tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6041571435971303612024-02-08T02:24:04.966-08:00Staying Light: Healing Through The Connection With the Deepest SelfHow we can heal ourselves? And what does healing actually mean?Lena Jdanova Certified Hypnotherapist, Massage Therapist, Intuitive Healerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09555200020955615606noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-604157143597130361.post-20768075551419486652015-04-30T19:09:00.002-07:002015-04-30T19:09:27.145-07:00Communityevery intelligent system has an ability to self-correct with a feed-back. that's why community is vital for individual's growth and development<div class="blogger-post-footer">www.stayinglight.com
lena@stayinglight.com</div>Lena Jdanova Certified Hypnotherapist, Massage Therapist, Intuitive Healerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09555200020955615606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-604157143597130361.post-11021683360765331182015-04-30T19:06:00.002-07:002015-04-30T19:06:49.286-07:00We live in times of rapid change. Coping with the pressure presents a growing challenge for more and more people. The question is - where to look for guidance, support, inspiration? When external and internal structures and points of reference crumble, we have a choice of either being dragged down with those dysfunctional beliefs based on <i>past</i> experiences, or to seek those inner creative resources which can inspire authentic and fruitful action. In these times we need to connect with what's most alive in us - our internal truth.This personal transformation can then resonate with the bigger changes that are occurring with and through a lot of people (yes, you are not alone), which are looking for new expressions and venues.C Remember - change is a common human need, as well as a need for safety, connection, belonging, support, etc. <div class="blogger-post-footer">www.stayinglight.com
lena@stayinglight.com</div>Lena Jdanova Certified Hypnotherapist, Massage Therapist, Intuitive Healerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09555200020955615606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-604157143597130361.post-27601804542395151422015-04-30T18:59:00.001-07:002015-04-30T18:59:22.246-07:00"<span class="text"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;">Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.<br />Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.<br />It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.<br />We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, <br />talented, fabulous?<br />Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God.<br />Your playing small does not serve the world.<br />There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other <br />people won't feel insecure around you.<br />We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to <br />make manifest the glory of God that is within us.<br />It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.<br />And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give <br />other people permission to do the same.<br />As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence <br />automatically liberates others."</span></span><br />
<span class="text"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;"><span class="text"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;">Marianne Williamson</span></span> </span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">www.stayinglight.com
lena@stayinglight.com</div>Lena Jdanova Certified Hypnotherapist, Massage Therapist, Intuitive Healerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09555200020955615606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-604157143597130361.post-79567929165606021232013-10-22T16:50:00.001-07:002013-10-22T16:50:24.758-07:00Intention, attention, dedication - the three practices of healing<b>Intention</b> is a seed of change. It's born from an experience, that brought something new, something different into your awareness; something that you want now, since you got a taste of it, something that you consider to be <i>good</i> to have..<br />
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The wanted thing is outside of your "normal" reach, it's a goal, it exists as a potential, in the future - a desired possibility that you do not <i>have</i>. Yet.<br />
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The intention you have. Intention can stand behind your actions; behind your thoughts (you can choose which thoughts to think, according to your intention), behind your words.<br />
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You act with intention, and then receive feedback. From the feedback you'll know if you are moving in the right direction according to your intention, or you are off track.<br />
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Off track - then you can try again, with the same intention. Look for choices. Choices of direction, actions, words... You might not have many, yet you can put your intention into your doings, and it will start clearing your path for you.<br />
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There is a saying "The road to Hell is paved with good intentions". Let that not make you loose your good intentions, when you'll find yourself at a dead end, in places or states unwanted, in Hell. Your good intention will help you develop qualities that you'll need to overcome the obstacle.<br />
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So, if you find yourself in hell - return to your intention, examine it, see if it is still good - and keep going.<div class="blogger-post-footer">www.stayinglight.com
lena@stayinglight.com</div>Lena Jdanova Certified Hypnotherapist, Massage Therapist, Intuitive Healerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09555200020955615606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-604157143597130361.post-6220146487616975072013-08-12T14:43:00.001-07:002013-08-12T14:43:52.195-07:00<span style="font-size: 12px;"><strong>PSYCHO-SOMATIC WORK</strong><br />is
the work on body tensions in conjunction with the unresolved feelings
associated with those tension. We use muscle tension to suppress
feelings when we don't have knowledge how, or time, or safe environment
to process our emotional reactions in overwhelming situations. With time
those tensions become a habitual pattern, a part of our identity, a
"safe" known place where we can hide, where we can hold feelings we
"don't like". The downside is that those hidden patterns of trauma show
up again and again when triggered. The work I offer helps to uncover the
unprocessed trauma and release the build-up around it gently and with
presence. I use Rosen Method bodywork, which is light touch and
stretching, and lots of listening with my hands. In the session,
feelings, images, sensations arise into conscious awareness, and we
process them through deep listening, guided visualization, conscious
dreaming, feedback, etc.<br />More on my <a data-cke-saved-href="http://www.stayinglight.com/psycho_somatic.html" href="http://www.stayinglight.com/psycho_somatic.html" target="_self">website</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">www.stayinglight.com
lena@stayinglight.com</div>Lena Jdanova Certified Hypnotherapist, Massage Therapist, Intuitive Healerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09555200020955615606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-604157143597130361.post-69373928893015797322013-07-29T17:35:00.002-07:002013-07-29T17:35:52.979-07:00WAKING THE TIGER. HEALING TRAUMA. By Peter Levine<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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I’m very enthusiastic about this book; I want everybody to
read it to get educated about trauma inflicted blocks and processes, and how to
deal with it on the personal level.
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In this book Peter Levine describes mechanisms of forming a
trauma, living with it, and discharging the energy of trauma. </div>
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Humans have 3 parts to their brain – reptilian (the oldest,
holding the basic survival responses), limbic (mammal) and neocortex (capable
of the rational thinking). In life threatening situations reptilian brain
initiates the fight/flight response, flooding the organism with energy and
excitement enough to run or fight for its life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Human emotions corresponding with those states are fear (flight) and
rage (fight).</div>
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If the power of the threat is greater than the power of the
organism responding with fight/flight, then nature came up with the next level
of protection – freeze response. Prey about to be seized by a predator “drops
dead” ; either the predator will be confused and stop the chase, or the prey
will not feel a thing while being killed – freeze response makes organism numb.
Nature has mercy that way, allowing animals to die easily.</div>
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In nature, if the animal escapes death, it goes thru the
process of discharging the powerful fight/flight or freeze energy by shaking,
thrashing, moving the body (running). It then returns to a relaxed state,
flowing easily from relaxation to alertness, orienting itself in the ever
changing environment.</div>
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Not so with humans. While in danger, our reptilian brain has
immediate power over our nervous system, bringing about fight/flight/freeze
responses. But then, when we need to discharge that energy, neocortex kicks in discharge
(now that the immediate danger is gone), with its need to find a rational,
socially acceptable behavior. It has power to suppress the process of
discharge, and then the energetic structure of freeze becomes a permanent fixture
of human nervous system – a trauma.</div>
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Often trauma is reinforced by repetition of overpowering
life threatening actions/circumstances, without escape rout and/or any support
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Traumatic freezing is a highly aroused/excited state of
nervous system in conjunction with inability to feel, move or function
adequately; it consumes energy otherwise used by the organism for orientation
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When the freeze state unwinds naturally, the organism goes
thru the process in reverse: the way out of freeze zone is thru the
fight/flight zone, with its high excitement and emotions of fear and/or rage
(anger).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Humans culturally conditioned
to suppress strong feelings of fear and anger thru neocortex; they internalize
those feelings, directing them often at themselves.</div>
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Symptoms of trauma:</div>
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Depression</div>
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Inability to feel</div>
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Avoidance behaviors</div>
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Hyper arousal</div>
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Constriction</div>
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Dissociation (including denial)</div>
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Feeling of helplessness</div>
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Hypervigilance</div>
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Hyperactivity</div>
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Exaggerated emotional and startle response</div>
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Abrupt mood swings – rage reactions, temper tantrums, shame</div>
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Reduced ability to deal with stress</div>
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Difficulty sleeping, nightmares</div>
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Panic attacks, anxiety, phobias</div>
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Mental ”blankness”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>or
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Extreme sensitivity to light or sounds</div>
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Attraction to danger</div>
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Frequent crying</div>
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Exaggerated or diminished sexual activity</div>
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Amnesia and forgetfulness</div>
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Inability to love, nurture or bond</div>
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Fear of dying or going crazy</div>
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Excessive shyness</div>
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Muted or diminished emotional responses</div>
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Inability to commit</div>
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Chronic fatigue, low energy</div>
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Immune system disorders, endocrine and psycho-somatic
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Feelings of detachment, alienation, isolation – “living
dead”</div>
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Diminished interest in life</div>
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Educating our rational brain about these processes is of
tremendous value, because it shifts us from being a victim of overwhelming
feelings and emotions, from thinking that something is deeply wrong with us,
into a conscious participant /witness of a powerful natural process.</div>
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lena@stayinglight.com</div>Lena Jdanova Certified Hypnotherapist, Massage Therapist, Intuitive Healerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09555200020955615606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-604157143597130361.post-689031243588954292012-10-23T23:06:00.002-07:002012-10-23T23:06:32.835-07:00Recently a client while being on my massage table said: "I'm falling in love with your hands. You have a gift". But really what was happening - she was getting in touch with the aliveness and loveliness of being in the body. We are so accustomed to react to somebody outside ourselves, forgetting that the capacity to love is internal. Our senses are trained to pay attention to our external environment, so our thoughts are mostly about things external to ourselves; and that makes processing of our feelings and reactions more difficult. <div class="blogger-post-footer">www.stayinglight.com
lena@stayinglight.com</div>Lena Jdanova Certified Hypnotherapist, Massage Therapist, Intuitive Healerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09555200020955615606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-604157143597130361.post-11825782128012938352012-10-23T23:05:00.002-07:002012-10-23T23:05:31.976-07:00The first rains are washing away the last days of summer, burying the seeds deeper into the ground. With the indigenous people celebrating Day of the Dead, we have an opportunity to honor our ancestors and all the "seeds" that went into making of our bodies, hearts and minds; to find gratitude for the continuity that sustains our lives; to meditate on the seeds that we carry inside ourselves, that'll come to fruition in the future.<div class="blogger-post-footer">www.stayinglight.com
lena@stayinglight.com</div>Lena Jdanova Certified Hypnotherapist, Massage Therapist, Intuitive Healerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09555200020955615606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-604157143597130361.post-34919019623563436472012-09-22T10:59:00.001-07:002012-09-22T10:59:31.653-07:00AUTUMN<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Autumn - the fruit bearing time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Seeds go off the
mother-plant, and into the ground - to be buried, to lay dormant, waiting for
the call of spring… How do they know the spring will come? They don’t, yet
that’s the only thing they “know” to do – to follow the design the seeds have
no way of knowing about.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Humans are different – humans
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">want </i>to know. Humans get <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">satisfaction</i> knowing their efforts will
bring fruit. Humans have difficulty letting go of the fruits of their efforts –
they want to store it in a barn somewhere close by for the future use.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Humans want to know the future, want to be
assured the spring will come and the seeds they’ve planted sprout into the
beauty of the new life. Humans want to have the piece of that newness – that’s
how we, humans, grow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Autumn. The time of letting go, finding
trust that your efforts are not futile - that the seeds you planted will grow
in their own time, that when the new life that sprouts will be part of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">your</i> life, enriching you in a new way…</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The time of turning your
awareness deeper inside, getting in touch with <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">your</i> core essence, that’s always there for you - your resource,
from where <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">you</i> are sprouting, again
and again, engaging with the world outside of you.</span></div>
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lena@stayinglight.com</div>Lena Jdanova Certified Hypnotherapist, Massage Therapist, Intuitive Healerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09555200020955615606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-604157143597130361.post-82797422965993309122012-08-15T16:07:00.000-07:002012-08-15T16:07:01.657-07:00Healing is a task of a lifetimeThere is a myth that I'll figure it all out and have a happy "thereafter"... As Abraham said, it's never done. Figuring out, and healing, likewise, are tasks of a lifetime. Death of the body is the only certainty at the end of it.<div class="blogger-post-footer">www.stayinglight.com
lena@stayinglight.com</div>Lena Jdanova Certified Hypnotherapist, Massage Therapist, Intuitive Healerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09555200020955615606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-604157143597130361.post-11883833924953957012012-08-15T16:02:00.000-07:002012-08-15T16:02:04.070-07:00MY PRAYER<span class="userContent">Dear God, Who dwells in my heart, <br /> and the hearts of every body of Your Creation and beyond,<br /> I offer you my prayer with gratitude and joy.<br /> <br /> It is my wish to connect with You, and to be met by You,<br /> in all happenings and non-happenings of my manifested life.<br /> <br /> It is my wish to meet myself in You, and to be met by You <br /> in my pain and lack - not with a fix, but with compassion and care;<br /> to meet my pain</span><br />
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and not be broken by it, but grow stronger.<br /> <br /> It is my wish to meet myself and be met in my fear - not with impatience,<br /> but with trust and encouragement; <br /> in my weakness - not with disgust but with kindness;<br /> in my loneliness - not with sadness but with respect;<br /> in my arrogance - not with punishment, but with understanding;<br /> in my anger - not with destruction, but with strength and generosity;<br /> in my joy - not shying away and not holding on to it,<br /> letting it go afterwards like any other feeling.<br /> <br /> Dear God, meet me in all things alive, and meet me in my death,<br /> so that I'll be able to move into it with my full aliveness.<br /> <br /> And whatever I'm missing here now, please, fill in the blanks for me, <br /> from the perspective of my highest good, my Spirit, and the necessity of Your Creative Expression.<br /> <br /> Amen.</div>
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lena@stayinglight.com</div>Lena Jdanova Certified Hypnotherapist, Massage Therapist, Intuitive Healerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09555200020955615606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-604157143597130361.post-29161943523334952342012-03-14T18:17:00.003-07:002012-08-15T16:03:14.578-07:00Having a body.After taking an anatomy class and visiting a cadaver lab recently, I got a new understanding/feeling of the body.<br />
Our bodies are anchors for our souls, giving a soul an ability to live in the 3-D physical reality. It's evident, but rarely contemplated, that all parts in a human body attach to each other; the body is designed to move through 3-D space, to hold itself and onto itself. It's systems and parts connected by <span style="font-style: italic;">connective tissue</span> saturated by water flowing through all of it; you pinch someone's toe and <span style="font-style: italic;">all</span> of that person turns to you reacting to the pinch.<div class="blogger-post-footer">www.stayinglight.com
lena@stayinglight.com</div>Lena Jdanova Certified Hypnotherapist, Massage Therapist, Intuitive Healerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09555200020955615606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-604157143597130361.post-87177278810285008112012-03-07T16:29:00.002-08:002012-03-07T16:52:56.702-08:00Lots of people are in transition now. Waiting for a change. Watching the news, searching the Net. Looking for positive shifts.<br /><br />As we <span style="font-style: italic;">wait</span>, we can <span style="font-style: italic;">do</span> small actions, make small <span style="font-style: italic;">choices</span>, that will invite the change we want. It's choices of what we eat, how we spend our money, our time.<br /><br />As we long for a healthier environment, we can take responsibility to start healing our personal past, instead of re-creating it day after day. As we note chores in our calendars, we can start putting in fun dates with friends and loved ones. Classes and workshops, concerts and presentations.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Support</span> people and activities that will support <span style="font-style: italic;">you</span>. <span style="font-style: italic;">Chose</span> what to support, <span style="font-style: italic;">how</span> you want to be supported.<div class="blogger-post-footer">www.stayinglight.com
lena@stayinglight.com</div>Lena Jdanova Certified Hypnotherapist, Massage Therapist, Intuitive Healerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09555200020955615606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-604157143597130361.post-71433522273873411252012-03-03T17:21:00.001-08:002012-03-03T17:21:41.614-08:00<div><span>There is high pressure we adopt from our upbringing to "figure it out" and "settle in" into a comfortable situation/lifestyle. Naturally our parents want us to be happy, and in their eagerness to prove themselves "good parents" or wanting to relief their own pressure of having to take care of us, they provide us with recipes to build a happy life. Get a boyfriend. Get married. Have kids. Get a good job. Make money. There are myths and myths about getting that done and living happily ever after.</span></div><div><br /><span></span></div><span>In real life there are cases when it's a perfect fit, total mis-fit, and/or anywhere in-between. As we grow up and become our own caretakers, it's useful to take a closer look at what <span style="font-style:italic;">is</span> there inside to take care of. Wanted or not, it's there, contributing to our feelings and actions, often though subconscious. It's not always comfortable, but healthy to shine conscious light into hidden subconscious drives and agendas. Doing just that helps create more harmony there in the shadows behind pains and hurts. The truth is - this process will continue until our deaths (don't know about the beyond), with some periods of times being more balanced and whole than others.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer">www.stayinglight.com
lena@stayinglight.com</div>Lena Jdanova Certified Hypnotherapist, Massage Therapist, Intuitive Healerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09555200020955615606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-604157143597130361.post-7592944140908205522012-03-03T00:10:00.001-08:002012-03-03T00:10:49.105-08:00Lately I discovered that comfort and happiness do not necessarily share the same space, or "zone". Now more often than before I dare to seek happiness, finding myself "outside of comfort zone".<div class="blogger-post-footer">www.stayinglight.com
lena@stayinglight.com</div>Lena Jdanova Certified Hypnotherapist, Massage Therapist, Intuitive Healerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09555200020955615606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-604157143597130361.post-55662046299908620022012-03-01T15:26:00.002-08:002012-03-01T15:34:00.489-08:00Re-read my earlier posts. Worth repeating here:<br />HEALING STARTS WITH A WISH TO GET BETTER!<br /><br />And - healing happens on the road of taking care of oneself!<br /><br />To wish is crucial yet not enough - to act is to build a living muscle.<br /><br />And then there is another vital component to the process - SUPPORT.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Stumble</span> upon a <span style="font-weight: bold;">wish to get better</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">start</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">taking care</span> of yourself <span style="font-style: italic;">no matter how small</span> is that care, look for <span style="font-weight: bold;">support</span> and <span style="font-style: italic;">go for it</span>. It might be a dead end you are exploring, but the fact that you did will build your strength. <span style="font-style: italic;">Let your pain make you stronger!</span><div class="blogger-post-footer">www.stayinglight.com
lena@stayinglight.com</div>Lena Jdanova Certified Hypnotherapist, Massage Therapist, Intuitive Healerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09555200020955615606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-604157143597130361.post-13246587023825658012012-03-01T14:13:00.003-08:002012-03-01T15:17:10.845-08:00VISUALIZATIONSVisualizations are subtle but powerful way to process experiences on the subconscious level of the mind - the level of the <span style="font-style: italic;">dream</span>, that mysteriously slips through to the ordinary" 3-D reality of the physical world. I do guided visualizations for my client, allowing their minds to provide images that suit <span style="font-style: italic;">them</span> best, taking them through a trans-formative process of <span style="font-style: italic;">arriving to a better place</span> in themselves.<br /><br />Sometimes I spontaneously "dream" for them. As we are all connected on some level, especially during a therapy session where an intention of healing is set, me going through this process allows the client to mirror shifts on the subconscious level.<br /><br />Sometimes I spontaneously have a waking dream <span style="font-style: italic;">for me</span>. Often during emotionally charged times, or being on the receiving end of a therapeutic session.<br /><br />Here is the recent story that started when a highly intuitive healer worked on me, asking me to come up with a <span style="font-style: italic;">beneficial</span> animal image to introduce into each of my chakras. For my Solar plexus a snake came into my vision. Hmm, I thought, snake medicine! Whatever...<br /><br />The session moved on, and I did not hold onto the snake for long.<br /><br />Than in a few days I was sunning myself by the pools of Wilbur Hot Springs, and I became aware of my Solar plexus: I found myself inside there, looking with my inner eye ... on the snake! Hissing, slowly moving her coiled body through the darkness... "Hello, friend!"<br /><br />Now, here is the irony: Solar plexus is "solar", right? It's a place where energy generated, the stomach turning the food into heat and fuel for the body functions. The place where the chute of the diaphragm going up and down with each breath connects the upper and the lower parts of the body, massaging vital inner organs into action, drawing more air into the lungs.<br /><br />Yet this is the place where insecurity and low self-esteem slump the body against itself, cutting it in halves, stopping the flow.<br /><br />The Snake medicine of my dream vision was in the dark. What a perfect medicine my mind invited in to work through the darkness!<div class="blogger-post-footer">www.stayinglight.com
lena@stayinglight.com</div>Lena Jdanova Certified Hypnotherapist, Massage Therapist, Intuitive Healerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09555200020955615606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-604157143597130361.post-78704377061551874542012-03-01T14:11:00.001-08:002012-03-01T14:12:46.851-08:00It's been a long time...Usually I'm better with my hands, than with my words. As I heard my friend say "My first language is non-verbal"...<div class="blogger-post-footer">www.stayinglight.com
lena@stayinglight.com</div>Lena Jdanova Certified Hypnotherapist, Massage Therapist, Intuitive Healerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09555200020955615606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-604157143597130361.post-38419718568310313032008-11-24T12:04:00.000-08:002008-11-24T12:11:06.776-08:00Brain switching - how fast?And here you'll find a curious test on how fast your brain switches between the hemispheres: <a href="http://amnesiablog.wordpress.com/2006/09/27/brain-switching-test-creative-right-and-left-brain-results/">http://amnesiablog.wordpress.com/2006/09/27/brain-switching-test-creative-right-and-left-brain-results/</a> <br />Are you mostly a logical person or a creative one? <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/s1063853.htm">http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/s1063853.htm</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">www.stayinglight.com
lena@stayinglight.com</div>Lena Jdanova Certified Hypnotherapist, Massage Therapist, Intuitive Healerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09555200020955615606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-604157143597130361.post-23898331673857841422008-11-24T11:46:00.000-08:002008-11-24T12:03:59.985-08:00Getting out of the pain of depressionHere is an interesting article I found on the Net on depression and brain switching: <a href="http://www.mindpowernews.com/BrainswitchDepression.htm">http://www.mindpowernews.com/BrainswitchDepression.htm</a> It talks about re-programming your brain out of depression.<br /><br />I myself had experience with helping myself out of depression with the following <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">exercises</span>:<br /><br />1) Stopping thoughts. Usually when you are depressed, you are attaching your low state to some <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">circumstance that would "justify" it. Such as "no money", "broken car", "I'm a looser", "she loves not me", etc. Your mind chews on the thoughts that drive your state even lower, increasing the pain. The excercise will be to stop thoughts to brake the deadly circle. Even if it feels like you have to concentrate on the circumstances to figure it out; you can not figure it out while you are locked onto the pain.</span><br /><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected"></span><br /><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected">2) Focusing on external object and switching the focus every 3 seconds. This excercise takes you out of your head and helps stop thoughts. To do it properly, you have to look at something outside yourself, like a tree, or a pen, or your own hand. You have to let yourself SEE it in detail, and as soon as your brain done identifying the object, turn your eyes to the next one. Keep your brain busy chewing on something outside the pain.</span><br /><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected"></span><br /><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected">3) Find positive thoughts to think. Focus on them even if you can do it for a second.</span><br /><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected"></span><br /><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected">These excercises will help to re-train the brain and let it lay new neurological paths within your nervous system. </span><div class="blogger-post-footer">www.stayinglight.com
lena@stayinglight.com</div>Lena Jdanova Certified Hypnotherapist, Massage Therapist, Intuitive Healerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09555200020955615606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-604157143597130361.post-84079889752864829782008-11-15T18:03:00.000-08:002008-11-15T22:37:36.446-08:00"Good" and "bad" energy.Yesterday I happened to be at the energy healing session given by another practitioner to a sick friend of mine.<br /><br />When I saw her working and felt an intence thick energy that she summoned, my first reaction was to join in and work together. I held my hands out and tuned in. I tried, but didn't feel we resonate in our work.<br /><br />After a few minutes she asked me where I dispose the "bad" energy of the sickness (herself, she was shaking off her hands periodically into a dish filled with salty water). This opened up a discussion about the differences in the techniques we were using. As a result, I'd like to share the principles of my energy work here, to have it all in one place.<br /><br />My training in the energy work started with a simple question: If I am to have a single chance to lay my hands on a person with the intention to help/heal them, where would I put my hands? I'm grateful that my teachers, instead of having me memorise information about hunam energy field and it's components, trained me tune in and feel the call for help, feel energy disruptions.<br /><br />And that's what I do during the energy healing session - feel for the imbalances in the energy flow. Most often I feel it with my hands, sometimes I see it with my eyes, yet sometimes I get a picture in my head, or a sensation in my body, mirroring the state of the person I'm working with. I feel, listen and look into the person. And when I'm at a place of imbalance, I stay there, and I work with my perceptions, untill the balance is restored.<br /><br />In my work there is no bad energy of sickness. Nothing to get rid of. Sickness is a manifestation of imbalance, of a disrupted flow of life energy.<br /><br />When you come into a dark room and flip the light switch on, where does the darkness go?<br /><br />As the darkness is only an absence of light, so is sickness is an absence of health, which is a constant flow of life energy on all levels - physical, emotional, mental and spiritual.<div class="blogger-post-footer">www.stayinglight.com
lena@stayinglight.com</div>Lena Jdanova Certified Hypnotherapist, Massage Therapist, Intuitive Healerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09555200020955615606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-604157143597130361.post-81044963141505457092008-11-11T22:40:00.000-08:002008-11-11T23:41:34.601-08:00What is healing?I've been interested in healing always, it seems. Even before I knew the word "healing".<br /><br />What is healing? Getting/feeling better?<br /><br />And how do we know what we feel? Do we even know when we feel bad?<br /><br />Often the answer is "no". No, we might not <em>know</em> that we feel bad, we just <em>feel</em> bad. Completely <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">immersed</span> in the feeling, experiencing it as our normal state of existence.<br /><br />This is ironic - anyone who feels bad is able to tell how they feel, you'll say. Yet a statement of one's own feelings and a solid awareness of one's experiences in the moment are two different things.<br /><br />Healing starts, when one understands on a very deep level, that "feeling bad" is only a part of who they are, a part of their experience, a <em>part</em> of them - not the whole.<br /><br />Healing starts when one starts paying attention to other various parts of oneself, and acknowledges a "better", happier part of them.<br /><br />Healing starts when one gets fed up with feeling bad, and <em>wishes oneself to get better</em>.<div class="blogger-post-footer">www.stayinglight.com
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