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Rotary Club of AltadenaAugust 10, 2017OFF THE ROTARY WHEELAN AWARD-WINNING NEWSLETTERDialingInThis WeekCarmela TunziStress & PainRelief SpecialistGuest Program Host:Jacque ForemanCarmela Tunzi, owner of MindFlow Hypnosis, hasbeen helping clientsand students interested in changingdifferent areas oftheir lives since 2011. She helps clientsrelieve overwhelming stress, lose ormanage weight, quit smoking, and overcome fears and mental blocks. Carmelaalso leads classes and support groups tofacilitate lasting change in a communityatmosphere.Carmela is a life-long entrepreneurwith a natural gift for working with people, making her an expert in communication. She positively impacts everyonearound her and is highly sought after forher intuitive healing abilities.Her solutions direct her clients to theirhighest wellness and needs. Because ofthis superior solution-oriented approach,she has been granted years of success inhealing with positive outcomes.During her presentation, CarmelaPlease turn to This Week p. 3By Steve Kerekes,PresidentImmune to Reality?Upon my back, to defend my belly;Upon my wit, to defend my wiles;Upon my secrecy, to defend mine honesty;My mask, to defend my beauty.Shakespeare,Troilus and Cressida,Act I, Scene 2. This week’s selection is taken fromDaniel Gilbert’s book, Stumbling onHappiness (Knopf Doubleday PublishingGroup. Kindle Edition, pps. 197-199 and201-204) It discusses what triggers ourpsychological immune system to protectour happiness, and how that immunesystem influences happiness. This selection also has several concepts applicableto Rotary. The Intensity Triggerivilized people have learned the hardway that a handful of iniquitousindividuals can often cause moredeath and destruction than an invadingarmy. If an enemy were to launch hundredsof airplanes and missiles against the UnitedStates, the odds are that none would reachits target because an offensive strike ofthat magnitude would trigger America’sCdefensive systems, which are presumablyadequate to quash the threat. On the otherhand, were an enemy to launch sevenguys with baggy pants and baseball caps,those men might well reach their targetsand detonate bombs, release toxins, orfly hijacked airplanes into tall buildings.Terrorism is a strategy based on the ideathat the best offense is the one that failsto trigger the best defense, and small-scaleincursions are less likely to set off the alarmbells than are large-scale assaults. Althoughit is possible to design a defensive systemthat counters even the smallest threat (e.g.,electrified borders, a travel ban, electronicsurveillance, random searches), such systems are extraordinarily costly, in terms ofboth the resources required to run them andthe number of false alarms they produce.A system like that would be an exercise inoverkill. To be effective, a defensive systemPlease turn to Dialing p. 4Greeter of the WeekAugust 10Craig CoxAugust 17Steve CunninghamAugust 24Roger Fennell
Program ReviewThe Well-Adjusted Lifeof Tom SurnockNew memb e r To mSurnock provided some personalhistory and how itinfluenced his decision to pursue chiropractic. At 30 years of age, Tom is the youngestSparks is published 48 weeks a year and is theofficial publication of the Rotary Club of Altadena.The deadline for submission of articles is Friday at6p to current editor email, fax, or delivery.Rotary Club of Altadena - #7183Chartered: February 14, 1949P.O. Box 414, Altadena, CA 91003www.altadenarotary.comMeets: Thursday, 12:10pAltadena Town & Country Club2290 Country Club Drive Altadena, CA626-794-7163Rotary Int. Pres. Ian H.S. RiseleyDist 5300 Gov. . Raghada KhouryOfficersSteve Kerekes, Pres. .Bus. 626-796-5000Sarah O’Brien, Pres. Elec. .Bus. 310-902-6547Charlie Wilson, V. Pres. .Bus. 626-351-8815Mark Mariscal, Sec. . Bus. 323-816-6713Mike Noll, Trea. .Bus. 626-683-0515DirectorsMindy Kittay Anthony HillCharlie Wilson Dennis MehringerJames Gorton Sarah O’Brien Marc MariscalChairmenSarah O’Brien . AdministrationDavid Smith . FoundationSteve Cunningham .Asst. FoundationCraig Cox.MembershipJacque Foreman . Public AwarenessJacque Foreman .Acting PublicityJacque Foreman .Sparks/WebsiteMike Zoeller .Club ProjectsCraig Cox .CommunityDoug Colliflower .Asst. CommunityJohn Frykenberg .InternationalTony Hill . Youth Contests/AwardsMike Zoeller .Youth ProjectsRay Carlson .VocationalEditor, Design & Typesetting . Foreman GraphicsPhotography.Jacque Foreman2member of the club. He graduated in 2014and works with Dr. Budnicich at his Pasadena office. He was raised by grandparents(his mother was 18 when he was born) andhas 4 siblings. He cares for his 2-year olddaughter.He was introduced to the benefits of chiropractic as a kid. As a teenager, he crackedhis 5th lumbar vertebrae when he was lifting350 pounds (!). His doctor recommendedspinal fusion. This meant reduced range ofmotion, and he decided against it.AugustMembership - New Club DevelopmentProgram Chair, Tom McCurryAugust 10 - Carmela Tunzi, Guest ProgramChair, Jacque ForemanAugust 17 - To be AnnouncedAugust 24 - To be AnnouncedAugust 31 - To be AnnouncedSeptemberInstead he pursued a remedy throughchiropractic in spite of the fact that it tookhim 4 doctors before he found one thatwas able to give him the help he wantedand needed.Most patients come in to see Tom withlow back or neck pain but typically haveother problems that need to be addressedas well. Pain is usually a last symptom.Surnock believes in specificity — that forany misalignment there is a specific pushvector that will remedy the situation. Forthis reason he uses X-rays to make sure hecan see the problem and apply the righttreatment. Typically there is an area of thebody that has moved backwards. Whenthis happens the body tries to compensate— in many cases by adding bone (degenerative arthritis). The earlier treatment can beapplied the better. By producing motion ina frozen joint, the body does not have tocompensate.Welcome to the club, Tom! We lookforward to your many years of service withthe Rotary Club of Altadena. Craig CoxCongratulationsBirthdaysBirthdays08/08 - Joseph McMullin08/10 - Don Applegate08/30 - Paula Mariscal08/31 - Bruce Conroy (Jacque Foreman)Anniversaries08/23 - Dotty & Gary ClarkSparks - Altadena Rotary Club Newsletter
Chairmen’sornerby Craig Cos, Membership ChairThe Benefits of MembershipTThe Object ofRotary is toencourageand foster the idealsof service as a basis of worthy enterpriseand, in particular, to encourage and fosterthe following:First The development of acquaintance asan opportunity for service -- In otherwords we make friends in Rotary. This isone reason we meet weekly. By being amember of a Rotary club you get to hangout with fun loving and service-mindedpeople. In addition the Altadena RotaryClub has access to resources through Al-tadena Rotary Charities to allow serviceideas to become service realities. Also,there is a level of community legitimacythat comes with being a member of theclub.Second High ethical standards in business andprofessions. -- Rotarians are great as partof your business and great to do businesswith. People that follow the 4-Way Testare a pleasure to know!Third The application of the ideal of servicein each Rotarian’s personal, business,and community life -- In addition totheir businesses/organizations, Rotariansbring the idea of service into their homesand neighborhoods. This has a positiveinfluence on our children, significantothers, friends and neighbors.Fourth The advancement of international understanding, goodwill and peace -- Webecome more world aware through Rotary. In addition to increased awareness,we have a platform to project service intoany part of the world that interests us. If you know someone who would like tobenefit from Rotary, invite him/her to lunchor to help with one of our CommunityService ProjectsCarmela is a member of the NGH (National Guild of Hypnotists, Inc.), CV-BNI(the Crescenta Valley Chapter of BusinessNetwork International) and a ContributingPublisher in LA Community News. She isalso a frequent guest on LA Talk Radio,Channel 13 Allen M. Best Buys. She holdscertificates in Master Hypnosis, NLp, MER,Reiki and Jin Shin Jytusu.Come ready to learn how hypnosis canhelp you and may even aid you in the release stress and pain.ThisWeekContinued from p. 1will bring us some exercises and examplesof how to release stress in an interactiveand fun way. She will take this opportunityto verbally paint pictures of the processby which hypnosis works to relieve stressand pain.Do You Travel for Businessor Vacations?You’ve probably seen pictures and text sent by Sarah O’Brien on hertravels. Well! The next time you take a trip for business or pleasure, whynot share a bit of your experience with the rest of us right here in ourRotarians on the Road column? Send a bit of text and a couple ofphotographs, and we will be sharing your travels.Sparks - Altadena Rotary Club Newsletter3
DialingContinued from p. 1must respond to threats; but to be practical,it must respond only to threats that exceedsome critical threshold — which means thatthreats that fall short of the critical thresholdmay have a destructive potential that beliestheir diminutive size. Unlike large threats,small threats can sneak in under the radar.The psychological immune system is adefensive system, and it obeys this sameprinciple. When experiences make us feelsufficiently unhappy, the psychological immune system cooks facts and shifts blamein order to offer us a more positive view.But it doesn’t do this every time we feel theslightest tingle of sadness, jealousy, anger,or frustration. Failed marriages and lost jobsare the kinds of large-scale assaults on ourhappiness that trigger our psychological defenses, but these defenses are not triggeredby broken pencils, stubbed toes, or slowelevators. Broken pencils may be annoying,but they do not pose a grave threat to ourpsychological well-being and hence do nottrigger our psychological defenses. Theparadoxical consequence of this fact is thatit is sometimes more difficult to achieve apositive view of a bad experience than ofa very bad experience.For example, volunteers in one studywere students who were invited to joinan extracurricular club whose initiationritual required that they receive threeelectric shocks. Some of the volunteershad a truly dreadful experience becausethe shocks they received were quite severe(severe-initiation group), and others had aslightly unpleasant experience because theshocks they received were relatively mild(mild-initiation group). Although you mightexpect people to dislike anything associatedwith physical pain, the volunteers in thesevere-initiation group actually liked theclub more. Because these volunteers suffered greatly, the intensity of their sufferingtriggered their defensive systems, which4immediately began working to help themachieve a credible and positive view of theirexperience. It isn’t easy to find such a view,but it can be done. For example, physicalsuffering is bad (“Oh my God, that reallyhurt!”), but it isn’t entirely bad if the thingone suffers for is extremely valuable (“ButI’m joining a very elite group of very special people”). Indeed, research shows that,when people are given electric shocks, theyactually feel less pain when they believethey are suffering for something of greatvalue. The intense shocks were unpleasantenough to trigger the volunteers’ psychological defenses, but the mild shocks werenot, hence the volunteers valued the clubmost when its initiation was most painful.If you’ve managed to forgive your spousefor some egregious transgression but stillfind yourself miffed about the dent in thegarage door or the trail of dirty socks onthe staircase, then you have experiencedthis paradox. Intense suffering triggers thevery processes that eradicate it, while mildsuffering does not, and this counterintuitivefact can make it difficult for us to predictour emotional futures. . . .The Inescapability TriggerIntense suffering is one factor that cantrigger our defenses and thus influence ourexperiences in ways we don’t anticipate. Butthere are others. For example, why do weforgive our siblings for behavior we wouldnever tolerate in a friend? Why aren’t wedisturbed when the president does something that would have kept us from votingfor him had he done it before the election?Why do we overlook an employee’s chronictardiness but refuse to hire a job seeker whois two minutes late for the interview? Onepossibility is that blood is thicker than water,flags were made to be rallied around, andfirst impressions matter most. But anotherpossibility is that we are more likely to lookfor and find a positive view of the thingswe’re stuck with than of the things we’renot. Friends come and go, and changingcandidates is as easy as changing socks. Butsiblings and presidents are ours, for better orfor worse, and there’s not much we can doabout it once they’ve been born or elected.When the experience we are having isnot the experience we want to be having,our first reaction is to go out and havea different one, which is why we returnunsatisfactory rental cars, check out of badhotels, and stop hanging around with peoplewho pick their noses in public. It is onlywhen we cannot change the experiencethat we look for ways to change our viewof the experienc
Steve Cunningham August 24 Roger Fennell Immune to Reality? Please turn to Dialing p. 4 Carmela Tunzi Stress & Pain Relief Specialist Guest Program Host: Jacque Foreman By Steve Kerekes, President Carmela Tun-zi, owner of Mind Flow Hypnosis, has been helping clients and students inter-ested in changing different areas of their lives since 2011. She helps clients relieve overwhelming stress .
