Mind Skills Training--Cognitive behavioral stress reduction, mindfulness skills training, bioenergetic brain rewiring, and bilateral stimulation modalities are therapeutic modalities used to increase an individual's ability to self-regulate his or her stress response and induce kinder healthier thinking habits. They emphasize the importance of compassion and self-compassion in interactions with the world and the self. Influenced by Buddhist values that underscore the influence compassion has on others’ happiness as well as one’s own. Mind Skills training implements techniques that help establish traits like acceptance and self-respect, to
enhance self-assurance and positive emotion.
Bioenergetic Medicine—Bio-Resonance Analysis and Therapy—Bioenergetic therapies are based on the concept of aligning or balancing the body’s energy field. Your body was designed to be healthy. It is not just a bag of bones or a bag of chemicals but a very sophisticated bioenergetic instrument that responds to outside electromagnetic influences—whether from the environment or the powerful tools found in bioenergetic medicine. One of those tools is bio-resonance analysis and therapy. Every cell, tissue, organ and system of our bodies have resonating frequencies. Much like an orchestra, if one area of the body gets out of tune, it effects that individual’s entire performance or proper function. Through bio-resonance scanning, the body’s normal frequencies can be evaluated, right down to the DNA, to locate abnormal areas that show stress or malfunction. After identifying the specific health challenges for each individual, a method called Meta-Therapy is used to treat problem areas by giving corrective frequencies to restore cellular harmony so that the body’s natural healing can occur.
Botanical Therapies—While plant-based remedies have been used by indigenous cultures for thousands of years, Western medicine has been slow to embrace this approach. Prominent researchers, however, have explore the benefits of plant-based remedies for emotional disorders. Many plant substances are powerful medicines. Whereas, a single chemically derived drug may address a single problem, botanical medicines are able to address a variety of problems simultaneously. Their organic nature makes botanicals compatible with the body’s own chemistry. Hence, they can be gently effective with fewer toxic side effects.
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Nutritional Therapy—Over 50% of Americans over the age of 14 suffer from depression, anxiety, or mood challenges. Deficiency in the activity of the brain’s own antidepressant and anti-anxiety chemistry is the primary cause. Our mood management program naturally supports your body through nutritional and dietary changes to correct mood chemistry deficits. Nutritional therapy can quickly raise the levels of targeted neurotransmitters, creating positive changes in mood that are often evident in as little as a few days.
Auricular Therapy (AT) --Auriculotherapy -- Needle-less Acupuncture -- is both a diagnostic and an integrative treatment procedure whereby the external surface of the ear, or auricle, is stimulated to alleviate conditions in other parts of the body. The principles of Auricular Therapy (AT) are based upon both Traditional Chinese Medicine and neurological reflex therapies that were discovered in Europe. The essential principle in AT is that there are neurological reflexes and energetic correspondences between specific areas of the external ear, or auricle, and other parts of the body that are arranged in the pattern of an inverted fetus, which is similar to principles of reflexology on the feet.
AT can produce a therapeutic effect for treating various conditions by stimulating the acupoint that corresponds to the targeted part of the body or organ. Treatment of those reactive ear points can be achieved by tactile acupressure (ear seeds and acupressure). The WHO recognizes AT as a micro-acupuncture system that can produce a positive impact on regulating the whole body, and its therapeutic effect has been investigated in a wide range of health problems in both Asian and Western countries.
AT can be used to address very similar issues that body acupuncture can address including reducing pain, anxiety, withdrawal and addictions symptoms, migraines, insomnia, digestive issues, and many other conditions. Ear seeds are placed onto acupoints of the ears to provide a gentle stimulus whereby the patient is sent home with the ear seeds still in place and instructed on how to massage the ear seeds. This allows for a gentle yet longer stimulus of the acupoint on the ear. Traditionally, ear seeds come from the flowering herb Vaccaria, but practitioners can also use metal, silver, or gold-plated seeds today.
Natural Mood Management
Many of us have difficulties self-regulating emotional distress (anxiety, depression, anger, chronic stress) which leads to emotional dysregulation (over reaction rather than appropriate response) to seemingly benign circumstances. We seem stuck in the fight, flight or freeze response much of the time. There are numerous alternatives for managing stress, anxiety and other distressing moods naturally that can be more efficient, cost effective, and “side-effect“ free than other options you may have tried.
If your daily experience is characterized by feelings of anxiety, depression, anger, and/or chronic stress, there’s a good possibility that your nervous system is chronically dysregulated and can no longer support healthy self-regulation of emotional distress. The first thing to do to address these issues is to get your nervous system self-regulating. A regulated nervous system can shift easily from high arousal to low arousal, and from neutral, into states of joy and contentment. When your nervous system is regulated, you can more easily respond appropriately to circumstances rather than being emotionally hijacked into impulsive reaction, typically into "over-reaction".
Various pharmaceuticals are routinely prescribed in conventional medical treatment to address nervous system dysregulation (commonly regarded as "mood disorders"). Holistic mental health care utilizes natural and bioenergetic mind-body-heart focused therapies to reset the nervous system and renew the healthy mind/body balance in ways that can be more efficient, cost effective, and “side-effect-free” than other options.
Our Natural Mood Management programs represent innovative and holistic mental health care that focuses on identifying and treating the root causes of emotional dysregulation as well as relieving the symptoms of anxiety, depression, anger, and chronic stress through natural and bioenergetic treatments, and mind skills training. The result is acquisition of the skills and tools you need to self-regulate your emotional responses and moods in a healthy, balanced manner supported by a healthy self-regulated nervous system. Mind-Body-Heart Rx offers a number of Natural Mood Management specializations for designing an individualized program for your therapeutic needs.
Stress-Less Natural Mood Management Program
This is an eight-week program for mastering skills and tools to increase your ability to self-regulate emotional distress in healthy and effective ways. Stress happens when you're introduced to a challenge or demand in life, resulting in physical or emotional tension. Even though everyone experiences stress, it can still be harmful to your health if it occurs over a long period. Stress is your emotional and physical reaction to a challenge or demand. If you're in danger, the brain sends triggers—both chemical and along the nerves—to the adrenals, which are glands that sit on top of each kidney. The adrenals then churn out hormones, such as cortisol and adrenaline, which can increase: alertness, blood pressure, blood pressure, blood sugar, breathing, heart rate, muscle tension, and sweating. Short-term, or acute, stress goes away quickly, such as when you argue with someone or are running from a house fire.
However, your stress is chronic if it's constant and continues for weeks or even longer. When your stress lasts much longer, like when you're having financial difficulties, your body continues to stay in an alert, reactive state, and this leads to psychological and physical symptoms, such as asthma flare ups, gastrointestinal troubles (indigestion, constipation, diarrhea, loss of appetite, nausea, peptic ulcers, stomach cramping, irritable bowel syndrome), hair loss, heart problems, headaches, high blood sugar, increased appetite, insomnia, memory and learning issues, job performance issues, premature aging, reduced sex drive, and skin problems.
Trauma Recovery Natural Mood Management Program
This is a 12 week program for mastering skills and tools to increase your ability to resolve and recover from traumatic experiences as well as manage emotional dysfunction in healthy and effective ways.
A traumatic experience can be any extremely stressful event that taxes our ability to cope, resulting in fear, horror, or helplessness. People may find a wide variety of experiences to be traumatic, such as natural disasters, accidents, serious illnesses, fires, or war-related violence. Violent crime, bullying, domestic violence, sexual violence, child abuse, or neglect can also be traumatizing. Traumatic events can occur at any point in a person’s life. They may involve a single event, or repeated exposure over many years.
Trauma can have significant and widespread impacts. How someone is affected by a traumatic experience can vary tremendously, based on factors such as the person’s age, the type of event experienced, the social support they have available, and their coping strategies. Symptoms or impacts may appear immediately following a traumatic event, or may emerge over time. In some, but certainly not all cases, serious mental health outcomes such as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) can emerge.
While there is broad variability, research has found that trauma can have a negative impact on: Sense of safety; Cognitive skills, such as problem solving, concentration, or abstract reasoning; Emotional self-regulation (i.e., ability to understand emotional experiences and adjust or manage emotions); Emotional distress, such as depression or anxiety; Academic problems; interpersonal relationships and social skills: Self-concept; Aggression, hostility, and risk-taking; Perception of control; Agitation or irritability; Long-term physical health issues; Withdrawal.
Bioenergetic, Natural, and Functional Medicine Treatments
Our Natural Mood Management programs consist of a series of 90-minute mind-body-heart focused sessions
utilizing various evidence-based bioenergetic, somatic, natural and functional medicine modalities for healing the physiological, psychological. and emotional impacts of chronic stress and trauma. These Include:
