COLLECTIVE EFFERVESCENCE

Alyson Stover, AOTA President, gave her final Presidential Address at the marvelous American Occupational Therapy Association Annual Conference in Orlando on March 22, 2024. Alyson spoke about Collective Effervescence, which occurs when people join together with a shared mission and a similar purpose and fully support each other.

Working together on something meaningful brings purpose into our lives and facilitates JOY. The occupational energy created by a group focused on the same concept stimulates effervescence!

Sociologist Emile Durkheim coined the term collective effervescence early in the 1900s to describe the amazing feeling of energetic harmony that occurs when a group of people have a shared purpose and vision. Group unification occurs, and excitement reigns, bringing love and elation into our hearts.

Spontaneous explosions of joy occur at pivotal moments during sports games, when cheering at the end of spectacular plays or musical events while exuberantly requesting an encore performance, and when experiencing transcendent moments of collective harmony upon completion of a group project.

The enabling feeling that surrounds us during collective effervescence is magnificent. Where can YOU find collective effervescence? Is there a project, activity, or community-based service that can help bring sunshine into your life?

Allow yourself to move forward and discover collective effervescence, finding shared meaning and purpose in your life. 

APRIL IS OT MONTH!

I have been an Occupational Therapist for almost 50 years. OT makes my heart sing. Helping people discover how to adapt activities to match their skills during injury, illness, or disability stimulates heart-based understanding. Enabling people to find success after a physical or mental health condition uproots their lives is massively satisfying.

OT assists people of all ages in living life to the fullest. Our holistic perspective, including the use of complementary health approaches as part of our occupation-based practice, helps align a person’s mind, body, and soul. OT’s evidence-based practice, rooted in science, has brought happiness to millions. YAY for Occupational Therapy Month! 

HEALERS DESIRED FOR THE UPCOMING
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR NEAR-DEATH STUDIES
ANNUAL CONFERNCE
PHOENIX, AZ
AUG. 29 – SEPT.1, 2024

I’m delighted to be the Healing Coordinator for the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS.org). A delightful community of healers forms at the IANDS Annual Conference each year. Twenty-minute 1 to 1 healing sessions are provided for hundreds of attendees. 

Healers volunteer their time for 3-hour shifts and receive FREE attendance at conference depending on how many shifts they provide healing. Healing is a fund-raiser for IANDS, a marvelous group that validates the eternity of life based on science-based evidence resulting from thousands of people who had a near-death experience. One in five people who have a cardiac arrest and survived CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) have a near-death experience where their consciousness travels to another realm, and they often see deceased loved ones. 

Near-death experiencers come back to physical life with a new understanding that we do not die; we live forever. Often, they are filled with LOVE and an awareness that we are eternal beings. They understand that our time on earth is just a limited part of our soul’s evolutionary advancement.

Please feel free to contact me ([email protected]) if you would like to join our 2024 IANDS Circle of Healers! There are also lots of Conference Volunteer activities, such as room monitors, activity set-up, etc., that provide free conference registration depending on the number of volunteer hours provided. Come experience the LOVE that surrounds you at the IANDS Annual Conference, held over the Labor Day holiday!  

FOLLOW YOUR HEART

Give yourself permission to follow your dreams! There is no one limiting you except for yourself.

YOU are a wonderful soul. You deserve the best earthly life possible. What do you really want to do? I encourage you to go forth into the depths of your heart and mind and allow yourself to explore. Experience the magic of moving forward in the direction YOU desire.

Surround yourself with purposeful, meaningful actions that support the direction YOU choose.

Be kind to yourself. Reward your efforts with something FUN. Create the life that YOU WANT to live.

I LOVE having you in my life. Thank you for being YOU.

Sending lots of LOVE and CHEERS for awesome YOU, always and forever, 

Rebecca Austill-Clausen, MS, OTR/L, FAOTA
Reiki Master, International Speaker, Occupational Therapist, Award-Winning Author: Change Maker, How My Brother's Death Woke Up My Life
President, Complementary Health Works, Inc.
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