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Positive Affirmations can Transform your Self Esteem!

Posted on by Dr Harry Henshaw

One very effective way to improve self-esteem is through the use of positive affirmations.  Positive affirmations are very powerful for transforming how a person feels and thinks about himself, ultimately influencing how he views and acts within the world and towards others.  The fundamental reason why positive affirmations are so effective is that their nature or structure reflects what already exists in our mind.  Our identity or who we think we are, our current thinking patterns, is primarily a series of affirmations composed fundamentally of mere words or language.  Everything we think, all of the thoughts that we have, are merely affirmations.  Positive affirmations, when used consistently, begin to alter our prevalent internal language pattern, as negative as it may be, our inner self talk or dialogue that exists within us.  The end result of the consistent use of positive affirmations is the transformation of an inner negative language pattern into one that is positive in nature.

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Positive Affirmations that support Relaxation!

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Positive affirmations can help a person to transform his or her life.  Positive affirmations can also help to support a person’s achieving a deep state of relaxation.  Below are ten positive affirmations for helping a person to relax and experience a sense of serenity.

I love and accept myself exactly as I am now.

I am relaxed, calm and peaceful.

I accept and enjoy the moment, I live in the present.

I am safe and protected at all times.

I joyously release the past.  I am at peace.

I trust the process of life.

I am perfect, whole and complete.

I breathe slowly and deeply.  I am relaxed.

With each breathe that I take I become more and more relaxed.

I forgive myself and others and I set myself free from the past.

Positive affirmations can be even more effective when combined with therapeutic relaxation music.  The relaxation music creates an audio space for the affirmations to be fully accepted by a person’s mind.

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The Story within the Breakdown.

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Another component of gaining insight has to do with becoming present to the story that the person is creating with respect to the breakdown.  While the emotional state of the individual is very important to become aware of, listening to the story that he is creating is also of equal importance.  Within holistic counseling, every emotion is created by a thought.  When there are negative emotions present in a person’s life as he is experiencing a breakdown there are also corresponding thoughts taking place.  The thoughts that are taking place will appear as a story in the person’s mind.  Within the breakdown the story will be other oriented, involving external people, places, things, circumstance or situations.  Within the structure of the story, inherent to it, will be the belief that the external events are the real and the true cause of how the person is feeling.  It is with these thoughts that the breakdown and inauthentic way of being exists, something that is made up about another, hiding what it is truly about.  Blame and resentment will eventually result.  Becoming present to the story is vital if one is not to impulsively act upon it and as a result bring its destructive consequences into existence with respect to his life.  Becoming present or an observer to ones story is crucial to transforming a breakdown and getting back on track with ones life.

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Managing Stress with Prescription for Stress.

Posted on by Dr Harry Henshaw

Managing our stress is very important if not crucial to our overall well being. “Prescription for Stress” is an audio product specially designed to assist an individual in managing and reducing the stress that he or she may experience on a daily basis. This audio health care product utilizes two components to assist an individual in effectively experiencing a very deep state of relaxation, reducing stress and also in promoting a peaceful, restful sleep. The first component is the musical pattern itself. I have found that musical compositions that are harmonically slow, repetitious, with sustained voices, which are rhythmically, random in tempo assists an individual in experiencing a very deep state of relaxation. The second component of this product is the binaural audio tones that are interwoven into the music. The binaural tones, through a process referred to as entrainment or frequency following, gently guides or directs the mind/body to generate more of the targeted frequency of brain wave activity whether it be for either profound relaxation or sleep. The first CD of “Prescription For Stress” contains binaural audio tones within the alpha and theta range, which induces a very relaxed state. The second CD contains binaural audio tones within the delta range and thereby assists one in experiencing a peaceful, restful sleep.

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Panchakarma, a New Experience.

Posted on by Dr Harry Henshaw

Last week I had an entirely new experience, Panchakarma.  Panchakarma is a cleansing and rejuvenating program for the body, mind and consciousness.  For one week, from Sunday until Saturday, I lived at the Ayurvedic Institute in Albuquerque, New Mexico and experienced the program of Panchakarma.

Here is a quote from their website about Panchakarma:   “Our five-day program, designed by Vasant Lad and based on his 30 years of clinical Ayurvedic and allopathic experience, is custom-tailored to your current state of health, wellness and constitution. It is the starting point to pro-actively manage and improve your own health and wellness. Personal attention is given to each client’s specific needs.”

As a way of cleansing your body and even your mind, I would recommended everyone to explore Panchakarma and how it could be of assistance to them.  I know that I will go back, hopefully to redo this program on a yearly basis.

The Ayurvedic Institute  http://www.ayurveda.com/index.html   505-291-9698

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Positive Affirmations for Creating Confidence.

Posted on by Dr Harry Henshaw

Positive Affirmations transform.  Consistent use of Positive Affirmations creates transformation in ones life.  What follows is a list of Positive AFfirmations for creating confidence.

1.  I am confident and courageous.

2.  My future is positive and bright.

3.  I always do my very best.

4.  I believe in myself and my ability.

5.  I am a success.

6.  I can accomplish anything I set my mind to do.

7.  My life is filled with infinite possibilities.

8.  I deserve to be a success.

9.  I am perfect, whole and complete.

10.  I am intelligent and creative.

Say your positive affirmations out loud and write them everyday for the full affect.

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Using Affirmations to Transform your life.

Posted on by Dr Harry Henshaw

Louise Hay has written and spoken about the power of positive affirmations for years.  She believes that using positive affirmations consistently will change and transform your life.  While their transformative power is being confirmed and utilized more and more, using positive affirmations can also be difficult and even frustrating.  For some, after a period of using positive affirmation they sometimes experience resistance to their continued use.  What happens is that the positive affirmation are in conflict, sometimes direct conflict, to the thoughts and beliefs that the person has in their mind.  Many of these thoughts, ideas and beliefs have to do with what the person believes to be about themselves as a person, who they are in life.  In essence, ones identity gets calls into question, gets confronted and it is from the confrontation that ones experiences a sense of frustration and with it, creates a tendency to avoid and move after from and even stop the use of positive affirmation.  It is at this point that one has possibility of a breakthrough in their life, that is, if they are able to push through the resistance and stick with their use.  Sticking with the use of positive affirmations over an extended period of time can transform your life, can transform even who you believe yourself to be in the world.

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Keeping life in perspective is important for living.

Posted on by Dr Harry Henshaw

It is important that we keep life in perspective.  It is important for us keep life in perspective to be able to live our life authentically.  Much of the time people live life as if it will never end, as if we will live forever.  For some, they become addicted to thinking that they will continue forever, that we will never die.  Even if we do not declare this overtly, our behavior appears to be in alignment with the belief in our immortality.  In all of our affairs it is important for us to keep in mind that life is not forever and that we consider all of our priorities with this in mind.  Given this perspective it is my opinion that it is not material concerns that are important but rather our relationships with others, with other human beings, that being of service and assistance is truly what matters in life.

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Positive Affirmations can transform!

Posted on by Dr Harry Henshaw

I believe that who we are or who we are being is merely the words that we have in our mind.  The words or language that exists in our mind defines who we are in the world.  It also guides and determines much of our behavior, what we do in the world, with others and towards ourselves.  If we are to change our state of being, who we have been being, we need to change the words and language that exists in our mind.  One way to do this is through the constant use of positive affirmations.  Many if not all of the individuals in recovery, esp early in recovery, have very negative language or words that make up their daily existence.  Positive affirmations, more specifically, the constant and repetitious use of positive affirmations will change a person’s state of being and actually make a difference in the recovery process for that person.   It is recommended that individuals in recovery explore and start to utilize the technology of positive affirmations.

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Chapter Eleven – See What You Want, Get What You See

Posted on by Dr Harry Henshaw

Visualization is a very powerful modality for producing or creating
change. First it activates the powers of your unconscious mind. Second,
visualization activates your reticular activating system. And third it
assists in helping you to attract into your life the people and
resources that will assist you in having and achieving what you want.

Visualization should be done everyday. When you do visualization
everyday you create a conflict in your mind, about what you have and
what you don’t have. Your unconscious mind attempts then to resolve this conflict by making your reality exactly like what you are visualizing. Being more specific about what you visualize is better, giving the mind and brain a more exact target to start creating.

With your visualization be as specific and detailed as possible. Make
the images as clear and as bright as possible Canfield writes. When you review your goals each morning and in the evening pause to visualize them as if they were complete and created. To enhance the intensity, add emotions to the visualization.

Canfield also advocates the use of vision boards.

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