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Otautahi-Christchurch Aotearoa-New Zealand
Our Body stores Stress, Tension & Trauma.
Bodywork resolves it.
Otautahi-Christchurch Aotearoa-New Zealand
Our Body stores Stress, Tension & Trauma.
Bodywork resolves it.
To resolve tension & trauma and restore calm:
Breathe slow and through the nose.
Sleep well.
Walk every morning.
Laugh & play.
Be in Nature daily in some way.
Eat healthy real food - plants, meat, fish, eggs, nuts, healthy fat. Cut the junk.
Meditate to practice being present now - Kindly.
Smile for no reason. It lifts your mood.
Practice Gratitude.
Relax with body-mind methods like paced breathing, Havening®, TRE - Tension Release Exercises, TTT Trauma Tapping Technique, Yoga, Swimming, Cycling, Hiking............
Understand your stress response
- Activation (fight & flight),
- Immobilisation (freeze & flop),
- Restoration (returning to calm, relaxed & happily engaged with life).
Find your tribe who are also practising what helps you feel safe, relaxed and enjoying life.
Breathe slow and through the nose.
Sleep well.
Walk every morning.
Laugh & play.
Be in Nature daily in some way.
Eat healthy real food - plants, meat, fish, eggs, nuts, healthy fat. Cut the junk.
Meditate to practice being present now - Kindly.
Smile for no reason. It lifts your mood.
Practice Gratitude.
Relax with body-mind methods like paced breathing, Havening®, TRE - Tension Release Exercises, TTT Trauma Tapping Technique, Yoga, Swimming, Cycling, Hiking............
Understand your stress response
- Activation (fight & flight),
- Immobilisation (freeze & flop),
- Restoration (returning to calm, relaxed & happily engaged with life).
Find your tribe who are also practising what helps you feel safe, relaxed and enjoying life.
PTSD, Anxiety, Depression can be resolved through body methods without necessarily talking about feelings or the trauma story.
This can be relief for many who resist therapy for that reason.
Here is a pdf you can download explaining rationale and efficacy of Body based modalities for resolving chronic stress and trauma.
This can be relief for many who resist therapy for that reason.
Here is a pdf you can download explaining rationale and efficacy of Body based modalities for resolving chronic stress and trauma.
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Body based modalities we use at KoruQi -
Slow Nasal Breathing Exercises.
Slow nasal breathing calms your body and the mind follows.
Slow nasal Breathing lowers your heart rate and blood pressure, increases nitrous oxide (good for cardiovascular health) and balances your nervous system.
Simply slowing the breath for a few minutes and breathing through the nose calms anxiety, distress, anger and worry.
When you are calm you do life with ease, feel more awake, have energy, laugh more and cope better with stress.
Slow nasal breathing calms your body and the mind follows.
Slow nasal Breathing lowers your heart rate and blood pressure, increases nitrous oxide (good for cardiovascular health) and balances your nervous system.
Simply slowing the breath for a few minutes and breathing through the nose calms anxiety, distress, anger and worry.
When you are calm you do life with ease, feel more awake, have energy, laugh more and cope better with stress.
Tapping on acupressure points TTT
TTT Trauma Tapping Technique is very effective at calming down anxiety and panic and can also help resolve old traumas by turning off the alarm system in the brain as happens in PTSD. More info at peacefulheart.se
TTT Trauma Tapping Technique is very effective at calming down anxiety and panic and can also help resolve old traumas by turning off the alarm system in the brain as happens in PTSD. More info at peacefulheart.se
Havening Touch®
Havening Touch® is simple touch that calms the mind and body. Sounds simple. Very effective like TTT for turning off the alarm system of stress, fear and ptsd. Video showing Havening
Havening Techniques® and Havening Touch® are registered trade marks of Ronald Ruden, 15 East 91st Street, New York. www.havening.org
Havening Touch® is simple touch that calms the mind and body. Sounds simple. Very effective like TTT for turning off the alarm system of stress, fear and ptsd. Video showing Havening
Havening Techniques® and Havening Touch® are registered trade marks of Ronald Ruden, 15 East 91st Street, New York. www.havening.org
Meditation
Mindfulness is being Present Now Kindly.
Paying attention with curiosity to this experience now.
In Mindfulness Meditation we practice kind presence with whatever experience is happening right now - pleasant, unpleasant and neutral.
Mindfulness helps us ride our waves of unpleasant experience.
Whether you do 1, 10 or 20 min, start where you can and go from there. Mind chatter is normal - let it be. Be kind to yourself.
Thich Nhat Hanh
"To be mindful is to be fully present with whatever we are doing. If you are drinking tea, just drink your tea...." Read more
Mindfulness is being Present Now Kindly.
Paying attention with curiosity to this experience now.
In Mindfulness Meditation we practice kind presence with whatever experience is happening right now - pleasant, unpleasant and neutral.
Mindfulness helps us ride our waves of unpleasant experience.
Whether you do 1, 10 or 20 min, start where you can and go from there. Mind chatter is normal - let it be. Be kind to yourself.
Thich Nhat Hanh
"To be mindful is to be fully present with whatever we are doing. If you are drinking tea, just drink your tea...." Read more
TRE Tension & Trauma Release Exercise
TRE shakes out current or accumulated tension, our autopilot protections.
TRE integrates any fight, flight, freeze response still active in your body, relaxing tension and rebalancing you back to calm, relaxed mode.
We have these automatic reflexes for saving our life in moments where a split second counts:
anger is our fight activation;
anxiety and panic is our flight activation;
feeling immobilised, stuck or numb is our freeze activation:
Sometimes we can become stuck in these states. TRE is a way of returning to movement and flow again, bringing flexibility and resiliency.
Over time our fear of our intense states reduces, increasing our capacity to stay present with our own and with others' intensity. Over time we sweat the small stuff less and less.
Little and often is the way to benefit from TRE.
7 min Video explains
TRE shakes out current or accumulated tension, our autopilot protections.
TRE integrates any fight, flight, freeze response still active in your body, relaxing tension and rebalancing you back to calm, relaxed mode.
We have these automatic reflexes for saving our life in moments where a split second counts:
anger is our fight activation;
anxiety and panic is our flight activation;
feeling immobilised, stuck or numb is our freeze activation:
Sometimes we can become stuck in these states. TRE is a way of returning to movement and flow again, bringing flexibility and resiliency.
Over time our fear of our intense states reduces, increasing our capacity to stay present with our own and with others' intensity. Over time we sweat the small stuff less and less.
Little and often is the way to benefit from TRE.
7 min Video explains
Learning about our natural Stress Response
Our body reacts instantly to threats for survival AND also has an inbuilt capacity to reset our system back to a calm state after the threat is over. Our Stress Response or Fight/Flight & Freeze/Flop response is automatic like breathing.
This is not a conscious choice. It's physiology not cognition.
Adrenalin and Cortisol are for extra strength to do heroic deeds.
So is Oxytocin which drives us to connect with others for help, debriefing, problem solving, enjoyment, belonging.
We also have numbing hormones to cope with pain, fear or injury.
All these hormones are released instantly for a purpose
and recycled afterwards so we can return to normal and heal if needed.
Activation states are not bad or broken states. They are automatic for emergency response.
However, sometimes our body can become stuck in these stress states which is called PTSD, Anxiety, Depression, etc.
If we don't sleep soundly our body can't reset and repair so the stress effect accumulates, eventually creating chronic pain and illnesses. Just like never maintaining the car - it eventually wears out. So chronic stress states can sometimes look the same as PTSD, Anxiety, Depression, etc.
Resilience to stress comes from calming our body-mind regularly AND calming our fear of these intense, protection states so we don't inadvertently keep the stress going by trying to avoid them (repression).
TTT, Slow breathing, Meditation, Havening®,TRE and many other methods help us unwind stress so we can enjoy life.
Our body reacts instantly to threats for survival AND also has an inbuilt capacity to reset our system back to a calm state after the threat is over. Our Stress Response or Fight/Flight & Freeze/Flop response is automatic like breathing.
This is not a conscious choice. It's physiology not cognition.
Adrenalin and Cortisol are for extra strength to do heroic deeds.
So is Oxytocin which drives us to connect with others for help, debriefing, problem solving, enjoyment, belonging.
We also have numbing hormones to cope with pain, fear or injury.
All these hormones are released instantly for a purpose
and recycled afterwards so we can return to normal and heal if needed.
Activation states are not bad or broken states. They are automatic for emergency response.
However, sometimes our body can become stuck in these stress states which is called PTSD, Anxiety, Depression, etc.
If we don't sleep soundly our body can't reset and repair so the stress effect accumulates, eventually creating chronic pain and illnesses. Just like never maintaining the car - it eventually wears out. So chronic stress states can sometimes look the same as PTSD, Anxiety, Depression, etc.
Resilience to stress comes from calming our body-mind regularly AND calming our fear of these intense, protection states so we don't inadvertently keep the stress going by trying to avoid them (repression).
TTT, Slow breathing, Meditation, Havening®,TRE and many other methods help us unwind stress so we can enjoy life.
Learning how what we eat affects our brain, mood, energy.
We can improve our mental health by eating more real foods - from plants, trees, animals & reducing highly processed foods and sugary drinks/snacks.
Further reading:
Doctors articles and presentations -
Stabilising Bipolar
Depression/Anxiety improvement & Doctor advice if you are on Psych meds
Dramatic improvement of Schizophrenia
Reducing and eliminating chronic pain
We can improve our mental health by eating more real foods - from plants, trees, animals & reducing highly processed foods and sugary drinks/snacks.
Further reading:
Doctors articles and presentations -
Stabilising Bipolar
Depression/Anxiety improvement & Doctor advice if you are on Psych meds
Dramatic improvement of Schizophrenia
Reducing and eliminating chronic pain
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Currently working in person or by video/phone call if needed.
0226507896
kathy@koruqi.com
Registered Member NZAC
Currently working in person or by video/phone call if needed.
0226507896
kathy@koruqi.com
Registered Member NZAC
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