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My motivation for teaching
I want to share with you my motivation for creating the “How to Fill the Empty Cup” course and by extension for creating the “Positive Actions Bring Positive Results” webinar as an introduction to the course. If I look inside … Continue reading
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Tagged logotherapy, Logotherapy courses, motivation, Viktor Frankl
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Unhealthy and Healthy Detachment
There are two different phenomena that take place when we relate to unwanted reality: unhealthy and healthy detachment. Unhealthy detachment manifests in the phenomenon of dissociation – withdrawal from reality in the face of a traumatic or stressful situation. This … Continue reading
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Tagged detachment, dissociation, healthy relationship, positive change, taking a stand
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One Simple Trick
There’s a scene in Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance where the main character has an argument with his friends about how fast they’re riding. They came to an agreement that his friends would go on ahead and wait … Continue reading
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Tagged arvut, community, enmeshment, self-interest, unity
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Free at Last
The post immediately before this one was actually written a few weeks ago. It didn’t get published for some reason. I said in it that I hoped I’d get more comments than spam. Alas, I’ve gotten more spam but for … Continue reading
Macrobiotic Thanksgiving
I went to a delicious macrobiotic thanksgiving feast yesterday. The table was as tastefully arranged as the food to the palate. There were little decorative ceramic flower place setting with the name of each person carefully inserted in each one. … Continue reading
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Tagged community, health, immune system, macrobiotic, thanksgiving
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The Long and Windy Road
Life is a long and windy road. As Steve Jobs once said, you can only connect the dots backward. You can’t connect the dots forward. So what are you supposed to do when you’re going forward and you can’t see … Continue reading
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Tagged book reports, evoking meaning, faith, meaningful life, Steve Jobs, The Prime Ministers
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Words: An Allusion to the Unsaid
Looking for a quote I came across a beautiful website about living life fully. I had been looking for a poem by Blake which I mistakenly thought was written by e.e.Cummings and also mistakenly thought it included something about seeing … Continue reading
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Tagged Blake, expression, grain of sand, logotherapy, poetry, words
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Logotherapeutic Torah Dialogue
LTD (Logotherapeutic Torah Dialogue) is a workshop on offer to Jewish educators in the Jerusalem area. Feel free to distribute. Logotherapeutic Torah Dialogue: an intimate dialogue with life Logotherapy is the philosophy, psychotherapy and art of living created by Dr. … Continue reading
Logotherapy interview transcribed
For the visual among you, the following is a transcription of my interview of September 14 on the Arutz 7 Judean Eve show. After the transcription I have added selections from my personal notes that due to the flow of … Continue reading
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Tagged Arutz 7, attitude, dialogue, logotherapy, meaningful choices, potential, psychology, psychotherapy, world view
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Sequel to the Accident
As it turns out, the accident was totally not my fault. The woman in the car in front of me called me today and I asked her what she remembers about the sequence of events. She said she’s absolutely sure … Continue reading