Posts by Shawna Freshwater, PhD
Free Yourself From Depression
Freedom from Depression Essential Practices for Lasting Freedom from Depression The true source of healing from depression comes from within—not from medications. Yet when depression drains away your hope, vitality, confidence, and power, how can you find the energy to help yourself? Advanced clinical research in mind-body psychotherapies promote new and empowering healing approaches for…
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Free Yourself From Anxiety
Free Yourself From Anxiety. Life is abundant with problems, challenges and obstacles. For every problem solved, another will present. We often think problems, challenges, and obstacles as being negative. When we think about them as being negative or overwhelming…there will be reactive energy felt in the body in the forms of physical stress (e.g.…
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3 Types of Stress and Health Hazards
Stress is a feeling that people have when they are struggling to cope with challenges related to finances, work, relationships, environment, and other situations. Moreover, stress is felt when an individual perceives a real or imagined challenge or threat to a their well-being. People often use the word stress interchangeably with anxiety, feeling anxious, fearful,…
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Resilient You
Every day and every moment gives you an opportunity to start over and be resilient. You are resilient and are capable to withstand and recover quickly from difficult conditions. You may not think so, but that is just your conditioned thought patterns. Conditioned thought patterns & core beliefs result in conditioned patterns of responding: actions…
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Mindfulness Practice and Practice of Presence
Rhys Davids in 1881 coined the word “mindfulness” from the original seminal text in the Buddhist teachings, the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta. Rhys Davids translated “Sati” from the Buddhist context “present-moment awareness” to “mindfulness”. I do not find any literature why Rhys Davis chose “mindfulness”. As “mindfulness” is not an accurate translation of “Sati”. The use of…
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