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Bodymind Health Coachingtm
Michael Mayer, Ph.D.
What is Bodymind Health Coaching?
Due to the requests of people outside of the San Francisco Bay area, Bodymind
Health Coaching has now expanded nationally and internationally by phone,
email, ichat, or in-person. Drawing from bodymind healing traditions from the East and
West I coach you to become your own healer.
Each of our bodily symptoms is a call to learn to read its language.
The awareness of our primordial self is tested with each ache. Is our
body saying that we have a serious problem that is there to teach us to
let go of our self-healing arrogance and rely on the advice of a
medical professional who can help us to deal with an early warning sign
of cancer or liver disease. Or, on the other hand, are we giving away
our power to the medical propaganda machine that benefits from
convincing us that every ache is a call to go to the temple of Western
medicine for relief?
"Qigong
and Behavioral Medicine:
"An Integrated Approach to Chronic Pain,"
Michael Mayer,
Qi Journal of Western Health and Fitness Winter 1996
Certainly in the former case above we should go to a Western doctor. I am here
to help you to the extent possible when, on the other hand, learning self-healing
methods are useful and appropriate. I am also part of a multidisciplinary team
of health care practitioners which includes Western doctors, acupuncturists,
bodyworkers, chiropracters who I call on to give me and you well-rounded advice
when needed.
Specialties and Areas of Focus for Bodymind Health Coaching:
- Anxiety Disorders/ Panic Attacks
- Arthritis
- Back and Neck Problems
- Chronic Diseases
- Chronic Pain
- Headaches
- Hypertension
- Insomnia
- Musculo-skeletal Problems, Joint problems, Carpal Tunnel
Syndrome
- Preventative Bodymind Medicine
- Coaching and Case Consultation for Healers-Bodyworkers, Mental Health Professionals, etc.
See Dr Mayer's book, Bodymind Healing Psychotherapy, for Chapters on each of the above conditions, available for download.This has been released as a trade paperback called Energy Psychology(North Atlantic/Random House, 2010)
Methods of Bodymind Health Coaching:
The range of methods that I will use in Bodymind Health Coaching
are based upon my assessment of your needs, and are mutually agreed upon.
I draw from over 25 years of training and practice of various healing arts including
hypnosis, Qigong and Acupressure.
- Self-healing Movements & Postures from Bodymind Healing
Qigong
- Self-touch Methods from Acupressure
- Hypnotherapeutic and Guided Visualization Methods
Please see the store section of this website
where you can purchase emailed chapters from Dr. Mayer's new book on
anxiety, hypertension, depression, insomnia, chronic pain, etc.--only
$5.95 each.
Your responsibility:
Self-healing requires your active involvment and practice of the methods you
learn in our coaching sessions. Your job is to tell me if anything in these
methods feels uncomfortable to you. This open honest communication is important
to reduce injury and respect your body's limits. The basic idea in Taoist
healing is not to create excess stress or pain. If any practice I advise you
to do goes beyond your limits back off a little and remember to breathe and
relax.
What can you expect? Healing versus curing: With more
severe conditions it is important to be aware of the difference between cure,
the absence of symptoms, and healing, cultivating an attitude of working
on and with your physical/psychological issue as a teacher. We will emphasize
this healing awareness which emphasizes an attitude of "illness as a teacher"
and your path as one of learning to be a "wounded healer." In the
process you may learn to open your heart to your dis-ease.
After a session or during a session there may be times that
you do not "feel better." It is important for you to listen to your
body and ask yourself, or me, the meaning of this. Sometimes a session brings
up material for you that needs to be processed on the level of mind or body.
During this process, you may not "feel good" as you are transmuting
an old pattern. Learn to read your body as to the meanings that are held there
or ask me to help facilitate your process about this. At times you may need
another health practitioner such as a chiropractor, Western Doctor, acupuncturist
etc. Please feel free to get the assistance you need, and discuss this with
me.
My Philosophy: Psychological issues and bodily disease are divina afflictios giving us opportunities for psycho-spiritual growth and finding the source of healing.
Disclamer: It should be clearly understood that I am not a medical doctor, nor am I practicing medicine. Bodymind Healing Qigong
or other complimentary health treatments should not be viewed as a
substitute for medical attention when needed. The treatment you will be
exposed to in sessions is meant to compliment other forms of medical
care and not be a substitute for it.
Clarity about potential dual relationship: I have been a practicing
psychologist for many years. However, my Bodymind Health Coaching is separate
from my psychotherapy practice. Though I may use some of my knowledge and background
from being a psychologist, the self- healing work that we will do should be
viewed a separate from psychotherapy. For example, while we are doing energy
healing work, insurance cannot be billed under psychotherapy. If a desire or
need to engage in psychotherapy arises, I will refer you to another therapist.
If, in a rare circumstance, you desire to change the nature of our relationship
to psychotherapy, I will recommend that you discuss this choice with another
psychotherapist. If you then choose to do psychotherapy with me, we will negotiate
a separate agreement to avoid any pitfalls, dual relationships or conflicts
of interest. In this later case, we will not return to doing energy healing
work.
One of the potential dangers of complimentary forms of treatment is
that a consumer may forego diagnosis or treatment by a medical doctor.
You are agreeing to be responsible for your own health care and make
choices about the type of health care you need.
Fees: Payment is made before our sessions at the rate of $175 per 50
minute hour or $90 for a 25 minute session.
Please click below to reserve your Bodymind Health Coaching Session; then follow
up with an email to
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requesting two possible preferred times. You will be contacted confirming one
of those times or with a suggested alternative.
Half Hour Training Session
25 minute session with Dr. Mayer.
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$ 90.00
One Hour
One 50 minute hour
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$ 175.00
Dr. Mayer's background
Michael Mayer, Ph.D., the
originator of Bodymind Health Coaching, presents his integrative
approach to bodymind healing at hospitals, universities, national/international
conferences and workshops. The First World Symposium on Self-Healing gave him
an award for outstanding research and contribution to the advancement of mind-body
medicine. He was perhaps the first person in the country to train doctoral level
psychology students in the integration of Qigong and Psychotherapy. Dr. Mayer
co-founded and serves as part of a multidisciplinary medical team called The
Health Medicine Center, which practices integrative healthcare. He has authored
twenty publications ion bodymind healing, including five books, audio-tapes on cancer
and chronic disease and articles on chronic pain and anxiety. His peer reviewed
article on Qigong and hypertension appeared in The Journal of Alternative
and Complementary Medicine, and is updated in the book Healing Intention
and Energy Medicine by Dr. Wayne Jonas, former Director of the National Institute
of Health, Office of Alternative Medicine. Dr. Mayer's Bodymind Healing
Qigong DVD synthesizes ten Qigong systems for a lifetime preventative
medicine practice.
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of the Bodymind Health Coaching Agreement.
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