And you're about to give the performance of your life!
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If you're obese, trying to beat an addiction, or have recently had a heart attack, your doctor may have told you that you need to "change your lifestyle." Changing your lifestyle means changing your "performance" for the rest of your life. It doesn't mean taking one day at a time and seeing how it goes. It means for life. Therefore, if you enter a new program, it should be both powerful and realistic. That means: It should be doable by someone like you, not designed for a healthy and trim 18-year old professional athlete whose life is not at stake. Acting Well meets these qualifications. Acting Well is an integrated program affecting the four major aspects of your life that can make a difference between life and death, namely: physical stamina, stress management, nutritional management, and motivation. Acting Well offers no diets, exercise workouts, or esoteric mental practices. Instead: You'll learn how to choose and create eating experiences so compelling that they won't leave room for foods and habits that worsen obesity or coronary problems.
Everyone is different. Everyone loves different foods, athletic pastimes, and has different intellectual or spiritual interests. Acting Well will help you discover the most efficient way to develop your "lifestyle" so that you'll never go back to the undisciplined habits that may have put your health at risk. How's it done? Imagine that your life is about to become a play that will last 16 hours a day, every day from now on, for as long as you live. Your world, outside and within your home (your "stage"), is about to become an audience. The new role you play will define your new lifestyle. Wouldn't it be nice if you had a rough script to follow, that covered every part of your day, as well as directorial ideas to help you excel in your improvisational performances? Many of the world's most famous actors use creative consultants to help them master their roles onstage and off. Why not you?
Acting Well provides you with an expert course in how to change your lifestyle, and helps you draft your "script." Once you have the right script, you won't need a personal trainer to help you lift weights in a gym, or a nutritionist to load you down with expensive health foods and pills, or a psychotherapist to remind you of your flaws. You'll be able to be in touch with others like yourself who've been through the process and who can therefore support your efforts to develop the expertise you'll need to produce and stage your future life. The techniques you'll master in Acting Well were developed and taught to actors by theatrical authorities from Aristotle to Stanislavsky to Stella Adler and members of the Actors Studio. As those stars mastered their roles, so you too will learn to play yours, using the same techniques. Once you're on your feet and ready to perform, Acting Well steps back, as any honest producer or director should, and lets you strut your stuff on your own. From then on, you begin to look forward to getting better at what you do each day, and feeling better about all aspects of your character. Meanwhile, your body gets stronger. Your memory and attention span improve. You achieve and maintain your ideal weight. You manage stress by feeling you're in control of your life. And you stop being afraid. Instead, you feel protected against all the many ailments caused by poor diet, lack of exercise, and stressful emotions that have worked against your best interests. Finally, after your course has helped you realize your goals, Acting Well's support group will continue to welcome your participation on the theory that being supportive of others is the best way to achieve continuous personal growth.
We divide the Acting Well program into two periods: a limited Rehearsal Period, lasting from three to six months, followed by a Performance Period that lasts indefinitely. We don't pay much attention to what you eat, as long as you never get hungry. (Caring about the quantity or quality of food while losing or maintaining weight is like an actor concentrating on words instead of actions.) We don't care what you do for exercise as long as it's consistent, simple, right for you, enjoyable, gets you almost (but not quite) winded, and takes no more than a half hour per day. By the end of the Rehearsal Period: 1. You'll realize that you've committed yourself to stay on this program for the rest of your life. So far, every person who has gone on the Acting Well program has experienced the same benefits on the same timetable, has lost weight and kept it off, and has permanently committed to remain on the program.
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