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My "Theme" for 2021

Theme for 2021
 
Last year, about the 8th January, I posted my theme for 2020. Little did I know how the year would pan out when I was contemplating what would be useful and relative to my getting through the year. None of us truly knew what was coming down the line.
As I’ve explained in previous years, I don’t do Resolutions. They are far too specific and often hard ( if not impossible) to achieve.  Rather my theme is a way of being.
However, Stability (2020’s theme) served me in ways I hadn’t expected and I adapted it to my needs at any given time.  For example, I was shielding and decided that the garden was a good place to be. However, given my balance etc, I decided working on the various areas could only be done from the grass.  I fashioned a portable, waterproof cushion and got cracking.  I’d never have done the work if Covid hadn’t “clipped my wings”. It was slow, but the rewards were big. So, everything was done and the garden did look good when I’d finished.
Anyway, this year I was truly struggling to find a theme. I thought I had one but it was tilted towards the negative, so I abandoned it. Instead I decided to go for something simple, but positive.
My theme for this year is Thankfulness. And even if I’m struggling, as we all do, I have to find something to be thankful for.
When I’m grumpy, or tired, or in pain, I look for 1 thing to be grateful for. I usually find it faster than I had thought.  Don’t always feel inclined to find it, but its good medicine and it definitely has an effect on my mood!
My previous years are available to read if you wish. I have been doing them too long now to list them all, but happy to share if anyone wants to know the sort of things I’ve adopted in the past. Just ask.
As ever, would love to hear your take on this and whether you have a Theme.  Finally, and most importantly, happy 2021 to you all.
 

Stress and Anxiety

5/4/2016

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My new website has given me some “food for thought” on what I am doing as a Hypnotherapist and this was something that ran through my mind the other day, which I decided to share.
 
Stress and Anxiety are amongst the most common reasons people call and ask me for help.  Everyone thinks that it will be so difficult to relax and get to grips with managing their stress or anxiety.   However, they never fail to be surprised when I show then something we do automatically that will become their greatest ally.  Its simply breathing!
 
Taking back control and managing their stress or anxiety starts with learning to breathe using a proper, abdominal, relaxing breath.  So many times we are instructed to just “take a deep breath and relax”. Hypnotherapists often use this phrase when we start our sessions with clients.  However, when I have asked people to do this I have observed several things.  Firstly they throw out their chest, suck in lots of air, clench their jaw and tighten up the muscles in the neck and shoulders and suddenly their shoulders become best friends with their ears.  This is definitely anything but a relaxing breath.
 
When we take a breath like that, it automatically makes us push out our chest, tighten up our stomach muscles and this then tightens our neck and shoulder muscles.
 
Breathing like this causes our diaphragm (the sheet of muscle separating your chest cavity from your stomach cavity) to be pushed upward into our chest cavity and squeezes our lungs.  This means that the size of the two lower lobes of the lungs get smaller as the upper lobes of the lungs expand. ( see the ear connection? ) 
 
The problem with this is that less oxygen can enter the lower lobes of the lungs and that causes a deficit of oxygen.   That’s because the two lower lobes of the lungs are actually the larger part of the lungs and have many more blood vessels and more alveoli (little air sacks) than the upper lobes. Therefore, less healing and relaxing oxygen is getting into our lungs and from there into the bloodstream and our body.
 
This type of breathing therefore causes more tension to develop in the neck, shoulders and the jaw, less oxygen to circulate and results in more overall tension and stress.  So the first thing we usually do together is to learn how to breathe, easily and deeply.
 
 Simple things are often the most effective!

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