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Less Stress and More Energy from Finishing With the Past. What I have learnt from gestalt #2
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Perhaps you have had the experience of hearing a piece of muzak in a shop and leaving when the song is half way through. This can be very aggravating - you wanted to hear the end. Or perhaps you thought you recognised the song but couldn’t quite place it. [...]It Depends on The Situation: What I have learned from Gestalt#1
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Anything makes sense in context. Every thing makes sense in context. Meaning has to do with the relationship of the ‘thing’ (word, behaviour, object, whatever) to its context.
This probably sounds a bit abstract, so bear with me for a bit while and I’ll try and show why it can be so [...]Gestalt Therapy
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Gestalt Therapy excitement and growth in the human personality by Perls, Hefferline and Goodman. First published 1951 (other editions since).
This book changed my life. I discovered it in my mid-twenties and what I learned from it has stayed a significant part of my life for 25 years. The exercises in [...]Embracing Our Conflicts: One Method for Personal Change
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This method is for those times when you feel stuck. It is not a method for dealing with external obstacles (priorities, goals, efficiency - all of which are important for external effectiveness) but for personal change.
The central insight is that being stuck is different to being tired. When we feel stuck we are [...]Four Reasons Why Disgust Is Good.
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Disgust doesn’t always feel good - in fact it often feels revolting. Partly this is due to our attempts to restrain it. Wishing to retain control and not vomit doesn’t help us feel any better. So part of the bad feeling is not expressing our disgust. The [...]Health and Me Part Three of Three
My 40’s: moving into the external world
Moving into my 40’s was about moving from my interior world to the exterior world. This fits the Myers-Briggs understanding of personal development. That we start out more interested in one of the worlds and then switch to the other at mid-life. (Actually we alternate between them: from birth [...]Health and Me Part Two of Three
My 30’s: exploring wholeness
During my last years in Fusion I was mostly in the National Office. This meant dealing lots with computers and paper and not much with people. This led me to the next stage of my interest in health: my physical body. During this time I also began training in Transactional Analysis. I [...]
