The "New Science" of Wellness Therapy

In the past two or three years, I've found myself increasingly amazed with the intense and deep progress my clients are making through the use of some "new" (actually ancient and resurrected/refined) tools related to holistic healing and wellness therapy. Brain science research (neuroscience) has led to a remarkable amount of information about how the human brain works. Much of this information simply proves what the ancients seem to have known about wellness -body, mind and spirit operate as one. Every emotional reaction has a thought attached to it and there is an immediate bodily response as well. So many of our chronic emotional problems seem to revolve around an over-active "flight or fight" reaction to stressors. Learning to meditate on a regular basis can literally calm the alarm response in the body-mind, enabling our brains to learn new behavioral habits. These new habits cause us to be able to think more clearly in the face of stress, make more wise decisions about our lives, and bounce back more quickly when life's hurts come to meet us. Part of learning these new mental habits also allows us to not take things so personally, and to forgive more easily. Here are some of the techniques I use with my clients in holistic wellness therapy:

• Meditation www.annemilligan.com/heal.html
  (See the Amazon.com link at the bottom of this post to order my "Into the Light" CD)
• Hypnotherapy www.annemilligan.com/hypnosistherapycenter.html
• Energy Tapping to clear blocked energy in the body-mind,especially around issues of trauma anxiety.
  http://www.annemilligan.com/RegainingControlinaCrisis.html
  
  Wishing you wellness along your way!
  Anne Milligan
  November, 2010
  
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Meditation and the New Science of Focused Intention

What an exciting time to be alive! For the first time in known human history, we have scientific evidence of the nature of the universe (what makes up matter and perceived reality) which has the potential to transform our whole way of understanding how and why our lives turn out the way they do. In a nutshell, each of us can look around at our lives and realize that we ourselves have manifested our reality FROM THE INSIDE. What we believe and expect truly becomes our reality.

Of course, many of us operate out of beliefs we are only slightly aware of, if at all. For example, if your deepest belief about yourself is that you are not welcome here on the planet, you will most likely draw to yourself relationships that result in abandonment and lonliness over and over again. It makes perfect sense to approach any current situation in our lives with the question "What am I supposed to learn about my inner self from this situation?" This is far more powerful and effective than approaching the situation from the perspective of a victim. Learning the techniques of meditation and applying the "still inner state" to changing old negative thought patterns makes all the difference in the world in how things play out for you. One of the best places to find an accumulation of this work is in the arena of what is called Mindfulness Meditation and in reading Dr Wayne Dyer's book "The Power of Intention" and Deepak Chopra's book "Synchrodestiny". As a therapist, I have been observing my clients emerge victorious in a whole new way by utilizing my meditation CD entitled "Into the Light". It has astounded me how quickly they change and how their lives on the outside change too. As a result of some training and work I've been doing with Hypnotherapy, I am currently developing a "sequel" to the "Into the Light" CD which will include techniques of hypnosis to change old habits and integrate new ones. If you or someone you know is interested, you can read more information about the "Into the Light" CD at this address: www.annemilligan.com/Heal.html

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"Every Day In Every Way, I'm Getting Better and Better"

This phrase is one of those that you can carry around in your pocket. It's easy to roll off your lips and you can insert it wherever you need it. What a "positive affirmation" actually accomplishes is the following:
Constant repetition of a positive statement works on the universal laws of the mind that go like this: "Whatever you repeat becomes a habit" and "What you expect to happen usually does happen".
People whose lives are full of negative chaos have learned to repeat such negative beliefs for much of their lives. Happy people tend to do the exact opposite. Try this experiment for a month. Contract with yourself that everyday when you wake up in the morning, the first thing you say is this:
"Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better".
Do not wait for everyone else to make your life happy. Just keep repeating the phrase no matter what happens out there. See what happens. Send a message back to me here after a month to report what happened.
"Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better".
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Change Your Brain, Change Your Life

I've been following the work of Dr. Daniel Amen for a few years now. He wrote the book "Change Your Brain, Change Your Life" which is really revolutionary in terms of our understanding of the amazing human brain and how to protect it, right down to not allowing kids of head-butt in playing soccer! The only problem I have with it is that the kind of testing they do at their clinics (brain scans) are extraordinarily expensive and I haven't yet figured out why no one else seems to be utilizing this amazing technology to make it more accesible for ordinary working people.
www.amenclinics.com
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Trust is the Most Important Thing

More people are realizing how normal and high-functioning it is to seek outside help at various times in our lives. In the beginning, just having someone else who is not emotionally involved in the situation really helps a lot. The most important thing is to find someone you can trust, establish an ongoing relationship with that therapist, even if you just pop in there once a month. The trusting relationship a person develops with their therapist makes more of an impact on the therapeutic outcome than any other factor.