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Your Health Plan for 2013?

from the BBC!

5BX & XBX and FPlan - with caution

Royal Canadian Air Force 5BX exercise  and SBX

Remember, these pamphlets are old and thus 'old school'. Some elements maybe considered hazardous to some individuals - in particular would be the 'running on the spot' item.  Also, it is unwise to skip levels.  Start at the lowest level - even if you are not a seven year old!

And, more is available - but not necessarily recommended from the US NAVY or another military program.

Another 'oldie but possibly goodie':

  FPLAN

F-plan from wiki.

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What do they do then ?

Despite the grandiosity of all this philosophy, the work  is fairly straightforward. Certainly there should be no mystique and anything is open to questioning. Basically, our exploration will be based on talking together through whatever means of communication - but there are other experts and modalities we can draw on if they are useful to you. We should stress the importance of your continually evaluating what is happening for you in this work. Although we are dealing with life issues, it is not the aim to make this process a life-long practice. Indeed, only in exceptional circumstances would we expect to continue longer than 12 months in regular meetings. Of course, this does not preclude clients from returning in the future if they feel the need to do so.

Practicalities 

There will be an initial introduction before sessions begin . This may be offered as 'no fee'.  You will be encouraged to ask questions on anything and everything that you feel is pertinent to your process.  After some agreement is reached on what is going to work for you, 

  

As stated elsewhere, fees are determined by client and respondant during the initial introduction.  There is room for negotiation. The discussion of fees is not an issue of worth but a necessary part of placing therapy in the context of the whole of a person's lived experience.

Existential Phenomenology allows for the client to be self-directed.  The purpose of the consultant is to present new ways of looking at old and present issues, whilst at the same time offering a variety of techniques and insights that facilitate self awareness and intentionality.

Existential therapists or consult services, as a group, have not identified themselves with a distinct clinical procedure, rather the movement has provided a growing pool of concepts and techniques which have been effective in helping ordinary people who do not self-define as in need of counseling, to recognize and fulfill their highest potential. In this process encounter has been noted as playing an important role. This encounter may be brief or enduring, may take place within an exploring professional relationship as well as outside of it. The result: a dramatic transformation of personality in which the moderator or facilitator operates as a catalytic influence rather than as a model with whom the person identifies or on whom transference is established .

An existential approach to life exploration or therapy is appropriate with clients who confront some boundary situation (i.e.., a confrontation with death, the facing of some irreversible decision, a sudden thrust into isolation, the move from childhood to adolescence). The desire to work with existential crisis will depend on the attitudes and perceptivity of the facilitator as well as the clients willingness to deal on the level of the "givens" of existence. 

But there does not have to be a crisis for existential movement to take place.  It is enough that we are born ..... we live ...... and then we face the unknowing of Death to provoke enquiry into the manner of our existence!

We are also Lacanian.  This means that we look at the language as well as the issues.  The words that we use often mirror the real meaning in ways that are more enlightening than any theory.  The individual continues to translate his/her lived experience into a language-based process. 

This language is what often separates us from what is the real underlying meaning of our existence, whilst (at the same time) revealing a felt presence, shared by all participants of the encounter - some unspoken, shared sense of reality, which lies just beyond verbalization. In our discussion of real self or experience we are able to admit  Lacan's view  that suggests that the self is not "...a singular, coherent, and bounded entity..." but is seen as "...a loose net of contextual, contradictory, and shifting identifications..." enveloping the absence of a discreet core (Loewenstein, 1994)This understand of self, as experienced in the world, facilitates true actualization ----- the facilitation of possibility into probability, and the vision into the real.  True actualization becomes possible.-- And we a realists!  We live in a world where every decision matters .... a world of reciprocal determinism.  It is the hope that each choice that we make in our life makes the big decisions both self and workable. That we exercise that right and obligation to choose in a manner that speaks to community rather than selfish individualism.  That we remain true to ourselves - in validation rather than affirmation of our self discovery.  Modalities are dependent on what is necessary to facilitate what the client feels is wanted to get the work done.  Implicit in the notion of "approach" is the active participation of the client and ourselves in the work within the healing and accepting relationship, in contrast to the expert who attempts to remain objective and outside the relationship, often imposing external explanations and answers. 
When necessary, and as directed by the work, clients will be encouraged to seek and work with appropriate professionals But these issues are self evident within the process of dialog.
The lack of definitive and authoritarian answers  is another of those existential dilemmas -- that we seek the security of meaning and certainty even where it does not exist. The phenomenological approach further stresses awareness of the client as he or she is rather than explaining behavior exclusively in terms of external labels whether medical, psychological , philosophical  or social. This is a recognition of the "infinity" of the human person.

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The Doctors Dilemma 2012

Excerpts from:

THE DOCTOR'S DILEMMA: PREFACE ON DOCTORS

BERNARD SHAW (1909)

It is not the fault of our doctors that the medical service of the community, as at present provided for, is a murderous absurdity. That any sane nation, having observed that you could provide for the supply of bread by giving bakers a pecuniary interest in baking for you, should go on to give a surgeon a pecuniary interest in cutting off your leg, is enough to make one despair of political humanity. But that is precisely what we have done. And the more appalling the mutilation, the more the mutilator is paid. He who corrects the ingrowing toe-nail receives a few shillings: he who cuts your inside out receives hundreds of guineas, except when he does it to a poor person for practice……….

………..Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal. What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say "I know" instead of "I am learning” and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for scepticism and activity...……

………...Lest this should seem too rhetorical a conclusion for our professional men of science, who are mostly trained not to believe anything unless it is worded in the jargon of those writers who, because they never really understand what they are trying to say, cannot find familiar words for it, and are therefore compelled to invent a new language of nonsense for every book they write, let me sum up my conclusions as dryly as is consistent with accurate thought and live conviction.

1. Nothing is more dangerous than a poor doctor: not even a poor employer or a poor landlord.

2. Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.

3. Remember that an illness is a misdemeanor; and treat the doctor as an accessory unless he notifies every case to the Public Health authority.

4. Treat every death as a possible and under our present system a probable murder, by making it the subject of a reasonably conducted inquest; and execute the doctor, if necessary, as a doctor, by striking him off the register.

5. Make up your mind how many doctors the community needs to keep it well. Do not register more or less than this number; and let registration constitute the doctor a civil servant with a dignified living wage paid out of public funds.

6. Municipalize Harley Street.

7. Treat the private operator exactly as you would treat a private executioner.

8. Treat persons who profess to be able to cure disease as you treat fortune tellers.

9. Keep the public carefully informed, by special statistics and announcements of individual cases, of all illnesses of doctors or in their families.

10. Make it compulsory for a doctor using a brass plate to have inscribed on it, in addition to the letters indicating his qualifications, the words "Remember that I too am mortal."

11. In legislation and social organization, proceed on the principle that invalids, meaning persons who cannot keep themselves alive by their own activities, cannot, beyond reason, expect to be kept alive by the activity of others. There is a point at which the most energetic policeman or doctor, when called upon to deal with an apparently drowned person, gives up artificial respiration, although it is never possible to declare with certainty, at any point short of decomposition, that another five minutes of the exercise would not effect resuscitation. The theory that every individual alive is of infinite value is legislatively impracticable. No doubt the higher the life we secure to the individual by wise social organization, the greater his value is to the community, and the more pains we shall take to pull him through any temporary danger or disablement. But the man who costs more than he is worth is doomed by sound hygiene as inexorably as by sound economics.

12. Do not try to live for ever. You will not succeed.

13. Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; and do not outlive yourself.

14. Take the utmost care to get well born and well brought up. This means that your mother must have a good doctor. Be careful to go to a school where there is what they call a school clinic, where your nutrition and teeth and eyesight and other matters of importance to you will be attended to. Be particularly careful to have all this done at the expense of the nation, as otherwise it will not be done at all, the chances being about forty to one against your being able to pay for it directly yourself, even if you know how to set about it. Otherwise you will be what most people are at present: an unsound citizen of an unsound nation, without sense enough to be ashamed or unhappy about it.

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