March 2016 Name It!
By Paul O. Zelinsky What is is that plagues you? What keeps you up at night? What robs your joy, your potential for happiness or even just peace? I would hope; nothing. But if there is something…. If there is something, do you know exactly what that something is? Can you name it? Often calling it what it really is can help you overcome it. Many of my clients come in saying they suffer from stress or anxiety, but these terms can be too general to fight. Digging down, identifying what is really the source of the stress or anxiety helps to corral it, shrink it down to a size to overcome it. This fairy tale might help. Fairy Tales, are by their nature; hypnotic…. When our imaginations are engaged in a well constructed story (as these tales often are), we escape the confines of our rational, logical world and we problem solve, even if we do not know that is what we are doing. Our deep subconscious minds engage emotionally and this can allow us organically wi