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Marlene Shiple, Ph.D. The Life Coach Dr.: Heal Your Past + Heal Your Thoughts + Heal Your Self => Heal Your Life!

Dec

15

Holiday Joy: For Stillness & Peace!

Filed Under Emotional Healing, Life Coaching, Spiritual Healing

We are approaching the holidays.  Here is a gift for you … one that I’m hoping brings you a sense of enduring calm and stillness!

 

Click on the “Download Video” link (above).  Then, just allow yourself to relax … and let this sample of Holiday Joy & Peace to fill your whole being …

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Nov

23

Stress Facts: You CAN Reduce Stress!

Filed Under Emotional Healing, Life Coaching, Spiritual Healing

The statistics are staggering.  Either directly or indirectly stress accounts for 80 percent of all illnesses.

In fact, stress is more dangerous than we thought. You’ve probably heard that it can raise your blood pressure, increasing the likelihood of a stroke in the distant future, but recently a health insurance brochure claimed that 90 percent of visits to a primary care physician were stress-related disorders.

The American Psychology Association, along with many health magazines, reports that chronic stress can interfere with the normal function of the body’s immune system.  Studies have proven that stressed individuals have an increased vulnerability to catching an illness and are more susceptible to allergic, autoimmune, or cardiovascular diseases.
 
Music to Relieve StressSo, what can you do to reduce the debilitating effects of stress?  You can listen to music!

That’s right — music has been found to promote relaxation.  Music is a significant mood-changer and reliever of stress, working on many levels at once.

The entire human energetic system is extremely influenced by sounds, the physical body and chakra centers respond specifically to certain tones and frequencies. Special consideration should be given to the positive effects Read more

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Oct

24

In Gratitude …

Filed Under Emotional Healing, Mental Healing, Spiritual Healing

On Veterans Day, it is especially apt that we give a heart-felt THANK YOU to all of our veterans and all of our active service personnel. This picture is says it all … THANK YOU so much, Service People — one and all!
In Gratitude ...

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Oct

2

Stress: What to Do Now to Relieve Stress

Filed Under Emotional Healing, Life Coaching, Mental Healing, Physical Healing

The last tStress Relief Technique -- Relaxation in Naturehree posts have provided you with a number of techniques to reduce the stress in your life. Now, we will look at how to put these ideas into practice.

First, choose your two favorite — or most effective — stress-relief techniques.  Write these down for yourself.

Next, stay aware.  Notice the situations in which your body and/or your mind begin to react to stress.  Now this is important:  Begin to notice this beginning-response when it is just beginning to occur.  When the stress-response is just beginning to make itself known is the VERY BEST time to reverse it, to transmute it into a relaxation response.

Once you notice a beginning stress-response, use your preferred stress-relief technique #1.  After applying this method for stress relief, notice what occurs.

If you find that you are still stressed, initiate your preferred stress-relief technique #2.  Continue to Read more

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Sep

9

Stress: Tips to Manage Stress – 3

Filed Under Emotional Healing, Life Coaching, Mental Healing

Stress is active all the time—You’re late!  You forgot that important document … and you need it NOW! stressYou have an emergency!  You’re worn out!  You have pressure, pressure, pressure! And you are smack dab in the middle of all of it!

Stress is common  in these modern times. While you may not be able to avoid all of it, you can adopt stress-reduction methods to minimize the damaging effects of Stress on your life. If you permit your Stress to go unrestrained, it can to lead to ill health and lack of wellness. Here are two more solid suggestions to help you keep stress from managing your life:

1. Remove Stressors:  Determine the most damaging sources stressful situations in your everyday life; find ways to reduce it to the best of your ability. For instance, you may have a buddy that regularly drains with her/his negativity. You could benefit from limiting your exposure to this negative influence. Reducing the stress factors in your life can boost your physical and psychological health and wellness.

2. Disconnect “Buttons”: You might think that you will never be able to live your life without stress; however, in actual fact, a stress-free life may be simpler to arrange than you think. By determining precisely what creates the most stress for you, you can identify your “buttons”, those repetitious triggers that – when stimulated – add to your Stress.  Once you Read more

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Sep

5

Stress: Tips to Manage Stress – 2

Filed Under Emotional Healing, Life Coaching, Mental Healing

Stress is all around—Congestion!  Inversions!  Emergencies—alarm! Illness!  Arguments — Tension!  stress Disagreements!  Pressure all around!

Research has repeatedly shown that unrelenting, unabated Stress kills. In addition, Stress creates disturbance in emotional health and mental health.  However, you can do a LOT to management the damaging effects of stress … and, by doing so, prevent Stress from managing YOU.  Here are two (2) more solid suggestions to help you keep stress from managing your life.

1. Animal Therapy:  Pets are terrific ways to aid you quickly to minimize your stress. Researches have shown that investing only a few minutes petting a friendly animal will significantly reduce your tension and stress.

2. Avoid Overuse of Alcohol & Other Drugs:  Many people depend on drugs and alcoholic beverages to help them when they are feeling stressed. These methods offer only temporary relief for those that use them. Of course, drugs and alcohol will not do anything to help the way you really feel. The momentary stress relief they offer is heavily Read more

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Sep

1

Stress: Tips to Manage Stress – 1

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Stress is all around — Traffic!  Pollution!  People in a hurry — hustle, bustle! Pressure at home!  Pressure at work!  Pressure abounds!

financial stress & pressureStress is a common factor in most peoples’ lives. However, it is important to take care not to let stress manage YOU. If you allow your tension to get out of control, it can begin to influence your health and wellness. Here are three (3) solid suggestions to help you keep stress from managing your life.

1. Relaxation:  Relax your jaw and give up grinding your teeth (if you do so). A clenched jaw can be one of the initial signs that your body feels it is under siege from anxiety. When you are stressed, contact your jaw, clench briefly, breathe gradually in, then, as you slowly breathe out, let your jaw relax. Doing this exercise should assist you feel better swiftly.

2. Positive Thinking:  Everybody can benefit from holding positive thoughts. Develop your very own by creating a Read more

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Aug

15

Healing Secrets: Listen to Your Body for Healing

Filed Under Emotional Healing, Life Coaching, Mental Healing, Physical Healing

Are you looking for a trustworthy source of information about your body, your Healing Answersmind, your emotions?  Do you want to get healing answers about what is going on in within you?

Here is the secret:  Ask.

Your body has amazing wisdom that it can share with you!  Your whole being has incredible wise ideas to share.  However, in order benefit from this wisdom, it is important to ask.

The key here is to ask your body — or your being — to identify the source of a specific problem … and, then, to listen in a special way.  This special way requires practice in order to become proficient in using it.

“What is this special way?” you might ask.  This special way is to listen non-judgmentally.

The way that WORKS is Read more

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Jul

21

Worry: Eliminate Worry … with the Positive Power of Nature

Filed Under Emotional Healing, Life Coaching, Mental Healing

Worry is an emotional response that occurs when we focus on outcomes that we do NOT want to experience!  Worry feels anxious and hopeless and stressful and out of control.

For a simple, effective  solution to worry, check out this video:

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Jul

3

Worry: Release Worry … Embrace Nature to Release Worry

Filed Under Emotional Healing, Life Coaching, Mental Healing

Worry is an emotion which creates emotional distress, feelings of helplessness, and the mood of apprehension.  Worry creates damaging stress — Worry - Release Worry & Embrace Nature!and, as we have spoken of so many times:  Stress kills!

Worry occurs when you focus on outcomes that you don’t want to experience.  Does that seem counterproductive?

It is.

Your subconscious mind creates that which you are thinking.  Hence, when you focus on outcomes that you do NOT want to experience, you direct all of the mental power of your subconscious mind on the very things you do NOT want.

There is Good News!:  You do NOT have to do this.

That’s right:  You do NOT have to do this!  Rather, you can focus your thoughts and ideas on the very outcomes that you desire to have be a part of your life.

How do you do this? you might ask. Read more

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