Anxiety isn’t just about your current circumstances. While stressful jobs, relationship challenges, or financial pressures might trigger your symptoms, the true source of anxiety often lies much deeper in childhood experiences that shaped how you see yourself and the world around you.
When we experience stress, trauma or emotional pain, our body remembers – even when our mind has moved on. Somatic therapy is a form of psychotherapy that recognises the profound connection between our bodily sensations and our psychological wellbeing. It offers a path to healing through embodied awareness (presence).
Our nervous system is the bridge between our body, heart, mind and soul. It connects our past traumas to our present-moment experience, so it’s an essential component of all inner work – healing, growth and awakening.
From resistance to release, suppression to expression – these powerful truths offer a path to emotional freedom through the wisdom of acceptance. Learn emotional maturity and develop self-acceptance.
How to feel safe: This process integrates mindfulness and body awareness to create a holistic experience of safety. The mind-body connection is bidirectional, which means when the body feels safe, the mind feel safe, and vice versa.
Emotional Release Technique: REM Release is a gentle, natural therapeutic process that helps dissolve emotional distress and trauma by combining mindful awareness with spontaneous eye movements, similar to those experienced during REM sleep.
Psychologist Tara Brach has developed a simple yet powerful mindfulness practice for emotional healing and self-compassion. It’s called RAIN, which is an acronym that stands for: Recognise, Allow, Investigate & Nurture.
Heart Breathing is the foundational HeartMath technique, designed to calm your emotional state, reduce stress and increase inner resilience. It’s simple yet powerful, and only takes a few minutes. Learn to do it right now.
HeartMath is a system of science-based techniques that are designed to improve emotional wellbeing by synchronising the mind, heart and body. HeartMath helps to build resilience, reduce stress and enhance mental clarity.
Emotions are the most polarised aspect of our being; i.e. they carry the most charge. So the more emotion we experience the more difficult it is to remain objective. The more emotion that accompanies an experience the more we identify with it, and the more we take it personally.
Wanting is a big cause of suffering. When we tell ourselves “I’ll be happy when I get what I want”, we are telling ourselves that we can’t be happy or contented until we get what we want. But even if we get what we want, it won’t satisfy us for long, and we’ll soon want something else.
Radical acceptance means learning to accept what you cannot change, and change what you cannot accept. It involves fully experiencing ‘what is’ without any resistance, judgement or agenda. When we are fully experiencing “what is” without any resistance, we are fully present.