{"id":8445,"date":"2020-09-07T13:47:04","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T13:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/druidry.org\/?p=8445"},"modified":"2024-01-05T00:48:28","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T00:48:28","slug":"empower-your-life-with-sophrology-by-philip-carr-gomm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/druidry.org\/resources\/empower-your-life-with-sophrology-by-philip-carr-gomm","title":{"rendered":"Empower Your Life with Sophrology by Philip Carr Gomm"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

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CICO Books 2019<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

Empower your life with Sophrology<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0by Philip Carr Gomm really is one of those books that \u2018does what it says on the can.\u2019<\/p>\r\n

So, if you don\u2019t meditate, but suspect that your experience of life would be better if you did; if an underlying feeling of stress is your normality, or if you easily lose your sense of perspective; if you\u2019d like to gain quantifiable benefits from short exercises that fit easily into a busy lifestyle, then give this book a try.<\/p>\r\n

Sophrology is a \u2018stress-reducing, self-care practice\u2019 whose use of simple body movements with mental exercises is surprisingly effective. Using the body seems somehow to sidestep the mental blocks stressed people feel at the very thought of relaxing.<\/p>\r\n

A gentle step by step guide is clearly set out, with chapters targeting our chief concerns; healing, anxiety, pain, distress, eating and sleep problems.<\/p>\r\n

The content is clearly delineated and allows the reader to refer quickly back to key points for a refresher. This is clever layout\/design; clear, attractive and colourful, using illustrations\u00a0and coloured backgrounds to separate sections. The little people illustrating the poses don\u2019t appeal to me, but that\u2019s personal taste, and they don\u2019t distract me.<\/p>\r\n

The writing introduces bite-sized chunks of practice that are so easy to follow you hardly realise they are becoming more complex as you go further. But don\u2019t be fooled by its simplicity; the techniques were developed by a neuro-psychiatrist, and can achieve pleasing results in a short time \u2013 so, ideal for the impatient.<\/p>\r\n

In terms of easy effectiveness, and, most importantly, keeping at it \u2013 for the self-help road is strewn with good intentions \u2013 the absolute clincher for me is the audio support. By each of twenty-six exercises, which vary from two to fourteen minutes, there is the symbol of a speaker, indicating an audio file. If you\u2019ve ever enjoyed one of Philip\u2019s visualisations you\u2019ll know his voice is both calming and compelling; all you need to do is go online to the book\u2019s website, relax and have the author \u2018act as your personal sophrologist.\u2019 I did, and I\u2019m impressed.\u00a0Highly recommended.<\/p>\r\n

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CICO Books 2019 Empower your life with Sophrology\u00a0by Philip Carr Gomm really is one of those books that \u2018does what it says on the can.\u2019 So, if you don\u2019t meditate, but suspect that your experience of life would be better if you did; if an underlying feeling of stress is your normality, or if you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":8446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"acf":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Order of Bards, Ovates & Druids","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/druidry.org","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/druidry.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/druidry.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/druidry.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/druidry.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/druidry.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8445"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/druidry.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16411,"href":"https:\/\/druidry.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8445\/revisions\/16411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/druidry.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/druidry.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/druidry.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/druidry.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}