The Personal Effectiveness Principles is a series of eight two hour classes enabling participants to gain
clarity about their ability to maintain a healthy lifestyle and success in utilizing the resources of their community. Class members learn and practice:
– principles for thinking clearly, acting passionately and responsibly and obtaining fulfilling results in their unique way,
– how to help create an environment that will sustain ongoing positive life changes for themselves and others.
Author Archives: Transformations
Who is controlling your mind and your feelings?
I may claim that no one is controlling my mind but me. However, I may also have little clue as to what programs and feelings have become so habitual that I behave as though I have very little control of what I think or feel. You are not alone. This is a very common human condition that takes conscious effort to remedy.
Two types of breathing that can change your life
the first allows you to calm and nurture yourself throughout the day in dealing with the challenges of everyday existence. I call this “maintenance breathing.” The second type of breathing brings you back to being centered and resourceful when under high stress or even crisis. This is called “therapeutic breathwork.” Both can be learned and practiced by anyone.
The significance of your birth on your life is astounding
Breathing in the water with Therapeutic Breathwork helps support the release of birth related trauma as well as other tensions that limit the freedom of our life expression and fulfillment. This video clip shows a courageous woman engaging in a wet breathwork. She uses the support of a safe environment, her breath and the water to heal and nourish her body and regain trust in her relationships.
There is a ceremony that brings unity…
to all the diversity and opposition amongst the peoples of the earth. The Native American sacred pipe commemorates the oneness of all inhabitants of this planet. Using the elements of nature, the power of the human spirit and the support of those who have gone before us, the pipe ceremony is a powerful initiation into traditions that speak to us on a soul level.
Balance Your Brain and Your Body with this Simple…
Balance your brain and your body with this simple exercise that takes three minutes or less. It has been employed by yogis for thousands of years and is just as effective today. It’s called Alternate Nostril Breathing. The accompanying recording by Jim Morningstar, PhD, gives exact instructions on how to harmonize both sides of your brain and bring you to a calm centered state.
Native American ceremony and healing
The Lakota term for sweat lodge is
Inipi which means ‘to live again’. Inipi is a purification rite and is necessary in order to help the vision quest seeker enter into a state of humility and to undergo a kind of spiritual rebirth.The sweat lodge is central to Inipi. Prayers offered there draw on all the powers of the universe – Earth, Water, Fire and Air. In the old days, Inipi was done before any major undertaking to purify the body and gain strength and power.
The Pelvic Rock exercise relieves lower back pain
The pelvic rock exercise relieves lower back pain and creates a pleasurable and relaxing flow of energy between the upper and lower body. It also unblocks stuck places in the pelvic area and generates an sense of well being, wholeness and joy. Jim Morningstar, PhD, demonstrates this simple exercise that anyone can do. It is one of dozens of energizing exercises in the Body Aliveness Series.
How your body themes can run your life
In this interview with Jim Morningstar, how your personal body themes effect every aspect of your daily life including how you breathe is explored. Also included:
- Breathwork as it relates to issues like: safety, abundance, control, expression, sexuality, and intimacy.
- New insights for your own personal development and breathwork process and journey, and/or for professional practice with clients.
- The connections between certain body themes and their related breathing patterns
- Shared newly evolved techniques to release cognitive and emotional blockages
Use the “Get off my back” exercise to energize
Use the “Get off my back” exercise to energize and clear yourself when feeling weighed down by stresses in your life. Jim Morningstar demonstrates this simple exercise that anyone can do (usually in private or with a willing group). It is important to be grounded, focused and breathing fully as you do it. It does not solve all your problems, but can help you feel more resourceful in addressing them.