tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3410580763494059332013-05-19T22:36:59.101+02:00My new book "The Tao of Spiritual Partnership" (2012) is now at Amazon in paperback & Kindle. Click the "Chapter Titles" tab below for global links for 'Rewiring the Soul'Gabriella Kortsch, Ph.D.noreply@blogger.comBlogger1177125PsychologyTransformationFreedomPapershttp://feedburner.google.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-341058076349405933.post-728153065001868072013-05-16T12:06:00.000+02:002013-05-16T12:38:10.219+02:00

The toddler who decides to get up on his legs and walk is tenacious. He may not be thinking that his goal is to walk, because he does not yet think along those lines, but he does see mommy cheering him on, or a delicious candy tempting him on the table that is just over there, or a toy he'll be able to grab, if he manages to walk over to that table. So he has a goal in mind and his tenacity

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Have you ever noticed that when you are not in the best of moods, or when you are upset or resentful or angry about something, you seem to find more people who actually create even more of those feelings in you? Almost as though a tuning fork were set to ensure that those people with negative feelings that exactly match yours cross your path that day at exactly the same time as you are

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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

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Consider where your attention tends to be during your day. Obviously part of your attention is on the things you must do. Get up, exercise (I hope), shower, eat breakfast, drive to work, work, have lunch, more work, drive home, have dinner, do household chores, watch TV, go to bed. I am aware of the fact that the day I have portrayed sounds abominable for its lack of anything at all in it

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Who has harmed you? I'm not talking about enemies in the impersonal, geo-political sense of the word, as in wars, but enemies as in those individuals that you consider personal enemies. In my private practice, clients may frequently view the enemy in the guise of an ex-spouse or ex-partner. My purpose today is not to ask you what was done to you and then to say that it was not as bad as

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  If you want your future to be different, it follows that you want it to be different from whatever your present circumstances are. So what do you have to change in order to ensure that different future? Here's a very simple answer: You have to change as many of your current now moments as possible. Here are some examples: when you wake up and see a grey sky and think oh, no, not

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Your junior colleague at work simply has no idea how difficult it is for you to carry your own workload because he is single and does not have to deal with the extra constraints on his time as you do because of your spouse and children. You, however, have not taken into consideration the fact that he not only cares for his aging mother who suffers from Alzheimer's, but that he also has a

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Consider with how much care we choose our clothes, our cars, our hairstylist, the cologne we use, the watch we wear, our mobile phone, and yes, the restaurants or clubs we frequent. Consider also - if it applies - the care with which you choose your wine, the paintings or rugs that adorn your home, and the destinations at which you vacation. And why wouldn't you? Choosing with care

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It's such a simple thing to be kind, so why aren't we always kind? Think of the number of times you've found it necessary to impress upon someone that you are right, or know better (or are better), as opposed to being kind. Ugh. Makes you shudder with yourself, right? Certainly makes me shudder with myself. I hold these two quotes close in order to remind myself frequently: Be kind

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For years I've been collecting quotations that mean something to me, and it has always struck my fancy that great thinkers said exactly the same thing about the concept that can be resumed in these words: you are what you think. This is so simple, it's been said throughout the millennia, and yet we seem to find it so difficult to adhere to. Why? At first glance, we might say that we

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Our doubts are our enemies - Shakespeare said it. When you doubt yourself... When you doubt your ideas... When you doubt your capacity to do something specific... When you doubt that you can overcome something... When you doubt... You place yourself into the position of being your own worst enemy. Think of it this way. You are the general of an army. You plan to vanquish the enemy.

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Many of you are aware of the fact that current authors - especially current authors of books that have become very popular - often mention that they first heard of some of the ideas they espouse in their own books through older writing, in obscure books, some of which are now firmly planted in the public's mind. One such example is As A Man Thinketh (available freely through my website, or

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This familiar (to many) image shows - simultaneously - an old hag and a beautiful young woman, depending how you look at it. While it merely symbolizes what I want to talk about, it nevertheless also reminds us of a very important adage: As a man thinketh, so he shall be (James Allen), or said in another way by Buddha: All that we are is a result of what we have thought. The mind is

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Many - if not most - clients complain that when we discuss methods by which they can find greater inner freedom and inner peace, it sounds like such hard work. They tell me that it's all very well for me to talk about it, but that for them it is just going to take so long and be so hard. In some ways they are right. None of this work is possible without some dedication and discipline. I

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What are your hot thought forms? These are the thought forms that threaten to make you erupt, boil over, burn irremediably and consistently. Here are some: jealousy rage envy hatred fear worry anxiety Why are they hot? Initially because of the way you feel when you have them. And the way they spiral into even hotter thoughts (pain body) if you continue having them. But the second reason

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Most people lead stressful lives and find it hard to take time off to relax. Not good. You see it in the lines on their faces, in the way their voices sound strained, and in the way they find it hard to focus on your face because in their mind they are probably already wandering off to the next subject or meeting. They may not sleep well, they may have blood pressure issues, weight issues,

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We have become so accustomed to looking outside in order to fill our needs that we literally forget about the riches in our own self. To connect to those riches and be able to make use of them, we need to remember to connect to the self. Clients often ask me how to do this. It's not something that gets a lot of press - at least not in the typical press people are reading on their

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Your feelings of guilt are threatening to drown you. How could I - you ask yourself – have ever done such a thing? You were unfaithful You lied to your best friend You told your mother (because you wanted to have lunch with the cute new lawyer you met at the gym) that you couldn’t take her to the dentist until next week, so she drove herself, had an accident, and now she

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Some of you know I had a radio show for seven years, five of those broadcasting locally one hour a week from a studio where I discussed topics of psycho-emotional and spiritual interest with my lovely and engaging host Brenda Padilla, and two of those years I interviewed people I was interested in on my internet show called Rewiring the Soul (yes, the same name as my first book). At any

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We all want joy and somewhere inside we all know that without growth we don't advance forward in a good direction. So today's message is short and sweet: if you refuse to give up your past, you keep a good portion of your life now from containing joy and allowing growth to take place. Here is what happens: when you think of whatever it was in the past that was painful, or hurtful, or

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You know that the person who you are today has evolved from the experiences, events, thoughts, and behaviors of your past. You've read this over and over and over again in psychological literature, philosophy, self-help, and so you look at your past with a microscope, and go over it with a fine-tooth comb in order to try to understand how you got where you are, what you did wrong, and what

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With the advent of positive psychology in the late 90's, something fundamental changed in the way many psychologists and other therapists began looking at their clients. Instead of focusing merely on the negative, on the hard issues, on the problems, they began to incorporate the positive as well ... all those traits and previous successes that had been helpful to their client in some way

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Erich Fromm, psychoanalyst and author of The Art of Loving among many other books, wrote: A person's main task in life is to give birth to oneself. Giving birth to yourself can happen at any age. You could be in your 70's, you could be a teenager, you might be in your mid-thirties: it makes no difference, you can make this exhilarating change in your life at any time. Why is it

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Neuro-scientists have finally done it! They have demonstrated that we have a brain in our heart and another in our intestines. What we have in each of these, in actual fact, is an extensive mass of neurons that behave in a fashion similar to the neurons contained in the brain, and that appear to function at mega-speeds, often much greater than those of our cerebral neurons. The Second

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In my last post here, Listen to Your Gut, 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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