MINHANCE SELF DISCOVERY PROGRAM

Do you know who you are?

Do you know what your true potential is?

Are you living the life of your dreams?

Are you really happy in your life?

Self-empowerment means that you take charge of your own life. A New You will emerge that is more confident, more radiant, more youthful, satisfied, and happy.

How do you achieve all of this?

Sign in for the MINHANCE SELF DISCOVERY PROGRAM

What do you do in the program?

Discover what makes you tick.

Discover your personality, Your nature, your strengths.

Breaking up your life into different layers and removing those layers that do not serve any purpose.

Finding the roadblocks and limiting beliefs that have been holding you back and moving forward toward your goals

Aligning your personal life and your career based on what you have discovered.

Building up new layers based on new goals that you have for your life to fulfill your dreams.

Live an inspired life filled with passion and motivation.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

Men, Women, Entrepreneurs, Working professionals, Homemakers, Students, and Anybody who wants to rediscover their inner potential.

Program Itinerary

The program includes 10 one-hour weekly sessions with our Life Coach via WhatsApp, follow-up, tasks, and worksheets.

Stress is a natural reaction to not being able to cope with specific demands and events.

Stress can be a motivator, and it can even be essential to survival. The body’s fight-or-flight mechanism tells a person when and how to respond to danger. However, when the body becomes triggered too easily, or there are too many stressors at one time, it can undermine a person’s mental and physical health and become harmful. Stress can come from work, relationships, financial pressures, and other situations.

What is Stress?

Stress is the body’s natural defence against predators and danger. It causes the body to flood with hormones that prepare its systems to evade or confront danger. People commonly refer to this as the fight-or-flight mechanism.

The body produces larger quantities of the chemicals cortisol, epinephrine, and norepinephrine. These trigger the following physical reactions:

increased blood pressure

heightened muscle preparedness

sweating

alertness

These factors all improve a person’s ability to respond to a potentially hazardous or challenging situation. Environmental factors that trigger this reaction are called stressors. Examples include noises, aggressive behavior, a speeding car, scary moments in movies, or even going out on a first date. Feelings of stress tend to increase in tandem with the number of stressors..

Physical effects of Stress.

Stress slows down some normal bodily functions, such as those that the digestive and immune systems perform. The body can then concentrate its resources on breathing, blood flow, alertness, and the preparation of the muscles for sudden use. The body changes in the following ways during a stress reaction: The physical effects of stress can include:

breathing speeds up

Breathlessness

sweating

pain in the back or chest

cramps or muscle spasms

fainting

headaches

nervous twitches

pins and needles sensations

digestive system slows down

immune activity decreases

sleeplessness due to a heightened state of alertness

How a person reacts to a difficult situation will determine the effects of stress on overall health. Some people can experience several stressors in a row or at once without this leading a severe stress reaction. Others may have a stronger response to a single stressor.

An individual who feels as though they do not have enough resources to cope will probably have a stronger reaction that could trigger health problems. Stressors affect individuals in different ways.

The reason for this is that they typically involve a significant change, extra effort, new responsibilities, and a need for adaptation. They also often require a person to take steps into the unknown

However, being more alert to the effects of stress may help a person manage it more effectively and cope better.

Types of Stress

► Acute stress

This short-term and a more common form of stress. Acute stress often develops when people consider the pressures of events that have recently occurred or face upcoming challenges in the near future. Acute stress does not result in long-term damage that is seen in chronic stress. Short-term effects include tension headaches and an upset stomach, as well as a moderate amount of distress. However, repeated instances of acute stress over an extended period can become chronic and harmful.

► Chronic stress

Chronic stress develops over a long period and is more harmful. Chronic stress makes it difficult for the body to return to a normal level of stress hormone activity, which can contribute to problems in the following systems :

cardiovascular

respiratory

sleep

immune

reproductive

A constant state of stress can also increase a person’s risk of type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart disease. Depression, anxiety, and other mental health disorders, such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), can develop when stress becomes chronic.

Chronic stress can continue unnoticed, as people can become used to feeling agitated and hopeless. It can become part of an individual’s personality, making them constantly prone to the effects of stress regardless of the scenarios that they encounter.

People with chronic stress are at risk of having a final breakdown that can lead to suicide, violent actions, a heart attack, or stroke.

“Art speaks where words are unable to explain.”– Pam Holland (Artist)

Have you seen or observed yourself, when in deepest thoughts and worries, given a pen and paper, unconsciously you start scribbling random patterns? After scribbling you always feel a sense of relief.

Art is a powerful tool that helps to express one’s thoughts and feelings which are too painful to communicate in words. So what is Art Therapy?

What is Art Therapy?

In the field of counselling, there are various forms of therapies and Art therapy is one among them. As the name suggests, it refers to using Art as a medium to explore one’s emotions and diagnose behavioural issues. Colours and creative activities are used to help people especially children to express emotions and feelings, de-stress, resolve conflicts, bring self-awareness and enhance the overall well-being of children.

Art Therapy for Children

“My child does not finish assignments”. “My child does not talk much to me and I do not know what is happening…”

Dear Parents Do these phrases ring a bell ?

Children, as they grow from childhood to adolescence, go through various challenges – personality changes, changes in their physiology, peer pressure, digital addiction, sibling pressure, parents' tantrums identity issues and much more. They find it hard to express their emotions and feelings as they feel overwhelmed by external factors. Sometimes they themselves are not even aware what is going on with them.

This is where we apply Art therapy. Art therapy, without intimidating, helps children in a fun and artistic way to express their emotions and understand themselves better.

Art circumvents the limitations of languages and provides an alternative for children to express their thoughts and emotions.

Art may involve doodling, painting, writing a story or poems, collage, clay art, sculpture, etc.

Art therapy is used by counsellors to address various childhood concerns, such as anxiety, low self-esteem, addictions, PTSD, depression, eating disorders and much more.

According to AATA, “Art therapy is used to improve cognitive and sensorimotor functions, foster self-esteem and self-awareness, cultivate emotional resilience, promote insight, enhance social skills, reduce and resolve conflicts and distress, and advance societal and ecological change.”

Here are 5 benefits of Art Therapy for the holistic development of children.

Improves focus, attention and concentration:

Creating an artwork involves active planning, preparing, deciding on various materials and colours, etc. While creating the artwork, one forgets everything and is in the moment focusing only on the art. It is like being in the zone. It makes one forget all the unwanted negative thoughts and worries and makes one happy. This triggers the release of Dopamine in the Prefrontal cortex which plays a significant role in mediating executive functions of the brain such as working memory, focus, organising, management of emotions, cognitive flexibility and self-control.

Manage emotions and improve communication skills:

Art therapy helps oneself to identify emotions and also acts as a safe outlet to relieve one’s emotions. Cathy Malchiodi, the Expressive Art therapist, states, “Drawing has been undeniably recognized as one of the most important ways that children express themselves and has been repeatedly linked to the expression of personality and emotions.” When they express their emotions through art, they feel at ease and relieved.

De-stress and reduce anxiety:

Stress arises when a child is unable to cope with numerous work demands and goes beyond their capacity to handle them.According to research studies, art therapy has been proven to help significantly lower the stress hormone -Cortisol. Further, children may not even be aware of what is going on with them. Art therapy makes it easier for them to express themselves which helps them relieve stress and address anxiety issues.

Address behavioural issues:

Refusal in obeying parents, attention deficit hyperactive disorder, lack of empathy, anger issues, etc. Art therapy, through positive behaviour reinforcement helps children to regulate their emotions and behaviour and provides techniques empowering them to be in control of themselves.

Self-Esteem and Self-Awareness:

The development of self-esteem in children is largely influenced by the external factors and environment they are exposed to. Art therapy provides an opportunity for children and adolescents to create something original on their own which equips them with the confidence to try new things.The satisfaction of self creation allows them to reframe their mental perspective of self-esteem. It enables self- exploration which provides insights to understand themselves better and work on themselves.

Overall, the goal of art therapy is to reduce symptoms, empower children to better manage themselves, provide coping strategies, identify triggers, increase the ability to problem- solving, manage emotions and behaviour and improve communication skills. Art therapy approaches children at their level and makes it easier to deal with various issues.