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Kia Ora-Welcome to KoruQi
Otautahi-Christchurch
   Aotearoa-New Zealand

Body-Mind ways to Resolve
​Stress, Tension & Trauma 


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Methods to Flow with Energy
Breathe long, light and easy.
Walk every morning.
BE in Nature often.
EAT HEALTHY  plants, meat, fish, eggs, nuts, healthy fat, reduce junk food.
Meditate to practice being present now - Kindly.
​Practice Gratitude.
Relax with body-mind methods like paced breathing, 
Havening®, TRE - Tension Release Exercises, TTT Tapping Technique, Yoga, Swimming............
Befriend your Jungle Survival System -
 - Social Engagement, Activation (fight & flight), Immobilising (freeze & flop),
​ - Integration and Restoring balance.
Find your TRIBE for support to keep practising what makes you feel safe, relaxed and enjoying life. 

​Join a Practice Group to find your tribe

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Breathe 
long, light and evenly calms your mind and body.
Breathing fully and slow lowers your heart rate and blood pressure
and balances your nervous system.
When you are calm you do life with ease,

feel more awake, have energy, laugh more
and 
cope better with stress.
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Deepening and slowing your breath calms anxiety, distress, anger and worry.

Tapping on acupressure points 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. Called First Aid for trauma TTT Trauma Tapping Technique ​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
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Meditation
Mindfulness is being Present   Now   Kindly.
Paying attention with curiosity to what you experience in This Moment.

In Mindful Meditation you practice kind presence with whatever experience you are having right now - pleasant, unpleasant and neutral.

Mindfulness helps you ride your waves of experience.

Whether you spend a min, 10 min 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

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TRE
Tension & Trauma Release Exercise
TRE gently shakes out any current or accumulated tension responses to life that are held by the body.

TRE integrates the fight, flight, freeze response in your body,
relaxing tension and rebalancing your body-mind back to
calm, relaxed mode.

With TRE we befriend our intense reflexes to life rather than trying to stop or get over them.

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, numb is our freeze activation.
Sometimes we can become stuck in the stress response.
TRE is a way of returning to movement and flow again, bringing flexibility and resiliency.

Over time our fear of our intense emotion 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


Learn about your 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.

Adrenalin and Cortisol are commonly known stress hormones.
So is Oxytocin which drives us to connect with others for help, debriefing, problem solving, enjoyment, belonging.
We also have numbing hormones for doing heroic deeds without pain if injured.
All these hormones are released instantly for a purpose
and recycled afterwards so we can get on with our day.

Activation states are not bad or broken states. They are automatic for life saving.
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But if we are trapped or overwhelmed while in these stress states our body can become stuck in the alarm states we currently call PTSD, Anxiety disorder, 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 create similar problems to PTSD from a traumatic event.

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.

What we eat affects our brain, mood, energy....
​people are improving their mental health with whole foods & reducing highly processed foods.

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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Book a private session with Kathy or join a group
​Currently working in person and on line or by phone if needed with Covid & Flu about
​0226507896
kathy@koruqi.com
Registered Member NZAC
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