Calm Your Body Archives - Back in Control

Thoughts are like viruses

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Overview Thoughts and viruses are inert and only active when they connect to live entities. Unwanted thoughts link up physiologically because we fight them. They become our identity (cognitive fusion), and we can’t differentiate unwanted thoughts from physical threats. Skills are required to separate you from your repetitive unwanted thoughts … Read More

Music, Safety, and Healing the Nervous System

posted in: Moving Into Creativity, Recent, RUTs, Stage 3, Stage 3: Step 4 |

Overview In the Dynamic Healing model of illness, healing happens as you create safety physiology. Music is a well-documented way of accomplishing this state. It moves your brain away from pain circuits and towards the life you desire. Make it part of your daily healing journey. An often-overlooked truth … Read More

Let’s Wake Up

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Overview Our conscious brain interprets our internal bodily sensations. Since we are geared to survive, most of our time is spent in survival physiology. In this state, blood flow shifts away from our highest thinking brain, and we react more than we think. This scenario is the basis of most … Read More

“The Journey of 1000 Moons”

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“The Journey of 1000 Moons” by Ernesto Sanchez If you count the moon cycles you will experience in your lifetime, by the time you reach 81 years of age, you will have experienced one thousand. As we live these years, how often do we stop and think about the presence of … Read More