# Vered Manasse ## Posts - [Planning the future, by recognizing the past](https://veredm.com/blog/planning-the-future-by-recognizing-the-past/): The future doesn’t stand alone. An entire amazing map of past events navigates us to where we stand today and from where we are placed to dream about our future. - [Courage or Fear](https://veredm.com/blog/courage-or-fear/): There is a challenge linked to fear, as with any other unpleasant emotion - to let it be, to trust the moment, to trust that it will be over in time. To realize that if we allow it, the moment would continue and become an opportunity, a story to tell and an experience that eventually would make us stronger, or more emphatic and humane. - [Who Best Evaluates the Personal Development Professional?](https://veredm.com/blog/who-best-evaluates-the-personal-development-professional/): I think that the people who can truly evaluate the process of personal development are the clients themselves. When the client of a practitioner I taught tells me things like ‘these sessions will change my life’, I can only proudly smile and be happy that I have been able to play some part in the positive direction their life has taken. - [Teaching is more than just the lessons](https://veredm.com/blog/teaching-is-more-than-just-the-lessons/): Teaching is a valuable way of communicating, only with a whole group of people. Each of those people is unique and special and each needs to find their own ways for personal expression and learning. - [Finding Self Respect Through Acknowledging our Past](https://veredm.com/blog/finding-self-respect-through-acknowledging-our-past/): I think that in order to live a life of purpose we should find a way to respect any part of our life -our victories as well as our failings, our happy moments as well as our sad ones, our achievements next to the moments we disappointed ourselves. - [Why Wait](https://veredm.com/blog/why-wait/): She could create a state of being, where hours would pass into the void of nothingness. Her eyes would stare to a point just in front of her, slightly above her head; her shoulders would drop and her hands would sit helplessly somewhere on her body, as if looking for some comfort. - [Our senses remember](https://veredm.com/blog/our-senses-remember/): Let your senses go back to a certain situation from your past – can you remember a sound, a smell, a taste that associate with that memory? Can you remember the sensation of your skin at that moment? Think of the physical place that is connected to the event – where have you been? What did you see? What did you feel? - [To Listen Beyond The Obvious](https://veredm.com/blog/to-listen-beyond-the-obvious/): It doesn’t surprise us when we recognize music we heard at a young age and a chain of memories comes with it, but we often don’t realize how many details children can perceive and be influenced by only through listening. - [Shaking negative self esteem away](https://veredm.com/blog/shaking-negative-self-esteem-away/): Your self-esteem is only a set of beliefs. It is simply a combination of things you decided one day (for whatever reasons) to put upon yourself. Now that you’re an adult you can recognize the beliefs that work for you and those that work against you and when you see them, shake them away with the wind and build a new version of your self-esteem. - [Being Wrong is a Learned Concept](https://veredm.com/blog/being-wrong-is-a-learned-concept/): Self-image is something innate and it changes as we grow. Negative reinforcement sticks with us from a very young age. A child can adapt the way they look at themselves from a gesture, from a game, or from a behavior. - [Attentive Feet- Practical Application](https://veredm.com/blog/attentive-feet-practical-application/): Changing your life can start even in the simplest of places. Be curious of what you could sense through your feet. Think of your feet as another place from where you can sense the world and be curious to how situations change when your feet become attentive. - [What do our feet have to do with it?](https://veredm.com/blog/what-do-my-feet-have-to-do-with-it/): the biggest challenge is our ability to connect to who we are; to our own body, senses and sensations. That when we do that, we can connect to anything we wish – our heart, our past, our friends, family, surroundings and future. - [How to not live according to others' expectations](https://veredm.com/blog/how-to-not-live-according-to-others-expectations/): Think of something you care about, and imagine what ‘others’ would (or do) think about it. It doesn’t matter if what you believe about their opinion is true or not, it doesn’t matter if they have never told you so, but it’s only what you imagine they think - [What Others Might Think](https://veredm.com/blog/what-others-might-think/): Can we not care about others’ opinions without pushing them away from our life? Can we find the balance between listening, being inclusive, and wanting to belong, while at the same time having our own voice, opinion and path? - [Part 2: My Neck Remembers / Practical Application](https://veredm.com/blog/part-2-my-neck-remembers-practical-application/): Listen to your body. Don’t do anything with it; just hear its language. You might only pick up one message; you might pick up more. Let it speak to you. Be the listener you always wanted others to be, when you did your best to express something. - [Part 1: My Neck Remembers](https://veredm.com/blog/part-1-my-neck-remembers/): Many of my clients come to me because of physical discomfort they want to get rid of. From a bodywork perspective, their body is telling them that something has to change. My job is to look with them at what is it their body says and find ways to address it. - [Part 2: The Choice To Be Touched by the World Around Us / Practical Application](https://veredm.com/blog/part-2-the-choice-to-be-touched-by-the-world-around-us-practical-application/): When you push a certain emotion away, you most probably also push other emotions away (e.g. if we don’t want the potential pain of love, we would also not let love to touch us). Next time when you notice that you ignore what you feel, be attentive to the physical way that you do this... - [Part 1: The Choice To Be Touched by the World Around Us](https://veredm.com/blog/the-choice-to-be-touched-by-the-world-around-us/): As adults we often make conscious decisions; we are aware of our reasons for wanting certain things while rejecting others. As children our decisions happened in a different way. We coped with situations we encountered such as when the situation at home was too difficult, and we found our own ways to endure it. - [Part 2: The Hands That Lead The Way to Change/ Practical Application -](https://veredm.com/blog/practical-application-the-hands-that-lead-the-way-to-change/): Next time when you’re in any situation that stresses you even a little bit - notice your hands and their posture and then move them; move your fingers, move the position of your arms and notice how it feels. You might be surprised how small changes such as this can create an outstanding life change – a change in the freedom you have and the way you feel. - [Part 1: The Hands that Lead The Way To Change](https://veredm.com/uncategorized/the-hands-that-lead-the-way-to-change/): Some of us drifted away and hardly felt our own body or what was going on. Adults come to me for personal development and transformation begins with an agreement. An agreement to follow the experience to which their bodies take them into, even if it leads to a reawakening of emotional feelings that have been pushed aside in the past. - [How to use your past to reach your goals in the future](https://veredm.com/blog/using-past-to-reach-goals/): When I hear stories of clients I work with, I listen with my entire being- my ears and my hands work simultaneously so not only their words tell me about their wishes and what already happened, but also their body-language, their posture and their muscles. I realize once and again that there is so much more to every story. ## Pages - [Impressum](https://veredm.com/impressum/): Vered Manasse, address as above. - [Privacy Policy](https://veredm.com/privacy-policy/): This privacy policy explains which personal data is processed when you visit this website, for what purpose, on what legal basis, and what rights you have. - [Blog](https://veredm.com/blog/): The future doesn’t stand alone. - [Home](https://veredm.com/): Through bodywork I teach people to connect with their unique potential. - [Contact](https://veredm.com/contact/): The path to personal development is an individual one that depends on your personal goals and past experiences. - [Work With Vered](https://veredm.com/work-with-vered/): My work over the last 20+ years has been vast and varied in the area of personal development and healing from trauma. - [About Vered](https://veredm.com/about/): Each of us has a unique individual history. 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