
Lynne Cockrum-Murphy
Ed.D. LIAC
Teacher, Healer, Intuitive, Licensed Counselor
Bolster Your Resilience (research based)
1. Through Meaning and Purpose:
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Keep a personal journal. Write a personal mission statement
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Write out personal goals every month; future oriented planning helps
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Build your goal-attaining skills, seek help with it and on the skills or areas you need
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Act on your curiosity, your educational aspirations. Be persistent.
2. Through Altruism:
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Help others, engage in kindness activities
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Practice empathy and compassion
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Use acceptance and tolerance strategies.
3. Develop Optimism and Hope:
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Make a daily gratitude list
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Practice positive self-talk. Visualize what you want
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Expect positive results from your efforts, and from the world
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Recognize your areas of competence in work, learning, athletics and friendship
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Use your problem-solving skills, get help, go to library and research it.
4. Get Organized:
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Allow the role of rituals to bring you comfort
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Organize your home, one area, or one room at a time
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Have a schedule with family and loved ones.
5. Learn What Others Know:
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Read biographies and self-help books
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Listen to C. D’s and DVD’s to hear how to live to create the life you want
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Talk to people who have what you want –ask them about themselves.
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Seek out spiritual teachers, guides for growth.
6. Reach Out:
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Embrace your extended family
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Reach out to larger community by having work and community ties
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Seek those who nurture a sense of meaning and identity
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Connect by having dinner together, seeing movies and traveling together.
7. Experience Civic Engagement:
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Engage with others (classmates, family and community): run, walk, build, aid
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Do empowering activities such as helping others.
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Volunteer.
8. Build Resilience with your Culture:
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Allow the role of ceremonies to bring you comfort
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Connect to your cultural community: picnic, dance, celebrate.
9. Create Meaning and Purpose in Life:
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Focus on what you believe you can control
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Find value and/or your inner purpose from your own difficulties
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Improve peer relationships, willingness to seek help and/or see a counselor
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Believe in yourself, be persistent
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Be a gift to others
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Know that you are loved!
Dec 1, 2016 |by Lynne Cockrum-Murphy



SPECIAL REPORT:
3 Insider Secrets to Healing Yourself
Without Re-experiencing the Pain, Even If You Have Been Working on Healing for Years
In this report are three keys that will help you release the pain you have been carrying – and live a life of the freedom you love.
Since you have found me, I know you are most likely a spiritual seeker, someone who is awakening, someone who is committed to finding peace, being of service, and living your best life.
Carrying around past pain can ripple into every area of your life. So regardless of where it is showing up, healing will also have a ripple effect that will improve and up-level your life in every area.
As a healer, I’ve noticed that often people, complain when an old issue rises to the surface again. At the same time know, old wounds from childhood, tragedy, divorce and loss will inevitably resurface to be healed and cannot be ignored without repercussions – i.e. a loss of health, authenticity and even to substance abuse.
I mentioned in the subtitle we can heal “Without Re-experiencing the Pain” because I believe if you have already done the work to heal, each successive time it comes up, you will find the work a bit easier to reach more relief.
Using multiple healing techniques- ThetaHealing, Divine Guidance, and my counseling skills – provides a shortcut to your healing. You don’t have to go back to the depths of what happened; instead you release the shock, the trauma and the pain through gentler methods.
MY STORY
My healing process from suffering and living as a victim to having a whole new outlook is, in part, why I decided to write this report.
After surviving a house fire at age two and a half, losing my father and two sisters in that fire, not surprisingly I developed PTSD. That trauma, coupled living with the family dysfunction that followed, instigated my choice to live a spiritual life.
That tragedy followed by abuse and neglect left me with low self-esteem and deep loneliness. My response to the pain included being especially hard on myself and demanding high achievement.
Ultimately, though, I couldn’t just stay unhappy. I knew there must be a way to a better life.
Consequently, I began reading psychology and philosophy including Dr. Eric Berne, Alan Watts and Ram Dass at age 14 and 15. I became a seeker studying and following spiritual teachers. I questioned everything with the intention of growing and healing. This in turn led to a new and deeply satisfying life, accomplished through therapeutic and spiritual practices.
Now, I see any challenge as an opportunity to recognize something is off within me – which I can heal. Then I begin to identify which beliefs are limiting me, and do the work to change them. Today, I rarely experience PTSD symptoms. Instead of feeling alone, I am aware of my connection with my Creator and with angels. I receive guidance and love all the time.
And best of all, I now have the honor and sacred task of assisting others in their spiritual journey, in healing and expanding their awareness, which brings me deep satisfaction and joy.
Here are 3 insider secrets to healing yourself:
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Practice self-awareness
Self-awareness means noticing your thoughts and actions then using that information to create the changes you desire. Notice how often you make critical statements about your financial decisions. Or how you put yourself down regarding your cooking.
Own where you are now! That is the first step to change. You can also determine where that critical self-talk came from – a family member, an important person in your life. Did you take on their beliefs and make them yours?
It is common for us to have habits that are harmful to us. Practicing awareness of your thoughts is the first step in the change process. As we become clearer on the ways we limit and hurt ourselves, we can replace them with kind, loving thoughts and actions.
For instance, if you have a habit of calling yourself stupid, you can replace it with “That was funny.” Or “That gets a redo.” Or any positive, creative thought or action you come up with.
I use several thought-stopping techniques when negative thoughts occur – e.g., visualizing a stop sign in front of those thoughts. That stops the process, then substitute something kinder. Whatever method you use, it is important to interrupt the process.
I know, it sounds easy – and if it was as easy as shifting that thought, you would have been healed by now, right? But just like me, you can add quick and easy changes. For instance, when I say something critical of myself in my head – like, “Wow, you waste money.” I say back to myself in a light manner, “I heard that.” Then I counter with “I make excellent choices with money”. Because I do. The negative statement was implanted by a relative when I was young. I don’t have to keep it.
Again, really listen to what you say to yourself because most people have lots of minimizing and even demeaning self-talk. You deserve better. I haven’t done all this on my own. I have studied, am malleable and I have worked with great healers and teachers. You too may need a neutral third party to guide you in the healing you seek.
2. Be Loving-Kindness
Loving-kindness defined by Buddhists consists of benevolence, loving-kindness, friendliness, peacefulness and good will.
The most important component of loving-kindness for self-healing is kindness for self. Consider the ways you demonstrate that you care for others. How much of that kindness do you give yourself? Can you increase it? Please know you are worthy of that and more. The point is to treat yourself as you would a loved one. I’ve included several ideas that help us realize how valuable, special and lovable we truly are.
Yes, do nice things for yourself; that means a bubble bath (if you like them), sleeping in, a massage, your favorite hot tea and all this on a regular basis.
Another technique that you can use to change your life is used by therapists to help their clients develop self-worth. You look in the mirror in the privacy of your home and say to yourself “I love you”. This requires looking into your own eyes and saying “I love you” repeatedly. Do this often enough and you will get past the discomfort of it. Being kind, present and loving to yourself eventually becomes easy. This can take months and yet you will prevail.
These attached prayers, meditations and affirmations will move you forward too. I remember how wonderful it felt the first time I used the loving-kindness prayer as I read Jack Kornfield’s A Path with Heart. The peace and ease I felt within, spread as I expanded the meditation and visualization to difficult people I knew. A whole world of possibility opened. Compassion replacing resentment. A loving-kindness affirmation can be used as a chant or meditation too.
3. Regain Perspective When Old Wounds Resurface
Ranking the intensity of your feelings gives you a mechanism to see progress. Usually, after you have worked on something, when it comes up again the intensity is less. It may bother you that it came up again, but at least it isn’t a 10. After any healing work, or with another triggering event, you can revisit their emotional intensity scale.
Often, people find after an old issue resurfaces and is “in your face” again, they do the next level of healing work, and find that the intensity has dropped to a 2 or 3. They have gotten relief. More of the shock, trauma, beliefs and programs from the time the person underwent abuse are now gone. PTSD symptoms come down to a manageable level.
Try it yourself, when triggered, check the intensity; it may have risen but usually won’t be as high as it was in the first place. If you have done healing work, usually it isn’t as awful to face life’s heartaches as it once was.
Conclusion:
With Theta Healing you can live without the burden of your history. Healing, recovery, and coming to terms with life's challenges is achievable as you work with a capable, loving healer who “has your back” and the tool to help you to transform, once and for all. When stress, uncertainty, fear and old problems return, take action. Decide to get yourself the support you deserve.
Click here to schedule with me for a free exploratory session to determine the best way to help you heal. As my gift to you, here are 3 meditations that you can use to connect with Source or Your Higher Power, to increase self-care and to just give yourself the inner peace that comes with meditation. Free for you: 3 free meditations
Light and love, Lynne
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“Through talking and looking at my beliefs, Lynne used her ThetaHealing skills to release and reframe those old patterns and beliefs that were NOT serving me. She replaced them with dozens of positive replacements. Her work made a remarkable change in my life? She ended our session by doing a future reading, which I found full of insights about me and my loved ones. Remarkable.
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