When it comes to your health, do you wonder WHY you have the symptoms and conditions that you have? Our emotions, traumas, stresses and belief systems have a tremendous impact on our overall health. The functioning of our nervous system, the level of hormones in our bloodstream, the inflammatory nature of our immune system, and even our epigenetic capacity for vitality are all part of a story.
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Continue Reading →For so many reasons, stopping for a few minutes– without an agenda – can open an inner spaciousness that you didn’t realize you crave.
“Meditation” can seem to be a daunting challenge. The mind is usually so busy, it’s hard to find the pause button. Bringing the mind and body together by focusing on one’s breath is the easiest way to begin to quiet the mind.
Giving attention to the tension held in your body make it possible to release tension. Attention ...
Continue Reading →A former client phoned to tell me a story she thought I would find amusing. Since working with me years ago, she sought consultation with a psychiatrist. He referred her to another psychotherapist. At the first session with the new psychotherapist, she was assigned homework to complete before the next session. Imagine what that homework was: to watch the self-soothing videos by Laya Seghi at www.layaseghi.com/video-tools! Yes, I found that amusing indeed (especially since I didn’t even know the ...
Continue Reading →“The cause of all negative emotions is a disruption in the body’s energy system.” This is the “discovery statement” of the tapping treatment known as the Emotional Freedom Technique, also offered as the “Tapping Solution.” Widely disseminated by Gary Craig on his website www.emofree.com, EFT is another energy-based treatment for reducing stress.
EFT is amazingly simple and easy to learn, yet the results can be phenomenal. If you haven’t tried it yet, take a few minutes, watch the video and ...
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Everyone’s has some stress, but when you can say “I’ve got this!” you’re on your way to the UPSIDE of stress. If you think having a lot of stress will damage your health, that belief can actually make you sick. Instead, if you believe that “when the going gets tough, the tough get going,” stress can actually make you smarter and stronger.
A recent New York Times article “How to be Better at Stress” ...
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Why does psychotherapy combined with energy work result in therapeutic change more efficiently and effectively than traditional talk therapy?
In this radio interview, I share my experience as a holistic psychotherapist. With a variety of energy psychology modalities, I can access unresolved emotions that are stored in the body. Simply put, it’s hard to talk about what’s inaccessible to our conscious mind. With energy work, we can quickly identify where emotion is stuck in the energy system and release the associated ...
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I’m excited to share some good news!!! Although many of my clients exclaim about the “miracle” results they’ve had from NeuroEmotional Technique in therapy, until now, their testimonials amounted to nothing more than “anecdotal” evidence. Well, the good news is that the long-awaited NET study has finally been published. We now have quantifiable evidence as to why clients feel so much better with NET. Pre-and post- treatment changes can be seen on fMRI brain images.
These pictures are worth a 1,000 ...
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Dear Friends, Clients, and Serenity Seekers,
As we start a new season – Welcome Autumn! – new behaviors become possible.
What better time than NOW to begin or deepen the simple practice of meditation?
The benefits of meditation are many.
Even a few minutes a day can help:
Because I love to share information of value, I’m passing along this detailed guide on How to Meditate recently published by the New York Times. Use it to ...
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Ideally, each of us can regulate our emotions, even under stress. At times though, any of us can simply “lose it.” Emotional breakdowns can be as varied as we are. Some of us yell, some sulk, some drink to excess, some punch walls, some cry. Terrible as the emotional mayhem may be and much as we may hate ourselves for it, chances are there will be a repeat performance unless we learn to self-regulate.
It may help to know that there ...
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by Laya Seghi, LCSW
Did you ever wonder why people who spent years in traditional therapy often remain as insecure and neurotic as ever? Woody Allen comes to mind as a prime example. No matter how much rational understanding there may be about the issues they face, their emotional reactions seem to remain out of their control.
The latest research in brain science helps to explain why that is so. Since the 1990’s, brain imaging technology such as PET scans and fMRI’s ...
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