 June 1, 2011
HealingHeartPower Newsletter
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About Linda
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Linda
Marks, MSM, is pioneer in body psychotherapy who has developed, taught
and practiced Emotional-Kinesthetic Psychotherapy (EKP) for more than
two decades. Author of LIVING WITH VISION and HEALING THE WAR BETWEEN THE GENDERS,
she co-founded the Massachusetts Association of Body Psychotherapists
and Counseling Bodyworkers and is the founder of the Boston Area
Sexuality and Spirituality Network. She holds degrees from Yale and MIT,
and has a vital 15-year-old son.
To find out more about Linda . . .
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If you would like to apprentice in EKP, you may want to consider participating in a half-day EKP workshop or be part of the Community As Healer group.
The Sunday night
EKP Therapy Group
has room for new members. If you would like to be part of a committed
long-term group using EKP, this is a very special group. An interview
and one EKP session are required to apply. Contact Linda if you are
interested at LSMHEART@aol.com
Now
Sunday Night EKP Therapy Group
seeks new members
6 - 8 pm
Newton, MA
June 19 Community As Healer 1/2 day workshop 1:00 - 4:00 pm Newton,MA July 19 Community As Healer 1/2 day workshop 1:00 - 4:00 pm Newton, MA August 5 Community As Healer Evening workshop 8:30 - 10 pm Newton, MA contact msarndt@verizon.net
Upcoming
Healing and Nourishing Your Heart
Emerson Hospital
Concord, MA
If you would like
to train in EKP, contact Linda.
If you would like to sponsor a Healing the Traumatized Heart workshop, a Community As Healer workshop, or have a group of people who you would like to bring EKP to, please contact LSMHEART@aol.com.To find out more . . .
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| Community As HealerJune |
 Articles in this issue are: "Love, Money and Stuff," looking at how "consumption" of "stuff" is used to fill an emotional/relational void , "Time and Money," revealing how as ones paycheck increases, one's sense of available time decreases, and "Virtual Thievery" about
my recent experience with an incredibly sophisticated attempt at an
internet scam, where someone wrote to me seeking therapy, but turned out
to have another agenda.
My monthly Sunday afternoon Community As Healer gathering will next meet in Newton on June 19. Together
we can create safe healing space in the larger world, and
empower people to literally, "lend a helping hand."
The Sunday night EKP therapy group seeks new members.
It is a wonderful way to do deep healing work in a safe, community
space, and work on vision and goals as well. You can also "like us" on our HealingHeartPower Facebook page. By "liking us", you will be notified whenever a new blog post is published. 376924925048
Your comments and feedback are always welcome!
Heartfully,
Linda |
What is EKP?
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is Emotional-Kinesthetic Psychotherapy, a heart-centered, body-centered
psychotherapy method Linda Marks developed and has taught and practiced
for nearly twenty years. Working with the heart, touch with permission,
the wisdom of the body and the intuitive guidance of the spirit, EKP
creates a special sense of intimacy that deeply touches and transforms
most all who participate.
Participants can be "client," witness
or helper as an individual group member has a "turn" to do deeper
heart-centered, body-centered psychospiritual work in the center. Since
the electromagnetic field of the heart extends out 10 - 12 feet from our
bodies, as we go deeper and open our hearts, we are all touched.
EKP
helps restore our capacity as organs of perception. The skin is our
largest organ, and a source of soul deep knowing, perception and
expression. When our hearts and hands can work as one, we move beyond
defenses safely and respectfully and find freedom, connection and
expression.
COMMUNITY AS HEALER
Friday August 5 8:30 - 10 pm
at the home of Margaret Arndt and David Sneickus
This
evening workshop provides an opportunity for you to be part of a
healing community. Using EKP, you will have a chance to literally "lend a helping hand," and experience the power of the heart that comes with literally "reaching out to touch someone," with permission, as part of a healing team.
Emotional
safety is the foundation of EKP. When we are emotionally safe, we are
more aware of feelings, sensations and deeper thoughts in our bodies and
hearts. You will have a chance to listen to and care for your heart as
you help create and hold a safe healing space for everyone's heart.
Experience what we mean when we say that in EKP, "when anyone has a turn, everyone has a turn."
For more information, contact msarndt@verizon.net
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 Love, Money and Stuff | |
A recent article in Time Magazine, reported a new psychology study
that reveals
that "people who feel loved and accepted by others place lower monetary
values on material possessions than folks who feel insecure and
unloved." When people don't feel valued and appreciated by other
people, they turn to stuff to fill the emotional and relational void.
There are many
psychological studies on how we compensate when we don't get what we
really need. Most addictions are rooted in this kind of compensating
behavior. And because the secondary source we turn to (food, work,
money, stuff) often still leaves us feeling incomplete in some way, we
keep wanting more and more. We can't get enough of what we don't really
need.
For the entire article...
Copyright 2011 Linda Marks |
| Time and Money |
What
might be at the heart of our "crazybusy," time-crunched way of life in
today's world? It may not just be more things to do, according to
research by organizational behavior professors Sanford DeVoe of the
University of Toronto and Jeffrey Pfeffer of Stanford University. Professors
DeVoe and Pfeffer actually trace the roots of "the modern time bind" to
rising income over the past several decades. Apparently, as people's
pay rises, the stress they internalize to do more faster increases.
When a person is paid less, they feel more permission to go at their own
pace. ©2011 Linda Marks
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| ,Virtual Thievery |
We
all know about the internet scams involving supposed death bed stories
in Nigeria or inheritances waiting to be claimed by long lost previously
unknown relatives. However, imagine you receive what appears to be a
sincere note from a potential client seeking therapy or another form of
healing, and proceed to exchange e-mails over one month's time setting
up sessions times, and discussing your work and fee structure, only to
discover days before the first session is supposed to take place, that
the whole "relationship" is actually just an attempt at stealing money
in an internet scam?
This happened to me over the past month, when a person who posed as
an American in London for business, wrote to seek counseling regarding
the end of a relationship upon "her" return to Boston at the end of
May. Like many out of town clients I have worked with, she offered to
send a check for the 4 weekly sessions she booked prior to her
first face to face session. However, when the check arrived, it was for
$2500 more than the cost of 4 therapy sessions. While it looked like a
bank check, my intuitive alarm was sounded after I wrote and asked if I
should just cash the check and give her the extra when I saw her later
in the week.
She wrote back and asked me to send her the $2500 by Moneygram,
claiming to need the money for her trip to Boston. That did not make
sense. I would have expected her to have already purchased her plane
ticket 3 days before her intended arrival in Boston. I took the check
to my local bank, and discussed the situation with the teller
supervisor. He said it would take 2 weeks to determine if the check was
counterfeit or real, but the fact that it was so much more than the fee
this woman owed smelly fishy. He would not cash the check since he
wanted to protect me. Glad I asked!
When I wrote to the woman to say my bank would not cash the check, I heard nothing back. Poof!
Beware the internet thievery may be taking on more and more sophisticated forms!
Copyright 2011 Linda Marks
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My first blog at www.heartspacecafe.com/blog
will still be active, but it is built in forum software, which many
people find more cumbersome to use than official "blog" software. In an effort to cultivate more dialogue in more contemporarily relevant ways, my new blog at HealingHeartPower.blogspot.com is user friendly, and even something you can subscribe to. Please let me know what you think of this new blog. |
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