Study Suggests That Spirituality Is Key To Kids’ Happiness January 13, 2014 by Arjun Walia at http://www.collective-evolution.com/2014/01/13/study-suggests-that-spirituality-is-key-to-kids-happiness/#sthash.D6wcTfaN.dpuf A professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan, and his colleagues Ben Coleman and Judi Wallace have conducted a study which suggests that spirituality is key to children’s happiness....
TEP, Psychology, Personality
Tai Chi Exercises
Tai Chi Exercises (Shibashi) 1. Raising the arms 2. Opening, the Chest 3. Painting the Rainbow 4. Separating the Clouds 5. Rolling the Arms 6. Rowing the Boat 7. Supporting the Ball 8. Gazing at the Moon 9. Turn Waist, push with Arm 10. Cloud Hands 11. Scooping the...
Body Reading
‘Read Yourself First’ An exercise for you adapted from ‘Emotional First Aid for Children’ Pearson and Nolan. You will need: supportive music, tissues, cushions, towels, a few body stencils (body outlines – male or female – on an A4 sheet of paper) an pastel colours to draw with. We study...
7 Segments of Muscular Armouring
The Seven Segments of Muscular Armouring – W. Reich Notes by carol Dyer – used with gratitude! Wilhelm Reich identified seven segments of muscular armouring within the body. Alexander Lowen further refined the following exercises in what he called Bioenergetics which he defined as: ‘a therapeutic techniques to help...
Understanding the Theory of Bioenergetics
Understanding the Theory of Bioenergetics Notes by Carol Dyer – used with gratitude! History Wilhelm Reich, was a psychoanalyst and teacher. ‘For Reich the goal of therapy was the development by the patient of the capacity to give in fully to the spontaneous and involuntary movements of the body...
Needs – part 1
THE FUNCTION OF NEEDS A need is a condition within oneself waiting to be fulfilled. Needs communicate to us primarily through physiological signs and symptoms, such as hunger, thirst, desire, craving, etc. Through such symptoms, needs alert a person to the fact there is imbalance within the system. ...
Needs – part 2
This page follows on from Needs – part 1 (click here to view part 1) NEEDS THAT MAY BE CONSISTENT (OR NEUTRAL) WITH GOSPEL LIVING: Achievement: To succeed in a task. To accomplish, master and complete something difficult; to develop a skill; overcome obstacles and attain a high standard;...
Compulsion to Recreate and Overcome Childhood Hurts
THE COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS A child desires to be loved exclusively and without limit. Thus a child’s desire to be loved is unrealistic as no human love is without limit. Yet, it is also true that the child would be very satisfied with real mature...
Anxiety
The basic cause of anxiety is the arrival at the brain of more nervous impulses than can be properly sorted out by the brain. The sensory input arses from three main sources: from our external environment, through sight and hearing; from our body, through nerve-endings in all the various...
On Vulnerability
Shame and empathy researcher Dr. Brené Brown presents on the power of vulnerability, from her research and book, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead. Vulnerability isn’t good or bad. It’s not what we call a dark emotion, nor is...
Born to Love
Jung on the Shadow: Broadening of Consciousness
Carl Jung said that “the Shadow is the person that we’d rather not be.” He explains that the Shadow is the side of our personality which we do not consciously display in public. It may have positive or negative qualities. If it remains unconscious, the Shadow is often projected...
Enneagram: Adelaide 2013
Spiritual Dimensions of the Enneagram – Introduction A Weekend workshop introducing the Enneagram was held Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th May, 2013 at Mary Mackillop Centre – St. Michael’s College Henley Beach, S.A.- The group of 42 participants were introduced to the Enneagram by facilitator Chris Chaplin msc. The Enneagram...
A Very Wet Men’s Weekend
Flooding along the NSW mid-north coast. Thurs 21st February to Sun 24th, 2013 It was only the first day and we were holding our February 2013 “Gathering of Men” at Ellenborough, when record rains hit the north coast of NSW and southern Queensland. Along the Hastings-Ellenborough River catchment many inches...
Vale Steve … twelve months on
A visit this afternoon to spend a moment with Steve Nolan, at Kempsey. His headstone reads, “Earth’s crammed with heaven and every common bush afire with God But only he who sees takes off his shoes.” (Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Aurora Leigh (1857), Bk. VII, l. 812-826) and then, “One...
ride4acure 2011 Trek launch
Read by Chris Chaplin msc, at the ride4acure Crescent Head to Cottesloe Beach journey blessing, of Esther, Joe, Maura, Titan, Lofty, Meg, Clancy, Bobby, Hamish and Emily, as they begin their epic trek from the Pacific Ocean to the Indian Ocean on horseback, in memory of Hanna Rose on her 23rd...