Healing without Fear by Reinhardt, Laurel Ann -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Acknowledgments Contents Foreword Introduction

My Personal Story Healing

Why We Don’t Heal

Morphic Fields: The Story of the Hundredth Monkey

A Morphic Field of Fear

What Fear Has to Do with Healing Transforming the Field of Fear My Professional Story Acute Versus Chronic Fear

Seven Premises about Chronic Fear

How to Use This Book The Five Rs of Fear

Chapter 1: Recognizing Fear, or Face Everything and Recover

Exercises for Paying Attention

Exercise 1.1A: Paying Attention to Breath Exercise 1.1B: Paying Attention to Movement Exercise 1.1C: Paying Attention to Daily Life

Exercises for Paying Attention to Beliefs

Exercise 1.2A: Paying Attention to Personal Beliefs Exercise 1.2B: Paying Attention to Familial Beliefs Exercise 1.2C: Paying Attention to Cultural Beliefs

Mythology: A Lost Source of Knowledge

Iron John: A Story about Fear Exercise 1.3: Journaling, Part I Exercise 1.4: Breathing into Places of Blockage, Stagnation, Pain, and Fear

Summary

Chapter 2: Reporting and Acknowledging Fear

Exercise 2.1: Journaling, Part II Extra Credit Exercises for Speaking the Fear Aloud

Exercise 2.2A: Speaking the Fear Aloud to Yourself Exercise 2.2B: Speaking the Fear Aloud to a Trusted Friend Exercise 2.2C: Speaking the Fear Aloud to a Group Exercise 2.3: Honoring Fear

Summary

Chapter 3: Releasing Fear

Exercises for Letting Fear Move Through Your Body Like a Wave

Exercise 3.1A: Letting Fear Move Through Your Body as a Sensation Exercise 3.1B: Letting Fear Move Through Your Body with Physical Assistance Extra Credit Exercise 3.2: Kidney Healing Sounds Exercise 3.3: Taking a Complete Breath: Belly Breathing Exercise 3.4: Expelling the Breath of Fear Exercise 3.5: Grief Work

Exercises for Anger

Exercise 3.6A: Physical Expressions of Anger Exercise 3.6B: Preverbal Expressions of Anger Exercise 3.6C: Verbal Expressions of Anger Exercise 3.7: Forgiveness

Exercises for Being Heard

Exercise 3.8A: Being Heard and Seen by Yourself Exercise 3.8B: Being Heard and Seen by Family and Friends Exercise 3.8C: Being Heard and Seen by Physicians Exercise 3.9: Checking Out the Reality of the Situation

Summary

Chapter 4: Replacing the Fear with Something New

Exercise 4.1A: Too Little Information Exercise 4.1B: Too Much Information Exercise 4.2: Actively Seeking to Smooth Out the Breath Exercise 4.3: Labeling the Fear as Something Else Exercise 4.4: Talking Back to Fear Exercises for Grounding

Exercise 4.5A: Walking Exercise 4.5B: Whole-Body Breathing Exercise 4.5C: Touch Exercise 4.5D: Visualization

Exercises for Empowerment: From Fear to Fire in the Belly

Exercise 4.6A: Sit-Ups or Roll-Ups Exercise 4.6B: Eating Well

Exercises for Balancing the Energy of the Third Chakra

Exercise 4.7A: Taking Action to Balance the Third Chakra Exercise 4.7B: Sitting Still to Balance the Third Chakra Exercise 4.8: Hara Breathing, or the Extended Belly Breath

Exercises for Working with Allies

Exercise 4.9A: Working with a Real Ally Exercise 4.9B: Working with an Imaginary Ally Exercise 4.10: Creating and Using Touchstones or Talismans Exercise 4.11: Guided Visualization: Remembering Your Power

Exercises for Cultivating Heart Energy

Exercise 4.12: Breathing into Your Heart Exercise 4.13: Reaching Out and Drawing in Love, Joy, Compassion, Spirit, and God Exercise 4.14: The Inner Smile Exercise 4.15: Remembering the Power of Your Love Exercise 4.16: Making Choices or Decisions from Love Exercise 4.17: Developing an Attitude of Gratitude Exercise 4.18: Making Friends with Your Treatment Choices

Summary

Chapter 5: Additional Exercises for Individuals, Partners and Groups

Individual Work

Exercise 5.1: Qigong or Five Element Cleansing Meditation Exercise 5.2: Poetry Writing Exercise 5.3: Fear and Love Alchemy Exercise 5.4: Guided Visualization: Into the Woods Exercise 5.5: Dream Work Exercise 5.6: Radiating Love Exercise 5.7: Embracing Fear Exercise 5.8: Tonglen

Work with Partners or Allies

Exercise 5.9: Dialoguing from the Third Chakra (Power) Exercise 5.10: Dialoguing from the Fourth Chakra (Love)

Exercises for Disconnecting from Others’ Fears

Exercise 5.11A: Disconnecting by Cutting the Cords Exercise 5.11B: Disconnecting Through Affirmations Exercise 5.11C: Disconnecting from the Fears of Our Health Care Providers Exercise 5.12: Guided Visualization: All the World’s a Stage

Work with Groups: Exercises for Healing Circles

Exercise 5.13A: The Laughing Circle Exercise 5.13B: The Qigong Healing Circle Exercise 5.14: Ritual and Ceremony Exercise 5.15: The Special Case of Prayer

Summary

Chapter 6: Exercises for Health Care Professionals

Exercise 6.1: Recognizing Fear Exercise 6.2: Reporting Fear Exercise 6.3: Releasing Fear Exercise 6.4: Replacing Fear Exercises for Listening and Gathering Information

Exercise 6.5A: Listening to the Patient Exercise 6.5B: Listening to the Patient’s Friends, Family, Culture, and Mythology Exercise 6.5C: Listening to Your Team Exercise 6.5D: Listening to Yourself Exercise 6.6: Remembering the Vision of Yourself as a Healer Exercise 6.7: Coming from Your Heart

Exercises for Adjunct and Allied Health Care Professionals

Chapter 7: Making Friends with Death

An Exercise for Women

Exercise 7.1: Making Friends with Our Menstrual Cycles

An Exercise for Men

Exercise 7.2: Making Friends with Your Life Cycles

For Health Care Practitioners Only: Making Friends with the Cycle of Life in Your Patients

Appendix A: Iron John Interpreted Appendix B: The Art of Dialoguing Appendix C: General Instructions for All Grounding and Guided Visualization Exercises Appendix D: The Chakras Appendix E: The Oath of Hippocrates Notes Bibliography Index About the Author About Inner Traditions Books of Related Interest Copyright

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