The pedagogue and emotional educator Claudia Collao, presents the new edition of her course “Self-knowledge for your Mental Health” that will take place in the Villa de Teguise between January 22 and June 3.
Collao, uses tools from Emotional Education, Ontology of Language, Gestalt Therapy and Bioenergetic Therapy, she is passionate about her work and is constantly training to accompany people in their process of self-knowledge and personal development.
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When is the course and how is the registration done?
Those interested can write to me on whatsapp at 690162704.
The course will be on Mondays, between January 22 and June 3 from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. in the Villa de Teguise. Calle Gran Aldea 76, Local 6. Herbolario La Botica de Adela.
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How can we improve our mental health?
To have good mental health it is necessary to carry out a work of self-knowledge, the great pending content of society, ourselves.
Ignoring ourselves keeps us in chronic suffering, of lack of satisfaction. If you don't know yourself, you look for the key to your mental health outside of yourself, where you didn't lose it.
The good news is that this is learned. Our brain has the virtue of neuronal plasticity, therefore, our own biology offers us a great transformative potential which opens the way to new patterns of behavior and with it new possibilities to live.
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Can you give us a practical example for our day to day?
Stop, dedicate 10 minutes daily to silence, without any stimulus, observe what you feel, what you think, breathe consciously. You can do it sitting, but upright with your feet well placed on the ground.
Mobilize the body, dance, do strength exercise, body awareness exercises: yoga, chi-kung, tai-chi, free body motion and walk daily.
Daily contact with another person, meet with others. Social isolation is the great enemy of our mental health. We are social beings, we need other human beings to develop.
Look each other in the eyes while we talk. When we look each other in the eyes we connect more and create healthier social relationships.
Also the intonation, the pauses and the rhythm with which we speak help us to connect with others.
Observe what effects what you eat generates in your body: food and water intake also determine your mental health. There are foods and drinks that alter us and each one could be an expert on the effects that what they eat and drink generate in their body, it is also self-knowledge.
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What can those who sign up for the course learn?
In the course we address the necessary skills so that each one can better know their character, their defense mechanisms, their needs, their emotions, their recurring thoughts, their anguish... and thus be able to improve relationships with others and especially with oneself.
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How is it organized?
We will deal with the three fundamental dimensions of the human being, the mental, the emotional and the corporal. Each session will be divided into practical exercises and a weekly content that allows progress in understanding, all in a warm, respectful and trusting atmosphere.
We will build trust as we move forward. The process, the time and the needs of each person will be respected.
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What are the advantages of working in a group?
The group allows you to develop a space of non-judgment, where there is no opinion about what happens to the other, and a space for listening, where the needs and emotions of the other are understood.
Human warmth is essential to move forward in life, to feel protected and confident.
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Why is it important to know your needs and satisfy them?
A need is a drive that seeks to be satisfied, consciously or unconsciously. It is an engine that drives you to action, either with a request, a denial, a declaration of love, of discomfort, a promise or a withdrawal from the situation.
Knowing your needs and satisfying them opens the way to other possibilities, of self-realization, of fullness, of coherence between what you think, what you feel and what you do.
Detecting our needs requires self-listening skills that we will see in the course.
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Is most people unaware of what they feel?
Identifying our emotions, putting a name to what we feel, is an emotional competence that we have not developed and that we need for our health.
Emotions are not only produced in the mind, but in our whole body. Biochemical, respiratory, muscular processes are generated. We detect the body's response before the thought. Learning to listen to your body allows you to start the path of emotional self-regulation. Example: if I perceive my heart agitated, which is a physical sign, I can immediately ask myself what do I feel? what do I think? - step by step I become aware of those three dimensions that work non-stop all day, once I have learned to detect I can give way to the substitution of my thoughts; then the body signal is like when the gasoline light of the car that turns on to warn you that you are going to run out of fuel, in that case you have to stop to refuel. The signals of your body are warning you that you have to stop to... rest, sleep, cry, talk, ask for support, etc.
In the course we address the necessary skills to be able to differentiate what is thought from what is felt, and identify the emotions in our body. You learn to live with your whole body, currently we only live in the mind.
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Do we think too much?
We generate more than 60,000 thoughts daily, many very negative, and we are not fully aware of most of them. Knowing your thoughts allows you to transform them into allies of your well-being.
Learning to use our mind, our body, observing ourselves, listening to ourselves, contacting ourselves improves the quality of our relationships and our life.
