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What Do People Want?




Our motto at Pando Health Groups is Connect/Empower/Heal. Do people want this? Do they know what connection is? What connection feels like? If they were connected, how would their life be better?

Do they know what it means to be empowered? Do they want to be empowered? If they were empowered, how would their life be different or better?

What is healing? For that matter, what is health? If we heal, will our experience be different? Can we heal even if we have a medical or physical challenge?

Our theory and backbone of our vision and mission is that emotional connection leads to being known, understood, and "gotten" and that from this place, people get out of their racing, scattered minds and into a stronger, calmer and more empowered place. We believe that achieving connection is a human, emotional longing. When one can live the majority of their life from this feeling space, they are transformed and new options become possible. Hiding who one is (one's authentic self) is no longer desirable or necessary. Freedom, health, vitality, a feeling of belonging and a lightness of being evolve when one becomes unshackled from negative thoughts and feelings that have spun around in an overactive mind for too long.

We live in a time and a world that values doing and thinking and exerting our will. With the miracles of technology, we can be busy and productive almost continually. That all can be good but we need to come from a base that is full -- not empty. We need to receive also.  Breathing and resting are receptive. "Filling one's tank"with natural beauty, warmth and self-compassion is receptive. Floating in water and listening to music and appreciating art are all receptive. The receptive is our friend and will make our active side more powerful and effective when it is also nurtured. By joining rather than taking it all on yourself, you open yourself to the energy and joy the world has to offer.

I am speaking of a different way of being in the world. A more balanced way. This is all incredibly possible but only requires a sustained desire to let ourselves "be" rather than only "do". It involves connecting from our hearts and not our heads and being open to leaving the conveyor belt of life and dwelling in a more restorative place for part of our lives.

This is the Pando Method. The Method is our answer to the imbalance that has taken over our world. It is simple, basic and low-tech. It seeks only to create a way to come from the center; from power; from a place of wholeness. What you do with your restored balance and energy supply is up to you. Enjoy it. It feels good.

This is our vision of how people regain power, health and happiness in this life. We all deserve it. Will you be good enough to yourself to let this in?  What stops you from giving this gift to yourself?


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