She was left for dead in a pile of human bodies. And now she unlocks prisons all over the world....

Who is she?

When she was 16 Edith Eger was thrown into Auschwitz with her parents and her sister. Within hours of arriving in a cattle car her parents were murdered in the gas chambers.

An accomplished ballet dancer, on her first night in Auschwitz she was forced to dance for SS officer Josef Mengele, known as the Angel of Death. “Dance for me” he ordered, as she stood on the cold concrete floor frozen with fear. As the orchestra began to play she remembered her mother’s advice “No one can take away from you what you’ve put in your mind” and she lost herself in the dance while imagining she was on stage in the Budapest Opera House.

Although she has written about the living hell she experienced while in the concentration camp she also talks about how it was her best classroom.

After she was released, she trained as a psychologist and in her clinical practice she teaches many of the tools for survival and freedom which she first used in Auschwitz.

I think that the number lesson she teaches is that we live in a mental prison. She says that “the most damaging prison is in our mind, and the key is in our pocket”.

We cannot change the things which have happened to us, we can’t undo the mistakes we have made or change the past in any way. That ship has sailed.

But when we ask “What now?” instead of “Why me?” there is a powerful energy shift and we place our focus on what we can do right now with our experience instead of focusing on why this bad thing is happening or has happened.

If you don’t believe me… try it out for yourself.

Which makes you feel more empowered??

Which is likely to give you more energy and imagination to create a different kind of life?