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-Sara W.,
Maple Valley, WA

New ideas often require new vocabulary. Remember when the Internet first came onto the scene? Suddenly, we all had to learn words like modem, dial-up, and IP address. The same holds true for many of these powerful services. But don't worry. This handy reference covers many of the common -- and a few of the not so common -- terms you might come across.

Acupressure: Similar to Acupuncture, this modality employs finger pressure, rather than needles, at specific points along the body’s energy pathways to promote healing.
Acupuncture: A primary healing modality in Chinese Medicine. Acupuncturists insert fine needles and apply heat (moxibustion) at specific points along energetic pathways to support your body’s self-healing abilities and natural state of balance.
Addiction Recovery: A special form of counseling that helps you recover from an addiction to harmful substances or behaviors. See Counseling
Alchemical Healing: See Energy Healing
Animal Communication: Also known as inter species communication, Animal Communication is a telepathic means of talking to animals. While methods vary, communication usually occurs through the subtle exchange of images, emotions, or words. Animal communicators can help you and your pet develop a deeper and more harmonious relationship.
Aromatherapy Massage: Aromatherapy Massage: The therapeutic combination of Massage Therapy and essential oils. Highly concentrated plant extracts/essential oils are known to promote relaxation, mood elevation, reduce inflammation, raise the immune system and detoxify.. See Massage Therapy
Astrology: The art and science of determining relationships between celestial phenomena and situations on earth. Astrologers chart configurations for a given date, time, and place to create a unique horoscope that provides information on tendencies, trends, and cycles in both your personal and business matters.
Awareness through Movement®: Using directed movement in a group setting to help you become more fluid and spontaneous in the world. See Feldenkrais Method®

BETAR™: A technology that employs music to promote meditative levels of relaxation. BETARTM (Bio-Energetic Transduction Aided Resonance) uses a therapeutic bed equipped to bathe your entire body in sound waves. As a result, unhealthy blockages such as stress, negative emotions, and trauma may be released.
Bionic Hydrotherapy: A soothing mineral foot bath that rids your body of heavy metals, toxins and organic impurities such as cholesterol, yeast, and lactic acid. Cellular detoxification generally occurs in as little as 25 minutes with no discomfort or “healing crisis.”
BodyTalk: A simple and non-invasive therapy that employs gentle tapping techniques to re-establish proper communication and energy flow within your body. BodyTalk addresses common conditions such as allergies, infections, arthritis, a weakened immune system, and various emotional concerns.
Body Readings: See Energy Healing
Breathwork: Unique breathing techniques that promote physical, mental or spiritual health. Calm, methodical breathing may be used for relaxation while forceful breathing may be used for emotional release.

Channeling: Accessing information from higher sources of consciousness to gain useful new perspectives. Channels may provide you with insight into the direction and purpose of your personal life as well as effective business strategies and solutions.
Chinese Medicine: A comprehensive health care system representing 5000 years of clinical experience from a long lineage of Chinese physicians. Chinese Medicine is based on a bio-energetic model that recognizes a vital force behind all life processes. This system employs time-tested modalities that may include Acupuncture, herbal remedies, and dietary recommendations.
Clairvoyance: The honed intuitive ability to reveal wisdom and information you may have forgotten or are not aware of. Clairvoyants can provide empowering insights about your personal growth and the important relationships, pursuits, and aspirations in your life.
Clairvoyant Readings: See Clairvoyance
Clarity Coaching: A unique coaching model that brings clarity to the lifestyle and endeavors that “light you up” and make you feel most alive. See Coaching
Clinical Hypnotherapy: See Hypnotherapy
Coaching: A collaboration between you and a professionally trained coach designed to help you discover and pursue your full potential. Coaching often employs tailored discussions, journaling, special assignments, and other activities that promote expansive thinking and your ability to act in accord with deeply held aspirations and values.
Color and Light Therapy: A tailored regimen of color and light applied to acupuncture points on your skin. Accessing your body’s energy pathways, this therapy addresses physical illnesses and emotional blockages at the cellular level by restoring proper communication among your body’s cells, organs, and systems.
Compassionate Communication: Compassionate Communication (also known as Nonviolent Communication^SM): is a powerful process for inspiring compassionate connection and action. It provides a framework and set of skills to address a variety of problems, from the most intimate relationships to global political conflicts.
Counseling: A collective term for therapies designed to help you resolve emotional concerns such as depression, addiction, relationship issues, and grief. Trained counselors help you identify problems and find solutions, including changes in behavior and strategies for coping with situations beyond your control.
Craniosacral Therapy: Subtle manipulation of your cranium, its underlying membranes, and the nerve endings in your scalp. By gently releasing fluid blockages in the craniosacral system, this technique enhances brain and spinal cord function. Benefits include increased range of motion, pain relief, and greater mental clarity.

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Dating Coach: A coach who helps you identify and pursue your dating goals, gain dating confidence, and find and keep true love. See Coaching
Deep Relaxation Facilitation: A combination of gentle, nurturing bodywork and interactive guided imagery that helps you feel at home in your body. These techniques make you deeply relaxed, renew your energy, and bring clarity of mind.
DNA Activation: See 22-Strand DNA Activation.

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Energetic Balancing: See Energy Healing
Energetic Transformation: See Energy Healing
Energy Healing: A collective term for modalities that either awaken your body’s innate healing abilities or draw on a universal life force to treat physical and emotional concerns. Benefits include life-transforming shifts in consciousness, emotional release, greater self-awareness, relaxation, increased energy, and the resolution of various physical ailments. Energy Healing may also be known as Energetic Balancing, Energetic Transformation, and Integrative Energy Work.
Energy Psychology: Psychotherapy that combines traditional counseling modalities with energy clearing techniques to quickly dissolve emotional issues and restore well-being. Energy Psychology relieves negative emotions and reactions, strengthens positive feelings, and helps you access your best self. See Counseling
Environmental Clearing: Clearing disturbed patterns of energy from your living or work environment. Environmental Clearing practitioners use energy-based techniques to create subtle shifts that leave your spaces more open and better able support your aspirations and endeavors.
Esogetic Colorpuncture: A form of Color and Light Therapy. See Color and Light Therapy

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Facial Fitness: A safe and natural alternative to plastic surgery based on muscle resistance training in the form of 28 “facelift” exercises. Targeting specific muscles in your face and neck, this home-based program is taught in a fun and supportive workshop setting.
Family Coaching: A unique coaching model designed to bring harmony, health, and happiness to your entire family. See Coaching
Feldenkrais Method®: Employing gentle movement and non-invasive touch to expand range of motion, enhance awareness, reduce physical pain, and promote self-expression. In group Awareness Through Movement® classes and private lessons known as Functional Integration®, you learn to reorganize your body for greater fluidity and ease of being.
Feng Shui: Literally translated as “Wind and Water,” Feng Shui is the ancient Chinese art of placement. Harmonizing the flow of energy (or Chi) in a natural or built environment, Feng Shui employs the proper placement of objects to attract greater health and happiness to your personal or professional life.
Flower Essences: Potent flower extracts designed to gently support emotional healing. Flower Essences are designed to address a variety of specific emotional states associated with fear, uncertainty, apathy, loneliness, despair, or over-concern for others.
Functional Integration®: Private lessons that employ guided movement to help enhance your physical functioning and self-awareness. See Feldenkrais Method®

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Grief Recovery®: A proven action program for moving beyond the death of a loved one, a divorce, or other painful loss. Grief Recovery® helps you explore myths about grieving, fully understand your loss, and experience the completion that allows you to heal while honoring cherished memories.

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Healthy Aging: Combining your body’s wisdom with state of the art technologies that help ensure you possess the physical and mental capacities to enjoy life at every stage without pain, unattractiveness, lethargy, or confusion. Technologies may include Bionic Hydrotherapy, Health Mate Sauna, BodyTalk, and Rhumart Cellular Conditioning.
Health Mate Sauna: Sauna technology that employs a comfortable temperature while allowing your body to release 2 to 3 times more sweat than conventional saunas. Health Mate Sauna rids your body of toxins and mineral waste, burns calories, improves skin tone, increases blood circulation, and relieves stress.
Hellerwork: Deep-tissue manipulation to gently realign your body and restore its natural resiliency. This modality includes movement education and guided dialogue to promote pain-relief and enhance body awareness. Hellerwork balances you “from the inside out” to ease chronic tension, pain, and stress.
Herbal Medicine: The use of medicinal herbs to promote health and treat disease. Herbal remedies may be used in many healthcare systems including Chinese Medicine, Holistic Medicine, and Homeopathy.
Holistic Dentistry: Also known as biocompatible dentistry, Holistic Dentistry promotes comprehensive health practices including proper nutrition, the avoidance and elimination of toxins, and disease prevention. This form of dentistry employs effective, non-toxic, and environmentally friendly techniques and materials.
Holistic Medicine: A system of care that focuses on preventing illness and maintaining health, rather than simply treating the symptoms of disease. Viewing health as a balance of systems (physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual), it employs a wide range of natural therapies to bolster your body’s ability to heal itself and maintain equilibrium.
Homeopathy (Classical): A natural system of healing that employs a single preparation to treat one or more symptoms simultaneously. Homeopathic remedies consist of an herbal, mineral, or animal substance that, in a healthy person, triggers the symptoms you are experiencing. Based on the concept of “like treats like,” Homeopathy prescribes small doses of a tailored remedy to elicit your body’s healing response.
HypnoBirthing®: Classes that teach you to access and employ your natural birthing instincts. Using deep relaxation and visualization techniques, HypnoBirthing® allows you to release fear while embracing the expectation of a beautiful, joyful, and comfortable childbirth.
Hypnotherapy: Employing guided visualization and relaxation exercises to help you retrieve new and useful insights from the subconscious mind. Hypnotherapy is helpful for weight release, smoking cessation, pain management, depression, and many other physical and emotional concerns.

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Inner Process Bodywork: Gently relieving patterns of tension caused by memories and experiences stored within your body. Practitioners employ intuitive touch, deep listening, and reflective dialogue to release stress, enhance physical and emotional awareness, and promote overall well-being.
Integrative Energy Work: See Energy Healing

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Kirlian Photography: A special form of diagnostic photography that reveals the electromagnetic fields around living things. Employed with Color and Light Therapy, Kirlian Photography reveals the energy patterns of the fingers and toes to help determine an appropriate course of treatment.

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Leadership Coaching: A unique coaching model that helps you build employee morale, raise company productivity, and improve communications within your business. See Coaching
Lightbody Activation: Employing specially programmed crystals that raise your body’s vibrational frequencies to create positive shifts in consciousness. This process releases negative energies while preparing your body for 12-Strand DNA Activation and other types of energy work.
Life Coaching: A unique coaching model that empowers you to create and
live a life you love. See Coaching
Life Mastery Coaching (VAST Model): A unique coaching model that utilizes a matrix of elegant human technology skills, perspectives and strategies that inspires highly motivated individuals to create and sustain a delightful quality of life presently beyond their imagination. The VAST model uses Original Thinking™ and Self-Wisdom™ techniques. See Coaching
Light Therapy: Employing infra-red and red wavelengths of light to stimulate and rejuvenate your skin and its underlying tissues. Light Therapy also increases moisture retention and promotes collagen production.
Lomilomi Massage: A traditional massage style from the islands of Hawaii. Likened to an ocean wave or tropical breeze, Lomilomi employs long, flowing strokes designed to bring you rejuvenation and blissful relaxation. See Massage Therapy

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Massage Therapy: A collective term for a wide range of bodywork therapies, many of which employ special techniques that involve rubbing, kneading, stretching, or pressure. Massage Therapy stimulates blood circulation and promotes relaxation in the body’s muscles and soft tissues.
Mediation: A structured dispute resolution process where an impartial third party meets with disputants to identify issues, explore options, and clarify goals. The mediator helps both parties reach a mutually-acceptable agreement.
Medical Massage: An advanced form of rehabilitative bodywork, delivered in a clinical setting, under the prescription of a primary health care provider. Medical Massage employs a goal-oriented approach to treat chronic or sustained injuries such as whiplash, sciatica, carpal tunnel, fibromyalgia, and fibrotic muscle conditions. See Massage Therapy
Microdermabrasion: A painless procedure that removes the topmost layer of skin to reduce visible signs of aging such as fine lines and wrinkles, age spots, minor scars, blemishes, and uneven pigmentation.
Ministry: Guidance and care provided by ordained ministers in any religious or spiritual tradition. Ministry may include sacred teachings, rituals and ceremonies, blessings, and counsel during difficult life transitions. All forms of Ministry seek to help you connect more deeply with a higher power.
Motivational Speaking: Tailored presentations that motivate you or your business to take positive action. Motivational Speaking may inspire you to take the necessary steps to reach personal goals, further your career, or increase productivity in the workplace.
Movement Coaching: A unique coaching model that helps you move your body in healthy ways during exercise activities such as walking, yoga, dance, and weight lifting. See Coaching

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Naturopathic Physician: A physician who employs a holistic model of practice based on healing the body in harmony with its natural functions, rather than relying on conventional medications. When promoting health or treating disease, Naturopathic Physicians may incorporate a variety of modalities such as Acupuncture, Herbal Medicine, Massage Therapy, Energy Healing, and Homeopathy.
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP): A method for removing the subconscious blocks that prevent your self-change and healing. Using the power of the mind to change or “reprogram” thoughts, feelings, and actions, NLP helps you respond in more productive ways to problems and difficult situations.
Nonviolent Communication™: See Compassionate Communication

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Original Thinking™: A special coaching technique used with Life Mastery
Coaching (VAST model.) See Life Mastery Coaching (VAST model.)

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Passion Catalyst^SM: A term to describe a coach who employs Passion-
Focused Career Coaching. See Passion-Focused Career Coaching
Passion Core^SM: The “internal compass” that helps you identify direction, evaluate opportunities, and stay on track. Used with Passion-Focused Career Coaching. See Passion-Focused Career Coaching
Passion-Focused Career Coaching: A unique coaching model that employs an action-based framework to help you find a career based on your deepest passions. See Coaching
Personal Breakthrough Program: Helping you break through the blocks to your health, peace of mind, and personal success by fully activating your powerful mind-body-spirit connection. Tools may include Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Hypnotherapy, and Time Line Therapy™ .
Personal Physician: A term for doctors with a “concierge” model of practice that emphasizes first-class, highly personalized care. You purchase a “subscription” to premium services that may include longer appointments, phone and e-mail consultations, immediate or same-day scheduling, a 24-hour on call doctor, and facilitated hospital visits.
Professional Organizing and Decluttering: Creating and implementing long-term strategies to help you organize your home or work environment. Professional Organizers work with you in a collaborative, hands-on way to effectively address cluttered living areas, excess paperwork, crowded storage spaces, and unwanted possessions.
Prosperity Training: A non-traditional framework for understanding money and the concept of abundance. Based on the philosophy that we attract or repel wealth and good fortune with our own energy, Prosperity Training provides you with tools to shift from a mindset of scarcity to one of plenty.

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Reflexology: Accelerating your body’s natural healing abilities through the application of pressure to reflex points on your hands, feet, and ears. Reflexology stimulates the production of healing neurotransmitters that reduce stress, promote relaxation, and stimulate a healing response in specific organs and systems.
Reiki: Light touch that transmits universal life energy (sometimes known as chi, qi, or ki) throughout your body. Stimulating a healing response, Reiki may offer general relaxation, stress relief, and the resolution of various emotional and spiritual concerns.
Rhumart Cellular Conditioning: Employing biophysical resonances (a subtle form of vibration) to trigger healthy sensory and motor activities in your body. A natural way to rejuvenate your nervous system, this therapy promotes relaxation, normalized blood pressure, and tissue repair.
Rife Technology: Employing sound frequencies, light, and electrical stimulation to disable viruses, parasites, bacteria, and fungi in your body. Rapid and painless, Rife Technology works by matching the unique frequency or “signature” of the illness being treated.
Rubenfeld Synergy Method®: A combination of gentle touch, verbal dialogue, active listening, and movement to help you release outmoded emotional patterns and energy blockages stored within your body. The result is a healing integration of body, mind, and emotions.

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Self-Discovery Counseling: A unique form of counseling that helps you make life-enhancing choices by bringing more awareness and understanding into your life. See Counseling
Self-Wisdom™: A special coaching technique used with Life Mastery
Coaching (VAST model.) See Life Mastery Coaching (VAST model.)
Shamanic Healing: A collection of healing techniques that establish assistance and protection from the spirit world. Shamanic techniques may be used to resolve soul fragmentation, energetic imbalances, and unhealthy attachments. Dedicated to helping others maintain a healthy spiritual life, Shamans may also provide counseling and preside over important ceremonies.
Skin Care: Promoting good skin health through treatments proven to cleanse, exfoliate, hydrate, and protect your skin. Skincare professionals employ many techniques including facials, Microdermabrasion, and Light Therapy.
Spiritual Counseling: A special form of counseling that helps you integrate spiritual perspectives into everyday life. See Counseling
Stress Testing: A series of simple questions that helps you identify your stress level and stress triggers. Stress Testing helps you find out if your health is at risk and what you can do to enhance your well-being.

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Tantra: A collection of simple yet profoundly effective techniques for integrating your sexuality and spirituality. These techniques may involve special ways of breathing, moving, and focusing intention and awareness. Tantra takes you to new levels of emotional intimacy, joy, and pleasure.
Tantra Coaching: A unique form of coaching that helps you integrate your sexual and spiritual lives. See Tantra and Coaching
Tarot Card Readings: An ancient form of divination that employs a deck of 78 cards, each endowed with a unique symbol. Interpreting your Tarot “spread,” intuitive readers can provide insight into your specific life circumstances. With new perspectives and greater self-understanding, you are empowered to make positive decisions about your future.
Theta Healing: Guiding you to a deeply relaxed “Theta” brain wave state (similar to hypnosis), Theta Healing practitioners help you access information from a higher source of consciousness. With new insights, you are able to eliminate negative thoughts and beliefs on both a conscious and subconscious level. Time Line Therapy™: A collection of techniques that help you release long-term stored negative emotions, trauma, phobias, and beliefs that limit your success and well-being. Time Line Therapy™ is an application of Neuro- Linguistic Programming (NLP).
Transformational Breathing: A self-healing technique that employs special breathing exercises to open your respiratory system and transform you at the cellular level. Benefits include deep relaxation, increased energy, relief from chronic respiratory conditions, emotional release, and heightened awareness.
22-Strand DNA Activation: An energy-based technique for activating your full DNA complement—the genetic “blueprint” that influences your purpose and achievements in life. 22-Strand DNA Activation allows you to tap unrealized talents and abilities while releasing negative emotions.

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Visceral Manipulation: A gentle hands-on therapy that works through the body’s visceral system (heart, liver, intestines, and other internal organs) to locate and alleviate tension throughout the body.

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WaveMaker® Technology: A technology that uses wave interference and resonance to eliminate your emotional blockages. Temporarily forming a “wireless” connection to your body, the WaveMaker® is a compact electronic device that transforms destructive energy patterns associated with limiting habits, outmoded conditionings, and negative emotional states.
Wellness Massage: A form of Massage Therapy that focuses on clearing chronic stress from muscles and tissues. Benefits include a variety of physical, emotional, and mental benefits associated with relaxation. See Massage Therapy
Whole Foods Coaching: A unique coaching model that teaches you to prepare, enjoy, and gain maximum benefit from whole foods. See Coaching
Whole System Coaching: A unique coaching model that helps you balance your entire life system to create maximum health and harmony. See Coaching

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