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Re: To Have a Successful Holistic Practice, Make Every Day Thanksgiving!

Allison Rapp — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 00:31:37 -0000

Thanks, Vita!
I did find a gem, and consider myself really fortunate -- not only in finding him but that I found him not a minute later than I did!
xo, Allison
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Re: To Have a Successful Holistic Practice, Make Every Day Thanksgiving!

Vita — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 23:46:01 -0000

Thank you Allison for a very insightful post. Glad your website issues are resolved. Sounds like you found a gem of a computer wizard. Best, Vita

Re: To Have a Successful Holistic Practice, Make Every Day Thanksgiving!

Allison Rapp — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 14:44:36 -0000

Nancy, having clients like you are what makes my day... having a friend like you makes my life what it is!
Having come late to the practice of gratitude, what I've been finding is that it feeds on itself... it pushes out negativity and allows light into dark corners where wondrous things can be hiding. I'm so glad I finally discovered it!

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Re: To Have a Successful Holistic Practice, Make Every Day Thanksgiving!

Nancy Harden — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 14:10:25 -0000

Allison, Thank you for your willingness to stand in the storm, and encourage all of us by your example! As a long time practitioner of gratitude, I know how difficult it can be to find that place in the midst of challenging times. My gratitude, at this moment, is for you. The practice I have today would not exist without your mentoring, wisdom, encouragement, and the programs you have followed your vision and heart to create. Thank you, dear friend, thank you.

Re: WANTING a Practice Isn’t Enough!

Allison Rapp — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 13:22:32 -0000

Heather... you're such a joy to mentor! You're positive, you try everything I suggest, you learn from everything you do, you measure your progress and are buoyed by it. Your success is well-deserved and I'm honored to have a part in helping you feel it!

Re: WANTING a Practice Isn’t Enough!

Heather Beachum — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 08:25:09 -0000

Hi Allison,
Thanks so much for everything, Last year at this time I was thinking I may have to forget having a practice, but now, well, its all smiles:)
Heather

Re: Holistic Practitioners Have Many Choices for Building their Expertise

Allison Rapp — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 01:22:36 -0000

So glad to hear, Buffy! Moving can be daunting, or a great opportunity -- you've created the latter, and deserve great success! The Heart to Heart program will help a lot with how to carry on after you make the contact and I'm glad you're going to go through it from start to finish!

Re: Using the Internet to Build Your Business – How Leaving a Comment Helps

ayesha — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 08:10:43 -0000

Thankyou for your helpful advice. Your suggestion was just what i neded.

Re: Your Feldenkrais® Training Can Help You Attract Clients: part 5: Know What You Want

Heather Beachum — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 07:34:48 -0000

Hi Allison,
It's funny the gremlins we can have even believing that we deserve to have what we want - we are so programed to think this is selfish. Another thing Moshe taught us - to live the life we want is to be a mature and embodied human:) Love to Moshe.
Heather

Re: Your Feldenkrais® Training Can Help You Attract Clients: part 4: Do What’s Easy!

Allison Rapp — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 14:29:39 -0000

Heather, I think this is true. Moshe wanted us all to be successful, and he wanted his work to spread. I think that if he were alive today, the technology that's available would have supported his dream.

Re: Your Feldenkrais® Training Can Help You Attract Clients: part 4: Do What’s Easy!

Heather Beachum — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 10:14:26 -0000

Hi Allison,
My understanding is that in his later years Moshe expressed disappintment that there wasn't as much integration of his work into people's lives as he had hoped. By bringing our training not only to our client, but to having lush, successful practices is the best way we can honor this brilliant man.
Heather

Re: Golden

Alfons — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 05:09:58 -0000

Interesting breakdown! Good questions, and exactly what I always tried to do.

However, I just have a new thought: When teaching/studying ATM I feel like a Chinese business-man: reverse engineering. Trying to find out what a lesson contains, how it works, what is inside an ATM.

I cannot remember anyone ever gave me a top-down instructions, or a top-down task. E.g. we want to differentiate the obliques from the abdominal muscles (and why on earth would we want to do that???), how would you build such a lesson?

Are there any resources about this?

Re: Your Feldenkrais® Training Can Help You Attract Clients: part 2: What it Means to Graduate

Allison Rapp — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 00:18:46 -0000

Go Charlotte!

Re: Your Feldenkrais® Training Can Help You Attract Clients: part 2: What it Means to Graduate

Charlotte — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 23:59:02 -0000

OK! 800 hours is a good round number! And now I have 13 additional years of study to add to that as well!
charlottechavez.com

Re: How Gratitude Gets You Clients

Allison Rapp — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 18:29:33 -0000

Tim, did you know that Adjustments LOVES nuance? In every form, but particularly in words. Just a little piece of PS trivia. And it's why you want Adjustments on your team when you play Trivial Pursuit because they so much about so many things!
Appreciation is about seeing something, understanding the meaning of it, and of course, we use it to mean the act of communicating that we see and understand it to the other person. You could also appreciate our pond, San Francisco, or the cultural opportunities you have.

Gratitude is more about the feeling I have inside myself because of what I recognize as having value in my life. It's recognizing that I have the gratitude, that I give thanks, that I *feel *grateful, that my life is abundant.

Maybe the shorthand way to say it is that appreciation is about what I can take in with my sensory system, and gratitude is what I feel in my heart.

Re: How Gratitude Gets You Clients

Allison Rapp — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 18:07:26 -0000

I hope you try it, Gustavo, and I will be interested to see how it meshes, or changes, or correlates... or ... with your dream studies. I am very interested in that and have played with it on and mostly off for a long time, but never with as much intention as you seem to bring to it... you may inspire me to try again!

Re: How Gratitude Gets You Clients

Allison Rapp — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 18:04:10 -0000

Madonna, it seems an important distinction to make -- I think a lot of folks think they're just focused on what they're getting... and don't see that they're getting what they're focused on.

Re: How Gratitude Gets You Clients

Allison Rapp — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 17:58:51 -0000

:-)

Re: How Gratitude Gets You Clients

Tim Wilson — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 14:40:27 -0000

Pondering on the pond! I love it. Thank you for this. I like the idea of working out my gratitude muscles. Just as a little word nuance question, what is the difference in your opinion between gratitude and appreciation?

Re: How Gratitude Gets You Clients

gustrafo (gustavo silva) — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 11:49:19 -0000

Hi Allison,

Being
grateful for three things every night sounds like a great idea. Thanks.

Re: How Gratitude Gets You Clients

Madonna Robinson — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 08:41:20 -0000

Hi Allison,

it is very easy to forget when things aren't going so well to be grateful. But, it is so important because we get what we focus on. A nice reminder.

Re: How Gratitude Gets You Clients

Heather — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 07:28:11 -0000

I'm grateful to you:) Heather

Re: To Get More Clients, Pull it All Together!

Allison Rapp — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 13:09:53 -0000

Thanks, Roy... What a great idea!

Re: To Get More Clients, Pull it All Together!

Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 08:15:05 -0000

That is a great infographic, Allison! I vote you use the top part as card to send to potential clients. With a handwritten note inside.
Thanks for sharing.

Re: To Get More Clients, Pull it All Together!

Allison Rapp — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 19:09:23 -0000

Charlotte, another thing I like to do with Moshe's books is open them and read just the highlights I made for a few pages. I am always interested to see what grabbed me before and how it grabs me now.