Title: The Rhythm of Health
Subtitle: Post-Traumatic Stress Education and Relaxation Training Program: Module 1
Description: We begin Module one with an introduction to The Rhythm of Health™ Program. Next, we concentrate on self-hypnosis as a state of focus. It is the process of focusing your conscious and your unconscious minds together to create a more unified and powerful mind. One of the benefits of self-hypnosis is that it balances the conscious and unconscious minds. Then, The Golden Apple Exercise starts a brief and gentle visualization training exercise. It encourages multiple sensory positive visualizations. You are introduced to the Handbook and encouraged to do the preliminary Handbook exercises. These exercises are: a safety assessment; recognizing your unique strengths, skills, virtues, and resources; a journaling of experiences in The Golden Apple Exercise; an exercise where you describe your imagined pace through the program; and a preliminary exercise for Your Special Place. Exercise two, Your Special Place, is a hypnotic journey to a resource place that can be re-experienced at any time. The exercise creates a resource state of comfort and safety. Rhythm reviews some key ideas about psychology and healing. It is noted that, all of the major figures in psychology aimed at creating coherence between the conscious and unconscious minds. This coherent state—a unified conscious and unconscious mind—is easily entrained by the process of self-hypnosis itself, so regardless of the content of your self-hypnotic experience, you are creating a stronger, more balanced mind by virtue of the process itself. Next, you get a preview of module two. And module one concludes with Aesop’s Fable of the Tortoise and the Hare. This is a hypnotic journey to the Greek island of Samos, where we meet Aesop the slave, a man who is able to help others by telling stories that have the capacity to heal. Aesop tells the fable of the Tortoise and the Hare to a child that needs to understand how a “slow and steady” approach to healing is the wisest approach to recovery. This hypnotic story encourages communicating about difficulties, a slow and steady approach to healing, safety, comfort, personal freedom, and wisdom that is unique to the healing and recovery process.