Creating Your Health: Creating Your Health Tip ~Turn on, Tune in, and Drop out! (accessing your inner "Trickster")

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Welcome to Creating Your Health! My Blog to introduce my business, Creative Arts Counseling and Consulting and to post ideas, links, resources as to how one can create their own health. I'm Chris, a Licensed Creative Arts Psychotherapist, and Licensed Mental Health Counselor. I see clients individually, or in groups, couples, and families. I work with children, adolescents and adults with mental health issues. I specialize in working with those recovering from trauma, eating disorders, mood disorders, and various other Women's issues. I am available for consultation and provide workshops on various topics to groups and organizations. Most recent topics include: " The Shadow in the Workplace", "Moving through Bereavement"--Creative Arts in the grief process; "Movement in the Classroom".

My clients include those who choose to work from either a mind and/or body approach to wholeness!

Use of the arts: dance, music, art, drama, poetry, allows for access to the unconscious realm. Simply put, Change takes place first in the Imaginal Realm. If you can't imagine it, how can the change manifest?

My approach to health is a holistic one, embracing the mind, body, and spirit connection and is deeply grounded in psychological theory and orientation. Stay tuned...More to come as the blog progresses.

Christine Matteson
LCAT, LMHC, ADTR, NCC
Licensed Creative Arts Psychotherapist.
Independent USANA Health Sciences associate
Healthy Living Consultant
Team Northrup

contact me @ cfmatteson@hotmail.com
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Saturday, November 14, 2009

Creating Your Health Tip ~Turn on, Tune in, and Drop out! (accessing your inner "Trickster")

"Trickster is a major figure in American Indian folk Wisdom. Also in Sufi Tales … a certain type of "rascal"-with a grin and a wink (and wisdom beyond wisdom)".

All archetypes have both positive and negative charges. The negative "trickster" can be devious, and destructive. This negative aspect is the cruel joker, often using sarcasm to poke fun as he rebels against authority. The trickster is a thorn in the side of the overly serious, and creates convoluted schemes, that may or may not work, plays with the Laws of the Universe and is sometimes his own worst enemy.

However, The trickster archetype within us exists for an important reason!

He exists to question, and urges us to not blindly accept authority. He appears when a way of thinking becomes outmoded needs to be torn down built anew. (*Think of how many systems are breaking down today~healthcare, for example). When the "positive" trickster appears, the creative "rascal" can be very appealing and urge us to Lighten up!, and begin to use our imagination.

The Trickster can be a humorous creator, and a truth teller, a story teller. When the trickster uses "irony" instead of sarcasm, he is incredibly appealing, and assists us with the transformation that humanity is going through at that time.

"We seem most accessible to the synchronistic gifts of the Trickster when we ourselves are at or near boundaries or are experiencing transition states, periods of major life transitions seem to be occasioned by an abundance of meaningful coincidence. Personal growth sees not only to facilitate synchronicity, but in turn to be facilitated by it. As an archetype, the Trickster, the boundary dweller, finds expression through human imagination and experience." http://www.crystalinks.com/trickster.html

Today's Creating Your Health Tip: Access your own "inner trickster" by lightening up, finding humor, questioning outmoded rules, ways of thinking, and using your imagination and creativity.

Namaste.
Chris

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