Therese Kravetz

Free Your Voice: Live and Learn Beyond Anxiety


A Recommendation and a Poem

“You don’t have to go out into the world and hunt down a great life. That is the lie. All you need to do is maintain your center and a great life will gravitate to you.” – JEN WARD I love this quote. It’s funny because I hunted down a great life most of my life. And it’s tiring and never fulfills. Because it’s off our center. The right technique is really to learn to listen to your center. I have benefited greatly from the SFT Tapping of Jen Ward. This technique shows you how to rip off layers which have interfered with getting to your center. Any of her books have these techniques, and “Enlightenment Unveiled: Expound into Empowerment” and “Emerging from the Mist:
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Transformation Is Not All in Our Heads

In the book Smart Moves: Why Learning Is Not All in Your Head, neurophysiologist Carla Hannaford writes, “Integrated movement accommodates all learning styles, enhances myelination between the two hemispheres and balances the electrical energy and integrative processing across the whole brain.” She explains that movement “is now understood to be essential to learning, creative thought, high level formal reasoning, and our ability to understand.”1 I’ve seen this whenever my students bypass cultural beliefs or vocal patterns through purposeful movement in our play rehearsals. They get both their bodies and voices involved, especially in an atmosphere of creative play. They are suddenly able to short-circuit old patterns such as “it’s not safe to be loud” or “when I talk, I cannot look a person in the
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To Putter Is to Play Is to Create

Many years ago, I had two roommates in a row house in Cambridge, MA. One of them used to joke she needed time during her weekend to “putter.” She used to joke that puttering was a lost art. She lost track of time when she puttered, she uncovered new ways to organize her room, the kitchen or she would stumble upon a new invention in her cooking. What can we find, discover, learn when we putter and play without a goal? I recently saw a dance instructor who taught himself to dance. He simply tapped into something that he knew innately and began to move. He seemed to learn from the inside out. He danced with a partner at the end of his talk and
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UPGRADES

There are upgrades happening now on the planet. There’s an upgrade to individuals and to countries and to the expectation of truth. I am seeing this upgrade in friends and family. I see family members who recover from illness and choose to surrender to the lessons instead of getting bitter. In one night of news TV, I saw drug companies who sold deadly pharmaceuticals get prosecuted. I saw a woman move her family to Kenya to save elephants by working with local officials and Massai. I saw Russians defending freedom of speech and democracy despite death threats from Putin. I saw story after story of people dedicating their lives to truth, love, justice. I see moments of authenticity now on shows like America’s Got Talent
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Exponential Teaching and Learning:

I wrote about overcoming anxiety in my book, “Why Zarmina Sings” based on my experiences as a teacher. I saw how my students and I could bypass fight or flight through creative play, movement, mindfulness, safety and more. I learned that there are ways to make learning easier and accelerate learning and I outline these in my 18 chapters. Now I wonder if there is a way to teach without the stress of “learning.” What if we could? What if instead of uploading information and experiences into a storage of short and long term memory, we could simply know things? We have been playing it small as humans and the human brain. Scientists confirm this by telling us we use only 3-10% of our brains.
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