go with this.
Cheers
Anna

PS. Emotional Stress Release was covered in a recent Touch For Health 1 workshop presenting several ways to rebalance stress and tension. Contact me for more on theses workshops.

Patti wrote: “Thanks so much for the wonderful learning experience, I thoroughly enjoyed it and am so looking forward to our next course.”

3D “Switch On” for Your Brain

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There are times your brain’s electrical circuits become overloaded or scrambled.

Circuits Under Stress
Any kind of stress, physical, mental, emotional, biochemical, situational or environmental, can scramble electrical signals between body and brain, between left and right brain halves, between front and back brain, lower brain and upper brain. The degree of stress or danger perceived can influence the degree of reaction. You can have side to side switching, or top to bottom switching or front to back switching, or all three. Now where is this 3D “switch on” for your brain?

Switching
Under stress your brain is programmed to go into survival mode. Stress is processed as some level of danger to survival. The normal communications between body and brain and within the brain are put on the backburner and all focus, effort and energy is directed to survival in the moment.
We switch from normal whole brain communication to survival program mode.

Touch For Health level 1
At this introductory level of Kinesiology we learn how to, at least temporarily, ensure wholistic three dimensional electrical communication, so the brain is able to receive signals from the body’s muscles and respond clearly during the TFH energy and muscle balancing procedure.

Left and Right scrambling can be recognized as confusion following instructions such as “turn right”, and you immediately turn left. “Pass this to the person on your right” and you pass it to the person on your left. When writing there is often confusion between “b” and “d” and “p” and “q”.

Top and Bottom scrambling can be recognized as feeling unstable or queasy going up or down stairs, looking up at tall buildings or looking down from a height. When writing, there is confusions between “b” and “p”, “d” and “q”.

Front and Back scrambling can be recognized as lying on your back when asked to “lie on your front,” or having trouble reversing the car using the rear vision mirror. Writing can slide up or down a page.

When feeling stressed, or before starting any new learning process or doing homework or research for a project, it is a good idea to do the 3D Switch On and take some deep breaths.

3D “Switch On” for Your Brain
– one hand over the navel + rub under collar bones just beside breastbone
– keep hand over the navel + rub above top lip and below bottom lip
– keep hand over the navel + rub tail bone at end of sacrum
– deep breath, swap to other hand over navel
– repeat the sequence above

Any time confusion re-appears just repeat the 3D Switch On.
Cheers
Anna

Hay Fever – Food Allergy In Disguise

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Here is a novel idea, for some, and just common sense for others. A professor tells us if you have food allergies or sensitivities, when you reduce overall stress load on the body, very often the food reactions disappear. Hmmm. How come this works?

Hans Selye was a pioneering endocrinologist who was one of the first to demonstrate the existence of biological stress. He wrote about General Adaptation Syndrome which showed that early stages of disease produced similar symptoms, involving adrenals, thymus, and digestive system, even though the diseases were different. Later Selye wrote of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis as the body’s coping program. (more on that another time)

He noted there were three stages that lead to disease:

First is the alarm reaction. Your system puts up a fight to defend itself from the stress reaction caused by physical or emotional triggers. You breathe faster, your heart pumps harder, blood pressure goes up, digestions cuts out.

Second stage is resistance. With no relief you continue to resist the stress and keep up with daily functioning. Your immune system keeps defending while you keep on with life demands. You adapt to working under the stress load. It becomes your “norm”. You just keep on keeping on without looking at how to reduce the stress.

Third stage is exhaustion. You run out of steam, don’t have enough energy to fight and work at the same time, and the last straw results in a mental, emotional and/or health breakdown.

This is a common pattern leading to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and is associated with conditions like hay fever and asthma.

Hay Fever is often worse at certain times when grasses are producing pollen and being spread by winds or even gentle breezes. If you are plagued by hay fever in the spring for instance, Professor Keith Scott-Mumby says, “Stop eating grass.”

“Now hang on. I don’t eat grass,” you might say. Well you may not eat your lawn grass, but wheat, corn, oatmeal, rice and rye are all part of the grass family. You may often include foods like bread, pasta, corn, polenta, rice or rye bread on a daily basis. If that is the case, then your body has adapted by putting lots of energy into keeping symptoms at bay. If you are already resisting the stress caused by these foods in your system, then the spring conditions can be the last straw that collapses the resistance. Now the symptoms become very obvious, with no ability to adapt and disguise the internal stress.

So it’s not the fault of spring winds and pollen that you now have hay fever with streaming eyes and nose and feel lethargic and muddle headed. It’s the fact that you body has for a long time been resisting the stress of foods your body is sensitive to.

An asthma attack is very similar to seasonal hay fever except it is happening in every season for the sufferer. The body is adapting to functioning, even if poorly, but the last straw can be the final overload of adaption energy and an asthma attack is the result.

Well that’s interesting to know, but what can you do about it? You don’t want to spend the next two or three months in total discomfort and functioning under par for the season or having asthma attacks on a regular basis. Professor Scott-Mumby in his book Diet Wise says to take the grass foods out of your diet, at the very least during the season that highlights the stress and overloads your ability to cope or adapt.

His advice is reduce those foods in all seasons, but at least to definitely cut them out totally during your worst season.

Try it out and find out for yourself what many of his patients have learned from their own personal trials, that hay fever can be food allergy in disguise.
Cheers
Anna

PS You can use Kinesiology to reduce overall stress load: apply Emotional Stress Release technique, balance meridians to increase energy, muscle test to identify foods that deplete your energy and drop them out for now, identify the foods that regenerate and lift your energy and increase them in your diet – all are a useful steps in reducing food reactions.

Where Does Your Energy Go?

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Have you ever wondered where does your energy go? One energy drain is stress, especially unresolved long-term stress. Prolonged stress is debilitating, whether it’s at work or at home or within relationships.

And at the same time we also have a physical body to maintain. Within the body we continually repair and replace cells damaged or worn out through normal daily wear and tear. This takes significant amount of our energy. So how do we all manage the task?

You are circulating trillions of red blood cells through your circulatory system and all these blood cells are replaced every three months at the rate of 2.4 million per second. The entire lining of your small and large intestine is replaced every 2 to 3 days. Your whole skin surface turns over every 30 or so days. Different tissues have their own cycle for replacement to maintain optimum function. Every night while you sleep there is much work being done throughout your body.

Bruce Lipton, cell biologist, studied cell behaviour. He observed that cells in a petri dish would propel themselves towards life sustaining nutrients that he would add to their dish, and when he added toxic substances the cells moved as far from the toxins as possible. And this activity was happening while isolated from their cellular community within a body, without being connected to a brain or a nervous system. Our cells are very aware of their environment and make intelligent choices in given situations.

Its not just single cells that behaviour this way. We humans, just like our cells, are each individual and part of communities and also engage in these life-sustaining behaviours of moving towards people and environments that will nourish us and away from harm.

But cells cannot move toward and away from a stimuli simultaneously. The two actions cannot operate at the same time. We humans also cannot move towards and away from at the same time. We have to choose a direction and act on it. When we don’t choose and act on our choice, feel helpless, stuck and stagnant, the result is continuous stress. That’s where our energy goes.

You summon all your energy for survival during fight or flight reaction, when in danger or under stress, closing down your digestion and elimination to redirect your energy to defence and protection. Being in survival mode prevents growth activity and also prevents production of more energy. The stress consumes energy without replacing it leaving you depleted.

Depending on the degree of stress or perceived danger, not all your 50 trillion cells will be engaged in the survival mode at once. Reducing your stress will allow you to establish a new base.

How can you reduce your stress? Previous articles have provided self-help strategies and when self-help is not enough, go see a professional to get you started. Kinesiology provides many ways to reduce stress using your muscle response as the guide to what works best for you. I’ve experienced it many times for myself and helped clients too. We all get bogged down sometimes. That’s when the energy goes down. It’s amazing how one session can dissolve that stuck feeling and your optimism returns, your creative brain kicks in again, and new options and solutions appear spontaneously.

Now you can begin to build and actively seek stimuli that lifts and increases your energy and brings joy and fulfillment to create optimal growth conditions for body, mind and spirit.

Any time you are wondering where does the energy go might be the cue to make time for yourself for actively reducing stress. Make an appointment and see how easily you can change gear with the right support and guidance.
Cheers
Anna
anna@annamcrobert.com.au

When Self Help Is Not Enough

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Many day-today upsets can be readily settled with self-help techniques.  You already know the benefits of consciously breathing deeply to relax and release tension in your body.

So, when something or someone triggers your stress button, breathe out first, and then take a deep breath in, and slowly breathe out to give yourself a few moments, “a breather” between trigger and response.

It’s all too easy to let a reaction kick in just out of habit.   Such a reaction happens without thought, without consideration, so it’s how you handled things in the past stored in your memory banks, and may or may not fit your current situation, that is, the specific outcome you want this time, right now.

Giving yourself that breathing space, between trigger and response.   Adding oxygen to the brain at that crucial moment, will often block the reaction, and allow you to consider for an instant what outcome your want – to vent your dissatisfaction or gain co-operation – and respond rather than react.

A Rehearsal
The Emotional Stress Release Technique, detailed in previous articles, can work very well if you know in advance that you will be seeing someone who presses your buttons.  To recap, before the meeting, place your hand on your forehead, and take yourself through what you usually do, how you react to that person or that situation, what you see, hear, say, and the feelings that go with that, at least three times, till you feel calm or grounded.

Now mentally project yourself to your coming meeting.   Keep your hand across your forehead as you do this to maintain front brain creative thinking.

Take yourself, step by step, through how you want to conduct yourself to gain the outcome you want from the meeting coming up, how you want to feel during and at the end of the encounter.  Make sure you include how you will look, the expression on your face, your posture, what you will see, what you will hear, what you will say, as well as how you will feel.  Repeat this several times till it feels familiar.

This rehearsal will stand you in good stead and may be all you need to overcome anxiety, frustration, uncertainty, disappointment etc.

When You Need More Help
Some issues or situations may need more energy and insight to sort out than you can muster on your own.  This is the time to consult with a professional who can support you in finding your way through to the outcome you choose.

Kinesiology muscle testing can pin point your best choice out of an array of options to match the energy of the problem with the appropriate solution.  And it is your own subconscious that guides you to choose the right fit for yourself.

Sometimes two people are better than one.  Working with a kinesiologist combines your two energies into one field and provides a larger energy field from which to spring.  As soon as another person takes a focused interest in your wellbeing, connects with your world and starts muscle testing, your two fields become integrated for the durations of the testing procedure.  This gives your own energy systems a boost so you can achieve much more than on your own.

Talking through an issue often reduces the stress in the moment but does not necessarily provide a solution.  You can’t live anyone else’s life, neither can you live someone else’s solutions.  You have to find your own.  Your body registers your subconscious activity, and recognizes what is in sync with your need.  Muscle testing guides you to bring this matched solution from the subconscious to consciousness.

And testing the percentage of stress before you begin the stress balancing process and again after, lets you track progress and anchors the improvement into your physical memory as well as in your brain’s mental and emotional memory.

With stress level down, ideally to zero, your energy released from maintaining the stress reaction is now available to use for new thinking, for problem solving, and for taking the action to achieve the outcome you want.

Take charge.  Create the life you want.  Use the self help techniques to keep moving and see a professional when the going gets tough.

Cheers

Anna McRobert
anna@annamcrobert.com.au

The Brain/Body Connection

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I am fascinated by how versatile we are in terms of ways to get better.

We can improve our wellbeing by working with the physical body, through exercise, massage, touch; can improve the biochemical body through unprocessed organically grown foods and herbs, clean water, natural spring water; can improve our mental body through education, mentoring, reading, meditation; can improve our emotional body through visualization, guided journeys, meridian tapping, kinesiology, and a myriad of natural therapy approaches.

And yet it is what we think, based on what we believe, that is in our control moment to moment every day.  What we think has a massive impact on every cell in our body.  And it’s cumulative over the years.

“We know that the mind and body are like parallel universes.  Anything that happens in the mental universe must leave tracks in the physical one.”

PET (positron-emission tomography) was used to scan of the brain and track tagged glucose injected into the blood stream to give three dimensional picture of thoughts.

“Watching … while the brain thinks, scientists saw that each distinct event in the universe of mind – such as a sensation of pain or a strong memory – triggers a new chemical pattern in the brain, not just at a single site but at several.  The (PET) image looks different for every thought, and if one could extend the portrait to be full-length, there is no doubt that the whole body changes at the same time, thanks to the cascades of neuro-transmitters and related messenger molecules.”

“As you see it right now your body is the physical picture in 3-D of what you are thinking. … the whole body quite obviously projects thoughts. We literally read other people’s minds from the constant play of their facial expressions; without marking it, we also register the thousand fold gestures of body language as a sign of their moods and intentions toward us.”

“… many physical changes that thinking causes are unnoticeable.  They involve minute alterations of cell chemistry, body temperature, electrical charge, blood pressure and so on… the body is fluid enough to mirror any mental event.  Nothing can move without moving the whole.”

What that all means is every thought has repercussions as a chemical change throughout the brain and body along with a change in electrical activity among others.

“… each distinct event … triggers a new chemical pattern in the brain … the (PET) image looks different for every thought … your body is the physical picture in 3-D of what your are thinking … the whole body quite obviously projects thoughts…”

Wow!  Scientists proved this years ago.   I‘ve just quoted Deepak Chopra from his book Quantum Healing published back in 1989, pages 69 and 71.  It’s worth reading the whole book for much more research and acknowledgement about how we tick.

Other scientific research since then has continued to back up what we in natural therapies have known and honoured in our work for years by drawing on ancient wisdom from many cultures – that we are holistic multi-dimentional beings – physical, biochemical, mental, emotional, energetic, social, spiritual beings, and that whatever happens on one level will effect every other level too.

If you want to learn how to read the body language and facial expressions, ask a woman.  It’s scientifically proven females do it better, although Allan Pease did it very well, and with great entertainment value, on his TV show years ago.  And his books are very educational too.

If you want to know what each feature of the face indicates in terms of innate preferences, do the workshops from Three In One Concepts that focus on Structure/Function, the science of how you are structured to function.  These will provide insight to when and how beliefs were formed that trip us up in our emotional realm, and make it difficult to recognize the innate strengths that are ours to engage in our life journey.

The Three In One Concepts workshops open the view to the life were meant to lead the life that would engage your innate capacities.  I invite you to begin the journey through Three In One Concepts workshops, starting with Tools of the Trade, and find the original you and your structure that shows the way to find fulfillment.

Contact me for dates.

Cheers

Anna McRobert

anna@annamcrobert.com.au

Stress Release Process

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This is a very effective self-help technique any time you are feeling stressed:
Emotional Stress Release –ESR

– Sit down at the table.  Put your hand on your forehead and rest your elbow on the table.
– Take a breath in, then breathe out, out, out, out, out.  Now breathe in again.  Do this a couple of times keeping your hand across your forehead.

– Run through in your mind or say out loud what is distressing you.  Engage all five senses:
*  who or what is involved
*  where are you
*  what happened or didn’t happen that you wanted
*  what has been said or not said
*  the comments in your own head
*  the feelings that triggered
*  where the feelings register in your body.
This is not about right or wrong, or good or bad.  It is to acknowledge the impact of the stress on you, your experience of stress.

–  Take a deep breath and release if fully
–  Run through the scene again:
*  who is involved
*  what was said or happened
*  the feeling in you and where it lives in your body
–  Take a deep breath, release slowly
– Once again run through the scene, keep it more brief this time
–  Keep repeating the breathing and alternating with acknowledgement of your experience of the stress, till there is no more stress or “charge” in the recall, or till you feel calmer, more grounded.  This could be 3 to 7 times.

–  Put your hand down and recheck how your body feels when you think about the whole issue or the scene.
This will help you to reduce day-to-day stress and the accumulating distress that threatens to overwhelm you.  If distress comes back more often then you want make an appointment to see a specialist.  A Kinesiologist will help you identify further ways to reduce stress so you can free your front brain to engage in problem solving in the unique way that works for you.

More on stress later.

Cheers

Anna
anna@annamcrobert.com.au

The Middle Age Brain

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Well, it’s official, sort of.  Middle age is from 40 to 68.  And your brain doesn’t even peak till 50s.  And it can even continue to peak into your 70s and 80s.

Scientists are turning their attention to what actually happens in our middle years.  Research is accumulating that turns old ideas of the aging process on its head – and about time if you ask me.

What natural therapies, and of course for me that includes Kinesiology, have been saying and addressing for the last 30 years, is now being validated by the very people who were previously dismissing personal experience as not valid as research.

Now they are saying your personal experience does count, which of course you already knew, but only if it is in a group scientists are monitoring.  Hmm.  The latest findings highlight that life and work experience accumulates and cross references in your head in such a way that your brain becomes better, more effective in problem solving, in seeing ahead and avoiding pitfalls, especially in your area of expertise, be that in the scientific world, corporate world, or in the family arena.

Certainly some brain connections do faulter, like remembering names or where you left your glasses or keys, but that happens to the young too.   In other areas you go from strength to strength and can match and often outperform those in their 20s and 30s according to research studies.

Ask anyone in their middle years and many will tell you, “I don’t want to go back to teens or early adulthood.”  And I personally feel the same way.  Working out all the child to adult transition questions, who am I, what are my strengths and abilities, where do I belong, who do I belong with, how will I find what’s right for me, and many other related questions, generated far too much angst to want to repeat.  The lessons learned in those early years were often difficult, confusing, emotionally painful and exhausting.

So it seems that by middle age we are more at home with ourselves, have discovered what we like and don’t like, found at least some of our strengths, have established our direction, and honed many abilities.  We are now masters in some areas of our life.  And it seems that makes us more positive in our outlook too.  So the middle age brain is more contented.

The next bit that I want confirmed is that we can stay well, fit and healthy, till the day we die.  More on this theme to come.

Cheers
Anna McRobert
anna@annamcrobert.com.au