There's still time to
register for
Qigong and Bodymind
Healing: An Integrated Approach for Stress and Pain with Dr. Michael Mayer
next
Wednesday, March 17, from 9 am - 10:30 am Pacific time. As with all
of our teleseminars, e-courses, and e-workshops, if you have a schedule
conflict and cannot attend live, your registration fee of $50 allows you
anytime, unlimited audio replay of the entire 90 minute event through April 17.
Please go now to
www.maggiephillipsphd.com/courses_teleseminars_mm.html.
We would appreciate receiving your questions and topics in advance so please
submit them at
www.maggiephillipsphd.com/courses_interactive_mm.html.
I am really excited
about this seminar. You may not be aware of the unique and outstanding
credentials Michael Mayer has as a presenter. Michael pioneered the integration
of Qigong into western types of therapy and healthcare. He co-founded and is a
member of a multidisciplinary medical clinic offering integrative healthcare.
He received an award from the World Institute for Self-Healing for his
contributions to the advancement of mindbody medicine. He has also authored ten
publications on mindbody healing and on applications of Chinese medicine
approaches with specific health problems including cancer, hypertension, chronic
pain, and anxiety. You'll also want to know that Michael has a wonderful way of
making the complex simple and easy.
Here is an excerpt from Michael's article on "An Integrated
Approach to Chronic Pain." If you like what you read, please join us for the
teleseminar to learn the Yin-Yang Balancing Method and other techniques. When
you register, you'll receive a pdf of Michael's entire article on chronic pain
as a bonus in addition to his free report on how Qigong can successfully treat
hypertension.
YIN-YANG BALANCING METHOD
One other method I taught Terry to ease her pain
is the yin yang balancing method. I derived it from a hypnotherapeutic
technique called "pain transferal" which involves a person imagining the
transfer of their pain to another part of the body. By
adding to this the idea of yin and yang in Taoist theory, we have
the benefit of adding a many thousand year-old understanding of the pathways of energy in the body, thereby
allowing the person to transfer the energy by coming into alignment with a
ready made stream. Whether we want to believe that this stream is "real," when
we visualize it, or imagine that it is real, our mind activates our healing
powers.
In the yin yang balancing method, a person imagines
more energy flowing through the yin (cold, weakened, etc.) part of the
body and less energy going through the yang (hot, strong, acutely
injured) part of the body. Terry learned to imagine and experience her breath turning into
warm water flowing through her uninjured left leg, and cooling gentle waters
flowing through her injured leg.
Terry learned to play with the sensations, and to
control and trick her body. For example, in one session, she imagined "a hula
hoop" extending through the points on both ankles. At first the hula hoop was
blocked where her injury was; but gradually, as she imagined the compassionate light
of the sun melting the ice block there, the water flowed throughout the hoop
evenly. While she was playing with her mind/body connection she forgot which
leg was the one in the accident.
Don't miss this seminar! You will learn some very creative tools for
working efficiently and effectively with pain and stress that are derived from
the principles of Chinese medicine. Please register now, while you're thinking
about it, at
www.maggiephillipsphd.com/courses_teleseminars_mm.html.
Your $50 teleseminar package includes handouts, photos and diagrams to help you
follow the steps of the qigong, tai chi, and standing meditation poses and
principles included in the 90 minute seminar.
If you haven't sampled many of our
teleseminars/webinars, you might want to read some recent comments from
satisfied participants about the e-workshop with Fred Gallo:
"I want to take a moment to thank you for
the great workshop with Fred Gallo....Keep up the good work!"
"I downloaded the seminar on the Identity
Method which
I enjoyed and look forward to using...I just recommended the teleseminar to a
colleague..."
Save the
dates: On
Wednesday,
April 28, from 9 am - 10:30 am Pacific time, I will be co-leading a teleseminar
with Dr. Ron Siegel from Harvard Medical School on
Pathways to Mindfulness. Ron is a leader in the field of
mindfulness and teaches nationally on mindfulness and mind/body treatment. His personal
recovery from disabling back pain led him to develop the Back Sense program, a
step-by-step mind/body approach to treating chronic back pain which integrates
Western psychological and medical interventions with mindfulness practice. He
is coeditor of
Mindfulness and
Psychotherapy, and coauthor of
Back
Sense: A Revolutionary Approach to Halting the Cycle of Chronic Back Pain.
He is a regular contributor to other professional publications, and is
co-director of the annual Harvard Medical School Conference on Meditation and
Psychotherapy. Ron is known as a warm and engaging speaker. His February online
course in Mindfulness (sponsored by the National Institute for the Clinical
Application of Behavioral Medicine -- NICABM) was sold out! Several of you have
written me to request a teleseminar on mindfulness. Registration for this teleseminar will open soon; please don't miss this
opportunity.
May and June bring teaching opportunities for me in Energy Psychology
and Somatic Experiencing�. On
May 3rd, my online course,
Advances in Energy Psychology, will begin for 8 weeks, sponsored by
NICABM (for more information and registration, go to
www.nicabm.com/?course=ene.
I have received consistently excellent feedback on this course. If you want an
in-depth distance learning class that will focus you on practicing energy
psychology methods with yourself and others in order to strengthen your skills
and confidence, please consider signing up! The class is not offered in "real
time" -- that is, you can log on and listen to lectures and participate in message
board discussions whenever you like so time zone differences are not a problem.
I will be offering several live workshops in Canada, Scandinavia,
and Switzerland. I present
Healing Emotional and Physical Pain in Edmonton,
Alberta, Canada on
Friday, April 30, and Saturday, May 1st. For
information, contact
[email protected]. On
Friday, May 7 and Saturday,
May 8, I will present
Learning What the Body Knows in Zurich. For information
and registration, email Silvia Zanotta at
[email protected].
And finally, I will be teaching a workshop on
Ego-State Therapy in Helsinki,
Finland on
Saturday 15 May and Sunday, 16 May. Please contact Maarit Virta at
[email protected].
From
June 3-6, I will be
participating in the Energy Psychology conference in San Diego, California:
Evolving Tools for Healing Mind, Body, and
Spirit. If you register before March 31st, you will save money.
And if you sign up for my pre-conference workshop
Maximizing Resiliency through
Energy Psychology: Solving Health Adversity scheduled on
Thursday, June 3rd,
you will receive several sign-up bonuses. For more information and registration, visit
https://m360.energypsych.org/event.aspx?eventID=10991
Our May and June teleseminar training events will focus on
Somatic Experiencing� as we present
seminars with Peter Levine, creator of SE, and Kathy Kain, Director of SE
Training. Please watch for specific details, including the exact dates and
topics, in our April newsletter.