http://consciencecoach.com/mental-health-tips Thu, 14 Jul 2011 15:27:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en What if you can’t sleep, mind won’t shut off, are worrying all the time, feel like you have no motivation to get out of bed or off the couch? What can you do to help yourself? Have you ever had one of those bad days? You know—not just sort of bad, but really bad? Messy, painful, frustrating…….Haven’t ... http://consciencecoach.com/mental-health-tips/2009/08/mental-health-stimulus-plan/ The funny thing about needs that I have begun noticing is how hard we try not to have them.  Beyond the basic needs of food, water, shelter, we don't want to need or risk appearing needy to ourselves or others.  The irony of this is that we are created to ... http://consciencecoach.com/mental-health-tips/2009/07/needs/ Hi all!  This email comes as a shock to me and a reminder of how things can change in a hurry.  As I am in the same position as Dr. Matthew Johnson in private practice, I can too clearly imagine some of what he is going through ... http://consciencecoach.com/mental-health-tips/2009/07/dr-johnson-needs-our-help-family-rules-plan-guy-o/ If we say "I can't" does that feel like we have a choice?  Is that empowering us or dis-empowering us?  Isn't choice about being conscious of what we CAN do, and choose not to do?  I love the word choice and all that it allows me to feel, change, do ... http://consciencecoach.com/mental-health-tips/2009/06/choice/ Are you familiar with this concept?  Picture a clock in your head.  When we are STUCK in one position (far right or left) our 'pendulum' of emotions does not swing freely and with balance.  Therefore, when we do something (like counseling, self-help, etc.) to get 'unstuck' then the law of ... http://consciencecoach.com/mental-health-tips/2009/06/emotions-are-like-the-pendulum-of-a-clock/ Some of the more common techniques for coping w/ anxiety include meditation, thought stopping, reframing techniques.  They work!  But only if you work them!  I learned early on that knowing and doing are VERY different, and you can be the smartest person in the world, but if you don’t practice, ... http://consciencecoach.com/mental-health-tips/2009/04/stress-management-2-of-2-42909/ What is stress and how to we deal with it?  Stress can be defined as anxiety, panic, worry, fear, depression, and can manifest in any of those forms or a myriad of others.  We have all experienced stress to some degree or another, and more at some times of our ... http://consciencecoach.com/mental-health-tips/2009/03/stress-management-1-of-2/ Hello all!  I am writing to tell you I am going to adjust my blog entries to monthly instead of weekly.  I guess it is good news that I am getting busy and want to be sure to focus my energies where needed, eh?!  So, will continue probably at the ... http://consciencecoach.com/mental-health-tips/2009/03/change-of-plans/ "everyone knows perfect love in their heart, for the human heart is a direct channel through which absolute love pours into this world.  At the same time, human relationships are imperfect expressions of that love.  This creates a painful gap between the perfect love we know in our hearts and ... http://consciencecoach.com/mental-health-tips/2009/03/perfect-love-imperfect-relationships-healing-the-wound-of-the-heart-by-john-welwood/ How do you TRY to do something?  I have used example in my office of putting a pen in my hand and asking the client to 'try' to take it from me.  It is AMAZING to me at the ways they try....grabbing, pushing, slapping.  But none of them realize it ... http://consciencecoach.com/mental-health-tips/2009/02/trying/