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In 1992 Kyo Sa Jean Duncan walked into a nursing home and offered the Activity Director her services to provide instruction in Moo Pal Dan Khum breathing exercises to the elderly residents there. Where others only saw old people confined to wheel chairs and walkers, this instructor imagined student practitioners improving themselves and their health.
Nursing home employees told Jean that she should not expect much cooperation or energy from the residents as they were never very cooperative with the staff. Some told her these people did not want to be active, they were just waiting for their time to pass and besides, she had no specialized training for working with elderly people and should not expect much.
Jean refused to allow other people's perceptions (Limiting Beliefs) to tarnish her vision of the reality that she had imagined and within two years her Golden Years Soo Bahk Do program had gained so much popularity and success among residents and their families that it had been featured on national and international television three times and in national newsletters and magazines.
Brian Risinger, a ninety five year old Golden Years Soo Bahk Do student of hers, who had never been outside his home state of Texas, was joined by fellow student, Douglas Rogers who celebrated his eightieth birthday in the 1st class cabin of a plane 40,000 feet in the air on their trip to California, where they both participated in the 1994 National Championships and were later featured on CNN worldwide. Imagine that!
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