[RBS] JFS BULLETIN BOARD: December 23, 2012

[JFS]

*Welcome all...

These are exciting times!  Enjoy this entire edition of our Bulletin 
Board, and email / call with any questions or needs.  And of course, as 
always, we are ready to help you with caring and comfortable counseling, 
and therapies that work, B"H.


*****THE CARE AND FEEDING OF THE BRAIN:

Incredible yet this is true headline Science!  Try to imagine the impact 
of this achievement in Brain Neuroscience --

/Woman with quadriplegia feeds herself chocolate using 
***mind-controlled*** robot arm
Posted: 17 Dec 2012 12:09 AM PST
Reaching out to "high five" someone, grasping and moving objects of 
different shapes and sizes, feeding herself dark chocolate. For Jan 
Scheuermann and a team of researchers, accomplishing these seemingly 
ordinary tasks demonstrated for the first time that a person with 
longstanding quadriplegia can maneuver a mind-controlled, human-like 
robot arm in seven dimensions (7D) to consistently perform many of the 
natural and complex motions of everyday life./**/
/
Incredible, isn't it?  Please remember that we offer Neurotherapy based 
on the same technologies, right here at JFS!  The uses for such brain 
utilization range from mental and emotional disorders, to emotional self 
regulation, to building an attention span at school, and more.  Don't 
miss this rapidly progressing approach.  Learn first, to relax under 
pressure of daily life -- call us.
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*****SPOTLIGHT ON OUR CLINICAL TOPIC OF THE MONTH:

Internet.  Social Media.  Necessary to modern living, and yet few things 
can be as damaging if not utilized with vigilance and care!  Marriages 
are breaking up.  Children are growing up in a world of "friends" who 
they don't even know and who can be dangerous to the way you want them 
keeping safe.  And maybe the most widespread of all is the new 
time-management wrecking aspects of the internet us in our  lives.

Are we playing with our kids?
Are we enjoying quality talking time?
What about playing games from checkers to chess?
A reading hour?
A hike in the afternoon to clear the head after school?

Come on, face the very scary truth:  we are allowing a "guest" in our 
homes and lives to simply take priority and numb us to the real life 
family experiences we should be finding the time and energy for!

And it takes but a few experiences in "social media" to feel as if we 
simply must be on the "inside" of the (nebulous and non-existent) social 
circle.  So what do we do?  We check.  More and more often.  Facebook.  
Twitter.  Even Linkedin.  We learn whether we are popular?  We learn 
what we "should" be thinking in order to be cool?  We need this 
mechanism to fill a hole in our lives?  No, we do not.  But before very 
long, the addiction pattern sets in, strengthens, and then becomes our 
new definition of "normal".

But it is not normal.  It is damaging. 

CALL FOR HELP in breaking habits in your family, now.  We will be 
offering classes, support groups, and individual sessions to address 
this issue that so many families wrestle with.  Please don't overlook it.



*****OUR CLASSES AND GROUPS WITH CURRENT OPENINGS:

Ladies, please read this!  Join us!  We launched the current season of 
our Women's Group last week, and not all of you who signed up, 
attended.  Those who did, enjoyed a warm beginning to a very kind group, 
where we started to get to know each other, and dug right in with 
concern for each other's well being.  This group is going to be amazing 
-- already is -- so hit reply or give us a call if you want to come and 
be with us.  EVEN THOUGH IT IS DARK, AND COLD OUTSIDE, AND A BIT DREARY, 
PLEASE JOIN US, BECAUSE IN ANOTHER WEEK OR TWO WE WILL BE A VERY SPECIAL 
GROUP OF REGULAR LADIES WHO ARE LOOKING FOR CONTACT, CONNECTION, AND 
SUPPORT AT TIMES TOO!

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might fill them.  Each of us who works here is warm hearted and 
insightful, and we can do "repairs" to your situations, or we can do 
insight, or many other things you might benefit from.  And our tool belt 
never runs dry.

You deserve top level help and assistance.  B"H.

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