Mind Body Medicine

Mind Body Medicine brings attention to the interconnectedness of our thoughts, feelings, social situations, spirituality, and lifestyle to our health and illness.

In caring for chronic illness, pain, preparation for surgery, cancer treatment, insomnia, anxiety, depression, stress, and trauma, Mind Body Medicine brings a richly therapeutic approach that recognizes we are more than our diagnosis and lab values.

Mind Body Medicine awakens and engages our own innate healing systems. The techniques you’ll learn address trauma and stress-induced biological damage and its psychological consequences. This is the antidote to the fight-or-flight, stress, and freeze responses.

On the soul level, mind body medicine helps us navigate our illness or challenge with insight, compassion, curiosity, connection, mutual support, and deep self care.

On the physiologic level, we can positively impact our physical and mental health and well being, immune health, mood, digestion and metabolism, neurotransmitters and hormones, energy levels, inflammation, and pain perception.


  • Meditation and Mindfulness - made simple

  • Deep relaxation

  • Body awareness - What is my body telling me?

  • Emotional awareness and expression, emotions and feelings as guides

  • Mental imagery - the healing power of imagination

  • Biofeedback and Autogenics

  • Creativity

  • Journaling

  • Movement for well-being

  • Relationship with Food - Mindful Eating - Trauma Healing Diet

  • Genograms - Family history - to help us better understand ourselves

  • Spirituality/spiritual emotions and practices - forgiveness, gratitude, compassion, loving kindness

  • Group support


INTERACTIVE GUIDED IMAGERY

Working with inner imagery is a time-honored healing technique. This brings us awareness and understanding of the ways our mind and body express experience through impressions and images, rather than intellect. There is so much to be gained here.

Interactive Guided Imagery℠ incorporates techniques from hypnosis, neurolinguistic programming, psychosynthesis, and Jungian active imagination. It gives us access to our innate resources guiding us to deal with challenges and heal from the inside out.

QUIET THE MIND: Quieting the mind allows us to open to the inner realms and explore in a way that is rarely experienced.

LISTEN TO THE UNCONSCIOUS: Our unconscious mind is a collection of intuitions, emotions, memories, and beliefs, often expressed more vividly through images than words. Western culture tends to underplay the significance of these images and the feelings they evoke. As we quiet the mind, the unconscious starts to open up and we can connect with deeply held intuitions, beliefs, and emotion.

INTERACT WITH INNER WISDOM: Using guided imagery, we can visualize and interact with images representing a pain, trauma or challenge. These images are deeply resonant archetypes that we build relationships with and grow to trust as expressions of our own inner knowing.


MIND BODY SKILLS GROUPS

Lower levels of stress, improve mood, enhance resiliency and optimism, and help prevent and improve chronic health conditions.


Developed by Dr. Jim Gordon of The Center for Mind Body Medicine, Mind Body Skills Groups offer a powerful and effective combination of research-based mind-body techniques to help people deal with life changes, stress, and illnesses in an intimate and supportive group setting. 

The sessions focus on experiential practice and self-reflection. 

The group dynamic is supportive and allows participants to share their thoughts, feelings and emotions when and if they feel comfortable doing so. 

Two hour group sessions are held once a week for seven weeks. 


See the Groups/Classes page for info on upcoming Mind Body Skills Groups.



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