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ARE YOUR SECRETS MAKING YOU SICK?
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Dr. Sheppard Kominars: The Journal Doctor
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The Journal Doctor says: "Don't let this happen to you!"
YouTube Interview: www.youtube.com/user/genogeng#p/u/32/PgBx69F9v_Q
Scientific research has demonstrated that writing in a journal offers real benefits that directly affect your health and well-being. Perhaps this may even come as a shock for you, and it's understandable if you're like many people who simply HATE to write.
There are many reasons for this, and most of them are directly related to the years and years of elementary and high school, and college, where teachers --and later on at work, when bosses marked up your efforts with corrections and comments. No wonder you are still apprehensive about putting anything on the page!
But journal writing is different from that! No one is going to critique anything you write. - Not even YOU! You are going to be in charge of the process, and there is no right way or wrong way to do it. The burden of stress that weighs you down and wears you out is going to lift from your shoulders and you will be amazed at the difference you feel. And your body will also respond with measurable results so you can actually monitor the effects that self-expression has on healing body, mind and spirit.
Many health professionals know about this technique that makes a difference in recovering from emotional and physical trauma, and chronic problems of pain management. It's time now for everyone to know about this Alternative Medicine approach.
In 1955, long before any research was done on the effects of writing, I began to use a journal to help me with the devastating problem I was having with migraine headaches. I did it at the suggestion of the therapist who told me if I didn't write he wouldn't see me. You can read all about this in my book, "Write For Life: Healing Body, Mind and Spirit Through Journal Writing," which is just being published in a Revised Edition by Kaplan Publications. You can also listen to the CD's I've created to help you learn from other professionals the importance of this journal writing program.
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What is a Journal?
The journal is a place 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 create 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. It will help you have more fun in life at any age!
The Difference Between Blogging and Journaling
When you write in your journal, you are writing to heal yourself and not for an audience. Blogging is publishing whatever you are writing about and anticipating that someone else will respond with his or her opinion of what you've written. Honesty, not looking good or smart or... (fill in the blank), is the key to healing.
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Rx for Health and Joy at any age!!!
Answer these easy questions. Are You...
- A reluctant writer who resists the idea of journal writing?
- A journal writer looking for support through the process?
- A health professional who wants to know how the process works and how it can be used to help your efforts to work with patients?
- A teacher who wants to know how WFL can enhance your own performance, and who wants to advocate its use in the lives of your students to reduce stress?
- Interested in supporting your own efforts to manage your weight?
- Struggling with problems relating to divorce, or ageing?
If you've answered yes to any of these, my program " Write For Life" can offer some assistance to you.
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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.
- 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 that 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 were 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 yourself 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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To accompany my book "Write For Life," I've developed a set of six CD's to help you get more out of your journal writing experience and your life. 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.
Each CD Focuses on a Different Aspect of Healing
- "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]
These CD's 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.
6 CD set includes :
- How journal writing can improve health and help you have more fun in your life.
- How day to day performance can be enhanced through the journal writing process.
- 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.
- Hands-on process of getting started, staying started and then exploring new directions in the fifteen different journeys in "Write for Life.".
- 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.
- How journal writing can help prepare you to appreciate the idea of legacy as it raises consciousness about living life.
- How opening the door to other spiritual perspectives can offer a new source of joy.
- 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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Healing
Because the CDs are healing-focused, 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 and 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 on-line, you receive a copy of his book and 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."
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. The sessions will be the same kind of dynamic experience you would have in his workshops, except focused entirely upon your issues and concerns. These 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.
More than 12 hours of recorded expertise from journaling experts as well as 2 hours personal coaching from the Journal Doctor, a $350.00 value for only $125.00.
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Here's what participants in my workshops have to say about my 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
- 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/li>
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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/li>
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DON'T LET YOUR SECRETS MAKE YOU SICK!
To Order books, CD's or arrange a workshop:
"Write For Life: Healing Body, Mind and Spirit Through Journal Writing," Revised Edition, Kaplan Publications, 2010: Amazon.com
"Write For Life: Healing Body, Mind and Spirit," Cleveland Clinic Press, 2007: go to www.goodsheppardbooks.com
"Write For Life, 6 CD set": Purchase on-line and you will receive, in addition, a copy of the First Edition of "Write For Life," and two hours of coaching with Dr. Kominars. Go to
www.goodsheppardbooks.com
Or: Contact Dr. Kominars at write-for-life@pacbell.net
Arrange a "Write For Life" workshop for your group.
Dr. Kominars new program for young adults: journaltowin.com and journaltowin.org
YouTube Interview: www.youtube.com/user/genogeng#p/u/32/PgBx69F9v_Q
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