by Cynthia Bischoff | Feb 14, 2015 | Heartliving
Treat your heart, body, mind and spirit this Valentine’s Day by enrolling in Heartliving’s March 21st Seminar: “Healing through Body-Mind Awareness.” Seats are filling up quickly and the “Early Bird” discount ends at midnight tonight, so act fast!
This wonderful workshop promises to inform and inspire, teaching you principles related to your body-mind connection. Through lecture about important body-mind information, exercises, and tools to “Heal Your Body,” you will learn:
- Basic Ideas and Principles of Body-Mind Connection
- How Your Body Speaks Your Mind
- Eastern and Western Views on the Body-Mind and Healing
- The Body Beautiful: Parts of the Body and Their Meanings
- The Energetics of Healing & Symptoms and their Intuitive Meanings
- Research Facts about the Body and Healing
- What a Person Can Do to Heal
Healing through Mind-Body Awareness, a one day workshop taught by Dr. Cynthia Bischoff, will be held on March 21, 2015, at the Virginia Beach Resort Hotel & Conference Center, Virginia Beach, VA (on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay)!
Workshop Fee: $140.00 (Early Registration until 2/14 is $130.00– sign up now)
Program Fee includes: Course Materials and Lunch
CEU’s—Continuing Education Units—are available through Old Dominion University for this program.
Ready to give a truly heartfelt gift to yourself or your other favorite person? Register Now!
by Cynthia Bischoff | Jan 31, 2015 | Heartliving
Do you sometimes catch yourself verbalizing thoughts that are self-defeating? Do you hope desperately for something yet limit what you think you deserve, thereby dividing yourself against yourself?
Or do you find yourself able to understand that your thoughts do, in fact, create your reality, yet still feel unable to move your awareness into any conscious action to change?
It is my view that awareness is the first step toward conscious living.
One must understand the dynamics of thought and how our thoughts create our reality. So how do you move through awareness into action? A necessary second step is willingness—that is, the willingness to hold consciousness in the moment toward what you wish to have or be.
For example, I may desire a more loving relationship with my spouse. My desire may not be congruent with my thoughts. Throughout the day, I may be lamenting that I do not have a loving relationship and focusing on the lack and the desire.
So what can you do to align your thoughts with the reality that you wish to create?
- Begin to act as though you already are what and where you would like to be. Concentrate less on the behavior and more on your thoughts.
- Stop yourself from verbalizing or thinking thoughts that are self-defeating. Bring your awareness back to the present and remind yourself that you are your thoughts.
- Use the power of visualization to support your conscious thoughts.
- See yourself manifesting what you desire. If you wish to be out of debt, visualize yourself out of debt. Add an affirmation that you repeat consciously each day: “I am free of debt” OR “I draw wealth to myself.” Choose words that resonate for you and that match your positive visualization.
- Marvel at all the wealth you actually have—water, air, food, sun, clothes, shelter, friends, love, laughter. If you find yourself lamenting over what you do not have, remind yourself of two things you do have. A wonderful thing happens when you delight in how really wealthy you are—more and more of what you want and need flows to you.
- Above all, be willing to do whatever it takes to make your visualization happen.
You may find it helpful to use the Heartliving mantra: “Ask the universe for what you need. Visualize yourself receiving it. Know that you will receive it. For you are worthy.”
by Cynthia Bischoff | Jan 24, 2015 | Heartliving
Feeling relaxed is a natural feeling when you are in a state of balance. In order to understand balance, you must first allow yourself to experience a state of true relaxation, so that you have a reference point for what it feels like to be in balance. Why is this important? For some people, anxiety feels natural.
How might you gain greater balance? An important tool to practice using is “mindfulness.” Mindfulness is actually a natural activity that we can all use to help us discover and sustain balance. To be mindful means to bring your attention fully into whatever you are doing or experiencing at the moment. For example, if you are washing a glass, you focus on and experience that activity without letting your mind wander into some other task. You notice the feeling of the warm water and the soap on your hands, the feeling of the sponge as you hold it to wash the glass. If you are eating a bite of an apple, you eat it slowly and taste and feel that bite. Mindfulness can change even routine behaviors, and in turn, can enhance your life.
Most of us make a life of multi-tasking which generally means our mind is rarely focused on where we are, and we’re not fully present to the experience we’re having. If you learn to bring greater mindfulness into even a small fraction of your activities, you can add years of quality experience to your life. Research suggests that there are tremendous health benefits to mindfulness.
From an energetic perspective, love and mindfulness vibrate at a similar frequency, and we know that love is the highest vibration there is. By practicing mindfulness, you can create a stillpoint to return to in moments of chaos or anxiety.
One of my clients did a class project on mindfulness which she called “stopping.” She simply sat very still in a chair and took several deep breaths and relaxed for five minutes each day. She didn’t do anything during that time nor did she try to “think” of anything. This activity, she reported to her class, at first was so hard for her! She was so used to keeping her mind and body busy at all times that she felt like she was wasting time. Yet as she stayed with her project every day for 8 weeks, she came to realize that this stopping was a time when she began to let herself “feel” rather than to keep “running from herself.” By slowing down and becoming more focused, she became more purposeful about where she was putting her energy and what she was choosing to do and how.
If you’d like to practice mindfulness, a wonderful exercise is to use awareness of your breathing as a balancing force. Sit calmly in a relaxed position and focus on your breathing for a few moments. Breathe in slowly and notice your breath as you breathe in, feel the expansion of your chest, and then release slowly–feeling a state of surrender on your exhale. Breathe in and out for several moments with full awareness.
In the words of the Vietnamese monk Thich Nhat Hanh– “The secret of your transformation lies in your handling of this very moment.”
by Cynthia Bischoff | Jan 18, 2015 | Heartliving
Have you ever wondered why some people heal from illness and others do not? Or how vibration plays powerfully into the healing process?
This information-packed one-day workshop will help you understand and apply principles related to your body-mind connection. Through lecture about important body-mind information, exercises, and tools to “Heal Your Body,” you will learn:
- Basic Ideas and Principles of Body-Mind Connection
- How Your Body Speaks Your Mind
- Eastern and Western Views on the Body-Mind and Healing
- The Body Beautiful: Parts of the Body and Their Meanings
- The Energetics of Healing & Symptoms and their Intuitive Meanings
- Research Facts about the Body and Healing
- What a Person Can Do to Heal
Healing through Mind-Body Awareness, a one day workshop taught by Dr. Cynthia Bischoff, will be held on March 21, 2015, at the Virginia Beach Resort Hotel & Conference Center, Virginia Beach, VA (on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay)!
- Workshop Fee: $140.00 (Early Registration until 2/14 is $130.00– so sign-up early)
- Program Fee includes: Course Materials and Lunch
- CEU’s—Continuing Education Units—are available through Old Dominion University for this program.
Are You Ready to Change Your Life? Register Now
Over sixteen years ago, Dr. Cynthia Bischoff, a communications professor and university director, had a life-changing experience that motivated her to create her own business Heartliving™. Her intention was to empower others to live more meaningful lives.
Since then, Cynthia has taught and coached thousands of people in the U.S., Japan, and Europe. Whether her audience has consisted of corporate executives, homemakers, physicians, or artists, she has found that their motivation is the same: a desire for inspiration, as well as greater meaning and balance in their life experience. Her workshops offer a unique curriculum that creates a noticeable positive behavioral and psychological shift in her clients.
A master speaker and story teller, Cynthia inspires others through her poignant life journey of risk taking and living her soul’s mission. What distinguishes Cynthia is an authentic compassion and tireless commitment to help walk people through significant, transformational life events. She is a critically acclaimed body-mind practitioner who teaches body-mind healing methods in the U.S., Europe, and Japan, and has helped clients with the most challenging circumstances, such as reframing traumas, managing life-threatening illnesses (understanding the symbolic reason for illness as well as applying complementary healing modalities), and guiding people to make the most of their life situation.
An author of three books, several national telecourses, and numerous videos, Cynthia has 36 years of teaching and leadership experience in academic, business, and community settings. She received the Virginian Pilot Inside Business “Women in Business Achievement Award 2013,” as well as countless honors including being named in the “Top 10 Best Instructors in the Nation” by National Technological University.
by Cynthia Bischoff | Jan 10, 2015 | Heartliving
Imagining your best possible self can be a powerful and positive catalyst for change. You can do this through active visualization or meditation, not unlike one would daydream the best possible future life scenario.
Instead of focusing in your visualization on WHO else is with you or WHERE you are exactly, keep your focus on the most positive and peaceful feeling state you can imagine for yourself. In fact, often we do not know the details of what will bring us the greatest state of peace and happiness.
Researchers and psychologists have found that imagining or writing about your “best possible self” can create healthy emotions, increase your positive outlook, and fortify you to meet any challenges. In addition, it also changes the expectations you have of yourself, allowing you to release old limiting beliefs and break free of constraints.
