Good Habits Rewards Program

We here at Breakthrough Healing Arts love to support you in your quest to better yourself. So we've introduced the Good Habits Rewards Program. Earn free classes and Acupuncture treatments when you make a change towards nurturing your body, mind and spirit.

Here's how:

1. Think of something that you want to integrate into your life: a new eating pattern, a new way of thinking, a new emotional response, etc.

2. Register by filling out the form below:

3. Print out this handy-dandy checklist (make sure that you change the dates to reflect the dates you indicated in your registration above).

4. When you've hit your rewards milestone as listed on the form, contact us to reserve your free Qigong class or Acupuncture session!

Just like any other deals, there are terms.  Here are mine:

~  You must register.
~  Your daily intention must be approved.  This is important because I don’t want to encourage the development of unresourceful (we’ll nickname these “bad”) habits.  So no, your intention to eat one cupcake every day doesn’t qualify, nor does your intention of eating more protein by integrating a daily Cheetos intake to your diet.  Consider your intention approved upon submission unless I send you an email with the subject “What are you, nuts?!?”  For a suggestion on how to break bad habits, scroll below.
~  You are allowed one emergency skip day.  Notice that this should only be utilized in an EMERGENCY, like if your plane had to crash land on top of Mt. Everest and you were stuck in your seat because of a faulty seatbelt.  Unless, of course, your intention was to meditate every day, in which case you should be meditating like crazy.
~  According to Taoist Philosophy, virtue is innate.  When you trust a person to do what’s right, they are likely to act with integrity.  So my heart is open and full of trust in the goodness of the Universe.  I trust that  you will honor the terms of this offer.

Go on this journey with me honorably and we will all reap the benefits.  If you fall off the bandwagon, get up and get on it again.  There should be no fear in starting over, only excitement that you’re now just a little wiser.

Breaking Bad Habits

For every unresourceful action, there is an emotional hole that’s yearning to be filled.  So in the next few days, observe yourself when you get into one of the patterns that you want to stop.  Trace back in time to the minute before you took a step, and find your emotional and psychological state; were you feeling angry, sad or anxious?  Or were you just plain bored?  Once you’ve identified that emotion, establish a different response.  Use the following template:

“When I am   [insert emotional state here]  , I want to   [insert new response here]  .”

Here’s an example:

UNWANTED PATTERN

“When I am bored, I smoke a cigarette.”

NEW INTEGRATED PATTERN

“When I am bored, I take a walk.” or
“When I am bored, I listen to music.” or
“When I am bored, I write in my journal.”

Write this statement down on as many visible places as you can: post-it notes on your mirror, your screen saver, tweet it, post is as a Facebook status, set a daily reminder on both your phone and computer... whatever it takes.  Do this for at least 66 days (Why 66?  Click here to find out).

Good Feeling Meditation

Try this meditation when you are about to experience something new.

1. Find a private space and a comfortable sitting position.

2. Bring up the memory of a time, place, thing, person that you want to recreate. It can be just a brief memory that can go from several seconds to a few minutes, however long it was that you experienced a purely joyful emotion. Make sure that your memory is as detailed as possible: time period, place, what you were wearing, what you were hearing, who you were with, what you looked like, etc.

3. Get connected with the feeling that you have and describe it in detail (elated, satisfied, loved, excited, alive). Notice where you feel this feeling in your body. See it being expressed outward from you body, then circulate it back to your lower abdomen area (lower dantien) and see that feeling circle back to the original place in your body. Do this a few times until your body is filled with the emotions you want to feel.

4. Go back to the memory. First, turn down all the sounds (actually turning a pretend knob in the air might help). Repeat # 3. Then, imagine the images of yourself, the place, everything turn to black and white. Repeat # 3 and continue through the next step. Finally, see everything start to fade, first the outlines then the whole image. See it melting before your very eyes. Keep repeating #3 at this time until all you have is the feeling within you.

5. Take 3 cleansing breaths, inhaling through your nose and exhaling through your mouth, with the third exhale bringing you back to the present moment.

6. Try something different. Or experience the same thing differently.

“THE BASIS OF FREEDOM IS RECOGNITION OF THE UNCONSCIOUS; THE INVISIBLE DIMENSION; NOT YET REALIZED; LEAVING A SPACE FOR THE NEW."

~Norman O. Brown, Love's Body