Category: Jennifer Warters
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Fly Me To The Moon
One wet Saturday afternoon in Scotland, several years ago, my four year-old grandson and I spent the morning exploring the towpath on the Polwarth canal bank in Edinburgh. I was ‘baby sitting’ while my son and his wife took a much needed over night break . Undeterred by the weather, Fin and I shared…
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Principles Underpinning the Origins of Sound
Nothing rests; everything moves; everything vibrates….. that all that we call matter and energy are but modes of vibratory motion .’ The Kybalion ‘We are the same as plants, as trees, as other people, as the rain that falls. We consist of that which is around us, we are the same as everything.’ Gautama…
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Playtime
In my early days as a speech and language therapist, I had a deep desire to work creatively with children with special needs but became disillusioned with systems and methods of working that failed to address the child’s underlying emotions. In the past, I had made hasty judgements which may have interfered with the child’s…
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Healing Through Play
Robert, a subdued little boy of eight, was referred to me for creative play because of his struggles at home and at school where he was unable to order his thoughts. When he tried to express himself, his speech was muddled and incoherent. His actions were clumsy and he often tripped and banged into things. …
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Energy Field Alignment : An Agent Of Change
This updated blog was first written in 2006 but so much has changed since then. Hopefully, in the current turmoil, my words will encourage you to reduce your own stress levels and discover your true purpose in life. In the 1990s, in search of an understanding of spirituality, I began my own healing journey. Healing…
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Waiting in the Wings
I had been called to a residential home because Leonard, one of the older residents with learning disabilities and a diagnosis of autistic spectrum disorder was exhibiting ‘disturbing behaviour’. Apparently Leonard was making ‘strange noises’ to annoy residents who had gathered in the television lounge to watch their favourite programme. I arranged a visit to…
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Fairytale Healing
Alice was referred to me for play therapy when she was five years old . She was referred by a team of health service professionals who were offering counselling support to Alice’s father and his new girlfriend. Alice was grieving for her mother who had passed away with cancer two years earlier. The little girl…
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Richard’s Ash Wednesday Pilgrimage
Music touches our hearts when words fail. It allows healing to take place by altering the vibrational field within a room. It can reduce the debilitating effect of a potentially stressful environment and lessens the impact of colds and ear infections during the early months of language acquisition. This research is documented in the Sensory…
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Never Make Assumptions
A young Asian man was referred to me because of his limited communication and challenging behaviour. Arif had a history of violent outbursts and his parents and members of staff in his residential home were subjected to regular attacks of spitting, scratching, pinching and biting. On my first vist, Arif was sitting cross-legged with head…
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Toning and Energy Alignment to Heal Tinnitus
This is an excerpt from Positive Health Online Issue 220 – February 2015. Toning and Energy Alignment to Heal Tinnitus. Tinnitus is often described as a noise in the head, interestingly the word is taken from the Latin word ‘tinnire’ which means ringing or a tinkling bell. However, my clients who suffered from tinnitus have…