Benefits of Practicing Mind Body Medicine

1. Autogenic Training
- Reduces stress, counteracts the "fight or flight response"
- Teaches self-regulation of the autonomic nervous system
- Provides symptom relief for a variety of chronic conditions

2. Dialogue with a Symptom
- Tool for self awareness
- Helps access subconscious information about a problem or symptom
- Strengthens awareness of inner wisdom

3. Drawings
- Tool for self awareness
- Helps group members to access unconscious information
- Provides pre and post information about group members; a way to evaluate changes brought about by group experience

4. Eating Meditation
- Tool for developing awareness
- Promotes harmony between the food we eat and our body's actual needs
- Identifies emotional issues related to food

5. Forgiveness Meditation
- May be helpful in making peace with the past
- Fosters connection rather than isolation
- May facilitate profound emotional healing

6. Inner Guide / Wise Self / Spirit Guide Imagery
- Helps to access subconscious information and guidance
- Fosters trust in one's own inner wisdom

7. Mindfulness Meditation
- Reduces stress
- Decreases anxiety
- Increases self-awareness
- Increases ability to access inner wisdom

8. Shaking and Dancing
- Raises energy
- Releases tension
- Breaks up habitual physical end emotional holding patterns

9. Special Place Imagery
- Reduces stress, increases relaxation
- Reduces anxiety
- Strengthens the capacity to draw on one's own emotional resources
- Provides a foundation for other imagery exercises
- Provides a "safety net" in the event of abreactions during other experiential work