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Stress Management Consulting Certification Article on Calm Techniques

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We all know stress causes a fight or flight response.  Within the sympathetic nervous system it awakens the body through various increases in adrenaline to prepare the body for action.  Increase in heart rate, muscle tension, blood pressure, digestive shutdown and preparation to face struggle emerge within the body.  Short term this can save oneself, but long term when facing modern problems that cannot be fled or do not pose physical harm, it can cause issues with health.  AIHCP’s Stress Management Consulting Program offers courses and ideas on how to reduce stress and find calm for oneself and others.

It is very important to identify stressors and reduce the negative impact on the body.  Knowing how to calm the body is key.  There are a variety of ways to calm the body physically, mentally and emotionally.  There are also a variety of tools to help calm the body.  The key is to reverse the effects of the sympathetic nervous system and return to a state of calm.  Of course Meditation is key but not everyone can mediate immediately when stressed.  Long term use of meditation can help overall and when the situation occurs, but one needs to have other strategies also to deal with anxiety, fear, stress and worry.

Too many times, people let worry and stress dominate instead of trying to find peace and calm. Please also review AIHCP’s Stress Management Consulting Program

 

Physically, Power Breathing is an excellent way to help reverse the ill effects of stress.  When stressed, individuals breath in short shallow breathes.  This reduces oxygen in the blood and also causes anxiety. It is important to take deep breathes that fill the entirety of the lungs, allowing the abdomen to fill and the chest to expand.  These short breathes should focus on inhaling and exhaling to promote a more peaceful mind set.  This in turn can help the body reverse the effects of the stress response on the blood pressure, muscles and heart.

In addition, Yoga postures, as well as various calm postures can help.  Simply by taking a calm postures such as Calm Unfold, that involves a bending to the ground and allowing the arms to dangle, can help reduce stress.  Also, when stressed, jaws become stern.  By touching the roof of one’s mouth with the tongue, the jaw can be relaxed.  Lotus hands and other Eastern postures can also create a sense of calm.   By reversing facial expressions associated with stress such as Calm Demeanor, one can also trick the subconscious that correlates these expressions with happier times.

If one notices, when stressed, people speed up things.  They talk faster, walk faster, breath faster.  Walk slower, speak slower and most importantly by breathing slower, can reverse ill effects of stress.  These slow down calm techniques can be very useful.

Some points also help negative energy within the body process through.  Acupuncture and EFT tapping are all examples of utilizing points in the body to release negative energy trauma and stress.  Self massage points can help reduce tension and stress.  Checkbone rubs, Feng Chih (back of skull), Jan Ku (below ankle), Chin Wei (Below breast bone), ear points, wrists,  top of head and foot reflexology can all be sensitive points that can relax energy channels and muscles.  Aromas such as lavender can also help one find calm physically.

Like meditation, herbs can also play long term keys in helping oneself, but again, these are not immediate fixes like many of the above procedures.  Ginseng, Valerian and Chamomile can all play long term helps, as well as a higher alkaline diet.

Individuals can also employ a wide variety gadgets to help reduce stress on the spot.  Finger bindings, worry beads, stress balls, music, ionizer, bio feedbacks, self hypnosis and stress balls are all techniques and gadgets on the spot that can help reduce stress.

Mentally and emotionally, individuals can also reduce stress.  Stressors for some are not for others.  In many ways, some stress is perception as well as how one copes with the particular stress.  Individuals with type A personalities which are more aggressive, over-worked, self centered and heavy goal orientated individuals suffer more from stress than Type B personalities.  Type B personalities are more laid back and less prone to stress.  Neither personality is superior but if one is more one than the other, then difficulties can arise in how work and goals are met.  It is important to implement a little of both personalities to truly find success without the high stress.

Most stressed individuals can utilize a variety of mental ways to reduce stress by how they view it.  Calm affirmations are on such way.  Calm affirmations replace negative words with positive words for each situation.  Focus is more on the positive.

In addition, Big Screen Visualization can play a big role in helping a person view a stressful situation.  Through the power of imagination and visualization, one can imagine oneself in various situations but with successful outcomes.  Another visualization technique is referred to as Stepping in Time.  With this visualization, one imagines the problem now then reviews it at a later date, and if it bears any power on that date.  This can help one see the true significance of the stressor.

Also, one can similarly try the Ten Year Plan, as well as the Universal Perspective.  The Universal Perspective teaches one to visualize oneself from various frames of height, until one only sees the Earth.  One can even go farther to the edge of the solar system or galaxy.  How important is the stressor at that moment?

Individuals can elicit a calm response through various techniques. Please also review AIHCP’s Stress Management Consulting Certification

 

Framing is also another useful visualization tactic in which the person can reframe in one’s mind a stressful person or place with comedy.  For those who feel they cannot perform these visualizations or avoid the stress, one can offer a Lets Pretend technique.  The stressed person then pretends they are not stressed.  Sure enough, soon the person discovers he or she is not stressed

Other Type A worriers need strategies.  Permission to let loose, or be a Type B person for an hour, or permission to say no, or permission to play strategies can help them unwind.  In addition, giving one a worry free spot, whether at home or work to go to.  This type of re-programming is based on the environment.  Places, music, or scents that are associated with stress are stressful.  Opposite, places, music and scents associated with peace are not stressful.  One can trick the subconscious to feel safer and relaxed by sitting in area more peaceful, or listening to a song associated with a good moment.

Worry lists can also help.  One can departmentalize the worry and assign it an appropriate time.  This closely resembles the concept of worry dolls.  In addition, sometimes, disconnect is critical.  To walk away from the worry itself to eliminate the stressor and the physical issues associated.

This is a but a small sample on ways to elicit the calm response within the body.  There are many other ways, especially in the text Instant Calm found with SM560.

If you would like to learn more about reducing stress and becoming certified in Stress Management Consulting, then please review AIHCP’s Stress Management Consulting Program and see if it meets your academic and professional goals.  The program is online and independent study and open to qualified professionals looking to become Stress Management Consultants

Resources

Instant Calm by Paul Wilson

 

Anger Management Consulting Certification Article on Anger in Golf

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Frustration and anger can emerge even when we are doing something we like. Hobbies are not immune to anger and rage outbursts especially if we are not performing to optimal standards.  Golf is one such example of a game where anger can erupt.  Below are some tips to control anger, not just for golf, but for life itself.

Are you allowing a mere game to get the best of you? Please also review AIHCP’s Anger Management Consulting Certification

 

The article, “When anger goes too far: 10 rules for avoiding an on-course blowup” by Shane Ryan looks at how to  control your emotions while on the course.  He states, 

“Assuming you’re not a living saint and have not attained nirvana, you should accept the fact that anger is going to bubble up on the golf course if you care about the state of your game. It’s a natural emotion, and it needs an outlet. Keeping anger to yourself only allows it to fester and results in bigger blow-ups down the line. So by all means, if you hit a bad shot, chastise yourself, swear if you’re in safe company, and bemoan the gods. But keep it to five seconds—after that, let it go, and let it go for good.”

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Applying basic anger management to even golf itself can help one find more calm and reduce temper tantrums in life itself.  How one behaves in any environment in regards to anger translates to a larger issue than a mere game but an issue of self control.

Please also review AIHCP’s Anger Management Consulting Certification and see if it meets your academic and professional goals.  The program in online and independent study and open to qualified professionals seeking a four year certification in Anger Management

Clinical Hypnotherapy Certification Article on Fear of Needles

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Many individuals fear needles.  During this pandemic is not the time to allow fears and phobias to prevent healthy decisions.  Hypnosis can help one overcome irrational fears.  Individuals with anxiety over needles and utilize calming techniques and self hypnosis to help themselves receive the vaccines or shots they need to live a safe life during the pandemic.

Hypnosis can help with a variety of irrational fears and phobias. Please also review AIHCP’s Clinical Hypnotherapy Certification

 

The article, “Use Self-Hypnosis to Get Ready for Your Jab. How to Treat Irrational Fear of Needles with Hypnotherapy: by Elena Volodchenko takes a closer look at how one can calm him or herself prior to a shot.  She states,

“Fear of needles affects up to 25% of population, according to research. Although it may be brushed off as irrational, it is however very real for the person who is afraid and may prohibit them from getting the vaccine or, in an event of getting a vaccine, will likely to cause an extreme overwhelm, anxiety, panic attacks or fainting.”

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It is important not to let irrational fear prevent your from protecting your own health.  Hypnosis and other calming techniques may be able to help

Please also review AIHCP’s Clinical Hypnotherapy Certification and see if it meets your academic and professional goals.  The program is online and independent study and open to qualified professionals seeking a four year certification in Hypnotherapy.

 

Substance Abuse Counseling Certification Article on Helping Others Through Addiction

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Seeing a loved one suffer through addiction can be painful.  It is important to know how to help a loved one though addiction and find the help one needs.  One needs to show patience but also sternness in helping someone re-find their way after addiction.  It can be a slow and painful process but love can find a way to ensure a good ending.

It takes time and dedication to help someone through addiction. Please also review AIHCP’s Substance Abuse Counseling Certification

 

The article, “How to Help Someone You Loves Who Struggles With Addiction—5 Expert Tips” by Laura Hilgers looks at how someone can help another person through addiction.  She states,

“There’s a common misconception that once someone completes a 28-day rehab program, they’re cured. But according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, most people need at least90 days of residential or outpatient treatment for a positive outcome. If your loved one suffers from opioid use disorder, they’ll probably also need medication-assisted treatment (MAT). The drugs used in MAT—such as buprenorphine, methadone, or naltrexone—help manage cravings and withdrawal. “They do not substitute one addiction for another,” says Dr. Roy. “They are evidence-based, lifesaving medicines.”

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Addiction is not a choice but a disease.  To help someone through it, it takes dedication, patience and love.  It is something that never goes away but needs to vigilantly guarded against.

Please also review AIHCP’s Substance Abuse Counseling Certification and see if it matches your academic and professional goals.  The program is online and independent study and open to qualified professionals seeking a four year certification in Substance Abuse Counseling.

 

Christian Counseling Certification Article on Modernism

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Modernism is a late 19th to early 20th Century heresy of Christianity that has continued to exist well into the 21st Century.  Its ideals and thoughts were reactionary to the scientific revolution and its more atheistic shades.  When the empiricism and the scientific method emerged, ideas of faith and miracles were questioned.  Empiricists such as Locke and Hume denounced religion as superstitious and un-scientific.  Further atheistic movements within the scientific community such as Positivism and Pragmatism emerged in the 20th Century that looked to denounce all forms of faith as useless.  Positivism looked to even remove any value of the words associated with God or faith from a linguistic view.

The modernist looked to build a bridge between Christianity and Empiricism.  It looked to find ways faith could still have meaning.  It looked to salvage a belief in God and allow Christians to be believers but also rationalists.  With such a compromise, the faith was eroded.  Miracles were dismissed, Scripture reduced to fables, and the idea of unchangeable dogma were denied.  This watered down version of Christianity presented Christ as a mere person and not God and the Bible as uninspired and written by only by holy men.

The Modernists looked to remove all unexplained elements of Christianity and replace it with rational thought.  In doing so, Scripture and Christ, were seen as noble things.  Scripture was seen as a good book that helps form good conscience and Christ was seen as a historical figure who possessed the spirt of God, but was not God.   Like Scripture, Jesus was a guide to holiness and morality but nothing more.

The Modernist denies the infallibility of Scripture. Please also review AIHCP’s Christian Counseling Program

 

The problem with Christianity was its past superstitious beliefs, according to the Modernist.   The Modernist pointed out that Scripture was an important spiritual book and its inner message needed heeded but this message was distracted by literalism in belief of miracles.   Instead, Modernists looked to find the real meaning behind the myths of Scripture.  From Adam and Eve, to the parting of the Red Sea, to the Resurrection of Christ, all miracles were examined and dismissed, but the message behind them was sought.  Understanding the true message of these miracles and what the authors meant to express in mythical language was the key, according to Modernists.

With the idea that miracles cannot happen, Modernists rejected the idea that God acts directly in human matters.  God, as a being, or a state of being, communicates to creation through Vital Immanence.  Through Immanence, humankind can hear the voice of God.  Hence God communicates to humanity through the quiet of the heart.  Ideas and new movements and development of humanity are generated at a global level through this whisper of God.  Hence, God only speaks in the quiet, not through a divinely inspired book, or through miracles, or through Jesus Christ as God, but through oneself and through other people.

Jesus plays a central role in Modernism.  He is a paradigm of humanity. He teaches humanity how to treat others but also reached a state of Christ consciousness.  God spoke so powerfully through Jesus that he remains a central element of their heretical creed.  This is how the Modernist hides behind the false mask as Christian yet still denounces Christ’s divinity.

The Modernist hence declares him or herself a believer, but also a rationalist, a student of history, and a student of science, while still being a Christian.  While these sciences can never contradict truth of Christianity, the Modernist has twisted the Christian faith so much that it no longer is the Christian faith.  It becomes more an agnostic faith based loosely on historical man Jesus and moral values that change with the needs of the Church.

There are both Catholic and Protestant Modernists but regardless of faith, Modernists teach an indifferentism towards salvation.  Salvation is through any faith, not just Christ, but any faith that adheres to morality and the call and whisper of God via Vital Immanence.  A Modernist merely utilizes a certain heritage of faith that best fits his or her needs in meeting the call of God.   In this way, any route to heaven is equally true, and any dogma is non binding, as certain ones are able to evolve as the call of God demands.

In addition, the Modernist can be both be Theist or Pantheist.  Some Modernists believe God is a state of being that is infused throughout the cosmos, while others believe God is a being, but a being that is bound by the laws of physics that he created.  Hence many Modernists believe God and time are co-equal and that God does not exist outside of the realm of time.

Some notable Catholic Modernists are Fr. George Tyrell and  Fr. Alfred Loisy of the early 20th Century. St Pope Pius X condemned their writings and imposed a strict oath against Modernism for all clergy.  Catholic Modernism would re-emerge during Vatican II and attempt to water down the faith.  Notable heretics include Fr. Pierre Chardin and Hans Kung.

Protestant Modernists included Rudolf Bultmann who worked to great lengths to demytholize Scripture and find the historic Jesus.  Paul Tillich is also a notable Protestant Modernist theologian who looked to find value in myth over literal belief in Scripture.

Today Modernism can be found at the pulpit or in the classroom.  It flourishes most in academia and can be a threat to young unexpecting Christians not strong in the faith.

If you would like to learn more about Modernism, please refer to St Pope Pius X, Pascendi, and also the Syllabus of Errors on the Modernist.  Pius was one of the first Christians to identify this heresy and dismantle its ideas and expose this synthesis of all heresies.

Please also review AIHCP’s Christian Counseling Certification and see if it meets your academic and professional goals.  The program is online and independent study and open to qualified professionals seeking a four year certification as a Christian Counselor.

 

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Pascendi by Pope Pius X.  Click here

 

 

 

Grief Counseling Certification Video on Suicide

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Suicide is a tragic loss.  It is not only a stigmatizing loss but it is also one that many feel can be prevented.  Those who survive suicide, or family members who deal with the after loss all have enormous grief.  The wake of suicide can be devastating.  Grief Counselors and Crisis Counselors need to be able to help individuals through issues to prevent suicide or future attempts and help families cope with a successful suicide of a loved one

Please also review AIHCP’s Grief Counseling Certification video on suicide

Grief Counseling Certification Video on Complicated Grief

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Complicated Grief is a result of not naturally processing through the grieving cycle.  It can result in Prolonged Grief, or turn into a Clinical Depression.  Complications in grief are due to the nature of the loss, the subjective uniqueness of the person experiencing grief, or other supporting factors or lack of.  Please also review AIHCP’s Grief Counseling Certification

Please review AIHCP’s Video on Complicated Grief

Crisis Intervention Counseling AIHCP Video

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Helping individuals in extreme numbing trauma and restoring them to a pre crisis state of mind is important.  Individuals who suffer catastrophic loss can find themselves in a dark chaos.  In other areas, those who are in suicidal ideation may need crisis intervention to help them find hope.  Crisis Intervention is key in helping individuals overcome extreme despair.  Crisis Intervention Counselors work as licensed counselors or also in crisis centers, or even as first responders.

Please review AIHCP’s video on Crisis Intervention Counseling

Holistic Integrative Specialist Program Article on Ayurveda and Holistic Practices

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Eastern techniques and herbal remedies can play big dividends with health but they need to be properly utilized and understood.  This requires a healthcare professional who knows how to implement Eastern remedies in unison with Western medications.  It can be dangerous to randomly create one’s own health plan without consulting a professional.  This is because many medications may not mix or match with certain herbal remedies.  Holistic Integrative Professionals can play a key role in helping individuals properly utilize medication.

Holistic medicine is about balance. Please also review AIHCP’s Holistic Integrative Specialist Program

Please also review AIHCP’s Holistic Integrative Specialist Program and see if it meets your academic and professional goals.  The program is online and independent study and open to qualified healthcare professionals seeking a four year certification as a Holistic Nurse.

 

 

 

 

Pet Loss Grief Support Certification Article on Home Euthanasia

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Putting a dog, cat, horse, or any pet down is a painful decision.  It is something that takes much thought and love in regards to the pets condition and also one’s own anguish.  It is definitely not one of life’s happiest moments but in those moments, we find our true love for each other in the final goodbye.  The goodbyes used to be very sterile and informal.  The dog or cat was taken back never to be seen again.  Fortunately, now one can stand side by side or even receive the ashes of a loved pet.  Even so, now euthanasia is offered at home in some cases.  This is a difficult decision but may also be a more comforting one for many.

Saying good bye is a day we all dread. Please also review AIHCP’s Pet Loss Grief Support Certification

 

The article, “At-home euthanasia can provide comfort to pets and owners” by Kathryn Streeter looks closer at how a pet owner can utilize home euthanasia for one’s beloved pet.  She states,

“Psychotherapist and thanatologist Andrea Warnick has experienced both clinic and at-home euthanasia when her cats were terminally ill. “I think [at-home euthanasia] is a wonderful option because at this point a pet is pretty sick, and actually transporting them to a vet’s office can be anxiety-provoking and uncomfortable,” says Warnick, whose practice in Canada, Andrea Warnick Consulting, focuses on supporting grieving children, youths and adults.”

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Please also review AIHCP’s Pet Loss Grief Support Certification and see if it matches your academic and professional goals.  The program is online and independent study and open to qualified professionals seeking a four year certification in Pet Loss Grief Support.