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Synergetics
Newsletter *Happy New
Year with thoughts of Spring Dear Synergetics Friends! It's never too late to wish you a happy new year - even as spring approaches! So here's the card we sent out in January to our family. And since we consider you part of our family too, here's our humourous, but heart felt happy new year wish for you:
SYNERGETICS
IN FLORIDA
The volunteer teachers at The Villages are WONDERFUL. We want to thank them SO much for all they do. They lead the free Synergetics classes every Friday and help people with confidence and good humor! In January, Joanna made a surprise visit to the Synergetics class at The Villages, led by Ken Konstanty. There were over 200 people at Laurel Manor Recreation Center, and we all had a ball! For Florida Classes, click here: calendar TEACHER TRAINING: So many people ask us about getting started as Synergetics teachers. Please contact us and we'll help you get going! We want to share Synergetics with as many people as possible, so we have a teacher-training program that can be done long distance. There is no cost for you—just an investment of your time and effort to become certified. You can begin teaching others without being certified, using our instructional materials (videos, books, etc) but you will find that there are some things that we can share with you that will make your teaching more effective and enjoyable. Joanna and I would welcome talking to you about teaching Synergetics in your community. Call us at 1-800-336-1993, write us at 4480 Harp Pike, Frankfort, KY 40601, or e-mail us and we will show you how to get started helping others with Synergetics. It’s a great way to keep your own Synergetics habit going and helping others at the same time. Trish in Nashville is getting ready to start a Synergetics class at her Local YMCA. Watch the calendar page for her schedule. JOANNA'S MUSIC CD After a year in production, Joanna's CD, "A World, So Small" will be available in late March. We are now taking orders to be shipped in early April! With guitar-partner Jeff Ellis and a fabulous group of Stir-Fry Friends, this is an instrumental album of celtic, gypsy, jazz and original music. You can hear sample tracks at the hay and ellis music site. To purchase
the Hay & Ellis CD "A World, So Small" click
here to order. Joanna regularly plays the violin and mandolin in the Folkboy Orchestra on the live webcast of the Woodsongs Old Time Radio Hour .You can tune in on Monday nights! She has also appeared on NBC's Today Show playing "My Old Kentucky Home" with Al Roker and Willard Scott. She has played back up for LeAnn Rimes and Mariana Bell and opened shows for John Cowan and Darrell Scott to name a few. TAYLOR'S THOUGHTS: I celebrated my 77th birthday on February 11th. So naturally I began feeling for my body-parts to be sure they were all still there. And sure enough, they are in about the same shape they were twenty-five years ago after I began doing Synergetics—same weight, better flexibility, and almost the same quickness and strength. When I visited my son in Sarasota, Florida we played a round of golf. He was amazed that I hit six out of nine fairways and drove the ball well over two hundred yards. I thank Synergetics for my golf body. Here are a couple of photos of me on the tee. I hadn’t played a full round of golf in a long time.
When I began
jogging (which ultimately ruined my knees) in the middle 1950's
there were only a few exponents of health and exercise like
Charles Atlas (Dynamic Tension) and a movie actor named Bob
Cummings. He wrote a book, Stay Young and Vital that
was published in 1960. In Stay Young and Vital Cummings writes: "I’ve never met a man or a woman or a child who didn’t instinctively want to be as healthy, vital and attractive as possible whether they were ten, or thirty, or fifty, or seventy, or ninety. I’ve come to believe honestly that the instinct is there because the possibility is there—that there is a simple, common sense way by which we can stay at the top of our form at any and every age." He goes on to say: “'Taking care of number one' to me is not the guide line of the selfish egotist but rather the dedicated task of Divine Selfishness, because taking good care of you is really complete unselfishness. Remembering to take good care of yourself every day could be your first best step to more health and more life. I'm going to re-read Bob's book! We know what to do so why don’t we do it? Some people make New Years resolutions, do them for a little while and then give up until the next New Year and make the same resolutions all over again. I’ve been there and done that too many times to count!. Making promises to myself once a year doesn’t work. But here is a system that does work for me: First I make a list of three things that I want to do every day. Here’s an example: 1. Do a
12-minute Synergetics workout before I eat breakfast. These three things alone will create a steady regeneration -- you'll see it and feel it! Turn back the aging clock and slow down the swing of Father Time’s pendulum. I make an appointment with myself by writing these three commitments into my daily calendar with a specific time so that nothing interferes with my schedule. Sure, there will be exceptions that will mean changing the actual timing, but these interruptions should be kept to a minimum. Simply say, ‘Gee, I have an appointment at that time (with yourself, of course), how about…. Then set a time that’s best for you. It works for me. It will work for you! And you should do your very best to do all three commitments every day even if the timing is temporarily off. And since Synergetics is part of you, like breathing, you can take your exercise, nap and stroll with you wherever you go. Here’s the natural progression of the psychological and physiological desire to continue to live up to your commitments to yourself: 1. Committing. In a reasonable time your routine will become a habit and then a positive, pleasant, and very healthy addiction. Your mind and body will rebel if you begin skipping what it intuitively knows makes it feel good and look good. Your body will demand that you continue to do what makes it balanced and functional. And your ‘mirror, mirror, on the wall’ will tell you that you are getting fairer and fairer than you ever believed possible. Regardless of your present age and physical condition! Let’s close with another passage from Bob Cummings’ book: "If you are at the top of your form, health-wise, your disposition won’t prickle or irritate either you or those who pass your way. If you and I are full of energy and enthusiasm we are of more value in our work, in our homes, in our country. We are better citizens. We use our leisure more creatively. We can’t help being better friends, better parents. And we don’t run the awful risk of becoming a burden to ourselves and others.… That is only one outstanding warning to all of us to take care of number one, or practice Divine Selfishness." THE SYNERGETICS STORE New
Kit for Back Pain Relief Visit the Synergetics store, to see the complete line of Synergetics and PocketGym videos, cds and books. For a $5 discount on any order, send us an email requesting the newsletter discount! EMAIL US MiESSENCE: We have never offered products from outside companies, but I've fallen in love with some WONDERFUL organic products from Australia. I (Joanna) use this delicious Facial Serum under my eyes EVERY day. I can see and feel the difference! And Taylor and I both use the In-Liven Organic Probiotic Super-Food every morning for a highly nutritious supplement! Treat your body to something new with these beautiful Australian organics! You'll feel better and your skin will thank you too! For more information on the australian organics click here. FEEDBACK! Joanna and
I would love to hear from you. If you have any questions please
call, write or e-mail us. We’re here to help. And hearing
from you will help us help others! Send
us your questions, comments and feedback! Feel free to forward
this to your friends who would enjoy this newsletter!
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Above,
you can just see our cottage behind the icy limbs. The view
is of the long ridge behind the Art House across the road from
our cottage where I (Taylor) make PocketGyms and ship orders
all over the world. The Art House is rustic inside, but everyone
who stays there loves it. The other day I shipped four orders:
one to Iowa, one to Paris, France, one to Dublin, Ireland and
one to somewhere in Australia. You can’t imagine how exciting
it is to take my five-minute morning walk to the Art House—spring,
summer, winter and fall with a packet of orders under my arm,
knowing how Synergetics can give all of us more life and more
enjoyment.
