Energy Medicine
Energetic medicine as defined within the mind/body/spirit model, involves approaches that affect energy fields. These approaches are based on the concept that human beings are infused with a subtle form of energy. This vital energy is known throughout different...
Building Caregiver Resilience
In the UK around 6.5 million people are carers, supporting a loved one who is older, disabled or seriously ill, with over 1.3 million providing over 50 hours of care per week. By 2037, it's anticipated that the number of carers will increase to 9 million. People...
Cognitive Behavioural Approaches
THE USE OF COGNITIVE BEHAVIOURAL APPROACHES IN HEALTHCARE SETTINGS Miranda Shoebridge, Diploma in Wellness Coaching Skills, August 2013 My research into cognitive behavioural approaches in healthcare has highlighted the lack of information about cognitive behavioural...
Assertiveness Coaching: Saying No
WHY WE FIND IT HARD TO SAY NO To learn to say no, we have to first understand we say no when we don’t want to. Below are common reasons why people find it hard to say no: You want to help. You are a kind soul at heart. You don’t want to turn the person away and you...
Emotional Intelligence
V. PARKER. DIPLOMA IN STRESS MANAGEMENT COACHING Daniel Goleman suggests that emotional intelligence is made up from (as mentioned in Improve your Emotional Intelligence by Christine Wilding 2013): Self-Awareness - Knowing what you are feeling and why. Self-Regulation...
Mindful Coaching
WHAT IS MINDFULNESS? Mindfulness as a psychological concept is the focusing of attention and awareness, based on the concept of mindfulness in Buddhist meditation and popularized in the West by Jon Kabat-Zinn. Mindfulness is the ability to pay deliberate attention to...
Visualisation of the Unopened Box
CHRISTINE CRAWFORD. CERTIFICATE IN MINDBODY COACHING I am sitting on the sand on Dunn’s beach. I walked a long way to this spot, stepped over gravel, veered around half-buried deer ribs under a cloud of mad flies, slippery boulders, wet sand and dry sand. I’m close to...
Evidence for the Mindbody Connection
By Chloe Michaels, Integrated Certificate in Resilience & Wellness Coaching The mind-body connection can be traced back as far as the physician Galen and philosopher Moses Maimonides (Brower 2006). Traditional Eastern medicine such as Ayurveda has interconnected...
Jung’s Approach to Imagery
JUNG’S APPROACH TO IMAGERY M.C. STUDENT Carl Jung believed that our psyche (that is our intangible self) is made up of a conscious (our ego) and an unconscious mind (our creative self). He suggested that in order for us to become more aware of who and what we are at...
Love, Compassion, Kindness and Wellbeing
By Jayney Goddard MSc, FCMA, FRSPH, Lic.LCCH, Dip.ACH. President: The Complementary Medical Association There is a wealth of academic research in the field of 'compassion' - particularly in the nursing arena and now spreading to other conventional medical fields too...
Imagery In Healthcare
USING IMAGERY IN HEALTHCARE CHRISTINE CRAWFORD (STUDENT ON THE CERTIFICATE IN MIND BODY HEALING) Illness was romanticized for me at a very young age. My mother died of cancer when she was twenty-six. I was left with one photo of her for the rest of my life, which was...
Overcoming Procrastination
Feeling overwhelmed Sometimes you may have more items on your to-do list than you can reasonably complete. This can lead to feeling overwhelmed. In this case the message is that you need to stop, reassess your true priorities, and simplify. Options for reducing...