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Corona Virus – Will it traumatise you?

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“Research shows that whether or not a person develops PTSD has more to do with the person’s ability to cope with stress than the event itself.”

Susanne Babbel, Phd – Heal the Body, Heal the Mind (2018)

What the world is experiencing right now with this virus spreading is a very heavy traumatic experience for many people.

How do you stop from going nutty over the next few months? How do you stop from breaking down, or getting PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) symptoms after the event?

This has been my specialty for 30 years in private practice. Helping people resolve underlying trauma that affects and limits their lives, sometimes for a lifetime (if not addressed).

How are you coping so far? What emotions are bubbling up in you that you are aware of? And what about the ones just under the surface? Stressful situations help to bring out what is already there that has probably been laying dormant within you for a long time.

This Corona Virus event doesn’t have to be traumatic – before, during or after the event is over.

Just because others are freaking or stressing out, doesn’t mean that you have to do the same. Sometimes the extra stress you feel is only because you feel you have to feel this way too, that this must be normal behaviour. It doesn’t have to be that way.

I will be offering (all free) mindful suggestions and meditations each week. And I’ll be posting them all with a short video. Video will convey the message much better. You will be receiving the benefit and experience of 30 years of deep trauma coping, releasing and healing tips, advice, techniques, tools and expertise. The Virus Buster will be the first, coming soon this week.

The limit of each mindfulness class this week will be four, to allow safe enough room between participants. (Half the participants showed up last week and that was completely understandable.)

At some point soon (highly likely next week) the classes will go online. You will be able to attend from anywhere in the world and the classes can be much bigger. I will be using the Zoom meeting software. It is free for you to use and fairly easy to run, once you learn. Youtube has a lot of instructional videos on how to use it. I am happy to help anyone where possible, that might need some help.

Zoom, Skype, Facetime, Messenger, WhatsApp and others will all become very important for continual social interaction during the Corona virus period.

The free instructional video for the Virus Buster mindfulness technique that I’ve been talking about, will be ready this week. I will follow this up with a free guided meditation to help you actually do it.

The ‘X’ Factor

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The value of deep body based subconscious psychotherapy work begins to be apparent and it’s value important when people try to explain why a team didn’t perform at their best on a particular day. Why an athlete, normally on top of his or her game, doesn’t produce their best at the time that it’s required.

Or why a team is missing the ‘x factor’ when on paper the skills are all there. Or why is belief strong, or teamwork strong among a team or office department. This x factor, or invisible unseen element is the domain of body subconscious based work. At this seemingly unseen level, is where the missing ingredient is hiding, quietly having a massive influence on performance and execution levels of any sport or work project.

Talking about it is normally the first step, but the real work begins when the talking stops, and the person goes within, deeper, accessing the inner body where all the motivation, drive, energy and emotions are stored. This deeper level is highly active and influential in determining how things get done and so determines greatly the success of an athlete or worker on the task at hand.

Dependancy

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I shouldn’t have to be writing about this topic this day and age but sadly I still need to bring some attention to it. I heard again from another client recently how other therapists that she had been to in the past, she felt had tried to ‘milk her’ of her money by making her dependant on coming back for continual sessions. This client said,

“George, you’re not like most of the other therapists out there. You are not trying to milk me for what you can get. You are not trying to make me dependant on you, (coming to see you for years without signs of solid benefit and progress.) I can feel how you really care and are genuinely helping me to change and release the past. I can feel the difference with you. I can feel the progress and the change.”

Sadly many therapists out there are not really interested in you healing yourself. They want to make sure that you keep having your problem so you have to keep going back to them, so they earn an income. How crazy is that? Years ago, I even had one prominent psychiatrist say this exact thing straight in my face, with a smirk. I was appalled. But I kept a straight face and moved on.

How I work? How I imagine any good therapist works.

I want you to get better 100% (or at least feel genuine improvement) in the least amount of sessions possible! Once you feel the benefit and go off to live your life, you would want to recommend others to see me to get help too. This is how I operate. 75% of my client base are now referrals from past satisfied clients. Of course I also recommend some maintenance sessions every year or two if needed. But not full dependency, where you have to keep seeing me for life, just to get by.

As my client said, you can normally feel this attitude in the therapist. Are they really on your side and listening and adapting to your needs and pain? Or are they just going through the motions, relying on their ‘qualifications’ to mesmerise you into believing that they know best and that you will need them forever.

As a rule, if you haven’t felt a genuine benefit within (max) 10 sessions with a therapist – leave! Find someone else. Even if that therapist is subsidised by the government and you don’t have to pay much – leave! Don’t become a dependent victim. Deep down, you are a powerful, loving, joyous, free and alive spirit/human being. If your therapist doesn’t see this when they work with you, my recommendation is to leave.

What’s one of the Best Books ever Written?

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I often get asked by people and clients what books to read for personal development and healing. What books do I read? I have hundreds in my library from over 30 years of study, research and interest. I list a few on my main website. But if I had to pick just one book that I consider the best and most worthwhile, that’s quite easy for me to do.

That book is Eckhart Tolle’s THE POWER OF NOW.

That book is by my bedside where ever I travel. I highly recommend it above all other books. If I was stuck on a desert island and could take only one book, that would be the book I’d have with me.

The Power of NOW encapsulates beautifully what all the therapy work is about in the end, if you take it all the way. Some people just want to feel less pain, some just want to stop a bad behaviour, some just want some peace of mind, some want to improve a relationship, some want to feel happy or safe again in the world. When you get all these things, and take it further to its conclusion, you get the power of living in the present. For my mind, no one explains it and lives it better than Tolle.

Stopping yourself from going crazy

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As my work evolves, I am noticing that I spend more time with clients helping them stay present and helping them not think about problems. It is such a conditioned response to try to think things through all the time. To try to work it out in the head.

The quickest way to stop yourself going crazy trying to work it out in your head, is to take feeling into your body seriously. As seriously as thinking. Mindfullness is slowly becoming popular now with therapists. This is a good thing. Those therapists are on the right track.

Helping people get in touch with a deeper intelligence is at the core of my work. An intelligence that is beyond just thinking. One that is more feeling, emotional, still, deeper physically and allows deeper natural movement to release.

Always remember to come back to your body. Honour your feelings and they will guide you through your problems.

Learning to be Comfortable with being Uncomfortable

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A big key lesson I’ve learned over the years, with my own process as well as clients. Is that being a little bit uncomfortable in any situation is necessary for real change.

It is very important to get comfortable with being uncomfortable or messy, for a short period.

It’s like when you decide to renovate a room or house. You don’t, not do it, because the place will get messy, and your possessions and natural habitat will be disturbed, you factor that in. You prepare yourself for all the tradesmen, the mess, the mistakes, the unexpected things that may go wrong and the disruption to your normal routine. When you know that this is normal and part of change, then it becomes ok. You learn to flow with it. There is an end goal in mind. And you normally get there. And once the dust settles, things are better than ever before.

Your personal wellbeing is the same. If you are willing to face some temporarily uncomfortable situation, you give yourself a chance to break through and free to new levels of functioning and satisfaction in your life.

Make the uncomfortable feeling okay. Know that any real change requires facing this feeling and the emotions that arise. Once you get comfortable with being uncomfortable there will be less emotion too. You will flow with the tide and land on your feet a freer happier person.

Inner renovation normally creates a brief period of messiness. This is normal. Embrace it and you will grow and move yourself towards your goals much quicker.

Welcome!

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Welcome to my Weblog (blog).

In this blog there will be much more information made available (than I can provide in my normal newsletter) for your health and wellbeing. The information will be related specifically to your mind/body connection as well as your emotions and spirit. (We can’t leave those out!) The aim of this blog is to help you to EMBODY and HEAL yourself in much more efficient ways than ever before.

My work is based in Energy/Body Psychotherapy. This is a powerful therapeutic modality and tool that can help assist you in many ways to take control of your life, rapidly improve your health and enhance your wellbeing more than ever before. I combine it with the very popular and effective P.S.H. Therapy as well as other therapeutic modalities I have trained in and have practiced for many years now.

Join me here and be prepared and open for some great insights, learnings and support that is very much needed in this day and age.