Emotional Alignment & Optimum Health Presented by Ruth Kellogg LCSW 1

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Emotional Alignment&

Optimum Health

Presented by

Ruth Kellogg LCSW

http://www.ruthkellogg.com/

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A New Perspective

1. Emotional Misalignment

2. Traditional Sciences Belief’s

3. What Newer Sciences are telling us

4. My Mind, Body, Heart Model

5. Tips and Tools

Ruth Kellogg LCSW www.ruthkellogg.com

Emotional Alignment & Optimum Health

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Symptoms of Misalignment



Am I tired more often?

Have I lost my enthusiasm?

Am I loosing sleep?

Am I worrying about my health, my job, or just plain worried?

Ask Yourself:

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Symptoms of Misalignment



Do I feel overworked?

Over stressed?

Burned out?

Do I feel under-appreciated?

Invisible?

Ask Yourself:

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Everyday healthy, well adjusted people, seldom hold a place for constructive anger; very few of us interact with own personal negative emotions from a place of consciousness, empathy, or kindness to ourselves.

It is my experience:



Blame yourselves or others

Feel guilty

2nd guess yourselves

Drive yourselves crazy with chatter in your heads

Ignore it and hope it will go away

If you are “normal” it is common when being upset or pushed to our limits for you to:



What holds these common reactions in place?

World Views

Science - takes a mechanistic view – emotions are something to be fixed

Religion – take a traditional view – too many negative emotions are area sign of weakness and are to be shamed. We need to ask forgiveness for having them.

Neither Science or Religion have taught us to feel

friendly toward our more challenging emotions.



Is changing the way we think about our brain, our bodies, and our over all path to well-being

It has discovered that there are neurotransmitters in the heart – brain cells that are identical to the neurotransmitters in the brain.

Is showing us that your heart has an intelligence, it can send messages that can over ride the mind’s messages.

Neuro-Science:



When you learn to pay attention to your heart’s message

It opens the door for a whole body awareness

This awareness gives you control over bringing greater peace, harmony and health in your life

Embedded in these concepts is that emotions are not something to be feared, but interacted with toward a positive end

Neuroscience:



Neuroscience is now learning what

philosophers have been attempting to

get us to understand for centuries:

The heart is the source of well-being in all ways:

Mental, Physical, Spiritual

Neuro-science:



The physical body has 3 minds!

Mind Mind Heart Mind Body Mind

A New Model for Thinking about Emotional Makeup

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Mind Mind

Heart Mind

Body Mind

Conscious Mind

10 – 15 %

Unconscious Mind

85 – 90 %

Automatic

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Mind Mind

Strategize Memory Data base, Linear Logical Language

Heart Mind

Body Mind

Conscious Mind

10 – 15 %

Unconscious Mind

85 – 90 %

Automatic

Observes from different points of view, provides chatter, worry

Mind Mind

Heart Mind

Body Mind

Conscious Mind

10 – 15 %

Unconscious Mind

85 – 90 %

Automatic

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Mind Mind

Heart Mind

Body Mind

Gut instinctFight, Flee, Freeze

Conscious Mind

10 – 15 %

Unconscious Mind

85 – 90 %

Automatic Instinctual –about survival Autonomic nervous system90% Repeated thoughtsCreate fear based thinkingHold tightness in musclesThink in patternsI reactI never forgetI create waves of emotionYou add the meaning

Conscious thoughtObserves with pt of viewLanguage – chatter

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Mind Mind

Heart Mind

Express what we love - our individuality

Body Mind Gut instinct Fight, Flee, Freeze

Conscious Mind

10 – 15 %

Unconscious Mind

85 – 90 %

Automatic

Strongest oscillator Emotions are reflected inthe rhythmsHelps us govern our lives

When we actively participate in compassion, gratitude, appreciation it brings us into alignment.

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Mind Mind

Strategize Data baseMemory

Heart Mind


Body Mind


Conscious Mind

10 – 15 %

Unconscious Mind

85 – 90 %

Automatic

DepressionLoneliness

Chatter Worry

Fear AnxietyTightness Tension, Disease

Some Symptoms of Misalignment

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Mind Mind

Strategize Data baseMemory

Heart Mind


Body Mind


Conscious Mind

10 – 15 %

Unconscious Mind

85 – 90 %

Automatic

PeaceJoyHappinessContentment

Calm and Quiet

I am safeI am enoughI belong hereI am loved, lovable

Some Symptoms of Alignment



Simple Exercise:

• Breathe more deeply into your body and let yourself relax

• Put your attention on your heart beat• Attempt to see it, hear it, feel it• Notice the chatter in your mind may slow

Ask yourself gently:

“What would it be like, feel like, seem like as I am focusing on my heart beat, to feel appreciation? To feel gratitude? To let go for just this minute and allow my muscles to relax?”

And then just wait for an answer to bubble up – even if it is just silence.



Thank you for taking your time to explore this topic. Be sure to listen to the guided imagery – it was designed to assist you in communicating with your heart more fully.

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