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Thursday, March 31, 2011
Monday, March 28, 2011
Stress-Less Tips: Spring Clean Your Mind
Did you ever wonder why schools take time out for spring break? Or why people take the time to do spring cleaning? Well it’s not intended to get ready for the next party or clean up for out of town relatives, that’s for sure. I believe this time is established to start preparing a clean slate for your new season. It’s making a pathway to allow the new things to come into your space. Whether it’s your mind, home, or decision making, etc.
There is absolutely No Way for new things; new ideas; new revelation; new furniture (for your home); new direction to enter into your spirit, if you are still carrying all the old things from your last seasons. Especially, if it’s non productive.
Here are 3 Stress –Less Tips Spring Cleaning Your Path to Receive What’s to Come:
1. Meditate: I know you probably hear that quite often. It is necessary to have clarity in order to continue to grow and be more productive. Clear your mind of your to-do list; what you’re going to cook for dinner; what you have to do the next day for the job/business/home. Take at least 10 minutes in the a.m. and 10 minutes in the p.m. Find a quite space. Let your body lay really heavy on the floor; release any tightness from head to toe and just BE. If there are too many people or too much going on in your current living quarters, then go to the bathroom and let everyone know you are about to take a bath (but you’re really not); sit in the tub; light you a few candles and clear your mind. If you clear your mind before turning in at night, you will awaken with fresh ideas!
2. De-Clutter:
a. Your Mind: Create new space in your mind. Allow room to receive new and fresh ideas. There’s nothing deep about that. Sometimes you are going to have to block out calls, conversations, friends and family members to achieve this goal.
b. Car: I know some people that practically live in their car. It looks as if they have literally moved in. Believe it or not, when you’re in a space that has space and you’re driving, you’d be surprised at the fresh revelations, conversations you have with yourself and the clarity you get from God. Turn you radio off sometimes and Keep It Moving!
c. Home: Take one room at a time. There is too much debris and clutter for any new things to come your way. If you clean up all at once, you will get discouraged, frustrated, start blaming why this task can’t get done and ultimately nothing gets done. ‘You can do all things, you just can’t do them all at once”-Oprah.
3. Organize: The Big O! The night before (before meditation), Write down the things that need to be accomplished. Then prioritize your list. This can prevent wandering aimlessly without a plan for your day. Keep a note pad and pen next to your bed or places you tend to be the most for the fresh revelation you will receive participating in this lifestyle. Yes lifestyle, these are not routines. It’s not about prioritizing your time; it’s about managing your priorities.
When you practice these Stress-Less Tips, you’d be surprised at the accomplishments, revelations, confirmations you will receive—Instantly! Most of the times we just need to get out of our own way!
In Good Health,
Cheryl Harris-Owner/Stress-Less Expert
Profound Touch Mobile Spa
http://www.profoundtouch.com/
http://about.me/profoundtouch
cheryl@profoundtouch.com
There is absolutely No Way for new things; new ideas; new revelation; new furniture (for your home); new direction to enter into your spirit, if you are still carrying all the old things from your last seasons. Especially, if it’s non productive.
Here are 3 Stress –Less Tips Spring Cleaning Your Path to Receive What’s to Come:
1. Meditate: I know you probably hear that quite often. It is necessary to have clarity in order to continue to grow and be more productive. Clear your mind of your to-do list; what you’re going to cook for dinner; what you have to do the next day for the job/business/home. Take at least 10 minutes in the a.m. and 10 minutes in the p.m. Find a quite space. Let your body lay really heavy on the floor; release any tightness from head to toe and just BE. If there are too many people or too much going on in your current living quarters, then go to the bathroom and let everyone know you are about to take a bath (but you’re really not); sit in the tub; light you a few candles and clear your mind. If you clear your mind before turning in at night, you will awaken with fresh ideas!
2. De-Clutter:
a. Your Mind: Create new space in your mind. Allow room to receive new and fresh ideas. There’s nothing deep about that. Sometimes you are going to have to block out calls, conversations, friends and family members to achieve this goal.
b. Car: I know some people that practically live in their car. It looks as if they have literally moved in. Believe it or not, when you’re in a space that has space and you’re driving, you’d be surprised at the fresh revelations, conversations you have with yourself and the clarity you get from God. Turn you radio off sometimes and Keep It Moving!
c. Home: Take one room at a time. There is too much debris and clutter for any new things to come your way. If you clean up all at once, you will get discouraged, frustrated, start blaming why this task can’t get done and ultimately nothing gets done. ‘You can do all things, you just can’t do them all at once”-Oprah.
3. Organize: The Big O! The night before (before meditation), Write down the things that need to be accomplished. Then prioritize your list. This can prevent wandering aimlessly without a plan for your day. Keep a note pad and pen next to your bed or places you tend to be the most for the fresh revelation you will receive participating in this lifestyle. Yes lifestyle, these are not routines. It’s not about prioritizing your time; it’s about managing your priorities.
When you practice these Stress-Less Tips, you’d be surprised at the accomplishments, revelations, confirmations you will receive—Instantly! Most of the times we just need to get out of our own way!
In Good Health,
Cheryl Harris-Owner/Stress-Less Expert
Profound Touch Mobile Spa
http://www.profoundtouch.com/
http://about.me/profoundtouch
cheryl@profoundtouch.com
Monday, March 21, 2011
Managing Stress During Catastrophic Events
During my life time, I’ve witnessed three major catastrophic events that where to overwhelming to rehash and effected everyone globally-September 11, Hurricane Katrina and the most recent tragedy of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Millions of lives were affected forever as well as lost. There are even lives that are still not accounted for in all three happenings.
There is no one way to really deal with trauma of this nature for individuals. However, bringing awareness and appropriate counseling are steps toward coping with such events. First, let’s define catastrophic: a sudden and widespread disaster; any misfortune, mishap or failure; a final event or conclusion, usually an unfortunate one; a disastrous end. In geology: a sudden, violent disturbance, especially of a part of the surface of the earth. Now, let’s define trauma (psychiatry): an experience that produces psychological injury or pain.
In this article, we will focus the 1st level of reaction; psychological and stressors, in order to bring awareness. In order to understand what is happening to us psychologically, we have clarity on the concepts of stress and trauma. We know stress and trauma to be a devastating situation that we’ve experienced in our course of living. Most of us may have only dealt with such devastating occurrences such as, financial woes, a relationship break up (family, friends and marital); racism, etc. This is part if life’s existence. Although pain is pain, whether it’s recognized as a common or not, when it’s happening to you, it feels as if you’re the only one that has ever experienced what you went through.
In contrast, the stressors are also known as ‘catastrophic’. This is generally outside of the normal human existence. This could involve violence, death or death threats, earthquakes in places that are not usually know for earthquakes can be devastating also. These occurrences tend to tamper our sense of security, our mental well being and of course, affect us psychologically. We feel threatened and worthless. There are stages (over a course of time) and depending on the level of catastrophe, one will have different levels of coping also.
I want to share with you an incident a friend of mine family experienced on three different occasions and how they dealt with it on three different levels. Their home was broken into three times. The detached garage door was kicked in, however, nothing was taken. They were a bit disoriented because they knew that they had locked the service door, however, it was jarred opened. She was in shock and startled. She felt afraid, nervous; scared someone could possibly be in the garage while attempting to get in her car. Thank God all was good. The door was fixed immediately. Know she’s experience violation of her property.
The second incident: She was coming home from work after picking up her daughter from the babysitter; parked the car in the garage and notice while backing up, she could see in her rear view mirror the back porch of her home. She noticed something glaring as she looked through her back porch window. As she attempted to get closer to the home, she notice the back porch door had been kicked in and knock slightly off the hinges. Nothing was taken and they did not attempt to come all the way completely in her home. So at this point, she’s feeling scared, nervous and violated again. She and her daughter immediately went back to the garage, called the CPD and her friends to come over before going into the home. She couldn’t understand why this happened for the second time. This stage is now in a state of confusion. She’s trying to rationalize it.
The last and third incident: her basement door was kicked completely off the hinge, broken pieces everywhere and this time the co prick came all the way in there home and upstairs into her daughters room. They completely disoriented her room looking for any quick items they could grab within the time frame they had due to the alarm system sounding off. Again, nothing was taken and according to her, there was nothing to take. On this day two things were going on. At the time of the incident, my friend was out of town on a business trip and just the day before, her youngest daughter asked could she stay home from school that day because she didn’t feel like going to school ( she’d asked twice) and was told NO for the second time. When this incident happened, she then began to become overwhelmed in thinking what could have happened if she would have let her daughter stay at home by herself that day. The third stage of emotions are now classified has being angry, frustrated and ready to take action. This is the third time her home has been invaded. As mentioned previously, a since of helplessness, worthless and threatened has now set in psychologically.
Although my friend’s incidents are not considered major to the world, but again, when it’s happening to you personally, it is major. Catastrophic or stressors reactions are generally irrational and out of sync which could lead to your ability to function on a day to day basis based on your experience. Experiencing trauma or stressors tend to replay constantly in or minds-flashbacks. With time, it will diminish slowly and happened less frequently. But again, that’s with time.
Avoidance of such incidents can interrupt the healing process. This will only reinforce itself, grow and consuming your live. After September 11th, people developed a fear of flying, reconsidering taking jobs in high rise buildings and began to start profiling people (being irrational).
There are a couple of was to facing fear. First, we have to learn how to reduce anxiety when this occurs by using simple relaxation techniques such as prayer, mediation, yoga, listening to music. Do what’s best to ease the thought to a stable or none existing state. Take baby steps, this will not happen overnight. With the time and the necessary treatment, this anxiety feeling will subside eventually.
I do know this for sure, when catastrophic incidents or trauma occurs, generally there are great opportunities, positive, personal and collective changes will happened globally. You may not have experienced any of the incidents mention, but we where all affected in a direct or indirect way.
In Good Health,
Cheryl Harris- The Stress-Less Professor
Profound Touch Mobile Spa
www.profoundtouch.com
http://profoundtouch.blogspot.com/
http://about.me/profoundtouch
There is no one way to really deal with trauma of this nature for individuals. However, bringing awareness and appropriate counseling are steps toward coping with such events. First, let’s define catastrophic: a sudden and widespread disaster; any misfortune, mishap or failure; a final event or conclusion, usually an unfortunate one; a disastrous end. In geology: a sudden, violent disturbance, especially of a part of the surface of the earth. Now, let’s define trauma (psychiatry): an experience that produces psychological injury or pain.
In this article, we will focus the 1st level of reaction; psychological and stressors, in order to bring awareness. In order to understand what is happening to us psychologically, we have clarity on the concepts of stress and trauma. We know stress and trauma to be a devastating situation that we’ve experienced in our course of living. Most of us may have only dealt with such devastating occurrences such as, financial woes, a relationship break up (family, friends and marital); racism, etc. This is part if life’s existence. Although pain is pain, whether it’s recognized as a common or not, when it’s happening to you, it feels as if you’re the only one that has ever experienced what you went through.
In contrast, the stressors are also known as ‘catastrophic’. This is generally outside of the normal human existence. This could involve violence, death or death threats, earthquakes in places that are not usually know for earthquakes can be devastating also. These occurrences tend to tamper our sense of security, our mental well being and of course, affect us psychologically. We feel threatened and worthless. There are stages (over a course of time) and depending on the level of catastrophe, one will have different levels of coping also.
I want to share with you an incident a friend of mine family experienced on three different occasions and how they dealt with it on three different levels. Their home was broken into three times. The detached garage door was kicked in, however, nothing was taken. They were a bit disoriented because they knew that they had locked the service door, however, it was jarred opened. She was in shock and startled. She felt afraid, nervous; scared someone could possibly be in the garage while attempting to get in her car. Thank God all was good. The door was fixed immediately. Know she’s experience violation of her property.
The second incident: She was coming home from work after picking up her daughter from the babysitter; parked the car in the garage and notice while backing up, she could see in her rear view mirror the back porch of her home. She noticed something glaring as she looked through her back porch window. As she attempted to get closer to the home, she notice the back porch door had been kicked in and knock slightly off the hinges. Nothing was taken and they did not attempt to come all the way completely in her home. So at this point, she’s feeling scared, nervous and violated again. She and her daughter immediately went back to the garage, called the CPD and her friends to come over before going into the home. She couldn’t understand why this happened for the second time. This stage is now in a state of confusion. She’s trying to rationalize it.
The last and third incident: her basement door was kicked completely off the hinge, broken pieces everywhere and this time the co prick came all the way in there home and upstairs into her daughters room. They completely disoriented her room looking for any quick items they could grab within the time frame they had due to the alarm system sounding off. Again, nothing was taken and according to her, there was nothing to take. On this day two things were going on. At the time of the incident, my friend was out of town on a business trip and just the day before, her youngest daughter asked could she stay home from school that day because she didn’t feel like going to school ( she’d asked twice) and was told NO for the second time. When this incident happened, she then began to become overwhelmed in thinking what could have happened if she would have let her daughter stay at home by herself that day. The third stage of emotions are now classified has being angry, frustrated and ready to take action. This is the third time her home has been invaded. As mentioned previously, a since of helplessness, worthless and threatened has now set in psychologically.
Although my friend’s incidents are not considered major to the world, but again, when it’s happening to you personally, it is major. Catastrophic or stressors reactions are generally irrational and out of sync which could lead to your ability to function on a day to day basis based on your experience. Experiencing trauma or stressors tend to replay constantly in or minds-flashbacks. With time, it will diminish slowly and happened less frequently. But again, that’s with time.
Avoidance of such incidents can interrupt the healing process. This will only reinforce itself, grow and consuming your live. After September 11th, people developed a fear of flying, reconsidering taking jobs in high rise buildings and began to start profiling people (being irrational).
There are a couple of was to facing fear. First, we have to learn how to reduce anxiety when this occurs by using simple relaxation techniques such as prayer, mediation, yoga, listening to music. Do what’s best to ease the thought to a stable or none existing state. Take baby steps, this will not happen overnight. With the time and the necessary treatment, this anxiety feeling will subside eventually.
I do know this for sure, when catastrophic incidents or trauma occurs, generally there are great opportunities, positive, personal and collective changes will happened globally. You may not have experienced any of the incidents mention, but we where all affected in a direct or indirect way.
In Good Health,
Cheryl Harris- The Stress-Less Professor
Profound Touch Mobile Spa
www.profoundtouch.com
http://profoundtouch.blogspot.com/
http://about.me/profoundtouch
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Seeking Interns/Student Massage Therapists/Nail Techs/Estheticians
Join Our Team
Profound Touch Mobile Spa is looking for intern massage therapists, nail technicians and estheticians to join our elite team. If you are student soon to graduate or have recently graduated; looking to gain exposure and experience; and have at least 3-4 months of clinic hours completed, we want to bring you on board.
Here are the qualifications and expectations:
*Must provide a copy of your student id; if you are a graduate, a copy of your certification
*Students must provide a recommendation letter from at least 2 teachers
*Must be professional, work in the spirit of excellence and integrity
*Great communication skills
*Self motivate
*A drive to succeed
*Dependable
*Reliable
*Accessible
*Flexible
*Transportation
*Your own equipment
*Support the vision of Profound Touch Mobile Spa
*Has a passion for health and wellness
If you’d like to join our elite team or know someone that may be interested in joining our team, please contact us via email only cheryl@profoundtouch.com with subject line: Internship (Massage Therapist or Nail Technician or Esthetician) with a reachable number for you.
Our Mission
To provide an overall enhancement through a variety of professional spa services that encourages the renewing of your mind, body and spirit to while promoting a "healthy" lifestyle.
We look forward to connecting with you!
Cheryl Harris-Owner
Profound Touch Mobile Spa Team
www.profoundtouch.com
Profound Touch Mobile Spa is looking for intern massage therapists, nail technicians and estheticians to join our elite team. If you are student soon to graduate or have recently graduated; looking to gain exposure and experience; and have at least 3-4 months of clinic hours completed, we want to bring you on board.
Here are the qualifications and expectations:
*Must provide a copy of your student id; if you are a graduate, a copy of your certification
*Students must provide a recommendation letter from at least 2 teachers
*Must be professional, work in the spirit of excellence and integrity
*Great communication skills
*Self motivate
*A drive to succeed
*Dependable
*Reliable
*Accessible
*Flexible
*Transportation
*Your own equipment
*Support the vision of Profound Touch Mobile Spa
*Has a passion for health and wellness
If you’d like to join our elite team or know someone that may be interested in joining our team, please contact us via email only cheryl@profoundtouch.com with subject line: Internship (Massage Therapist or Nail Technician or Esthetician) with a reachable number for you.
Our Mission
To provide an overall enhancement through a variety of professional spa services that encourages the renewing of your mind, body and spirit to while promoting a "healthy" lifestyle.
We look forward to connecting with you!
Cheryl Harris-Owner
Profound Touch Mobile Spa Team
www.profoundtouch.com
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