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Elizabeth Eckert, PhD

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Wellness Challenge

How to enhance your health, wealth, relationships,
personal satisfaction and quality of life —
— by becoming a more effective problem-solver.

What do you want most in life?

Can you remember? You may have become so involved with surviving your day-to-day life that your most intimate desires are buried somewhere back in the far reaches of your subconscious mind.

But they're in there. You know.

Sometimes we stop ourselves from thinking about what we really want. We become overwhelmed by simple survival. We figure, "if it's this hard to simply get a meal on the table and pay the bills, why torture myself thinking about what I can't have?"

Who says you can't have it?

Here's a little paradox of nature. It takes more work to obtain something you really don't want than what you really do.

Are you struggling in life to produce results you don't even want? Then something's off. If you're putting out a whole lot of energy into producing results you really don't like, you could benefit from a little tune-up.

Let's take inventory:

• How are your finances doing?

• What about your relationships?

• Think about personal satisfaction. Does your lifestyle excite you?

• If you have a job, do you look forward to going to work every day?

• Is your home in order as you'd like?

• What about your health?

“It is almost an anti-miracle that so few people realize now that every major illness – cancer, heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, stroke – and most accidents are more the result of our attitudes than of all other measurable factors combined.”

— C. Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D.¹

Your health deserves our full attention.

Two factors in particular: your immune system and your posture.

Why?

Because together, they influence nearly every degenerative health condition you can think of.

And because they both respond directly to your effectiveness as a problem-solver.

Your immune system protects you from colds, flu, viruses — even cancer. Dr. Bernie Siegel, a specialist who works with cancer patients, believes that to some extent cancer is not a primary disease – rather he sees cancer as a reaction of the body to a set of circumstances that weakens the body's defenses.²

Uncontrolled stress is one of those circumstances. And effective problem-solvers handle stress much more efficiently than poor problem-solvers do.

“All illness should be assumed to be stress-related until proved otherwise. Even if stress is not the primary cause of illness, it is frequently an aggravating factor.”

— Andrew Weil, M.D.³

One of the biggest sources of uncontrolled stress in many people's lives is the conflict between what you know you should be doing and what you are actually doing instead.

If your life up to now has been about what other people want you to do (a characteristic of many cancer patients)⁴ perhaps you'd like to make a change. Perhaps you'd like to start following your own inner wisdom. There's no telling what might happen if you do!

Dawn: "I feel good in my own skin now."

Elizabeth: "Would you attribute that, at least in part, to the fact that you're now doing what you believe you're meant to be doing?"

Dawn: "Yes! I feel it in every cell of my being. To be at a point where I had all that chronic pain... I have not felt as good as I do now for 5 to 6 years."

— Dawn, Wellness Challenge Participant

Your posture sets the stage for the health of your muscles and joints. If you have back pain, neck pain, headaches, premature joint wear, degenerating discs, unexplained fatigue, or any number of similar concerns, chances are good that you have a posture problem. Chances are your posture problem pre-dated the symptom we just mentioned.

Muscles move bones. Overly tight muscles imbalance your system. Muscles tighten up for a number of reasons, but I don't suppose you'd be surprised to hear that stress is on the list. Stress. Remember that effective problem-solvers experience stress very differently from people who don't problem-solve as well. VERY differently.

Let's build that problem-solving muscle!

In fact, your problem-solving ability (both perceived and actual ability) has a comprehensive and universal effect on your entire life. Your beliefs about your ability to have an effect on your environment influence:

1. The courses of action you choose to pursue or avoid

2. How much effort you’re willing to put forth in order to reach a goal

3. How long you’ll persevere to get past obstacles in your path

4. Your resilience to adversity

5. Whether your thought patterns help or hinder your life

6. How much stress and depression you experience in dealing with difficult circumstances

7. Your levels of accomplishment in life⁵

Now for some really good news. Problem-solving is a skill. It can be learned, practiced, and improved.

No matter how great a problem-solver you are today, no matter how you may feel more at the effect of your world than in control of it, you can get better. You can get past the great reasons that keep you stuck and get on with ... well, whatever you say your life is going to be!

If you knew that there was an easy-to-follow program to support you in taking the project of your choice from start to finish, wouldn't you be interested? Wouldn't you jump at the chance to create more control over your environment ... and the life of your dreams?

What do you think you might take on? Would you:

• improve your family relationships
• start a business
• write a book
• clean the basement
• create a website
• get in shape
• set up a long-term investment strategy
• go back to school
• find a better job
• find Mr. or Ms. right?

What would it be?

Anything you really want to do is the right answer. Because our main goal is to have you develop confidence in your ability to change the world around you. And that ability will translate from the project you pick this time to any other project of your choice.

"I feel more confident and have created so much activity that I otherwise would not have. I am having more FUN doing what I love. It seems that new ideas just spring forth when I have a clear path to where I am going. I feel I can accomplish anything I put my mind to."

— Mary, Wellness Challenge Participant

How to join our Wellness Coaching Community

[The Wellness Challenge has been incorporated into our Wellness Coaching Program.]

Because I lend my personal time and effort to each member of our coaching community, I must limit the number of participants. Basically, here’s how it works.

Learn more by visiting the page directly at www.WellnessWarriorAdventureKit.com.

Fill out the Wellness Coaching Community Application and send it in!

(Do it now, while it’s fresh in your mind.)

I hope I'll have the opportunity to work with you soon. I get a real charge out of supporting people in bringing their dreams to life!

Your coach,

Elizabeth Eckert

P.S. If you read Word Cures and have been looking for the program to support you in making those lifestyle changes that flashed through your mind as you read, this is it!

"If there's a secret wish to accomplish something hiding behind your eyelids or tickling your fingertips, this kind of "wellness challenge" with its practical working format and Elizabeth Eckert's gentle yet enthusiastic guidance can help you learn new strategies for success! It has certainly done so for me!"

— Judith, Wellness Challenge Participant

^1. Shealy, C. Norman (1995). Miracles Do Happen, pg. 157. Element Books.

^2. Siegel, Bernie (1986). Love, Medicine & Miracles. New York: Harper & Row.

^3. Weil, Andrew (1995). Spontaneous Healing, pg. 264. Fawcett Columbine.

^4. Temoshok, Lydia and Henry Dreher (1992). The Type C Connection: The Behavioral Links to Cancer and Your Health. New York: Random House.

^5. Bandura, Alfred (1997). Self-Efficacy: The Exercise of Control. W.H. Freeman & Company.

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