ChoicePoints January 2004

"The greatest gift you can offer another human being is the depth of your own clarity."  _{Louise LeBrun}

This issue released: Wednesday January 7, 2004

Spotlight On - people, products and pronouncements
Today's Thought
Coming Attractions!
Quick Updates
Did you know? - arcane tidbits for fun & frolic
Thought Waves

Spotlight On — What clients are saying about Self Healing

In response to the question "How would you describe your experience" three recent participants at a
Self Healing for Body, Mind and Spirit program said:

"Incredible. So enriching! Even today, as I reread the notes I wrote during the workshop and relive the workshop experience, I surprise myself at how much stronger I become breathing and truly getting into my body. The breathing, with full exhale, has become a daily habit. I realize many "issue" areas in my life are not that big a deal and that my mind was turning a simple act into a big issue. I smile now when these "issues" arise. I see so clearly now, the things we create, the mini-dramas, that are no longer necessary in my life. How liberating!"

- Diane Ladouceur, Ottawa

"Oxygenating. I am so proud that I never gave up on my desperate quest to find inner peace. Now I can say that I know what different things like compassion, self-appreciation, self-esteem, personal expression, being alive, accepting myself feel like. I attended with a specific goal. I was there to have some very specific questions answered. As I expressed in the forum, I have spent thousands of dollars looking for what I felt was real and right for me as a human being, and not as a member of society. Everything I had been doing somehow placed me in this dead end line up in the system that is our society, and my soul was dying because of it. Obviously life was not fulfilling until I met a man who actually lived out what I wanted to live and feel. Joy, enthusiasm, pride, direction, focus, self-reliance being the most important. That is what I found in taking this course. I got myself right back."

- Moira Serra, Montreal

"My experience was profound. First, I was glad to be informed of the WEL-Systems theory and the research that supports it, all presented in a friendly and understandable format. This set my intellect at ease, and set the stage for my rational, linear self to continue to remind me of the sensible, practical rewards of keeping my attention at the base of my spine and breathing more deeply on an ongoing basis. Next, I experienced my body in the process of doing what it made VERY CLEAR it has been wanting to do for a long time! I was absolutely stunned and surprised at what was waiting inside me for the opportunity to show itself during the experiential sessions! I found out in a matter of 5 minutes that the effort I've made over many years to analyze, understand and defuse my anger and pain, was wasted. After a relatively short but intense swirling sensation of emotion and movement throughout my body, I felt an incredible sense of relief and relaxation. This is lasting and has changed my perspective dramatically."

- Angela Cegnar, Maryland

We invite you to also access the profound, life altering changes available from Self Healing for Body Mind and Spirit. It may be the weekend your life is altered forever! For more information, visit www.tidepoolresources.com/programs/self.htm; the next session is scheduled for February 21 & 22, 2004.

Today's Thought

"Let's hear it for hugs.
A good hug gives you emotional reassurance, physical support, and a spiritual lift"

Betty Jane Wylie

Coming Attractions!

We are pleased to offer you the following seminars, workshops and programs. Each one designed to provide thought-provoking and life altering experiences for your on-going personal and professional development.

WEL-Systems Experiences: January to April

The listing above only shows the first scheduled date. For more details and the complete program schedule, see www.WEL-Systems.com/schedule.htm

Quick Updates

DeCoding Addiction: Making a Difference and Staying Well

CODE Model Guide™ Certification for addictions specialists such as counsellors, therapists and social workers.

As an addictions specialist, discover how to make a difference without losing your health and your soul! Move away from the status quo to engage the WEL-Systems® approach to recovery from addiction and the re-discovery of physical, emotional and spiritual wellbeing. Grounded in today's New Science and with a proven track record, let The CODE Model™ guide you in your journey with your clients towards change without struggle. You'll develop the competence and confidence to delve into the unknown with a sense of curiosity and adventure. For more information about the next DeCoding Addiction scheduled visit www.tidepoolresources.com/programs/decodeadd.htm

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Attention budding entrepreneurs! Exploring Entrepreneurial Savvy

Many people consider moving from the world of being someone's employee to becoming their own boss. And many actually make the move, starting up all kinds of new and innovative business ventures that offer products and services to the world. While exciting, the shift into entrepreneurialism can be a terrifying one. There are so many details to be considered, so many decisions to be made, so many discoveries to be absorbed!

Based on the experiences of several WEL-Systems alumni who have journeyed down the entrepreneurial path and her years of experience as a business coach, Gwen has created a new and exciting 1:1 coaching series for people in new business start-up mode. Over 8 sessions, "Exploring Entrepreneurial Savvy" takes you on an intensive examination of your intention, choices, empowering & limiting beliefs and your will & ability so that you emerge with the clarity that will make a difference to the plan of action you then create and engage. This unique approach to creating a frame of reference for your budding business will help ensure that you achieve the success you deserve ...and will help you remain well and healthy through the process. Start any time you wish and proceed at a pace that works for your timeschedule. $1,000, plus GST. Call Gwen at 254-7218 for more information.

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WEL-Systems Change Agent Certification

The modular WEL-Systems Change Agent™ certification process continues. Our next 2-day The Power of One base module is scheduled for February 17 & 18. And we've revised the schedule for our 1-day optional modules. Based on your needs and interests, you select any two of them and combine them with The Power of One to achieve certification. Remember that you can enter the program at any point or register for the entire certification:

	Taking Care of Business in Changing Times	January 20th
	Connecting with Confidence	January 21st
	Communicating with Intention	February 11th
	Your Self Directed Career	March 2nd
	From Survival to Thrival	March 24th

If you are committed to be a living manifestation of change in an organizational context and would like more information, visit www.progenerations.com/programs/CA.htm.

Did you know?

That there's a neurobiological basis for repressed memories?

Scientists at the University of Oregon and Stanford University recently reported that they have discovered areas of the brain responsible for memory suppression. This is important news since we finally have evidence of a neurobiological basis for a phenomenon we've known about for decades and yet which has been shrouded in controversy.

The part of the brain involved appears to be similar to that we use to suppress physical activity. For example, if you want to stop your arm from waving, you will engage a part of the brain that Dr. Michael Anderson and Dr. John Gabrieli say is the same place that suppresses "unwanted" memories. "The suppression of thinking about something ultimately makes it unavailable to you on any basis," says Dr. Gabrieli.

What I find particularly interesting about these findings is that they add confirmation to the fact that each and every thing we experience is stored somewhere in our body. Whether we choose to access those memories is another matter. But if thought is energy, and memories are 'stored thoughts' and those memories are still there, loaded with the energetic charges that made them too repugnant for us to want to recall, are they not somehow still acting upon us, out of our awareness? And if we could release them so that the energy they contain is metabolized or neutralized in some way, what energy stores could become available to us. What different directions could our lives then take?

What I find particularly comforting is that science is, yet again, finally catching up and providing an explanation many of our clients are seeking for the amazing experiences they have. Perhaps one day soon science will also confirm for us another thing that we already know: that there is a way for the body to engage and process "suppressed memories" without having to re-live the soul destroying "trauma" of the story involved. In the meantime, we'll just have to keep on achieving the results we're achieving without science having conferred its blessing upon the process!

Thought Waves

The following article was sent to us by Raymond M. Landry - a Certified WEL-Systems® Master Facilitator and Quantum TLC™ Facilitator. He is the Owner Operator of "Self Power… Finding Your Way to Excellence"

What Else, If Not Addictions?

Recently, I have created opportunities for myself to share this "Autopoietic" (Self Creation) perspective by organizing public forums and two-day intensives where people attending are invited to consider all their behaviours in the larger context of what else those behaviours could mean in their lives, instead of blindly accepting others' opinions of who they are and what they are doing.

What else, if not addictions? Well, just consider for a second that maybe, just maybe, we human beings are doing the best we know how to do with what we know and with what is available to us at the time (including beliefs, values, attitudes). Add to that that many of our behaviours occur out of consciousness, in a habitual process we could call "programming". Programming from the time we are toddlers or younger. What if we suddenly had access to the very "switch" that turned that behaviour on and off? Or that there was no need to turn anything on or off because we had reframed and changed the context, hence, the meaning of that behaviour?

My experience with the WEL-Systems perspective (which included NLP and the quantum sciences) has provided me with the joy of knowing my "self" in a way that allows me to create the space I need for my life, all-the-while being an invitation to others to step into their own space, in a way that provides them access to all that is possible for them. I know, for myself, that the weight of the responsibility I used to hold for other peoples' lives (which is often the downfall of younger Addictions workers) is forever gone. I know that there is nothing I can do for others that they cannot do for themselves. In the context of the "helping professions", my effectiveness and skill come from my ability to truly be my self, and not from how I practice a method or use a tool.

It is very exciting to talk to people who come in feeling locked into a behaviour and see them light up when they are asked to consider who they believe themselves to be, and find out that they have unlimited choices about how to live their lives. They leave seeing new possibilities for their lives.

Create your world? You're already doing it whether you realize it or not! My two pennies about it is that you might as well create the life that makes you happy and gets you what you really want. Take good care of your Self!

by: Raymond M. Landry

The WEL-Systems® Institute
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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada  K2L 3H1
Tel: (613) 254-7218
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