Apply Energy Psychology to the Challenges of Aging April 17, 2009

Psychotherapist Dr. Dorothea Hover-Kramer, will discuss techniques from her new book, Second Chance at Your Dream - Engaging your body’s energy resources for optimal aging, creativity and health.

These techniques focus on the emotional challenges of "the Golden Years" - whether financial, health, loss of social and family connections, or general depression.

Dr. Hover-Kramer uses techniques that reach body, mind and spirit to release negative emotions and imbed new possibilities. By working directly with the human energy system, benefits include relief from constricting emotions and facilitating movement toward a hopeful sense of self-worth. Options for addressing life issues can best be considered when the clouds of depression or low motivation are lifted.

Myths about aging need to be debunked. For example, epigenetic research shows how gene expression lies within the control of the conscious mind and is continuously influenced by the choices we make.

Neuroscience shows evidence for the plasticity of the brain cells which respond to intention and emotional reactions. As the apertures of consciousness expand with the creative thinking put forth in Second Chance at Your Dream, neurons can grow and regenerate.

Dorothea Hover-Kramer, Ed.D., RN, CNS, D.CEP has been a psychotherapist in private practice for over 30 years and combines her career as a psychologist with her background in psychiatric nursing. She co-founded the International Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology (ACEP) and is the author of five other books about energy therapies including the Healing Touch texts.