Finished the Certificate IV in Workplace training and Assessment – which was a little disappointing as it was a little too disorganized for my liking. Allocated rooms were not available, most of the stuff was on line and difficult to access – but hey! a learning experience and shows what to do to keep clients happy.
I’ve now embarked on the Applied Diploma of Clinical Hypnotherapy and loving it! My clients for the student logs are co-operative and I have had three clients for weight loss – I need to lose weight as well!
The PolarityPlus clinic is going well with greater public awareness and more bookings coming in.
The main focus is on helping people to learn and retain information better, using whatever suits the client best.
I am using the techniques learnt from the Certificate of Hypnotherapy to relax clients.
If you are stressed, then the frontal cortex is too preoccupied with the stress to allow learning to take place effectively – a bit like too many applications being open on the computer, which slows everything down!

Now I have a listing on the Natural Therapies pages and a nice new business card!
Another addition to my modalities is a Certificate in Hypnosis, which was really great to do. I have worked with a couple of Hypnotherapists in the past and have had an interest in it for some time. I have found it really useful on a personal level, to help with my fear of the dentist. At the moment, I am contemplating whether to continue with the Diploma.
Next week, I am off to TAFE to do my Certificate IV in Training and Assessment. Bit of a ‘study-fest’ at the moment.

“The time has come”. the walrus said, “to speak of many things…..”
and it is time for me to make some significant changes to my lifestyle and a part of that includes adding another modality to my practice.
This means that I will be undertaking some studies in Workplace Training and Assessment, as well as some more holistic (& very useful) studies, having resigned from my teaching position.
I am looking forward to bringing forward this knowledge to better serve my clients.
A timetable of workshops, Reiki share days and meditation sessions will be available soon on my main website.

Lower back pain can be debilitating and is associated with stress, posture and emotion. The abdominal muscles contract and in turn pull on the muscles of the spine, causing the back pain.
There are a number of self help Polarity treatments that are available, but if you have severe or chronic back pain, please seek help from your primary medical practitioner.
The feet have a relationship with the spine, with the curvature of the spine mirrored along the inside edge of the foot. If you can reach your foot, then massaging ‘sore spots’ on your feet can help to release the reflex points in your back.

• Work inward from the big toe (with your right hand) and the heel (with your left hand), pressing firmly.
• Hold on any tender spots until you feel a release and move on.
• Continue until all areas have been covered.
• You can use a lightly fragranced foot cream to moisturize your foot, but this sequence can be done even with socks on.

Back of heel – sacrum
Heel – Lumbar
Instep – Thoracic
Toe – Cervical

“Everything in life is an omen”, said the Englishman, now closing the journal he was reading.
“There is an universal language, understood by everybody, but already forgotten. I am in search of that universal language, among other things…..”
The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho.

2008 was a difficult year for me, but there have been many positive outcomes from those difficulties, including a clarity about my workspace.
In 2009 I am embarking on the search for that universal language, with the aid of an amazing mentor. More on that as the year progresses.

“To see a World in a grain of sand,
and a Heaven in a wild flower,
hold Infinity in the palm of your hand,
and Eternity in an hour…
We are led to believe a lie
When we see with, not through the eye
Which was born in a night, to perish in a night,
When the Soul slept in beams of light.”

William Blake

Each Polarity treatment is different – even on the same person. The energies ebb and flow and where there may have been sore spot or energy blockage in a previous treatment, it is more than likely that it will be elsewhere next time!
Polarity therapy is not dissimilar to Homeopathy in that once you commence the treatments, there is often a process where various layers of discomfort are removed. Not dissimilar to peeling an onion – there are usually some tears shed along the way- but with Homeopathy and Polarity, these are therapeutic.
I enjoy giving Polarity foot treatments. Most of us need ‘grounding’ and I have found that a caring and thorough foot treatment will allow the energy to move more freely through the body. It is also very relaxing and nurturing to receive as we don’t pay much attention to our feet.

From Dr Stone’s Health Building book:
“Our body is like the house we live in; when the electric currents are on, then light and heat are available. when the water pipes are in good shape and water is pumped through them by pressure, then all the fluid requirements are solved. When the gas is turned on, then cooking and gas heating are possible. And when the drainage is not obstructed, then the sewers do not back up and no regurgitation of drainage is pocketed in any part of the basement.”

According to Dr Stone, in his preface to Book 1 Energy, the Vital Polarity in the Healing Art, “when the body is in good health there is a natural balance and relationship between the breath of life and its conveyor, the blood stream as a fluid, and its rhythmic beat through the cetnral pump called the heart.”
He then describes three energies that flow in all animal and vegetable life – these being:

1. The Fire energy of the sun is the warmth and expanding principle of motion in all living things.
2. The Air energy as the breath of life. Without air, fire is sluggish in combustion and complete oxidation impossible. When there is insufficient life breath in the body, the result is unresolved residues, which are deposited in the body tissues.
   
3. The Water energy – the fluid nature of the blood stream. The fluids carrying the body chemistry and conveying vital energies and emotional impulses.

Dr Stone then briefly describes the “Prana” or vital force, which flows through five areas of the body, the head, neck, chest, abdomen and pelvis.

The object of treating is the removal of Energy Blocks which are the cause of real pain in the vital energy fields of the body.

A very good friend gave me these words