Identifying unmet emotional needs and transforming unconscious beliefs around love

Michael Brown in his book the 'Presence Process' writes “Our unconscious definition of love is the resonance of the emotional signature we experienced as children whenever we needed to be loved. 

Consequently, we unconsciously recreate the resonance of this emotional signature whenever we feel the need to be loved”. 

Giving ourselves what we wanted from our parents or want now from our partner

"Learning how to give to ourselves what we have been mistakenly seeking from others is the message our parents, family members, and those who bring any form of intimacy into our experience, are attempting to convey to us". Michael Brown

As I grew up and started investigating the human condition, I came to believe that it was a parent's duty to love their child unconditionally. In other words, I was wounded because my parents had not been able to give me all the love I wanted as a child. Recently this paradigm has been shattered... Read full article.

'Stress: the myth, the facts'

Stress seems to be an epidemic. Just one arm of this is in the workplace, where apparently both employees and employers are turning to drugs and alcohol in an effort to reduce feelings of overwhelm, isolation and despair - the emotional symptoms of stress.

Physiologically, stress is the ‘fight-flight’ – or ‘sympathetic nervous response’ - of the body. This system is designed to come on-line for emergencies and danger, for example, to run out of a burning house or jump away from an oncoming bus. When our body is in sympathetic mode all internal systems adapt for survival: eg, heart rate and breathing alter, digestion and elimination halt and blood is re-directed from the internal organs to the limbs for mobility. Read full article

What is Mickel Therapy? Healthy Options Magazine

Mickel Therapy is an innovative body-mind treatment created by Dr David Mickel, a medical doctor in the UK. He developed an interest in CFS/ME and Fibromyalgia during his time as a GP, and becoming frustrated by conventional attempts to treat the conditions went on to train and work as an Eriksonian Therapist, later developing the treatment now known as Mickel Therapy. Following its success in the UK, bringing it to nationwide attention, Mickel Therapy is now being practiced in various countries around the globe, and the first practitioners were trained in New Zealand this year. Read full article