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Natural Methods for Managing the Anxiety of Withdrawal David Nelson, PhD

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Page 1: Natural Methods for Managing the Anxiety of WithdrawalThe Dim Mak of Emotions • Dim Mak is the Death Touch of martial art’s lore

Natural Methods for Managing the Anxiety

of Withdrawal David Nelson, PhD

Page 2: Natural Methods for Managing the Anxiety of WithdrawalThe Dim Mak of Emotions • Dim Mak is the Death Touch of martial art’s lore

What do you want today, so when you leave here, it was worth your time?

Don’t want you leaving thinking this is 90 minutes of my life I ain’t getting back.

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What are you seeing in your practice or setting?

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You do not manage anxiety.

You manage your response to it.

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Please,Don’t FeedThe Bears!

Don’t fightDon’t run

Train in a new way to respond!

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SEEDS

• Social connectivity

• Exercise

• Education

• Diet

• Sleep

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Benefits of Mindfulness • Better health - Strong immune system

• Happy Brain - Helps with preventing burnout

• Pain Management

• Anxiety Management

• Better sleep

• Blood pressure stabilization

• You become a kinder person

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How to sit • Essential Points:

• Straight back

• Chin tucked in

• Eyes half open

• Nose breath

• Follow breathe in nose to belly, out the nose.

• Breath without interfering

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Quick Tip

• Do not try to GET anything from mindfulness.

• Just be here, open, and watching.

• Back straight, chin tucked, hips over knees, eyes half open.

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Root, root, root for the team!

Wuji Qigong

Some call it Zen Standing

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Circulating Energy —let’s have some fun

with that energy!

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Moving Everyday Zen

• Hello, (issue), come watch me (here now activity)

• Labeling activity with gratitude

• Red rubber ball

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The Dim Mak of Emotions

• Dim Mak is the Death Touch of martial art’s lore.

• For Mindfulness, Gratitude is the Dim Mak for negativity, feeling crispy, even anger.

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Hypnosis It’s not what you think!

When you get engrossed in a book, daydream, lost in a movie you are in a trance state. (The cartoon has

nothing to do with hypnosis...I just like it)

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Mind-swords

• Swords can take life, or give it. Same as Mind. Depends on how you train it.

• Two sword method.

• Imagery and Emotion.

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Anatomy of Hypnosis

• Induction - relaxation (mindfulness)

• Deepening - imagery to deepen relaxation

• Script - the main body of change

• Returning - coming back to normal

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For more details on

hypnosis and scripts

Can be found at Tuttle Publishing, Barnes and

Noble, Century Martial Arts, And Amazon.

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All hypnosis is self-hypnosis!

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Let’s practice!Happy Place time!

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SWISH

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Pink Floyd

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Emotional Freedom Technique

EFTwww.emofree.com

Also know as “tapping”It is a form of external qigong

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Human Battery