New Age CBT  

Being a Clinical Psychologist, Yoga instructor, Bellydancer and Image Consultant. I have become acutely aware of the significant connection that exhists between the body and our mind. Yes, it is true that on average a person has 60,000 thoughts a day and that our thoughts alone have a significant impact on our feelings. And that we are unconsciously sending ourselves messages all the time. This is were it is important to speak to a Psychologist that is trained in changing peoples irrational beliefs because these are the route of all unhealthy negative emotions. So, it is important to sit down and right out some of our thoughts daily and monitor them for irrational beliefs. As well as writing out goals for the month, monthly.
However, it is the  breath work, postures and affirmations or reframing in yoga that make it also a very powerful therapeutic tool. By rushing blood to certain areas of the brain and elevating your heart rate you are actually giving yourself an endorphin rush as well as activating certain glands that are responsible for regulating the fight or flight responses and therebye you can decrease your anxiety by simple breathing techniques and postures. There is a comorbidity between anxiety and depression meaning they are correlated if one is anxious one will get depressed. Yoga can help with so many things such as : Anxiety, Depression, Asthma, Arthritis, Back, or Neck pain etc. If you would like more information about simple eye excercises to help your memory and allow for balancing of the eft and right brain or personalized yoga routines for any of these problems please call 516-620-6848 and ask for a consult. I will be having more shows on these topics.
In the same way bellydance is very therapeutic. It is a way to express oneself nonverbally for those cultures that have a hard time expressing themselves (you can dance with your heart open or closed, you can dance the story of your life etc) in what "Westerns" prize, which is verbal communication. It is so important for all women because not only is it a way to form a close bond with the other dancers but it is a way for women to become comfortable and happy with their bodies and have a way to feel sensual without any reliance on men to make them feel so. Bellydance was always a dance were women would dance for other women untill recently and was a way for women to dance together to honor mother earth and to celebrate and worship their goddess, also for sexual fertility and in preparation for childbirth.  The same mind-body connection exhists with regard to ones image, the way you look and dress effects how you feel and what others think of you. Simply putting on a bellydance outfit can transform a more inhibited individual to be more disinhibited. The positive associations from bellydancing can continue on when one simply listens to bellydance music. Even though we would like to believe that we do not judge a book by its cover, research shows that this is not true. People are nicer to people that look good, they tend to hire people who look better etc. I have only begone to discuss the strong and significant connection that exhists between the mind and body. To hear more on these topics, please email me at Alvera1@gmail.com or send me a message.