HR!Day486 - Self-Health Empowerment Day 5: Mental Medicine: Creating Health Through Imagery and Open-Focus Meditation-Harnessing the Power of Attention
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Mental Imagery, like intuition, is a type of non-logical thinking, used for making contact with our inner subjective reality. The medical use of imagery is one of the oldest and most powerful. It has existed in many cultures around the world for centuries.
There are numerous ways we can think. Most familiar is logical thought, the basis of science, making contact with what can be called objective reality. Mental Imagery, like intuition, is a type of non-logical thinking, used for making contact with our inner subjective reality. The medical use of imagery is one of the oldest and most powerful. It has existed in many cultures around the world for centuries, (in Egypt, Tibet, India, Africa; among Eskimos and American Indians), in some cases for millennia. An image is the mental form of a feeling. It is the true and natural language of your mind speaking in pictures. By tuning inwards you can discover antidotes for healing emotions, stimulate your physical bodies immunity to finding freedom spiritually.
Attention is all encompassing in our lives. Feeling at home is the result of a way of paying attention. Love is a way of paying attention. The issue is not what we pay attention to. Far more critical is how we attend and direct our awareness, and how we adhere- rigidity or flexibly- to a chosen style of attention. Ours is a busy society, and our brains stay busy keeping apace with a narrow-objective attention as a way of wading through the flood of information daily. This chronic type of attention prevents the diffusion of stress. Find out how expanding your awareness of visual space can diffuse and dissolve chronic pain, stop anxiety, alleviate depression, ease fears, shame, anger and loneliness- simply by changing the way you pay attention. Open-Focus Attention training has helped people from all walks of life, athletes and artist performances with robust effects on the entire nervous system, from our eyes to our muscles to our mind, body, and spirit.
Presenters
- Dehanna Rice is a Health Visionary, and former dancer, that bridges Ancient Healing Practices with Modern Evidence-based Science. She is a Newyorker, now living in the Bay Area, that has practiced for the past 25+ years Polarity Therapy, the original "Energy-Work" model that started in 1950's Chicago by Dr. Randolph Stone and is a Certified Hypnotherapist that uses "Imagery", one of the worlds oldest and most powerful healing tools. She teaches Polarity Yoga and Open Focus Meditation & the crux of her teaching is "Coherent Breathing", a breath-work featured in The New York Times that initially helped firefighters and residents recover near ground zero after 911 and continued to assist soldiers, refugees, victims of mass shootings and natural disasters globally. Her motto: "Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold"! Dehanna is a member of Design Science Studio coheART Evolutionaries, in collaboration with The Buckminster Fuller Institute, that has launched a decade long initiative that catalyzes action toward the regenerative future that works for 100% of life.
- Rachel Epstein is the Director of the American Institute for Mental Imagery (AIMI), a licensed acupuncturist, and a whole health coach with a private practice in New York City. She received her imagery practitioner training from internationally recognized authorities Mme. Colette Aboulker-Muscat and her late husband, Dr. Gerald Epstein, with whom she collaborated on numerous books and training programs and now teaches the institute’s core courses. She most recently co-authored Reversing the Trauma of War: PTSD Help for Veterans, Active Duty Personnel and Their Families, and is completing We Are Not Meant to Die: Practices to Build a Spiritual Body of Light, due out in Fall 2022.
- Susan Shor Fehmi, L.C.S.W. received her Master’s degree from Columbia University and she is currently the Director of the Princeton Biofeedback Centre, LLC in Princeton, N.J. where she combines the teaching of Open Focus™ training with multi-channel, phasesynchrony neurofeedback. She is interested in combining traditional psychodynamicpsychotherapy with the skills of Open Focus and Synchrony Training. She, along with Les Fehmi, Ph.D. are co-authors of several peer-reviewed journal articles and their latest book,“The Open-Focus Life,” published by Shambhala.
Additional Resources
Classes & Training in Healing: American Institute for Mental Imagery
Books:
Healing Visualizations: Creating Health through Imagery
Audios: Natural Laws of Self-Healing:
Youtube: Dr Jerry Epstein Channel
Soundcloud Talks:
THE OPEN-FOCUS BRAIN, by Lester G. Fehmi, Ph.D. and Jim Robbins
DISSOLVING PAIN by Lester G. Fehmi, Ph.D. and Jim Robbins
THE OPEN-FOCUS LIFE by Lester G. Fehmi, Ph.D., Susan Shor Fehmi, LCSW, and Mark Beauregard
Co-convener:
- Jim Garrison, President, Ubiquity University
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