With depression, it is more likely that you move less, have less energy, and need to withdraw from your usual activities of life. You may feel more fatigued, and have a greater sense of emotional, mental, or physical pain. Depression is one of the ways that the body-mind system deals with pain. Downtime, resting, removing yourself from overstimulation so that you can just be to disconnect from the overwhelm, is also an invitation to listen to the wisdom of your body-mind system to heal.
In this rapid-paced world does not give much space for downtime. It is difficult to be able to just be. The importance put on achievement, making a living, and the pursuit of happiness can, in fact, lead to a disconnect from what is nourishing to your body-mind-system for healing the places in your life where you need the time to heal according to Bruce E. Levine, Ph.D.
Depression is a signal that indicates that you are needing time and space to recover and integrate information, emotions, beliefs, input from others, trauma or stressful situation in your life. It takes time, space, and nurture. It also needs your permission. Fear can sometimes make it difficult to begin.
The Drive for Success and the Pursuit of Happiness
“In Fromm’s culminating work, To Have or To Be? (1976), he contrasts the depressing impact of a modernconsumer culture built on having mode (greed, acquisition, possession, aggressiveness, control, deception, and alienation from one’s authentic self, others, and the natural world) versus the joyful being mode (the act of loving, sharing, and discovering, and being authentic and connected to one’s self, others, and the natural world).” ~Bruce E. Levine, Surviving America’s Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy
The drive for earning money and the pursuit of happiness can be ideological, as much as a cage unto itself. Is it fair to say that you are always supposed to be happy? Or, that the self-absorption it takes to compete and earn financial worth is a reasonable substitute for inner value? These tenets have become entrenched beliefs that do not acknowledge your unmet needs, feelings, and emotions. They allow little or no tolerance for any sense of discomfort or sense of real values. The kind of value that embraces all of the wisdom of your heart so you can speak your truth or connect to others, nature, life, your gold standard for communication or True Self is minimized or destroyed in these beliefs and attitudes about life. This leads to a sense of hopelessness, demoralization, and expandability.
The Impact of Long Term Depression
Long-Term Depression can be toxic leading to issues in neurochemistry, immune deregulation, inflammation, sleep disruption, and depressive illness. In the Western World, since the Industrial Revolution, there has been radical change in lifestyle, daily habits, family systems, communities, diet, social interaction, and level of physical activity according to Stephen Ilardi. With those changes, henotes that antidepressant use has gone up over 300% in the last 20 years.
Healing Depression by Changing Lifestyle Choices
Increasing Level of Activity like walking 30 minutes 3x per week
Omega 3 Fats nourishes your brain as an anti-inflammatory agent
Healthy Sleep to improve mood, hormone production, and detoxification
Social Connection decreases the stress response
Sunlight and Light Therapy is anti-depressive, and also affect your vision, breath, posture, heart health, movement, energy, and sense of well-being. The best time to do this is during Spleen time for D3 production which is 10-11 AM
Anti-Ruminative Activity: Meditation, shared activity with someone else, engaging solo activity like a video, playing music, reading, cooking, a hobby you enjoy, writing out your thoughts, changing scenery, or getting up to take a brief walk like in nature allow you to get off the gerbil wheel of automatic negative thinking.
How Resonance Repatterning Supports Healing Depression
In working with clients who are dealing with depression in Resonance Repatterning sessions, it is primary to first build and nurture the person’s vital energy system. It takes energy to address, acknowledge, and transform challenges in your life consciously. Sessions work with resonance muscle-checking by phone or in-person to identify specific resources and actions you need for healing your body-mind system including brain waves, emotions, healing inner conflict, unmet needs, while creating positive actions for new possibilities ExploreNatural Ways to Spiral Up from Depression: https://www.windowstotheheart.net/10-natural-ways-to-spiral-up-from-depression-naturally/
This is your personal invitation to create greater integrity in your wellness and well-being through a Resonance Repatterning® session specifically tailored to your needs for positive change.
Contact Kimberly with questions and to register for your personal session.
The journey towards positive and sustainable personal change includes your entire body-mind system. Your awareness, attitudes, beliefs, and sense of direction all make a difference in the process. The emotional and mental components of this journey are as important as your physical actions and decision-making process. Your dedication one-day at a time over a period of time changes how you meet challenges and new opportunities.
How to Meet the New Opportunity
In Resonance Repatterning® building coherent awareness is key to beginning the process of positive change. The following are some of the beginning elements of the process for personal change in any part of your life’s journey.
Awareness is key and the first step in identifying where you are in your life, and what is coming up for you as an issue. This could be any area in your wellness and well-being: relationship, business, health, energy level, or the resulting effects of grief, loss, or trauma.
Acceptance in this case is not giving up, it is seeing things as they are in the present for what and how they are realistically. In order to create new possibilities, it is important to resonate with the change being an opportunity and a point of choice. This means that there is a willingness to take part in a growth process that leads to transformation.
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.~Lao Tzu
Empowerment is that place where you become aligned with the motivation and determination to move through new possibility with the intent to discern what is aligned with your journey of growth and what is not aligned with positive change. Using this tool, you are able to feel the vital life energy to create positive change.
Focus and Attention: Where you place your thoughts and how you respond to them is key in your journey. Through making time and space in your life, as well as resonating with coherent beliefs, attitudes, qualities, strengths and actions in your present, you begin to create a future with greater vital life energy one step at a time. By doing so, this allows you to shift direction through discernment when you need to do so, and take positive action with your awareness so that you can continue in the direction of your positive intentions.
How to Meet Challenges to Embark on the Journey of Change
Fear of the unknown and losing control: Starting on a new path or creating a new habit can feel so unfamiliar that your sense of being in control can be significantly challenged. Antidote: Reminding yourself of times in your life where you have experienced a challenge and met that challenge in a way that felt successful can create an anchor image and feeling to get you started on the path to creating new possibilities. Resonating with with new possibilities and the opportunities you will experience with your plan of action is greatly supportive. Know that set-backs are stepping stones when they happen as teachers and guides to next steps.
Not enough time to establish or integrate new changes: With the hustle and bustle of life you might feel as though there isn’t enough time in your schedule to begin first steps in the process of change. Antidote: Make time for small steps each day, delegating some of your daily chores, or making room for reflection or planning daily is essential in the process of making positive change. In as little as 10 minutes per day for any of these, you can tune into your process in a nourishing and creative way.
Shifting Habits: Shifting a habit takes time. According to a research project mentioned in How Long Does it Take to Form a Habit? ( https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0908/09080401), it can take 2-8 months to change and establish a new habit based on a number of factors related to your planning, pacing and support system in place. Antidote: Small daily changes lead to significant changes over the long term. An example is to create a daily routine by using a template to intitate, motivate and sustain your new positive actions as you move through the process.
My goal (e.g. ‘to eat more fruit and vegetables’) _________________________________________________
My plan (e.g. ‘after I have lunch at home I will have a piece of fruit’) (when and where) ______________________ I will _____________________________________. (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3505409/)
Feeling uncomfortable: Creating new patterns also involves addressing underlying emotions, beliefs and attitudes about change. Fear and frustration that has been buried might come up for resolution. Allow them to inform you, and in the process learn to be kind and forgiving to your Self, while making space for forgiveness of others, as well. Antidote: Becoming aware of your underlying need for health and more energy can be met with alternative and healthy ways of choosing. Eating at a fast food restaurant does not meet these needs, however, the need for nurture, support and ease might be an underlying need that also needs to be heard. Find ways to create options to include short and long-term actions. For example, you might make a list of foods you can eat that are healthy for you that you can have at home, take to work, and also options for restaurants or menu items. You might choose a different environment altogether, or look at how to create stress-reducing activities to fill your need for nurture and calm. Journal, draw, move and express your feelings through natural and positive means.
Letting Go of the Past: Making a transition in life from a relationship, job, or move can creates stress in itself. Know that your past has had an important impact on your life, and its teaching allows you to learn from its experience. Take that experience and apply it to your future. Don’t lose the lesson. Antidote: Finding support groups or supportive friends or resources that have encountered similar transitions can be especially beneficial as you move into new territory of your life.
Confidence about Skills: When starting on a new project, or creating a lifestyle change, it’s important to resonate with beginning where you are, as well as knowing where to look for resources, ideas and information to start your process in creating a new habit or positive change. Antidote: Take a class, research, find a mentor, talk with an advisor, read, and ask for directions. An example for healthy eating might be the book,Savorby Thich Nhat Hanh that speaks to the body-mind system in response to food and nurture.
Impact on the Rest of your Life: Making change can mean in where you live, what you do, what you will no longer tolerate, or where and how you dedicate your time. Antidote: Resonating with the underlying need of loving self-care, healthy nourishment, health, loving relationships, calm and well-being are the over-arching motivation for creating a new life worthy of positive change. Creating new possibilities for your life is not short-term it is a life change!
Changes in Social Circles and Loyalty to Patterns over Time: Making change can mean shifting social interactions with specific people. It can also mean that you stop your hangouts and patterns that influenced or impacted your negative habit, addiction or limiting pattern. An example might be that you are trying stop overeating, however, your pattern has been to have lunch daily with co-workers at a fast food restaurant. Antidote: Join a support group or activity group that has a focus on part of your process (healthy eating, exercise, grief, creativity). By taking part in a group you will feel support and change feels much more possible. Choose to limit your interaction or number of times per week that you eat at the fast food restaurant, or choose a different menu item. You can also begin to choose different allies or activities during your meal time.
Resonance Repatterning® personal sessions with Kimberly Rex, MS allow you to transform problems into opportunities so that you resonate with new possibilities to create greater integrity in your wellness and well-being. There are sessions for every part of your journey of positive change that address each of the elements in this article tailored to your personal needs.
At times like these remembering to breathe is important! This past year had some powerful emotional content. We’ve gone through earth shifts and political trauma. If it’s felt like an emotional roller coaster, you are not alone! These events have maximized and mobilized response on many levels including personal feelings of grief, disbelief, anger, confusion, frustration, shock, and/or fear. It has felt as if time has tumbled over itself in trying to get us to process personal feelings, thoughts, and beliefs.
Breathing patterns give clues to emotions and feelings. You can measure a shift in breathing when you are excited, as well as when you are worried. Trauma, shock, disease, or pain interrupts the natural flow of your breath and vitality. When we get stuck in a breathing pattern even when the reason for an earlier experience is no longer present, it’s a clue that feelings have not been released. Processing feelings with the support of breath helps to move through these experiences to resolution.
The quality of your breathing patterns affects the flow of oxygen and carbon dioxide exchange essential to life activityin the body down to the cellular level, impacts the emotional brain, synchronizes brain waves, and controls your mental state. When you are frightened, you gasp or hold your breath. When you are stressed or worried, you sigh, have a shallow or collapsed breathing pattern after the exhale, or have a blocked inhale. Exhaling to release or inhaling to start a new breath cycle pattern is the goal.
Remembering to Breathe
Following are two breathing exercises to support the release of feelings, and the creation of new images for greater relaxation and harmony. You can practice them together or use each one on its own.
1. Feeling Breath
Get in touch with your breathing pattern. *Inhale through your nose. Each time you inhale, breathe in pure energy allowing your stomach to expand like a balloon, including your ribs front to back and side to side. Fill your lungs. As you exhale through your nose, relax your lungs and ribs from the top and middle. Pull in your abdominal muscles, exhaling all the air from the bottom of your lungs. Do this a few times.
Become aware of what you are feeling. Continuing to breathe deeply and easily as you accept these feelings as messengers for processing material for insight, illumination, and resolution.
When you are aware of what you are feeling, say what you are feeling out loud as you continue to breathe deeply and easily.
When you have acknowledged your feelings out loud, continue to relax while releasing the named feeling when you exhale. You can say, “I release my feeling of__________” as you breathe out.
You can breathe out emotional and physical toxins with this process also. Continue breathing with a focus on inhaling pure energy and exhaling emotions until you feel complete.
This nurturing relationship with the ocean of air you are breathing creates chi or prana to feed every cell of your body. When your breathing patterns are in balance and harmony, the benefits range from decreasing adrenaline flow when in a stressful situation, improving the quality of your vitality, better sleep, lowering your blood pressure, and greater heart health. Giving attention to your breath gets you in touch with your center or spiritual core, allows you to let go of emotional and physical toxins, and improves your sense of connection to your feelings, relaxation, and heart wisdom.
2. Limbic Brain Breath: Because breathing accesses the emotional brain, doing this modality will give you energetic support for creating new images and feelings. While breathing deeply, see positive image(s) and feel positive feeling(s). Use this visualization to support you in a stressful situation, when you need grounding or need an energetic pick-me-up!
Kimberly Rex, MS gives Resonance Repatterning® sessions by phone, Skype, proxy, and in-person for people of all ages. She works with clients to dissolve the impact of Earlier Experiences, and to allow positive change. Resonance Repatterning sessions address breathing patterns that have resulted from trauma and emotional stress.Contact Kimberly for a session that will create positive change in your life!
At this time of year in the Northern Hemisphere is filled with abundance as life blooms and everything is energized with vital energy that you can see, hear and feel. Gardens fill with flowers, herbs and vegetables. Trees are full of fruit and harvest. It is this time that the Earth shows us her flowering at its peak with abundance in every direction. This is the time of year to truly register where you are in relationship to experiencing abundance in your own life.
When you think about abundance though, 95% of us, if honest, think mostly about money. Abundance is more about life energy and vitality in your sense of feeling empowered to receive, distribute and share resources on the physical, emotional, mental, and spirit levels just like the Earth.
Your beliefs and attitudes about abundance affect your experience of how this benefits your wellness and well-being.
Through the process of Resonance Repatterning® it is possible to work with your relationship with your limiting beliefs about abundance, flow, success, finances and your vital life energy to shift your perceptions about abundance with energetic frequency easily and naturally.
Everything in the Universe has a frequency related to sound and light including your joy, pain, disappointment, business arguments, and attitudes about life. In a Resonance Repatterning® session, we can work to identify those frequencies that have stopped you, held you back, or interfered with your experience of living life more fully.
You are designed for success and self-healing. When your coherent attitudes or beliefs about what is possible, impacts how you see and experience the world-changing quality and amount of vital energy you have to dedicate to the positive intentions you have for your health, relationships, business, and life purpose.
Any gardener will tell you how important it is to take care of the harvest through watering, sun, and healthy soil so that the plants will grow to harvest. Have you ever attempted to water a garden with a hose that is kinked? Like this kinked hose, your life energy can be disrupted leaving you with less energy, motivation, and a sense of ease to appreciate and explore new possibilities in the world of abundance around you.
Your attitude influences what you are able to experience directly, and it is always the determining factor in the amount of abundance you experience. What you resonate with internally becomes your experience in life.
Resonance Repatterning® works with natural energetic modalities including color, sound, acupressure, aromatherapy, Chinese Five Element, and Meridian System, Polarity Therapy, movement, and breath so that you can move into the more coherent resonant match with your intentions to experience abundance more fully in your life. This allows you to resonate with more optimal life energy, attitudes, and beliefs that create the momentum for positive and sustainable change with cutting-edge consciousness science.
And now, I’d like to invite you to explore this topic more deeply by giving yourself the gift of energizing your life and relationship with a personal session. Experience this cutting-edge healing process that creates extraordinary outcomes.
Kimberly Rex, MS
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Here comes the sun. As summer begins, it’s an invitation to appreciate how light positively impacts your wellness and well-being.
How the Sun and Light Impact Your Vision and Energy
The quality of light you receive affects your breath, posture, movement, and memory. It is important to note that physical vision is also related to how you process light for emotional, mental, and physical health, and well-being.
For more on this topic: https://www.windowstotheheart.net/what-impacts-your-vision-of-life-four-ways-to-positive-change/
Natural light has been shown to have an impact on sleep patterns, melatonin production, memory, mood regulation, thought processing, free radical production, cellular communication, and heart health.
Impact of the Sun and Light on Your Cells and DNA
Cell-to-cell communication by bio-photons has been seen in plants, bacteria, and animal neutrophil granulocytes that digest invading microbes. Granulocytes account for about 60% of your white blood cells. Kidney cell communication was also noted. Particular spectral light stimulation (infrared, red, yellow, blue, green, and white) at one end of the spinal sensory or motor nerve roots produced a significant increase in the bio-photon activity at the other end according to a research study by Yan Sun, Chao Wang, and Jiapei Dai’s research. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20221457
In addition, according to Dr. Fritz Popp, a biophysicist dedicated to the study of bio-photons. the coherent emission of bio-photons is directly connected to energy and information transfer processes within biological organisms and has been linked to the function of DNA and gene regulation.
We are still on the threshold of fully understanding the complex relationship between light and life, but we can now say emphatically, that the function of our entire metabolism is dependent on light.~Dr. Fritz Albert Popphttp://www.biontologyarizona.com/dr-fritz-albert-popp/
Impact of Exposure to Sunlight on Your Heart Health
Richard Weller, an Edinburgh University dermatologist and researcher, states that regular exposure to the sun is beneficial for your heart. He suggests that sunlight lowers your blood pressure by increasing both Vitamin D and Nitric Oxide in the body through the skin. This exposure to sunlight would potentially decrease the likelihood of both heart attacks and strokes.
Watch Richard Weller’s TED Talk here:
The Impact of the Sun and Light on Your Positive Intentions
An intention is based on directing thought, attitude, belief, and motivation with action toward a specific goal. The process of forming, sustaining, and initiating your intention for wellness and well-being relates to the production of particular neurotransmitters, memory imprints, and especially the quality of your life energy you have to dedicate to your positive intentions. The importance of creating an optimal environment for new possibilities depends on the transmission and quality of energy and information in your body-mind system.
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How Resonance Repatterning Works with Light to Enhance Your Wellness and Well-being
Everything is frequency. We experience life through color, light, and sound frequency. Your attitudes, beliefs, arguments, conflict, as well as a sense of well-being all have a frequency.
The process of Resonance Repatterning® identifies specific frequencies that are needed to benefit your wellness and well-being through working with different modalities that infuse or diffuse light and sound at specific tone frequencies, octaves, and locations of need. All of the modalities in a session are muscle-checked for the most benefit to the client based on specific needs. In addition, the following color/light modalities might be part of your process:
Vision Modalities include a number of color/light, movement, breath, memory, and relaxation activities. Here are a few of the holistic ways to apply light through color from the extensive bank of possibilities in the process of Resonance Repatterning® sessions.
Color Filter Lens: The client or facilitator on the client’s behalf wears a color gel mask over the eyes. In some cases, there are additional modality details combined with this format.
The Color Filter Torch is used on particular meridian and energy system points on the body to update information in the body-mind system for more optimal energy flow. This means that color/light works where transmission of light and sound have been interrupted or blocked.
Silk Color Scarves are placed over various parts of the body or used in the visual field to incorporate the frequency of the color.
This is your personal invitation to create greater integrity in your wellness and well-being with a Resonance Repatterning® session specifically tailored to your needs for positive change.
Kimberly Rex, MS is a certified Advanced Resonance Repatterning practitioner, Person-Centered Expressive Therapist, and Wellness and Well-being Life Coach.
When life hands you difficult experiences that are hard to release or let go of due to their enormity or pain, it affects you on all levels of your body-mind system. What stays behind is the imprint of the image, chemical response, and physical memory dedicated to the experience unless you release it. Whether this material is stored at the conscious or unconscious level, it impacts how you respond to life in the present.
How Difficult Experiences Affect Your Body-Mind System
1) Mental Level: The Reptilian Brain, the part of your brain whose purpose is to help you survive, works by looking for events, features, and images that remind it of earlier events where difficult experiences created significant stress. Filtering current situations, relationships, and events through either a fight or flight can trigger a “watchdog” response of the survival brain. You can feel like you are stuck on a treadmill and/or have repetitive negative thoughts. The invitation is to take work with the trauma experience in a way that allows it to release the mobilized energy stored in your body-mind-spirit system to create space for a new awareness that creates a present and future that allows you to experience choice and freedom within.
2) Emotional Level: Many times, harbored negative emotions from difficult experiences make it difficult to move on or through experience. The electro-chemical well-traveled neural pathways of emotion become ingrained attitudes, beliefs, and habits. Where you have felt belittled, wronged, or judged there might be a resonance with guilt, anger, a feeling of coldness, or a lack of forgiveness. These emotions are actually signals to alert you to opportunities for freeing up compressed energy. In truth, it is not the event or the person which is causing you pain, but your resonance with the unresolved issues that creates the continuing disruption of energy.
3) Physical Level: The Parasympathetic and Sympathetic Nervous System can also get stuck in stress mode when
Letting go allows for greater inner peace and joy!
reminded of unresolved stress from difficult experiences. This can affect your ability to move or relax. All of the organs are affected by stress and the quality of interaction of the body’s systems and communication relies on the quality of energy flow between systems. Large Intestine works with letting go of that which no longer serves your life. Not letting go creates more burden on your physical system and impacts your health.
Not letting go or forgiving is like this quote from Traveling Mercies by Annie La Mott: “In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.” The benefits of letting go include creating better communication between the cells and systems of your body, and creating new insights, responses, and choices for your life experiences. So how do you let go of issues that have placed your emotions or thoughts on a merry-go-round or stopped you from moving forward in your life?
4) Spirit Level: Forgiveness creates an opening, allowing you to reclaim more coherent life energy for your life and positive intentions. It allows the core essence of who you are to have the opportunity to take action, and to open to the lessons and the teachings from the earlier experience. It supports you in a new positive orientation and direction in your life. Within each of us are a perpetrator and victim. Forgiveness can also mean giving back the responsibility and dignity to another to own their action. Instead of carrying it yourself, you can release the burden. Resonating with being a victim limits the choice range and expansiveness of life opportunities. Resonating with perpetrators leads to internal destructive messages and separation from the nurture of life. Balancing the relationship between both allows for a gentle opening and new possibilities.
A wonderful book was written by Richard R. Gayton, Ph.D., The Forgiving Place, speaks to choosing peace after a violent trauma. His book details the steps involved in going through the process of not only forgiving others but also yourself.
Here is a beautiful poem from his book entitled, “Forgiving Self”
Be still now. Rest in me. Lay your head softly on my hand. Sleep in my hand of the one who is love. Come to me now; wait no longer. Search for me nowhere else. For love is here, waiting close by, just one thought away. It’s easy-There is no strain. To be at peace means only for a moment to open your mind. Just for a moment let the thought of me enter into that tiny space you made, and I will come bearing a present. Open your hands, look what I brought you. My free gift, a pearl of such great loveliness that all fear and sorrow are blinded and momentarily silent. To pause a moment is all that is asked of you to receive the pearl of peace. Could you not pay this small sum for such a beautiful and priceless gift? The pearl is yours. You cannot throw it away. It has always been in your hand, but your hand has just now opened. The prize was hidden, but now it is found.
As you open to experiencing the pearl of peace within yourself, you might wish to use a process by Jack Kornfield. Among the following meditations is a powerful process for Forgiveness.
Kimberly Rex, MSis a certified Resonance Repatterning® and Person-Centered Expressive Therapist. She is also certified as a Master Personal Life Coach. Needing support for moving on from material in your life that needs healing so you can dedicate positive life energy to your intentions today?
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Kimberly Rex, MS is a certified Resonance Repatterning® and Person-Centered Expressive Therapist. She is also certified as a Master Personal Life Coach. Needing support for moving on from material in your life that needs healing so you can dedicate positive life energy to your intentions today?