A blog by Dr. Harry Henshaw
Transformation
Two ways to deal with Breakdowns in Recovery.
Sep 1st
One way to effectively deal with a breakdown or upset, especially if it is creating the urge to drink or do drugs, is to talk with another human being. Keeping an upset to yourself or keeping it up in your head is a receipt for disaster. Something negative will probably happen to your if you do not share what is going on with you. This is why it is important to create a support network of people you can call, sponsor, therapist or friends in recovery.
The second way to begin to effectively deal with an upset or breakdown is to take a look at what you are not accepting about the situation, people, places or things. Most if not all upsets and breakdowns are about having something happen that we believe should not have happened even though it did. Our work, and it is work, is to accept what happened, to eventually get it that everything happens in the way it is supposed to happen. Our work is to take that on as a possibility and in the work to accept fully what we did not once accept.
Positive Affirmations for helping with effects of surgery.
Sep 1st
Positive affirmations can help a person to deal with the consequences of surgery. Positive affirmations can assist a person is healing. Our thinking can help us to heal.
1. I am healthy and filled with energy.
2. My body restores itself now to its natural state of good health.
3. I am perfect, whole and complete.
4. Every cell of my body is healthy.
5. My body heals quickly and easily.
6. I love and accept myself exactly as I am.
7. I joyously release the past. I forgive. I am at peace.
8. I always take good care of myself.
9. My body is strong and healthy. I am strong and healthy.
10. I am grateful for my good health.
What we say to ourselves repeatedly and over time will tend to show up with us physically.
Positive Affirmations for Enhancing Self Esteem.
Sep 1st
The following affirmations can be used to enhanced positive self esteem.
Repeating them each day can help to improve what you think and feel about yourself.
1. I love myself.
2. I love everything about myself.
3. I love who I am.
4. I love my life.
5. I am perfect, whole and complete.
6. I love and accept myself exactly as I am now.
7. I always take good care of myself.
8. I love an approve of myself.
9. I am loving, lovable and loved.
10. I am love.
Positive Affirmations for Creating a Positive Body Image
Aug 27th
Positive affirmations can be of help to transform your life. Positive affirmations can also assist you in creating a positive body image.
1. I am perfect, whole and complete.
2. I love and accept myself exactly as I am now.
3. I love everything about myself.
4. i love and approve of myself.
5. I let go of the past. I ive life in and from the present moment.
6. I joyously forgive others and myself and I set myself free from the past. I am at peace.
7. My body restores itself now to its natural state of good health.
8. I always take good care of myself.
9. I have and maintain my ideal, natural and healthy weight.
10. I respect and always take good care of my body.
11. My body is healthy and filled with energy.
12. I have and maintain the weight that I want.
13. I am safe and protected at all times.
14. I can, I am able and I will. I always do my very best.
15. I am good enough just as I am.
You can transform your life with positive affirmations.
The Process of Saying Goodbye through Acceptance.
Aug 26th
It has been eight weeks now since my mother has passed. While I think of her every day that goes by, the process of saying goodbye is just that, a process. I am coming to accept, slowly as it may be, that she is gone and that I will never speak to or be with her ever again. While in many ways I do not believe that I have fully come to terms with what has happened, I am finding comfort in a concept that I was introduced to to in recovery, that of acceptance. My work is to stand in the space of acceptance.
While the process of saying goodbye is still painful it is assisted by accepting that what happened did happen in the way that it was supposed to happen. It was perfect, perfect cause it happened in God’s world. My work, as difficult as it may be at times, is about coming to terms with what happened, of learning to accept it fully, not make anything wrong about the process and knowing that it happened as it was intended to happen. Acceptance is about accepting that my mother passed in the way that she did and that it could not have been any other way.
Everyday is about saying goodbye to my mother, being gratitude that she brought me into the world, that she was there for me in so many ways and that she loved me without condition.
Positive Affirmations for Letting Go of Smoking.
Aug 20th
Positive Affirmations can help to support your desire to give up smoking, to be done with in your life. Below are listed 10 positive affirmations for supporting effort be recover from smoking.
1. I always take good care of myself.
2. I love and accept myself exactly as I am now.
3. I breathe slowly and deeply.
4. I enjoy the feeling of breathing clean, fresh air.
5. I joyously release the past. I live my life in the present moment. I am at peace.
6. I shoose to be healthy and to treat my body with complete respect and love.
7. I choose to breathe clean, fresh air into my lungs.
8. I am relaxed, calm and peaceful.
9. With each breathe that I take of clean, fresh air I become more and more relaxed.
10. I am perfect, whole and complete.
Part of the work of letting go of smoking is to improve your self image, learn to relax, and let go of the past and the stress that gets generated.
The Use of Therapeutic Relaxation Music in Counseling.
Aug 18th
Music has always been a very important part of our lives. As a part of our experience, music can have both a physiological and psychological affect upon us as human beings. Music also has many therapeutic qualities and has been utilized in promoting a variety of healings throughout the ages. As we know further, music can be a very powerful medium for altering our state, of changing how we actually feel. Music can be very effective in producing a very deep and healing state of relaxation and in the process, reduce stress and even promote sleep. Music can also be used to assist one in improving his or her self-esteem and furthering an individualís personal growth and development, transformation.
As a therapist I have always used relaxation music in my clinical and counseling work with others. I have found that when I use relaxation music during both an individual and group counseling session that my clients do more productive work, are able to focus more effectively on themselves and the issues that they are becoming present to because they are more relaxed, focused and centered and as a result, better able to concentrate. Being relaxed during the counseling process, at least initially always tends to generate more productive results for the individual being counseled. Relaxation music can be a very effective and powerful aid for assisting a client to reach resolution with respect to that which he or she is working on with their counselor.
The Work of Generating Positive Language and Words.
Aug 18th
The work of transformation is about creating a new life, about creating a new self. This self, as we know, exists in language. Who we are is our thought, our beliefs and what we say, our Word. To transform, to alter our existence has to be done on the level of our Word, what we say and put out into the world, as that is what will come back to us, what will show up as our experience.
This work that I refer to is exactly that, work. At first the work will be merely an idea that we are contemplating, not necessarily doing. Then we will take on doing it, saying positive words, putting them out into the world. Shortly after we generate positive words we will probably go back to what we did in the past. The tendency in the beginning of the transformation is to keep what we have in existence, to not give it up immediately. It is only through constant staying with this work of generating positive language, of continuing to generate positive words, even when we go back to being negative, that the work actually starts to happen, that actually starts to show up in our life.
Positive Affirmations for Creating a Bright Future.
Aug 18th
Positive Affirmations can be utilized to help a person create the positive future that they want. Below are some positive affirmations that can be of assistance in this process.
1. My future is positive and bright.
2. I always do my very best.
3. I am grateful for what I have in my life.
4. I joyously forgive others and myself and I set myself free from the past. I am at peace.
5. I am responsible for everything that I think, say, feel and do.
6. I create my future by being present in the moment, in the Now.
7. I am perfect, whole and complete.
8. I love and accept myself exactly as I am now.
9. I am intelligent and creative.
10. I am confident and courageous.
Consistent use of these positive affirmations can make a difference in your life.