May 1st, 2011

The clinic has been so busy lately, I once again have been a little remiss in keeping this up to date…..

Here is my aticle from this months ezine, i hope you enjoy it.

Feeling Stuck and Disconnected? Try these Strategies for Whole-Hearted Living

by Gay Landeta

The human brain has long mystified science by defying all the usual medical mechanical understandings. Finally, now, after years of observation and experimentation we are beginning to unearth its workings.

Early work identified the brain as consisting of two sides, the right and left brain, with the creative processes attributed to the right and the more logical and rational processes delegated to the left lobes. The right and left brain theory is one that most of us have heard however the model now emerging, as a result of the latest research, is of a much more complex and holographic brain. 

The latest findings in the field of neural plasticity show a multi-faceted construction that is capable of growing and changing during our entire lifetime. This ability to grow and change gives enormous hope to anyone suffering from brain injury of any type or, more importantly, for anyone who just wants to use their brain more effectively. However, this ability to change is also our undoing because it appears our brain records new learning, quite indiscriminately, indelibly into our neural links.

It really does seem that the old adage use it or lose it is absolutely true, in every way! So how can we develop a better ability to use the skills our brain offers us? And how can we lose that which we no longer want or need? Read the rest of this entry »

 March 17th, 2011

Really useful —- get it ready for those bad days!

Create your fix-em-up list.

Everyone has bad days and everyone has a storehouse of tools that helps them to get out of the doldrums. Mine include everything from meditation, yoga and Brain Gym® to crappy TV or seeing what my nieces are up to on Facebook. Trouble is we usually forget them when we need them.

While the best thing to do is to sit with what is going on, feel your way through it, truly experience it and then let it go all too often we get caught up in the story of what has happened. We reinforce the pain and end up connecting it to our life suffering!

This is your chance to change that pattern. Create a list of everything that you do (worthy or not) that helps you shift gears from feeling out of sorts to feeling OK about life, or at least able to cope! Then resolve to experiment with changing gears. I certainly don’t advocate not feeling or going through a process, however it is not necessary to always get stuck in the mire!

This page is also very likely to remain a work in progress your whole life!

Enjoy it and have a great month!

Gay

Ann Maree of  The Second Shift http://thesecondshift.com.au   has set up a great blog with tips for busy parents … loved this one : 

February 10th

I love this booster – a simple do anywhere tool for calm….

Enjoy!

Gay

Balance the Mind for Calm Focus

This booster is inspired by a type of Yogic breathing called Nadi Sudi or the Nerve Purifying Breath (or Alternate Nostril Breathing) and is considered to bring about a lightness to the body and a calm and focused mind – nice huh?

 Instead of sitting on your cushion or yoga mat you can just visualise doing it when you need that calm focus. Do it with your imagination. You may be surprised with the results – even if you have never tried it before! 

Relax and focus your breath. Imagine (to the count of 5) breathing in through the left nostril , 2, 3, 4, 5 and out through the right, 2, 3, 4, 5, then in through the right, 2, 3, 4, 5 and out through the left 2, 3, 4, 5. That is one cycle. Do 5 cycles then stop and notice how you are feeling. You can do another 5 if needed.

 I find this great to do when I need a quick fix of focused calmness.

January 14th, 2011

Brisbane is full of people getting back to work, looking to volunteer and to help those less fortunate. There are lots of sites – volunteeringqld.org.au is a good one to sign up and help out.

At Create we will be offering free counselling and emotional / mental / physical stress release services three days a week as long as is needed for anyone suffering the trauma of loss or from the impact of the overwhelming devastation for so many people and businesses and on our beautiful city.

My lovely neighbor Mogens is a registered psychologist and will be available on Thursdays. He would be great to see if you want some talk therapy or need some help understanding or working through what is going on. If you are a bloke or know a bloke who needs to talk Mogens is a retired engineer (amongst a million other things) so is particularly great for guys.

I will be offering Mondays and on the weeks that Monday is not available or pre-booked I will have the sessions available during the week. I will be doing my usual mix of counselling and kinesiology, particularly apt if you are suffering from emotional stress or anxiety as a result of the past week or so. I have also worked extensively and successfully with traumatized children so if you know of a scared or worried little one I would love to help them move on.   

Helen Tomlinson, Create’s new Health Kinesiologist and Bowen Therapist, will be offering her services pro bono on Tuesdays. Helen focuses on the physical health first so would be good pick if you are suffering with aches and pains from shifting furniture or cleaning up after the deluge. Bowen is very relaxing and reduces stress giving emotional balance. It is very gentle and involves no manipulation so it is ideal for everyone including children and the aged.

Korryn, my fantastic VA, has volunteered to coordinate the bookings so you can ring her on our booking line 3102 5831 or email us at create@gaylandeta.com.au. These sessions are available for those affected by the floods so please mention to Korryn you are booking in for a pro bono session. If you prefer to pay please book in and then donate to the Premiers Flood relief fund.

Of course we still have to pay the rent (right Lionel!!!) so our normal range of services will also be available from Monday. Korryn can help you with those too!  

I hope you and yours have been spared as we have been. If not, I hope this gesture helps you, your family or your friends to recover from this difficult time. Please feel free to forward this onto anyone who may benefit and to all your networks.

All the best,

Gay

December 15th, 2010

so many clients have said they enjoyed this meditation from my ezine this month I thought I would share it…

This months booster was inspired by my dear friend and wonderful challenger, Betty, who owns the beautiful Abaxas Bookshop http://www.abraxas-net.com.au/ in Byron Bay. As I was whingeing about some poor me story (yeah, me too!) she told me about this simple meditation she received from her teacher, Paul Tisdell of http://www.spirituallife.com.au/. I enjoyed it so much I have decided to do it twice a day each day this month. I hope you like it too.

Relax, breath in deeply and out fully and allow yourself to settle.

See a doorway, enter it and take 10 steps down. There will be a candle burning in the centre of a ring. Step into the ring and up to the candle.

Either write down and then burn or just download directly into the candle all the stories that are keeping you stuck. See them burn and be destroyed.

They may need alot of burning but each time you do the thought has less power in your life. Build on this by not giving those stories any power in your day-to-day life and feel the freedom of living in the now.

Enjoy the peace and have a great month!

Gay

If your to-do list goes on for pages or is impossible to manage you may be coping with a ‘lifetrap’ of ‘unrelenting standards’. Lifetraps are ways we, as children, learn to cope with the interactions around us. They were necessary then but can become very limiting as we grow. There are 18 of them all together (see below for more info) but the that one might be a cause of that un-ending To Do list is ‘Unrelenting Standards’.

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by Gay Landeta

Some people love change, some hate it but most of us experience mixed feelings about it at some time or another.This is because there are so many factors involved in the actual process that is change, psychological being the most challenging for most of us.

Wikipedia says psychological topics include perception, cognition, attention, emotion, motivation, brain functioning, personality, behavior, and interpersonal relationships. Whew. When you think about it, it becomes fairly obvious that some or many of those areas will be challenged during the process of change.

Very often, once several of those areas are challenged we move into a ‘fight or flight’ reaction to life. Fight or flight means just that – it is a survival mechanism where once we would either fight the sabre tooth tiger or flee. It is useful in our system in short blasts – not so healthy long term.

Futurist Faith Popcorn suggests that during change, the fight or flight response activated by the philological challenges, result in “cocooning” (cutting our self off from all those around us to try to ignore what is happening) or through actively resisting change through negativity, destructive criticism, even sabotage.

Obviously these tactics are not congruent with a peaceful, harmonious and connected life!

In this article I am going to offer you a handful of tips that can take you out of the reactivity of fight or flight and into being pro-active.

Try them, see which work for you and add your own little helpers to the list. Then, when you notice yourself hiding away or becoming negative and obstructional you will have a few tactics up your sleeve! Read the rest of this entry »