Finding Judy Dench Longevity

Who didn't love Judy Garland, but did the wicked witch of the east catch up with her in the end? And who doesn't love the metered out career of Judy Dench, with her fab attitude to life along with the 'silly' charm offensive she delivers during interviews?

What spurred you into wearing your own ruby slippers? I wonder if your health was a factor, or some-such. I ask because finding an outlet for creative expression - during a challenging childhood - is one route to masking hyper-vigilance. My family's full of highly sensitive creatives | performers where I'm all too familiar with the inherent complexities and presenting health issues that sit alongside,

I was a 'poorly' child, my younger brother was born with a raft of conditions, it was the label he got lobbed at him from the get-go where I remember being a wee kid watching him in a hospital bed - aged 6-mths - bandaged everywhere except his head. And the boy in the next bed - much older and longer - was similar with his head covered, and when I watched The Invisible Man I tried to work out the link.

Illness played a big role in our little family, my mum grew up in a hospital bed for around 10-years. She had a spinal problem, was laid flat on her back for years - 'they' said she'd never walk - and then she did.

I guess on the back of that I'd always been aware of people making a miraculous recovery. Yet we were sickly kids, kept back in our education because of it. But parts of me now know that some of it was psycho-somatic, and sometimes we played up on her over-protectiveness as kids do when they see an opening.

Are we too soft on ourselves when it comes to illness? My experience and continuing into health coach training qualifies me to judge in one important area - even though I'm not a medic - where mindset is crucial to healing. Like many of us I'm wary of China in all sorts of ways but traditionally Chinese doctors were rewarded for keeping people well, which now more than ever feels like what's needed in getting people to be more curious and do their own due diligence once they're diagnosed.

Some of the information I've trained in and the changes I've supported clients through bears this out. But it's not funded by the NHS and as wonderful it is as a national institution it's getting left behind when it insists on staying with a one-dimensional one-size-fits-all model for health. I'm certain it'll change in time and if nothing else the economics may well be the carrot that encourages the necessary shifts into a modernised lifestyle prescription model that better understands the correlation between stress and chronic health issues.

How often have you been to the doc, been given a much welcome - in terms of accuracy - diagnosis only to have to ask what else you can do yourself? It's rarely forthcoming unless you're lucky enough to get a medic - often from another continent - who sees illness differently, urging you to do more x,y,z. However, it is changing, but all too slowly, as new generations of doctors get trained to consciously treat the patient as a person rather than a hitherto anatomical mechanism.

I was giving a demo at a health conference and the person who came up to help me demonstrate the Advanced Clearing Energetics methodology (it's an NLP based process) was a GP who also teaches first year medical students.

I was delighted to learn she offers them a range of processes including what she phrases to them as - something different - aka EFT Tapping which many of her students show interest in...

These are difficult topics, but we do have to do more for ourselves because the current system is bulging at the rafters with chronic health issues where a repeat prescription serves as a mere sticking plaster, for what is essentially a stress-based issue that will grow into acquiring more symptoms as we age if we leave it to others to decide for us, what our body needs.

Treating your body with Judy Dench longevity, rather than a Judy Garland (much as we loved her) wonkiness is key to keeping up your stamina and maintaining your energies. There's no point in running on empty, giving all your energy to your work and having nothing left for you, I mean seriously does anyone really want to be afflicted by the wicked witch of the east?

as a performer you need to be on top of your game, it's a given 

So which Judy are you channeling? There's so much you can do these days to stay the course it simply starts by clicking your ruby slippers, dink!

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Jane <3