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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Fill your thoughts and actions with progress.

Wishing YOU a Sweet, Wonderful New Year

B'SD

27 Elul, 5776

I'm up to my elbows in cooking delicious food to share with loved ones. I wish them and you, my readers, a sweet, spiritually and emotionally nourishing 5777.

The Jewish new year is a blessing for the world and everyone in it, not just the Jewish kids in the class.

May it be filled with blessings.

Sweet and refreshing.

And jam-packed with happiness.

Buy your copy of the E-book or print edition of EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge TODAY! 





Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity. Face Your Future with Optimism.

Fill your life with a sense of productive direction.

Sweetening a New Year with Self Respect

B'SD

20 Elul, 5775

I've been busy tending other people's needs (I'm cooking my wholesome menu for other people so they can heal as I do) and lacked time to update the blog. But with Rosh HaShana, Jewish New Year coming soon, I've focused on time to post today's message.

I hope that you'll benefit from these 7 Tips for a Happier Year. 

But what about the goals/resolutions people tend to make at New Year's time?

I prefer to avoid making resolutions. I'm old enough to know that people tend not to keep the promises they make to themselves. 

Let's look at self-improvement a bit differently this year.

One reading of the

book 

lets you know of my preference for

self forgiveness and self respect.

I'd like to share some related thoughts with you: Goal-setting tends to scare the goal-setter. You come up with excuses about why this or that didn't "work out," knowing all the while that it was YOU who didn't do necessary work. "It" had nothing to do with the failure.

Your failing, perhaps, was to decide that you're not good enough, or that life's not good enough, until your goal - or someone else's - is met. That's a brutal approach to life. Enthusiasm dies when tiny parts of the goal are reached, or not. There's more to you than that.

Instead of pinning your hopes  - and self-worth - on a goal, focus instead on processes that work for you. 

EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge is full of options you can take. You know of others. Use them to your advantage. 

Keep plugging away with methods and mindsets that help you to feel and to function better than if you did not think and behave that way.

Appreciate the things going right in your life, too. Some of them can be BIG surprises.

Pay attention when people compliment you. Focus on the goodness within you. 

And appreciate yourself for doing things so right that other people appreciate you, too!

Buy the E-book or print edition of EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge. 





Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity. Face Your Future with Optimism.

Fill your heart, mind and soul with self appreciation.

Catching up with Life and Wishing YOU a Sweeter One

B'SD

27 Elul 5774

I've been rushing around the country this past month, interviewing for employment since I passing my final exams in ICD-10 medical coding.

If you need to remember what that means, here you go: I am skilled in translating a patient's medical records into specific alpha-numeric codes created by the World Health Organization. Medical researchers and medical insurance professionals use those codes in their work. People such as me save them hours and hours of time by reducing lengthy text into succinct coded summaries of exactly why someone needed medical care and which care they received.

OK, back to my life. It's been a tiring, time-consuming, EXPENSIVE and hectic effort mixed with fun social events.

Now I'm preparing for the start of the Jewish New year aka Rosh HaShana.

Care to join me in reading a wonderful, heartwarming essay about Rosh HaShana? It's at A Holy Family.

Here are some FYIs about the Jewish New Year:

Anticipating a Sweeter Future 

(recorded in 2006 but 

SO relevant for today!

I bet you'll LUV every word/lesson

in the recording!)

Life after 75

Harnessing your WILLPOWER!

Why the Jewish New Year greeting is not

 "Happy New Year"

Reconciling with GOD

Medical, emotional and mental health (financial, etc.) problems can make life seem unappealing. 

Holidays tend to make everything, including you, seem to be worse off. 

The reality, though, is that it's a matter of regaining a neutral - or even better - a POSITIVE perspective on the situations before you.

The fun part of the Torah-oriented point of view is that GOD/HaShem gives us still more chances to get things right. 

Life is literally a do-over.

I wish you a sweeter life, and perspective, in the new year 5775.









 Buy the E-book or print edition of EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge.  

Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity. Face Your Future with Optimism. 

Fill yourself with emotional strength. It's a lifelong process - and it pays off well.

 

How to live a calmer, more organized life despite your medical, mental health or disability issue!

B'SD

29 Elul, 5773

I'm happy to let you know that I'm doing scholastically well in my ICD-10 medical coding studies. 

My goal is to complete a 2-year college education in about 8 months. I'm speeding ahead in the textbooks and doing well on exams, thanks to great long-term memory (I used to be a medical coder before my 2002 relocation to Israel). Thank GOD I still have an aptitude for studying complicated topics.

Watch this space for a relevant post about the company training me and my classmates. It's coming up next week.

I'm taking time off for Rosh Hashana, the Jewish new year's celebration.

The 2-day holiday begins this evening and

ends as Shabbat begins.

I plan to post again on Sunday.

Here are some educational links for starting your new year right:

Alpha-Beta Academy on Rosh HaShana. You can click on the colorful illustrations for immediate education on appealing topics, and/or sign up for the Alpha-Beta newsletter.

Click on http://www.aish.com/ for a colorful, thought-provoking exploration into the Jewish look at the new year.




Want to live a calmer, more organized life despite your medical, mental health or disability issue? Improve your perspective and meet more of your goals with E-book or print edition EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge. 

Rabbis, clergy of different faith, medical and mental health professionals recommend it!

Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity. Face Your Future with Optimism. 

Fill your life with increasing happiness.

May the world be blessed for a good year.

Have a good night's sleep after the holiday feast, and any night - to help your brain cells! 

See you next year: 5774!

 

Rosh HaShana is Almost Here!

B'SD

29 Elul, 5772

Rosh HaShana, the Jewish New Year, begins in Israel tonight, 7 hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time for my American blog visitors. I'll be off- and on-line until after Simkhat Torah on Tishrei 28 5773/October 8th 2012. 

REMEMBER that Israel's daylight savings time clocks change during that time. I cherish the coming year with its many miracles. May all of us share blessings of health, peace, prosperity and sweet, enduring happiness. May our heartaches become distant memories, replaced by ever-increasing joy.


I am grateful to The One Above for the loving blessings that have come my way during a long, difficult journey to inner growth. 

5773 תשע'ג / תהי שנה עים גיבוש

כתיבה וחתימה טובה

May 5773 be a year of global unity, love and friendship: complete physical and psychological/spiritual health.






Sick and sad with worry? Need something to brighten your holiday season? Click on the words EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge. 

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B'SD

26 Elul, 5772

Save your sanity, time and money

with a book medical and 
mental health professionals 

recommend!

The E-book and print edition hold soothing content, exercises and tips for organizing your hectic medical or disability life.

Read the Global Resources section

to learn of conventional medical innovations 
and 

alternative/complementary 
healing modalities worldwide

PLUS

charitable organizations 
willing to pay 

part or all of your specific medical bills.

Medical ethicist Dr. Daniel Eisenberg and Dr. Al Musella (Musella Foundation for Brain Tumor Research and Information) plus other public figures endorse it on and off the cover.

EMPOWER Yourself (or someone you love) to Cope with a Medical Challenge at Booklocker. 

"A wonderful book!  Golani challenges  and energizes us all to seek and savor life to the fullest for our mental and physical health.  EMPOWER Yourself is lifesaving, emotionally rewarding, spiritual, funny and helpful."  -  Dr. Judith Guedalia, PhD. Director Neuropsychology Unit, Chief Medical Psychologist ER Trauma  Shaare Zedek Medical Center

My Facebook pages note how many times EMPOWER Yourself has scooped mainstream media with health-protecting and cost-cutting information. Buy the E-book or print edition today! Click on the words EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge. 

Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity.
Face Your Future with Optimism.

See you Next Year! And... What to Do if Holidays are Hard for You and Your Health Issues

B'SD


28 5771

I'm sorry you don't smell the aroma of my freshly baked raisin and spelt breads/challah that I just pulled from the oven. They're for Rosh HaShana, the Jewish New Year. It begins Wednesday night.


I'm up to my shoulders in preparations, and wish you a new year of increased inner and outer health, happiness and joy.




If you find holidays especially hard because of your health problems, read the funnier sections of EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge. I'm sure you'll giggle and smile.

See you next year, 5772.


Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity.
Face Your Future with Optimism.

Happy New Year

B'SD

24 Elul

The Jewish New Year, the actual birthday of the world, begins on Monday evening September 29/Elul 29 Israel time. We'll enter the year 5769, which I pray is filled with blessings and comfort for weary souls.

It's scary to face the holiday season without giving previous thought to praying. Perhaps this video will enrich your holiday prayers and make them more meaningful: www.WhoShallLive.com


If you want to learn about the Jewish New Year (and more), check out

http://www.j.co.il and

http://www.jr.co.il/hotsites/j-hdayrh.htm

for a painless education.

Praying for our mutual welfare and spiritual growth,

Yoji

Tech Talk at the Speed of Tachyons!

6 Tishrei 5768

Want to calm down after receiving a frightening medical diagnosis? Want to cope with the news to the best of your ability? Read on!

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Ever heard of those hard-to-photograph energy particles called Tachyons? Maybe you'll recall hearing about them in association with the String Theory gaining popularity in the science and real worlds. Well, the news about "It's MY Crisis!" is apparently zipping around the world and cyberspace at warp speed. Tachyons seem to be taking the news all over the place ;^ )

Authors need to promote their books and I've been busy selling mine. I touch base with radio show hosts, journalists, and lots of other people, worldwide, as I strive to get the word out about my psyche-saving book. One technique I use is simple E-mail. Another is fax. Posting publicity materials in high-visibility areas in my immediate locale helps, too.

Recipients of my E-mailed and faxed Media Release announcement about the book's publication have obviously been "forwarding" the message around cyberspace and real space. I've been receiving kudos from people I do and do not know. And book sales are going up with all the attention paid to my user-friendly message.

Here are some of the reactions I'm getting from around the wide, wide world:

Way to go!

- Mike Barnett

The book and your career sound remarkable, simply amazing. I will pass on this book's availability, now that it is out. It sounds so important! I will recommend it and recommend you as a life coach. Wonderful that you do such a service!

- Chana Tova Sokol

Sounds like another winner, YG! Should hit the NYT top ten pretty soon.

- Al Hattal http://www.biz2bizwriter.com/about.htm

Yiyasher KokhaKhaiKH for this important book. May it have the great success it deserves. I wish I were still reviewing for Publishers Weekly and Kirkus. We were both miraculously saved for a purpose.

- Isaac Mozeson, author of Origin of Speeches

Gosh, everyone I know says 'I shoulda' or 'I wish I had...' after they go through something big. You did it! You wrote a book that helps people to cope! It's amazing.

- Marla Braun

Wishing you hatzlocha (success) on your book and blessings for a sweet New Year filled with all good things.

-S. Greenbaum, creator of Partners in Kindness

Readers are learning to cope better with medical crises by reading my book. Buy your copy today, and consider buying one for someone else who needs it. All the information you need is on the left-hand margin and in previous posts to this blog.

To Your Good Health, Yocheved

Thoughts on The Jewish NewYear (this Wednesday night, Sept. 12 2007)

27 Elul 5767

(updated the 3rd of Tishrei, after Shabbat)

The Jewish year is about to change and I will be taking a break from updating this blog as I pray for the peace and healing of the world at large. Rosh HaShanah, Yom Kipur and Sukkot are times for reflection, a chance to ponder the big questions about life. Here are a few of my thoughts about life, meaning and purpose:

Tekia, a powerful sound of the shofar, is linguistically related to "litkoa," to stick an object in the ground. The sound symbolizes our stake in the relationship with our Creator. The sound literally causes vibration in our feet. It is high drama.

True, we call the upcoming season the Ten Days of Awe. But remember to Whom it is we're praying and pledging homage as we tremble in judgment about our pasts and futures. Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach used to chuckle at this time of year, explaining to one and all that "The Judge is my Abba (Daddy/Papa)." He meant that we are judged with love and mercy, and our efforts to improve mitigate His pending decisions.

As HaShem (GOD) puts us into puzzling and agonizing situations, we can adjust our perspectives to comprehend that we are not being punished, rather we are being educated and perhaps entrusted with a precious opportunity to grow in a spiritual manner. Think of it this way: hindsight about some of your past experiences gives you an understanding, an insight about life, that helps you and maybe even other people to progress. You didn't see your wisdom developing as you experienced shock about some surprising, perhaps chilling situation. Still, you ended up wiser if wearier. Not dumber and defeated.

Another sound of the shofar is Shvarim, the cry of the broken heart so in need of comfort. The Shvarim sounds literally make our chests reverberate.

Teruah, the signal of pomp and circumstance, reminds us to focus on the mental/emotional/spiritual effort to crown GOD as our King. The clear call of Teruah resonantes in our ears, our head.

These are the three sound of the Jewish New Year season. They are designed to drive home several points at the very time we are evaluating our relationships with the world and our Creator. That re-evaluation, coupled with the effect of the shofar's call, can make a serious impact on our perspective.

Suffering is pain without meaning. When you see meaning, relevance, in your troubling situations, then you turn the pain into power. It jettisons you forward. You have a unique gift to contribute to the world.

As the sounds of the shofar reverberate around the world, know that it is your yearnings calling to GOD and He/She calling to you as well. BTW, Jewish tracts and tradition teach us that GOD is not limited by human realities such as gender and abilitiy. GOD is omnipotent and beyond human limitations or frailties.

As for the love of GOD, consider this: after our season of judgment and awe, Jews are commanded to dwell in rickety booths called sukkot for a week. The sukkot are reminiscent of how GOD protected Jews wandering from Egyptian slavery through the dangerous desert to Israel. We were shielded from the oppressive heat by cloud cover, fed with manna, slaked with flowing water from Miriam's ever-traveling well. Our clothes and footwear never became ragged. No woman miscarried and the sick were healed. Moses created the Cadeusus at GOD's command, to heal the ill. It is today's symbol of medical care: a staff entwined with two snakes.

We celebrate the compassion with which GOD embraces us and our best efforts, and our genuine limitations. It is a Jewish party time with choice foods, charming decorations, song and the sharing of good feelings. Our blessings extend to the world at large.

Praying for your excellent and insightful welfare, Yojeved