I recently met the only blind figure skater in the world. Yes, you guessed it, via twitter! He wrote a blog article called "living on the edge and loving it.” As some of you know my Internet radio show is called, Live on the Edge, which is a phrase taken from a testimonial I received from Jean Houston, Ph.D. in 1984 after I studied and traveled with her in the USA and India.
Living on the edge means letting go of control and discovering the parts of you that exist beyond your conscious mind. If you desire rich, full-bodied experiences while you are here on earth it is an exciting and worthwhile journey.
The rewards are many; you will find your much needed instincts, intuition, kinesthetic abilities, feelings, sensations, inner knowing and healthy energy flow.
In order to jump and spin on the ice, Stash Serafin gets into the movement with his body from the inside out. He stands still and feels what is inside of him and the energy he finds then leads him forward out into the world naturally.
This is the same body heart method I use to teach people to break free from knee jerk reactions which are ego based so they can sense their natural born center which is full of real power and authentic self esteem.
Here is what Stash wrote me:
"Hi Doris,
I was delighted to hear your show last week, Living At The Edge as you and your guest spoke about modern dance. This is very special to me as I am an ice skater, blind since birth, and am the only blind skater in the world jumping, spinning, and really get the moving from inside to outside.
You and your guest mentioned about center, feeling the impulses, being still, and then the movement happens. This is exactly how I trained myself how to skate. I still do the tiny standing still exercises which I now know without a doubt turn into movements of self expression on and off of the ice.
I am thrilled I can skate, and the more exciting thing is how the connection between movement and skating happened as I have been involved in modern dance for 36 years. I studied with Margery M Turner, who was the Chairman of the Dance Department in Rutgers New Brunswick campus for many years until she retired in 1984 or 1985. We kept in constant communication until she passed a few years ago, and I still miss her very much.
Thanks for sharing your site on Twitter and the wonderful shows you put together with such loving care and sensitivity to center and well being.
All The Best,
Stash Serafin Blind Figure Skater
Visit Stash's website and blog to learn more about his powerful, authentic movement into the world. He teaches people how to skate and is available as a speaker.
You too can learn to ride your healthy energy and go for a spin. Your body and heart will take you for a jump out into the world of meaningful, rich experiences.
You have to feel from the inside out in order to break free from your knee jerk reactions. When you learn to do this, you will access your natural born, flowing energy.
I hope to meet you on the edge.
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LEARN TO FEEL from the inside out at the Nature
Workshop in Pt. Pleasant, PA. Saturday, October 24, 2009.
Get some practice jumping and flowing. 95% of
the people who attend this experience are able
to get this feeling and sensation. Come play with me
and learn how to move from your center.
http://www.drjeanette.com/natureworkshops.html
As an Enjoy Life reader, you get a discount by
signing up before September 1. Put drjeanette in the
coupon box to get $50.00 off the $150.00 workshop or
mail your check for $100.00 to Doris Jeanette
503 S. 21 St.
Philadelphia, PA 19146
Hope to see you there.
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FEEL THE INSIDE TRUTHS in your heart. Learn how
to sense and feel the difference between knee jerk
responses and your authentic feelings and emotions.
When you are still and listen you can feel your center.
Opening the Heart audio guides you into sensing
and feeling from the inside out. It does not matter if
you are in or out of a relationship you can feel your center
and live from the heart.
Opening the Heart audio on sale through August.
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Easy Way to Improve a Skill
During a human potential workshop in NYC in 1983 I heard Jean Houston say that practicing a physical skill in your imagination is just as effective as practicing the skill in real life.
Since then there have been many studies validating this fact and some studies even report that visualizing the skill is better than practicing it in real life!
How often do you use your imagination skills to improve your performance or reach a goal?
In 1989, I took my local Philadelphia women’s softball team all the way to the Championship Win by practicing every night in bed to become the best pitcher in the league.
Last week via a twitter chat, Carrie Armitage a professional pianist and singer-songwriter from Canada and I were discussing visualization. Something she said, gave me an exciting new idea about an unusual way I can help people with unpleasant body memories.
Since I am always on the lookout for faster and more effective ways to help men and women release the trauma of having been sexually and physically abused, I was thrilled.
To help you use this ability more effectively in your life, I asked Carrie to explain exactly how she used visualization to unlearn what she calls “bad technical habits.”
Here is what Carrie Armitage said.
"I recently took a fairly lengthy break from playing the piano. What I found when I returned to the keyboard is that I wanted to play up to speed right away in order to be able to play the parts I was writing for my solo project. To keep that momentum I was developing bad technical habits with regards to my approach to playing the parts. To further complicate things I was also favoring my ring and pinky finger on my left hand due to an injury to the ulnar nerve.
When you play a part over and over again you develop a muscle memory. In effect, you can then play the part without even thinking about it, at great speeds. If you have reached this stage in performing a part, it is very difficult to change the technique you’re using to play the part. The only method I had ever really been taught was to slow it right down and do the hard work of recommitting the part to memory with the right technique. I have little patience for this, and coupled with my left hand injury, I also did not have the physical stamina for it.
I started using a visualization technique where I would go over the correct technique in my mind (where the muscle memory doesn’t exist) – and have found this to be very effective in correcting bad technical habits (incorrect fingering or hand position).
I had learned many years earlier of visualization for performance – where you can visualize hitting the high notes with ease or going over a performance in your mind so many times that you have already performed perfectly in abundance before you ever step on a stage. I thought it couldn’t hurt to try it at the macro-physical level – and, it works! Going through the movements in your mind appears to be as effective as physically practicing, and perhaps even faster because you don’t have the down time of making the mistakes." Carrie Armitage is a professional pianist/singer-songwriter with an eco/peace focus.
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LEARN MORE MIND BODY TOOLS at the Nature Workshop in Pt. Pleasant, PA. Saturday, October 24, 2009. I learned many psychophysical exercises from Jean Houston during my studies with her. They are joyfully sprinkled in and out during your day in the Forest. Come play with me and learn how to use more of your human potential: http://www.drjeanette.com/natureworkshops.html
As a Enjoy Life reader, you get a discount by signing up before September 1. Put drjeanette in the coupon box to Get $50.00 off the $150.00 workshop or mail your check for $100.00 to 503 S. 21 St., Philadelphia, PA 19146
Hope to see you there.
=========================
NEED CREATIVE JUICE before October? Where in your life can you use visualization and exactly how do you visualize in order to be successful? Find out: Order a half hour Creative Consultation on the phone with Dr. Jeanette, only $100.00 improves your performance at work or play. Introductory offer good through August. Order here: http://bit.ly/2pcJnp As soon as you place your order email drjeanette@drjeanette.com to set up time.
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http://twitter.com/DorisJeanette
Get Mentored:
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Doris Jeanette, a licensed psychologist with 33 years of experience teaching people how to read and use energy to unlock and use their human potential. She is author of "Opening the Heart," "Overcoming Anxiety Naturally" and 14 other self help products. Her Holistic Psychology Mentoring program is for people interested in learning how to sense energy so they can lead the way to the future New Psychology.
For weekly encouragement sign up for the free newsletter,
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Since then there have been many studies validating this fact and some studies even report that visualizing the skill is better than practicing it in real life!
How often do you use your imagination skills to improve your performance or reach a goal?
In 1989, I took my local Philadelphia women’s softball team all the way to the Championship Win by practicing every night in bed to become the best pitcher in the league.
Last week via a twitter chat, Carrie Armitage a professional pianist and singer-songwriter from Canada and I were discussing visualization. Something she said, gave me an exciting new idea about an unusual way I can help people with unpleasant body memories.
Since I am always on the lookout for faster and more effective ways to help men and women release the trauma of having been sexually and physically abused, I was thrilled.
To help you use this ability more effectively in your life, I asked Carrie to explain exactly how she used visualization to unlearn what she calls “bad technical habits.”
Here is what Carrie Armitage said.
"I recently took a fairly lengthy break from playing the piano. What I found when I returned to the keyboard is that I wanted to play up to speed right away in order to be able to play the parts I was writing for my solo project. To keep that momentum I was developing bad technical habits with regards to my approach to playing the parts. To further complicate things I was also favoring my ring and pinky finger on my left hand due to an injury to the ulnar nerve.
When you play a part over and over again you develop a muscle memory. In effect, you can then play the part without even thinking about it, at great speeds. If you have reached this stage in performing a part, it is very difficult to change the technique you’re using to play the part. The only method I had ever really been taught was to slow it right down and do the hard work of recommitting the part to memory with the right technique. I have little patience for this, and coupled with my left hand injury, I also did not have the physical stamina for it.
I started using a visualization technique where I would go over the correct technique in my mind (where the muscle memory doesn’t exist) – and have found this to be very effective in correcting bad technical habits (incorrect fingering or hand position).
I had learned many years earlier of visualization for performance – where you can visualize hitting the high notes with ease or going over a performance in your mind so many times that you have already performed perfectly in abundance before you ever step on a stage. I thought it couldn’t hurt to try it at the macro-physical level – and, it works! Going through the movements in your mind appears to be as effective as physically practicing, and perhaps even faster because you don’t have the down time of making the mistakes." Carrie Armitage is a professional pianist/singer-songwriter with an eco/peace focus.
============================
LEARN MORE MIND BODY TOOLS at the Nature Workshop in Pt. Pleasant, PA. Saturday, October 24, 2009. I learned many psychophysical exercises from Jean Houston during my studies with her. They are joyfully sprinkled in and out during your day in the Forest. Come play with me and learn how to use more of your human potential: http://www.drjeanette.com/natureworkshops.html
As a Enjoy Life reader, you get a discount by signing up before September 1. Put drjeanette in the coupon box to Get $50.00 off the $150.00 workshop or mail your check for $100.00 to 503 S. 21 St., Philadelphia, PA 19146
Hope to see you there.
=========================
NEED CREATIVE JUICE before October? Where in your life can you use visualization and exactly how do you visualize in order to be successful? Find out: Order a half hour Creative Consultation on the phone with Dr. Jeanette, only $100.00 improves your performance at work or play. Introductory offer good through August. Order here: http://bit.ly/2pcJnp As soon as you place your order email drjeanette@drjeanette.com to set up time.
Daily doses of Doris on twitter at:
http://twitter.com/DorisJeanette
Get Mentored:
http://www.drjeanette.com/mentorprogram.html
Private Energy Consultation:
http://www.drjeanette.com/privatehumanenergy.html
You can create your own retreat as an individual
or couple.
You can create your own retreat as an individual
or couple.
==========================
Doris Jeanette, a licensed psychologist with 33 years of experience teaching people how to read and use energy to unlock and use their human potential. She is author of "Opening the Heart," "Overcoming Anxiety Naturally" and 14 other self help products. Her Holistic Psychology Mentoring program is for people interested in learning how to sense energy so they can lead the way to the future New Psychology.
For weekly encouragement sign up for the free newsletter,
The Vibrant Moment at www.drjeanette.com.
Friday, August 07, 2009
Want Enough?
Tools from The Center for New Psychology
Publisher: Dr. Doris Jeanette
Visit: http://www.drjeanette.com
======================
Want Enough?
If you want the experience of having enough you
will have to move out of your ego energy into your
authentic self energy.
The ego is never satisfied with anything you do.
If you sit down it will say, "Why did you sit down?
You need to stand up." So you stand up.
Then it will say, "Why did you stand up? You need
to sit down." So you figure you better sit down and
you sit down. Then it will say, "Why did you sit
down, you know you need to stand up." And on
and on the ego goes~
To have enough love, food, money and sex you
have to be in your authentic self energy. The
authentic self is easy to satisfy because it is real.
Just a little real love goes a long, long way. You
will get so full of the real stuff, your cup will
runneth over.
Get real so you have enough.
===========================
GET REAL. Open your heart and find the gold inside.
Your authentic self is waiting for you in your heart
and solar plexus. Go find her or him.
Opening the Heart audio and ebook.
========================
Daily doses of Doris on twitter at:
http://twitter.com/DorisJeanette
Get Mentored:
http://www.drjeanette.com/mentorprogram.html
Private Energy Consultation:
http://www.drjeanette.com/privatehumanenergy.html
You can create your own retreat as an individual
or couple.
Visit: http://www.drjeanette.com
======================
Want Enough?
If you want the experience of having enough you
will have to move out of your ego energy into your
authentic self energy.
The ego is never satisfied with anything you do.
If you sit down it will say, "Why did you sit down?
You need to stand up." So you stand up.
Then it will say, "Why did you stand up? You need
to sit down." So you figure you better sit down and
you sit down. Then it will say, "Why did you sit
down, you know you need to stand up." And on
and on the ego goes~
To have enough love, food, money and sex you
have to be in your authentic self energy. The
authentic self is easy to satisfy because it is real.
Just a little real love goes a long, long way. You
will get so full of the real stuff, your cup will
runneth over.
Get real so you have enough.
===========================
GET REAL. Open your heart and find the gold inside.
Your authentic self is waiting for you in your heart
and solar plexus. Go find her or him.
Opening the Heart audio and ebook.
========================
Daily doses of Doris on twitter at:
http://twitter.com/DorisJeanette
Get Mentored:
http://www.drjeanette.com/mentorprogram.html
Private Energy Consultation:
http://www.drjeanette.com/privatehumanenergy.html
You can create your own retreat as an individual
or couple.
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