Time for Self Reflection

A new year is upon us. Traditionally a time for making changes, starting anew and kicking those "bad" habits, this is an easy time to get down on ourselves with resolutions such as "I need to lose weight" or "I need to quit smoking" or "I need to quit spending money" or whatever your struggle is. This kind of focus puts a negative spin on your thinking and creates feelings of defeat, inability or "I'm not good enough." This year try something a little different. Reflect on yourself over the past year and remember the wins, the things you did right, the areas where you improved and take some time to feel good about yourself.

I have been working extraordinarily hard this past year at healing some tough emotional traumas from my past. I have been doing a lot of work with NET (neuro-emotional technique), hypnotherapy, core transformation as well as listening to a lot of positive audio CDs and reading a lot of positive books. I am surrounded by family and friends who love me and support me in my healing journey. Besides all of those things, I am blessed to work with one of the finest doctors and most supportive friends, Dr. John Wendt. I encounter daily someone who believes in me and is constantly keeping me thinking about how to heal and helps me see the positive side to just about any situation. (Thank you Dr. John, you have no idea.)

Dr. John and I had lunch today and talked about this very topic of self-reflection and continued growth. My plan is to sit down next week with my calendar from the last year and look back over everything that I did, at every trip I took, event I attended, speech I gave, class I took, deadline I made, project I worked on, every visit with friends or family. I am going to remember the fun times I had, the struggles that made me stronger and the love that I experienced. I am going to make a list of all of the wins I had over the past year and compare where I am now to where I've come from. This self-assessment will naturally bring up areas that I want to continue working on.

I encourage you to try this different way to closing out a year and starting a new one, with gratitude and appreciation for the year past and renewed spirit, hope and joy for the year ahead.

Happy New Year!
Cari

Stress Reduction - Two techniques

Stress is part of a conditioned negative pattern in the brain. Several things contribute to negative sympathetic stress:

1. Trauma, Pain
2. Negative thoughts, emotions
3. Toxins
4. Lack of movement, exercise
5. Sugar

The following are two of the many ways you can reduce your stress levels.

1. NET (Neuro-Emotional Technique)

NET provides a fast, effective means of stopping the negative conditioned pattern. Computer-drafted SPECT scans that measure metabolic activity, show a 50% or greater reduction of metabolic activity of the areas of brain associated with stress within minutes after a Neuro-Emotional Component clearing.

2. Breathing Techniques

Yogi breathing - by concentrating on the breath and calming the mind to focus on slow rhythmic breathing, you allow your body the opportunity to reset the stress patterns in the brain.

Cover left nostril, breathe in through the right, cover the opposite and breathe out through the left. Then breathe in through the left and out through the right. Continue this for 3-5 minutes with long slow deep breaths.


If you ever find yourself feeling isolated or stuck at the bottom of a pit or feeling that the world is against you, call out for help. Sometimes we just need a hand to get us back up on our feet.

by Dr. John Wendt

Decluttering Emotions

In our office we use a technique called Neuro-Emotional Technique (or NET). Last week we had a patient tell us that sometimes after his appointment that he goes home and has to throw out a bunch of stuff, essentially decluttering his physical space as he declutters his mental space. Emotions can cause us to hold onto all kinds of things!

Emotions are the most powerful link in your mind and help hold memory patterns together. Negative emotions from past trauma hold negative patterns in your body. NET can physically release the emotions from the body! Neuro-Emotional Complexes (or NECs) can cause negative patters such as self destructive behavior, insecurity, judgment, projection, feeling down, feeling overworked, etc. The process of an NET session neurologically resets the body's brain and energy systems. Releasing negative emotional patterns is the true power of NET.

This week we had a patient say "There are no lazy people, only NECs that keep them from being productive."

For more on NET, you can visit www.netmindbody.com or come in to our office for one of our talks or a free consultation.