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When I began learning Rolfing, I wanted someone to give me THE set of techniques that would produce the change I experienced when I was Rolfed. Quickly I realized with Dr. Rolf’s perspective that I wasn’t going to be taught any techniques. She would challenge her students with the question, “What do you want to…
I tried to be a good student. I tried to remember the order of things and then execute that order – yet something would always go wrong. I remember going to catechism, the Catholic religious training, and stressing out because I could not remember all the steps of First Communion. If you were not brought…
Have you ever done something you said you would never do to have it change your life? For me, it was 1976, living with a group of guys in Boulder, CO. Breck, one of my roommates, moved to Boulder to give up his law practice to learn Rolfing, a form of bodywork. Breck being a…
I have written before on how learning to be the man you want to be is much like being an entrepreneur. Bob Sutton of RobbSutton.com wrote a post that not only nails the core characteristics of being a successful entrepreneur, without knowing it he nails what it takes to be the man you want to…
A recent study showed that the relaxed brain wave state of theta not only increases memory, it also increases learning. Synchronization in the brain is influenced by “theta waves” which are associated with relaxation, daydreaming and drowsiness, but also with learning and memory formation, the scientists explained in the study in the journal Nature. Before…
Who Is in Charge – Your Rational or Emotional Brain? A recent NPR story speaks about how our emotional brain often makes those tough decisions – but that’s not a surprise. If we’re to get honest, we would admit that the big or stressful decisions are often emotional decisions. In our rational culture we…
