New Habits, New Life: Therapy’s Transformative Power

Sometimes you just need a new outlook on things. But there's more to it than just deciding to change your mind.

We, humans, are curious creatures – we are built with an amazingly powerful brain that has a lot of different infrastructure and twists and turns. As technology guru, Marvin Minsky used to say: our brains are not one machine; they are are a combination of 400 different machines!

That means that our instincts and emotional responses are difficult to change. That is unless you have the right technique. As doctors and others work on the behavioral side of neuroscience, we have uncovered many secrets about how to use the power of the brain correctly, how to heal problems with the mind, and how to advance mental health care for the average patient and the outlier, too.

Modern Therapy Modalities

New research into groundbreaking therapy modalities is changing the landscape of how we deal with habits and the handling of fear and trauma in our lives.

There's a lot that's new about how therapists are working to help people to re-craft their daily life and set themselves on a new course. Knowing a little more about these types of work gives those suffering from various kinds of mental illness hope. They can see the light at the end of the tunnel, instead of despairing that they may be stuck with their problems forever. 

The Power of Breathwork

Some of these modalities have a physical component. For example, there is breathwork where working at changing your respiratory process and body positioning can lead you toward better outcomes. This is where we often talk about the mind-body connection and how that works. Holistic care takes into account the power of the brain to change our physiologies over time, for example, working with the basic vitals (heart rate, blood pressure, etc.) We also think about the inverse: how our physiology can produce good effects on our minds, for example, with endorphins or oxytocin responses. 

Changing Emotional Responses for the Better

Then there are other techniques that are more geared toward a purely emotional framework. The process of envisioning a calm place, along with techniques which some people describe as "havening" is one of these approaches. As we learn to use our innate power of imagination to conquer fear and trauma, we get closer to eliminating the negative effects of conditions like PTSD and chronic anxiety from our lives.

This is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to what can be done in today's modern therapy model. Talk to Joe Langheim about what you're dealing with, and how cutting-edge science can help you to change your mentality and your mindset for better days ahead.