Editor's Note.Welcome to this issue of the Journal of Heart-Centered Therapies. We are pleased to be completing our fourth year of publication. Thank you to those authors who have contributed articles, and to Journal subscribers who have been reading it over the past several years. Copies of back issues are available. There is one article in this issue: Four Primary Existential Themes in Heart-Centered Therapies by Diane Zimberoff & David Hartman David Hartman may refer to:
Resistance is a fundamental stance toward life, prompted by deep prenatal prenatal /pre·na·tal/ (-na´tal) preceding birth. pre·na·tal adj. Preceding birth. Also called antenatal. prenatal preceding birth. anxiety over the existential predicament; access to it is provided by working through the entrenched en·trench also in·trench v. en·trenched, en·trench·ing, en·trench·es v.tr. 1. To provide with a trench, especially for the purpose of fortifying or defending. 2. defensive patterns elaborated here. Powerlessness is a second stance which sabotages full participation in life. Authentic, personal power is the healthy alternative. Confusion about one's identity is a third fundamental obstacle to self-actualization. The personal transformation process in mature adulthood must address the individual's need for continuing exploration of identity. Unworthiness is a fourth stance in life which undermines effective fulfillment. The single most effective defense in our resistance to life, in denying our personal power, in confusing our tree identity, and in promoting our unworthiness is the concealment of inner resources from oneself. The single most effective antidote antidote Remedy to counteract the effects of a poison or toxin. Administered by mouth, intravenously, or sometimes on the skin, it may work by directly neutralizing the poison; causing an opposite effect in the body; binding to the poison to prevent its absorption, to these entrenched defensive patterns is openness to experience Openness to experience is one of five major domains of personality discovered by psychologists (Goldberg, 1993; McCrae & John, 1992). Openness involves active imagination, aesthetic sensitivity, attentiveness to inner feelings, preference for variety, and intellectual curiosity . Bi-annual Conferences The Heart-Centered Therapies Association Conference has been a great experience for those in attendance each year: in 1998 in Atlanta; in 1999 in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of ; and in 2000 in New Orleans New Orleans (ôr`lēənz –lənz, ôrlēnz`), city (2006 pop. 187,525), coextensive with Orleans parish, SE La., between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, 107 mi (172 km) by water from the river mouth; founded . This year marks the beginning of our new schedule for the Conference -- every other year. The numerous presentations each year have been well-prepared and thought-provoking, experiential and practical. And the guest speakers have been outstanding. Everyone in attendance considered them to be a real success. Let us know if you'd like to present at the 2002 Conference. For additional information contact HCHA HCHA Harris County Housing Authority (Texas) Headquarters at the address on the Publications page at the back of the Journal. We're soliciting your preference on where to hold it. Where would you like to meet? New York? Seattle? Washington, DC? San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden ? Toronto? Consider submitting a manuscript for the March, 2002 issue of the Journal, and help us celebrate the fifth year of publication! The next Conference is scheduled for October 10-13, 2002. David Hartman, MSW Editor-in-Chief Heart-Centered Therapies Association, Issaquah, WA USA |
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