USING THERAPY SERVICES AS A PATHWAY TO TRANSFORMATION Who are you? What is it you want to create, become and accomplish is this life? What obstacles block you from growing to your full potential? This is why we come together. The answers you seek are held deep within you and only you know what feels right .

At the end of the page are Free Handouts on:

How to calm yourself; Communicate effectively with your spouse; Reclaiming your power; Chakra Mediation, Tips on how to stop smoking; Stop worrying; Positive words to change negative self talk, and more.  Please feel free to copy and keep whatever you want as a memory tool. If there is a topic you would like a handout for, please go to contact page and let me know what you would like me to include here.

I AM A BOARD CERTIFIED DIPLOMAT IN SOCIAL WORK 

( BCD # 50154) OFFERING MANY POSSIBLE PATHWAYS TO TRANSFORMATION:

A Board Certified Diplomat is a certification issued by the American Board of Examiners in Clinical Social Work and is granted to clinicians with a minimum of 15 years post graduate experience.

Choose from the following services:

• Individual, Couple or Family Psychotherapy Session $l00.00
• Hypnotherapy (2hr. session) $150.00
• Phone Session $75.00
• Coaching $l00.00
• Support Circles $30-100 depending on length

APPOINTMENTS: Morning, afternoon and evening hours are available within a 24hr. period. However, evening appointments are in great demand and subject to availability.

• Increase Self Awareness
• Increase Energy
• Enhance Creativity
• Enhance Relationships
• Decrease Depression
• Decrease Worry
• Let go of Suffering/Self-Criticism and Blame
• Release Self Defeating Patterns

This service is for individuals, couples or family.

PSYCHOTHERAPY: Is especially useful when:

• You want to make life easier.
• You want to learn ways to cope with stress
• You want help adjusting to critical life changes
• You want someone to listen without judgment
• You want help learning communication skills
• You want help learning problem solving skills
• You want help learning emotional recognition skills

This service is for individuals.

I use Heart-Centered Hypnotherapy (HCH) as it is a powerful psychotherapeutic modality that addresses the growth and health of body, mind, emotion and spirit. This modality fits within the widespread categories of deep experiential therapy, humanistic psychology and transpersonal psychotherapy.

A typical session begins with a set intention or focus on a problem area that is disclosed by the participant. Hypnosis can be seen as an expanded state of consciousness characterized by conscious (personality) and unconscious (soul) awareness coupled with a heightened responsiveness to suggestion. In hypnosis, attention is withdrawn from the outside world and is concentrated on mental, sensory and physiological experiences. Relaxing music and meditative talk guide the participant into a deep state of peace and serenity. The participant is guided back in time to the source of presenting problem. Hypnosis often produces a deeper contact with one's emotions, resulting in a lifting of repression, exposure of buried fears and conflicts, and a healing through cathartic release. This information is often a unique surprise and a great opportunity for insights and realizations. Usually the information received has been stored in the deep recesses of our subconscious body/mind and generally lies unresolved, yet active in the participant’s daily lives. It is in these moments that a participant has the “aha” experience about a particular issue that has been plaguing them for potentially decades. A period of deep, experiential release works around feelings of anger, hurt, shame, sadness and fear proceeds for some time around HCH sessions. Upon completion of the release an illuminating old conclusion becomes conscious. Such as “There is something wrong with me,” “I don’t deserve to exist,” ” “People are untrustworthy,” “Relationships are scary” or “I have no voice.” Whatever the conclusion, one thing remains clear, the conclusions all are self-limiting, constricting and dehumanizing, separating one from their truest, remarkable self. After time, a new conclusion emerges. This new conclusion is vital to the healing process as it is created from the empowering adult ego state versus a childhood traumatic state. This conclusion is then anchored in the participant’s body, mind and spirit through a variety of experiential healing modalities. The anchoring ensures the pattern changes as the change is concretized on the deepest levels of a person’s unconscious. Excerpts taken from the Journal of Heart-Centered Hypnotherapies, 1998 by Diane Zimberoff, MFT of the Wellness Institute, WA

• When want an active listener who can provide insight and support
• Teaching you communication and problem solving skills
• Referrals for other services to the interested caller.
• The Suggested method for when you are unable to leave house or office.

Often this is the first step to receiving more in depth mental health care.

LIFE & BUSINESS COACHING: Is especially useful for:

• When you want inspiration to clarify your passion
• When you want to access your inner wisdom
• When you want support to achieve the best in your personal and professional life.
• Helping you find your own solutions to life’s challenges, clarifies and focuses on your goals in the now.

Available for “one on one” personal sessions or over the phone, I am available when you want an active listener who can provide information and teach you skills.

SUPPORT CIRCLES: Is especially useful for:

• When you want mutual support as well as participate with others going through similar issues and end painful isolation of suffering alone.
• Groups are a great way to gain empowerment by becoming a relevant reflection for each other.
• Here is where we repair, uncover vulnerability, increase practical knowledge, offer realistic hope for the future, and improve self worth.
• Learn to replace self defeating thoughts.
• Learn to become very active while listening.

Some of the many issues covered in groups include aging, anxiety, depression, co-dependency and midlife adjustments.

 Here is the start of the Free Handouts

for you to Copy

Affirmations For Self Confidence

• I am resourceful.  I have the ability to do whatever it takes to succeed, and to support all those I love.
•  I enjoy life’s challenges, and I learn from everything that happens in my life.
•  I live each day with passion and power.
•  I feel strong and powerful, happy and excited.
•  I have tremendous confidence in my talents and my abilities.
•  I meet every situation knowing I am its master.
•  I have deep respect for myself and for everyone I meet each day.
•  I am committed to perform with excellence in all that I do.
•  I forgive myself  and others easily.
• .I am aware of the priceless value of my life and the life of everyone I meet.

For your Remembering

• Fall in love with YOU! (you must love yourself deeply).
• Make lists of hundreds and hundreds of wonderful things about you. Keep adding to it every day.
• Know that you are perfect.
  (do not think any negative thoughts about you).
• Know that you are worthy and deserving of anything and everything you could possibly want in your life.
• Focus on the wonderful things in every person. Look for only those things.
• Do not blame or criticize anybody, ever.
• Set an intention that you are going to see the best in everything and everyone.
• Make your happiness the number one thing in your life.
  (Happiness is an inside job.)
• Free yourself of the responsibility of trying to make other people happy
  (respect and love them enough to allow them to take care of their own happiness).

Affirmations for Financial Freedom

• I was born to share freely in the abundance of life.
•  I have much to give and I share it freely with others each day.
•  My work is a great contribution to others, and I am richly rewarded for it.
•  I attract and enjoy greater financial abundance each day
•  I am a giver and what I give comes back to me multiplied manifold.
•  I feel deeply grateful for everyday and for all the great abundance in my life.
•  My gratitude opens me up to unlimited financial success.
•  I am aware of, and I experience, all the wealth that surrounds me every day.
•  The wealth of my creator circulates throughout my life. Wealth flows to me in avalanches of abundance.
•  I share in the unlimited resources of life
• I feel prosperous and think prosperous thoughts

For your Remembering

• Love yourself and know that you are deserving and worthy of an abundance of money.
• Remind yourself everyday that you are a money magnet, and ask yourself often during the day, am I attracting money now or pushing it away with my thoughts.
• Always, always pay yourself first from your wage, then pay your creditors.
• (in that single act, you are telling the Universe that you are worthy and deserving of more).
• Repeat over and over every day, "I am a money magnet and money comes to me effortlessly and easily".
• Write out a check to yourself for the sum of money you would like to have and carry it in your wallet. Look at it often.
• Do whatever it takes to feel good. The emotions of joy and happiness are powerful money magnets. Be happy now!
• Love yourself!
• Be certain that money is coming to you.

Wealth is a mindset.
Money is literally attracted to you or
repelled from you. It's all about how you think.

Just Do It
Stop Smoking  www.whyquit.com 
(Smoking cessation is highly probably when I hypnotize you)

There are all these layers of conditioning around smoking. It is a form of brainwashing. Brainwashing that comes from myths and delusions that we hear from media and people in our life.

Smoking is an addiction and needs to be treated as such. Whatever excuse you say for continuing this addiction is a myth. For the millions of people who have stopped we have learned that there are two main causes for this addiction

(1) when you feel empty, insecure, fearful and you know of no other way to stop these feeling except to smoke. When you want to stop the uncomfortable feelings and you put your mind of another subject which is, “I need a cigarette.“
(2) When you believe it is hard to stop smoking and become fearful that you will fail so why bother.

To stop smoking you must make the decision that you are never going to smoke again and don’t mope about it. instead rejoice about it. You celebrate the awakening that you have decided to stop poisoning your body.

When you decide to give up smoking you just live your life knowing there will be good days and bad days.
When you live your life your focus it on what is in front of you. you feel excited and proud that you no longer have to be a slave to this addiction and you rejoice in all the money you will have because you are not spending it on cigarettes. To feel happy that your energy will increase and your health will improve. Rejoice feel wonderful about getting on with life.

There is nothing you are giving up except lying to yourself. The drug nicotine hooked you; not you hooked the drug. Most people get this backwards.

When you get an urge to smoke begin to Notice what feelings come up with the urge. Don’t let any emotion talk you into smoking. It is the self-doubt that makes you have a craving to begin with.  The cigarette is a crutch because you believe you are ineffective about coping with pain and fear. The empty feeling is fear of dependency or fear of the unknown.

You might experience craving for up to 3 weeks once you stop but don’t wean yourself. just stop when you firmly decide to stop

You are not giving up anything good. You need to feel what it is like to be free. When you have freedom your energy will increase and you will see that the craving is an evil monster in your head convincing you it’s a good idea ,to make the choice to put that nasty butt in your mouth.
Is your cigarette a prop or a pleasure? If you stop expecting to feel bad when you stop, it will be easier because there is no dread.

You create the dread because of the brainwashing. Doubt and uncertainty creates the pangs to light up. indecision leads to moping, you feel guilty, ashamed, frantic about stopping, because you’re making it difficult with your thoughts.
if you believe it is going to be difficult, you will make it that way.

Reasons you might tell yourself you smoke
(These are brainwashing stories)
Boredom
Concentration
Stress
Relaxation
Reward

Let’s review each reason in more detail
Boredom- you know why you feel bored in a world with endless magical possibilities to have fun with? Because you have feelings that your mind interrupts with judgment. Judgments about who you are and how you do things. Your confidence deteriorates and that keeps you frozen, disinterested, critical of options, you move away from that part of you that has an appetite. You know that part, it is the one that tells you if you want a burrito or pizza the same imagination that creates the urge for anything is at work with addiction. It involves the mind body. spirit and so your freeing yourself has to include a strategy for all three levels

moving forward, away from boredom, you accomplish because your attitude has transformed from one of victim to one of empowerment.
as you can now be in control. your mind body and spirit are in alignment with the choice and so there is no resistance and it is easy to stop because no part of you needs or wants to smoke.

You gain self-confidence by breaking free from the slavery of addiction. Cigarettes have controlled you, you’d didn't’t start smoking thinking it would control you but now if it does admit it and vow to stop it.

Concentration - If you want to have better concentration and believe a cigarette gives you that, you are telling yourself a brainwashing story that has no truth in it.

The only way you improve concentration is by having total confidence in yourself and have no doubt in your process or product. When you move freely like that, the soul of it comes through, people see the truth and you gain more validation that being authentic is right for you and the world and all the people in it.

To be present and flow with what is, feels peaceful and easy. It is the belief in disharmony and feeling the familiar feelings of emptiness That keep you smoking. You want to stop the displeasure of emptiness. The trick is to go into the emptiness and see the fullness of the emptiness. Its like Simon and Garfunkle’s song “ the sounds of silence” . If you fear the emptiness then you create resistance to it, rather than embracing it. It is with understanding of the resistance that you can problem solve, plan, manage and then find the courage to transform the emptiness into fullness. The more you practice it, the better you will get at it. It will stop procrastination reduce guilt and shame and increase self-confidence, assertion skills and give you more energy.

Stress-If you smoke because you are stressed then a cigarette adds to that stress it does not alleviate stress.That is another brainwashing story that has no truth in it. If you are stressed it is your body talking to your mind and spirit they are invisibly resisting what is. When you feel stress you are focused on the emptiness and the cigarette you believe helps take that feeling away. You need to distract yourself from that empty feeling because it feels scary and painful to you. You have not learned ways to cope with those feelings and believe they are feelings you cant handle. If this is true you can learn ways to comfort yourself.

I have a list of 55 healthy ways to sooth yourself (listed below) start practicing some new ways to calm yourself. Also you need to find solutions to situations that are problematic for you. Take the time to balance your life with work and play. Surround yourself with supportive people who can remind you that you are loved and important.

Relaxation- breathing deeply is a way to instantly relax yourself. Learning coping strategies for situations, feeling you are effective in handling whatever comes your way will help you to relax and stay calm.

For Reward- yes you deserve acknowledgment for a job well done, learn ways to celebrate yourself; you lighting up a cigarette is a destructive

not a loving gesture. Real rewards are; getting yourself a body massage, buying yourself a bouquet of flowers, getting tickets to a music concert or live show, treating yourself to new book, getting away in nature for a full day.,

55 Selections To Sooth Yourself
Compiled by Shoshanna April

1. Aroma therapy- Lavender, sandalwood, almond scents.
2. Animals- play with, pet or watch
3. Acupressure points-learn to press with opposite thumb and forefinger the muscle between thumb and forefinger when anxious.
4. Bach Flower Essence remedies- Rescue remedy at health food store
5. Breathing deeply and slowly sending air into the diaphragm on the inhalation and open mouth and release used air on the exhalation
6. Beach- walk in bare feet, smell the air, hear the crashing waves
7. Clay play- mold, twists, squish, and pound.
8. Cartoons- read comic books or watch Disney or animation.
9. Count your blessings, not your sorrows
10. Crystals- fondle with eyes closed. Pink Quartz emanates love.
11. Create an alter with reminders of all that you are and all that you want.
12. Create a relaxation haven in your home
13. Drum as if no one is listening
14. Dance as if no one is watching
15. Don’t “should on yourself” this will make you feel wrong. Say “I choose, I could, I want to”.
16. Do random acts of kindness, give someone an unexpected gift, pay for the toll for the car behind you
17. Fortune telling- I Ching, Tarot, Palm reading, Tea leaves
18. Hum
19. Hot Tub
20. Laugh
21. Listen to soothing music
22. Limit the amount of brutality, violence and terror you watch on TV,
23. Limit setting with family and friends –Say no when you mean No.
24. Live to please and express yourself
25. Massage you face, feet, whole body, or get someone to do it for you. Use a fragrance you enjoy.
26. Mediate- still your mind.
27. Mantras- “Om”, "Gods Light", 'Shalom"," Weng ar hong"
28. Movie marathon
29. Monitor self talk- replace doubtful and fearful statements with compassionate and loving affirmations.
30. Newborns or infants, watch them, hold them
31. Nothing is more important than that you feel good. What is that for you?
32. Notice the miracles of life, nature, your creativity.
33. Peaceful scenes on cards, place them on alter, fridge, computer. Image yourself in that place with all your senses.
34. Progressive muscle relaxation, starting from the top of your head moving down to the tips of your toes.
35. Problem solve- find a solution for a situation that displeases you. Brain storm all the possibilities and then choose one to implement for one week. If it does not resolve problem then go back to list and try another. Just stop the suffering.
36. Playground- go swing, slide or be on a seesaw
37. Praise yourself –Feel satisfied when you complete a task
38. Pray- To your higher power, God, Angels, ask for courage, resolution, guidance.
39. Rock yourself- on chair, hammock.
40. Remember past accomplishments and keep them on a list to read when self-regard is low.
41. Read inspirational quotes, or stories, listen to inspirational speakers.
42. Simplify your life –buy clothes that don’t need dry cleaning, get plants that don’t need daily watering.
43. Sing with family, choir or Karaoke
44. Steamy shower
45. Slow down
46. Sleepy time tea- to drink
47. Stitchery, sewing handicrafts, knitting
48. Smudge self, your space or burn incense to remove negative energy.
49. Sacred circle- join a group for witness, support, expression.
50. Truth List- of your qualities that remind you of all you are: i.e. helpful, friendly, funny, etc.
51. Take tributes, thank you cards, and inspirational quotes, MEaningful birthday cards and put them in a folder for you to read when sad.
52. Techniques to calm body pain- like rubbing temples to relieve tension
53. Therapy for skill building, increasing self-awareness, changing destructive patterns.
54. Writing- in a journal, to a friend.
55. Write down a list of the times you were so absorbed that you lost all track of time, and do those things again.

        Building Communication Skills in Couples

Compiled by Shoshanna April

• Key to getting along is to stay Loving, Giving and Effective
  Each day give each other Affection Attention and Appreciation
• Both need to feel emotionally and psychologically safe in the relationship
  
• Ask each other:
  “ What kind of relationship do I want?”
  “What kind of partner do I aspire to be?”
  
• Once this is identified find out where are the gaps between what they want and what they have.
  Then explore
  What are they willing to do about it

If you say something that triggers the other apologize immediately and explore what feelings, situations old things were triggered and why that hurts them so much.

Explore why partner is responding in this way

Don’t take the response of being triggered personally.
Create a soothing moment, stay calm and understand the other is hurt; and find out why they hurt? And why it is so painful?
Offer ideas and solutions to make it emotionally safer for the other. Take turns in offering ways each can do it differently to be an effective partner for the other. This creates safety.

Do not attack by criticizing.
When one criticizes it implies that they see the other as inadequate, they are seen as inadequate and sharing this opinion ruptures the relationship. Realize the attack and criticism is coming from pain and their attack is a way for them to get relief. Don’t take it personally find out what is hurting them and explore, understand and they will be more responsive

.

What is the most problematic behavior that your partner presents to you?

What do you want your partner to change in order to improve the relationship?

Describe the problem in detail
Include: (1) what exactly they do
(2) Describe your reaction to what they do

Formula for discussion:
When you do____________
I think_____________
And I feel______________
and I do________________.

Example: When you yell and put me down I think you are out of control and will hurt me with emotional abuse and I feel afraid and I retreat and withdraw from you to keep myself safe.

Tell them why you think it will be difficult for them to change.

Tell them what you are willing to do to help them change

Find out if they are willing to make the changes in their behavior
(if answer is yes or no find out why that is their response)

Positive Words List

Compiled by Shoshanna April

Suggestions for use:

1. Build these words into Your Vocabulary to Change Negative Self Talk.
2. Imagine yourself as this word describes
3. Think of a time when you acted this way
4. Think of a time when someone else acted this way with you.
5. Imagine others seeing you as these words describe.

Accepting
Amusing
Assertive
Ambitious
Agreeable
Affectionate
Approving
Attentive
Balanced
Bright
Beautiful
Caring
Cheerful
Confident
Calm
Careful
Courageous
Cooperative
Connected
Courteous
Centered
Credible
Dependable
Decisive
Dignified
Empowered
Expressive
Effective

Efficient
Encouraging
Eager
Energetic
Focused
Fair
Faithful
Fit
Flexible
Forgiving
Fast
Generous
Gracious
Good natured
Genuine
Happy
Helpful
Hospitable
Humble
Harmless
Industrious
Important
Intelligent
Independent
Invincible
Joyful

Kind
Loveable
Logical
Motivated

Merciful
Mighty
Mellow
Mobile
Masterful
Organized
Orderly
Pleasant
Priceless
Pleasing
Powerful
Popular
protective
Reliable
Relaxed
Robust
Rational
Refined
Rooted
Resolute
Serene
Steadfast
Secure
Strong

Stable
Sensible
Tidy
Trustful
Truthful
Thankful
Tranquil
Tolerant
Useful
Unshakable
Unselfish
Vindicated
Vigorous
Valiant
Valuable
Worthwhile
Wanted
Welcoming
Willing
Wise
Yielding
Zestful

 Dont Worry Be Happy

by Shoshanna April

Equation for worry:
Increased vulnerability + decreased power = worry
So the more powerful and less vulnerable a person feels the less one worries.

Worry is activated by a feeling that danger lurks nearby.
Thinking about all that might go wrong and brooding about “what if ” activates worry.

Worry destroys concentration. If you worry too much the medical complications can include gastrointestinal disorders, heart disease, and headaches, depressed immune function fatigue, impaired judgment and increased irritability.

Worry creates a net over us that pulls us back and sometimes we get so tangled up that we are immobilized.

How Psychotherapy Can Help?
The therapist listens and in the process then interprets, encourages, reframes, brainstorms, does reality testing, offers and educates about life skills and can see you differently than you see yourself. One can see where they view themselves as a powerless child rather than a powerful adult. Therapist show how worry can be used to break complacency and use fears to inspire action. Together we will see fear as a fuel to move you forward rather than continuing to have you put on the breaks. It is very empowering to have healthy control over your fear rather than having the fear control you and your actions.

Definition of insanity…. Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results!

“If you continue to do what you’ve always done,

you are going to get what you always got”

Reclaiming Your Power

by Shoshanna April

You are Consciousness
You are Source Energy
You are Love
You are Free
You are Powerful
You are Good
You have Value
You have Purpose
All is well

1. Avoid casting blame on any eternal force for your bad feelings about life. There is nothing outside yourself that can control your thinking or your actions. It is your choice to allow or resist the well being that resides in our universe.

“No one can make you feel bad without your permission” Elenor Roosevelt

2. Avoid blaming yourself as you are doing the best you can. Love yourself through all your mistakes. Think of errors like you would a debriefing, it is information for you to learn from, rather than beating yourself up and going to despair. We are here to learn, not to suffer.

3. Become aware of when and where you play the victim. Take responsibility for what you think and do. Thinking you are abused, cheated, powerless is a way to feel grief, hopeless and helpless. This is a clue that you are not taking responsibility for what you are being, having, doing or feeling. Anything that takes away your pleasure or your power makes you a victim, Don’t make yourself a victim of yourself.

4. Get Familiar with your internal negative self talk this is your biggest enemy and it lives inside you. Learn to replace the critic with a loving internal friend. Use affirmations, you have 15 seconds once you say a negative statement to replace it with a neutral or positive one or anther negative thought will come in right behind the first. Reach for a better feeling thought and you conquer this habit.

5. Figure out what are the payoffs of your being “stuck” in a powerless position. Does it get you attention? Or get you out of doing something you do not want to do? Once you find out you will be able to quickly become unstuck.

6. Determine what you want in your life and act on it. Stop waiting for someone else to give it to you. Stop giving what you want to everyone else in hopes they will give it back to you. It does not work that way.

7. Become aware of the many choices you have in both your thoughts and actions for any situation that comes your way Think of it with lightness, with heaviness, with outrage, with compassion, with humor, with resolve to make it better. Then choose a way to move forward that matches the best choice to put you on your path. Rather than think in terms of right or wrong think in terms of “am I on my path or off” . Being acting and making choices that are in alignment with your highest self is the choice you want to make to live in your power.

Excerpts taken from Abraham Esther and Jerry Hicks book

"Ask and It is Given"

Chakra Mediation For Inner Balance

Life is stressful on our bodies. Coupled with the daily grind and relational traumas of the past or present, it’s easy to disconnect and fragment from our authentic, spiritual nature. Chakra meditation is a highly energizing and physically grounding modality that reduces tension, works with each of the seven chakras in the body and orients one toward the emergence of radical presence and a sense of being.
 
Below is a description of the power and issues contained in each chakra:

First Chakra
This is your Root Chakra located at the base of your body, the root of your spine. It is your connection to Mother Earth and contains the truth that all is one. It is also the place of your tribe or family of origin and your physical strength. The color associated with this chakra is red. Issues within this chakra tend to be fear of abandonment, lack of safety and trust, fear of failure/success, and the inability to connect or feel as if you belong.

Second Chakra
This is the chakra of relationship and sexuality, and harbors addictions, shame, guilt and the victim triangle. It is located at your lower back, hips and sexual genital area. This is the part of the body that records all of your relationships and how you interact. It also contains your flight or fight instinct. The energy of this chakra is vibrant and hot and its color is orange. A healthy second chakra is alive and magnetically powerful when we are living in passion balanced with compassion.
 
Third Chakra
This is the chakra of your personal power and is located at your solar plexus. A healthy third chakra honors the self with integrity, endurance and dignity. The color is yellow like the sun and exudes personal power or soul power. A weak third chakra is the result of unclear boundaries from saying “yes” when you actually mean “no” in all areas of your life, e.g. money, family, work, friends, significant others, etc.
 
Fourth Chakra
The fourth chakra is located at your heart center and is associated with the color green. A healthy heart center evolves when you are in your center of love and filled with life’s abundant joy. It includes empathy and unconditional positive regard for yourself and others. The more you practice forgiveness, the larger your heart center expands. And the larger your heart center expands, the deeper and more prominent an attitude of gratitude surfaces. Here love is divine power. However, the unresolved “hurts” from the past significantly constrict the magnitude and power of this center, thereby creating a sense of isolation, separation and despair.

Fifth Chakra
The center of your throat is the home of the fifth chakra, associated with the color blue. A healthy throat center thrives on the freest and fullest expression of one’s truth. From here you speak choices that empower your soul and spirit. What you say and how you act creates your reality. An unhealthy fifth chakra uses judgmental and persecutory language as well as power-over and aggressiveness when threatened.

Sixth Chakra
The third eye sits in the center of your forehead. The color associated with this chakra is purple. This is your inner eye that can magnify illusions seeking clarity, and generate ideas, creativity and perceptions. It is the center of your unique divine intuitive knowing that has great power to create alignment between physical and spiritual reality. Confusion and distortion are the primary indicators of an undeveloped and un-nurtured third eye.

Seventh Chakra
The crown or top of your head is the home of your seventh chakra and it connects us to spirit. The color generally associated with this chakra is white. A healthy seventh chakra receives channeled messages from guides or guardian spirits that could lead one to his or her unique calling and can connect one with informative aid about current conflicts or problems. Fear usually inhibits connection to one’s crown and spirituality. Faith and hope are central players to a vital seventh chakra. Excerpts taken from Carolyn Myss’s book entitled Spiritual Practice, Spiritual Power.