Getting Mental Health On The Line – Weekending 16/07/17

Getting Mental Health On The Line is our weekly post that acts as an additional resource for both clients and fellow therapists alike.

This week, we’re presenting some of the best from the past week featuring topics as diverse as a look at belonging and how to belong, a 2 minute daily gratitude meditation routine, how to create binaural beats, a strengths based approach to treating anxiety, tips to breaking bad habits, changing subconscious programs to improve your life, and lastly a chat with the fantastic hypnotherapist Ines Simpson via the excellent Work Smart Hypnosis by Jason Linett.

If you have a video that you would like featured in our weekly roundup, then drop Lawrence a line with a link to your video.

Belonging and How to Belong – Teal Swan

By Teal Swan

This episode on belonging and how to feel like you belong explores our feeling of being isolated, lonely and alone. Teal Swan discusses how sometimes we feel that we only belong in places where we didn’t wish we belonged. In other words, we either don’t feel we belong or we feel that we only belong where we don’t want to belong. Teal swan then walks us through healing this aspect within ourselves so that we can find true belonging.

2 Minute Daily Gratitude Meditation | HeartMath Meditation Technique

By Project Life Mastery

In this video, I share with you a simple 2 minute daily gratitude meditation, called the HeartMath Meditation Technique, that was developed by the Heart Math Institute (HMI).

HMI researches the heart-brain communication, and its relationship to managing stress, increasing coherence, and deepening our connection to self and others. It is founded on the belief that our hearts have their own intelligence.

Your heart was created long before before you even had a brain. Don’t get me wrong, the head is an amazing tool for setting goals, learning, and strategizing, but it falls short at providing us with gratitude and happiness. Because the brain is designed to keep us safe and protected, it will always look for what is wrong and missing, which causes people a lot of stress, fear, and anxiety.

If you want to lead a happy life, you need to experience positive emotions. In the words of Paulo Coelho, “You will never be able to escape from your heart, so it is better to listen to what it has to say.” Are you ready to get out of your head and into your heart?

How to Make Binaural Beats

By Mike Russell

Binaural beats have proven handy to help with sleep, meditation, studying and lucid dreaming. What are binaural beats? This tutorial will cover the all the details from alpha to delta and beyond. Learn how to create your own binaural beats in audio editing software such as Adobe Audition CC.

scott sandland on hypnothoughts live

By Antonio Perez

Strengths Based Approach to Treating Anxiety: Counselor Toolbox Episode 150

By AllCEUs Counseling Education

How to ACTUALLY Break Your Bad Habits

By Thomas Frank

For a long time, one of my worst habits was drinking energy drinks. I’d drink two or three a day – and I HATED the fact that I did it, but I couldn’t stay disciplined enough to quit. I kept doing it for years.

Finally, I got fed up enough with the consequences to finally give the habit up once and for all.

In this video, I’ll share some of the techniques that helped me break this habit – and many others since. Whatever your bad habits are, you’ll be able to use these strategies to quit them as well.

Dr Bruce Lipton, Biology of Belief: Change Subconscious Programs to Reprogram Your Mind

By Reprogramming Mind

Bruce Lipton, shares his insights on stem cell research and how genes do not control biology but that perception of the environment does.

Discover how Bruce Lipton changed his subconscious programs to improve his life and how we download disempowering programs up to the age of 7. He also talks about relationships and how they can be affected by subconscious programs and what you can do to change them for the better.