Freezing Cold in Stockholm
Well, I woke this morning and opened the curtains to see a mother playing with her children in the freezing cold and snow, as you see here.
I gave three workshops at the Gymnastics Institute here in Stockholm yesterday and all my classes were not only full, there were many in the mezzanine overlooking the gymnasium taking notes.
The Swedes genuinely loved my approach and we sold out of books. In fact, Sweden is the first country to have my book “How To Eat, Move, and Be Healthy” translated into their own language, thanks to Eleiko, our Swedish distributor. I am most grateful to Gunnilla and Lennart Blomberg, our Swedish Distributors and owners of Eleiko, and Andreas – marketing manager, who helped make my trip easy for me.
I am very sure this visit marks the beginning of a beautiful journey to becoming a CHEK Practitioner for many. I did an interview with Stockholm’s newspaper after my class and the reporter was somewhat amazed at how simple and logical my approach to health really is and was excited to publish my message so I look forward to sharing that with the Swedish People!
I’m in the taxi now, in route to the airport to begin the long journey home. I must pit-stop for the night in London because my only other options would have made the trip tortuously long, and to be honest, I enjoy traveling about as much as I would enjoy having my panty-line waxed! ha ha!!
Well, bye for now and hopefully it gives you a little comfort knowing there are a few hundred more people out there learning to eat, move and be healthy!
Love and chi,
Paul
Hello from Gothenborg, Sweden!
HI Everyone,
I just finished teaching a 1 day workshop to many of Sweden’s top
physios, trainers and CHEK Practitioners. Here you can see me with my
students.
After class we went for a walk to pump our bodies before the
5 hour drive to Stockholm where I give 3 presentations tomorrow at the
“Gym Days”, “Healthy and Sweaty” conference. Then, I will do an
interview with a famous Swedish TV fitness, dance and singing star by
the name of Blossom Tainton, who is also a Chek HLC 1 Practitioner.
Immediately after that, I go to the airport to fly to London, England
where I have to pit stop over night before flying home because we
couldn’t find any decent flight paths home.
Penny just got back from climbing Mt. Killimanjaro in Africa so it
will be 3 weeks since I’ve seen her. I miss my little buddy so I will
be excited to come home to her.
Well, bye for now. I will try and update you all as soon ad I can.
Love and chi,
Paul
A Cause Worthy of Support!
Hi All,
Paul Chek here. I suspect you are as proud and amazed with the Killi Team as I am! What an amazing statement of possibility and personal integrity Erica and Tara have made being the first handicapped females to summit the mountain!
We entered this project with hope that you would all be willing to support a mission that shows all the other handicapped people of the world that there is no need to accept their limitation as a limitation. Tara and Erica certainly could make excuses about why they couldn’t climb even a little mountain, let alone one of the biggest mountains in the world! The entire team have made significant contributions: Derek originated the idea of the charity event; Penny (my beautiful soul-mate) who aided immensely in organization, coaching and motivation; myself who provided hours of assessment and coaching to get everyone in shape; the amazing film crew who gave their services and were brave enough to take the challenge themselves to not only climb Killi, but to film the whole event; And all the sponsors and others that have made donations to help the event take place.
If there is any way you can help us with a donation, we and the challenged athletes foundation would be most grateful! We have amassed thousands of dollars in debt to make the event happen, even after we all gave what we could without putting ourselves at risk. Our dream is to use your support to help cover the costs of the trip and finish the documentary movie with the film crew so we can continue to share the dream of physical, emotional, mental and spiritual independence and freedom with people facing life altering challenges around the world.
We all entered into the project without any expectation of financial gain and with the hopes that the world would share the love with us so we can show everyone how to weave dreams and live them. If you agree with us and are willing to participate in sharing a message of hope and possibility for all people facing real challenges that often alter one’s hopes, we would be very grateful for your support.
This project is one in which we all participate in world-healing. This project is one in which missing legs and damaged spinal cords become opportunities for growth and development, which leads to sharing experiences of possibility with others. Though the team has summited and are on their way down now, we need your help to finish the documentary and get it out to people. As I’m sure you know, this kind of production is expensive, but the message is important.
We thank you from our hearts for sharing in a Hope-Offering for challenged souls all over the world! Thank you so much for clicking on this link and making any donation that leaves your heart warm.
Love and chi,
Paul Chek
Founder, C.H.E.K Institute
C.H.E.K Level 4 Advanced Training
Well, we have now completed C.H.E.K Level 4! I am very happy with my students. They all did a great job preparing themselves to be true Level 4 C.H.E.K Practioners. As the years have gone by since beginning the C.H.E.K Certification program in 1995, I have been able to share more and more of my truth as a clinical practitioner with my students. When I started the program, I actually used the acronym “C.H.E.K” to mean “Corrective, Holistic, Exercise, Kinesiology.” But, due to feedback from various sources, it was determined that the word “HOLISTIC” was too far outside the paradigm of those who would gain most from my teachings. Therefore, to avoid alienating potential students, it was determined that instead of “holistic”, we would use “High-performance”. While that seemed to be the medicine of the day, it went against my inner-voice, for in my reality as a therapist, coach, and teacher, living holistically is the foundation of all high-performance achievements, particularly if they are to be long-term. As the tide of social-thought or “consensual reality” changed over the past few years toward a more holistic or “integrative” approach, it became apparent that we should return to my original intention as the means of marketing the intention and offering of the C.H.E.K Institute.
Last year, I updated many of my certifications, providing a much more comprehensive base of understanding with regard to the holistic nature of human life and function. The result was that there were many who were uncomfortable with my changes and challenged me almost every step of the way. I stuck to the words of my inner-voice this time and I am happy to share with all of you that the mind-set and quality of my students relative to the mission I share has radically improved! I rarely ever find myself in long debates with students anymore who are trapped in their heads trying to defend ideas postulated by other (so-called) experts in related fields; an example is constantly debating the issues of hollowing vs. bracing, which is an unnecessary argument among those that understand enough of how the body functions in an integrated fashion to effectively interpret “study design.” Today, my students are more willing to explore the depth of a “living philosophy” and how a person’s mind-set or “ideology” is far more commonly the etiology of their physical, emotional, mental or spiritual pain than any form of mechanical aberration.
This year, we reviewed all previous training from CP 1- 3, including infant development. I taught my students many holistic, effective methods for finding the root cause (etiology) of people’s challenges. Some methods included in the 2010 C.H.E.K Level 4 Advanced Training were:
* Healing art, including mandala therapy and the effects of a healing oracle.
* Inquiry (motivational interviewing)
* The use of healing herbs as teas and vapors
* The use of healing instruments; we worked with rattles, drums, stones, crystals, the Latin percussion clave, and
* Voice; I showed them how to use their voice for both diagnostic assessment and as a medium of vibrational healing
* How to perform a smoke offering with an invocation
* How to access and utilize intuition and how to differentiate intuition from thought and imagination, which is critical in the healing arts
* How to assess the human body-mind through both physical neurological and subtle energy correlations.
* How the human mind is constructed and how to access each individual at the level their energy and mind-set allows healing to occur a
* Jane Higgins taught us how to use Non-Violent communication in al our personal and professional relationships (learn more about this extremely valuable method at www.nvc.org).
* How to use different methods of meditation and how to still the mind so deeper intuitive states can occur
* How to use my 1-2-3-4 system for formulating an assessment and treatment/coaching plan, and more!
My main thrust with my students this year was “SIMPLIFICATION”! My system requires, first and foremost, that the students have a healthy capacity for rational thought. Sadly, that criteria alone eliminates a large population of potential practitioners, largely due to the fact that our educational system is highly ineffective at teaching people how to think, be it rationally or creatively; the currently used educational model (excluding the Waldorf school system and possibly the Montessori system) merely teaches people to follow directions and do what someone else tells them, which denatures creativity or the ability to generate novel thought processes, which are essential to therapists since every patient presents with a problem as novel as their own finger prints!
By the end of our training together, my students could comfortably take pages and pages of data gathered in the assessment process and narrow their suggested action items down to no more than 4 action items. They were able to create “sacred listening space” both within themselves, and in the sphere of their clients as they completed their practical testing. They all seemed genuinely pleased to know that they could now streamline their assessment and coaching process. It was clear to tmy students as to just why I could not teach them the methods I teach in C.H.E.K Level 4 prior to becoming a Level 4 qualified student, for they now realize that in order to be an effective Practitioner you must be able to put your mind aside – empty the bone so to speak. I teach all my students that in order to have an effective mind we start with the foundation, or there is no rational basis by which intuitive inputs can be effectively interpreted. They shared how many healers they know of have intuitive access, yet don’t understand anatomy, physiology, psychology and all the necessary sciences of healing and often can easily misinterpret their impressions. If you intuit numbers by have no syntax for mathematics in your intellectual intelligences base, you may as well be looking at shapes and forms emerging from a kaleidoscope and trying to assign some form of significance, which usually entails “guessing”. When working with clients who are tired, stressed, and in pain, guessing is far different than “intuiting,” as they all learned.
Here you can see several photos of them working with volunteer clients during their testing period.
I am deeply proud of each and all their efforts – what a fantastic group – ALL 13 of them. They each have a unique skill-set and their own special way of approaching life and their clients. They each truly understand the importance of being a healthy individual, thinking for themselves, and living the C.H.E.K Principles as I’ve taught. My method of teaching is not merely reproductive (simply copying what others say or do), but rather is a mix of inductive, deductive and intuitive approaches.
I will close this post by once again saying “Thank You!” to all my 2010 C.H.E.K Level 4 students, and to their families. I also am grateful to the Volunteer clients who so graciously gave of their time to come and participate with my students with their “real life issues and challenges”, as well as Vidya and the CHEK Institute staff for all their supportive work to allow this event to take place. Vidya was instrumental in keeping all organized – she even made gluten free brownies for my students. I personally feel great reward knowing that there are now 13 more people in the world that have concluded the bulk of my teachings and can represent the C.H.E.K approach effectively, authentically.
Love and chi to you All!
Paul Chek
It’s Official – PPS Legacy in UK April
Hi Everyone,
I am totally excited to share PPS Lesson 1 – How to Find and Live Your Legacy in the UK during Easter Weekend! This course is foundational for all my work including CHEK programs and I am personally extending you an invitation to join me. I and the CHEK Institute are recommending the course for anyone who wants to continue through my Holistic Lifestyle Coaching Training – and would encourage any of you who have already taken HLC 2 or 3 to take this course with me. We have some really great offers if you if you want to sign up early. So, I’m available, willing and ready to give you the best of what I offer as I know it, and help you to Find and Live Your Legacy – April 2-4. I look forward to seeing you then.
Lots of Love,
Paul
A Cherokee Legend
Hi Everyone,
Do any of you know the teaching legend of the Cherokee Indian youth’s rite of Passage? My mother sent me this legend recently and it touched my soul with profound truth and so I want to share it with you.
A boy’s father takes him into the forest, blindfolds him and leaves him alone. He is required to sit on a stump the whole night and not remove the blindfold until the rays of the morning sun shine through it. He is instructed that he cannot cry out for help to anyone. Once he survives the night, he becomes a MAN.
He cannot tell the other boys of this experience, because each lad must come into manhood on his own. The boy is naturally terrified. He can hear all kinds of noises. His mind questions each and every sound: wild beasts must surely be all around him; maybe even some human might do him harm. The wind blew the grass and earth, and shook his stump, but he sat stoically, never removing the blindfold. It would be the only way he could become a man!
Finally, after a horrific night the sun appeared and he removed his blindfold. It was then that he discovered his father sitting on the stump next to him. He had been at watch the entire night, protecting his son from harm.
We, too, are never alone. Even when we don’t know it, Great Spirit is watching over us, sitting on the stump beside us. When trouble comes, all we have to do is reach out to Him.
If you liked this story, pass it on. If not, you took off your blindfold before dawn.
Moral of the story:
Just because you can’t see Great Spirit/God, doesn’t mean He is not there. “For we walk by faith, not by sight.”
Learn to trust your life experience and know that truly you are never alone, even if it feels that way. We all are tested from time-to-time. The mind will behave like wild beasts and when any of us gives in to fear, we succumb to imagined FALSE EVIDENCE APPEARANCE REAL. Become real Men and Women and live life authentically!
Love and chi,
Paul
Level 4 Energy Healing
Wow, my students and I had a great day day of Native American healing! We began our day with a tea ceremony. I made them a special tea to help them relax inside so they could better feel both nature energies and their own as a means of helping them learn to feel their clients better. Our day included training on the use of rattles, drums, crystals, voice (toning and chanting), healing sticks, healing stones, healing art, how to write and perform an invocation for a healing ceremony, how to read and balance the chakra system, and how to perform a sun meditation. Needless to say, we were busy and the day went fast for me. I enjoyed sharing my home, garden, oranges and rocks, as well as Vidya’s awesome food with my students. We finished the day with a sun meditation and a short lesson on the Chinese art of stacking rocks. I’m sure you will get a sense of the day from the photos too!
I am really happy to share with my students how to use healing modalities such as art to invoke communion with their soul. I personally can’t imagine not using art – line, form, shape and color to change vibration inside and around me.
Well, enjoy your day where ever you are. If a challenge pops up, do you best to solve it “after you take a moment to determine if it is really a problem, or something best left alone because it won’t be an issue tomorrow anyway?”
Love and chi,
Paul Chek
Killi Climbers on the Move~!
My beautiful wife Penny will be leaving tomorrow for Africa to climb Kilimanjaro. I don’t think I have every spent more than 48 hours not talking to her – I’m gonna miss her a lot!
All the climbers have trained hard for this climb – I’m really proud of their efforts. Penny, Derek, Erica (paraplegic), and Tara (amputee) and Zack (from Overstock.com) have made significant improvements since beginning training many months ago. See the CHEK Institute Killi Media page:
You will be able to follow them on their blog.
I’m Teaching CHEK Level 4
Hi Everyone,
Just want you to know that I am working with elite level student’s in my CHEK Level 4, 9 day course here at the Institute. Wow, a really great group and we are going deep! To get to this level, it takes a minimum of 4 years of advancing through the CHEK Advanced Training programs. I’ve got some great things outlined to share with these students and most importantly, we are going to have fun! I’ll keep you posted . . .
Join Me for Killi Climb Fundraiser Saturday, Jan 16!
Hi Friends, Clients and Students,
I wanted to invite you all to a really cool event happening this weekend. Penny is getting ready to head to Africa January 23rd to help the first female paraplegic Erica Davis and Challenged athlete Tara Butcher to the top of Kilimanjaro. I would like you all to meet the Kilimanjaro climbing team, Saturday, January 16th from 4 to 7 PM, in Palm Desert. Our dear friend Sven Hansen is hosting the event at his lovely home in Ranch Mirage and we are all going to be there.
You must RSVP for this event so please visit http://www.chekinstitute.com/charity as soon as possible to get your name on the list.
I look forward to seeing you then. Much chi and Love,
Paul
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