May is National Physiotherapy Month, celebrating the dedicated professionals who help us move and live better. Whether recovering from injury, managing chronic pain, or enhancing athletic performance, physiotherapy offers personalized solutions. It’s a holistic approach focusing on restoring function, mobility, and overall well-being. This month, take a moment to recognize the invaluable contributions of physiotherapists in our community. Consider scheduling a visit to address any nagging discomfort or to optimize your physical health. Let’s honor National Physiotherapy Month by prioritizing our bodies’ needs and embracing the transformative power of movement. Your journey to improved mobility and vitality starts here.
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Benefits of Reiki and Mental Health
In the realm of mental health, the practice of Reiki holds significant promise, offering a spectrum of benefits that contribute to overall well-being. By facilitating deep relaxation and alleviating stress, Reiki serves as a conduit for restoring emotional equilibrium. Through gentle touch, it channels universal life force energy, fostering harmony among the body, mind, and spirit. Its subtle yet profound effects extend to enhancing self-awareness and mindfulness, empowering individuals to navigate life’s trials with greater resilience. Accessible to all ages and complementing conventional therapies or self-care routines seamlessly, Reiki emerges as a versatile tool in the pursuit of holistic mental health.
Align Body and Mind: B.E.S.T. Approach
In the realm of holistic wellness, the Bio-Energetic Synchronization Technique (B.E.S.T.) stands out as a gentle yet powerful approach to restoring balance and promoting healing. Rooted in the understanding that the body has an innate ability to heal itself when obstacles are removed, B.E.S.T. utilizes non-invasive touch and dialogue to identify and release emotional, physical, and chemical stressors. By harmonizing the body’s energy systems, B.E.S.T. aims to optimize overall health and well-being. With its focus on addressing the root causes of discomfort rather than just symptoms, B.E.S.T. offers individuals a holistic pathway towards greater vitality and resilience.
Health Benefits of Hypnotherapy
Some of us are struggling with stress related mental health issues. Hypnotherapy can help reduce stress, change how we look, manage stressors and improve coping skills as we learn how to get our needs met. Learning self-hypnosis can reduce anxiety and depression. Having a personalized hypnotherapy audio recording designed just for you can make a significant change in your life. The subconscious mind is the giant within. Learn how to reprogram yours to live a better life. Hypnotherapy is quick and effective. It leaves the client feeling calm, clear and confident. Contact me to find out more.
SFBT: Transforming Mental Health Challenges
Interpersonal conflict creates stress that has major impacts on mental health. Solution Focused Brief Therapy or SFBT is a type of short-term therapy that supports individuals to find solutions to the problems they are facing by leveraging their strengths, accomplishments and problem solving skills. Unlike traditional psychotherapy, SFBT is forward focused and solutions oriented instead of backward focused. It spends less time dissecting problems and more time identifying opportunities and possibilities for alleviating the stressors and interpersonal conflict in your life. SFBT can be used to improve many mental health concerns including anxiety and depression.
The Ripple Effect: Hearing Loss & Mental Health
As Mental Health Week approaches this May, let’s shine a light on the profound impact of untreated hearing loss on our well-being. Beyond the obvious auditory challenges, untreated hearing loss can lead to feelings of isolation and depression. Difficulty communicating with others can exacerbate these feelings, impacting our mental health. Research underscores the importance of addressing hearing loss promptly to safeguard not just our hearing, but also our emotional and psychological well-being. Let’s prioritize regular hearing check-ups and seek support if experiencing any symptoms. It’s a crucial step toward nurturing both our ears and our mental health.
Anxiety / Depression / PTSD / Stress
The above are some of the most impactful health issues of our time and some of the most common given current economic conditions. Imagine Laserworks helps you tackle these debilitating issues; our services help your body mitigate the effects of stress and the impact of the resultant states of anxiety or depression; we help you regain your focus and control. We help you rebalance your system, creating hormonal equilibrium and stimulating natural balanced endorphin production. No drugs, no needles and we ensure you get the support you need too. In many cases the effects can be felt before you even leave the office.
How Alcohol Affects The Brain
Alcohol interferes with the brain’s communication pathways and can affect the way the brain looks and works. Alcohol makes it harder for the brain areas controlling balance, memory, speech, and judgement to connect. This results in a higher likelihood of injuries, impaired use of a motorized vehicle, and other negative outcomes.
Speech: Becomes slurred and inarticulate as consumption increases.
Vision: Both depth perception and peripheral vision are affected by alcohol use.
Hearing: Hearing also diminishes. That is the reason at an event the volume of speech rises, as hearing diminishes.
Memory Impairments: Alcohol can have a particular disruptive effect on human memory. 1) Encoding – storing information in short-term memory banks. 2) Consolidation – transferring and integrating the information to long-term memory in a lasting form; and 3) Retrieval – the retrieval of the information from long term memory banks.
Blackouts: It is not a question of not remembering – there is no memory to retrieve. Alcohol impairs the encoding so the information was never transferred to the Long-term memory banks. At an event where people are drinking – some seem to repeat the same story over and over again – with no memory of having done so. If it is not transferred within a few minutes it is lost.
Passing Out: Alcohol is a depressant that impacts the whole body, including the central nervous system (the brain), cardiovascular system (the heart), and respiratory system (the lungs and breathing). When someone drinks too much alcohol, or too quickly, it can overwhelm or suppress the healthy performance of these systems. Essentially the individual has anaesthetised their brain. A person can die from alcohol poisoning if their respiratory system (breathing) shuts down. This is a very dangerous situation and the person may die of alcohol poisoning (overdose).
Naturopathic Medicine Week: May 12-18
This week looks to highlight what Naturopathic Medicine is and how it could be of benefit to you. The naturopathic philosophy is to stimulate the natural healing properties of the body and treat the underlying cause of dysfunction. You can utilize naturopathic medicine along in conjunction with conventional medical therapies to achieve optimal health, as Naturopathic Medicine has a large priority on preventative medicine. This could include dietary and lifestyle advice, herbal medicine, acupuncture amongst other modalities. In these times of stress and uncertainty, check us out to see how we can help support your goals.
The Healthy Book Club
In “Not Good Enough: Understanding Your Core Belief and Anxiety,” Sabrina Trobak, MACP, RCC, CCS, (from Fort St. John, BC) offers practical strategies to manage anxiety. She emphasizes the significance of recognizing and challenging core beliefs, which impact thoughts, behaviors, and emotions. Trobak advocates for understanding one’s core belief’s origins and influence, enabling readers to address unhealthy patterns and cultivate lasting confidence.
Can the Brain Recover?
The extent of the brain’s capacity to return to “normal” after long term sobriety is not fully understood. Research is indicating that some alcohol induced brain changes in thinking, feeling, and behaving can improve and possibly reverse with months of abstinence. There is also evidence that the brain rewires – other circuits can compensate to hep restore compromised function.
