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I am a Certified Mind NRG Spiritual Health Coach.  This means that I educate and create opportunities to build awareness so that my clients can learn how connected the mind, body, and spirit are.  My philosophy is that these three are not separate, but are entwined as a complex whole. In order to adequately achieve wellness goals, all 3 need equal attention.  Since personal responsibility is essential in truly becoming aware, there is always homework.  I will assign a client to take note of the recurring thoughts or words they hear themselves thinking or speaking that are not beneficial to themselves or others.  This is my favorite assignment to give and the turned in work is always outstanding. This assignment

Progressive relaxation is a process of relaxing your whole body starting with your head and moving down to your toes and fingers. Research by the Natural Therapies Research Board has confirmed the Quantum Home Trainer obtains better results if progressive relaxation is used during training. During the day you are encouraged to remind yourself to breathe deeply and relax any time you feel any tension, tightness, coldness, hardness, discomfort, stress or pain. In the beginning it may take you the entire twenty-five minutes of a regular session to complete this process. Somewhere around five to ten sessions you’ll be able to relax completely in half that time. Within thirty sessions most people are able to completely relax in five minutes

Everyone is “hacking” everything these days. It kinda makes me laugh how we get on an idea and all jump on the word and idea bandwagon. There are days that I think if I hear about one more person “hacking” something I just might hack. Thinking about hacking made me think about the vagus nerve because that is how this mind works. The vagus nerve is involved in the puking process, so that is where the connection happened. The vagus nerve is pretty important in terms of our stress profile. What is a stress profile you ask? Simply put it is the individual characteristics and behaviors that protect against or contribute to stress. Being relaxed allows our entire body to function