What is a Balance?
A balance session lasts 90 minutes and focuses on exploring beliefs, akin to goal-setting. We use movement and imagery to reprogram the subconscious mind, offering the benefits of hypnosis without the anxiety of losing control. The subconscious communicates through our bodies and vivid images, allowing us to connect with the part of ourselves that influences our actions and decisions based on past experiences, often without assessing their current relevance.
What if I have a problem rather than a goal?
All objectives stem from challenges. Those feeling stuck often haven’t asked, “if not this… then what?” Complaining about problems focuses our energy on them, but it’s crucial to shift that energy toward finding solutions. By turning stress and frustrations into goals, we give our subconscious clear direction, allowing us to strategize our path forward. Just as you need a destination for a holiday, you must set goals to navigate life effectively. Once you identify your desired outcome, you can plan your journey. Start your life’s journey by setting goals, and as you achieve them, establish new ones.
Is a Stress Relief Session different to a balance?
There are two distinct approaches, each with a different purpose. Many individuals experience such high stress that they struggle to gain perspective and set goals. For some, the first step is to find tranquility and reconnect with calmness by booking a Stress Relief session. These sessions aim to restore mental and emotional clarity. With improved clarity, clients may choose to schedule a Balance Session. It’s important to note that these methods are not quick fixes. While clients often feel better after the first session, significant changes usually occur after committing to six sessions of either type or a combination of both.
What happens in a Stress Relief Session?
Stress Relief sessions involve holding distinct points on your head that, when gently touched, can effortlessly release the thoughts, beliefs, emotions, and considerations that obstruct your path to creating the life you truly want. By engaging in these sessions, you can experience deep relaxation and improved mental clarity, empowering you to live boldly and achieve your full potential. During a session, the gentle touch on these specific points is believed to help release stored electromagnetic energy patterns in the brain. This method facilitates the release of stagnant energy, fostering a sense of ease, clarity, and relaxation. Many people report feeling lighter, calmer, and more focused after a session.
What happens in a Balance/Goal setting session?
Clients engage actively in the balance session, using both body and mind for transformation, unlike in the stress relief session. This approach is not intimidating; it focuses on their natural abilities to address limiting beliefs. The five-step process helps clients set a motivating goal and explore their body’s stress response related to it, revealing areas of restriction. By choosing from various tailored movements, clients can release emotions and sensations, leading to a shift in their subconscious. Throughout, clients retain full control over their experience.
What is muscle checking?
In a balance session, we use a technique to observe the body’s response to stress. The subconscious mind automatically manages functions like blinking, breathing, and heart rhythm, preventing us from feeling overwhelmed. Muscle testing taps into this system; when we make a statement, the subconscious responds by either resisting or failing to resist pressure, indicating stress. We can also observe if a person leans forward towards truths or retreats from threats, helping us discern individual truths.
Muscle checking utilizes body language, our most fundamental means of communication, which is entirely natural and accessible to all living beings. Your body constantly employs body language as a form of non-verbal communication, conveying messages to both yourself and others. Pay attention to how you lean in when someone discusses a topic that captivates you, or how you instinctively cross your arms and step back when you feel uncertain. Graphologists have recognized this method of communication and interpret the movements of your hand as the pen captures your thoughts on paper, reflecting what the writer is contemplating.
Is this a counselling session or therapy?
Our approach is not counseling or therapy, which imply that clients are deficient and need expert guidance. Instead, we act as facilitators, collaborating with clients who retain control over their journey. We guide them through a process, observing their progress and providing tools to help them experience themselves in new ways. As individuals learn to recognize calm, they become more open to choosing this state over their previous lifestyle.
Can this help with trauma?
Certainly. To address this question, it’s essential to recognize, as Dr. Gabor Maté articulates, that trauma stems from wounds inflicted by specific events. It represents the emotional residue that remains unprocessed, adversely affecting our well-being and constraining our reactions to life’s challenges. For some individuals, trauma arises from significant incidents, while for others, it may result from navigating the world as a sensitive individual. For example, feeling abandoned on the first day of school can be a traumatic experience. Many of these traumas occur early in life, before we develop the cognitive ability to rationalize our emotions. While our bodies retain the emotional memory, our brains may not be equipped to document the experiences. Our approach focuses on utilizing the body to facilitate the release of traumas that transcend verbal expression and logical understanding.
Can this help with anxiety and depression?
Our approach addresses these issues with a nuanced perspective. While many conflate anxiety and depression as mere aspects of mental health, we see them as distinct challenges. Anxiety is marked by heightened energy and a drive to cope, while depression often leads to procrastination and low motivation. Those with anxiety may need to reassess their circumstances, while those with depression require support in setting goals. Our sessions create a supportive environment for both groups, considering anxiety, depression, personality traits, primitive reflexes, and stress profiles.
What goals can a balance session help with?
We often think that if something seems too good to be true, it probably is. However, my experience shows that genuine opportunities exist all around us. Balances are one such powerful modality, offering significant benefits to clients. The only limits are those we impose on ourselves and our perceptions. Balance Sessions can help transform limiting beliefs in various areas of life, including academics, sports, careers, and relationships. By fostering self-awareness and asking deeper questions about our goals, we can set new, empowering objectives that engage us fully in our pursuit of success. Balances can be used to help with any area of your life:
- School goals
- Work goals
- Social goals
- Emotional goals
- Cognitive goals
- Goals to do with your Family
- Physical goals
- Sporting goals
- Financial goals
- Goals around spiritual growth
Why is this so important?
Our offerings focus on the body’s mechanics and the brain’s energy, but we must also acknowledge the mind that guides both. The brain and body are instruments awaiting direction from the mind, which influences how tasks are executed—whether from love or fear. A colleague shared that after a hypnosis session, a client no longer needed a specific supplement due to a shift in their body’s chemistry from integrating their experience. This highlights the importance of addressing underlying beliefs while balancing brain activity and integrating reflexes; otherwise, we risk building fragile foundations.
How many sessions are suggested?
Each client has unique needs. We suggest a minimum of four sessions for younger clients and six for older ones, but this may not suit everyone. Clients often book package deals for discounts, and we can assess the need for additional sessions as we progress. Some may benefit from a mix of stress relief and balancing techniques, while others might prefer stress relief within a balance session. Our focus is on adapting to each client’s specific needs rather than applying a one-size-fits-all approach.
Is this a pseudoscience?
The greatest compliment I’ve received is that our work resembles the placebo effect. The placebo effect shows that your mind is your greatest asset. By aligning your mindset, your body responds. Mindful Moves aims to empower you to take charge of your life and challenge unexamined beliefs.
While many focus on data and molecules, invisible phenomena like wind and gravity remind us that science is rooted in belief. A hypothesis reflects a belief in a theory, and scientists seek to validate or refute it, often overlooking factors that neither confirm nor deny it. Theories evolve, as seen in the shift from the belief in a flat Earth to our current understanding. As interest in quantum physics grows, the line between belief and science blurs, highlighting the unseen forces, like emotions, that influence us. Recognizing that science is based on beliefs helps us understand our world better. Just as we accept the existence of wind and gravity, we must acknowledge the reality of our emotions. Everything is energy, and by focusing on our emotions, we can transform our mental and physical well-being.
The scientific word for emotions affecting the body is “psychoneuroimmunoendrocrinolgy”
Attempt to say that quickly. Building on the earlier question and response, this term is a scientific concept that describes the interplay between the mind and body, highlighting the inseparable connection of emotions and psychology in human growth, including the role of the endocrine system throughout life in both health and disease. In summary, this field examines how the psyche (comprising the mind and emotions) significantly interacts with the nervous system, and how together they create a crucial connection with our immune defenses.
Dr. Gabor Maté highlights the lasting impact of childhood trauma, noting that while the brain may forget specific events, the body retains emotional scars. Our actions are often driven by subconscious impulses influenced by emotions, complicating rationalization, especially when the mind lacks memory of the event. Trauma can arise from specific incidents or from the deep wounds a sensitive child experiences in a harsh environment. In “When the Body Says No,” he links unprocessed emotions to physical illness.
Can this help with business?
Our techniques are boundless, limited only by the constraints of your imagination! Jerry V. Teplitz employs the balance modality with remarkable success in the corporate arena, enhancing the mindset of clients to achieve success in sales and beyond. He has numerous testimonials from individuals he has assisted, where even the most ardent skeptics have experienced positive changes, while those who fully embraced this approach have transformed their businesses.
What about in the classroom?
I have witnessed students excel, with their handwriting significantly improving after our sessions, and many successfully passing their final matric exams. By addressing the specific challenges that children face in learning and retaining information, we have equipped them to manage stress more effectively in both classroom and exam environments.
Balances for the family
Viewing the family as a group helps identify and prioritize suitable goals. I recently worked with a set of siblings, using tools to explore their personalities and family dynamics. We found that one sibling was expressive but struggled to understand his brother and sister during conflicts, while the other two could listen but had difficulty expressing their emotions. After six sessions, arguments decreased significantly, and the parents learned strategies to manage emotional outbursts. Notably, the child who used to isolate himself for hours was able to self-regulate within minutes.
What kind of balances can be done?
Stress relief sessions require the client to be present and focus on one individual at a time; however, balances can be achieved through various methods.
- Online
- In-person
- Individual balances for one’s own goals
- Separately with members of a team
- As a group all present at once, working on a group goal
- In a group setting, working on your own goal while being guided through the process
- Silent balances – For people who do not wish to discuss their concerns… and more
This serves as an excellent resource for Monday morning staff meetings, helping to kick off the week on a positive note for your teaching staff or company.
