I thought I had posted this before but cannot find it. A student at my alma mater was blogging about his hot yoga "journey" and throughout the entries, he made mention of his declining use of water in class. His instructor was teaching some pretty hardcore mind-over-matter stuff about how people psych themselves up to believe they need things - including water in hot yoga classes.
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Thellis, I might add that I pestered them for and received a full refund because they did not deliver.
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Define lazy or explain why you think you're lazy, please. I have the sneaking suspicion you are not. Why not volunteer for a nonprofit? Remember, many of the people you met at Landmark are trying to comply to Landmark's rules and not necessarily trying to support you in getting your life together. They just don't want to be humiliated by Landmark if they get caught thinking
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Good Enough, Great stuff. I've been reading about placebo effect on sciencebasedmedicine.org. The National Committee on Complementary and Alternative Medicine is spinning the poor outcomes of their tax-payer funded research as "The Power of Placebo" and people are falling for it. Health and lifestyle coaches, naturopaths, armchair nutritionists on health forums have thinly
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The Village Voice (NYC) is an excellent resource. They're not afraid to spill the beans.
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PubMed.gov Saveyourself.ca carolgiambalvo.com > reading list iscahome.com > reading list
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My former yoga instructor didn't start preaching and holding Sunday kirtans while she was renting space in a church to hold classes. When she opened her own studio, everything went to hell in a handbasket. I dropped out, tired of her preaching and pseudopsychoanalysis. The dangerous thing she did, IMO, was suggest that fear of doing certain poses or not wanting to "go past your edge&
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She's going to use mind-fvcking techniques on you and your husband if she is up to her eyeballs in Landmark. You might feel some relief and empowerment, but it will all be manipulated. She'll ignore true issues by blaming every last thing on rackets, integrity, responsibility (Landmark's version where you're responsible for everything), and you trying to look good. Been the
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Bumping this up. Perhaps other true professionals will comment on Katie and others.
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My feeling is that most professionals don't know the extent of infiltration by Byron Katie and her wannabes. More and more universities and teaching hospitals are offering integrative therapies (read - unvalidated) training. NCCAM (Natl Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine) is spending billions of taxpayers' dollars to carry out poorly designed studies and promote woo
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Here you are... , see the last entry in the thread.
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Dr. Monasterio, Thank you for posting your review of A Thousand Names for Joy here. It is so important that professionals speak up and explain to people what kind of wool Katie is actually pulling over the eyes of unsuspecting readers and clients. So many untrained "therapists" are ripping off vulnerable people and doing a lot of harm in the process (see post about one grad of
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Third time's the charm. It went through, though I didn't do anything different.
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NIWH grade Gina Lake is offering a series of courses on quieting the mind, with material derived from Tolle and Katie. NIWH claims to be a science- and evidence-based school teaching a whole person approach to health. Enrollees must be some kind of certified/licensed/degreed health professional in order to gain admission. TOPICS COVERED The truth about the mind and who you really
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I've been trying to post but instead of getting a notification about the post going through, I get transferred back to the log-in page, even though I'm logged in. Had no problem a couple days ago. Thanks.
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Isn't it interesting that the self-help industry has been telling us all our problems are due to our fear and that fear is the next big thing?
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This should be the headlining story about Steve Jobs' cancer.
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While there are likely many, many people who decide to forego conventional medical treatment for serious diseases and instead turn to “woo”, there still is little to suggest that Steve Jobs hastened his demise by “turning to alternatives” for nine months. Both sides of the treatment aisle are enjoying the spotlight, with alties exclaiming that chemo killed Jobs and mainstream pointing the fing
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Couldn't copy the article from the WSJ but could copy this from PRweb. The article makes Landmark look a completely benign self-help program where one can learn communications skills. Wall Street Journal features Landmark Education ShareThis Email PDF Print .San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) May 31, 2011 How to Tell a Loved One, I'm Angry With the additional “together time” that
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Does anyone have any resources for people who survive and get out of abusive relationships? An acquaintance of mine is a woman who was beaten down, physically, sexually, emotionally and spiritually for many years. She was formerly a high-level IT professional for NASA, but now has a five-year gap in her resume due to abuse. She is still struggling with self-confidence (she has to attend court-
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Well, like other narcissists, he explains how all the churches are "lost" and that they do not understand the "word" like he does. The crazy naturopath who is the reason I found this board basically said the same thing about the entire medical profession. They all go to the same training camp. The current crowd of believers will like thin out now but newbies will be in the
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The last day of the Forum, when everyone is feeling manufactured warm and fuzzy feelings, the leader winds things up by talking about the importance of relationships and that love is all that is important. Funny, how the forum is about deception.
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Tiredofthis, They all use the same tactics, borrow the same techniques, and screw people out of their money and sanity the same way. You'll be astounded at the similarities between Byron Katie and Tolle.
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Penelope, I'm experiencing the same BS in a program that is supposed to be "science-based". It started off based in basic science but then the woo slowly crept in. This program has infiltrated its way into Harvard Med School, which, of course, to the program facilitators means it is credible. Some of the "textbooks" include Molecules of Emotion by Candace Pert, The Hear
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Former Dept of Pathology Chief at a NY Hospital wrote this, and I agree: "It is important to recognize that when physicists like Heisenberg, Wheeler, and Schrödinger explored the fields of uncertainty in quantum systems, they did so from scientific and enlightened philosophic standpoints. They did not do so to provide a license for outlandish conjecture or, in the current context, to ped
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Unfortunately, referring clients to LGATS or reading material penned by the likes of Byron Katie and Ekart Tolle is rampant. The therapist I went to in the aftermath of my Landmarkian doctor was an est grad (she later posted this information on her website as part of her CV) and the first reading material she gave me was BK. At the time, I did not know how pervasive LGATs were and thought my expe
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Has anyone received a PM from JayJoseph re Landmark? I don't see any posts on the board by him/her.
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Ask Your Senators to Vote "No" on "Community Health Workers Act"!--Senate Bill 319, "Community Health Workers Act of 2009" was introduced by Sen. Bingaman (D-NM) and Sen. Durbin (D-IL). The purpose of this bill is to provide behavioral and mental health interventions to poor and minority women and children. Sen. Bingaman is attempting to expand his state's fai
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Ask Your Senators to Vote "No" on "Community Health Workers Act"!--Senate Bill 319, "Community Health Workers Act of 2009" was introduced by Sen. Bingaman (D-NM) and Sen. Durbin (D-IL). The purpose of this bill is to provide behavioral and mental health interventions to poor and minority women and children. Sen. Bingaman is attempting to expand his state's fai
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