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Growing into adulthood in our modern society, most of us, especially in our western civilization, have taken on much of the murkiness that pervades life in general. It has come to take up residence, so to speak, within us. The elements that we are all so familiar with: greed, anger, spite, competitiveness that goes to any lengths to win, self-righteousness, lies, arrogance and sloth, to

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Here is what I mean by "coming home": knowing yourself. The sooner you realize that the best way to live your life is by truly becoming acquainted with yourself, the sooner you will have crossed one of the biggest hurdles in life. Why are you here? To become important and surround yourself with important people and to acquire many things? To worry about remaining young and beautiful? To be

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You may have heard of the persona, a term used by Jung to refer to the part of the self that we show our audience, that we show the public, that is the part of ourselves that we feel free to show others. It might be called our social mask. In fact, the use of the word 'free' in this context, is somewhat misleading, because the whole point of Jung describing the persona as he did, was to

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Today's blog post is a reprint of my January 2011 monthly newsletter feature article (subscribe here): Here is my gift for you, my reader, as we are on the verge of entering a New Year. But even if we weren’t, or even if you read this article at any time at all during the year, you can begin the three week process whenever you wish. We want to make New Year’s resolutions, we want to change

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Can we ever live without some measure of inner doubt? Perhaps in some areas of our lives that is possible, but not in others, where we feel less secure. To live without doubt in at least some areas seems impossible in a world - and in a life - that is in continual motion and growth. But my contention here is not so much to eradicate inner doubt, as to deal with the part of it that paralyzes

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Just think about it: each decision you make takes you down a new possible avenue: when you were a child and loved speaking the language your grandparents spoke, which was not the language of the country in which you lived, you opened the door to that job as a translator at the UN in New York or Geneva 20 years later when you were a teen and you practiced the piano with perserverance and

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So you had a mind-blowing passionate affair. It lasted five weeks, or six months, or two years. You each lived in your own place. Then you decided to move in together. Maybe you even marry. You were so much in love. It made sense to commit. But now, your once passionate partner who desired you so much doesn’t want to make love anymore. They avoid you, they shun you, and you are bewildered,

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Venturing Into the Unknown Just a few words today about change, newness, and the unknown. We tend to fear it. We tend to think that because we are changing to something different (job, challenge, city, country, relationship, environment of any kind), or doing something new, or going to some type of unknown element in our lives as opposed to what we have done to this point, we will have

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Recently I drove through horrendous road construction going on in my area. It was still very hot, the traffic was murderous, and due to the fact that cars were stopping and starting, the cooling system did not work as well as possible. Dust abounded. Stopped once again at yet another traffic light, I was overjoyed to see a gorgeously vibrant purple flower arising from the dirt at the side of

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As promised last week, today I am presenting guest blogger Lucy Adams. While the subjects Lucy and I typically write about appear to be very distant one from the other, I felt that her particular brand of humour, so important in these times of worries, stress, and negativity, was especially germane to keeping ourselves on track in the positive sense of the word. Lucy is the author of 

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Defining Passion: An unending desire and commitment, along with enthusiasm, motivation and inspiration to work towards a goal Willingness to take in the suffering that such passion involves (e.g. the Passion of Christ); suffering that may entail intermittent failure, derision and even rejection from your peers, moments in which you honestly don’t know how you can possibly continue, but you

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Loving yourself lies at the beginning of all roads that lead you to inner peace and freedom. The underpinnings for finding balance and harmony in your life rest on you being able to love yourself. If you do not love yourself, or at least begin the process of loving yourself, most of everything else you do in the arena of personal transformation will not bring you the desired results. But –

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Over the past 10 days or so I've had the good fortune to be swamped with a number of pieces of information that all converged in one main statement, which is the title of today's piece: We Are All One. They were, in no particular order: the movie Oranges and Sunshine about the thousands of children who were illegally deported to Australia and other parts of the Commonwealth from the UK in the

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Group Meetings to Support Your Growth & Well-Being: LIVE YOUR BEST LIFE! We all deserve to live our best life. We all deserve joy, peace, happiness, and inner freedom. So why are each of us not living our best lives and experiencing all these things? Schools teach us how to read and write, they teach us about math, geography and history, but they do not teach us about life and how to live

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In my last post here, Listen to Your Gut Part 1, you read about the clenching you feel in your gut when someone does or says something that is not acceptable, but you do nothing about it. Remember the hypothetical situation I described of a friend having blown you off for a dinner you were meant to have and you - although you did not like what they were doing - saying nothing? So I ended that

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Imagine I were one of your best friends. And I ring you up and say that I'm going through a really rough patch and need to talk to someone. And I tell you that you are such a good listener and that you give great advice. So could we please have dinner tomorrow night? You actually have some rather fun plans for tomorrow. However, because I am your good friend, you agree to breaks those plans and

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John (not his real name, all names in this article have been changed) was recently told he has a tumor. Malignant or benign, he will not know for about three weeks, after a series of tests and the results that they offer. Marguerite was taking her husband’s suits to the cleaners and found a hand-written note – not his handwriting - in the breast pocket of one of the jackets: Your love makes life

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There are many successful people in the world, and there are many more people who are not. The main difference between the two is this: the successful ones pick themselves up after failure again and again and then yet again until they finally reach success, while the ones who remain in the failure rut do not do so. They tend to lose hope and faith, get discouraged, begin to get themselves into a

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You don't need a psychotherapist to tell you when communication is off. If you and your partner are having problems, it's a sure bet that part of the problems are due to poor communication. Part of it may be the men come from mars, women come from venus syndrome so popularized, but much of it may also be due to the fact that many of us never learned how to communicate well - or, better said -

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Without the requisites of inner peace and freedom it will be very difficult to live a good life. Money, position, looks, and all the other trappings our society values are wonderful, but if inner peace and freedom aren't part of the equation, the others will never be enough. So here are some tips: Practice being conscious and aware: as simple as it sounds, it is nevertheless something most

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I remember when I was a young teen in Canada, a group of friends and I decided to play a game of Truth where if you lost, or if it was your turn, you had to tell the others some truth about yourself that you would normally not tell. We all had to be 'it' and tell our truth, but one of the girls present told something so private  and of such intimacy that all of us were - much more than shocked - 

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Where would we be without real conversations with our loved ones? How can you sustain a relationship of any kind with a person you care for without communication that breaks through the barriers of social distance and gets into the parts of you that are totally real? We need to know that our verbal and physical contact with those people in our lives that really matter to us is more important

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When your thoughts are allowed to do as they wish; when you are not in charge of them, you will generally find yourself in a position of being tortured by them. They come and go - seemingly of their own volition - and carry you in their relentless wake, often threatening to pull you under into a place that can only be likened to Dante's Inferno, an unending hell of servitude to those same

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Something extraordinary is happening today, and I believe in my heart that you will not want to miss it ... it’s all about LOVE. Today, September 28th, I've come together with numerous other leading authors, teachers and experts for one special reason: to give YOU the power and the tools you need to transform your life by learning how to love. By joining forces we have brought together a

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Recognizing love - and how love shows its face - applies not only to our partners or spouses, but also to other members of the extended family, and certainly also friends. How do we normally recognize love? People tell us that they love us. They do lovely things for us. They make us feel good. They are kind, considerate; in short, they are loving. And you are probably thinking: I sure did not

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Because there is so much emphasis in my articles and posts (as well as in my book Rewiring the Soul) on the subject of gratitude, and because I encourage readers and clients to find that state of gratitude by simply looking at something beautiful in their surroundings and then being grateful for its beauty in their lives, I have realized how many people simply are not seeing what is there.

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John (not his real name, all names in this article have been changed) was recently told he has a tumor. Malignant or benign, he will not know for about three weeks, after a series of tests and the results that they offer. Marguerite was taking her husband’s suits to the cleaners and found a hand-written note – not his handwriting - in the breast pocket of one of the jackets: Your love makes life

Gabriella Kortsch, Ph.D.noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-341058076349405933.post-36533722082316944692011-09-21T14:40:00.003+02:002011-09-21T18:52:28.216+02:00

In the past I've spent some time commenting on the fact that if we look too much to the past: either to its pain or its perceived happiness and glory, we risk becoming caught in a loop that will not allow us to live fully in the present. By going through an experience that somehow resonates with something similar in the past, in particular if the past one was painful, the present one will tend

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It's a choice, right? The way your day unfolds is a choice. Obviously not what happens on the outside - that's not always and not totally under your control. But what happens on the inside is under your control. And if you make a consistent choice of it, it is always under your control. So making your day exceptional is something that can happen no matter what. It is the way you decide to allow

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When you are in love - or believe yourself to be in love - and love walks out the door, you are not only justifiably devastated, but you may be devastated to the point of paralysis, palpitations, pain that can associate with physical nausea, and above all, a sensation of not being able to continue with this deep, bottomless pit that has formed at the center of your being. The yawning Hades,

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I've borrowed the title for today's post from Henry Miller's book by the same name Remember to Remember, although the resemblance ends there. If you are trying to change something about yourself, it's clear that if you don't remember to do whatever it is you have decided on that will create the change, then nothing will change. So if you want to create firm triceps, or improve your accent in a

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This subject warrants repetition until absolutely everyone has understood and effectively puts it into practice. My voice is merely one of thousands, perhaps millions that says roughly the same as the others do. If you do not practice awareness or mindfulness about your thoughts and your feelings, you have not a hope in hell of living a reasonably decent life - at least - without the use of

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Having admitted publicly that I tend to go through fashion and gossip magazines when sitting in the hair salon, or I may do a bit of the same on my smart phone if I'm having a coffee somewhere, I'd like to give voice to something that I think each time I do so. While I may be fascinated (or horrified) by the latest fashions, or read with curiosity about the relationship meandering of this or

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Communicating with the people who are important in your life is something most of us do without thinking. We talk about our day at work, our colleagues, our activities, how long we had to wait in line at the supermarket, about the fact that it's time to re-negotiate the mortgage with the bank, the kids need new school uniforms, which movie shall we go see on the weekend, where shall we take our

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What a way to think about some of the people in our lives! Most of us have been conditioned to regard vampires as the very substance of our most dreaded nightmares. The absolute epitome of horror. And yet … many of us lead lives with more than just a nodding acquaintance with one or more emotional and energetic vampires. Perhaps the most daunting aspect of this – if we wish to do something

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Are you prone to getting colds a lot? Or perhaps you have frequent headaches ... not major migraines, just headaches that make life a bit miserable. Or do you often bite your tongue? That's painful. How about twisting your ankle more often than most of your friends? If any of that were true, one of the things someone might say to you, is that you should take better cae of yourself, because each

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You may say you wish to change something about your life. You may, in fact, try to implement specific techniques or strategies you have read about in a book, or learned from a workshop or therapist. But nothing much changes. Whatever is bothering you, or whatever you would like to change, is still there, hanging about your neck like a millstone. So what's going on? Are you not doing it

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Imagine you had been a heavy smoker. (As I was until September 1988). Or a heavy drinker. (As a dear friend of mine was until 1989). What happens when you stop? Don't some of your friends sit up and take notice? Don't some of them (perhaps only one of them) also stop? So by changing something about yourself, someone else observed it, and changed something about him or herself. So what happens

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Patience is a virtue. It is said of others that they have the patience of angels. Or the patience of Job.  Or perhaps the patience of a saint. All of it implies that to be patient means you have to overcome something in yourself in order to be patient - hence, a saint or an angel, or as Job, undergo a litany of woes, and not lose your patience. Saint Augustine wrote: patience is the companion

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How good is your sex life? How often do you have sex? Have you stopped having regular sex because you’ve been married 10 years and your partner is no longer so stimulating? Or have you stopped because he’s in andropause or because she’s in menopause and because you never were that crazy about it to begin with? Or maybe you stopped having it with your last partner, but then you found someone new

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You are in love and in the very early days of the relationship you might (but not all of you), want to be together with the beloved all the time. Every waking and sleeping minute, other than work or duty related, is time to be spent together. And you bask in the bliss of it. Because this is, after all, the very definition of heaven ... Don't worry: this post is not about what happens when the

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You might be surprised to discover how much we hide the truth from ourselves. And you'd be surprised, precisely because you may be doing it as well. It's not a question of being dense, or not particularly intelligent, but of not being totally aware, not only of the self, but also of others, or situations that surround us. If we were more aware, we would recognize more truth, and then - quite

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Have you ever given it any thought? What, in fact, do we love, when we love?Do we love the feeling of being loved (as opposed to not feeling loved before)? The feeling of being adored (as opposed to not feeling adored before)? The feeling of being doted on (as opposed to not feeling doted on before)? The feeling of being important to someone (as opposed to not feeling important before)? Do

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Because I'm so fortunate to live right on the Mediterranean, it's understandably easy to find many beautiful spots to go to for my morning walk. My preferred place is the beach, early, when there is no one, except for the occasional fisherman or dog walker. However, close as it is, it entails an extra 15 minutes walking there and back, or 4 minutes by car there and back, so when I'm in a hurry,

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Listening to what? Lectures in a university hall? Presentations at a leadership seminar? Those are possibilities, but not what I'm referring to here today. Grow by listening to your own body. You clearly know how to pay attention to it when it hurts, or is hungry, or feels cold. But what about paying attention to it: when someone yells at you? Which part of your body reacts to that? when

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You may have this business about forgiving others down pat ... but when it comes to forgiving yourself, things look somewhat different. Perhaps you are remembering: your mother's request when you were 16 to stay in with her on a certain night because she wasn't feeling great, but you wanted to go and party (you are now in your mid-40's), and of course you know you were such a selfish daughter

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Yeah, yeah ... now you're sounding like my mother ... maybe that's true. But here's the thing: if you consistently did exceptional work, no matter what you are doing, what difference would it make to your life? Washing dishes? Do it in an exceptional way ... doesn't take longer, but looks better and above all, makes you feel better about yourself. Writing an essay or a thesis? Do it in an

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As a child do you remember feeling fear when you took your first step? Not only do I doubt that you remember the occasion, but I also doubt you felt fear. Because the look on children's faces when they do it, is one of excitement, daring, courage, and joy. Perhaps a bit of trepidation and wonder if it will really work, but all the other feelings are in there as well. As we grow older and as we

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Did you say you wanted to think about forgiving? Remember to forgive Forgiving allows you to HEAL! Forgiving OPENS space inside of you! By FORGIVING you reclaim ENERGY! FORGIVING lightens your BURDEN! FORGIVING lets you see the SUN instead of clouds FORGIVE & be FREE of negativity! Each time you HURT remember to FORGIVE (NOT condone) FORGIVING brings FREEDOM! FORGIVING brings the WHOLE

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That's an easy one, you tell me. There are so many weird people out there, people who are inconsiderate, people who are inefficient, people who are rude, or downright insulting, people who don't think, they just don't use their head, people who make me waste my time. Those are people who anger me. And don't get me started on those people that think the State owes them a living, or the people

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Just for today decide that you will treat yourself the way you would treat your most respected and beloved friend. The one that you would cook a healthy meal for, as opposed to eating some junk food while you stand at the kitchen counter or sit in front of the tube. The friend whom you would accompany on a long brisk walk, if he asked you to do so, because you want to make him happy and help

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Thoughts can mess up your day. They can play with your mind, or better said, they can play with you. Thoughts that come unbidden, and that you have not consciously chosen to have, wander around your mind and play havoc with your emotions and well-being, and while they are doing that, you believe that it has nothing to do with you, because you tell yourself that these thoughts just pop into my

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That's a very long title for a very simple concept. Back in June, many young people were graduating, whether from high school, from university, or from some graduate school. Obviously proud, they want their parents to attend. And proud parents - logically - also want to attend. So what happens when the parents have separated or divorced and are at war with one another? Even if many years have

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Love is such a vast part of life, whether because it brings sheer joy such as almost nothing else is capable of doing, or because ultimately it may lead to agonizing suffering (more often than not it is a harbinger of a bit of both). It seems quite absurd to ask if you are “in love”, or if you love, since one appears to automatically imply the other. Or does it? Being in Love (Is it all just

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Bathrooms can be very interesting symbols in dreams. What do we do there? We eliminate, we cleanse ourselves, and we purify. Hence, major dream interpretations of the dreamer’s presence in the bathroom deal with both of those processes. What might dream elimination symbolize in real life? A relationship. A way of being. A pattern of behavior. A way of speaking. A way of not speaking. Excess

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Waking up is a wonderful time to take stock of yourself for that given day. You can give yourself a moment to feel yourself on the inside, to really notice how you feel at that moment, right after have woken up, take note of whether your energetic frequency is up or down or middling, take note of how your body feels, and especially, take note of what your thoughts are already beginning to say to

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Introducing you to the proud birth of my book: Rewiring the Soul: Finding the Possible Self Here is the Product Description from the Back Cover and Amazon:   Ask anyone, whatever their circumstances, if their life is vibrant, fulfilling, harmonious and happy. An honest reply is likely to be 'no', because to answer a truthful 'yes' is no mean feat. Only to grow psychologically and emotionally

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When do you dance? I'm talking about dancing in your life, not at night at a club. Dancing in your life has to do with joy, with exuberance, with letting go, with letting your hair down, with feeling free to be you and exhilarate in the unrepressed delight of being you Dancing in your life has to do with knowing that life can be as good as you allow it to be, despite your outer circumstances 

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Photo: Georgian Manor Kitchen Each room of the house carries symbolism due to that activity that naturally takes place in it. On this basis, much sense can be made out of our being in specific rooms in our dreams. The kitchen is a room of the house in which we prepare meals. We bring basic elements there in order to cook them and turn them into dishes of varying types. In other words, the basic

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The name of the popular song from the late 90's evokes joy, a sense of being carefree, and yes - why not? - the ability and right to do some loca (crazy) things in order to make life more exciting. And at some point in our lives most of us have done that, and often (but not always) it made life better for a while. The way I'm using the title today however, has more to do with how so many lives

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Continuing in the dream symbols series, today I want to start a multi-part post about the rooms of the house. Dreaming of a house often symbolizes dreaming about the self, the identity, the current life situation, or the current inner situation coming out into the external life by virtue of some element of the quality of the dream house. Imagine, for example, that you dream of entering a

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What is it you really care about? What gives you a wonderful sense of inner well-being? Is it what others think of you? Is it about how important they perceive that you are? Or how popular you are? Or the people you rub shoulders with, or are on a first-name basis with? Is it about being seen at certain places, restaurants or parties? Is it about wearing certain kinds of clothes? Or perhaps

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Our obstacles are our problems. Sometimes our problems reside only in our heads, as in negative thoughts, or worries, or fear, and sometimes our problems are actual events that occur to us, such as losing our job, having an accident, failing to pass the bar, and so on. Sometimes our obstacles are individuals whose presence in our lives makes everything so much more difficult. Think of the

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What a way to think about some of the people in our lives! Most of us have been conditioned to regard vampires as the very substance of our most dreaded nightmares. The absolute epitome of horror. And yet … many of us lead lives with more than just a nodding acquaintance with one or more emotional and energetic vampires. Perhaps the most daunting aspect of this – if we wish to do something

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Flying is one of those fascinating dream symbols that appears to crop up more frequently in the dreams of persons who have lucid dreams. Lucid dreams are those dreams in which the dreamer is conscious of the fact that he or she is dreaming and is frequently capable of actually changing the tenor or direction of the dream. Lucid dreams have even been used in therapy, and I will be addressing this

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Many people have asked me to re-print my New Year's newsletter article from January 2011 Change Your Mind - & Your Life Will Also Change - in 3 Weeks because of my 21-day program I recommend in the article, so here it is again ... if you can just love yourself enough to do it, you will find that things change very rapidly in your life (y para los hispano-parlantes, el artículo con enlaces a

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I wrote a brief post about this subject some time ago, Butterflies & Symbolism, but since the butterfly is such a powerful symbol in dreams, and indeed, in life, and since I am doing this series of posts on dream symbols, today’s symbol is the butterfly. I’ve rooted out some information from other sources, although in some instances I no longer have the url. a. Spiritual Evolution: The

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This post is dedicated to all those people who have seen love walk into their life and who are considering letting it walk by them. All those people who have had the good fortune to know love, but who are contemplating not getting properly acquainted. All those people who don’t realize that love may happen more than once in a lifetime, but it is not a commodity that should be squandered or

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 Our scars have the power to remind us of who we were. Re-watching a brief section of Red Dragon recently, the original Hannibal Lecter movie (yes, I like those movies too), Anthony Hopkins pronounced that sentence, and I was reminded of the symbolic meaning of scars. Who doesn’t have scars? Whose body – other than a baby’s - is unblemished? Who can say they’ve lived a life that left no scars

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Photo Credit People often feel that a snake in a dream is something very negative, and yet this symbol is – just like the symbols of birth and death – one of the greatest symbols of transformation. Therefore, if a snake appears in your dream, you might want to investigate what is going on in your life on the inner and outer levels that might signify a process of transformation. The symbolism of

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Continuing with the series on dreams, today’s symbol is that of death. When you dream of your own death and see your dead body lying, for example in a sarcophagus or a coffin, or you see your dead body in a hospital bed, or lying mangled on the roadside after a particularly bad car accident, you may think that it is a portent of things to come. You may become fearful and apprehensive wondering

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                            When my aunt's third Scottish terrier died (she always got exactly the very same dog from the same breeder over a period of decades, and always gave the dogs the same name, almost as if she wanted to believe each was an extension of the former...), she was, as you can imagine, beside herself. She was living in Lindau, a beautiful resort town with a medieval old

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Four years ago I wrote a number of posts about dream symbolism. While I was teaching psychology at Florida International University in Miami, I often opted to teach a very popular elective Dream Interpretation, and I chose to give it a very Jungian slant because that is where I come from - ideologically. Dream interpretation is also given some importance in my sessions with private clients -

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When others suffer, it is often best to merely listen. Sometimes it helps to talk as though whatever is causing the suffering is not happening ... not because you are deliberately ignoring its existence in the life of the other person, but because by behaving normally, you give them strength. On other occasions you might wish to offer a gentle touch or hug. But here's the thing: going over and

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Safe means feeling safe on the inside, even when unsafe things are happening on the outside. Unsafe things might be people shouting, people trespassing your boundaries, people trying to manipulate you, people trying to steal your energy and so on. Safe means feeling safe on the inside even when your partner is talking about leaving you or when you think you might be down-sized from your job, or

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Ho-hum. Another article about goals. Planning. Been there. Done that. Maybe not quite... What if you think about your goals and striving from the point of view of inner growth while you are working on your outer goals? So this month, for example, you might work on your lack of patience. Next month you'll tackle being less judgemental. And the month after that you'll move towards being less

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The question about the inner voice is one that has plagued most of those of us who ask the question. What we're really asking is how do we know that what we're hearing is truly the inner voice and not the ego, or self-talk, that non-ending inner conversation that will never finish until we become aware and mindful enough to do something about it. So here's my take on it in a nutshell: first you

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Victor Frankl was a psychiatrist, Holocaust survivor, and author of Man's Search For Meaning, a magnificent book that I have often recommended over the years, and which serves to remind us - just as in the case of Nelson Mandela - that we always have a choice, in particular about the manner in which we react to potentially dreadful events that occur in our lives. In this brief (1972) clip on

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If you are tired of your life; if you would like to just walk away from it (not by doing away with yourself, but by switching to another kind of life); if your life seems faded and lacking in interest; if the main way you have of getting any adrenaline going is by going out to buy something new, or by partying, or getting another deal that fattens the balance in your bank account, or by having a

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Our happiness depends on so many external circumstances as long as we believe we are not responsible for it. Our happiness can never be in our hands as long as we consider that external factors have a decisive voice in how we feel,. Our happiness will always depend on the kindness or mercy of others and on the balmy winds of good fortune as long as we do not begin to take it into our own hands.

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The TV was on over lunch and it was tuned to one of the international cable news channels. Another attack in another Middle Eastern country which caused yet another number of unnecessary and tragic deaths. We see this every day. But what caught my attention was the television anchor cautioning the listener that the images we were about to see would be disturbing. Disturbing? Because they will

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Your thoughts may come willy-nilly. They may take you here and there, tossing and turning your emotions, depending on what these thoughts are about. You may find yourself laughing at remembering your niece walking for the first time, every so often plopping down on a padded diapered bottom when she lost her balance, and standing up again, or you may feel pain, or even cry, as you hear the lyrics:

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A super achiever with low self esteem? Counter-intuitive, isn't it? Sounds more like an oxymoron than anything else. And yet if we take a closer look at what drives the super achiever, we may find precisely a lack of appreciation and recognition of value of the self. What does a person who is driven to achieve success after success actually get in return? A sense of accomplishment you might say…

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  Mirrors of my lifeReflections of my pastCourse through my body in waves.Your touch on my handIs electric -Heating my bloodTo molten lava,Opening doors I have left closed for too long.The world you inhabit is not mineEnchained by your thoughts,Distant from the wellspring of life,By your barriers, your inner guards, your far frontiers.As I lie in the embrace of your armsI knowThat your eyes Do

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This is a hard one. Letting love guide you sounds so spiritual, so good, so something that the typical reader of my newsletters might actually be interested in doing, and yet, and yet ... it is not easy. Letting love guide you means many things, some of which are:letting go of being right letting go of ego (the part of you that insists so much, and so frequently, and so loudly that it knows

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How can I stop believing in my limitations is what is most likely going through your head, maybe even in derision at the author's naiveté at believing such a thing is even possible... Let me put it to you like this: how much of your psychic energy does it take to continue to believe in your limitations? (I'm using the word 'psychic' in the sense of inner energy, as opposed to physical energy).

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How often do you get upset or angry enough, in order to think of a word that's not very kind - to say the least - about the person who has just caused your anger? Maybe even angry enough to say or think f--k you! Today's post is merely a reminder. I imagine you've heard this before. There are two points I want to make: The feelings that arise in you due to another's words or actions, are yours.

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“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.” William James “Respond intelligently... even to unintelligent treatment.” Lao Tzu"We are as happy as we make up our minds to be." Abraham Lincoln"To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it." Confucius Life span theorist (with an emphasis on cognitive plasticity in old age) Paul Baltes of the Max Planck Institute in

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Emotional unavailability can be devastating to everyone touched by it. People often mistakenly understand it as a ploy on the part of the emotionally unavailable person to use others, or to get without giving, and while it is true that some of that may happen at times, it is also true that it consistently undermines the existence of the one who suffers from it, and consequently wraps its painful

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Years ago, in the late 70’s, I chanced across Wayne Dyer’s book Your Erroneous Zones. (I was living in Spain and had to read it in Spanish Tus Zonas Erroneas back then, and I've also read it in German Der Wunde Punkt). I was in my twenties, and when I read the last chapter of that book, a chapter that shows a person free of erroneous zones, i.e., a person who is in such a good place inside of

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The eternal cry of the broken heart; the eternal cry of the emotionally abused person; the eternal cry of the person who feels the pain, the frustration, the jealousy, the violent emotions that are the result of living with someone who treats them in ways that are less than loving. Agonizing Pain The type of pain that ensues from such a relationship leaves no doubt in anyone's mind (especially

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Some time ago I wrote an article for my monthly newsletter Introducing Our Second and Third Brains: We Do Think With Our Heart and Instinct (and it is also available in Spanish as Presentando Nuestro Segundo y Tercer Cerebro), in which I explained that research has now proven that we have neurons (the type of cell we have in our brain), not only in the brain, but also in the gut (the intestine)

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South Africa lies close to my heart. I enjoyed three incredible weeks there some years ago. One of my closest friends from adolescence in Canada was murdered while living in Johannesburg. An important person in my family’s life is from Durban. And long before I had ever visited the country, while I was still living in Mexico, tears of joy coursed down my cheeks as I saw the release of Nelson

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If you are tired of your life; if you would like to just walk away from it (not by doing away with yourself, but by switching to another kind of life); if your life seems faded and lacking in interest; if the main way you have of getting any adrenaline going is by going out to buy something new, or by partying, or getting another deal that fattens the balance in your bank account, or by having a

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Have you ever given some thought to why you react the way you do on certain occasions? For example: why do you feel intimidated by haughty maitre d's why do you react coldly when you are told by your boss that something you have done needs rectification why do you get upset when a store clerk does not come to help you immediately why does your stomach tense when you need to ask your husband for

Gabriella Kortsch, Ph.D.noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-341058076349405933.post-53728736595437749452011-05-17T19:15:00.001+02:002011-07-03T09:56:25.422+02:00

There is a beautiful quote by Jalal ad-Din Rumi that goes like this: When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy. Isn't it true that when your soul is allowed to be your guide, you feel joy within? You almost don't even have to know what it is that your soul is guiding you towards, if you allow yourself to be steered by the joy you feel inside when you are moving in

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So many people find their lives so full of worry, sorrow, pain, anxiety, and fear. Especially in this climate of the global economic crisis. Here's something you can do to deal with those difficult and dark emotions: as you find yourself immersed in yet another negative or hard thought or feeling, and find yourself succumbing to its way of pulling you into a black quagmire, do this: chose to do

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Once a candle has been lit in a dark room, the darkness will be dispelled and the room will be light, and will continue to be light, as long as the candle burns, and as long as other candles continue to be lit from the flame of the initial candle. So obvious. Once love has entered a place where there is hatred, love can begin to dispel the hatred, and the place where only hatred reigns will be

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 Most people have no problem in understanding how to feel compassion for the poor and hungry from third-world countries, or even those in similar positions in our own wealthier nations. And certainly, most people understand why we would even begin to entertain the idea of feeling compassion for people in such a predicament. It seems the normal, human, charitable thing to feel, doesn’t it? This

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Joachim de Posada shares a landmark experiment (at Ted.org) on delayed gratification -- and how it can predict future success. With priceless video of kids trying their hardest not to eat the marshmallow. If you have difficulty viewing the video here on my blog, go directly to the website by clicking here. Here's what TED has to say about him: Joachim de Posada's infectious energy and humor

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