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Advanced Personal Therapy Newsletter - April 2009
Gabriella Kortsch, Ph.D.
Integral Life Coach, Clinical Hypnotherapist, Relationship Coach, EFT Practitioner Marbella, Spain
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Do
You Dance?
by
Gabriella Kortsch, Ph.D.
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count
his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that
every lot has enough happiness provided for it. Fyodor Dostoevsky When
do you dance?
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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.
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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 (see also The
Greatest Quality in Life).
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Dancing in your life has to
do with the thrill of knowing you have choices, as long as you choose to have choices
at least on an inner level, even though externally your choices may
be very limited.
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Dancing in your life has to
do with being conscious and aware.
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Dancing in your life has to
do with doing your joyful utmost to pursue your dreams because your
dreams give your life meaning (see also The
Only Person You Have to Make Happy is You
– there is much good information in this article about the difference
between selfishness and self-love).
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Dancing in your life has to
do with surrounding yourself with joy, love, and peace, even though
these may only available on an inner level.
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Dancing in your life has to
do with knowing that you will not die without having danced to the
music that is inside of you. Have you danced lately? Taking Responsibility
for Your Unhappiness That
is not a fun thought Taking
responsibility for your unhappiness
sounds like there's no one and nothing left to blame. And that - of
course - is what this is all about. It’s the Other Person’s
Fault When
you are unhappy, it is because you have chosen to be so due
to someone not behaving the way you wanted them to, or something not
turning out the way you might have it expected to. So life did not
go your way. Things simply weren't the way you wanted them to be.
And
so - understandably - you are unhappy. And of course you believe you are unhappy
because of what the other person did or did not do, or because of
the situation that did not turn out the way you would have liked it
to (see also Making Choices: Taking Responsibility For Our Lives
) And
that is precisely where you need to begin to take responsibility for
your unhappiness. How? By taking
responsibility for your happiness. So if you are
unhappy about something, you are the one who can change how you
feel. Either by choosing to change how you feel about something,
how you think about something, how you view something, or by choosing
to do something that will raise your energy to levels where you are
able to once again feel happy. Your
happiness is in your hands. If you leave it in the hands of the acts
and deeds of others, or in the manner in
which situations in your life turn out, you are not free. Freedom
implies being in charge of your happiness.
Feature Article continued below
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Continuation of Feature Article
Creating Joy in the Way Your Life Unfolds
So
it means that it is also about your responsibility in creating joy
in the way your life unfolds.
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No, I can't do that.
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My life is not unfolding
to plan.
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My life is not good.
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I don't like my life.
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Under such circumstances how
do you expect me to create joy in the way my life unfolds? That is, however, precisely it. Most of our lives don't always unfold
according to plan, or in the best way possible. That's the reason
why we have to take charge
about creating joy in the way our life unfolds. Our Joys Our
joys as winged dreams do fly; why then should sorrow last? Since grief
but aggravates thy loss, grieve not for what is past. Thomas Percy, English poet 1729-1811 Grieve
not for what is past ... our joys as winged dreams do fly ... doesn't it make sense that we behave
the same way with our grief as we do with our joy? As the poet - Thomas
Percy - says, our joys tend to leave us very quickly. And yet we dwell
on our sorrows. This
is in fact, an unusually interesting statement about the human condition.
We have a much greater tendency to stay with those aspects of our
lives that are not bright and clear, that do not have sunshine and
warmth, and tend to bring on the clouds swollen with rain. Why
do we do this? Is it just a wired into us? Wired into our hearts?
Wired into our brains? I don't
think so. This may very well be due to what part Eckhart
Tolle calls the pain body, and what Chris Griscom calls the emotional body. I've written about this
in the past, so I'll just briefly reiterate the basic points:
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the pain body is seductive
·
the emotional body has
an emotionally sticky quality that we find hard to pull away from
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both pain body and emotional
body are familiar to us because they represent pain, difficulties,
and hardships that we have been subject to in the past
·
this very familiarity
based on the amount of time we have spent revisiting those difficult
moments, is what causes us to field the seductive pull
·
once we give in to the
seductive pull into the pain or the negative emotions via our memory
needs, we tend to wallow in the pain, much as pigs wallow in mud
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why?
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Because we prefer the
familiarity
·
if we spent as much time
revisiting our joyful moments as we do our painful ones, we might
find - ironically - that we experience greater familiarity with our
joy than with our pain - and wouldn't that be a wonderful state of
mind to be in... Have you ever considered why the sum
total of your life very possibly seems to have an uneven tipping of
the scale in favor of the negative? Could it not be simply because
of where you spend much of your mental time? And don't you agree that
where you spend much of your mental time is a matter of choice? And
if it is a matter of choice, why not spend more time with your memories
of the joyful moments, as opposed to memories of the painful ones?
It really is that easy.
We
know we are meant to be responsible about all those things that a
decent sense of morality and a firm Puritan work ethic would demand
of us.
The
more vibrant you are, the happier you are, the more conscious and
aware you are, the more responsibility you take for your own inner
and outer well-being - the healthier you are. See also:
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Create a New LIfe: One Intention
At A Time
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Entering the Now Moment By Leaving Unawareness Behind
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Gratitude, Choice, and the "Why Did This Happen To
Me? Syndrome
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Grow in Richness: Stop the Blaming
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Happiness: Has it Become a Science
or is it a Question of Luck?
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Intentional Focus: Your Happiness, Your Success, and the
Law of Attraction
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Living in the Now: Use it to Enrich Your Life
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Making Choices: Taking Responsibility For Our Lives
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Nurture Yourself to Happiness and Success
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The Energy Barometer: Make Your Mind Body Connection Work
For You
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The Puritan Work Ethic, Wu-Wei,
and is Life Really Meant to be a Struggle?
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In addition to her private practice – see above photo - (English, Spanish, and German), incorporating both integral coaching, and dream analysis in individual therapy (private sessions) and relationship coaching, as well as cutting-edge psycho-energetics (meridian energy therapies), Dr. Gabriella Kortsch (Ph.D., CHT) has also been trained as a clinical hypnotherapist, and offers diverse workshops in the field of personal development and dream groups. Dr. Kortsch also offers phone consultations (domestic and international) to clients of more than twenty nationalities. A professional speaker, she is available to speak on a variety of related topics both publicly and privately for corporations, organizations, clubs, hospitals, and groups. For further information please contact her Marbella office by telephone +34 952 929 071, email, or see her website .
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Current Workshops 2009 in The Conscious Journey Within Workshop Series
Email: info@advancedpersonaltherapy.com
or +34 952 929 071 Past Life Regressions: Its Role
in Resolving Parental Issues and Relationship Difficulties How many people have done a great deal of work on themselves and their relationships in therapy, in exercises of all types, in bodywork, meditation, and all kinds of other practices, only to find that although they may have gained a great deal of understanding, and their stress levels may have decreased substantially, that they have in fact, not solved the initial problem? In cases such as these, past life regression is frequently the method that finally brings them the answers they have been searching for with such fervor. Past life regression weaves together strands of eternal connection between you and others in your life that have had an important impact on you - whether that impact was positive or negative. One method for resolving the impact that was created is by re-living and understanding the bond or links that you share with the other person. This workshop which also includes a lengthy experiential group regression session, aims at explaining not only these fundamental timeless associations, but also how past life regression may be a tool in their comprehension. (Note: this workshop requires sign-up and full payment
by Click
here for further information about this
workshop Upcoming Workshops May – August 2009: May
16 Power, Possession, Obsession, and Control in Relationships: What
Turns Some
Individuals Into Obsessive, Possession- and Power-Driven Control Seekers? Why
do Other Individuals Allow This to Happen to Them? ( Most people have met couples that have clearly demarcated power lines. One of the two holds the reins firmly in one hand, while the other allows him or herself to be controlled. The control is frequently of an emotional or sexual nature, rather than a financial or physical one. In the couple, one of the two needs to feel in possession of the other individual about whom he/she obsesses. Is this all to be blamed on feelings of insecurity and inferiority, or is there more than meets the eye at first glance? And what about the one at the receiving end of the equation? The one who is being manipulated, controlled, possessed? Are they allowing it because they are weak? Because they fear delineating boundaries of behaviour since it might cause them to be rejected or abandoned by the other individual? These and other topics form the body of insight of this workshop. June
20 Happiness:
Develop Your Capacity for Happiness. Raise your level of July
18 Fatherless
Women and Motherless Men: What happens to the adult woman who was
raised without her father, and to the adult man whose early relationship
was not intact?
Sometimes
a father's physical presence may form part of the household, yet he
may not be available for his daughter in the way that she hopes for
as she searches his face in vain for a clue to her own identity; sometimes
a mother does her utmost to raise her son with love and attention,
yet he feels as though he never received the love he so desperately
sought from her as a child; as though he had been shortchanged in
the affection department. Sometimes the parent is not actually present,
due to divorce, abandonment, illness, or death; sometimes the parent
is negligent, uncaring, or even abusive: in all these instances, the
child suffers, and pays for it in his or her adult relationships.
This workshop explores these issues, their recognition, and possible
resolution. August
15 Happiness:
Develop your capacity for happiness. Raise your level of happiness.
See the quality of your life improve on a daily basis. Why
is happiness frequently so elusive? It seems to slip through our fingertips
and we spend most of our lives chasing it like an errant butterfly,
or telling ourselves that we "just weren't meant to be happy".
Or maybe we don't deserve to be happy. Or maybe so many other things
with which our minds torture us. So what might happen if we knew how
to change all of that? If we could just "learn" what to
do in order to ensure that our lives would be full of satisfaction
and contentment and enjoyment. Wouldn't that be worth a bit of effort?
Imagine being in charge of your state of happiness or content every day of your life. This workshop
provides you with tools to achieve that. More importantly, this workshop
shows you how easily you can make these monumental changes in your
life, in order to begin to feel the difference immediately.
Time (on any of the dates): 10:30 – 14:30. Doors open at 10:00
Cost: 60 € in advance (bank transfer or deposit or cash), by the Wednesday prior to the workshop date (midnight), or 90 € thereafter.
Further Information: Email: info@advancedpersonaltherapy.com Phone: +34 952 929 071
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These are the 12 Workshops in the Series
1. Life Focus, Intention, and Success: Understanding the Law of Attraction and Applying it to Your Immediate Life
2.
Past Life
Regression: Its Role in Healing Unresolved Parental
3. Using the Now Moment to Release Stress, Problems, and Anxiety
4. Jungian Dream Symbolism and Interpretation in Relationships: How your Anima and Animus appear in your dreams to show you the direction you are taking
5. Fatherless Women and Motherless Men: What happens to the adult woman who was raised without her father, and to the adult man whose early maternal relationship was not intact?
6. Power, Possession, Obsession, and Control in Relationships: What Turns Some Individuals Into Obsessive, Possession- and Power-Driven Control Seekers? Why do Other Individuals Allow This to Happen to Them?
7. Relationships: Begin to see your relationships (even those with problems) as Priceless Tools for Gaining Greater Self-Understanding, Growth, and Inner Freedom
8. Sexual and Love Triangles: How do they slip into our lives and why do individuals so frequently participate in them, tolerate them, and endure the pain they entail?
9. Emotional Unavailability in Relationships: What does it say about your partner? More importantly - What does it tell you about YOU?
10. Happiness: Develop your capacity for happiness. Raise your level of happiness. See the quality of your life improve on a daily basis.
11. Love & Relationship Challenges Seen Through the Lens of the Astrological Chart
12. Leadership Challenges: Knowing Yourself to Become an Effective Leader
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feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were
impossible. Doug Larson I've had a few arguments
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carrying a grudge, they're out dancing. Buddy Hackett If opportunity doesn’t knock,
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