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As the Holidays Approach!
Warm regards to my participants past, present and future, to my trainees I’m mentoring, to those of you who are following me through my website, and all of my valued friends! As we approach the holidays, these can present challenges particular to each of us, such as:...
The Stubbornly Held Protective Attitude
In psychology, there is the term, “defense mechanism”: “Any of various usually unconscious mental processes, including denial, projection, rationalization, and repression, that protect the ego from shame, anxiety, conflict, loss of self-esteem, or other unacceptable...
Godliness Technique – Try it out!
Properly done, long enough, and often enough, this technique has enormous potential to bring about increasing and more consistent levels of spiritual liberation, and the attendant increased feeling of serenity and clarity of thought. We are constantly in a condition...
Practical Magic!
Sometimes, in a relationship (and by that I mean a relationship of any kind, intimate, familial, business, social, work, etc) the other person can, apparently inexplicably, insist on painting a false picture of something that has (or hasn’t) occurred between you, and...
“He is deeply grateful for the experience and I am deeply grateful for your trust in me”: A practitioner being mentored in Therapeutic Spiritual Counseling Speaks
E.T. is one of the practitioners I've been mentoring in my approach and my techniques currently. Today she has this to share with us: Hi Dex, I am very happy with how today's session turned out. We started with Resolution Technique, and then my participant said that...
Healing Your Relationship
We can often heal, fix and restore the magic of a relationshipwith the techniques of Therapeutic Spiritual Counseling for addressing relationships. You will be amazed at the difference it makes! The Opposition Process: Addresses the whole of the interactions between...
Solving and Relieving Conditions of Pain, Fear, Dysfunction and Disability
It is not uncommon at all to feel we are enveloped in a “bad energy cloud” of uncomfortable feelings. The bad feelings of the unwanted energies of traumatic experiences arise with us, and permeate our consciousness at times, or even, what seems to be, all of time. Our...
The roles of the counselor and the participant, in ensuring and accomplishing a smooth and effective counseling session experience
In my journey of learning, mastering, rewriting and creating techniques of spiritual liberation and self-enlightenment, I could not help but notice that existing systems for such things tend to be laden and encumbered with self-serving indoctrinations that detract...
One Simple Way to Make Life Better
I'm "one of those people" who has taken "the road less traveled", in a number of ways. We all have our reasons, right? My vocation and my passion are to help people recover their natural happiness, and I do it very well, albeit in unconventional ways. I think it may...
Honoring your Spiritual Compass: Realizing Greater Expression of Self through the Recognition, Acceptance and Application of the Natural Laws of Therapeutic Spiritual Counseling, a Book by Dexter Gelfand
For several years, I have been developing and accumulating material to be published in book form, and now that I’m nearing the finish line, I can let you in on what it's about. This is my realized vision, Therapeutic Spiritual Counseling. We all have our...