Category: Self Regulation
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Simple Sound Practices to Calm Your Mind and Body
Sound becomes especially powerful when it’s woven into simple, accessible self-care practices—moments where you allow your body to receive rather than effort or fix. Because sound is vibration, even gentle practices can support the nervous system in settling and reorganizing. You don’t need special tools or long sessions; consistency and presence matter more than technique.…
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Change your body… change your mind
Our relationship to our body, in part, reflects our relationship to the world. Do fear, shame & powerlessness overcome us when we think about our body? Are the messages, cues and symptoms of the body things that need to be numbed or stifled with the latest lotion or potion? Does science know more than the…
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My Mindful Math Teacher
Who knew that my math teacher in high school was a Buddhist monk? I certainly didn’t at the time and often wondered about Mrs. Clark’s strange exercises that she would have us practice just prior to exams. Shouldn’t we have been focusing on algebra, trigonometry or calculus? Wouldn’t we have been more likely to improve…
D. Shannon Patterson, Chiropractor 