Acknowledgement, a way to transform your life.

Moving on our journey through life can have its ups and down.  We can have our breakdowns and our breakthroughs.  One of the important breakthroughs to have concerns that from which we actually create our life, from our thoughts and thinking.  We create our life and state of being from our thoughts, from how we perceive others, people, places and things.  We create our experiences from the meaning we give life.

One way to consciously and deliberately create our life is through the use of acknowledgements.  There are two forms or types of acknowledgements, for others and for ourselves.  To create a positive state of being, a positive space from which we can live powerfully, could be enhanced by acknowledging others, for saying positive things about others, to recognize and express verbally how that person is actually transforming their life in a positive manner.  What we put out will come back to us.

The second form of acknowledgement has to do with ourselves.  Given that we sometimes, if not a lot of the time, live life from a space of negative self concept, to generate positive statements or acknowledgements of self is about

actively transforming our state of being.  To acknowledge the positive things that we are doing is to reinforce them, to keep them alive in our world, to cause more of them to continue to show up in our life.

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Combining Positive Affirmations and Therapeutic Relaxation Music.

Enhanced Healing is in the process of developing two programs for combining positive affirmations and therapeutic relaxation music.  As we know, when a person listens to the therapeutic relaxation music, especially with headphones, a very relaxed audio environment is created.  When a person becomes relaxed the delivery of positive affirmations is much more effective, in fact the positive affirmations take on being like hypnotic suggestions, suggestions to help to transform the person’s sense of self and inner conversation.

The first program will be approximately 30 minutes long and the second about 10 mins long.  There will be listenings that combines therapeutic relaxation music and positive affirmations as well as others that will add the sounds of nature, stream, ocean, forest and rain to the music and affirmations.  There will also be positive affirmations mixed with only the sounds of nature.

It is suggested that one use these programs daily.  Furthermore, there will be 16 different topics, ranging from self esteem, relaxation, smoking, confidence to sleep.

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Positive Affirmations and the Recovery Process

As an addict’s thought process is that which is in need of change, the use of affirmations can assist in the recovery process. About two years ago I created a positive affirmation CD, “Enhancing My Self Esteem” from my studying of Louise Hay’s works. It got it that positive affirmation work and are even powerful for transforming our life. Given this new insight and knowledge I created the cd with fifty positive affirmations and began to use it in my work with addicts. The cd is about helping an addict change the negative self talk to one that is more positive in nature. If the addict listens to the cd consistently during his or her treatment and then after discharge for a period of time, he or she will begin to feel better about himself. The addict’s self esteem will begin to rise, and with it the motivation to do the recovery work. While it is not a substitute for the recovery readings, it is a tool that the addict can use to support his recovery.

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Group Counseling and Recovery

My style of doing group counseling with those in recovery, especially in the early stages of recovery, is to be more directive and even didactic. It is important to get that the addicts thought process is what created their life situation and it is their thought process that is the key to their recovery. If left to its own current level of functioning, that is, with respect to both the process and content, the addict will most likely use again, and relapse after discharge. To confront the addict’s thoughts and thinking process in way that does not appear as an attack on their self is very important. The separation of the client or self and their way of thinking is an important one to make as a therapist and with the client. While the client it not his or her thoughts or thinking process, it is their thinking pattern that is directing their life and as a result creating their addiction, or atleast bringing the drugs and alcohol into their life. It is their thoughts and thinking process that must change inorder for recovery to be successful.

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Acceptance and Counseling

Part of my practice of counseling is to stay present to the practice of acceptance. While our tendency is to make others wrong, to find fault with others, in what they say and do, my practice is to accept that which is presented to me. When a client shares my practice is to listen without judgement, to listen from a space where nothing is wrong, to listen from a space that he or she is doing the best that they can at the moment and the journey is about learning more, learning how to do things differently and more in alignment with loving the self and others. My practice is not about changing anyone as only the person can do that. My practice is about having a conversation with the person about how they create their life and how they do that from the thoughts that they have. It is from my thoughts, my thoughts about myself and my thoughts about others, my clients included, that I live my life. Acceptance is about accepting others for who they are and who they are not. Acceptance is about getting that everyone is perfect, whole and complete.

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