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About Kimi Combow, M.Ed. Counselling Psychology, Registered Clincial Counsellor Services and Treatment Philosophy
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FOLLOWING YOUR HEART => HAPPINESS J
“Happiness is the goals of all goals. Go for happiness first…vs. making tons of $$, etc” - Deepak Chopra
If I do the things I love => Balance/Well-being => Happiness
For me, BALANCE includes:
Physical Mental Spiritual(Where is the mind?) Love
“Health rests on 3 pillars: the body, the psyche, and the spiritual connection. To ignore any one of them is to invite imbalance and disease.” - Gabor Mate, M.D.
“Healing is a phenomenon of finding balance and harmony”
Healing derives from an ancient origin, meaning “whole”. From “When The Body Says No: The cost of hidden stress” written by Gabor Mate, M.D.: (p.243) “… To heal is to become whole. But how can we be more whole than we already are? Or how is it that we could be less than whole? That which is complete may become deficient in two possible ways: something could be subtracted from it, or its internal harmony could be so perturbed that the parts that worked together no longer do so. As we have seen, stress is a disturbance of the body’s internal balance in response to the perceived threat, including the threat of some essential need being denied. Physical hunger may be one such deprivation, but in our society the threat is most often psychic, such as the withdrawal of emotional nourishment or the disruption of psychological harmony. “I cannot understand why I have cancer,” one woman with ovarian cancer said. “ “I’ve led a healthy life, eaten well, exercised regularly. I’ve always taken good care of myself. If anyone should be a picture of health, it’s me. “ The area she overlooked was invisible to her: the stress connected with emotional repression. Her conscientious (and conscious) best efforts to look after herself properly could not extend to an arena she did not know existed. That is why knowledge and insight have the power to transform, and why insight is more helpful to people than advice. If we gain the ability to look into ourselves with honesty, compassion, and with unclouded vision, we can identify the ways we need to take care of ourselves. We can see the areas the self formerly hidden in the dark. The potential for wholeness, for health, resides in all of us, as does the potential for illness and disharmony. Disease is disharmony. More accurately, it is an expression of internal disharmony. If illness is seen as foreign and external, we may end up waging a war against ourselves.”
MIND-BODY CONNECTION
“If you want to know the condition of your mind in the past, look at your body now. If you want to know the condition of your body in the future, look at your mind now.” –Deepak Chopra
“…Even to speak about links between mind and body is to imply that two discrete entities are somehow connected to each other. Yet in life there is no such separation; there is no body that is not mind, no mind that is not body. The word mindbody has been suggested to convey the real state of things.” – Gabor Mate
“As we pay more attention to our total health, we will certainly arrive at a more joyous, responsible and effective life” -Virginia Satir
INTUITION
Where is it? What is it?
“Intuition is far more powerful than the logical mind” - Albert Einstein
“Feel not what your mind tells you, but what your heart tells you. Rather than serve the fake gods in your mind, serve your heart, the real God. You will not find God in your intellect. Divine Intelligence is in your heart.” -Gary Zukov”
“The souls speaks to the human consciousness through sensations of health or disease in the body” -Mona Lisa Schultz, M.D., PH.D
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