Leanne Maher Mind Body Energy Balancing

14/09/2023

We don't always know what people are going through and how they're feeling.

Be kind, and make asking R U OK? a part of your everyday relationships with friends, family members and colleagues.

Thanks to happinessproject for sharing this important message.

16/08/2023

This is how your smile, vibe, light and energy can impact so many for the positive!!

I love the ripple effect! ❤️❤️

Unfortunately tho it does the same when you give off negative.. so be mindful of how you are impacting the ones around you with yout frown, words and negative energy.

23/05/2023

How Does Kindness Affect Your Mental Health?

The effects of kindness and mental health care are connected. Mental health happens on a continuum that ranges from mental illness and languishing to mental wellness and flourishing. No matter where you sit on that continuum, kindness and compassion have the ability to lift you toward flourishing- a state that is commonly described as one where you feel happy, engaged, energized, and satisfied with life. This might be why volunteering and philanthropy feel so good. Being kind helps you to feel good and boosts your mood.

The Ripple Effect
Kindness begins with you! Then it involves another which turns the “me” to “we.” Soon the "we’s" affect the community.

When kindness is authentically given and received it lifts the well-being and mood of everyone involved. There’s no downside or side effect of positive feelings. Kindness is good.

How to Show Kindness

The great thing about kindness is that you have a free lifetime unlimited supply. The more you give, the more you have.

Here are a few ways to get you started:

* Listen
* Smile
* Hug (with a mask on)
* Hold a door for someone
* Pick up litter
* Let someone into your lane while driving
* Pay for the order behind you in the drive-thru
* Take a neighbor’s garbage bins to and from the curb
* Compliment a friend, co-worker, or family member
* Clean up after yourself
* Send a text to a loved one
* Learn your partner’s “love language,”, and then use it
* Notice someone who seems lonely and invite them along with you
* Let someone who wants to help you, help
* Don’t offer advice unless asked
* Share silence with someone
* Engage in random acts of kindness
* Engage in kind acts that are not random at all

Receiving Kindness

If you are like most people, you probably find it easier to be kind than to be on the receiving act of a kind act. When someone compliments you, do you reply, “it was nothing” or “no problem”? Many people have adopted this learned behavior as a way of being humble, but what this actually does is constrict the flow of the energy of giving and receiving. If someone gives you a compliment, not receiving it stops its power for both the giver and the receiver.

Sometimes receiving kindness and compassion can feel threatening, as though the one being kind is somehow superior. If you notice you have trouble receiving gifts, compliments, or acts of generosity and love, spend some time reflecting on why. Who taught you to behave this way? Is it serving you and those around you?

I’ve learnt to say:
“That’s a nice thing to do or say… Thank you”

Lift you mental health today and everyday and show a little kindness!

23/05/2023

❤️❤️❤️❤️

25/11/2022

Never be afraid to think differently!!

20/11/2022

Every single person has the ability to change someone's life in an epic way! Start with your own then start looking around... share the love!! ❤️

10/10/2022

I’m excited to announce... I’m back on the Sunshine Coast!

New Clinic:

11 Osterley Avenue, Caloundra

Services offering:

Clinical Hypnotherapy & Psychotherapy
Mental Health Counselling
NDIS Psychosocial Recovery Coach
NDIS Therapeutic Supports

I also offer Acupressure and Reiki if that is of interest.

I find positive results align greatly with
Anxiety and depression,
Acquired brain Injury
Grief
Transitioning - Relationships, Career, Empty Nesters

Please reach out for a chat!

08/09/2022

Today is R U OK? Day and I want to encourage everyone to stay connected and make asking, ‘are you OK?’ part of their everyday.

Life’s ups and downs happen to all of us, so chances are someone you know might be struggling. The earlier we genuinely and sincerely ask, ‘are you OK?’, the greater chance we have to help someone before they are in crisis.

You don’t need to be an expert to have an R U OK? conversation. Listening and giving someone your time might be just what they need to help them through.

National charity R U OK? has developed resources that provide simple tips to help you know when to ask, ‘are you OK?’ and what to say if someone says they’re not OK.

Download them from ruok.org.au

We want everyone to feel they can talk about how they’re really feeling and access support if they need it.

R U OK? encourages all of us to have regular, meaningful conversations to support anyone struggling with life’s ups and downs.

Ask R U OK? - No qualifications are needed because a conversation could change a life.

Learn more at ruok.org.au

R U OK? is a su***de prevention charity in Australia, encouraging all of us to notice the signs of mental health struggle in friends, family, and colleagues, and start meaningful conversations that offer support and care to those in need. A conversation can change a life.

13/06/2022

Take the time not to only hear the person your talking to but really listen and engage into what they are saying...You might learn something!

One of my favorite quotes!

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

Maya Angelou.

16/03/2022

No matter what you are doing, or want to do. Be confident and courageous when you are about to make a start. Just take the step...Courage is key!

10/03/2022

30/01/2022

You walk your path, they walk their path.... you support each other no matter what and everyone is happy!

28/01/2022

The size of your problems is nothing compared to your ability to solve them.

Don't overestimate your problems and underestimate yourself!

23/01/2022

Everyone has the ability to make a difference, to be a ripple effect, even if it’s not obviously noticed.

It’s the power of positive energy that lands that is the change maker.

Sometimes it is just a smile or message out to someone. 💛

When someone comes to my
Thought I make an effort to make contact and to say Hello, no matter how long ago it was I last spoke to them…. I figure they have come up in my mind for a reason, Who knows, my message may be just what they need in that moment to know someone cares or brings that smile to their face ❤️

19/01/2022

Only way to live is in truth!! It makes life unconsciously and consciously so much easier 🙂 🙂 and then you can skip along happy doing what you love and being who you are!

03/01/2022

For all that know me, perfection is definitely not my strong suit.... however striving every day to become a better person in someway shape or form most definitely is!!

07/12/2021

What are you doing today to get one step closer to doing you and setting the world on fire!!

25/11/2021

THIS IS BEAUTIFUL! TAKE THE TIME TO READ IT ❤️

my brain and
heart divorced

a decade ago

over who was
to blame about
how big of a mess
I have become

eventually,
they couldn't be
in the same room
with each other

now my head and heart
share custody of me

I stay with my brain
during the week

and my heart
gets me on weekends

they never speak to one another
- instead, they give me
- the same note to pass
- to each other every week
and their notes they
send to one another always
says the same thing:

"This is all your fault"

on Sundays
my heart complains
about how my
head has let me down
in the past

and on Wednesday
my head lists all
of the times my
heart has screwed
things up for me
in the future

they blame each
other for the
state of my life

there's been a lot
of yelling - and crying

so,

lately, I've been
spending a lot of
time with my gut
who serves as my
unofficial therapist

most nights, I sneak out of the
window in my ribcage

and slide down my spine
and collapse on my
gut's plush leather chair
that's always open for me

~ and I just sit sit sit sit
until the sun comes up

last evening,
my gut asked me
if I was having a hard
time being caught
between my heart
and my head

I nodded

I said I didn't know
if I could live with
either of them anymore

"my heart is always sad about
something that happened yesterday
while my head is always worried
about something that may happen tomorrow,"
I lamented

my gut squeezed my hand

"I just can't live with
my mistakes of the past
or my anxiety about the future,"
I sighed

my gut smiled and said:

"in that case,
you should
go stay with your
lungs for a while,"

I was confused
- the look on my face gave it away
"if you are exhausted about
your heart's obsession with
the fixed past and your mind's focus
on the uncertain future

your lungs are the perfect place for you

there is no yesterday in your lungs
there is no tomorrow there either

there is only now
there is only inhale
there is only exhale
there is only this moment

there is only breath

and in that breath
you can rest while your
heart and head work
their relationship out."

this morning,
while my brain
was busy reading
tea leaves

and while my
heart was staring
at old photographs

I packed a little
bag and walked
to the door of
my lungs

before I could even knock
she opened the door
with a smile and as
a gust of air embraced me
she said

"what took you so long?"

~ John Roedel (johnroedel.com)