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I consider a significant part of my responsibility
to be teaching clients that the stories they tell, the words they use, and the thoughts they hold impact their lives - and
the lives of others - at the deepest level. To this end, I provide them with practical skills for shifting their words and
thinking, something that helps them change not only their experiences, but their very reality.
The landmark text on
mind, matter and spirit, The Science of Mind (pub. 1938) by Christian metaphysician and philosopher, Dr. Ernest Holmes, has
been a significant teaching tool in my life regarding this critical wisdom and provides the jumping off point for my work
with clients in this realm. In Holmes's day, the teaching was part of the New Thought movement. Holmes referred to the work
as "affirmative prayer." Modern day teachers refer to it by other names, including "the science of deliberate creation."
Whatever
name one uses, the work itself is one of the four foundational cornerstones in this counseling practice because of its ability
to show us what we are holding onto that no longer serves. More often than not, we are then automatically led into emotional
clearing work, the work of our letting go. The next stage is the deeper place of an embodied acknowledgment of our worthiness,
in which we are able finally to feel both compassion and love for ourselves. When this happens, of course our hearts cannot
help but open to the rest of our kin.
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