Heal Yourself with Writing | by Catherine Ann Jones The following is an excerpt from the "Heal Yourself with Writing" on-line course. If you would like to enroll in the course, click here. How do we learn to "feed" the stories that heal? How do we put together the pieces of the past? How can we rewrite our life story so that pain becomes meaningful and actually promotes growth and transformation? One answer lies in focused journaling. This course offers a step by step journey of discovery and re-visioning through focused journaling. Throughout this course, the reader will be presented with writing exercises designed to facilitate healing and transformation. In this way, global healing takes place one individual, one tribe, at a time. NEGATIVE PATTERNS: Negative patterns sometimes evolve for a reason. A child growing up in an alcoholic and/or abusive environment may create a wall around him or her for protection. Such defensive methods may actually ensure surviving emotionally and physically through challenging and threatening times in our lives. Years pass, however, and though now safe, these walls and other defensive mechanisms may sabotage our personal and professional lives. The wall is no longer needed yet it remains. It has become habitual. The first step is to become aware of what we have built around us. What stories we continue to tell ourselves to fortify the wall. Stories from the past live on in us long after the cause or effect is gone. EXERCISE: Think of a difficult event in your life, now past. Feel within the emotions associated with the person or event. Now visualize stepping back and see yourself telling the old story. Ask who is telling the story? Now choose to write a new version from where you are now standing, some distance away. Take all the time you need for this process. As we grow these negative, protective patterns outlive their use. Then as maturity comes, we seek to create new, healthier patterns. It's not that the negative patterns leave, they simply go dormant, and the new healthier patterns take over, as it were. We learn, as the old grandfather did, to feed the good wolf. It makes sense to accept this and have compassion for not only the old negative patterns but for the child or young adult who needed them at the time. Only when old patterns which no longer serve are released can new ones emerge. Sometimes new, healthier habits must be in place before releasing the old ones. For more information visit: > Heal Yourself with Writing | DailyOM Course Spotlight by Sadie Nardini If you're working out for more than 20-ish minutes a day, you could be wasting precious time and energy, and blocking many of your fitness benefits! Get ready for the workout that science proves is the most effective to build strength and burn calories in the least amount of time. This course from bestselling DailyOM course creator Sadie Nardini, was designed as a fusion of yoga and High Intensity Interval Training, or HIIT, for you to reap all these benefits and see for yourself what a huge difference in body and health just a small amount of time each day can give you! HIIT does what yoga can't: cross-trains your fitness, amps up your heart rate/cardio system for optimized oxygen processing & fat burn, and activates fast-twitch muscle fibers (what tones, sculpts and defines your body). Yoga is a perfect compliment to HIIT, since it targets slow-twitch muscle fibers, to keep you endurance-based strong, and it gives you cleansing and flexibility to aid in your HIIT power and transformation. Together they can't be beat as the most perfect exercise system available today. Top 10 DailyOM Courses 1. Fit and Fierce Over 40 2. 21 Day Yoga Shred 3. 21 Day Booty Core 4. Be Free from Unhealthy Relationships 5. A Year to Clear What is Holding You Back! 6. 8 Week Whole Body Makeover! 7. Release Yourself from Family Karma 8. 21 Days to Deeper Intimacy 9. End Self-Sabotage with Meridian Tapping (EFT) 10. 21 Days to Phenomenal Abdominals
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