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HOW DO you spell relief from stress and the inner psychic
tension of left brain, right brain schism? If you are North
Vancouver counsellor and hypnotherapist Fatha Taylor,

you spell it ‘‘Piko Piko’’.

Taylor, a 20-year veteran practi-
tioner of what he calls psycho-
synthesis counselling, approaches
every client-counseHor relationship
from the perspective that
everybody is inherently perfect.

But said Taylor: “By the time
people are 10 years old, they’ve
had 40,000 ‘no's’. My job as a
therapist is to help people reac-
tivate their own power,’’

The power comes in two forms
— the male, left brain hemisphere
power of will, and the female,
right brain hemisphere power of
awareness,

“*All good therapy leads to an
amalgamation of these two sides,
the yin and yang,’ Taylor said.

The Piko Piko meditation exer-
cise, a kind of gymnastics for the
mind, works to integrate the two
powers for a heightened sense of
creative awareness based in the
alpha state of brain activity at
seven to 14 cycles per second.

Taylor suggests setting aside 15
minutes in the morning and 15
minutes in the evening to settle in-
to the exercise. As you breathe in,
you put your attention to the top
of your head. As you breathe out,
you focus attention to your navel.

‘*The mind likes to move. Our
school system takes away the abili-

ids’

records, books,

By MICHAEL BECKER
News Reporter

ty to concentrate. The exercise
allows the mind to move between
two points. Hypertension drops
away, anxiety levels drop and con-
flicts are resolved at a pre-verbal
level,”? Taylor said.

He said the exercise works to in-
crease one’s ability to concentrate,
brings the consciousness into the
present, and inereases the smooth
functioning of the autonomic ner-
vous system governing the body’s
involuntary actions.

Taylor claims Piko Piko also in-
creases galvanic skin response
(GSR).

GSR, a means of measuring
relaxation, entails the placing of
electrodes on the skin surface and
measuring the resistance to a mild
electric current.

“As GSR increases, anxiety and
stress decrease. During meditation,
subjects have shown an increase in
GSR by as much as 500 per cent,”’
Taylor said.

The exercise is also attributed as
a way to decrease arterial blood
lactate Jevels. Taylor said high lac-

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