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Articles: psychospiritual
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Accepting Who You Are
by Vivienne Silver-Leigh
Vivienne Silver-Leigh highlights the importance of accepting ourselves as who we are. She describes how she compared herself, unfavourably, to people whom she believed had more positive attributes. She notes that those we believe to be happy, confident and secure often do the same.
Accessing All 12 of Our Chakras
by David Malin
This column focuses on the chakra system, as a lens for understanding our times and current human condition. The author shares his observations on the profound changes in the very nature of this chakra system, which has seen an expansion from seven to 12, and how rapidly all this has been accelerating.
Alchemical Transformation
by Vivienne Silver-Leigh
Vivienne Silver-Leigh gives us an insight into the relevance of alchemy in terms of personal transformation, inner change and personality development.
An Exploration of Psychospiritual Psychotherapy
by Sue Mansi
There is an ongoing debate as to whether psychotherapy in its many forms is truly helpful to the individual, or whether it is, for the client, at best a meaningless self indulgence, and, at worst, completely unhelpful and possibly adding to the confusion already felt.
Basic Goodness - Returning to What Is
by Richard Morrissey
The problem of living is that we misconceive the nature of our relationship with the world and with each other. We assume that we are free separate agents but we act, or more usually react, as if we are the products of a conditioned and deterministic universe. For those looking for freedom from physical and mental anguish, life more often than not is experienced as a battle to relieve anxiety and achieve better ends. It is an ongoing search for a Method or Path that will provide us with the tools to free ourselves from suffering and pain.
Buddhism for Everyday Life
by Kelsang Chönden
Buddhism is all about being happy and it works well. Everybody, everyday has the wish to be happy and free from suffering. However, very few people fulfil this fundamental wish. Many of us lead stressful and unhappy lives and our habitually un-peaceful minds often induce or worsen physical problems. Why is this happening in such a materially well-developed country? What do we have to change? In this article, Kelsang Chönden, is detailing the way in which the practice of Buddhism can bring happiness to our everyday lives.
Chakra Perspectives: Chakra 101
by David Malin
In this, his regular column on Chakras, the author draws from his 31 years experience of working with the body’s energy centres to offer some basics on such energy systems.
Childhood Imaginary Friends
by Kylie Holmes
This article looks into the world of make believe. According to the author imagination can be a child's best friend or worst enemy. From imaginary playmates to scary night-time monsters, the world of pretend is a very important and real part of growing up.
Cinema Couch Therapy for Emotional Blockages
by Brian Mills
…in Cinema Couch, patients are asked to name the film or films that they love and never tire of watching. These films will reveal a paralyzing paradigm that creates an emotional blockage in their life. Further sequences or sessions reveal layers beneath the emotional issue and films are prescribed that reflect those issues.
Cinema Therapy - Unique Psychotherapy Technique
by Franklin Seal
Franklin Seal discusses the use of film in psychotherapy treatments. He takes the case of a woman, Terry, who, coached by a therapist, used film to change her behavioural pattern of anger and rage, which was threatening to destroy her marriage. By watching behaviour similar to her own in the drama, she has able to engage with it consciously at a very deep level.
Codependence - For Whom Are You Living Your Life?
by Gitte Lassen
Perhaps the most painful aspect of codependence is the feeling that there is something very wrong with you, and that no matter what you do, you are never good enough. This is the codependent's secret shame and most codependents don't like themselves.
Connection to Spirit: Is Your Spirit Showing?
by Vivienne Silver-Leigh
In her regular column, Vivienne Silver-Leigh discusses the concept of 'transpersonal', first discussed by the psychologist, Carl Jung and later developed by psychologists and writers such as Abraham Maslow, Ken Wilbur, and Professor Stanislauf Grof.
Could You Be Loved?
by Amy Suplee
Love provides us with the opportunity to unite with ourselves; to learn, grow and know ourselves more fully through another person. To become masters of love, we have to practise love, but first we must master ourselves.
Creative Inspiration
by Vivienne Silver-Leigh
This article is an exploration of the author’s ideas about spirit, creativity and inspiration (which she points out also means breathing in).
Emotional Clearing
by John Ruskan
It's 1988. For some reason, I'm at a point in my life of reassessment – of looking at where I am and wondering why I'm there.
Emotional Detox
by Louise Smart
The real benefits of detoxification - feeling purified, light, free and full of energy - are only truly achievable if the bodily experience of fasting, juicing or food elimination is accompanied by emotional detoxification, whereby we are able to contact, re-experience and release suppressed emotions.
Energy Flow - The Great Exchange
by Amy Suplee
Energy is all around us and everything in life exists as an exchange of this energy. Even the ancient theories of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ayurveda, Taoism and Ying and Yang support that life is balanced when there is an equal exchange of energy.
Finding Myself in Japan - The Alternative Bridget Jones
by Amanda Jayne
Amada Jayne records her life in the Orient in the style of Bridget Jones Diary. A former chocoholic, she currently teaches English in Japan while learning the alternative approach to achieving Mind, Body, and Spirit bliss. On arriving in Japan she realized what a shallow image the movie Lost in Translation had presented of the deep culture hidden beneath, if one took the time to look.
Five Steps to Happiness
by Violet-Ann Remba
The author, who lives in Zimbabwe, illustrates her thesis that a divine connection, diet and exercise, creativity and humour, how you talk and who you are with can all boost your spirits, by pointing to the experience of a 60-year-old grandmother and a divorcée in her mid-thirties who struggle to stay optimistic despite privations of one kind or another. She goes so far as to suggest that the 'five steps' used together are guaranteed to work.
Global Changes
by David Malin
Planetary changes in the past several decades have become quite profound. In fact, it is very difficult to be human and not be aware of such changes anymore.
Healing in Silence
by Vivienne Silver-Leigh
In this article the author describes her own experiences of developing and combating breast cancer, drawing on her personal spiritual journey of discovery embracing different religions, yoga, humanistic psychology, client-centred counselling and transpersonal psychotherapy and rebirthing.
I Ching - Timeless Wisdom For Our Modern World
by Ian Wallace
The I Ching is a traditional source of wisdom dating back 5,000 years and remaining unchanged since its origin. It embodies the Chinese beliefs in the law of Yin and Yang and the five elements, and that the world is in a state of constant non-random change.
Intuition at Work
by Frances Coombes
This article focuses on intuition, which can be complementary, providing leaps of imagination, gut feelings or flashes of insight into strategies and timing of actions. The author says successful negotiators, like American multimillionaire hotel owner Donald Trump, who tend to weigh situations logically, also listen to their hunches.
Intuition, Our Wise Guide
by Vivienne Silver-Leigh
These days, we are often distracted by and overloaded with stimuli from our environment, thus neglecting our inner voice, or intuition. Yet a combination of logic and intuition can be a very powerful tool in guiding us to our best course of action.
Kairos Therapy: Emotional Release and Empowerment
by Caroline Gladding
The author focuses on the never ending journey of Awareness, Release and Transformation, of emotions, emotional baggage and expression, that can be treated by many of the therapies available today, especially Kairos which changed her life nine years ago.
Listening with the Heart
by Vivienne Silver-Leigh
Vivienne Silver-Leigh, from her experiences of counselling training, shares some important lessons about active listening, a skill needed to understand and develop our relationships and to develop true empathy.
Make up your Mind
by Vivienne Silver-Leigh
The author looks into the process of right decision making by attending a workshop on Discernment. She watches her own choosing mechanism in action, and also how other people make decisions.
Manifesting Your Dreams: The Art of Wish-Practice
by Ulli Springett
Ulli is a Buddhist meditation teacher who has been an accredited psychotherapist and life coach for 15 years. She explains her technique of wish-practice by distinguishing it from standard visualization techniques, which are the basis of many self-help books.
Mapping a Path to Enlightenment
by Dawn Mellowship
The author bases this article on her latest book, Passage to Freedom, and looks at the seven steps to achieving enlightenment. She states that peace, contentment and knowledge are within our reach if we are prepared to put the work into it.
Money Magic - Money Metaphysics
by Gitte Lassen
The author shares what she has learned about the dynamics of money making, and how to create a positive relationship with money in general. She finds people basically spend to solve their problems and to make them feel good or better and says almost anything we spend our money on … be it cars, movie theatres, massage therapy, dentist, clothes, kindergartens … can be analyzed in terms of problem solving and feel good.
My So-Called (Past) Life
by Jody Jaffe
I wanted to be Cleopatra or at least Catherine the Great, but it turned out I was just another little Jewish girl in my past life. I was also a teenage boy in knickers and a cave-dwelling holy man.
New Perspectives
by Vivienne Silver-Leigh
In this article the author focuses on how to achieve a positive frame of mind and create more appreciation for what we have. In a crisis – be it anguish, self-pity or despair – she suggests additional help in the way of therapy and talking to friends who will listen.
OH Cards: The Game of Inner Vision
by Janine Moore
If you need an ice-breaker in a room full of strangers, open up a deck of OH cards. According to their creator Ely Raman, 'The cards will get people talking and you won't be strangers for long'.
Our Many Selves
by Vivienne Silver-Leigh
Transpersonal Psychotherapist Vivienne Silver-Leigh looks at the different models of the self, stressing the importance of maintaining contact with our higher nature through some form of meditation practice, such as counting breaths, repeating mantras or using positive affirmations.
Pain - Relationship Between Body and Psyche
by Sue Green
In this article I would like to propose a wandering around the question of living with physical pain.
Play to Live
by Vivienne Silver-Leigh
Regular columnist Vivienne Silver-Leigh reminds us of the importance of play. She quotes Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and David Kessler on the theme of playing, that: "Playing keeps us young at heart…..to stop doing what you love is an invitation to burnout."
Power Plants and Runes
by Gayle Tighe
The word rune means 'a mystery' and it is also believed to come from a root, meaning 'to whisper' and 'a secret'. This is how the runes were passed on. The knowledge was a secret, which was whispered to select people to carry on the tradition.
Rebirthing
by Chris Retzler
Rebirthing is a healing process that engages with the mind, the body and the spirit to cleanse away toxic patterns of being and facilitate new, healthy and fulfilling goals and choices.
Rebirthing/Self Transformational Breathing
by Marianne Friend
Rebirthing is a powerful therapy that creates a deep sense of renewal within us by allowing us get in touch with our inner child through breath work. The technique involves concentrated breathing not unlike Kriya Yoga, and other Indian Yogic breathing practices, but with the specific intention of releasing the long-term consequences of how we came into this world.
Road Rage, Hate and Disconnection
by Vivienne Silver-Leigh
The author, a psychotherapist and victim of road rage, analyses the reasons for hate in many forms, on the road, between races, religions and cultures, its variations from country to country.
Seven Principles for Life-Balance
by Karin H Leonard
The author, a personal coach, seminar leader and motivational speaker based in San Francisco, discusses how we can find our centre in today's accelerated pace where life at best is like a balancing act. She says when life is balanced we become vital, vibrant and more fulfilled and there is an overall sense of flow or ease to the quality of our life, even when we are busy. Life-balance is a process rather than a goal and engages us in dynamic learning loops.
Spiritual Empowerment
by Glyn Edwards
This article is based on commentaries on a recently revised and re-titled book Unlease your Spiritual Power and Grow: Reflex and Learn to Trust the Power Within, by the author (of this article).
Spiritual Evolution in our Genetic Blueprint
by Amy Suplee
The author looks closely at how more and more people are recognizing the faults and harmful habits that are hindering their personal progress in the world and how we can all free ourselves from a life of poor spirituality.
Staying True to Yourself
by David Molden
In this article David Molden explores how we can begin to achieve a healthy mind, body and spirit. He quotes a popular Zen story which teaches us to focus the mind on even the most mundane activities. Many of our stress related illnesses are connected with overuse of mind as we allow our minds to wander to the past and future in an uncontrolled rather than proactive way.
Symbol Therapy
by Ulli Springett
This article describes the basic principles and applications of symbol therapy, a simple but highly effective therapeutic tool, which has been found to help a wide range of longstanding emotional and physical problems.
The Art of Letting Go
by Sylvia Clare
This article, written by a former lecturer in psychology, discusses taking responsibility for our own lives, learning from past experience, making choices of how to behave, learning acceptance and changing one's perceptions.
The Art of Letting Go - A Taoist Approach
by Amy Suplee
This article focuses on surrendering – letting go – a simple concept yet one of the most difficult to carry out, as it requires a lot of practice and rehearsing.
The Growth and Evolution of Spiritual Healers
by Dr Daniel Benor
Dr Daniel Benor looks at the gift of spiritual healing and discusses whether it is something natural and intuitive, or whether it can be practised and developed. Having spoken to hundreds of healers he concludes that it is very similar to musical or sporting ability. However natural the gift, it can be practised and improved upon.
The Healing Power of Faith
by Vivienne Silver-Leigh
In this Column Vivienne Silver-Leigh discusses the evidence and techniques described by Herbert Benson MD in his book Timeless Healing, in which he reviews compelling research demonstrating that beliefs manifest themselves through our bodies.
The Human Design System: The Mechanics of the Tao
by Richard Rudd
When I was asked recently to sum up the essence of the Human Design System in one word, the word that instantly arose in my mind was 'penetrating'. I did consider for a while the word 'ruthless', but then began to wonder what kind of new clients that might draw in…
The Inner Voice of Clinical Intuition
by Dr Daniel Benor
This column looks into intuition, an ability which the western world seems to value the least, and is often perceived as or accompanied by an inner uneasiness, which when responded to can often reward us with important messages and inspirations.
The Mystery of Change: Weaving a Way Ahead
by Sue Green
In my view, many people today sense that their lives need to go through some kind of 'radical questioning.' Without helpful ways to go through that process, we can become cocooned in an isolation that leaves us no way back, and not much sense of how to move forward.
The Secret Garden: Secret Life of the Inner Soul
by Allan Armstrong
In this article focusing on the soul of a person, the author says that throughout history, exponents of the spiritual life have likened the soul to a garden, a secret garden hidden deep within our being.
The Subtle and Shifting Currents of Change
by Amy Suplee
In this article, the author discusses the changing seasons and how they affect us. She looks at Chinese Medicine where every element has its opposite (yin and yang) and that we need to balance them in order to restore harmony.
The Symbolic Decision Chart
by Greg Clarkson
This article focuses on performance guidance through charting a path of opportunity and responding to symbols.
The Twelve Chakra System
by David Malin
The article focuses on the 12 chakras within our energy field, and not just the seven which most people are familiar with.
The Unmet Friends
by Juliette Mataxa
This article focuses on our 'Unmet Friends' - emotions (like pain, anger and fear) that can bring monumental changes in our lives if we allow them to work in conjunction with one another to become our teacher and friend. The idea is to image them as friends and use them as tools for self-understanding, to create self-awareness and fulfillment.
Trauma, Body, Energy and Spirituality
by Raja Selvam PhD
…those involved in spiritual work in one way or another and those working with people with relational issues psychotherapeutically have much to gain in learning how to recognize and treat traumatic reactions in their clients when they occur. Also, being able to recognize and work with traumatic responses in bodywork and energywork contexts helps practitioners to maximize the healing that they facilitate while minimizing the possibilities for retraumatizing their clients.
Tribute to Vivienne Silver-Leigh
by Adam and Mark Reeves
On June 14 Vivienne Silver-Leigh, our mother and regular contributor to Positive Health passed peacefully and gracefully into spirit. Vivienne meant so much to so many people, and we, as her sons, would like to share with PH readers something of her life and death.
Virtue of the Heart
by David Malin
This column looks at what our world honours and values in this day and age and questions why, unlike mental intelligence, physical intelligence, spiritual intelligence, emotional intelligence is far less recognized or understood and why so many people struggle with matters of the heart.
What is Power?
by Nirvana Tehranian
…the ego is never really satisfied. It is the ego that is never grateful since it is run by greed. Ah yes, greed! Greed's hunger is so voracious that nothing can satiate its deepest yearning.
Wising Up
by Vivienne Silver-Leigh
Vivienne Silver-Leigh offers encouragement to those of us who feel that when we retire and become senior citizens our lives are more or less over. With the exception of those who suffer from unfortunate health problems, senior citizens can continue to develop themselves, both physically and mentally, as they grow older.
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