Benefits of Practicing Mind Body Medicine

Autogenic Training 

• Reduces stress, counteracts the “fight or flight response”
• Teaches self-regulation of the autonomic nervous system
• Provides symptom relief for a variety of chronic conditions

Dialogue with a Symptom 

• Tool for self awareness
• Helps access subconscious information about a problem or symptom
• Strengthens awareness of inner wisdom

Drawings 

• Tool for self awareness
• Helps group members to access unconscious information
• Provides pre and post information about group members; a way to evaluate changes brought about by group experience

Eating Meditation 

• Tool for developing awareness
• Promotes harmony between the food we eat and our body’s actual needs
• Identifies emotional issues related to food

Forgiveness Meditation 

• May be helpful in making peace with the past
• Fosters connection rather than isolation
• May facilitate profound emotional healing

Inner Guide / Wise Self / Spirit Guide Imagery 

• Helps to access subconscious information and guidance
• Fosters trust in one’s own inner wisdom

Mindfulness Meditation 

• Reduces stress
• Decreases anxiety
• Increases self-awareness
• Increases ability to access inner wisdom

Shaking and Dancing 

• Raises energy
• Releases tension
• Breaks up habitual, physical, and emotional holding patterns

Special Place Imagery 

• Reduces stress, increases relaxation
• Reduces anxiety
• Strengthens the capacity to draw on one’s own emotional resources
• Provides a foundation for other imagery exercises
• Provides a “safety net” in the event of abreactions during other experiential work