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Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine

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    2. pdm vitality_HI.ppt 8/20/2012 Welcome – Years ago a court jester got carried away with his mimicry and mockery of the king. The king incensed beyond reason ordered him put to death immediately. Member of the court interceded, “Good king this jester has served you well for over 40 years. Have mercy and change your mind. King paused, and then said. “I cannot go back on my word. However you are right about that so I will give the fool a chance to choose the way in which he will die. The fool bowed before the king and said, “If it is all the same to you sire, I would like to die of old age.” Use White board to draw the following Sage: as you get older, you’ve got to expect your health will decline – you are at your peak at age 21 – we all know that millions of brain cells die very time you take Fool: dying in the saddle. Vitality is about quality in life – Dr. Pearsall spoke about miracles, awe, reverence for life Tools to use to make this a part of your own life: Review a collection of my own observations that have now been combined with research – not new ideas, true is never new – perhaps presented in a way that will stimulate your to think differently about some aspect of your living Will add suggestions and time for reflection so that you can use this information for your own vitality Welcome – Years ago a court jester got carried away with his mimicry and mockery of the king. The king incensed beyond reason ordered him put to death immediately. Member of the court interceded, “Good king this jester has served you well for over 40 years. Have mercy and change your mind. King paused, and then said. “I cannot go back on my word. However you are right about that so I will give the fool a chance to choose the way in which he will die. The fool bowed before the king and said, “If it is all the same to you sire, I would like to die of old age.” Use White board to draw the following Sage: as you get older, you’ve got to expect your health will decline – you are at your peak at age 21 – we all know that millions of brain cells die very time you take Fool: dying in the saddle. Vitality is about quality in life – Dr. Pearsall spoke about miracles, awe, reverence for life Tools to use to make this a part of your own life: Review a collection of my own observations that have now been combined with research – not new ideas, true is never new – perhaps presented in a way that will stimulate your to think differently about some aspect of your living Will add suggestions and time for reflection so that you can use this information for your own vitality

    3. pdm vitality_HI.ppt 8/20/2012 Goals of this Session Recognize the continuum from vitality to exhaustion Recognize 6 elements that form vitality Identify 6 practices that can lead us toward high vitality. All have the potential to be vital Some find their way to this place earlier than others Use those who reflect vitality in their lives as examples Easiest way for humans to learn new behaviors is to mimic those who have already developed this quality in their own lives. (I am your vitality teacher because of principle of teach what you most need to learn.)All have the potential to be vital Some find their way to this place earlier than others Use those who reflect vitality in their lives as examples Easiest way for humans to learn new behaviors is to mimic those who have already developed this quality in their own lives. (I am your vitality teacher because of principle of teach what you most need to learn.)

    4. pdm vitality_HI.ppt 8/20/2012 Vitality Development The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. ~ William James 1842-1910 Inner moments – homework begins today and continues throughout your life Inner moments – homework begins today and continues throughout your life

    5. pdm vitality_HI.ppt 8/20/2012 What is Vitality? Exuberance for life – adaptability, imagination, enthusiasm, willingness to go the extra mile Is unique to each individual’s make-up It varies with how the individual’s powers are invited from the interior of an individual to the surface – (David Whyte, Crossing the Unknown Sea, Riverhead Books, 2001.) There is no lever to pull inside a person to pull to activate this creativity There is no specific slogan that will activate the juice It is difficult for individuals and for organizations to find this creativity and vitality. It is genuine – not a false sense of well being – not the New Year’s day self or Pollyana in hell who says at least I don’t need my overcoat. It is not the ability to work 24/7 Vitality is self-actualization – peak experience changes into a plateau experience We teach best what we most need to learnThere is no lever to pull inside a person to pull to activate this creativity There is no specific slogan that will activate the juice It is difficult for individuals and for organizations to find this creativity and vitality. It is genuine – not a false sense of well being – not the New Year’s day self or Pollyana in hell who says at least I don’t need my overcoat. It is not the ability to work 24/7 Vitality is self-actualization – peak experience changes into a plateau experience We teach best what we most need to learn

    6. pdm vitality_HI.ppt 8/20/2012 Stressed Out? Selye – 1957 – a basement in Montreal – watching rats run through the maze. Beginning of the rat race – no matter how fast you run you can’t keep up Demonstrates mind-body connection Dr G – stress hormones cortisol, aldosterone, adrenaline and noradrenaline Adaptation led to exhaustion – then we identified “burnout’ – the best and most caring become the most cynical and dispirited How do you notice you are stressed out? – if you are not paying attention you will end up with a physical Sx before you recognize it Begins earlier with feelings – inadequacy, can’t get the job done with the resources at hand, Mental – They are asking too much of me – they are wrong or I can’t do it, I am not good enoughDr G – stress hormones cortisol, aldosterone, adrenaline and noradrenaline Adaptation led to exhaustion – then we identified “burnout’ – the best and most caring become the most cynical and dispirited How do you notice you are stressed out? – if you are not paying attention you will end up with a physical Sx before you recognize it Begins earlier with feelings – inadequacy, can’t get the job done with the resources at hand, Mental – They are asking too much of me – they are wrong or I can’t do it, I am not good enough

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    11. pdm vitality_HI.ppt 8/20/2012 Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The Soul that rises with us, our life’s Star, Hath had else where its setting, And cometh from afar: And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy, But he beholds the light, and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy; The Youth, who daily further from the east Must travel, still is Nature’s Priest, And by the vision splendid Is on his way attended; At length the Man perceives it die away And fade into the light of common day. Whyte p 69Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The Soul that rises with us, our life’s Star, Hath had else where its setting, And cometh from afar: And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy, But he beholds the light, and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy; The Youth, who daily further from the east Must travel, still is Nature’s Priest, And by the vision splendid Is on his way attended; At length the Man perceives it die away And fade into the light of common day. Whyte p 69

    12. pdm vitality_HI.ppt 8/20/2012 Enemas are my specialty The big nurse tends to get real put out if something keeps her outfit from running like a smooth, accurate, precision-made machine. The slightest thing messy or out of kilter or in the way ties her into a little white knot of tight-lipped fury. She walks around with that same dull smile crimped between her chin and her nose and that same calm whir coming from her eyes, but down inside of her she's tense as steel. I know, I can feel it, and she don't relax a hair till she gets the nuisance attended to - what she calls "adjusted to surrounding." P. 26 Enemas are my specialty The big nurse tends to get real put out if something keeps her outfit from running like a smooth, accurate, precision-made machine. The slightest thing messy or out of kilter or in the way ties her into a little white knot of tight-lipped fury. She walks around with that same dull smile crimped between her chin and her nose and that same calm whir coming from her eyes, but down inside of her she's tense as steel. I know, I can feel it, and she don't relax a hair till she gets the nuisance attended to - what she calls "adjusted to surrounding." P. 26

    13. pdm vitality_HI.ppt 8/20/2012 Vitality Drop Outs

    14. pdm vitality_HI.ppt 8/20/2012 Vintage Vitality

    15. pdm vitality_HI.ppt 8/20/2012 Vitality – Stress Continuum Consider your range of energy from exhausted to high vitality Inner moment not senior moments – recommend using this phrase “I was taking an inner moment to monitor my direction Think of a time when you were highly stressed out Think of a time when you were ‘most alive” – most fully yourself - what were you doing, thinking, feeling, who were you around, how did you relate to those around you and your environment. The beginning of feeling better is knowing how you feel right now.Inner moment not senior moments – recommend using this phrase “I was taking an inner moment to monitor my direction Think of a time when you were highly stressed out Think of a time when you were ‘most alive” – most fully yourself - what were you doing, thinking, feeling, who were you around, how did you relate to those around you and your environment. The beginning of feeling better is knowing how you feel right now.

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    17. pdm vitality_HI.ppt 8/20/2012 Optimism & Vitality Optimists Believe set-backs are temporary Do not generalize a sense of despair to other situations Try harder to master the situation Results Fewer infectious diseases Have better health habits Live longer than pessimists (M. Seligman, Learned Optimism, 1990, p14)

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    19. pdm vitality_HI.ppt 8/20/2012 Vitality at Work With Positive Attitude 58% reported a sense of control at work 80% could change their mood 50% said they were top performers 3 x as likely to report high energy (Peter McLaughlin, Catch Fire, p29) With Negative Attitude 12% reported a sense of control at work 40% could change their mood 20% said they were top performers

    20. pdm vitality_HI.ppt 8/20/2012 VITALITY Elements of Positive Energy

    21. pdm vitality_HI.ppt 8/20/2012 VITALITY Elements of Positive Energy

    22. pdm vitality_HI.ppt 8/20/2012 Purpose: Doing what only you can do, for a reason greater than self. Vitality Burning desire Value based motives Develops self discipline to achieve goals Provides valued service for others Depletion Lacks clarity of purpose Self centered motives Seeks power & influence over others Focused on personal gain Deficiency motivation vs “Being needs” Sharing truth Providing order Seeing beauty S.W – working with Hispanic families – they are so beautiful Sharing yourself – spending time with your child Your skills: Identify most important thing you have to do – and do it first – Eat that Frog – dont try to get the little stuff out of the way first Set your goals – this is one of the most powerful success tools Anecdote: Setting written goals Time management studies Deficiency motivation vs “Being needs” Sharing truth Providing order Seeing beauty S.W – working with Hispanic families – they are so beautiful Sharing yourself – spending time with your child Your skills: Identify most important thing you have to do – and do it first – Eat that Frog – dont try to get the little stuff out of the way first Set your goals – this is one of the most powerful success tools Anecdote: Setting written goals Time management studies

    23. pdm vitality_HI.ppt 8/20/2012 VITALITY Elements of Positive Energy

    24. pdm vitality_HI.ppt 8/20/2012 Commitment: The journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step Vitality Clear, definite Confident Approach goals on a daily basis Depletion Faint, half-hearted Self-doubt Time consumed by low-priority items Putting your heart into it – “burning desire” to do what you are doing Take action – life rewards action - Follow-through to completion – finish the project to a logical step – this will be easier than picking it up again the next day Your Skills Your skills: What have you left undone? – unfinished business Putting your heart into it – “burning desire” to do what you are doing Take action – life rewards action - Follow-through to completion – finish the project to a logical step – this will be easier than picking it up again the next day Your Skills Your skills: What have you left undone? – unfinished business

    25. pdm vitality_HI.ppt 8/20/2012 VITALITY Elements of Positive Energy

    26. pdm vitality_HI.ppt 8/20/2012 Presence: We are given many hours, how many hours are remembered? Vitality Easily concentrates on the here and now At peace with the past Plans for the future through goals and strategy Depletion Difficulty concentrating on present tasks Uses the past to explain the present Imagines a wonderful future that will compensate for short-comings of the past How many people work with you? How many people bring more than their bodies to work? Sounds simple – actually very challenging Repetition compulsion – until we understand the past, we are doomed to repeat. Insanity – doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results. Thoughts are energy – so pay attention to where you are placing them Filling up your house with all those things that you don’t want. We loose vitality through negative fantasies about the future and the past All of these internal dialogues takes us away from the present moment Your skill: Meditation – noticing where your thoughts go and bringing them back. Notice where your thoughts go when someone is speaking to you. How many people work with you? How many people bring more than their bodies to work? Sounds simple – actually very challenging Repetition compulsion – until we understand the past, we are doomed to repeat. Insanity – doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results. Thoughts are energy – so pay attention to where you are placing them Filling up your house with all those things that you don’t want. We loose vitality through negative fantasies about the future and the past All of these internal dialogues takes us away from the present moment Your skill: Meditation – noticing where your thoughts go and bringing them back. Notice where your thoughts go when someone is speaking to you.

    27. pdm vitality_HI.ppt 8/20/2012 VITALITY Elements of Positive Energy

    28. pdm vitality_HI.ppt 8/20/2012 Caring for Self & Others Vitality Balanced self care Regular exercise Whole, health foods Active involvement with friends and family Spiritual practice Depletion Deferred self-care No time for exercise No time for meals No time for friends/family No time or value placed on spiritual self Care-givers – caring for self and others often have deferred maintenance – SW example – each day I walk to work and I pray the rosary – each day I return and again I pray. I live with my daugther and we eat dinner together every day. God has asked me to do this work, Earlier in my life it would have been too difficult for me but now I am so grateful that I can help these families.Care-givers – caring for self and others often have deferred maintenance – SW example – each day I walk to work and I pray the rosary – each day I return and again I pray. I live with my daugther and we eat dinner together every day. God has asked me to do this work, Earlier in my life it would have been too difficult for me but now I am so grateful that I can help these families.

    29. pdm vitality_HI.ppt 8/20/2012 VITALITY Elements of Positive Energy

    30. pdm vitality_HI.ppt 8/20/2012 Perspective: There is no reversal without the seed of a greater gain – Napoleon Hill Vitality Learns through experience Perceptions are accurate. Accepts self and others Depletion Blames when things go wrong Perceptions are skewed by personal issues Judgmental towards self and others The ability to observe ourselves is one of our greatest gifts – this is self-reflective consciousness which is most highly developed in humans it is through this action that we open up the possibility of becoming truly ourselves Your skill Acknowledge the feelings – “this really hurts” Isn’t it interesting that ….. I wonder what I am going to learn from this experienceThe ability to observe ourselves is one of our greatest gifts – this is self-reflective consciousness which is most highly developed in humans it is through this action that we open up the possibility of becoming truly ourselves Your skill Acknowledge the feelings – “this really hurts” Isn’t it interesting that ….. I wonder what I am going to learn from this experience

    31. pdm vitality_HI.ppt 8/20/2012 “I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you… we are in charge of our Attitudes.” ~ Charles Swindoll

    32. pdm vitality_HI.ppt 8/20/2012 VITALITY Elements of Positive Energy

    33. pdm vitality_HI.ppt 8/20/2012 Choice: If you are not growing, you are shriveling. Vitality Who I am makes a difference First things first Allocate 15 minutes a day Growth choice countless times per day Depletion Nothing I do matters I’ll get around to it Can’t find the time Insanity: doing the same things, expecting different results

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    35. pdm vitality_HI.ppt 8/20/2012 The Vital Few Purpose: Develop your goals Commitment: Take action Presence: Be here now Caring: Devoted self-care & caring for others Perspective: Become your own coach Choice: It’s up to you

    36. pdm vitality_HI.ppt 8/20/2012 Vitality is … Flow state Focus on clearly defined, achievable, yet challenging goal Ability to concentrate Moment to moment feedback

    37. pdm vitality_HI.ppt 8/20/2012 Becoming Vital We vary in how much of our true self, soul, we express on a moment-to-moment basis Opportunities for improvement are always available Priorities depend on current circumstances Unique to the individual

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    42. pdm vitality_HI.ppt 8/20/2012 Presenter Contact Info Phyllis Mabbett, Ph.D., Administrative Director Phone (858) 554-3300 Fax (858) 554-2965 Email mabbett.phyllis@scrippshealth.org Mailing Address: Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine 10820 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037

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