Recently added articles from Journal of Heart Centered Therapies:
Editor's note.(Editorial)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Welcome to this issue of the Journal of Heart-Centered Therapies. For nearly fifteen years, we have had a close and rewarding relationship with the community of mental health professionals in South Africa. Several hundred therapists in that country have been trained in Heart-Centered ...
The creation and manifestation of reality through the re-enactment of subconscious conclusions and decisions.(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Abstract: The Creation and Manifestation of Reality-theory was developed for this study. This theory provides an answer to why high functioning people experience problems at work, develop relationship problems, and other dysfunctions that occur in their lives. It provides an explanation as ...
The never-ending pilgrimage.(Column)
Mar 22, 2009; ... The Garden I have been wondering why I have been procrastinating on the completion of this book. Today I began to see that the reason is that my life is not over and so it is difficult to put the final lessons in here. However, today is Easter Sunday and I spent the day playing ...
Editor's note.(Editorial)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Welcome to this issue of the Journal of Heart-Centered Therapies. We celebrated a wonderfully successful National Conference in July, hosted by our energetic network in the Chicago area. Dr. Bruce Lipton was the keynote speaker this year, and everyone was inspired by his vast breadth of ...
Higher stages of human development.
Sep 22, 2008; ... Abstract: Humanistic and transpersonal psychologies have eclipsed a focus solely on pathology assessment and treatment to a broader focus on the human being's growth toward optimal functioning, often called self-actualization. Paradoxically, Maslow recognized that peak experiences often ...
Violet's diagnosis: "Sensitive".(Case study)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Abstract: This case study focuses on individuals who experience what we might call "bleed through" from the unconscious into their conscious lives, or a non-ordinary state of consciousness, or transliminality, or holotropic consciousness. Whatever term we may call this phenomena, I would ...
Editor's note.(Editorial)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Welcome to this issue of the Journal of Heart-Centered Therapies as we begin our eleventh year of publication with a new graphic design for the Journal cover. We are pleased to have the opportunity to celebrate the past ten years, and we look forward to the next ten. The lead ...
Hypnotherapy under fire: efficacy of heart-centered hypnotherapy in the treatment of Iraq war veterans with posttraumatic stress.
Mar 22, 2008; ... ABSTRACT: A growing literature addressing the issue of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has appeared in the decades following the Vietnam War. However, only a small portion of this literature represents empirical investigations of hypnotherapy as a form of efficacious therapy for PTSD ...
The clarity process: using heart-centered regression techniques in couple therapy--an object relations and systems theory approach.(Report)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Abstract: Projection and projective identification are unconscious defense mechanisms which are frequently used between bonded couples, and these defenses can cause much anger and misunderstanding. This paper discusses the ways in which these may be identified and treated using a ...
Dream journey: a new heart-centered therapies modality.
Mar 22, 2008; ... Abstract: Our nightly descent into dreaming is an initiation that can enhance our expansion, create new possibilities, open the mind and the heart, and reintroduce us to our soul. There are layers of meaning, personal and collective, to our dreams, both Little Dreams and Big Dreams. Dreams ...
Breathwork and couple relationships: a qualitative investigation.
Mar 22, 2008; ... Abstract: Breathwork is a transpersonal approach to counseling in which manipulating and focusing on the breath is the means toward promoting healing and wholeness. The researchers investigated participants' experiences in the breathwork treatment process, the treatment effects on ...
Chapter one: lessons of the owl.(personal narratives in traditional medicine)(Collecting Lessons)(Essay)
Sep 22, 2007; ... <Pre>If you want to wear a robe of spiritual sovereignty,let your eyes weep with the wanting. You that come to birth and bring the mysteries,your voice-thunder makes us very happy. Roar, lion of the heart,and tear me open! (1) </Pre> I was about to ...
Chapter two: lessons about separateness.(personal narratives in traditional medicine)(Collecting Lessons)(Essay)
Sep 22, 2007; ... <Pre>At the verge of full fana (annihilation in God) there seems to be aregion of sweet confusion, the sense of being in many places atonce saying multiple sentences. A hazy melting, fragile and nearlyblank. (6) </Pre> Within a year, a clarifying message came to me, ...
Chapter three: guardians at the threshold.(personal narratives in traditional medicine)(Collecting Lessons)(Essay)
Sep 22, 2007; ... <Pre>Jung said that soul moves at the weak point where the personalityis thin, where things are not secure and stable. That's where soulhas an entry. (12) </Pre> Every ascent to the heights is preceded by a descent. Those descents in my life have sometimes been gentle ...
Chapter four: escorting souls of the dead.(personal narratives in traditional medicine)(Collecting Lessons)(Essay)
Sep 22, 2007; ... <Pre>The Lame GoatYou've seen a herd of goatsgoing down to the water. The lame and dreamy goatbrings up the rear. There are worried faces about that one,but now they're laughing. Because look, as they return,that goat is leading! ...
Chapter five: more souls, but they're not dead.(personal narratives in traditional medicine)(Collecting Lessons)(Essay)
Sep 22, 2007; ... <Pre>According to traditional Irish wisdom, there is a plane of beingsomewhere between life and death; called the "thin place," it isthat place in time where the reality of this existence overlaps andintermingles with the reality of the existence beyond it. (16) ...
Chapter six: deeper into the body.(personal narratives in traditional medicine)(Collecting Lessons)(Essay)
Sep 22, 2007; ... All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood. (19) The memory of Owl stepping inside of me that one dreamtime, into the lower part of my torso, had faded out of conscious recollection. Until another similar experience came upon me, that is. I felt angry about something that ...
Chapter seven: the sun and the moon.(personal narratives in traditional medicine)(Collecting Lessons)(Essay)
Sep 22, 2007; ... <Pre>Say the body is like this lamp.It has to have a wick and oil. Sleep and food.If it doesn't get those, it will die,And it's always burning those up, trying to die. But where is the sun in this comparison?It rises, and the lamp's lightMixes with the ...
Chapter eight: mind treasures.(personal narratives in traditional medicine)(Collecting Lessons)(Essay)
Sep 22, 2007; ... <Pre>The question one must ask above all with any neurosis is not,"How do we eliminate it, " but rather, "Whither does it want togo?" (25) </Pre> This Mind treasure, hidden by some ancient master or perhaps by one of my ancestors, came to me in a visionary experience, or ...
Chapter nine: mountain elk's message.(personal narratives in traditional medicine)(Collecting Lessons)(Brief article)(Essay)
Sep 22, 2007; ... <Pre>Realization does not arise out of words.Understanding does not come from mere suggestions.I urge all those who work for EnlightenmentTo meditate with perseverance and effort.Endurance and effort overcome the greatest of difficulties.May there be no obstacles ...