Graham Hocking - Professional Counselling

Live your life with more energy, feel more confident and maintain a positive outlook. You can be happy, healthy, and follow your dreams!

To serve your own heart so that sadness or joy do not sway

or move it; to understand what you can do nothing about

and be content with it as with destiny -

this is the perfection of virtue

- Zhuang Zhou 369-286 B.C.

(From the Doa De Jing, a text that instructs us on the preservation of and return to Original Nature, an endowment that applies to the complement of primeordial influences that guide our lives, and as seen in each infant, unsullied by life's experience and the accretions of mundane consciousness)

Holistic Kinesiology is a highly developed and dynamic form of Complementary Medicine that is based on the Eastern model of health and wellbeing, known as Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), the energy healing of Indian Vedic Medicine (the Chakras), plus current knowledge from western science.

TCM is founded on the principle of the endowment to each of us of our original nature, acquired at birth. This endowment invites the balanced expression of our individual and unique purpose in life, encouraging the emergence of our authentic self.

However, life from birth has many challenges. Dysfunction and illness that exists in the present (expressed physically, psychologically and emotionally), is the result of coping mechanisms that form in early life, thus giving rise to the acquired self (ego), as elements of our original nature are suppressed.

When the expression of our original nature is blocked, imbalance and ill health results in many forms, ranging from mild conditions, to severe life-threatening illnesses e.g cancer.

Your session will include an overall energetic assessment. I will work with you to identify blockages and then rebalance your vital flow of energy, with the view to healing the underlying cause of blockages and disharmony, rather than the symptom(s).

Holistic Kinesiology works on many levels to restore the vital flow of energy, and your wellbeing:

• Physically - where tension and stress is held and manifested through physiological dysfunction and disease.
  
  
• Emotionally - by exploring and overcoming both your conscious and sub-conscious beliefs and attitudes that no longer serve you well.
  
  
• Psychologically - through your enhanced awareness, to release negative thoughts and feelings that will open the way to look at your life from a new perspective, revealing new and positive possibilities for your future.

Holistic Kinesiology Healing Modalities

Acupressure Therapy

Traditional Chinese Medicine identifies 14 major meridians (or channels) where energy (chi) flows throughout your body. Along each meridian are located many individual acupoints (these are the same points used by acupuncturists).

The unique property of each Acupressure Therapy is its ability, with stimulation, to restore our memory of original nature. Of the approx 670 acupoints, each point has the ability to evoke some aspect of our functioning that has been lost, which when stimulated, restores the smooth flow of chi and vital energy.

The appropriate acupoint(s) for you are identified and gently stimulated by touch, and/or with the use of colour, light, flower essences or with aromatherapy.

Effectively, this process utilises the bodys own wisdom and intelligence, activating its profound, innate ability to heal itself.

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Affirmations & Visualisations

Your emotions have a profound effect on your healing. They come from your desires and attachments to how you expect your life to be fulfilled. If you are unhappy about a situation, you may experience aggression, anxiety or grief. Suppressing feelings locks them into the subconscious, which in turn directly bring about physical changes in your body.

Without releasing negative emotions and replacing them with positive ones, you will continue to live with physical symptoms that are often manifested as muscular pain, headaches, migraine and nausea often accompanied by sleeplessness, low mood, anxiety and even depression.

Affirmations are powerful, positive, yet simple statements that you practice saying to yourself regularly. They are tailored to target and support the most important issue(s) that otherwise may bring you down through negative thinking. They create positive thinking, which in turn creates positive feelings towards yourself and others.

Visualisations are created in a deep state of relaxation. In this calm and relaxed state, the subconscious mind is open to the suggestion of whatever it is that you desire
By using the power of imagination, old outmoded belief systems can be gently released, replacing them with new, positive beliefs.

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Flower Essences

Entirely safe and gentle, flower essences have gained universal recognition and popularity for their effective use in holistic healing. Flower essences help you manage the emotional demands of everyday life, harmonising negative feelings and belief patterns held in the subconscious mind.

Each essence targets a specific emotion and provides vibrational healing on a subtle level, transforming negative emotions into positive aspects and possibilities. Essences are a gentle way of accessing your intuition and activating your bodys natural ability to heal itself.

Often, more than one essence may be required, and will be selected from:

• Bach Flower Remedies
• Australian Bushflower Essences
• Amercian Desert Essences

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Aromatherapy

The link between the sense of smell and our emotions is both deep and profound. No other sense has the ability to interface so directly with the primitive part of our mind that is the timeless seat of our moods and emotions.

Our sense of smell transports us back in time and space. On this magical journey we re-live long forgotten experiences and emotions. Todays aroma finds yesterdays aroma in our memory, bypassing the conscious mind and logic.

It is through these intimate connections with the primitive mind and by influencing the more subtle energies, that aromatherapy is able to have a very positive and beneficial effect on relieving stress and supporting emotional wellbeing
- from The Blossoming Heart by Robbi Zeck

Each session will usually incorporate the therapeutic use of one or more essential oils, appropriate and relevant to the core issues being addressed.

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Balancing Chakra Energies

VEDIC medicine founded in ancient India identified seven major energy centres (Chakras) that affect your wellbeing. These form part of your naturally inherited energetic make up that governs form and consciousness.

The chakras are the key to your physical health, emotional stability, and mental clarity. The energy of each chakra is expressed through the nerve plexuses, and specific endocrine glands that secrete hormones into the blood vessels, controlling a broad range of vital functions of your body.

Each chakra is intimately linked energetically to a specific colour, sound, light and sensory experience. Clearing each chakra to bring the flow of this subtle energy into balance will optimize your feelings of wellbeing and consciousness.

What YOU can expect

The following conditions/issues are responsive to the healing energy of Holistic Kinesiology :

• Low self worth and self confidence
• Relationship issues
• Mens Health
• Depression
• Anxiety & Stress
• Addictions (eg.smoking, gambling etc)
• Phobias, fears and inhibitions
• Physical, emotional and mental pain
• Immune system disorders
• Sleeping problems
• Digestive problems
• Hormonal imbalances
• Self sabotage
• Psycho/spiritual issues
• Grief and loss
• Anger
• Fatigue
• Identity issues
• Womens health
• Endocrine stress

By working together we can

Recover your sense of wellbeing and vitality by overcoming feeling stuck with physical or emotional pain. You will experience a sense of renewal, feelings of restoration and replenishment, new insights and connections to the deepest parts of yourself, and an enhanced sense of inner peace and contentment.

Qualifications

Graham has a Graduate Diploma of Relationship Counselling, a Diploma of Health Sciences (Holistic Kinesiology) and a Diploma of Transpersonal Counselling, and has been a group facilitator for many years with the Cairnmillar Institute through their ongoing course 'Human Relations for Everyday Living'.

ATMS Accredited Member 19716

                   Australian Counselling Association - Level 2 Member 5810