We can use your imagination to bring healing. Click below to listen to “Secret Friends: Tapping into the Power of Imagination”
Magic
"One thing you should know about her; she never explains anything."
From "Mary Poppins"
Image from Polygon.com
Mary Poppins is a conjurer; when she is around magic happens. The results of CranioSacral therapy and EMDR can also seem magical. Come experience the magic! But if you'd like an explanation, here are some links: https://www.emdrconsulting.com/what-is-emdr/, https://www.upledger.com/therapies/index.php, http://www.lyricalhealing.com/services.
Your Light
Your light is more magnificent than sunrise or sunset.
Rumi
Photograph by Cher G.
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Let your light shine!
My news -- I finished the first of 2 levels of EMDR trainings and am thrilled to have joined Spring Practices part time!
EMDR is a powerful body-centered tool for processing negative emotions, sensations and beliefs, and accessing our right brain/frontal cortex/Inner Wisdom. By using bilateral stimulation, the EMDR therapist helps the brain heal itself, using the same mechanism that happens during REM sleep. I think of it as a dialogue between the right and left brains, the limbic brain and the frontal cortex, or between our "lizard brain" and our Wise Self. Come access that Wise Self ~ either in my Oak Park office or at Spring Practices.
Spirituality of the flesh
"My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true."
D.H. Lawrence
Photograph by Robert Mapplethorpe
...that's why we tune into your body during a Lyrical Healing session. And the wisdom of your body is that we are wonderful yet wounded, magnificent yet marred, divine... and human.
Wu Wei
Wu wei is a state of being in which our actions align with the flow of life. One way to know wu wei is to commune with a tree. Sense its ease; how it yields. Trees don't will their leaves to grow, they allow.
Or watch gentle waves; no force, just flow.
One way I describe Lyrical Healing sessions is that clients heal by "relaxing into their magnificence." ...Kind of like wu wei?
Photograph by Hiroshi Sugimoto
Find your wu "wei" to peace ;-)
Your Body is a Poem
"...and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.”
Walt Whitman
Photograph by Alfred Stieglitz
"If anything is sacred, the human body is sacred." Walt Whitman.
The body is a sacred, wise poem. Let's "read" it.
Touching your Soul
"The strongest, surest way to the soul is through the flesh."
Mabel Dodge
Photograph by Edward Weston
Dr. John Upledger, founder of CranioSacral Therapy (one of my favorite modalities), talked about placing hands on the body and touching the soul.
This photograph hints at the poetry, beauty, and wisdom of the body. Through CranioSacral therapy, empathic listening, inner dialogue, and other body/mind approaches, I access, and help you to access, the wisdom of your body. You might consider that wisdom your soul.
EMDR WOW
To illustrate the power of EMDR, I’d like to disclose my own healing experience. Actually I’ve had a few amazing EMDR experiences, but the most recent feels like the most powerful. Because of childhood mother-daughter dynamics I’ve spent most of my life feeling like what’s inside me is threatening. As a child I sensed that connection was scary for my mother, so I stayed away emotionally. I knew subconsciously that disclosing, sharing myself would frighten my mother. So I hid.
Recently I’ve been feeling 1) that I’ve been “coming into my own” — finding success in love and work, and 2) feeling physically like I’m falling apart! I set out time this morning to become my own client; I put my hands on my body to sense what was going on physically and emotionally. I did not back away from the feeling of anxiety that I felt in my gut/belly. After a while I realized, understood, that what I was fearing was that I would hurt someone by disclosing/sharing myself. I realized that subconsciously I feel that sharing myself would poison my mother/partner/friend/other.
Then the EMDR; I brought up the feeling of being poisonous, bilaterally tapped on my thighs, and KNEW that the truth; that what I have to share, what’s inside me is love, enlightenment, and caring. Not poison! EMDR helped me FEEL the truth and overcome my irrational fear. Wow.
True Listening is Worship
Photography by Gertrude Käsebier
“True Listening is Worship.” ~ Martin Heidegger
To listen deeply is a form of honoring. It is my aim to honor you during each session by listening deeply... to your words and your body and your pain and your joy.. I honor all of you. You might say Lyrical Healing sessions are about worshiping YOU.
The human race is divine
Photography by Bernice Abbott
"Take courage; the human race is divine." ~ Pythagoras
By treating you and all your parts as divine, I model that reverent stance. Come experience that honoring.
