If you enjoyed the read, please feel free to share it Thoughtful, with mirror. Help me now folks and hit ‘donate’ not here (for now) but at this crowdfunding page here: http://startsomegood.com/Venture/me_and_my_mirror/Campaigns/Show/hitting_the_road_to_heal_with_mirrors That way I can give a world of other peeps a chance to git rid of it and git on wid...
Read MoreIf you enjoyed the read, please feel free to share itThere are no coincidences, right? I’m a ‘pitchman’ – sellin’ pots ‘n pans on a roadshow – you know, the geeky guy with the mic on his head badgering innocent shoppers. I do it to make money to make mirrors and hit the road again… . So a few short weeks ago I was workin’ it in Kelowna and a well-dressed and sympathetic fellow belly’d up to my booth, ordered, straight-up, a small brace of fry pans and we got to talking. It turns out he’s the director of an in-patient rehab house for adolescents called ‘NEURVANA’. They use leading edge brain-optimization technology that focuses on, you guessed it, ‘mirror neurons’ in the brain to enable these kids to re-process anxieties and leave behind a jumble of disorders which includes eating disorders, ADHD, addictions, compulsions, depression. In short we are barking up the same tree and were both as amazed to encounter each other as we were certain that there are, really, no coincidences in life. He came back at closing time that night with his wife and partner and 8 or 10 of his kids and I threw a tablecloth over the pots and pans, turned down the burners and gave the kids a demonstration of mirror therapy and we all talked about what it addresses in the brain and how it cures and the palpable parallels with the treatment that David and his wife Sue are so successfully implementing at NEURVANA – check out his action here at : http://www.neurvana.ca/ We all had a group hug (me a couple tears and lots of gratitude) and the kids presented me with this – which I’ll try’n attach here. 100 bucks. I promised them I would hold onto it til I got to Laos and that it would buy them 20 mirrors for Laotian amps. No coincidences and full-speed...
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Read MoreIf you enjoyed the read, please feel free to share it I’m re-activating everything, man. Those who know me or have followed the blog even a little will know that I spent a handful of months in Cambodia on my mission last year. Well, Mission Unaccomplished! I’m going back February 12th. So I got through to hundreds of people, well, there are well-over 100,000 amputees in SE Asia alone. I ain’t even started yet. There’s trauma too, and lots of it; it’s palpable, and I’m going to shake that up a bit as well. Many of the oldsters in Cambodia and, I beg to say, many of their relatives and many, too, of their descendants are what the Khmer Rouge themselves charmingly called ‘The Persons Left Over From Death’ … well I maintain that they are, in fact, ‘Persons Ignitable By Life’! And I aim to go in there, with a dry clear eye (this time) and kick a little ass. Because, if I learned anything on my last (extended) visit, it is that these people don’t need or want compassion, in a way compassion has been killing them for decades. They need a cuff upside the head, a kick in the pants: just the way you and I do when we lose the plot. We all need to take our well-being into our own hands, fend for ourselves and derive pride from what we do every day. Your up-country Cambodian amputee fisherman is no different, nor, for that matter, is your Afghan, your Somali, your Sri Lankan or you Serbo-Croat – no matter how many limbs he’s got and no matter how much free shit is being thrown at him. So just ‘Say No’ to hand-outs and say ‘Hell Yes!’ to a firm hand-shake, a long look in the eyes and a giant gift to improve your life with exactly one itty-bitty string attached. That string, I’ll tell each amputee, is ‘YOU. You gotta do the work. It’s the ONLY WAY’. That’s a signal change in my approach for this venture and success is already singing in my chest. So how could you resist me? Here I come to you, on my own steam, on a bicycle. I’ve...
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