Life Counseling Portland, Or | Sheryl Eldene Certified Life and Wellness Coach

In many cases, the effects of past events can be stored in a person's nerve pathways. A depressed or fearful person's nervous system is not damaged; it's frozen in a kind of suspended animation. This suspension seems to reproduce the reaction to the original event over and over. The difficulty comes when the habitual neurological reaction gets imbedded in your life and it feels like you no longer have choices about how your life is proceeding.

By giving attention to the ways that the body is holding the past emotional experiences, we can begin to break this cycle of helplessness. We may use techiques that supports this intention such as slow movements; breath and focused calming; hypnotic learning that relaxes the body and calms the mind; or attention to physical necessities, such as nutrition, sleep patterns, and exercise. These together begin to teach you to live from your strengths and from your own inner resources.

Thoughts also serve to hold past experiences in one's life. We can discover what those thoughts are by reviewing current events and how you respond to them. These thoughts create your reality and they affect your moods. We call them automatic thoughts, because they come from that cycle of helplessness, and appear to be programmed into one's neurological system. Using Energy Psychology, we can also ask the neurological and electrical systems that hold the thought in place to change its pattern.

Finally, we work to discover what your natural, life-long talents and resources are. Using the work of positive psychology, we will use testing, and looking at your life stories to discover your own top four or five strengths. We can then fashion exercises and experiences that can help you discover how you can live the amazing, happy, satisfied, meaningful life you desire.

Sheryl Eldene, MA, Licensed Professional Counselor
Mail: 4836 S.W. Scholls Ferry Rd. #421, Portland, Oregon 97225
Phone 503-297-8805
Email: sheryl@oplcenter.com

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