Attraction, not Promotion
From now on, ND will be a program of Attraction, not Promotion. I will no longer ‘promote’ or ‘sell’ our ND class to anyone. What I WILL promote, however, is FEELINGS, and Emotions, and Love, and Joy, and sadness, and anger, and compassion and Freedom of the heart and mind. Those I’m gonna push, hard. [...]
Emotional Freedom!
Are you free, emotionally? Having trouble in your relationships because you just can’t communicate what your heart wants to say? Know you have issues inside of you that you just can’t resolve by yourself? Are you Angry much of the time? Do you feel Depressed? Does your past still have a hold on you, emotionally? [...]
Heal your Past
Hi. We just did another one of our amazingly powerful ND classes again this weekend. Been doing them for 20 years now (wow!) and we’re getting pretty good at teaching them. It still floors me how much change we can make in people’s lives — release their pent-up feelings, change their beliefs about themselves and [...]
Don’t THINK Away Your Feelings!
“When emotions are managed by the heart, they heighten your awareness of the world around you and add sparkle to life. The result is new intelligence and a new view of life.” – Doc Childre and Howard Martin "Learning to be aware of feelings, how they arise and how to use them creatively so they [...]
New Directions Can Help you Heal!
As you may know, this site was started to express some of the many powerful teachings and lessons we learned while teaching our incredibly intensive, feelings-based workshops over the last 20 years. New Directions is the most challenging, life-changing, emotion-expressing, pain-healing, love-generating workshop I’ve ever seen or heard of. Here’s an unsolicited testimonial sent to [...]
Where people go 2GetHelp!
Are you sick and tired of living in pain?Is your past haunting your present?Do you feel out-of-control, emotionally? Problem: You want to feel better about yourself, your past, your family and your life. Solution:We help people who are stuck in their feelings (like anger or sadness or fear), whose feelings are "shut down", who are [...]
What We are About
Everyone has their ‘angle’ for how to become healthy and wealthy and wise. Well, here’s our niche. We are about Feelings. We are about People. We are about Love, and Acceptance, and Safety. We are about Caring, and Sharing, and Getting Along. We are about Giving, and Receiving, in equal measures. We are about Healing [...]
Creating the Self
"The self is not something that one finds. It is something that one creates." – Thomas Szasz (1920-) American Psychiatrist We’re about Feeling — and part of Feeling is Feeling GOOD!- We laugh, a lot.- We dance, a lot.- We hug, a lot. it’s fun. it’s Aliveness, it’s freedom from the negativityand the Shouldsand the [...]
Feel Better
Want to Feel better?- are you feeling down, or angry, or scared all the time? Want to Feel more?- do your feelings seem far away or self-contained in a little box? Want to actually get in-touch with your Feelings?- are you Clueless when it comes to managing your feelings and emotions? We can help. In [...]
Statement of Direction
New Directions Workshop’sSTATEMENT OF DIRECTION——————————————–I am through being a Victim.And finished blaming myself, and others. NOW WHAT?!? Even though I am Afraid, I am turning my Anger into Love, Sadness to Joy,and Depression into Personal Power. Now I choose to feel ALIVE!!
We Sell Feelings
We are selling Feelings, period. We are spreading the gospel, the truth, the way and the light. We are selling Life! Feelings = Life.Passion.Love.Joy.Peace.Contentment.Safety.Compassion. All of it. That’s my point…There really IS nothing more important to focus on. The people’s lives that were trashed and drowned and blown away… what do they have left? Their [...]
Love and Support
"Matt, you can use my wording any time.I would also like to say that I have never in my life experienced the type of love and support that is developed in such a short period of time, until I attended a ND weekend. I have been practicing setting boundaries without getting out of control angry.Since [...]
No Regrets
"Brighter is possibly the best word… In the brief respite I’m enjoying, I’m feeling more secure about me… I’ve separated myself from a few external judgments, let go of a few self imposed ones… released some emotions that I had stored specifically for use in being supportive of my partner (i.e., matching)… seeing others’ expectations [...]
What People Say about ND (continued…)
What I Learned at New Directions by Shannon, 28, still single, very painful childhood, works for her mom (yikes), incredibly low self-esteem borrowed money for a plane ticket from Illinois to take the July class. Now she wants to move here! I know I will be adding more items to this list because I keep [...]
praise for mcp
Love Notes from our ND class – in Fresno, CA 5/15/05 "YOU R AWESOME!"- John "Matt, You are such a treasure. I am soooo thrilled that you’re in my life.with love always."- Sharon "Matt,You continue to help me grow. The gift of having you (and Paula and New Directions) in my life is more valued [...]
Feelings Revolution Calls
Hmmm… what to talk about on the next Feelings Revolution call… So far, we’ve discussed: Turning Anger into Love Benefits of being "In Touch" with your Feelings Being Fully Expressed Self-Processing: Getting to the Heart of the Matter … and others. (I just realized that when I am the most believable, is when I speak [...]
Understand your Feelings, Control your Life!
The key to Happiness is to learn about your FEELINGS "If you know what you feel, you’ll know who you are!"- Doc Downing, PhD, LFMT We teach a weekend intensive called New Directions. Been teaching it now for over 18 years. 4 states, hundreds of classes, thousands of happy(er) graduates. New Directions changes lives. I [...]
The Feelings Revolution
Join the Feelings Revolution you’ve heard so much about! You’ll get access to the Feelings Revolution Member Phone Calls and truck loads of inspiration to feel as BIG as you’ve always wanted to… – every Wednesday at 7pm Pacific (Calif.-time). Call in and share or just listen in. It’ll help you feel better about who [...]
A Feeling of Hope
10 of the hugest benefits people get from the ND weekend workshop. a new understanding and appreciation for: How powerful their feelings are/can be The fact that everyone has them, and that’s where we Connect with others. The newly-found sense of Personal Power, and Confidence, and Pride. The sense that I AM in control of [...]
Here we go…
Well, I have class again this weekend. I’m leaving at 5am to drive to Berkeley for a meeting at 8, then to Sacramento for a meeting at 11:30, then I’m throwing a reunion party at 6. On Friday, play racquetball at 5am, to see a customer, then to Fresno by 5 to setup the room [...]
Love Notes
(unsolicited love notes during New Directions Workshop, Nov. 2004 – Wow, so nice!) Matt-I never stop being amazed. This process is so good. I’m grateful for your love of and determination to this class, and your own personal progress.Love, Shauna — Matt-Thanks for hard-assing me! This class sooo much fun!L.J. — Matt-It was great being [...]
I just got fired — Yahoo!
I JUST GOT FIRED as a Coach, and I am SOOOOO EXCITED ABOUT IT!!! Why? My CLIENT DOESN’T NEED ME ANYMORE!!! YAHOO!!!!! I have Succeeded, and She has Succeeded! We both won. We did it. Now, she can say "I Feel." and better yet, "I FEEL [...]
Check it Out!
The New Directions weekend is a real life-changer (and a darned good deal, too). For $299, you get the weekend, Doc’s awesome book “Taking Control of Your Life”, a long weekend of incredibly intensive growth, a cool celebration graduation and after-class follow-up (by yours truly)– plus, once a graduate, always a friend so coming back [...]
ND on the Air
How about we make the NDW weekend workshop into a show on TV. A show where people watch us processing people! Taking them thru the Statement. Helping them Break-thru their Feelings! We’ll film a regular class, but we’ll focus on a couple of people each episode. Apply some get 15-minute phone interview with Matt if [...]
“Constructively deal with my life issues”
“Since taking the workshop I have been able to really take a look at myself and understand how certain events that happened to me in my childhood. adolescent and adulthood years thwarted my growth as a mother, wife, and friend. Now I have learned and am still learning how to constructively deal with my life [...]
LEARN!
Learn to Love again. Learn to Laugh again. Learn to Feel again. Take Control of your Feelings & Emotions at the New Directions Weekend Workshop! http://www.NewDirectionsWorkshop.com
Are You Mentor Material?
Are You Mentor Material? – by Patti Sarr, teacher, writer, thinker Over the years, I have come to realize that having a great mentor can truly have a positive impact on my life—not only as a busy mom and career woman, but as an individual seeking to expand emotionally and spiritually. Personally, many of the [...]
Let’s Join Forces!
Hire me to stand beside you To support you To encourage you To boost you up and cheer for you! To stand beside you when you weep. To be that loving voice you need now and then. Feeling stuck? Not reaching your potential>? Repeating unsuccessful patterns? Not living the life you want to live? As [...]
About Matt Perelstein
Matt Perelstein combines a unique blend of “attitude, with heart”. He’s all about getting results, making your life look, and more importantly Feel, the way you want it to. It’s a tricky balance between selfishness and selflessness (taking vs. giving), but it can be done… and it works. If you can truly learn to “take [...]
Mental Illness Widespread
GLOBAL STUDY FINDS MENTAL ILLNESS WIDESPREAD Mental illnesses are common and under-treated in many developed and developing countries, with the highest rate found in the United States (26.4 of people!), according to a study. The most common ailments everywhere except Ukraine were anxiety disorders, which include panic attacks, phobias and post-traumatic stress disorder. (Wow. All [...]
Before and After
"How it has become" (before ND) forever ambiguousnever tryingnowhere flyingdeath becoming time spyinglove defyingcaught in a trapin a recursive miserywithout a way out remembering the pastliving in a memoryforegoing the futurefor moments that don’t last finding a song to passmaybe a drink to lastwithout a hope or desiretrying to be an animalfighting care and…fuck it [...]
Support Group – Online
Announcing – the New Directions / 2GetHelp Support Group Meeting – Mondays at 7:30pm (California time). … at the allotted time, just make sure your computer is online, click the link below and you’ll be in with the rest of us. http://groups.msn.com/2GetHelp/chat.msnw We’d love for you to join us. We will have lively, upbeat conversations. [...]
New Directions Breakthrough Workshop
Learn to Trust and Love again (even if you’ve been burned) Find Answers to: Why Do I Keep Doing This? Understand Yourself and Others Take control of your Anger, Guilt and Depression Heal your Past and Shape Your Future Make your life FEEL ALIVE! Yes, in one short weekend, for one low price, you can [...]
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New Directions Breakthrough Workshop “Let’s Get to the Heart of the Problem.”
Self-Processing
Ever thought “man, I hate it when I do that… I wonder why I do that?” Wouldn’t it be cool to figure out WHY we do what we do? To get to the root of our problems, issues and stupid behaviors? If we can get to the ROOT of ourselves, we can have amazing control [...]
Definitions
Life: Understand it, Own it, LOVE it! Feelings: Understand ‘em, Accept ‘em, Express ‘em appropriately Emotions: You take control of them, or they will take control of you New Directions: Know yourself, Understand people, Take control of your Life – Once a graduate, forever a friend.
MORE INFO on Feelings and Emotions
MORE INFO I just came across a wonderful psychotherapist, Dr. Claude Steiner, who has done much work in Emotional Literacy. We call it Emotional Intelligence, but it’s VERY much the same concepts that we teach at the New Directions Weekend Workshop. At minimum, please read this short, amusing children’s story, which makes a VERY good [...]
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