Linda Ciotola

Weekly Blog: Give yourself an immunity boost.

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[This is for informational purposes only – just like everything on this website – and not intended to prevent, treat or cure any disease.  Always be sure to consult your licensed healthcare provider and / or pharmacist.]

If you read last week’s blog on putting the Serenity Prayer into Action then you are already boosting your immune system.  In case you missed it click here.

Since stress impairs the efficacy of the immune system it is highly important to help minimize and / or counter the effects of stress on the immune system.  Please review and practice the suggestions from last week’s blog.

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Linda Ciotola

Living the Serenity Prayer ~

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In this challenging time, I want to encourage all of us (including me!) to live the Serenity Prayer ~ let’s accept what we cannot change, have the courage to change what we can and the wisdom to know the difference.

What we can do, in addition to following all recommended Guidelines:

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Linda Ciotola

The Healing Power of Arts

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Recent research regarding the healing power of the arts reveals how deeply the arts can affect us in a positive way.

My personal background includes writing “poetry” at age 8 and beyond to express what was unsafe and reveal what was otherwise repressed; my years in dance and theatre provided outlets for my body and voice to express what otherwise could not be said; hours at the piano and coloring “in the lines” and painting “by number” provided safe “containers” for feelings that were unprocessed.  Those who know me have often heard me say, “The arts and God’s grace saved me”.

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Linda Ciotola

The Healing Power of Art

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What if you were able to reduce the stress in your everyday life just by looking? Or what about improving one’s mood? How would you do that?

The answer may be Art!

In my journey as an artist, I believe that Art and Healing are connected. Through my gift of art, I have found a way to convey this belief. For me, “looking at nature” is an amazing way to de-stress, and change one’s mood. It’s a way of taking the natural environment and using it to transcend the hustle, and bustle. Our busy lives don’t often allow us time to get away, but I find that “looking at a beautiful piece of Art”  can produce these results, too.

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Linda Ciotola

THE POWER OF ENERGY MEDICINE

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With a background in dance, health and fitness, I have always depended on feet to take me walking, spinning, dancing, Barre and yoga ~ not to mention the ordinary activities of daily living. A few weeks ago I had a renewed opportunity to appreciate them even more when I suffered an injury (large candlestick fell on top of my foot slicing open the vein and gashing open the top of the foot across to the side of my little toe). Thanks to my husband who is an emergency expert, he took care of it and bandaged it on the spot while I Reikied it to slow down the bleeding.

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Can Mindfulness Impact Sleep Quality?

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According to the CDC, “More than a third of American adults are not getting enough sleep on a regular basis.” Enough sleep is at least seven hours per night for adults between the ages of 18 and 60 years. A lack of quality sleep is directly related to our health—or rather, a lack thereof. This may increase chances of getting a cold or more serious chronic problems such as diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and mental illness.

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Linda Ciotola

Psychodrama: From the Outside In

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by psychodramatist, health coach and author

Linda Ciotola

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Experience a full workshop of psychodrama training from Linda Ciotola, a leading psychodramatist who employs trauma-informed methods to enhance her work. Her knowledge, character and experience will guide participants through experiential learning exercises to help concretize the information presented. Trauma-Informed Experiential Therapy engages the body through a set of safety structures, slowly and safely moving the participants in a controlled manner to a deeper understanding of self, greater self-esteem and self-compassion. When safety, skills and support are in place, trauma work can be done and deep body-based healing can happen.

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Linda Ciotola

Neurobiology Validates the Power of Psychodrama

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By Karen Carnabucci, MSS, LCSW, TEP

In the past two decades researchers have discovered a tremendous amount of information about the human brain. As we learn these startling new details, we are forced to discard old assumptions about how the brain works.
We now know about the delicate nature of the developing brain from the very beginning of life. Certain experiences – a stressed mother, a community trauma, a family crisis – appear to inhibit the circuitry of brain development even before the child’s birth.
Yet the brain is not “fixed” to any specific configuration for life. For instance, we now understand that the brain is “plastic,” continuing to constantly change, alter and adapt as it responds to new life experiences.
“In the past two decades researchers have discovered a tremendous amount of information about the human brain.”
Linda Ciotola

How Sitting Causes Back Pain

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You’re Not Alone

According to a study published in 2013 by the Mayo Clinic, back pain is the third most common cause of doctor visits in the United States. And according to American Family Physician, only 25 to 30% of people seek treatment for their back pain. So if you’re experiencing back pain, you’re not alone. Many back pain sufferers struggle with what’s causing their back pain, not realizing the 8 or more hours they spend sitting could be the main culprit.

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