Something Exciting

B'SD

20 Elul, 5777

It will soon be Rosh HaShana, the weeks-long Jewish New Year season, a time preceded by month-log introspection across the Jewish world. The goal of that reflection is to become an ever-better person, stretching our capacities in untried, sometimes simply necessary directions.

One of the things that has long been on my to-do list is to learn to use different tools for conveying deep thoughts so that people can benefit from the insights. Presented in a dramatic and non-threatening way, those deep thoughts allow an observer to look at issues with objectivity, to be able to see life from another person's perspective.

I took specific actions to achieve that long-considered goal this summer. I've made a video for which I wrote a script and innovated a presentation designed to rock the public's realization about the depth of an important mental health issue.

I hope to share the results with you in a few days. I hope that you'll find them as exciting as I do. 

Meanwhile, my videographer and I are about to finish editing the video. We had quite a bit of material to work with.

Please bear with me as I tend to some tedious technical details, a meeting with my journalism boss (he'll be the first person to view the video other than me), accomplish a few work-related interviews with mental health professionals, and take a trip to visit friends celebrating a joyous occasion.

I plan to post another update to this blog by Thursday. I definitely need some time off for the next 48 hours.

My prayers and wishes for well-being are with people suffering around the world in Mexico, the Caribbean, Florida and elsewhere. I've literally lost sleep from praying so much.





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Here's How to Build a Support System

B'SD

16 Elul, 5777

My heart and mind ache for people in danger's path as several hurricanes have formed in one limited area. I pray for public safety, physical and mental health.

While tending to other concerns, I paused in wonder to read someone's "What is support?" question in an online forum for promoting health. Here's the full question:

​The reason I began this group was 
I knew I needed support - and still do. 

But even though this group has been 
around for 15 years,  I still don't know 
how to create the support for others 

or to ask it from others... 

I think one has to have close friends 
who understand where we are coming 
from, as well as to understand 

what [whole food healing] is about. 
Just to "confess," I ate this or

 that doesn't seem like it would be 
where I'd want to go. Or to justify it 

is also not what I need. 

To say, well, we're human, 

we're not perfect, etc 
doesn't help me get back on track.

So what does???? 

I don't know. 

Do you?​

Here's the response that I sent to the questioner:

"What is Support?" is a valid question in multifaceted ways. I keep begging the public to stop eating processed foods which have been proven to cause cancer and other health problems, and to avoid excess foods. So do other health advocates. That's a limited support system.

I explain how to build a bigger support system in my public presentations and in doctor-recommended EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge print and E- book.

​Who wrote it? The woman who made medical history several times over​ after going organic, avoiding all synthetics and shocking the medical world when she went from blind to sighted, from close to death to thriving aerobics enthusiast. 

The medical world had literally written me off as "6 months" when [I was diagnosed with] a fatal brain tumor. But I learned of the cause for my many medical complaints in an emergency room, 18 months after the diagnosis had been made. The "We choose to remain silent" doctors who'd failed to inform me of the problem were certainly not a support system for me. I had to create one, and it had to work on the first try.

Support comes from adequate information sources, sympathetic friends and acquaintances. It also comes from the alternative healing world. Over time, I've built modest support in the western medical world... I've had to educate doctors willing to listen to me as I explained how they tend to err to the detriment of patients, and how to open up to healing possibilities they'd never considered before.

I used what I'd learned in my career as a medical coder, and as a mental health advocate. I teach coping skills techniques to my readers and to my life coaching clients (I focus on ill people wondering what to do about their situations).

Sometimes you have to blaze your own trail, ---. Some days all you need do is make the most of what's already within your reach."

I welcome your responses and reactions to the above, readers. You can leave comments below this blogpost.

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Praying for Public Safety

B'SD

15 Elul, 5777

I know that some readers were out enjoying America's Labor Day holiday yesterday. I used the time to pray for the people in dangerous circumstances, considering the USA's west coast fires and recent hurricanes elsewhere.

If you don't understand the swath of Hurricane Irma, it's threatening Caribbean islands as well as America's east coast. 

Other parts of the world such as Nepal have recently been devastated by monsoons.

Please join me in praying for public safety.

YOU can check here for updates on Hurricane Irma.
 


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Looking at Health with a Fresh Set of Eyes

B'SD

13 Elul, 5777

I stay busy updating the E-Counseling site with mental health news and how-tos. 

One of the other things I do is to educate my facebook fans of medical innovations.

You might find this one fascinating.

New camera can see through the human body

Perhaps thinking of a new way to appreciate the miraculous wonder of the human body will amuse you, too. This might even make you laugh, and that's a pro-health thing to do!

"Your body's bacteria set to music."

Biota Beats - by EMW Street Bio Biota Beats - A microbial record player developed by the EMW Street Bio team.

 


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Getting Smarter as You Age

B'SD

12 Elul, 5777

Afraid that your brain is losing value as time goes by? Perhaps this message will convince you otherwise. Society has much to gain with the insight, creativity and skills that adults, especially those with experience in meeting life's challenges and in specific fields of endeavor, bring to any task. 

Evidence of the neuroplasticity in adults, and the promise that it holds, is remarkable. 

PSYCHOLOGY

Can an old dog really learn new tricks?

FUTURE

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You can be a Successful Failure and Have Fun, Too!

B'SD

6 Elul, 5777

I revisited this video and realized that the speaker's sense of humor lets her have fun with her disability, not despite it. Attitude Matters!

Born with a genetic visual impairment that has no correction or cure, Susan Robinson is legally blind (or partially sighted, as she prefers it) and entitled to a label she hates: "disabled." In this funny and personal talk, she digs at our hidden biases by explaining five ways she flips expectations of disability upside down. Watch »

I suspect that Susan has what is called "prosopagnosia," aka "Face Blindness," the inability to remember faces. Dr Oliver Sacks had it, too. I'd even written an article about the phenom years ago (EDITORS: You can ask me to refresh the piece for your publications!).

Take what you can from this enchanting TEDTalk presentation. It just might give you ideas on how to laugh at your difficulties.

Watch for my forthcoming article at www.e-counseling.com. My boss plans to post my recent piece about the value in laughing at yourself in the near future. 


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Make Music Your Medical Soundtrak!

B'SD

2 Elul, 5777

I'd meant to share a message with you, yesterday, but I was caught up in helping several other people to meet their medical needs in various ways (paperwork, conversation about healing modalities,  and my journalistic efforts at www.e-counseling.com).

Then I took some time to enjoy an evening musical concert with friends, in the lovely outdoor setting adjacent to a local nursing home/assisted living facility. I was very amused to see people who'd been sitting as still as statues suddenly begin to sway, rock to various beats, or even get up and dance!

Music is healing in many ways. 

I'm aware of many philosophical, scientific and spiritual insights in to the healing, soothing power of music. Indulge in it. 

Listen to music that soothes you. Let your emotional and physical pains lessen as you adjust the soundtrak to your medical life. Make it work on your behalf.

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