“ There are no paths, paths are made by walking. ” - Australian Aboriginal saying

“ Until lions have their historians, tales of hunting will always glorify the hunter. ” - African proverb

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Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right.

” - Henry Ford

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"Knowledge is only rumour, until it is in the muscle."

 

” - New Guinea Proverb

“ For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. ” - Walt Whitman

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

” - Carl Rogers

“ The secret of the care of the patient is in caring for the patient. ” - Francis Peabody

So it was the second session of the group yesterday.  I blogged about the first session last week.  Sadly a couple of people couldn't get to this second meeting - due to a pre-planned holiday and to an unexpected crisis.  It's quite common for participants to miss one or two evenings across a twelve session course like this, but I want to be careful when people miss such an early meeting.  It's important that they don't lose their way and get left behind.  They will get copies of the handouts and the Autogenic CD, but I also make a note to contact them myself.   

“ The most important thing is caring, so do it first, for the caring physician best inspires hope and trust. ” - Sir William Osler

Yesterday we had the first evening of the Life Skills group.  I've written in the past about the background planning behind this group.  How did this first meeting go?  Well there were nine of us - eight participants and myself.  Rather demandingly I'm both running a new course and trying to get used to new technology at the same time.  For years, when running small group trainings here at our house, I've used an overhead projector to shine transparencies up onto the wall.  For a while I've wanted to upgrade to a laptop and data projector, and this evening I went ahead to put this into practice.

“ At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time. ” - Friedrich Nietzsche

In the 1970's I taught yoga and several different types of meditation.  In the 1980's I began teaching courses in Autogenic Training, a form of deep relaxation/meditation.  I continued running Autogenic classes for about 25 years.  In addition to the relaxation/meditation exercises, the teaching also covered several other life skill/stress management techniques.  For a much fuller description of these eight session courses, visit the Autogenic Training section of this website.