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"The body is a memory card. It stores every emotion and experience you have; from the traumatic to the profound. The untreated ones?  Well, they sit with you until they are toxic. Then it's too late.”      

                             -bobby julich, team csc 2006, 3rd place tour de france 1998.

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Everything that is alive pulsates with energy and this energy contains information. Your physical body is both an information center and a highly perceptual system. We are consistently " in-communication " with everything around us through this system.

Within YOUR energy field exists emotional energy, which is created by your internal and external experiences. These experiences can be both positive and negative, light and dark, fleeting or long-lasting: past relationships..traumatic experiences..belief patterns and attitudes..family culture. Your

emotional experiences reside physically in your body and interact with your cells and tissues.

This emotional energy forms an energy language within the cells which carry literal and symbolic information. In this way - your biography - that is the experiences that make up your life - becomes your biology. Your body contains your history - every chapter and verse. As your life unfolds your health becomes a living, breathing statement that conveys your strengths, weaknesses, hopes and fears.

Every emotion travels through your biological system and activates a physical response. Some thoughts - like fear - are like depth charges causing a negative or dark or lower energy response while love can relax your entire body while some are meaningless and pass through the body like wind through a screen.

Learning the language of energy means to evaluate the dynamics in yourself, others and your experiences. Energy information is always truthful and your relationship, your labeling, your embracing, your surrendering, your letting go or holding on too tight influences your health. Managing your energy is an essential component to facilitating your growth, your health, your longevity or your healing.

Whether world-class human or world-class athlete, or both, "healing" is an active and internal process that includes investigating ones attitudes, beliefs, memories, and relationships to energy, experiences, identities and power. While "curing" is the abatement of a block or illness it does not necessarily include alleviation of the emotional stress of the blockage or "healing".

Our desire is to "heal" and release all negative, dark, low patterns that prevent us from being whole, our true, highest, most awesomeness self - whether on the tour de france or our own "tour de france of life".

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...for an athlete, confidence is everything. Bobby Julich quickly recovered from the physical injuries sustained in a bad fall in 1999 the year after his 3rd place "tour" podium finish, but it was only last year that he got over the crash in it's entirety, yes the memory card of crash emotions was holding him back.

At 32, Julich was about to call it career when Bjarne Riis called from Team CSC and offered him a contract. "His confidence rubbed off on me. He treated me world class, like a leader, spoke to me like a leader, respected me like a leader.... but i reminded him that i wasn't 27 anymore and that 1998 and third place was a long time ago"  Riis responded: "Bobby, you still have it in you"  Julich: "..but i'm old now.."  Riis asked how old he was and julich told him that he was 32. Riis moved in for the kill.

"Bobby," said Riis, "I was 32 when i won the tour in 1996."

All that was left inside Julich when he joined Team CSC was a tiny little flame wanting to get better. What Riis did was like pouring gasoline on that tiny little flame; what Riis said gives goosebumps to  Julich to this day. At the advanced, experienced, and wise age of 35, the fire is still burning in Juilich and the 2006 tour is about to start.

Good Luck Bobby.

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