Center for Conscious Counseling

06/03/2020

https://www.facebook.com/haleytheindianringneck/videos/1391777430923283/

There is a concept within ACT (Acceptance and Committment Therapy) that has us fully contemplate the relativeness of our thoughts and how thoughts can be the cause of stress, upset and emotional distress.

So, know this: We make up our thoughts; we're always trying to make sense of the world...yet, our thoughts and feelings are an overlay of our nervous system that is often looking out for danger. When we engage in negative self talk, it can be a paralizing spiral.

For example, let's say, something goes wrong...you don't like an interaction...or, you face a challenge...and, you say things like, "I'm so stupid, ...I'm always messing up...I'm such a _[fill in the blank]_. How do you feel for telling yourself such things?

Now, if these thoughts are "made-up" and "relative", why not just say, "I'M A BANANA"

(Check out Haley, I've so adored her on FB and thank her for helping teach this ACT therapy skill)

05/11/2020

If you are curious about cultivating meditation in your life and you can steal 60 minutes from your day, just to tend to yourself, I recommend my friend Beej, for a beautiful introduction to meditation.

https://www.facebook.com/MindfulnessMeditationNYC/videos/544183816281515/

05/11/2020

The Loving Kindness Metta meditation is a way to generate compassion toward yourself and others. Simply learn these four phrases and chant them to generate internal calm and positivity for living.

04/22/2020

This is from a friend. I think it's awesome:)

04/18/2020

Miracles for our life come from focus on gratitude, forgiveness, compassion, love and humility. This is a beautiful story of personal transformation... Who are you? And, Where do you live? (Listen for a shift in perspective)

04/12/2020

04/03/2020

Gratitude and compassion is relief from fear.

All jokes aside, it's time to thank the brave men and women working on the frontline to help save us all. While most of us hold up in the safety of our homes...

04/01/2020

03/31/2020

Eckhart Tolle can help us go deep and transform our fears as they arise

03/23/2020

Helpful...

03/23/2020

Check in with yourself. You can do a variety of self-care and self soothing by first recognizing that what you experience is simply there.

03/19/2020

03/18/2020

I'm recognizing that I am... we all are... on the cusp. Life is changing, basically overnight. As in... perhaps I will have no work... or perhaps, I can work 24 hours, given technology and all that can be done remote. I am in 'social distance' mode and/or I can reach out to thousands of people. What I really need is to not lose my bearings. I plan to schedule time to tune into my own inner knowing. A friend just shared this invite to the Mindful Living Summit and I'm in!

Uplifting, enlivening interviews and talks! I am deeply grateful, and already find myself taking compassionate action and reconsidering habits and thought patterns with more attention and curiosity… such a gift!

03/18/2020

Yes, with this turbulents and all the time we have on our hands, take time to pause and simply BE.

This meditation is part of "The Crisis Kit", a free resource for helping clients through turbulent times. https://positivepsychology.com/the-crisis-kit/

03/18/2020

“And the people stayed home. And read books, and listened, and rested, and exercised, and made art, and played games, and learned new ways of being, and were still. And listened more deeply. Some meditated, some prayed, some danced. Some met their shadows. And the people began to think differently.
"And the people healed. And, in the absence of people living in ignorant, dangerous, mindless, and heartless ways, the earth began to heal.
"And when the danger passed, and the people joined together again, they grieved their losses, and made new choices, and dreamed new images, and created new ways to live and heal the earth fully, as they had been healed."

Text: Irene Vella
Translated by: Kitty O'Meara

03/04/2020

02/24/2020

As I work with people through bereavement, it is clear that the intension is to not lessen the experience nor extinguish the sense of loss. Bereavement is like birth in that the body knows what to "do" and the mind is most helpful, when it becomes the observer. The body sensations of a heavy heart, floating, tears, periodic numbness and all the ways one senses anger in the body, are all natural. It takes courage to sit with these experiences. It is unavoidable that there are periods of sadness and grief that is solitary and we need to tend to suffering. Suffering is to feel alone in despair, feel stuck or paralyzed, thoughts of one's own death, guilt and anger that needs a witness. This quote from a person who lives through this process is a message for us all to tranform our losses to be witness and comfort to others.

Via