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ARE YOUR SECRETS MAKING YOU SICK?
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See Dr. Kominars in Person
San Francisco Workshop
May 13, 2009 at 7:00pm
130B Hickory Street
The charge is $20.00
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Elder Hostel Workshop - Booking NOW!
June 28 - July 3, 2009
Program #14838
Yosemite Park, Oakhurst, California
Refresh mind, body and spirit in the serenity of Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. Join a professional author to learn how journal writing can help chart your life's course into the future. Both fun and health-enhancing, uncover the scientific links between self-expression and healing. Begin with the basics of journaling, then gain new insights into self-caring and Native American spirituality. Your instructor shares advice on managing change and aging and overcoming reluctance to write. Review journal excerpts from Anna Dostoevsky, Katherine Mansfield, Anne Frank, Frank McCourt and many more. Amid the stunning beauty and tranquility of Yosemite National Park, focus on life-enhancing issues and solutions through reflection and contemplation.
Course focuses on the individual process of journaling; sharing journal entries with other attendees is not required.
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Dr. Sheppard Kominars: The Journal Doctor
 When it comes to improving your health, perhaps the last thing you think of is writing in a journal. Many health professionals know about this technique that makes a difference to recovery from crises and chronic problems of pain management. It's time everyone knows about this Alternative Medicine approach.
Rx for Health and Joy at any age!!!
To help you get more out of your journal writing experience and your life, I've created this set of six CDs. Six chapters from "Write For Life" are contained in these special disks as well as interviews with six professionals who are also journal writers. The CDs provide a powerful incentive and enhance your efforts to discover new ways to experience the benefits of journal writing to your health and happiness on a daily basis.
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| Yes, it's true! The journal is a place for you to reach out and meet yourself as you stretch in all directions. You can alleviate your stress by releasing your emotions in a safe place. You can make a place for yourself in which you can express anything and everything on your mind. Not only is this a good place for you to complain and whine all you need to—getting rid of your pent-up feelings is GOOD for you!—you can also get in touch with your intuition and explore ways to handle problems that baffle you. The journal is a resource for healing body, mind, and spirit in a way that supports every activity that engages you, and every predicament that you face. Almost twenty years of scientific research demonstrates that journal writing can help improve your health and lifestyle. Have more fun in your life at any age! |
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How journal writing can improve health and help you have more fun in your life.
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How day to day performance can be enhanced through the journal writing process.
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The scientific research that has been done on the effects of journal writing on people who write: it will change the way you think about journal writing.
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Hands-on process of getting started, staying started and then exploring new directions in the fifteen different journeys in "Write for Life.".
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How using journal writing for healing offers a vital Alternative Medicine approach that everyone interested in improving health and their quality of life needs to know.
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How journal writing can help prepare you to appreciate the idea of legacy as it raises consciousness about living life.
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How opening the door to other spiritual perspectives can offer a new source of joy.
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How considering everything that has taken place in your life can be a source of empowerment instead of regret.
- How journal writing can improve overall performance as it unburdens the conscious and the unconscious of "unfinished business" and old tapes.
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15 Research Facts You Should Know
Body:
- Writing helps release tensions associated with stress.
- Being self-caring has an inspiring effect on your outlook on life.
- When chronic pain sufferers no longer feel isolated, they experience less suffering.
Emotions:
- The journal is a safe place to express feelings without fear of reprisal or recrimination.
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Fear of the unknown is less frightening when you confront and write about it.
- Reading about what once gave you pleasure enables you to re-experience it.
Mind:
- Journal writing helps connect you with your search for answers to problems you have difficulty understanding.
- Writing leads to insights because it enables you to see your actions and ideas in a larger perspective. Writing also brings to light thoughts you didn't realize you was thinking.
- Over time, your journals help you to identify problems or recurring issues that may require help from others.
Spirit:
- Health crises, divorce, and the death of a spouse can result in estrangement from those who have shared your love and friendship.
- Making a friend of the journal ensures that you have a constant source of communication and comfort. With your journal, you are never alone.
- When you explore myself in greater depth, you can reach a level of consciousness that helps you connect with something even deeper within yourself and develop the body/ mind / spirit connection.
Body, Mind, Spirit, Emotions:
- Writing helps you to appreciate yourself more and to value your accomplishments.
- Using a journal offers a safe way to reflect on life transitions.
- Writing helps you explore the past, anticipate the future, and live more creatively.
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- "Everything you ever wanted to know about journal writing but were afraid
to ask." [Guest: Angela Render]
- Scientific research on the effects of journal writing on health and well-being. [Guest: Dr. Diane Scott. ]
- "Journal Writing and Spirituality." [Guest: Rev. Dr. Kenneth Schmidt]
- "Journal Writing and Creativity." [Guest: Louise Lieber]
- "Dealing with Grief Through Journal Writing." [Guest: Rev. Judith Dunlop]
- "Your Legacy; Your Legacy Letters." [Dr. Kominars' interview for George Mason University Legacy Project]
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These CDs are designed to engage listeners with ideas and practical advice from knowledgeable professionals. The journal writing process comes alive in a new and exciting way that will stimulate your own efforts. For anyone just getting started and for others who have been at it for a long time, these CDs will open the way to getting the most out of journal writing..
Because they are healing-focused, and not product-centered, the intimate and surprising experiences of others will resonate within your own body, mind, and spirit.
These conversations reveal amazing insights which will inspire you.
You will enjoy years of recovery counseling expertise that can help you to manage your own support for dealing with crises.
The practical application of these ideas will aid you in exploring your own journey.
The broad variety of material will directly address ways in which you can improve your quality of life.
The invaluable experience of these experts in exploring the Mind - Body - Spirit connection at the heart of healing can change your life.
These CDs are a treasury of ideas that you can explore for decades.
PLUS
When you order your CD set you receive Two Hours with Dr. Kominars...One-On-One!
These telephone sessions will be arranged in advance and you will be able to work directly with Dr. Kominars in exploring any issues or problems that you encounter in your journal writing. The sessions will be the same as being in a workshop with him and having him assist you in finding your way on any of the journeys that are offered in the book, "Write For Life: Healing Body, Mind and Spirit Through Journal, Writing."
While not therapy, these coaching sessions are designed to help you uncover new areas for growth and healing and will help you to overcome obstacles and explore new ideas for self-realization that will make a difference in your life. Our sessions will be the same kind of dynamic experience you would have in my workshops, except focused entirely upon your issues and concerns. My workshops offer a gateway to breakthroughs in self-understanding and self-actualization and these personalized sessions will catapult you into greater appreciation of the meaning and value of your life.
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Here's what my students have to say about my workshops and seminars:
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MIND
- Gets rid of the hauntings from the past
- Stops the flow of cosmic debris and helps focus on the NOW
- Rids me of the committee in my head
- Diminishes the overwhelm of all my to-do's
- Helps me become more insightful
- Helps me gain new perspective on trouble spots
- Releases the power of the negative: catharsis
- Identifies possible solutions/alternatives
- Allows the freedom to have the Now develop on its own without judgement
- Explores the risk of action safely
- Helps me to find my way out of confusion
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BODY
- Relaxes my tension
- Helps me get my feelings out on paper
- Stops the cosmic flow of debris and helps me focus on the NOW.
- Helps create a plan for exercise
- Helps me to initiate coaching of myself
- Helps me become more accepting: it is al alternative to powerlessness
- Helps me with chronic pain management: helps me be O.K. with it
- Creates the "time-out" that I need: lowers blood pressures
- Helps me to trust my body
- Helps me to take joy in the present
- Helps my cells to tap into memory
- Helps me to keep track of the food I eat and my progress
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SPIRIT
- Inspires me
- Helps me to be grateful
- Records the spiritual events that enrich my life
- Provides a place fo affirmations which I need to enhance the quality of my life
- Opens the door for forgiveness
- Offers me an opportunity for another spiritual connection
- Helps me get closer to God, the higher
- Helps me to articulate prayers
- Helps me to think about family connections
- Prepares me for dying
- Offers a dynamic for revitalization
- Gives me a chance to be my own cheerleader
- Changes the focus on the larger picture: the "K factor"
- Helps me to reconsider my relationships with others and the world around me
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EMOTIONS
- Provides a pathway to acknowledge and embrace an emotion as it is
- Offers a safe place to be honest
- Helps me to identify and evoke emotions
- Affords the opportunity to put worries on paper and leave them there.
- Replaces the need for an outburst and saves me grief & heartache
- Helps me to examine rage and anger in a safe place
- Helps me to recover from emotional lows
- Places hurtful responses into a process for reconciliation
- Gives me a place to validate and appreciate myself
- It converts the past into the present by dumping the old baggage and showing up in the Now
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Get your 6 CD set PLUS 2 hours of one-on-one coaching with Dr. Kominars for only $200.00
That's more than 12 hours of recorded expertise from journaling experts as well as 2 hours personal coaching from the Journal Doctor, a $500.00 value for only $200.00.
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