Podcast Interview About Occupational Therapy as a Career #career #solutions #balance #holistic

Click Here  for 092 Recording of Cathi Discussing the Work Of an Occupational Therapist and Environments.

People for most of their lives are living out of environments with no idea at all of how they impact

their wellbeing.  Whether it is environments at home, work or in specific places such as doctors

surgeries, hospitals all the time messages are fed back to us about the dynamics between ourselves

and what lies around us.

In my latest interview on the Role of Occupational Therapy I stress the importance of not ignoring

people's holistic needs by focusing on just the apparent area of damage.  We are a society consumed

with putting a plaster over the area of hurt and walking away.  No attempt to say where is this coming

from; is it an environmental cause such as water supply, geopathic, is it self esteem, self sabotage and
doing something specific that addresses the cause rather than the outcome.

Our worlds have slowed down to the point that we see from one screen the world but meanwhile the

world around us is being ignored and that includes relating to each other.  One of the sources of poor

mental health that I have come across has been the social isolation, the alienation of people from one

another and a lack of social cohesion where people feel alien in an alien world.

The Health Chiefs dont want to address such issues as everything now has a solution with a tablet;

yes pharmaceuticals have taken over our life; a pill to be happy, a pill to forget, a pill to comatose and

a pill to change perception.

A Pill to take us away from being human; with feelings, responsibilities, responses and awareness.

Occupational Therapy is one of the few approaches maybe the only one that uses its own resources to
problem solve in a way that is not harmful to the client but has endless creative possibilities to

address every individual situation they meet.

If you want to find out more feel at liberty to contact me for further information-provided in the interview above.

THE GEOMETERY WITHIN & WITHOUT

You may ask what has this Table of beautiful flowers got to do with Occupational Therapy?

Well having worked in a psychiatric unit in Tamil Nadu South India I observed all manner of

improvised techniques to create therapeutic tools especially using Nature and the Environment.

This work was undertaken by a group of patients who used the flower and fauna in the vicinity they

lived to create a geometrical shape; so what? you may say.

But think about it; when the mind is torn apart and in conflict or self sabotage something is out of

a state of natural pattern or rhymmn.  Everything in nature has a pattern whether it be sound, visual;

shells, structure of flowers, trees and when everything is working from its own order it's in harmony

with itself and the greater connection to everything else in the universe.

When patients put this design together on the table psychologically its restoring some kind of pattern,

a shape or a rhhymn within themselves.

When the pattern and synchronisation happens within then its expressed on the outside.  so this

therapeutic work has allowed people to connect internally where patterns may have become adhoc.



Often when people feel out of synch with the world there is a misalignment with how they feel inside

and what shows up on the outside.  This therapeutic work allowed the patients to create a geometry of

a kind that allowed them to feel complete, a part of something bigger.

Dr Emoto's Geometrical Snowflakes - patterns are everywhere in Nature and in the Human Form and 

in the Mind; so, when they are fragemented and dispersed there is a non connection within.

That is why all therapies when they incorporate returning to patterns that flow, create, and support 

people express a congruence with the creativity and a healing.

Look around you and see where the patterns are and then look within and look at your own; all beautiful, colourful and vibrant!