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Journaling to Relieve Anxiety and Stress

Anxiety can cause multiple issues in your daily life and health. One of the many health issues that anxiety can trigger is heart problems and high blood pressure. If you're hesitant to start a medication to help with anxiety, there are many natural ways you can ease the feeling of anxiety in your life. One method that we love, here at New Leaf Counseling, is journaling. This form of processing has helped many people and gets to the root of the problem. Here is how you can create and use an anxiety journal to naturally reduce your anxiety, attacks, and related health issues caused by anxiety.   How to Use an Anxiety Journal    Anxiety manifests itself in many different ways, but for most, when we experience anxiety, we usually feel a rush of emotions all at once. Our thoughts and emotions can feel fast-paced and can be overwhelming if there is no outlet. Some people find that the manic nature of anxiety and thoughts can be worse than the actual onset of anxiety itself.  For this rea...

Canadian Throat Singer Shares Healing Music in France

Based in Vancouver, BC Matthew Kocel is recognized as a leader in the world sound healing movement.  Having just returned to his home after a tour of New York, Connecticut, France and Belgium, he is preparing for a Colorado tour in July 2019. Throat singing or overtone singing is a method of manipulating vocal sounds in the body to amplify the harmonics, or overtones that are already present in the voice. Mathew Kocel's sound draws on influences from Tibetan, Tuvan & Mongolian throat singers as well as European overtone singers. Accompanied by simple acoustic instruments, his songs create the framework within which listeners can attain insight, peace, inner travel and spontaneous realizations. Interestingly, Matthew says his main instrument is his heart, which influences the feelings and information carried by his voice. Matthew Kocel continues to travel across the world to share this music he calls "medicine for the Earth and the heart of humanity'. Thus far his trave...