[Imagination Club] Challenge: In what ways might WE add value to the imagination club?

[Victoria Abdelnur]

Hello Jeff and group,

I am impressed at the wealth of intelligence, contacts, experience and of
course creativity that we as a group have, and I would like all that to be
applied to solve REAL problems of REAL people. Meaning, things we can
tackle, things normal people, groups or organizations with practical
problems (and no funds/access/knowledge that there is a group willing to
donate a little bit of their collective creativity) that can be solved.

By the way, I haven't introduced myself yet. I am Victoria, an Argentinian
doctor specialized in mind-body medicine. My hobbies or passions besides
medicine are dance and film.

While I was studying at the National University of La Plata I found there
wasn't payed much attention to preventive medicine. Big machines with the
latest technologies and fancy colours or the latest drugs were payed more
attention to than improving the most important factors of a healthy
lifestyle. They couldn't give me either any stress relief methods for the
obviously stressed out patients we saw every day. In their search for
intellectual knowledge many had disconnected from their own feelings and
thus disconnected from the patients'.

What I saw at the hospitals made me so sad, angry and disappointed (because
of how many doctors treated the patients) that I almost leave the career for
good. I stopped going to classes for a year while I kept teaching
physiology, one of my favorite subjects. Then I thought, OK, I'll study and
go through all this and then when I graduate I'll treat the patients as I
would like to be treated myself.

So besides studying the normal career I studied and practiced different
kinds of meditation, dance, reiki, massages, yoga,  and many alternative
healing techniques. I filtered what in my experience was balooney and kept
what I found effective and "reproduceable" (no matter how much connected to
the emotional and spiritual, I retain my analytic mind).

When I graduated I went to do a training at a community/monastery, in which
we meditated 10 hours a day, did Yoga every morning, runned and had a group
meeting in the evening. Ate super healthy and drank loads of water. We used
a modern stress relief  and catharsis system  to clean our system
(physically and emotionally). Now my body doesn't stand alcohol or
cigarettes or drugs (legal and illegal), meaning the effect is so strong, as
it became so sensitive, that I don't take them. And I achieved a new found
clarity I'm very thankful for. For example, it's very easy for me to detect
what the other person is feeling, even thinking (I do not read minds!
hehehe, but the signs are so clear, sometimes is like I could). I healed
many things of my past and I feel I'm more able to help others. I taught
this system all over South America, to all kinds of people. From business
people, president advisors, actors, to people in prision, orphans, nuns and
ex-guerrilla members. I recently came back to my country to start a private
practice.

I came into the group as I was doing a film course and wanted
inspiration/guide for my creativity.

And here I am.

Best wishes to all of you, :)

Victoria.









On 7/23/07, Jeffrey Baumgartner <jeffreyb at jpb.com> wrote:
>
> Dear Creative Thinkers..
>
> It's getting quiet around here. So here's a new challenge..
>
> "In what ways might WE add value to the Imagination Club?"
>
> You will have noticed that I have emphasised WE. That's
> because I want YOU to think about ideas that YOU or WE as a
> group can do to add value to the Imagination Club. The
> Imagination Club is something I manage in my free time and
> with essentially no budget. So ideas that involve lots of
> my time and/or lots of money (unless you want to provide
> it!) are great, but not realistic.
>
> On the other hand, actions that you, I and others can take
> to make the Imagination Club a better place are more
> collaborative, more fun for all and more sustainable.
>
> So think away and share your ideas! (By the way, I do have
> some expansion plans under way for the on-line imagination
> club and local imagination clubs - more about that soon.)
>
> Jeffrey Baumgartner
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