Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction is a systematic approach to meditation and focuses without judgment. Exploring ways to incorporate mindfulness into the day is a way to help support a more balanced nervous system, increased focus and attention in work, life, and social situations. Can be helpful for treatment of ADD/ADHD, general stress, and improving overall motivation, and fosters improved interpersonal relationships.

Your breath reflects your personal microbiological narrative – the stories and attitudes you hold about yourself and others, your habitual physical patterns and fixations and how you engage with the world around you. Do you contract and tense, or do you soften and settle? With breath work you can immediately begin feeling the results of using a mind body medicine technique to calm the nervous system, lower blood pressure, and encourage improved relaxation

Biofeedback training provides to unique ability to capture your physiologic response to stress and display it in easier to understand observations by monitoring heart rate, sweat response, temperature, muscle tension, and breathing. Paired with other Mind Body medicine exercises, biofeedback training can improve your stress awareness and resiliency.

Visualization techniques help develop a way to retrace past memories that provided compassion, safety, warmth, and overall sense of well being. Additionally, visualization can provide the opportunity to address fears, worries, difficult emotions, or major events that we don’t feel we are ready to address yet such as public speaking or traveling on a plane. Practicing visualization techniques can be a great way to practice your performance.

Autogenics training is a type of self-hypnosis to help address symptoms like migraines, Raynaud’s syndrome, and IBS or irritable bowel syndrome. A series of autogenics training can help reduce overall stress-related symptoms like decreased blood supply to the digestive organs and even improve one’s ability to fall asleep at night.

Posture is key to how we see the world.  How often do we find ourselves looking downward at the ground or on our phone? It has a significant impact on the mental and emotional well being. Posture can be improved with in-office spinal manipulation, Kinesio taping, and exercise training.