Applying the 5 Core Practices for Healthy Living
What tools do we need to live a healthy life?
Meet the 5 Core Practices, a series of intentional behaviors that will allow you to nurture a strong, balanced relationship with yourself and with those around you. Based in the 5 Core Areas for Healing, these practices address your ability to love yourself, to protect yourself, to maintain healthy boundaries, to know yourself, to take care of your needs and wants, and to create balance in your life.
Now that you have learned the core areas, it's time to put them into practice! In this short, 30-minute session, we will take you through the actionable steps that will enable you to strengthen your self-esteem, your ownership over your reality, your self-care, the boundaries that you set with others, and those limits that you set on yourself.
Through a combination of videos, selections from Gifts from a Challenging Childhood by Jan Bergstrom, LMHC, and downloadable workbook assignments, you will learn methods to help you recognize and sharpen your inner toolkit, beginning – or deepening – your self-directed healing journey.
Like our introductory lesson, this course holds valuable information for students of all kinds. The keys to a life of peace, self-acceptance, and strength are all found within ourselves. Learn how the 5 Core Practices can allow you to take control of your reality and see yourself in a new light. Start healing today.
$29 | 30 Minutes | Applying the 5 Core Practices for Healthy Living
Presented by Jan Bergstrom, author of the book, Gifts from a Challenging Childhood, Creating a Practice for Becoming Your Healthiest Self.
Applying the Five Core Practices
The Five Core Practices address your ability to love yourself, protect yourself with boundaries, know yourself, take care of your needs and wants, and create balance in your life.
Through a series of short video clips, you will learn the importance of these foundational practices for living a healthy life.
Downloadable hand outs are given for each of the Five Core Practices so you can create these life-affirming habits now.
What You Will Learn
The Benefits of Creating a Practice
1. The First Core Practice teaches you to hold yourself with inherent worth despite your imperfections. Your worth is not defined by how you perform, what you have, or who loves you. Recognizing your worth is an 'inside-out' job. Your weaknesses don't make you less than others and your gifts don't make you better than others. Your weaknesses and strengths all simply define your humanity. When you recognize this, you start living in the 'same-as' position.
2. The Second Core Practice teaches you to use boundaries to protect yourself. Your external boundaries and sexual boundaries help to protect you physical body, while your internal boundaries or psychological boundaries protect your psyche. These boundaries are essential for understanding who you are, distinguishing where others 'end' and you 'begin'. Using healthy boundaries creates a sense of Self.
3. The Third Core Practice teaches you how to create a sense of Self by tuning into the information that your senses bring to you, learning how to know what you are thinking, and recognizing what emotions you are feeling and the sensations that they are creating in the body. In doing so, you begin to create your own sense of Self as you become more aware of what is happening to and within you.
4. The Fourth Core Practice teaches you how to discover what you need and want. You will recognize the importance of self-care by attending to your needs and wants and learning how to be interdependent with others.
5. The Fifth Core Practice teaches you to create balance and moderation in your life by learning to recognize whether you are living in 'shutdown' or are in need of more containment.
Begin Healing Today
Register for our online coursework today and find the way to a more fulfilling experience of your life.
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