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Silencing Self Doubt – A Personal Story
Many who work with children with additional needs or adults with a learning disability experience helplessness in the face of challenging circumstances in the workplace. Admitting to ourselves that we don’t know what to do is uncomfortable and in such situations we jump into control mode, taking action to contain and manage the situation. Telling…
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Sing to lift your heart.
Our hearts are weighed down with the sorrow of life events and singing together builds unity and lifts our heart by releasing the weight of past sadness . The vibration of the heart connects to the light. However, when singing, we may develop techniques which come from the mind and take us away from the…
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Triggering the Self-Healing Mechanism to Eradicate Tinnitus
(Transcript of my oral presentation at ‘4th Global Virtual Summit on Healthcare and Management’ October 5th 2022) I was speaking to someone the other day and he hadn’t heard of tinnitus,… so what is it? Tinnitus is the sensation of hearing a noise in your head or feeling the sensation in your ears when there…
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Nursery Rhymes and their Meaning
These seemingly childish rhymes have their roots based in historic fact. Many people have researched the origin of traditional nursery rhymes which have been part of children’s lives for hundreds of years and these familiar rhymes have existed for centuries. Nursery rhymes began to be printed in England as early as 1570. The verses…
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How Babies Learn to Listen
The mother’s voice is vital food for the unborn child’s psychological and physiological development. According to Alfred Tomatis, a French physician, psychologist and educator, the mother’s voice perceived mainly through bone conduction is rich in harmonics providing a major amount of stimulation necessary for the growth of the nervous system. The mother’s voice envelops the…
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When Stevie’s Dog Died
Stevie, a ten year old boy with autism was missing his little dog, Greg, who died suddenly at home. Stevie was unable to express his shock and sad feelings in words but acted out his sadness, confusion and anger in challenging ways. Children with autism have difficulty connecting to their feelings and struggle to comprehend…
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Pharoah’s Initiation – Child’s Play
Regular flights to Dublin offered creative play opportunities for young children in Ireland whose parents were concerned because of their child’s communication or behaviour problems. Parents were supported by energy alignment sessions . On this occasion, a follow up appointment had been booked for Finbar, a little boy I had met on a previous…
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The Talking Tree
In 2015, I documented play sessions with Lesley, a little girl of eight, who, at the age of three had suddenly been removed from the care of her parents because she was deemd to be at risk because of their addiction to drugs and alcohol. Such a traumatic experience would have been emotionally painful for…
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The Power of Vibration
In 2016, while on a visit to the historic island of Malta, as an enthusiastic toning practitioner I was eager to visit the Hagar Quim Temple Complex. I waited patiently for an hour in the hot morning sun for a bus to take me to the village of Qrendi which lies about a mile away…
