
Tools, practices and methods
The world is full of amazing tools that may be perfectly suited to accelerate our journey, but often we only discover them through chance encounters, and can lose years being stuck in sub optimal loops.
Our endeavor is to catalog a growing list of tools and eventually match them to you based on your context.
Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music
The Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music (GIM) was developed by Dr. Helen Bonny, a music therapist, in the 1970s. It is a psychotherapeutic technique that combines classical music and imagery to explore and facilitate personal growth, self-awareness, and emotional expression.
Ujjayi Breathing
Ujjayi breathing, often referred to as "Victorious Breath" or "Ocean Breath," is a yogic breathing technique commonly used in various styles of yoga, including Hatha and Vinyasa. The term "Ujjayi" comes from the Sanskrit words "ud," meaning "up" or "subtle," and "jaya," meaning "victory" or "success." This breathing technique is characterized by the sound it produces, which resembles the ocean waves.
Journaling
Journaling is the practice of writing down one's thoughts, feelings, experiences, and reflections in a personal journal or diary. It is a form of self-expression and self-reflection that has been used for centuries as a means of documenting daily life, recording significant events, and exploring inner thoughts and emotions. The act of journaling involves putting thoughts into written words, providing individuals with a tangible record of their personal narratives.
Smile meditation
Smile meditation is a mindfulness or meditation practice that involves intentionally cultivating a gentle, relaxed, and warm smile as part of the meditation process. This practice is rooted in the idea that the physical act of smiling, whether through facial expression or a mental attitude of smiling, can have positive effects on emotions and overall well-being.
Hygge
Hygge is creating a comfortable social and emotional environment for yourself. It’s about who you choose to surround yourself with and what you choose to spend your time doing. It’s about how you curate your experiences in your life with the people you love, creating a feeling that we are safe, that we are shielded from the world and are allowing ourselves to let our guard down.
Progressive muscle relaxation technique
Progressive muscle relaxation is a relaxation technique. It involves tensing and relaxing your muscles one by one. This method helps release physical tension, which also eases stress and anxiety.
Method of Loci
Method of Loci helps you memorise important information. The method works by linking something you need to remember to a place or location that is familiar to you.
Sand raking meditation
Japanese-inspired gardens and rake the gravel or sand into beautiful patterns. Learning how to rake a garden into the water drop design, one of the most common patterns. Soon you will be feeling serene as you practice this old art.
The circling method
Circling is an stay in the present interpersonal process which is a mix of art form, meditation, and group conversation with the aim to create a visceral experience of connecting and understanding another person’s world, celebrating who and where they are right now.
Twin heart meditation
This form of meditation helps develop the heart and the crown energy within the body. The two energy centres become “twin hearts” that bring with them divine love, peace, and also creates a bridge between the emotional love within our soul and the higher soul of divine love.
Psycho Aromatherapy
Psycho Aromatherapy uses different smells to impact mood, emotions and provide a favourable environment. Different smells can trigger different memories. One way to gain the benefits of this method is to use an oil burner to burn different essential oils. Each oil will have different healing properties.
Tuning Fork therapy
Tuning fork therapy uses two calibrated metal tuning forks in order to apply a specific vibration to different parts of the body.
Wet salt therapy
There are many ways where you can gain the benefits of wet salt therapy some of them are gargling with salt water, drinking salt water in small amounts, bathing in salt water, or even using flotation tanks filled with salt water.
Brush Meditation
You use calligraphy as a way to express what’s on your mind every stroke must be performed with full focus of the mind and body. There should be no faltering or indecisiveness.
Neuro-linguistic programming
It is a pseudoscientific approach to communication, personal development, and psychotherapy created by Richard Bandler and John Grinder. They claim there is a connection between neurological processes (neuro), language (linguistic) and behavioral patterns learned through experience (programming), and that these can be changed to achieve specific goals in life.
Acro yoga
Acroyoga is a physical practice that combines yoga and acrobatics. Acroyoga includes many types of partner and group acrobatics in which at least someone is lifted. As such, it also draws on traditions of circus arts, cheerleading, and dance acro. Acro-Yoga is being credited with helping couples in a therapeutic manner.
Tai Chi - Chen style
Tai Chi or Shadow Boxing, another school of Kungfu in Chinese martial art culture. is a traditional Chinese martial art which combines mind and awareness of our body, the deep diaphragmatic breathing and Qi, the inherent vital energy, through graceful movements to achieve mindfulness and relaxation.
Bhramari Pranayama
This breath practice is named after a type of black Indian bee due to the bee-like buzzing sound produced during the exhale. While practicing Bhramari breath you close your eyes, block your ears and make an audible humming sound. Which in turn helps to block out the distractions outside.
Panic Healing
Panic healing is done without touching, can heal ailments in the body by manipulation of the person's energy field. Pranic healing is based on the principle that the body can heal itself.

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