Step 1: Assess.Your State of Being [Access the Free video class] Step 2: Write 8 health goals, big and small. 1. Enjoy better walking. 2. Have less pain. 3. Have more energy. 4. Stop eating junk food. 5. Sleep better without night terrors. 6. Eliminate tremors. 7. Get rid of shoulder tension. 8. End back pain. Step 3: Rewrite the 8 health goals framed in a positive way. 1. Enjoy better walking. 2. Move comfortably. 3. Benefit from more energy. 4. Eat more vegetables and protein. 5. Sleep restfully and have great dreams. 6. Develop muscle strength and control. 7. Soften and relax my shoulders. 8. Flex and extend my spine with ease. Step 4: Make the goals measurable. Step 5: Pull Out the Verbs Strength enjoy walking move comfortably benefit and eat sleep rest dream develop and control soften and relax flex and extend Step 6: Write 8 health goals using vivid action words and joints or parts of the body doing the action Motion walk enjoy move smile in motion energetically walk dance bicycle gobble colorful vegetables crunch munch down proteins lay quietly dream vigorously achieve momentum orchestrate muscles like a symphony soften lower calm shoulders bend back and forth here and there with ease Step 7: Write 8 goals using sensory words like red, soft, or tingling. Balance and Flexibility walk gently strongly balanced over uneven surfaces smile eyes twinkling in motion walk energetically dance robust bicycle round and round gobble red apples green avocados yellow orange squash a rainbow of vegetables munch down cashews tortillas stir fried shhh quietly sleeping dreaming sunny warm dream delightful blue and green peaceful dreams orchestrate strong muscles demand cooperation bask in the loyalty of muscles following directions shoulders sigh getting out from under the burden tingling with success bend back and forth soft and flexible like green swaying bamboo Step 8: Add something to your "poem" about the mind or brain, what you are thinking as you accomplish your goal. Step 9: Write a poem as if you are describing yourself or another person doing the action.
Mind’s Eye Imagery walking balanced taking wide steps sporting a twinkling smile moving energetically dancing robust bicycling round and round circulating dopamine sleeping dreaming delightfully flexing strong muscles demanding cooperation shoulders relaxing tingling with success bending back and forth soft and flexible Step 10: Write goal and a “poem” as if you have accomplished one of your goals. Noticing Changes Last week I started noticing the difference strength balance on uneven surfaces smiling I recall how far I have come motion smooth and easy for me now anything I want abundant energy walks dances and bicycles around me as I move through the world Red apples green avocadoes yellow orange squash a rainbow of vegetables satisfy me as I dream I remember last night's dream vivid colors words swirling movements flowing like silk in dreams and life I am master of my destiny movement walking running even head sitting on neck on shoulders strong flexible bamboo green and healthy better today than yesterday I walk Step 11: Notice what has changed in how you walk. Reevaluate. Walk and feel. How has each step changed? Step 12: Post your final visualization or “poem” to the community board. Declare your vivid vision of the future. Free Class at SkillShare (Video Presentation)
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About the Editor, Kimberly Burnham, PhD (Integrative Medicine), award winning poet, and brain expert. Kimberly Burnham (www.NerveWhisperer.Solutions) is an award winning poet and recently moved to Spokane, Washington. In addition to contributing to over 30 books of poetry (http://www.amazon.com/Kimberly-Burnham/e/B0054RZ4A0) she has a PhD in Integrative Medicine and specializes in using words, touch, and alternative medicine to help people with nervous system and visual disorders as well as autoimmune conditions and chronic pain. As a member of the Inner Child Press Poetry Posse, which publishes a book a month on Amazon (24 so far), Kimberly has participated with three or more poems every month since March, 2014. The March issues of The Year of The Poet features five of her poems including I Awoke and Saw My Life. These poems are part of a Remembering the Future Series, where people send her seven goals they would like to accomplish in the future and she writes a poem as if it has already happened. http:/www.innerchildpress.com/kimberly-burham.php. Kimberly is one of 10 poets in the Tiferet Poem-A-Thon who are part of a book (Auggust, 2015) entitled, 30 Poems in 30 Days: Writing Prompts & Poems from Tiferet Journal. Her poems can be found at http://tiferetjournal.com/april-2015-poem-a-thon/poems-by-kimberly-burnham including, Dear Stranger about her ride through Montana after leaving Spokane. It was published in the Summer, 2015 issue of the Tiferet Journal. Several of her poems and an essay are published in Music, Carrier of Intention in 49 Jewish Prayers, which she edited with Spokane rabbi and Gonzaga professor, Elizabeth Goldstein. http://www.amazon.com/Music-Carrier-Intention-Jewish-Prayers/dp/1937207137 A regular columnist for SpokaneFAVS, she explores the connection between healing, faith traditions, and alternative medicine on this multi-faith site. You can read her column at http://spokanefavs.com/author/kimberlyburnham . With a PhD in Integrative medicine, Kimberly works with individual clients in person and via phone or skype. She writes extensively about health, healing the brain, and different aspects of social, emotional, and physical pain in our communities. She has written self-care books on Parkinson's disease, Sleep disorders, Huntington's Ataxia, Cold and Flu symptoms, Multiple Sclerosis, and Diabetes. In 2014 she spoke at the Spokane Pain Conference. http://issuu.com/kimberlyburnham/docs/spokane_pain_conference_parkinson About Inner Child Press, World Class Publishers of a Higher Consciousness Inner Child Press was founded by William S. Peters, Sr.. It is an author / poet / writer oriented publishing concern. Peters is a wonderful internationally acclaimed poet. He and his team fully understand a writer's needs and concerns when it comes to all aspects of the publishing journey. Inner Child Press specializes in poetry, prose, children's books and short stories. Please examine our extensive author, publishing, and promotion services. There is something here for every aspiring author to fit their dreams and their budget. Share in the magic ... Recent books include: The Year of the Poet series, World Healing, World Peace, and Healing Through Words and Puzzled…When the Pieces Don’t Seem to Fit on Autism. Enjoy free copies of these eBook and many more. Touched By Parkinson's, a Healing Journey Through Poetry Contest Open Until March 10, 20183/10/2017 Edited by Kimberly Burnham
Published by Inner Child Press (2018) Deadline: March 10, 2018 Engage in the Project Now. An Invitation to Participated in the Touched By Poetry Series: Parkinson's Disease Have you been touched by Parkinson's disease? Here is an opportunity to share your story, wisdom, and experiences in poetic form. You don't have to consider yourself a poet. You do have to be willing to try something new and share your insights. This book was created to enable people to share their story, imagine ways to move through life, and to provide a healing journey for the brain. To participate send three poems and a two sentence bio with a url or link to your website (if you want) in an attached Word document to TouchedByPoetry@gmail.com Twenty-five entries will be chosen for inclusion in the book entitled: Touched By Parkinson's, a Healing Journey Through Poetry to be published on Amazon. Another 50-60 participants will have one of their poems featured in the book to be edited by Kimberly Burnham and published by Inner Child Press. This anthology is open to anyone who has Parkinson's disease, has a family member or friend with Parkinson's, works with people with Parkinson's or has in some way been touched by Parkinson's disease and wants to contribute their story and inspiration. There is interesting research on the healing benefits of sharing your story, listening to other people with a similar condition and read the images a writer can create with poetry. Below are some poetry prompts, ideas, and some of the research that will be featured in the book. Other topics being considered for future books in the Touched by Poetry series include: Multiple Sclerosis, Macular Degeneration, Down Syndrome, Huntington's Ataxia, Diabetes, Arthritis / Joint Pain, Osteoporosis, Autism, Breast Cancer, Addictions, Strokes / Heart Attack, Aids / HIV, and ... YOU can suggest a future topic if you would like. Deadline is March 10, 2018 for entry. Enter the contest now. Tell Your Story in a Poem
Share: Tell your story related to Parkinson's disease, explain an experience, or share a feeling in poetic form. Poetry Anthology Detail [Here] Submission & Contest Deadline March 10, 2018 Thoughts, Sensations, Actions Thoughts, Sensations, Actions: Can you understand the words of a poem, experience the sensations evoked, and feel the movement in the action verbs in the story? Write a poem that includes your thoughts, sensation words, and action verbs. Research "A growing body of evidence in cognitive science and neuroscience points towards the existence of a deep interconnection between cognition, perception and action. According to this embodied perspective language is grounded in the sensorimotor system and language understanding is based on a mental simulation process. This means that during action words and sentence comprehension the same perception, action, and emotion mechanisms implied during interaction with objects are recruited. Among the neural underpinnings of this simulation process an important role is played by a sensorimotor matching system known as the mirror neuron system. "The first is that the processing of action-related sentences causes the resonance of motor and mirror neurons encoding the corresponding actions. The second is that there exists a varying degree of crosstalk between neuronal populations depending on whether they encode the same motor act, the same effector or the same action-goal. The third is the fact that neuronal populations' internal dynamics, which results from the combination of multiple processes taking place at different time scales, can facilitate or interfere with successive activations of the same or of partially overlapping pools." — Chersi, F., S. Thill, et al. (2010). "Sentence processing: linking language to motor chains." Front Neurorobot 4." |
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