Zusatztext "The program in this book is the finest and most complete expression of what healing and spirituality are all about. If it was the only book available on psychospiritual transformation! it would be enough." --Joan Borysenko! co-founder of the Harvard Mind-Body Clinic! author of Minding the Body! Mending the Mind "The Hoffman Process brings forth spiritual leadership in a person. It made my spirituality come alive. Through the Hoffman Process I actually brought my faith into my daily actions." --Ken Blanchard! Ph.D.! Chair! Blanchard Training and Development! Inc.! Author of One-Minute Manager "The Hoffman Process is the most effective method I know for releasing your original pain and connecting deeply and joyously with your Soul. I recommend it without reservation." --John Bradshaw! author of Creative Love ! Homecoming ! The Family and Healing the Shame That Binds You "This was an experience more profoundly healing than I imagined possible." --Susan Griffin M.A.! Emmy Winner and Pulitzer nominee! Author of several books! including A Chorus Of Stones Informationen zum Autor Tim Laurence Klappentext For more than 35 years, the Hoffman Process has been recognized as one of the most potent transformational processes; however, the 8-day residential program is out of reach for most people. Now, Tim Laurence reveals this powerful methodology with warmth and clarity. Using practical exercises, personal stories, case histories, and insightful commentary, Laurence skillfully teaches how to identify and resolve the inherited patterns of behavior that cause emotional and spiritual pain. In this book readers will learn powerful ways to: Break the compulsive patterns that run your life, exercise your own free will, and regain control of your thoughts and behavior Free up energy by releasing your pent-up resentments and directly experience your own spirituality Identify what you really want in life, and finally make the changes you have been putting off for years The Hoffman Process is endorsed by an extraordinary array of experts and leaders from all walks of life, and it includes the results of a grant research study proving the long-term effectiveness of the Process. 1 FED UP WITH TRYING TO CHANGE? God regards with merciful eyes not what you are nor what you have been, but what you wish to be. the cloud of unknowing H ave you tried to change but, even with the best of intentions, ended up doing the same old things in the same old ways? You've read the books, taken various courses, and bought the T-shirt, made firm resolutions and even told all your friends about those promises, only to return swiftly to the same old place in your life? Sometimes you even feel worse and then you beat yourself up for breaking your own promises. You still feel overweight, you're still dissatisfied in the same job, you still follow the same old cycle of I love you and can't live without youI hate you and don't ever want to see you again in your relationships. Sound familiar? Bob Hoffman was working in San Francisco, leading individual sessions, when it became clear that he was often hearing the same old stories about people getting stuck. His clients were usually the world-weary types who had tried just about everything else and had come to him through desperation. He felt there had to be another way beyond merely talking things through. What could enable someone to change fundamentally? Over the course of several years, he came to develop his own practice of moving people through the blocks in their lives. He earned a very solid reputation among a circle of San Francisco area psychiatrists and therapists by helping some of their toughest clients. They had referred these people when more-traditional methods failed. From 1967 u...

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Tim Laurence

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For more than 35 years, the Hoffman Process has been recognized as one of the most potent transformational processes; however, the 8-day residential program is out of reach for most people. Now, Tim Laurence reveals this powerful methodology with warmth and clarity. Using practical exercises, personal stories, case histories, and insightful commentary, Laurence skillfully teaches how to identify and resolve the inherited patterns of behavior that cause emotional and spiritual pain. In this book readers will learn powerful ways to:

Break the compulsive patterns that run your life, exercise your own free will, and regain control of your thoughts and behavior
Free up energy by releasing your pent-up resentments and directly experience your own spirituality
Identify what you really want in life, and finally make the changes you have been putting off for years

The Hoffman Process is endorsed by an extraordinary array of experts and leaders from all walks of life, and it includes the results of a grant research study proving the long-term effectiveness of the Process.

Leseprobe
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FED UP WITH
TRYING TO CHANGE?

*God regards with merciful eyes not what you are nor
what you have been, but what you wish to be.

*the cloud of unknowing

Have you tried to change but, even with the best of intentions, ended up doing the same old things in the same old ways? You’ve read the books, taken various courses, and bought the T-shirt, made firm resolutions and even told all your friends about those promises, only to return swiftly to the same old place in your life? Sometimes you even feel worse and then you beat yourself up for breaking your own promises. You still feel overweight, you’re still dissatisfied in the same job, you still follow the same old cycle of “I love you and can’t live without you—I hate you and don’t ever want to see you again” in your relationships. Sound familiar?

Bob Hoffman was working in San Francisco, leading individual sessions, when it became clear that he was often hearing the same old stories about people getting stuck. His clients were usually the world-weary types who had tried just about everything else and had come to him through desperation. He felt there had to be another way beyond merely talking things through. What could enable someone to change fundamentally? Over the course of several years, he came to develop his own practice of moving people through the blocks in their lives. He earned a very solid reputation among a circle of San Francisco area psychiatrists and therapists by helping some of their toughest clients. They had referred these people when more-traditional methods failed.

From 1967 until his death in 1997, he worked first in the US, then in South America and continental Europe, and, finally, in the UK. The culmination of his techniques was the Hoffman Process, a sequence of exercises that moves us from Awareness of our blocks to finding Expression for them, followed by self Forgiveness and, finally, *New Behavior.

*BOB WHO?
When I first met Bob Hoffman, I had an interview with him that probably lasted not much more than half an hour. But during that short time, he managed to touch me deeply. I cried for the first time in months, suddenly aware of my sense of loneliness. I got angry at the injustice I had felt as a child. I laughed at his crazy wisdom. With his help I saw a higher reality, beyond my normal consciousness. This is how I want to live, I told myself as I left the interview. *I want to feel all parts of me fully alive again.

*Bob was part genius, part crazy fool. He was the wisest of men and the simplest. I never saw him reading a book on psychology, but he knew more about the human mind than most of my former teachers put together. He was deadly serious about helping people to leave their pain behind and had a terrible sense of humor that delighted in appalling puns. He could melt you with his doleful eyes and find the right buttons to drive you madly angry. He could call you a sensitive, loving person and an hour la…