Taking treatments outdoors

Feeling the ground

Taking clients outdoors for a change of environment has been successful in ways of:

Increased calmness
Deepened breathing
New interest
Accepting condition
Lowering anxiety, depression and pain
Less tension and more flexibility
Increased hopefulness
Relief of depression

As a client enjoys these differences they will generally bring up a thought, experience or worry that they have not voiced that could be closer the to source of their condition.

Some ways of working outdoors with adults and children:

Personal Movement/Cognitive Therapy Session
Empathy Coaching
Relationship Coaching
Increasing Focused Movement Abilities using Awareness building skills, ie. Walking
Contemplative Movement for cognitive Therapy and Connection (effective with children and painful relationships issues)

An example is my most recent success is with a centurion who has suffered sever anxiety and depression that keeps them in a state of tension and nausea. Being outside resulted in marked improvement in their current state of mind and understanding of the relationships between tension, anxiety, mental state, cognitive abilities, nausea and movement.

Their home that has become their prison of ill-health and getting outdoors changes their focus of attention. It has changed the view, smell, sounds, temperature and has them feeling the ground. It has shifted their focus of attention and became a distraction to expand their limited focus.