Hur vi fungerar under dagen har stor betydelse för vår förmåga att somna och sova djupt. Särskilt stor betydelse på nattsömnen har vår benägenhet att stressa. Visste du att vi enbart med våra tankar kan skapa stress i kroppen? Även en oavsiktlig och omedveten tanke kan generera stressreaktioner i kroppen. En stressande tanke medför vanligtvis även stressande känslor, såsom oro, rädsla, ilska eller skam. Tankarna och känslorna av stress genererar i sin tur olika biologiska stressreaktioner i kroppen…
For the last eight years, I have been deeply interested in the causes and symptoms of stress, particularly physical pain. Stress-induced pain can be experienced in almost any part of the body. Some persons get headaches and migraines, while others get aching arms and legs. Still others experience pain in the neck, shoulder and back, while many have recurring pain in the stomache.
As individuals, we can react in both unique and partly common ways to long-term stress. While some persons react primarily with psychological symptoms, such as anxiety, irritability, and low patience, others react more physiologically with digestive issues, migraine and body aches, etc.
MindShift Coaching has developed a new meditation called “My Safe Space”. It is an exercise intended to bring awareness to any tension in your body and the underlying reasons hereof. Also, this exercise is an opportunity for you to give yourself a moment of deep relaxation. A full body relaxation, in turn, can support profound healing at the physical, mental, emotional and energetic level.
In June 1998 I was sitting at a restaurant in Ankara with a curious and somewhat provocative Turkish professor. I was in Turkey for an environmental research project that I had just started as part of my PhD. The subject of my research may seem far away from the work that I am presently pursuing as part of MindShift Coaching. However, in hindsight, the strings and parallels are now fascinatingly clear…