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Zapchen (Somatic Therapy)

September 21, 2015 By Daniel Davis Leave a Comment

Kid Giggling

Rasberries and Stomping

Yawning

Setting Down The World and Turkey Flopping

Falling Asleep

Filed Under: Somatic Therapy

How do I fall asleep and stay asleep?

May 26, 2015 By Daniel Davis 2 Comments

One of the most frustrating things is to have time to sleep and to lie awake in bed, starring at the ceiling.    Look around you if you are in a crowded room – the person on your left sleeps well.  The person on your right has trouble sleeping.  Sometimes, it is the demands of work, school, or children that keep us from getting enough sleep to feel rested and alert.

Before the electric light was invented in 1879, most people slept 10 hours a night.  People in countries free from demands of modern industrialized society, typically sleep 10 hours a night.  Americans on average sleep just 6 hours and 24 minutes sleep at night.   Successful people sleep 8 hours and 24 minutes a night.

Good sleep energizes the body and enables our brains to think and remember better.  Thirty percent of high school and college students fall asleep in class at least once a week.  Without enough sleep for long periods of time, we can become physically ill with health problems such as diabetes.  Most mental health problems are related to sleep.  We can become so deprived of sleep that we do not know what it feels like to be wide awake.

Here are some suggestions to improve sleep:

*Keep a regular schedule for going to bed and getting up

*Don’t drink or eat caffeine (coffee, caffeinated tea, or chocolate)

*Don’t smoke, especially near bedtime or if you are awake in the middle of the night

*Avoid alcohol and heavy meals before going to bed

*Get regular aerobic exercise (not to close to bedtime)

*Minimize noise and light where you sleep (quiet and dark help)

*Keep temperatures moderate-not too hot or cold

*Spend the time 30 to 60 minutes before be relaxing (quiet music, meditation, pray, stretching)

Using simple movements, natural to us as children that we have been taught to suppress as grown-ups, Laura Lund offers us ways to fall asleep and stay asleep.  Laura Lund is certified as a Somatic Counselor and Educator with Zapchen Somatics.  In this video, Laura Lund demonstrates techniques to help us sleep.

 

Filed Under: Blog, Sleep, Somatic Therapy

How do I relax when I am angry?

May 19, 2015 By Daniel Davis 6 Comments

If you have some trouble controlling your anger, you are normal. Anger has enormous power that over shadows our clear thinking and our desire to do good. Academic studies identify it as the hardest of emotions to master. Most adults do not master anger until after age 50 – if ever. Anger can lead to heart disease and cancer.

We typically get angry when someone blocks us from our goals, lies to us, or unjustly hurts someone. Fear is an emotional signal that danger is near. Anger is a signal someone is crossing into our territory – physically or psychologically. Yet there is an upside to anger, because anger gets us moving. Anger and depression are incompatible states.

Play is the natural way we let go of our unpleasant emotions and heal. Children naturally play through a conflict they experience. Play is the natural way we let go of tension and heal. During authentic play, we are spontaneous, unselfconscious, and non-competitive as well as lose track of time. Playing is part of what it means to be human. Schiller says, (woman or) “man is completely human only when (she or) he is at play.”

Using simple movements, natural to us as children that we have been taught to suppress as grown-ups, Laura Lund. offers us ways to cope with anger. Laura Lund is certified as a Somatic Counselor and Educator with Zapchen Somatics. In this video, Laura Lund demonstrates technique to change our emotional state with childlike body movements and sounds – raspberries, horse lips, and stomping.

Filed Under: Anger Management, Blog, Somatic Therapy

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