I had been officially ill for over eight years
Pain was permanent, overwhelming
It was an entity that resided in every atom of my being
Pain was so diverse, so creative, so intense that it felt ridiculous.
As if I was living inside a very bad quality movie about an insane and evil force which enjoyed destroying me, each second.
I started to wonder why my biological support, my body, was rejecting me so forcefully.
It was a long process.
Although I was 40, I felt ancient ... not old.
I was dependent on other people to help me get dressed, to accompany me outside my place, to assist me in ... everything that is absolutely common like holding a glass to drink water.
I was under very strong, diverse, intense medication. It enlarged over the years.
Medication did not work, as it did not tackle pain. It did not return Humanity to my being.
My condition together with the medication, the continuous calls to ER, to hospital, to doctors. All these rendered me unsuitable.
Unsuitable to myself.
To my family.
To my profession.
To my own Life.
Unsuitable to others: how were other people suppose to act while facing someone that is decaying rapidly towards ... a strange unknown that is surely unpleasant, sad, gloomy?
I felt outside of my existence.
I had no control over it. No say whatsoever.
I was almost my own pain, but it made no sense.
On the other hand, I was not a person, as I had no life, no activity, no fun, no friends, no contact with others, no ability to create.
I was diagnosed with a whole bunch of stuff, fibromyalgia included.
Pain prevented me from everything
If somebody pressed slightly my body, I would feel horror and cry with pain
So, I found my Life Mentor: Pedro Proff.
When I started working with Proff under the Life Mentoring Method guidelines, I couldn't inhale deeply because it caused severe chest and back pain.
I hardly walked, needed the support of a walking stick.
I was taught by my Mentor how to get up from the stretcher by placing my arm on it folded at the elbow and then moving slowly and carefully upwards and to side. Why? Because I simply could not get up and out of the stretcher alone, at first.
Life Mentoring Method brought me back.
To Life.
To being with Dignity.
To building, creating, moving, breathing, feeling.
Feeling.
Being.
Believing.
It is a process that is very hard work. Very hard indeed.
You need to commit as much as your Life Mentor.
You need to trust that, what is being asked of you, is truly crucial.
The Life Mentor is always there to help you.
To work with you so that you will find the person you need to be. And you will become that being.
I had pain when my Mentor Proff did acupuncture or massage or assisted movement.
I felt pain when we talked about all that hurt in the past, in the present, in the future, within, out ...
A whole universe of difficult memories, experiences, thoughts, feelings, actions was addressed. Is addressed. Yes, it is hard!
The fact is that one day I was lying on the stretcher and I realized that my Mentor Proff had moved my leg upwards, folded it by the knee towards my abdomen. I felt no pain. That was the precise moment when I felt, I acknowledged, I knew that I was going to live.
I knew then that Life was real for me.
I have learnt through this time working with Life Mentoring Method, in particular with Pedro Proff, that BODY IS KEY.
Movement, training, posture, self-knowledge about your body are KEY to Life, to Health. So is nourishment, eating adequately, sleeping, breathing, walking.
The Method involves an approach that is WHOLE. In the sense that the Life Mentor and you are working in this path with whole truth, commitment, trust, belief. Also because you are seen as a whole by your mentor. You are not simply a "patient". You are not just someone with a condition. You are a person who has a background, a present, a future. A person who began in a family, in a society and therefore suffered impact from them. You have skills, abilities. You have difficulties and dislikes.
You are not one sided.
Your Life Mentor is also a person. A person who whole and is dedicated to help you.
In the Method, the Life Mentor is deeply aware that you can bring about all that seems impossible, unlikely, unreasonable ... because you can. You can work in order to exist as the best person in you. It is a matter of joint work which is thrilling, hard, continued and fun.
I am free from medication.
I train physically.
I am the person that was lost ... stronger in fact.
I am myself.
Life Mentoring Method permits me to run, practice yoga, work, create when just a year ago my reality was
"I need to have a glass a water but I can't move. I'll wait for someone to help"
"I need to make this call but I can't hold the phone"
"I want to draw but I can't sit and hold the pencil still"
"I feel like going out but it isn't reasonable ... I don't have balance, I might fall".
In Math the infinity is associated with the universe, with distances that separate stars, planets. The infinity is, in someway, unmeasurable and immense.
Well, the infinity is in yoU. It lies in yoUr ability to educate yourself
Life Mentoring Method is a choice by which you decide to educate your body, your emotions, your heart, your behavior.
Education that will remain in yoU as grounds for practice of yoUr Life with quality, joy, peace, integrity, fun.
My experience as a mentee of Pedro Proff is this.
Sofi Naik - 2014
Diagnosed with a deep and major depression at the age of twelve, Frances shares here the thought she had in that time until she was 15 years old and got better.more in: BOOK
My experience as a mentee of Pedro Proff is this
Frances W. Edward - 2014
Writing this document is probably the most difficult thing I ever done after the beginning of being a Life Mentor Method disciple. Not because it’s hard to write, but just because it’s hard to remember who I was before and how it was possible to have a closed view of life.
So talking about the method: hard, hard and even more hard, BUT, 101% true and capable of give U/us a great and better new life. And don’t ever matter what your problem and/or objective is/are... Just let it flow and things will happen in a way that U don’t even think that it was possible, it just showed me that is possible to have the control of my life in every kind of situations that life postponed us.
So it’s need a lot of work. Hard work. Think how hard it is? Wrong! It’s even harder.
Want to be committed? Ok, think about it. Did U think about it? Is need more and more commitment.
Oh trust is the next step. Do you trust? Really? Need to trust in 101% in your mentor. Because yes. Because we knows. Because we has 101% time for you.
My case? Well I thought that it only was some extra hipper huge case of nervous tics. Did it was just that? Well, no. Beside of those I used to can’t make my own decision, having control of my life without trying to please everyone around and the biggest of them all was that I needed to have a excuse to make everything and to have my parents’ permission (still saying that I love them a lot, but parents in some cases can be the thing that is kind of retard pad your life). Nowadays I’m actually better from my nervous tics, made the decision of making my trip around Europe (actually 4 cities are done), don’t look for permissions or excuses to make something and in 9 months leaving to London. So it worked? HELL YES!!
So the key is: 101%. Always. Everywhere. Of everything. 101%.
P.S. I got my own mentor called Proff Pedro Escobar but I did 101% of what is needed. And now? I’m working 103% in everything. Keep it focus, 101% and it works. Always trust, always believe in yourself!
My experience as a mentee of Pedro Proff is this
My experience as a mentee of Pedro Proff is this
Pepe C. - 2014
