The Life Skills Approach: 25 Tips to introduce myself, my work and what is important to me

January 17, 2009

25 Tips to introduce myself, my work and what is important to me

Tips to get to know me

1) I was born in Detroit, Michigan & traveled after college, searching to discover myself.

2) Landed in Santa Monica, CA. for 30 years, on a hill over looking the ocean.

3) Got multiple sclerosis and became legally blind in 1981. It hit me like a ton of bricks. Within a week I was at UCLA Hospital. At that time the doctors said we really don’t know what is wrong and they sent me home saying there was nothing they could do. That forced me on the most intense journey to deal with an unknown challenge.

4) I helped start Life Skills Institute in 1981to work with people with chronic illness or disabilities, focused on how to tap inner resources to actively deal with their challenge. This helped me deal with my own challenges for like they say in Zen a knife may be very sharp and can cut everything, but it can not cut itself. Helping others made it easy to deal with the challenges I was forced to deal with.

5) Life Skills Institute began to work with Vietnam vets with PTSD for 20 years at the VA in LA. My focus was to help them accept the moment as they did in combat to deal with their struggle. That was a powerful lesson to share because that is what I had to do for myself. When they were in combat their life was more important than any thought in their mind and that put them in a super-conscious moment. The greatest problem with PTSD happens when thoughts are more important than life and their own mind causes extreme trauma.

6) I took the lessons I learned with the vets to volunteer with people facing a life threatening illness like cancer & AIDS, for they were fighting for their life and they needed the life skills that focused them in the moment also. That connected them to what I call the Wisdom of the Body, that place where people tap powerful inner resources to face challenges. That is like the “Zone” in sports and it is available to everyone in every breath.

7) I saw in my life and with the people I worked with that when we constantly focus on thinking, we block the Wisdom of our Body. In a health crisis it is more dramatic, but the reality is that every person experiences that beyond thought reality we just don’t recognize it. Woman experience it in childbirth, we experience it during creative moments and when we do something we really like doing, being in the moment feels natural.

8) Now when we face difficult times, especially during the nation’s financial struggle, we can not be constantly focused on our thoughts because it blocks the Wisdom of our Body. We need that inner wisdom to deal with these times, just as a person needs it when they face the threat of death.

9) Last year my MS got to the point I couldn’t walk up the stairs to my apartment in Santa Monica so I had to move. After being gone for 35 years I came back to be with my family. Last winter was the first winter I experienced in 35 years and it was like I hibernated and wrote an E-book called A Healthy Way to Be Sick. I saw that space beyond my thoughts was peaceful in difficult times and now I want to share it with people in a struggle.

10) I volunteer in Life Skills Institute, a non-profit organization to share the lessons I was taught. I feel what I developed would serve people who deal with a struggle. In physics it says that when an organism is under stress it will either evolve to a higher level or it will be defeated. I encourage everyone to choose to evolve in difficult times, for it is actually an amazing inner journey.

11) On January 21^st, at the Crazy Wisdom Book Store I will be doing a seminar with Michael Andes, an Ann Arbor therapist. The time is 7:30 PM. The talk is called Dangling on the Edge of Despair. We will attempt to show you how to deal with difficult times utilizing inner resources.

12) Victims look outside for the solution of their problems. Empowered people look within with the attitude of I will do what ever I can to consciously deal with this. What ever your challenge is, use it as an opportunity to evolve. I tell my seminar participants that the quality of their life doesn’t depend on the health of their body, it depends on their focus. Use challenges as an opportunity to discover the part of you that exists beyond anxious thinking.

13) If you know anyone dangling on the edge of despair invite them to my Tele-seminar and have them go to http://lifeskillsinc.com to enroll. Learn to turn struggles into incredible opportunities. In the same way pressure turns coal into diamonds; let struggles turn you into a precious gift.

14) Struggles are the perfect time to explore inner resources. Just like in physics it says that a light shines brighter in darkness, struggles can make you shine during difficult times.

15) Life Skills is available to tailor make a seminar or e-book designed for you. When you empower your staff and your customers; your service and or your product becomes more effective.

16) If you really want to get to know me, come to my Tele-seminar. There are over 25 experiential techniques that develop a Positive Self Image, self trust and a direct connection to the Wisdom of your Body. These techniques developed as I shared Life Skills with people in a health challenge for 25 years. The purpose of the Tele-seminar is to connect you to your Wisdom of the Body.

17) My blindness makes it a hassle to read messages and interact with people, but once we leave superficial talking it becomes easy to share my inner world.

18) I feel if we approached challenges as though they were opportunities to grow instead of focusing on “how other people see me”, challenges would be seen as gifts.

19) I am looking for a company to sponsor me. They may provide a professional view of healing & I would present the patient’s role in healing. That partnership provides a conscious approach to healing that combines inner and outer resources together.

20) I am in control of my inner environment, for that is what responds to medicine & medical treatments. When I take that responsibility seriously, healing happens the best.

21) Doctors go to school for years to learn their role in healing, so shouldn’t patients take their role more seriously and develop skills to participate in healing?

22) One of our nation’s greatest resources exists beyond the thoughts of every patient. That inner wisdom has evolved over thousands of years and offers a great reduction in medical expenses and reduction of personal pain.

23) The Wisdom of the Body is a tremendous resource in furthering education, sports, spirituality and work. We just need to know how to use it. I teach Tele-seminars that guide people in a health crisis to connect to the Wisdom of their Body. Go to http://lifeskillsinc.com to enroll in a Tele-seminar. This inner wisdom is nature’s way of ensuring conscious participation in what ever we do.

24) We are born with the Wisdom of the Body, but because we constantly focus on thinking, we ignore our greatest resource.

25) I feel the quality of my life improves when I have a clear connection to this inner wisdom.

Learn to consciously condition your subconscious mind. Develop habits that effect how you respond to challenges. Go to http://lifeskillsinc.com to get my E-book A Healthy Way to Be Sick and join a Tele-seminar you can do from home. My Blog at http://lifeskillsapproach.com shares the lessons I have learned along the way.

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