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Change Your Brain .. Walk with Me in the Rain
Change Your Brain .. Walk with Me in the Rain Want Healthy? Healthy = Being + Doing + Sharing. Plan regular daily trips to “Healthy” using activity. Prepare for your daily healthy living by taking your bodies outside … walking and talking. Being in the moment and sharing. Being alive means being present in the moment. Be active...
Sleeping By Intention
Sleeping by Intention It's 3:33 a.m. what are you doing up at this time? We all need some rest... some more than others. To sleep is to heal, to mend, to regenerate new cells, to enjoy. Yet millions of people are up in the middle of the night... waking up or just not getting to sleep. So, today when I woke up, I heated up my...
What's the Difference Between Meditation and Spacing Out?
What's the difference between meditation and spacing out? As I sat in a cafe, I overhead two women discussing meditation. One lady with lovely brown curly hair spoke joyfully, exuberantly about an experience. She was talking about meditation. I heard her say to the person across from her, "what is the difference between...
Start Your New Skillbase with Apositiva
Start Your New Skillbase with Apositiva Apositiva is a place for people who want creative, interactive training. Are you interested in playing in learning and having other people give you feedback and experience? Then we may be the right place for you. In the Pacific Northwest, Apositiva (formerly A Positive Change) has been...
Spring Cleaning Therapy
Spring Cleaning Therapy Procrastinating about cleaning? Boxes waiting to be sorted, shredded? Dust bunnies rolling around like tumbleweed? Stuff to do taking up your idea creation space? Well, procrastinate no longer, you are about to get a lift! To Do List I made a list of things to do, including spring cleaning, taxes, and...
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It's True! They're Out to Get You…
It’s True! They’re out to get you!!! By Rich Aanrich We work with people who are confused by the messages about food. "Cereal has vitamins. How can it be bad for you?" Well, there's a lot behind the cute animal on the front of the box. Our goal is to help people become more conscious of their unconscious consensus...
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Happy Valentines Day and Despicable Me
Happy Valentines Day and Despicable Me! Open your eyes, blink, open. Surprise! Happy Valentines Day to You! I Like You. I Like Me. All the staff at Apositiva also want to wish you a day to enjoy yourself and others with a loving thought! Hey! We are who we are and we all deserve to be loved, even with flaws. As we begin with...
Elephant in the Cookbook
Elephant in the Cookbook By Cat Wilson It is my philosophy that every day I try to solve just one (1) problem. It could be a loose button, a burned out light bulb, coming up with an idea to solve world Hunger. Anything! Today, I awoke and walked past the row of video DVD’s that I lined up in the hallway. I put them there...
It's a Perfect Time to Make Plans to be Happy
It's a Perfect Time to Make Plans ... to be Happy Looking through the medicine cabinet, we have bandages, salve, alcohol, calamine lotion, and some natural remedies. Sounds like I'm planning for hurt or discomfort. Do you have lots of canned goods, dry milk, dried fruits, tea, and even bottles of liquids a big bag of food for...
Food Glorious Food! (Gluten Free Snack)
Food Glorious Food (Gluten Free Snack) - Energy Bar Lots of people have come to our classes and always ask for the recipe of our energy bars. Here it is. Enjoy! PEANUT BUTTER ENERGY BARS INGREDIENTS 1/2 cup honey 1-1/4 cup peanut or other freshly made nut butter (Grind at store) ½ cup ground flax seed OR meal (It’s better to get...
How I Became … (a Hypnotherapist)
How I Became (a Hypnotherapist) My brother asked me to write a book about How I Became a Hypnotherapist. He wanted to know what motivated me to do "it." May I tell you that it's interesting to hear this from people. So, I wanted to take this time to talk about it (you can buy the book later). If you were to go to the Oregon...
Advice for Seeking a Fresh Start
Advice for Seeking a Fresh Start Who knows better than the person who has lost everything in how to get a fresh start?! Life, business, and relationship. The challenge, however, is that we naturally gravitate to what we know. How do we seek a fresh start? If you want to find a new relationship you may start looking in the same...
Hurt Cats, Dogs, and Rabbits – Oh, My!
Hurt Cats, Dogs and Rabbits - Oh, My! When a chipmunk falls on a Saturday night, who cares? Blackbirds with a broken wing ... a hurt dog or kitten ... who reaches out a helping hand? DoveLewis , a 24 Hour Emergency and ICU Hospital for animals. You can be black, white, yellow or all three colors and even more and any animal and...
Everybody Hurts Sometimes – Bell's Palsy
Everybody Hurts Sometimes - Bell's Palsy Stuff happens. Friends tell you, "Life is an adventure." Yet when you hurt you don't want to hear that from well-meaning friends. I know a person who recently experienced a difficult physical event. What a shock! This is really happening? Maybe I could change it by not acknowledging it....
OLPs to Perks to Feel Better
OLPs to Perks to Feel Better Do you wake up with "OLPs" Obnoxious Little Pains? This is when parts of you feel achy, slow, just not all 100{8b3a2f999ba59642dfe826ddd554f6c9ff0174d7b182d4f1913e29042ced5c7c} happy. You do if you find yourself saying things like "Groan... I feel pain in my back, joints, head, etc. I'm so...
Pediatric Hypnotherapy
Pediatric Hypnotherapy Workshop is scheduled for February 8th - 10th, 2013 at Apositiva in Portland, Oregon. Here's your chance to get some real training! In the world of life, how many of us know children who need the gift of change? When I first learned the benefits of hypnosis, I know I wanted to help everyone I could. Kids...
Change the Pain Through Stories
Changing the Pain Through Stories By Cat Wilson When was the last time you felt pain? How did you listen to it? (Or was it ignored?) Did you tell anyone? (Or hold it inside?) How did they listen? (Or not listen?) How did the story go from there? (Or not go?) Noticing pain, listening to pain, and entering a new story can lead to...
Are You an Executive Coach?
Are You an Executive Coach? Want to have an Executive Coach Roar? In the world of sports, there are coaches. In the world of life, there are coaches. In the world of business, there are coaches. They are all different. As Dr. Marci Nemhauser and Cat Wilson gather their experience in preparation for the coming workshop to be...
Two More Things
Just Two More Things Two more things to add to my list and no more paper. This is when I’m glad the paper is just a small yellow legal pad instead of a whole page. Why? This is my day off. Do you make lists? Efficiency makes the day more valuable, and when I know there is this one day to get it all done, a list is the trick. My...
You, Me and the Angels
You, Me and the Angels We all have roles that we take on and personally I'm happy with all of my chosen roles. Sometimes it gets to be challenging and we find ourselves in need of support. How do we get that support when we're currently in the leader role? In business, we might turn to a mentor. In our family we might...
Take a Breath
Take a Breath 1. When the world feels like it's toppling down on you, and you feel bound, take a breath. 2. If the kids are insane, and you can't find your brain, take a breath. 3. As you reach for those substitutes that you use to think give a boost, take a breath. 4. People are people, and can blast down your steeple,...
Gratitude. Forgiveness. Love.
Gratitude. Forgiveness. Love. Evening... Sun going down. Waves falling back into sea. Winds are sweet as they blow away the smog of traffic and industry muck, and the evening brings a gentle repose for us as the lights fade and the stars come out. Perhaps as you read these words and travel to a time when you remember a...
Whether the Weather is Weatherable depends upon your State?
Whether the Weather is Weatherable depends upon your State! How so? Ah it is another Oregon day. And as a true Oregonian you're able to weather, equally, the grey and the blue days which are a part of our beautiful state. State you say, is a state of mind and you don't mind the grey. In fact you embrace it. Wet and green is...
How to Get More …
How to Get More ... Roses. Sweet, beautiful, a symbol of love. Right there in front of us. Are you noticing the roses? What we notice in our foreground (what is right in front of us) may be different than what we notice in our background (behind us). One view may be out of our focus because we are "internal" and processing ideas...
Visual Recording is Eye Candy
Visual Recording is Eye Candy Imagine students sitting and listening to a lecture on changing beliefs. Some of the participants doodled, some used colorful pens and took notes, and some mind mapped their speaker's lecture. It's all good here! In this class were educators, retired doctors, sales people, holistic healers, business...
Happy Workaholics Day
Happy Workaholics Day What "wild card" did you draw from your deck? Is it the "Running Like Horses"? If so, today is your day to pick a movie and go watch it, or pick up the novel you haven't finished and read it! Taking care of yourself with healthy balance in mind and body is what keeps the horse running. Burning the...
Projects
Projects What if you had supportive people to help you with a project? How much could you accomplish in 30 days? Are you creative? Want to be? Portland, Oregon is a beautiful place and a creative place. Full of creative people. Lots of movies and new ideas are created here. How about you? Is there something you want to...
Cures, Exercises, Stress
Cures, Exercises, Stress How does Ginger become the stuff in a jar? It's a process. By the way, how are your processes done? What do you think about Cures, Exercises, and Stress? Are you are needing attention in these areas? Perhaps you are seeking a higher level of living. Maybe you are in a place where the experience...
Don't Compromise Yourself. You are all you've got.
"Don't Compromise Yourself. You are all you've got." Janis Joplin spoke through the power of a confident woman to all people, and especially women. Why? Because so many let their interests and ideas be stepped on and left to the wayside or they never offer their input. Perhaps it is because they won't have a cheering section like...
Lost In Innerspace
Lost In Innerspace Many people notice life changes when the sun hides out behind all the gray skies for extended periods. Others find it happening after some change in their life. Anything from moving, job changes, relationship changes or not having a relationship, thwarted dreams, plans or goals. There are lots of reasons...
Breaking News
Breaking News! When you hear this statement do you get riled up? Do you wonder what awful thing is happening now? Or... do you get excited about a new cure for pain, a solution to a world problem, an agreement between sides in a conflict? Well, it's up to you what you want to do with your mind, but could I offer something useful?...