Posts by Elise Walmsley
Stress and Pain Management Techniques Using Frontal Cortex Thought
Our greatest cause of stress is often our own thoughts and we know that stress increases pain. When we hold high expectations of ourselves or when we fill our consciousness with worry, we transmit our concerns inward. Your subconscious brain has no way of knowing what is fact or what is fiction. It is only…
Read MoreEmpower Your Healing With Visualization
Visualization, also known as Mental Imagery, or Visual Mental Rehearsal, is a technique that has been proven to be extraordinarily successful in producing a specific outcome. Whenever we imagine ourselves performing an action in the absence of physical practice, we are said to be using visual imagery.
Read MoreYour Autonomic Nervous System – An important part of your mind-body connection
High levels of stress inhibit your ability to think clearly and force you into perceiving your reality through your limbic system, which is a part of your primitive brain function.
Read MoreFive Ways Mindfulness Courses Will Help You
Mindfulness courses are all about reducing stress and really focusing your energies on the positive. Mindfulness is a therapeutic way to pay extra close attention on something very specific. Mindfulness courses have their root in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, a technique developed by Dr. Jon Kabat-Zin at the University of Massachusetts. The idea was to use mindfulness…
Read MoreProgram Offers Relief From Chronic Pain
Publication: Massage Therapy Canada April 4, Barrie, ON – In spring 2011, pain sufferers will engage in the opportunity to learn how to manage their pain through the highly anticipated self-help visualization book and CDs, The Will to Heal Technique, A Guided Workbook to Relieve Pain. Creators, Andrew MacWha and Elise Walmsley-MacWha, formerly of TrifocalCommunications…
Read MoreHealing Ways
Publication: The Barrie Examiner Barrie couple develop way to help ease chronic pain. A local couple is asking you to listen to the voices inside your head. Andrew MacWha and Elise Walmsley-MacWha believe they have developed a methodology that will help people lessen their chronic pain and learn to deal with the stress in their…
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