Sheila Howe Counseling

10/08/2019

02/25/2017

This is such a loving, peaceful meditation. Try it you may find the results so refreshing and freeing. Compassion, Innate Harmony, Healing and Unconditional love! Happy Meditating

Dr. Ann Marie Chiasson shows you how to perform the Heart Center Meditation is an act of meditation with an emphasis on opening and healing the heart.

10/10/2016

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Check out Integrative Mental Health Centers Fall 2016 Newsletter.
In the Newsletter is my latest article regarding depression, titled-"Depression Through the Ages: A Counselors Perspective".
https://goo.gl/h1SU12

05/02/2016

"What I can give as testimony from the work I’ve done, and from speaking in front of thousands and thousands of people is that people can be taught to hold less animosity toward life, toward other people, and toward themselves. I’ve seen the impact on people of teaching them how to forgive. Everybody’s got a heart, and that heart can be touched. I have no idea whether we’re gaining ground or losing it, because there’s always somebody else down the block advancing more hate. Yet one-to-one, one-to-ten, and one-to-a-hundred, a difference can be made. There is an alternative to hate that can be learned. Deep spirituality is always about changing oneself. “Doing good” has always involved people who can master themselves."

Frederic Luskin, PhD
Founder and Director, Stanford University Forgiveness Project

Great studies are happening at Stanford University such as studies regarding the human capacity for forgiveness, altruism, compassion and other Positive Psychological concepts. Our Brains are changeable. The phenomena is called neuro-plasticity. Through connection, intention and mindfulness we can choose our way of being in the world. We can also inspire in others to change. Imagine a world where forgiveness becomes the norm!
Blessings on your day.

03/21/2016

"Kindness is a beautiful human attribute… In our competitive and often violent world, kindness is not the most frequent response. But when we encounter it, we know that we are blessed… To be kind means to treat another person as your “kin,” your intimate relative… All people, regardless of their color, religion or s*x, belong to humankind and are called to be kind to one another, treating one another as brothers and sisters. There is hardly a day in our lives in which we are not called to this.
Henry Nouwen

The Center for the Greater good in Stanford and Berkley have extensively studied the phenomena of kindness, altruism and compassion and lo and behold discovered that kindness is really good for our brain and bodies. Not only being kind to others but also importantly kind to ourselves. So let's be kind for "everyone is fighting a battle"-Plato.
If you are wanting more help in creating the neuro-pathways ways of kindness and compassion begin the daily practice of a
loving kindness meditation.
May you find kindness today for yourself and for those in your day.