I was taken by an article in The Wall Street Journal on March 3, 2012 on page D8 entitled Mind Over Mountain. It talks about a former U.S. ski team member, Kristen Ulmer, who teaches ordinary people to be better skiers through Zen, a western psychological technique called “voice dialogue,” yoga and Ms. Ulmer’s own experience. I don’t ski. In fact many years ago I was dating a man who loved to ski, as did his close friends who decided they should take me to Big Bear, CA to teach me how to ski. Let’s just say if reality TV had been invented at that time I would have been my own show and provided you all with many laughs. I tried the knees together to stop, but after gliding through and dragging with me a rope of flags to section off the children’s area hurling myself into the snow to stop seemed the lesser embarrassment. Anyway, it’s not the skiing that caused me to read this article but the whole Zen-Mind aspect. I do believe it all starts in our mind and our belief. The dialog we tell ourselves, the day dreams we see in our imagination become the reality of our living lives. Just some food for thought. I know all my ski-loving friends are looking for places to go right now, and if you’re up for something different you may want to read Mind Over Mountain or check out www.kristenulmer.com for her $525 pp ski camp.
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