How a gratitude practice can change your life

It is grateful people that are happy, not happy first and then grateful. Change your mind and change your life with the practice of gratitude.  Practicing gratitude is proven age-old-strategy to raise the standard of your life.  In this podcast hear how Elke changed her life from living in poverty to becoming a successful psychotherapist with thriving private practice. She will share her tips so you can do this too.

Are you worrying about your finances?  Can you create budget?  Are you afraid to talk about money concerns with your partner? In this podcase Elke will share how she talks to lenders and how lenders work for you.

Decision Making Process Made Stress-Free

This podcast is inspired by Dr. Sue Jeffers’ chapter – No-Lose Decision Making from Feel the Fear and Do it Anyways.  Elke was so inspired that she has made a handout for her clients and has written about this in her own book.  How would you like to make no-lose decisions the rest of your life.  This model explains.  It can be humorous how we can drive ourselves sleepless with decisions making.

Breathing Tree Mediation

This is the first of many relaxing guided meditations.  Give yourself 15 minutes to visualize a tree of your choice with this lovely visualization.  Your body memory will remember this and be able to breath this imagery into yourself as needed.

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Worry Assignment

How would you like a 23 ½ hour day worry free?  In this podcast learn the difference between ‘concern’ and ‘worry’.  Do you find yourself having looping negative thoughts? Or chronic worry?  Elke describes a simple exercise that will free up your thoughts.  Learn how to change ‘channels’.  So many clients use this exercise with success.

Yes/No/ Maybe? Body Exercises

Have you lost trust in yourself and your choices?  Elke explains how we began our lives clearly knowing our “Yes” place and our “No” place. Then as we grew up and learned about social and cultural beliefs we stopped trusting our intuition/ our sixth sense/ our gut feeling.  Many of us have inner arguments, “should I” , “shouldn’t I “ ?.  With this simple exercise strengthen your inner body voice and gain trust in yourself.

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Feed all Four Areas

Life is a balancing act. This is a worldwide principal.  It’s important to feed all four areas to achieve balance.  Like a vehicle with four tires, all four tires need equal pressure for a smooth ride.  Elke talks about the four areas, Physical, Mental, Spiritual and Emotional.  Are you stronger in one area than another? Are you starved in an area. What is the experience like to feed all areas? Maybe one area needs to be pulled back and another enhanced.  Pick up many ideas on how to feed all four in this podcast.

Do you think you might have anxious people around you?  Yes, we can inherit anxiety and even trauma.  Have you ever been called over reactive, over sensitive, too sensitive.  Find out how these terms are a negative description of a character trait.

Memories and Trauma can also create anxiety.  Learn what you can do to move forward and heal.

Sometimes life brings the anxiety, hear what might be in your life that might cause anxiety and what to do about it.  Find out if you are overstimulated? Are you worried about missing out?  Elke talks about Social and Cultural beliefs that we have learned as children and how these beliefs can cause second guessing, self doubt and erose our self esteem.

In this podcast Elke talks about how not enough water can signal the brain into anxiety.  She explains how sugar, caffeine, alcohol and carbohydrates can cause anxiety for some people.  Being aware of your body and what you put in it can affect anxiety levels.  Learn in this blog what you can do to support your nervous system.  Also in this blog what physical things can affect your positively and adversely. Some many have been able to lower your stress and anxiety levels from these two aspects.