Stress Management & Relaxation
Stress drains your physical and mental energy. It interferes with enjoyment of family, friends, and activities. It can be a major component of insomnia, anxiety, depression, and often physical illness. Supportive therapy that gives you tools to cope with stress can bring you greater calm, energy, and improved health and self esteem.
These are some proven relaxation and stress reduction techniques:
Progressive Muscle Relaxation
In this easily learned technique, you focus on slowly tensing and then relaxing each muscle group. This method is based on the idea that mental relaxation will be a natural outcome of physical relaxation.
Visualization and Guided Imagery
This is a skill that uses one of the most powerful tools of the mind/body connection -- the imagination. We use pleasant, relaxing images to calm the mind and body. By controlling breathing and visualizing soothing images, a state of deep relaxation occurs. We can then focus on general health and well-being, or on images to help achieve specific goals.
Mindfulness
This ancient practice helps us tune in to the present moment. By seeing our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors more clearly, we can more easily interrupt destructive patterns of behavior, bring more of ourselves into daily life, and use our energy to create greater well-being and health.
Living the life you really want requires releasing unhealthy stresses. I can help you learn techniques that will allow you to cope with problems more easily, and to enjoy your life and relationships more fully.