Finally, something I can use!

There seems to be an expert for everything these days, and I'm guessing there are also enough people out there who feel they know nothing at all to make those people keep at it. If you want, you can pay someone to tell you how to cook, how to chew your food, how to treat your pets, how to make small talk in social situations, and even what Colors work best for you. One friend of mine recently "had her colors done" and now pretty much wears the same color all the time. Yes, she looks nice in that color, but now what's she supposed to do with all her other clothes?

This morning I received an email from a "wellness practitioner" inviting me to an "anti-stress workshop" on how making minor changes in how I move my body will make me feel calmer. The basic pitch was, "Body and mind are inseparable, so calming and integrating movement patterns is working with the neuroplastic brain and influences all we feel, sense, think and do." I would definitely cough up fifty bucks for that knowledge, but I'm pretty sure I'd have to stop reading the paper, watching TV, surfing the web and talking to other people for it to work.

Later, stopping in for my mail at the post office, a flyer pinned up on the bulletin board made me do a double take. It advertised a series of classes in something called Thai Self-Care, promising that in just six short weeks I could learn "the best and most doable self-care tools" for me as an individual, from an experienced guide! Naturally I wondered where that guide got all his or her experience, and maybe I'd rather learn from whoever taught them. And what about those tools that were the least doable -- could they still be done, and were they any better? For just $150, I can find out.