How To Do The Work: Recognise Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self

People pleasing. Once you meet the demand, the stress is (temporarily) gone. Anger or rage. If you can discharge the emotion onto someone else, you’ve released it.

outpouring of feelings will come with the process of healing wounds from childhood.

Today I am practising restoring balance to my nervous system. I am grateful for an opportunity to create calm in my life. Today, I am bringing one moment of much-needed calm to my body. Change in this area allows me to feel more peace. Today, I am practising when I find safety in the present moment/do one visualisation meditation/am conscious about

inner childlike part of each of us, when not acknowledged, can run rampant in our adult life, often reacting impulsively and selfishly.

HAVING A PARENT WHO DOES NOT SEE OR HEAR YOU

herself to drink one glass of water every morning before her coffee. At first, she felt silly. How can one glass of water change my life? Still, she set a reminder on her phone at 6:45 a.m. to drink that water and followed up dutifully.

Not being able to control their own feelings about a particular experience, the parent-figure shuts down and shuts out their children.

physical and psychological symptoms are messages, not lifelong diagnoses that can only be managed.

Research shows that practises like yoga and meditation that help us to focus our attention on the present moment, are especially powerful in restructuring the brain.