Shen Dao Therapies My Pool of Resources

Working with your mind with neuro lingustic programming, analytical and cognitive hypnotherapy, counselling, age regression and progression & time line processes. Listening to your body through bodywork, assisted exercise and therapeutic breath-work techniques. Using your senses of hearing, smell, touch, feeling, & sight to connect you with and release you from deeply held emotions; change unhelpful thought, language and behaviour patterns; achieve new goals kick unwanted habits and remove limiting behaviours;

enabling you to move forward in a more joyful and self-determined way.

Recent neuroscience research has confirmed that our body stores memory just as our mind does. Working through the body and using the bio-feedback loops within it, is a powerful way to free up and release old emotional hurts from both the mind and the body. The energy we hold within ourselves is unconsciously transmitted to others and is part of what we "communicate".

Acupressure works in much the same way as acupuncture, but uses the hands, fingers, thumbs arms and elbows to apply pressure to the points to stimulate them rather than using needles. There are a number of specific points that are emotionally related and stimulation of these points allows a release of the emotional energy by clearing the blocked energy chanels of the body.

Assisted exercise works with the pattern of least resistance to teach you to become aware of, attuned to where there is resistance and in moving your own body to . Wearing loose and comfortable clothing is best for receiving this type of work.

Also included in this part of the work is stretching and movement in relationship with stillness and direct experiencing of what sensory signals your body is sending you

Breath work Our bodies house our energy and the our energy comes from our breath - it is vital to life. Becoming aware of how we use our breath reveals to us where we hold tension in our structure breath work or specialised breathing techniques is used in conjunction with assisted exercise to help release emotional tensions held within the musculo-skeletal system as well as being an aid to deep relaxation and meditation.

Hypnosis works by enabling you to access a deep state of total relaxation known as the trance state. The trance state is safe and natural and one that we all enter it at various times. Hypnosis allows access to your subconscious mind (the place where all our previous experiences are stored and the place of memory) to enable us to facilitate change in the way you feel, think about and see things in a gentle and safe way. In the trance state your conscious mind does not get in the way of this process. Often deep issues which are currently locked in your unconscious mind, in other-words outside of your ordinary awareness, can be unlocked and healed in safe and supportive environment.

Entering into a trance state is an act of will on the part of the person entering into it. No person can make another enter into a trance state without their full co-operation and trust. These two things lie at the heart of successful Hypnotherapy.

Time Based Therapies such as Age Regression and Progression (part of Hypnosis) and Time Line Processes (Part of NLP) work with your unconscious and/or conscious mind with an issue in relation to time; returning by various means to when an original occurrence may have taken place. These powerful techniques allow us to heal the original trauma and view it from a new perspective resulting in a changed response to it from now on and into the future.

Counselling of course forms a vital and integral part of the whole relationship between us. Counselling is where you can find your voice and allows me, in a structured way, to explore with you issues that you may find troubling and to help you identify positive strategies to enable you to move foreward more efectively.

NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) is a form Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and works by identifying and re-programming your unconscious thought patterns (Neuro). Revealing and re-framing unconsciously repeated language patterns (Linguistic). Changing and replacing unwanted patterns of unconsciously repeated behaviours (Programming). Using NLP will Increases your self-awareness and enable you to develop a wider choice in how you respond to life and what you consciously and unconsciously communicate to others.

We humans are sensory beings our memories are stored in our minds and our bodies in sensory ways. It is for this reason that I involve yours and my senses of Sight, Hearing/listening, Touch/Feeling, and Smell to both reveal and heal those unconscious memories that need resolving. Sight through Visualisation and Guided Imagery and my observing what is happening with you; Hearing through Music and Sounds of Nature and through my listening in the truest sense to you, my Touch/your feeling through my holding or stretching specific emotionally related acupressure points and my Feeling in receiving feed-back from your body. Your sense of Smell through the vapourisation of specifically blended essential oils. This work is very much about being rather than doing. I will teach you how to access your own sensory messages from within your body and to access your inner knowing through your internal sensory awareness. This means that you become aware of when things "feel right" for you and your internal feelings match your external throughts, language and behaviours and decision making in otherwords it allows you to be fully authentic with those around you and at one with yourself.

The chinese symbols above represent the words Free Spirit,

I use the word spirit in this context to mean your true essence, your inner "being".

Shen Dao means Spirit Path and the purpose of Shen Dao Therapies is to free your inner spirit from old hurts which may be holding you back or down and to enable your inner being to shine through unincumbered so that you may walk your own spirit path with freedom and joy.

In other words Shen Dao Therapies assists you in becoming fully and authentically you

without past hurts or traumas unconsciously determining your life. It supports you in

determining your own path in life and in

living it fully with a renewed sense of freedom, purpose and joy.