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That's when you need to call time
out."
In fact, he says, the acknowl-
edgement of anger is a very Jew-
ish approach.
`The evil and good impulse are
always constantly at war. You're
not bad for having an evil im-
pulse."
Very often, the verbal mes-
sages couples send each other are
innocuous. But in the heat of the
moment, someone begins to

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sound self-righteous, which acts
like gasoline on a flame.
"Usually couples are fighting , ,-_--\'
about that tone — the person is
reading the non-verbal, holier-
than-thou message and reacting
to that," Dr. Felder says.
That's an insight Dr. Felder
gained closer to home than his
psychotherapy office.
"My wife, whenever I take on
a self-righteous tone, says, 'I may
agree with you, but that tone has
got to go.' " ❑

elen Kolodny had a deep-
seated aversion to exer-
cise.
"I'm a writer," she said.
"I can sit at a computer all day,
not move and be very happy."
After years of writing off the
need to get moving as a mo-
mentary distraction, the 77-
year-old Kolodny still is content
to sit.
But thanks to a series of
videotapes that offer a range of
pulse-elevating, musically in-
spired movements, Kolodny can
sit and be fit.
"I got a 'Chair Dancing' tape
as a gift," she said, "but it took
me about a year to try it. At first,
it seemed like games for a group
of kindergartners. I didn't real-
ize its value until I did it for a
while.
`Then it was 'Eureka!' Every-
thing about it affects the body
positively."
Chair Dancing was originat-
ed more than a decade ago by fit-
ness professional Jodi Stolove of
Del Mar, Calif., who found she
could stay in shape by simulat-
ing dance movements in a chair
while recovering from a broken
foot.
In the last few years, she has
devised stomach crunches, bicep
curls, leg-strengthening exer-
cises and dance adaptations
ranging from Russian, Greek
and Israeli to country-western.
All without getting out of a chair.
Because Stolove's exercises
can be executed at three vary-
ing degrees of intensity, they are
"effective in improving flexibili-
ty, strength and cardiovascular
fitness for all ages and fitness
levels," said Joan Hackett, an
exercise physiologist at Scripps
Clinic and Research Foundation.
Stolove, 38, has taken Chair
Dancing to such clinical settings
as Scripps Clinic and Kaiser Per-
manente Medical Center in San
Diego, Cedars-Sinai Medical

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Center in Los Angeles and the
Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.
Kolodny, a sculptor-turned-
writer, chair dances to Stolove
tapes three mornings a week, 45
minutes at a time, in the com-
fort of her home.
"I started doing movements
like blowing a flute, playing a pi-
ano, rowing a boat, doing the
cancan — all sitting down," she
said.
"I was flabbergasted when I
realized the shoulder part of the
Chair Dancing exercises were
nearly identical to the ones a
therapist had prescribed for me."

"Effective in
improving flexibility,
strength and
cardiovascular
fitness for all levels."

Kolodny had suffered a shoul-
der injury that severely limit-
ed her range of motion. "I could
not lift my arm to get it into a
sleeve," she said. "The slightest
wrong move shot acute pain
through my body.
"Consistent use of this pro-
gram not only relieves but erad-
icates pain."
Kolodny, who writes every-
thing from historic novels to po-
etry, said the joy and well-being
she derives from Chair Dancing
has inspired her to join a fitness
center.
"I walk, do aerobics, stretch-
ing and lifting," she said. "When
you're old, if you don't exercise,
you'll move like a crane. I move
freely now. I'm able to bend and
pick something up, step up and
step down.
"The biggest difference I no-
tice is in my agility."
Stolove recently released two
new videos: "Chair Dancing
Around the World," and "Sit
Down and Tone Up." ❑