Being Sensitive May Be How We Can Become Less Sensitive!
When we’re looking to reduce pain and anxiety, developing skills and words about how to interact with the feeling states inside you is really important. In this blog, I’m going to explore feeling, and how we can get better at learning how to manage intense feelings....
Too fidgety to meditate? Try TRE – TRE® article in The Times
The new tension-release techniqueThe latest relaxation technique is perfect for people who can’t sit still 'If you have no patience for mindfulness and you’re too fidgety to meditate, a new approach to tackling stress has just reached the UK’s most...
How to Create Safety in Trauma Healing?
The very nature of trauma is that it is overwhelming - it’s more than the organism can cope with. Trauma shatters our worldview and rules of fairness and justice no longer seem to apply. Trauma often leads to a spiritual crisis and a profound re-evaluation of meaning....
Anything Can Work Some of the Time. Nothing Works All of the Time.
Anything can work some of the time. Nothing works all of the time. This phrase works really well to illustrate the complexity of working with pain. Pain is dependant on multiple, diverse, interacting variables. Pain is a perception due to the interplay of biological,...
Four Ways to Creatively Manage Pain
There’s an awful lot of pain around. There was a huge survey done in Europe recently: 1 in 5 people experience chronic pain. They have persistent or severe pain for more than six months. For many of them, the median time was a number of years. The really exciting news...
Relational Touch – Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy in 200 words
'Humans are polyrhythmic. With skill, the rhythms sometimes coalesce into a feeling of wholeness. Touch is enormously powerful. Non-doing, ‘relational touch’, that listens without fixed agendas, supports coherent rhythms and order to emerge. There is a distinct...
Body Maps and Interoception: Liberated Body Podcast from 2014
https://www.liberatedbody.com/podcast/steve-haines-lbp-015/ 'Steve Haines talks about biodynamic craniosacral therapy, body maps and how they become strange or distorted. Interoception and why there is more pain in areas that are more poorly mapped. The huge role the...
‘Mind the Gap’, Emotions and the Body
https://vimeo.com/338392078 This is a short video on how emotions emerge from the body and how we can learn to negotiate with raw feeling states. Enjoy! Affect is the first experience of the physiological state of the body. Emotions, thoughts and memories co-emerge as...
How Can We Be Less Sensitive?
https://vimeo.com/338245305 This is a short video on the importance of feeling, on how nerves can get sensitised and some tips to be less sensitive. Enjoy! How can we be less sensitive? Danger chemicals from immune cells and stress hormones sensitise nerves....
What is Shaking Meditation? – Byrdie article
Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE) teach you how to relate to intense feelings in a grounded and self-regulated way by releasing tension and waking the body up. In the right context, the feelings generated by shaking can also be a powerful stimulus to come out of old,...
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Being Sensitive May Be How We Can Become Less Sensitive!
When we’re looking to reduce pain and anxiety, developing skills and words about how to interact with the feeling states inside you is really important. In this blog, I’m going to explore feeling, and how we can get better at learning how to manage intense feelings....
Too fidgety to meditate? Try TRE – TRE® article in The Times
The new tension-release techniqueThe latest relaxation technique is perfect for people who can’t sit still 'If you have no patience for mindfulness and you’re too fidgety to meditate, a new approach to tackling stress has just reached the UK’s most...
How to Create Safety in Trauma Healing?
The very nature of trauma is that it is overwhelming - it’s more than the organism can cope with. Trauma shatters our worldview and rules of fairness and justice no longer seem to apply. Trauma often leads to a spiritual crisis and a profound re-evaluation of meaning....
Anything Can Work Some of the Time. Nothing Works All of the Time.
Anything can work some of the time. Nothing works all of the time. This phrase works really well to illustrate the complexity of working with pain. Pain is dependant on multiple, diverse, interacting variables. Pain is a perception due to the interplay of biological,...
Four Ways to Creatively Manage Pain
There’s an awful lot of pain around. There was a huge survey done in Europe recently: 1 in 5 people experience chronic pain. They have persistent or severe pain for more than six months. For many of them, the median time was a number of years. The really exciting news...
Relational Touch – Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy in 200 words
'Humans are polyrhythmic. With skill, the rhythms sometimes coalesce into a feeling of wholeness. Touch is enormously powerful. Non-doing, ‘relational touch’, that listens without fixed agendas, supports coherent rhythms and order to emerge. There is a distinct...
Body Maps and Interoception: Liberated Body Podcast from 2014
https://www.liberatedbody.com/podcast/steve-haines-lbp-015/ 'Steve Haines talks about biodynamic craniosacral therapy, body maps and how they become strange or distorted. Interoception and why there is more pain in areas that are more poorly mapped. The huge role the...
‘Mind the Gap’, Emotions and the Body
https://vimeo.com/338392078 This is a short video on how emotions emerge from the body and how we can learn to negotiate with raw feeling states. Enjoy! Affect is the first experience of the physiological state of the body. Emotions, thoughts and memories co-emerge as...
How Can We Be Less Sensitive?
https://vimeo.com/338245305 This is a short video on the importance of feeling, on how nerves can get sensitised and some tips to be less sensitive. Enjoy! How can we be less sensitive? Danger chemicals from immune cells and stress hormones sensitise nerves....
What is Shaking Meditation? – Byrdie article
Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE) teach you how to relate to intense feelings in a grounded and self-regulated way by releasing tension and waking the body up. In the right context, the feelings generated by shaking can also be a powerful stimulus to come out of old,...