Vigorously defending or denying our WEAKNESSES, OLD UNHEALED WOUNDS or UNINTEGRATED TRAGEDIES repeatedly re-creates the murky waters of disappointment, frustration, isolation and resentment. These issues, often experienced as insomnia, difficulty relaxing or hypersensitive "hot buttons" are what we will be tackling in our "From Stress to Success" series of workshops and courses.

These workshops/courses include:
 

• Practical exercises for calming, centring and increasing resourcefulness in tense situations
   
  
• The body language of empowerment
   
  
• "Riding the energy" of stress - harnessing and transforming stress energy into creativity
   
  
• Martial arts principles and gentle exercises that can help us navigate stressful situations
   
  
• Relieving the burden of guilt - alchemical processes to forgive ourself and others
   
  
• Disarming a "hot button" by accepting, flowing with, and transforming its energy
   
  
• Clearing emotional blocks and reactive emotional touchiness

This course is partly experiential and partly an opportunity to share your struggles, setbacks, insights and successes with other people who are on a similar path of personal development.

Your course/workshop facilitator Dr. Mike Meredith is a qualified physiologist. He worked as a professional trainer in the University of London and The University of Cambridge for 20 years and now works in the private sector as a stress management coach and healer. He has also taught martial arts for many years.

Transform Stress into Creativity, Healing, Wellbeing & Success - UK Courses & Workshops: In East Anglia

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When you are in a hole - Stop digging!

Kwan Yin's right hand is pouring out balm [ambrosia] from a vial - to ease the suffering of the sufferers. The stress-management implication of this is that "palliative stress management" [pleasurable "chillout" activities like having a massage or a relaxing holiday away from it all] have an important part to play - it is hard to solve stress problems or make lifestyle changes when we are feeling low. However "chilling out" and "having a lovely time" are often not enough to solve our high-stress, low-wellbeing problems...We also need to confront our "inner demons" [dragons] of self-sabotage...

Like many images of Kwan Yin, in this statuette she rides [masters and harnesses the energy of] a dragon. A dragon is the ultimate symbol of power in many cultures. Apart fom the dangerous features [formidable physical weapons and defences] that a dragon possesses, on the positive side it is an animal able to travel on land, through the air and in water. The metaphysical equivalents of these three realms are: our everyday life, our spiritual life and our emotional life. So Kwan Yin symolizes mastery of all these three aspects of human life.

At another level, Kwan Yin's domination of the dragon symbolises mastery of the "shadow" or dark unattractive side of our human nature - our inner demon. Our inner demon may be very unskilful and prone to generate violence and "bad karma" (consequences of our malicious or greedy actions and words) but it is a potent source of primitive ancestral stone-age-human energies. In other words our cave-person, self-centred, egotistical, survival at all costs, "shadow side" makes a bad master but a good servant!

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Kwan Yin is pictured here riding and taming her stress (dragon) energy and using it to surround herself with peace, beauty and creativity - Exactly what we will be doing!

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