Shift Your Mood
Hijacked by your moods?
How many times have you felt hijacked by a bad mood, then done or said something you regretted later? Moods can:
- Make or break your relationship.
- Get you a promotion, or get you fired.
- Help you feel better, or make you sick
Yet once you’re able to manage your moods more effectively, you’ll maintain your emotional balance even when you’re faced with significant challenges.
Shift Your Mood ® services, programs, and products offer quick and useful methods to:
- Reduce anxiety and stress
- Find contentment and fulfillment
- Deepen your sense of well-being
- Be calmer, wiser, happier!
At more relaxed times in your life, you may have experienced a still, small voice that has a vivid sense of what’s best for you in any given moment.
Yet in today’s hectic and stress-filled world, with so many distractions, noise, and outside stimulation, it’s hard to stay in touch with that connection.
So how do we maintain our own sense of inner wisdom, contentment, and well-being?
Rik is the author of:
Shift Your Mood: Unleash Your Life! Your Pathway to Inner Happiness
Shift Your Mood
Shift Your Mood combines insights from the latest research on:
- Mindfulness and body awareness
- Positive psychology, and
- The Neuroscience of Happiness.
Shift Your Mood synthesizes over thirty years of Rik’s practice into an amazingly simple yet effective approach to help you develop:
- Happier relationships
- More fulfilling work
- A healthier lifestyle, and
- Spiritual awakening.
“Seething over a conflict, I mounted my bicycle trainer for catharsis. Twenty minutes into my sweat I remembered your suggestions from Shift Your Mood. Using the guided assistance from your book, I quickly realized why I was so triggered, then felt calm and astoundingly clear. It was a triumph!”
–Alecia Vultaggio, San Diego
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I developed the programs and products of Shift Your Mood ® to help you become aware of how moods create tension in your body. You will learn how to:
Release emotional tension, and shift to the source of your own love and wisdom.
Then you’re more likely to follow through on actions that will help you meet your goals.
Shift Your Mood combines mindfulness and body awareness with insights from positive psychology’s neuroscience of happiness.
You will discover how to heal from previous wounds, and follow through on your best intentions. Instead of feeling controlled by your current mood, you can expand your options: not only about what sort of mood you’d rather be in, but also a greater choice in how you live your life.
This has great implications for emotional healing and recovery from compulsive behaviors and obsessions. Yet Shift Your Mood is not just about healing; as you gain more emotional balance, you’ll begin to thrive in many areas of your life:
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Expand your capacity for love and compassion–
so you can enhance emotional intimacy and nurture your relationships.
Develop your creativity and memory–
so work flows more enjoyably, with greater success.
Reduce anxiety and stress–
so you can relax and have more fun.
Cultivate mindfulness–
so you can be more attuned to the present moment.
Discover purpose, meaning, and spirituality–
so you can live life to the fullest.
Deepen your experience of contentment and well-being–
so you can be calmer, wiser, and happier!
Some of the people you’ll meet in this book:
In the course of this book, you’ll meet various people who have been able to put this shift into practice in their own lives:
Jack felt hassled at work, yet was able to overcome the negative assumptions he had internalized, and learned to assert his needs more effectively.
Molly’s job as a dog-walker was in jeopardy because she couldn’t stop checking to make sure she had locked the door when she dropped off her dogs. As she became more mindful of her actions, she was able to feel the internal certainty that she had completed her task, and let it go.
Nathaniel was constantly criticized by his father, and no matter how successful he was, he always felt like an impostor. He was able to counter his perfectionism and get in touch with his true interests.
Alice was hung up on a soldier she met in the service, and became obsessed with the belief that his mother was getting in the way of their relationship. She was finally able to register, on a gut level, that he really wasn’t available.
Julio had panic attacks during his calculus and physics exams. Even though he knew his material, and had been accepted to graduate school, he was in danger of flunking his best courses! Rather than obsessing about his potential failure, he learned how to relax and shift his attention to the task at hand.
You will soon discover how to shift out of the vortex of previous patterns. In the beginning, it may take more than a moment to catch yourself. But as you become more adept at making this shift, you’ll increase your ability to soothe yourself in the face of whatever life throws at you.
Breaking free from negative conditioning unleashes the expression of your natural growth. Shift Your Mood will help you grasp that you already are whatever you’re seeking, not just intellectually, but through a deeply felt, visceral realization: You are consciousness itself, steeped in grace and heartfelt wisdom.
Throughout this book, you’ll have numerous opportunities to check out what it’s like to shift your mood. So I invite you along on this journey towards emotional well-being, conscious awareness, and inner wisdom.
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Come to Esalen!
Heartfelt Wisdom:
Quieting the Mind, Listening to the Heart
December 14-16, 2012
Rik Isensee and Lori Anne Schwanbeck
This workshop teaches the art of balance, inner harmony, and peace–the basis for spiritual awakening and creating a meaningful life. It’s also an opportunity to slow down and reflect in the midst of the holiday season.
Esalen pool
Many of us yearn for a calmer, more centered life, yet with all the pressures we encounter every day, it can seem beyond our grasp. How can we successfully handle daily stress, tame our negative voices, and release ourselves from obsessive thinking? This workshop will teach the art of balance, inner harmony, and a path toward peace. This really is the basis for spiritual awakening, and for creating a meaningful life.
Following a near-fatal accident, Lori felt the presence of death several times. She had a strong desire to let go, yet there was a magnetic pull in her heart to stay embodied and to share the realized wisdom of living a heart-centered life.
Rik had an experience through his mindfulness practice of being “steeped in grace,” which inspired his book, Shift Your Mood, a guide on how to release emotional tension and shift to the source of your own love and inner wisdom.
Esalen Hot Spring
We may genuinely believe that true happiness comes from our own inner resources, but how do we access this inherent wisdom? Using tools from positive psychology, along with eastern perspectives on awakening to the present moment, we will explore the link between western psychological understanding and spiritual realization. Combining mindfulness, body awareness, and insights from the new science of happiness, we will provide some easy and accessible practices to expand your ability to live more vibrantly, confidently, and at peace even when faced with challenging circumstances.
Join Lori and Rik at:
the amazing retreat center on the coast of Big Sur! With a natural hot spring perched on the cliff overlooking waves crashing against the rocks below, delicious organic cuisine, and ample free time to schedule personal massage appointments, you’ll have a relaxing, fun, and stimulating weekend!
Participants will come away with an understanding of how to shape their own emotions and behavior, and create clarity in their lives. They will also be able to apply this in a clinical setting, if desired.
Recommended reading: Isensee, Shift Your Mood: Unleash Your Life! Your Pathway to Inner Happiness
Click here to register for Heartfelt Wisdom!
Dec. 14 – 16, 2012
CEUs available for MFTs and LCSWs.
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