tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3410580763494059332009-11-23T07:45:42.613+01:00Growing, understanding, feeling, and becoming aware...that is one of many paths open to us to achieve inner freedom. Join me on this journey.Gabriella Kortsch, Ph.D.noreply@blogger.comBlogger613125PsychologyTransformationFreedomPapershttp://feedburner.google.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-341058076349405933.post-8063061657266721672009-08-22T14:21:00.002+02:002009-08-22T14:39:10.265+02:00

Death is a subject that has often been on my mind because it began visiting the course of my life relatively early, losing a grandmother at 13, my mother at 19, my only brother at 23 when my eldest son was only thre weeks old, and since then, so many, so many more that have been important in my life.So it was with great interest that I have been reading a series in the New York Times about the

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A recent article in the New York Times about meditation caught my attention because of the sharply honest manner in which the author, Robert Wright, describes his mainly negative perceptions - at the beginning - of a retreat in the Vipassana tradition.He writes:"This Friday I’m heading up to rural Massachusetts in hopes of getting born again — again.Six years ago, in the same locale, I attended

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Once a month I post the current list of topics for my weekly radio show, live every Wednesday at Rewiring the Soul.This is what the August 2009 schedule looks like:August 5: Paul Nison: Healed Crohn's Disease & Ulcerative Colitis with Raw Food. Author and chef Paul Nison was given the sole choice of drugs or surgery according to the medical profession, and so Paul decided to eat a raw food diet.

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When things happen to you in life, which meaning do you choose to give them? Are they meanings that make life even harder, or are they meanings chosen by you that make life better, or easier?Willard Barth has come up with a series of very brief videos to walk you though a process he went through himself over the course of his life as he learned how to make life better and easier. He speaks a

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Big topics. Your dreams, your visions, your ideas, your goals...In this video presentation from the DVD Seminar Series (three parts, each part is about 35 minutes long), Bob Proctor, success coach par excellence relates his own journey, and refers the viewer to many of the practices that, according to Bob, need to be in place if you want to turn your dreams into goals and then achieve them.Bob

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Hmm ... the Kindle never really appealed to me ... I like to hold a book in my hands too much, I lke to underline, I like to riffle though the pages, I like to go to the end and back to the middle, simply by flipping pages, so the Kindle was never on my wish list.But now I read that amazon (of whom I am very fond ... I use their services not only in the USA, but also in the UK, France, and

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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 having a

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In Science Daily, a new article indicates that "a group of chemicals found in many fruits and vegetables, as well as tea, cocoa and red wine, could protect the brain from Alzheimer’s disease"."There have been some intriguing epidemiological studies that the consumption of flavonoid-rich vegetables, fruit juices and red wine delays the onset of the disease,” says Dr Williams, a Biochemist working

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If you have not seen this motivating 3 minute video, do so now ... it might just be what you need to get you going again, or to keep you going, or to get you started. In any case, it will jog something in you!Should you have difficulty viewing the video, click here in order to see it at the original website.

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In this blog I've mentioned several times that I am very interested in raw food and the effect it has, not only on the body and health, but also on the psyche and the spirit. It is for that reason that I interview (among many others) well-know personalities from the world of raw food (such as Jinjee Talifero, Susan Schenk, and Brenda Cobb, and many more booked to come) on my radio show Rewiring

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Who can possibly be considered the happiest man alive? According to Daniel Goleman in an opìnion piece Sitting Quietly, Doing Something in today's NY Times, that man is the Tibetan lama Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche.Rinpoche, who is a master of the art of well-being, as Goleman informs us, got that way the same way you get to Carnegie Hall. Practice.As Goleman recounts how Rinpoche recovered quickly

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I've added a new website to the list of links I recommend, and it is Mind and Life Institute, with their October 2009 conference "Educating World Citizens for the 21st Century: Educators, Scientists, and Contemplatives Dialogue on Cultivating a Healthy Mind, Brain, and Heart" in Washington, DC with full participation of the Dalai Lama.They also have a blog, and it is there that I found the video

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This brief video spurs one to thought and action. Are you one of the crazy ones?(Note: I am only endorsing the ideas inherent in this video, not the website that is mentioned throughout ... for that you will have to make up your own mind).

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How you choose to react to the situations, people, and events in your life plays an enormous role in your well-being. If you can make your choices conscious, rather than reactive, from a place of real awareness inside of you, it will soon be possible for you to remain on a higher and more optimal level of energetic frequency.Part 1 of 3The remainder of this clip can be heard by clicking here and

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The author of numerous books, including work with the Dalai Lama titled Destructive Emotions, as well as other books such as Emotional Intelligence, the business book based on it: Primal Leadership, as well as Social Intelligence and the newly released Ecological Intelligence, bestselling Daniel Goleman now offers his views on the fact that new research from the field of neuroscience indicates

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Once again the organization TED brings us forward thinking.In this 4 minute video, Gever Tulley shows us how kids can be taught valuable life lessons at his 6-day immersion "Tinkering School"When given tools, materials and guidance, these young imaginations run wild and creative problem-solving takes over to build unique boats, bridges and even a rollercoaster! Tulley says: "Success is in the

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Have you ever given some thought to why you react the way you do on certain occasions?For example:why do you feel intimidated by haughty maitre d'swhy do you react coldly when you are told by your boss that something you have done needs rectificationwhy do you get upset when a store clerk does not come to help you immediatelywhy does your stomach tense when you need to ask your husband for

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The online site Sharp Brains again brings fascinating information from leading thinkers. In this case, it is an interview with Richard Nesbitt about the perennial discussion regarding intelligence: is it hereditary, or is it influenced by the environment, and hence, is it something that can be shaped, as it were?Richard Nisbett's latest book Intelligence and How to Get It: Why Schools and

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Does water have memory?In this mesmerizing video, including footage with numerous scientists, as well as 2002's Nobel Prize winner Kurt Wuthrich for chemistry, much is speculated, and much is stated.Why is water the only substance on the planet that can exist in three states: liquid, solid, and gaseous?Experiments in many countries around the world have shown that water receives and makes an

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Another newsletter I read that comes from Gaia brought the trailer of a wonderful movie to my attention. You can watch the trailer here and the entire film online here, or purchase it for home viewing.Isha, a spiritual teacher from Australia, works with seekers from all paths (including prisoners in Uruguay, where she lives today), and shares her message of enlightenment through uncompromising

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In a recent article in the NY Times, the Harvard psychology professor and author of Stumbling on Happiness, Daniel Gilbert makes a very compelling argument for how we could escape the current quasi-global economic crisis mentality.He posits that "gloom is real enough, but it isn’t a matter of insufficient funds. It’s a matter of insufficient certainty. Americans have been perfectly happy with far

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Below you will find all the interviews I have done since changing my radio show format in January 2009 to Rewiring the Soul, listed according to category, as follows:Brain Training & Brain HealthBlogging & LifeChild AbuseNutrition & HealthPsychological & Energetic Techniques to Increase Your Well-Being SpiritualityAs more interviews have been completed, they will be added to this list, and you

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There is a beautiful quote by Jalal ad-Din Rumi that goes like this:When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.Isn't it true that when your soul is allowed to be your guide, you feel joy within? You almost don't even have to know what it is that your soul is guiding you towards, if you allow yourself to be steered by the joy you feel inside when you are moving in

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Sometimes the greatest things are free! PBS & Nova aired a documentary in late June that is currently available on line free of charge until July 7th here.In this magnificent film, based in part on psychiatrist Oliver Sacks' book Musicophilia, the astonishing power of the brain to recognize and appreciate music is explored by Sachs himself. Here is what the Nova site says about the film:Can the

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Another eye-opening article in Science Daily, this time about how we choose what we seek out and listen to."We swim in a sea of information, but filter out most of what we see and hear. A new analysis of data from dozens of studies sheds new light on how we choose what we do and do not hear. The study found that while people tend to avoid information that contradicts what they already think or

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