Emotional Alignment & Optimum Health

1. Emotional Alignment& Optimum Health Presented by Ruth Kellogg LCSW

2. Emotional Alignment & Optimum Health A New Perspective • Emotional Misalignment • Traditional Sciences Belief’s • What Newer Sciences are telling us • My Mind, Body, Heart Model • Tips and Tools Ruth Kellogg LCSW www.ruthkellogg.com

3. Emotional Alignment & Optimum Health Symptoms of Misalignment Ask Yourself: • Am I tired more often? • Have I lost my enthusiasm? • Am I loosing sleep? • Am I worrying about my health, my job, or just plain worried? Ruth Kellogg LCSW www.ruthkellogg.com

4. Emotional Alignment & Optimum Health Symptoms of Misalignment Ask Yourself: • Do I feel overworked? • Over stressed? • Burned out? • Do I feel under-appreciated? • Invisible? Ruth Kellogg LCSW www.ruthkellogg.com

5. Emotional Alignment & Optimum Health It is my experience: Everyday healthy, well adjusted people, seldom hold a place for constructive anger; very few of us interact with own personal negative emotions from a place of consciousness, empathy, or kindness to ourselves. Ruth Kellogg LCSW www.ruthkellogg.com

6. Emotional Alignment & Optimum Health If you are “normal” it is common when being upset or pushed to our limits for you to: • Blame yourselves or others • Feel guilty • 2ndguess yourselves • Drive yourselves crazy with chatter in your • heads • Ignore it and hope it will go away Ruth Kellogg LCSW www.ruthkellogg.com

7. Emotional Alignment & Optimum Health What holds these common reactions in place? World Views • Science - takes a mechanistic view – emotions are something to be fixed • Religion – take a traditional view – too many negative emotions are area sign of weakness and are to be shamed. We need to ask forgiveness for having them. Neither Science or Religion have taught us to feel friendly toward our more challenging emotions. Ruth Kellogg LCSW www.ruthkellogg.com

8. Emotional Alignment & Optimum Health Neuro-Science: • Is changing the way we think about our brain, our bodies, and our over all path to well-being • It has discovered that there are neurotransmitters in the heart – brain cells that are identical to the neurotransmitters in the brain. • Is showing us that your heart has an intelligence, it can send messages that can over ride the mind’s messages. Ruth Kellogg LCSW www.ruthkellogg.com

9. Emotional Alignment & Optimum Health Neuroscience: • When you learn to pay attention to your heart’s message • It opens the door for a whole body awareness • This awareness gives you control over bringing greater peace, harmony and health in your life • Embedded in these concepts is that emotions are not something to be feared, but interacted with toward a positive end Ruth Kellogg LCSW www.ruthkellogg.com

10. Emotional Alignment & Optimum Health Neuro-science: Neuroscience is now learning what philosophers have been attempting to get us to understand for centuries: The heart is the source of well-being in all ways: Mental, Physical, Spiritual Ruth Kellogg LCSW www.ruthkellogg.com

11. Emotional Alignment & Optimum Health A New Model for Thinking about Emotional Makeup The physical body has 3 minds! • Mind Mind • Heart Mind • Body Mind Ruth Kellogg LCSW www.ruthkellogg.com

12. Mind Mind Conscious Mind 10 – 15 % Heart Mind Unconscious Mind 85 – 90 % Automatic Body Mind

13. Mind Mind Strategize Memory Data base, Linear Logical Language Observes from different points of view, provides chatter, worry Conscious Mind 10 – 15 % Unconscious Mind 85 – 90 % Automatic Heart Mind Body Mind

14. Mind Mind Conscious Mind 10 – 15 % Heart Mind Unconscious Mind 85 – 90 % Automatic Body Mind

15. Mind Mind Conscious Mind 10 – 15 % Conscious thought Observes with pt of view Language – chatter Heart Mind Unconscious Mind 85 – 90 % Automatic Instinctual –about survival Autonomic nervous system 90% Repeated thoughts Create fear based thinking Hold tightness in muscles Think in patterns I react I never forget I create waves of emotion You add the meaning Body Mind Gut instinct Fight, Flee, Freeze

16. Mind Mind Conscious Mind 10 – 15 % Strongest oscillator Emotions are reflected in the rhythms Helps us govern our lives Heart Mind Express what we love - our individuality Unconscious Mind 85 – 90 % Automatic When we actively participate in compassion, gratitude, appreciation it brings us into alignment. Body Mind Gut instinct Fight, Flee, Freeze

17. Some Symptoms of Misalignment Mind Mind Strategize Data base Memory Chatter Worry Conscious Mind 10 – 15 % Heart Mind Express what we love - our individuality Depression Loneliness Unconscious Mind 85 – 90 % Automatic Body Mind Gut instinct Fight, Flee, Freeze Fear Anxiety Tightness Tension, Disease

18. Some Symptoms of Alignment Mind Mind Strategize Data base Memory Calm and Quiet Conscious Mind 10 – 15 % Peace Joy Happiness Contentment Heart Mind Express what we love - our individuality Unconscious Mind 85 – 90 % Automatic Body Mind Gut instinct Fight, Flee, Freeze I am safe I am enough I belong here I am loved, lovable

19. Emotional Alignment & Optimum Health • Simple Exercise: • Breathe more deeply into your body and let yourself relax • Put your attention on your heart beat • Attempt to see it, hear it, feel it • Notice the chatter in your mind may slow Ask yourself gently: “What would it be like, feel like, seem like as I am focusing on my heart beat, to feel appreciation? To feel gratitude? To let go for just this minute and allow my muscles to relax?” And then just wait for an answer to bubble up – even if it is just silence. Ruth Kellogg LCSW www.ruthkellogg.com

20. Emotional Alignment & Optimum Health • Thank you for taking your time to explore this topic. Be sure to listen to the guided imagery – it was designed to assist you in communicating with your heart more fully. Ruth Kellogg contact information: www.ruthkellogg.com 925-828-8470 Ruth@ruthkellogg.com Ruth Kellogg LCSW www.ruthkellogg.com