BPC Monthly Newsletter Finding Your Way... to the Joy of Movement Tools for Optimizing Emotional & Mental Wellness April 2005 Issue In this issue: Movement vs. Exercise BPC Announcements Healing Arts Community Links Additional Links Welcome... This month we celebrate the return of spring flowers, blue skies and days that beckon us to change our sedentary ways of winter. Let's get reacquainted with our bodies and think of them as wonderful spacesuits that have been lent to us for our stay on earth. Our energy level, our motivation and our mood are all related to how we care for our spacesuits. With as little as 30 minutes of daily exercise, you can impact how you feel and react throughout the whole day. This month we explore movement vs. exercise, and a few ways to rediscover the joy of connecting with your body. Dorothy Ashman & the entire staff of Bloomsburg Psychological Center, LLC Movement vs. Exercise Movement vs. Exercise Say both words out loud and notice your body's reaction. "Movement" may give you thoughts of flow, flexibility, forward motion, joy... "Exercise"often feels like something we "should" do and can create feelings of work, boredom, repetition and fatigue... Life is movement. We begin to move before we are born and many of our early achievements are identified by what we have learned to do with our body (crawl, walk, climb... ). Death is the absence of movement, and somewhere along our journey through life, many of us lose touch with the joy of moving. Consciously or unconsciously, we begin to avoid movement in favor of more sedentary activities. Want to have more energy? Feel more motivated? Improve your immune system? Look better? Enjoy life more? Here are a few things to try. Aerobic movement needs to be part of every day's plan. Even 30 minutes will make a difference in how you feel. Vary your workout. Walk outside, follow a tape, dance, do yoga.... Include joyful music with your activity. Find a partner to exercise with (human, canine, etc) Drink lots of water during and after your activity. Plan activity as early in your day as possible so you will feel its benefits all day. Evaluate your success by your mood and energy level, not your weight. Laugh a lot while you are moving your body. BPC Announcements Women's Depression & Self-Esteem Group Ronda Barto, LSW will soon be starting up this group again on Monday evenings at BPC. Most insurance policies cover group therapy and we will be happy to research your benefits. Call us at 570-387-1832 to see if this group might be appropriate for you. Need extra support? Our area is well supplied with Free Support Groups and Services that can get you connected with other people in similar situations. Our website contains a list of all of the free groups we have heard of. If you know of any that we have missed, please call us at 570-387-1832 and give us the information. Although we confirm the information with each group once a year, we suggest checking with the contact number to make sure the time or location of the meeting has not changed. Healing Arts Creativity is one of the most healing gifts we have been given. As we reach inside and bring out a poem, a picture, a dance, a song, we bring ourselves firmly into the present and directly in touch with that part of us that knows how to heal. Explore our new Healing Arts pages and share the poetry and art that has been created by various people during their process of healing and growth. These galleries are open to anyone who would like to share their creativity with us. Items are posted anonymously unless you request otherwise. We hope you enjoy your visit to our gallery and are inspired to explore your own inner gifts. If you would like to contribute to these pages, please contact us at dna@uplink.net. Community Links Parent Effectiveness TrainingBegins April 14th, 6:30-9pm, 8 weeks, $30, at Columbia Montour Family Health. Register with Cindy Rupp - 387-0236. Healthy Woman Health Fair (4-6pm), Dinner, Speaker & Prizes (6-8pm). May 11th, at Rolling Pines, Berwick. Dr. Suzanne Metzger, speaker. $5 donations go to the American Cancer Society's Berwick Relay for Life. For more information call 759-5317 (Berwick Hospital). Friday Films at Bloomsburg University. Foreign and independent films will now be show every Friday night at 7:30 in Centennial Hall, room #218. Admission is free and everyone is invited. May 6 - Elling Finding your way CD Finding Your Way Back to Calm, a CD of six relaxation tools and three tracks of soothing music, makes a wonderful gift for anyone who is emotionally or physically stressed. Each technique lasts about 10 minutes so you can fit in a relaxation break almost any time of the day. You can purchase the CD at our web store, at our office at 816 Central Road, or at As Nature Intended on Main Street in Bloomsburg. Additional Links Gabrielle Roth's 5 Rhythms - Dance, movement and emotional release http://www.ravenrecording.com/ "The Wave" DVD (Music and instructions for 5 Rhythms) http://www.ravenrecordingstore.com/ Movement is Medicine http://health.ivillage.com/ Stretching Exercises for Seniors http://seniorliving.about.com/

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