Watch your words; they become your thoughts;
Watch your thoughts; they become [emotions and] actions;
watch your [emotions and] actions; they become habits;
watch your habits; they become character;
watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.
FRANK OUTLAW

You will learn more about the power of the words we say. The words that you most often tell yourself are the foundations of your habits, your personality, and your eventual destiny. So learning to use them to your advantage is one of the easiest and healthiest things you can do to improve your emotional health.

The webinar will cover:

• Words vs. Reality – what wins?
• What are the words that are motivation killers?
• What are the words that we always use but never are true?
• 5000 fiasco’s off a good for nothing failure
• Is it possible that I don’t have to die?
• What is fair and just in the 21st century?
• How to find time that has not been lost?
• How does time heal?

You will learn to identify the most frequent unhealthy semantic habits that you and everyone else around you probably use many times a day without even noticing. Whether you notice them or not, they still affect you and those around you. By learning to improve your semantics, you will discover one of the easiest and quickest ways of improving your emotional health.

In this webinar, you will learn more about the power of imagination. Mental Imagery will help you reduce stress levels, relieve tension in the body, activate all self-healing processes, and reduce the side effects of the treatment process.

• What imagery is?
• Where does the power of imagery come from?
• Imagery as the unique human quality and the oldest healing skill
• How can the mind influence the body and immune system and vice versa (basics of psycho-neuro-immunology)?
• Enhancing imagery with relaxation
• Breath as a key to the mind-body connection
• Breathing exercises that activate the relaxation response
• Basic body awareness exercises for centering and relaxation
• The ancient and new principles of using imagery for healing
• Yes, you are an expert, and you will discover why
• Imagery as a way of modifying our attitudes as well as emotional and behavioral habits
• What are unconditioned awareness and radical acceptance?
• Ultimate healing
• Putting it all together: guided mental imagery exercise

Webinar supporting materials:

• Videos presented during the Webinar
• Link to a folder with all webinars handouts, materials, and presentations

The webinar addresses:

•  For many of us, lifestyle change means restrictions, deprivation, and either heroic self-discipline or failure. Identify your “theory of change” and modify it to support your journey.
•  How much change is needed for it to count as a real change? -Let’s set expectations right.
• Everyone has healthy behaviors. Learn how to use yours as building blocks.
• In lifestyle change, the role of motivation is overrated.
•  Learn how to boost motivation when it’s absolutely necessary for change.
• BUT: Also learn to make changes that do not require much
  motivation.
• Most of our behaviors are automatic; we act without having to consciously think (driven by nonverbal attitudes). You will learn to use principles of habit formation to automatize lifestyle changes and to make them effortless and long-lasting.

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Dr. Pilvikki Absetz, Ph.D., is an adjunct professor of health promotion and a behavioral scientist based in Finland but working internationally. During the past 20 years, she has conducted intervention research to support the prevention and self-management of chronic diseases in Europe, Africa, India, and Australia. In her research, she has developed and utilized a strength-based approach to lifestyle change and trained thousands of professionals to use the approach.

Video-recording available:  https://bit.ly/C19webinar9

Embracing and understanding our difficult emotions

The webinar covers:
– Unmasking your emotions.
– What do emotions teach us?
– What do our most difficult emotions say about us that is beautiful and awesome? What values do they reflect?
– Can we choose not to feel these difficult emotions?
– Embrace the fallacy of some positive emotions. What are the traps of positive emotions?
– When feeling right is wrong? What feelings do and don’t tell us?
– The healthy way of exploring your emotions.
– The healthy way of transforming your emotions.
– Emotional practice.

We have created special digital tools for you. We hope that they will help you in the process of understanding your emotions. We would like to ask you, if possible, to go through them before our last webinar. While using them, you will also help us to prepare better the continuation of our initiative based on digital tools. Thank you!

• Rational Self Analysis (RSA) Online Form – Feel better thanks to the transformational power of understanding your emotions at their deep sources and transforming them at their base. If you don’t know how to fill in the whole form, it’s okay – just fill in 4 fields corresponding to A, B, C, D emotions (questions 1-4). We will discuss the full process in the webinar.
• Evaluation of Your Mental Wellbeing – you will learn more about yourself and help us to understand better the people for whom we run our initiative.