foofighter said:
Me and Starlight are preparing to set up a retreat focusing on stress relief in a holistic sense. We want to cover diet, the breathing (although we can't call it EE or even "pipe-breathing" for legal reasons), and self-hypnosis.
What do you mean by "the breathing", all the program, parts of it combined with others, what? The POTS is also copyrighted, by the way.
I think you are not thinking straight and are jumping into this without enough knowledge, but I hope you can prove me wrong. Teaching EE (whether you call it that or not) is not to be taken lightly. Without the proper training you are up for disappointments, and you could put some people in danger.
How long have you been doing the program for? What are the benefits that you have noticed in your life? If you had been sharing more about it on the forum, that would be one thing, but since that isn't the case as far as I know, I would really try to discourage from teaching "the breathing". We don't wish our program to have anything to do with training that hasn't been approved.
Practicing the program in group is totally different from practicing at home with your wife. So seriously, do you really want to do it? I would NOT recommend your retreat to anybody if I knew that that's what you are doing.
Obviously, I don't think you are doing this with "evil intentions", or else you wouldn't have brought it up here. But rather, with lots of ignorance, which can be more dangerous. The fact that you are seriously thinking of doing this retreat shows to me that you have no business doing it!
Your diet plan, from what you posted, sounds so poor and lacking in scientific background that I would not recommend either that you even think of teaching about diet! Obviously, from your list, you are not on a really good diet yourselves. So what can you possibly teach to others?
Starlight said:
This is going to be our trial group and you are right, it's more that we don't want to overwhelm and shock them. As it is, I think including milk and dairy products to be the top 5 worst food will be quite controversial considering the "conventional view" that milk is good
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Thank you for your suggestion to include bone broth and organ meats as that is something that is consumed regularly here.
Thanks EGVG for your suggestion... sad to say we can't include Pork meat for religious reasons and sensitivity. :(
I think we will gather all the suggestions and do a small poll with them!
Wish us luck! FWIW, this is one of our little steps in creating awareness and to reach out to more people!
From that post, it seems that your goal is far from making "little steps in creating awareness", but rather, that your intention is to feed people's illusions and lies to the self, with a lot of self-calming (maybe making money too, dunno). Oh yes, that would sell and "work well", but I cannot fathom why you would even think that this approach is in the slightest colinear with our work here. It would only feed your ego.
I hope you think about it. I cannot wish you luck, but rather insist on you taking time to really think about your intentions, and about other people's wellbeing. If you don't, then I hope that your students don't get too hurt by this "retreat".
It is a different thing to give a talk about psychopathy,
In Sheeps Clothing, etc. In retreats like the one you are planning, you have a HUGE responsibility towards others. They will be in a vulnerable and very susceptible state. And you think you can just go ahead and "create awareness" with this load of nonsense?