In the video below, Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L, shares her number one integrative health technique she thinks health care professionals should know about for self-care and helping clients. Visit HolisticOT.org under “Classes” to explore other meditation, relaxation, mindfulness, and guided imagery classes. Join the “Meditation for Health Care Professionals” class on May 20. Live and recorded…
What’s More Important than Technique?
Techniques are important and many have good research supporting beneficial outcomes. However, not all techniques work 100% of the time. A person’s belief about a technique’s effectiveness can impact its strength of effectiveness. The practitioner’s belief about a technique may also impact its effectiveness. How a practitioner delivers a technique can be modulated by the…
Spirituality and Out-of-Body Experience
Have you ever had an out-of-body experience? Here’s a great conversation with Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L and Graham Nicholls on New Thinking Allowed. Graham describes the out-of-body (OBE) as an immersive psychic experience that includes sensations of floating and movement beyond the physical body. OBEs can occur during deep relaxation, exhaustion, sleep, and near-death experiences. A…
Energy Healing Benefits
We love energy healing! It could be Reiki, QiGong, Healing Touch, Acupressure, or Tai Chi. Energy healing has many benefits. Do you practice it? Have you received it? How has it helped you and your clients most? Tell us in the comments below. It may help: lower pain increase relaxation lower stress and anxiety decrease…
Harnessing the Wounded Healer
Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L shares “Harnessing the Wounded Healer” on the Healing Connections Podcast. Emmy shares that the wounded healer is an archetype or area of your life where you have the greatest wound and the also the greatest opportunity to grow and heal. Through a healing journey you can learn how to heal your…
Energy Healing on New Thinking Allowed
Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L, was interviewed on New Thinking Allowed. She offers a number of techniques and strategies for self-healing and distant healing of others. They include breathing exercises, meditation, and visualization. She focuses on stress management, intuition development, and compassion for oneself and others. New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The…
Exploring Healing Racism in Health Care
On the Healing Connections Podcast, Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L interviews thought leaders and health care practitioners about integrative health, wellness, prevention, spirituality, and consciousness. Sheela Ivlev, MS, OTR/L is interviewed by Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L about “Exploring Healing Racism in Health Care.” Sheela shares terms commonly used in the topic of racism, provides education, and explores ways…
Mindfulness Meditation “Loving Yourself” Recording
New Recording – Mindfulness Meditation “Loving Yourself” By Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L Listen Here Here’s a new 10-minute guided mindfulness meditation easily accessible on YouTube that you can listen to for your own self-care, play for clients, or a tool they can use in between sessions or after discharge. Read the researched benefits of meditation here. * Do not…