 January 1, 2012
HealingHeartPower Newsletter
Reclaiming the Power of the Heart |
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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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HealingHeartPower Calendar
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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.
January 27
Willingness: The Key to Successful Relationships
(Part 2)
at the home of Margaret Arndt and David Sneickus
Newton, MA
Upcoming
Community As Healer
Open enrollment workshop
Newton, MA 1 - 4 pm
April 22
Voices of Boys and Men
Benefit Concert for
Boys to Men New England
Scullers Jazz Club
Boston, 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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 Articles in this issue are: "How Love Evokes Our Unloveable Parts," building on last month's article about incompatibility providing a pathway to deepens relationships, "Why Need Isn't a Four-Letter Word," exploring why we feel shame when we need, and why asking for what we need is so important for healthy relationships.
The Willingness: The Key to Successful Relationships workshop at the home of Margaret Arndt and David Sneickus in Auburndale was very well attended and a big success. Willingness: Part 2 will take place on Friday, January 27 at 7 pm at Margaret and David's house. Contact msarndt@verizon.net for more information.
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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.  | | Linda Marks, MSM |
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."
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 How Love Evokes Our Unloveable Parts | |
Last month, I wrote
about how what might appear to be incompatibility in a relationship,
might actually provide a pathway to deepen love. In the mirror of
love,
as intimacy grows, we feel safe to be more of who we are. We can then
take the risk of letting our wounded, unhealed, and less developed
parts, the parts we might fear are"unloveable," surface, for the purpose
of healing.
Sometimes this happens
consciously. But often, it happens subconsciously or unconsciously. In
the safety of love, our defenses start to melt, and our shadow parts
emerge, the way a shoot emerges from a tulip bulb buried under the
earth, sensing that spring is coming soon.
Initially, we may be
horrified to feel so exposed, and to feel the discomfort of the parts we
judge as unloveable. What we reject, we distance from. This creates a
barrier to intimacy with both self and partner.
To read this entire article...
Copyright 2011 Linda Marks |
| Workshops: Willingness: The Key to Successful Relationships and Community As Healerl |
This
winter, I will be doing two workshops periodically, one on
relationships at the home of Margaret Arndt and David Sneickus in
Auburndale, and Community As Healer here in Newtonville. The next Willingness relationships workshop is on Friday, January 27.
Willingness: The Key to Successful Relationships:
Part 2
How do we create and
sustain happy, healthy relationships? Nowhere in school, at work or in
our families are we given a road map of how to create successful
relationships and how to work through the inevitable obstacles that come
our way as intimacy deepens...or just through the way life unfolds.
How do we create and
sustain happy, healthy relationships? Nowhere in school, at work or in
our families are we given a road map of how to create successful
relationships and how to work through the inevitable obstacles that come
our way as intimacy deepens...or just through the way life unfolds.
Building on the material covered in the November "Willingness" workshop, this evening talk will review "willingness"
and why it is the key factor for happy and healthy relationships, and
will offer more coaching tips to help people work more deeply with
challenges, rather than blame, shut down or walk away.
We will explore tools to
help work through issues to keep a relationship healthy and growing,
practices of willingness, appreciation and goodwill to nurture and
sustain relationships over time, balancing self-care and care for
others, and gendner differences that can cause unconscious blocks to
communication.
Contact Margaret at msarndt@verizon.net
*************************************************************************************************************** "Community As Healer Workshop"
In
EKP, there are four roles: client, therapist, witness and helper, and
when anyone has a turn, everyone has a turn due to the impact of the
cardiac energy field. Workshop participants will have a chance to be
helper and witness as well as client, so in any one turn, more people
can be actively involved. By being with others in the healing process,
one might say the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, and each
individual benefits from the healing work of others.
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| ,Why Need Isn't A Four Letter Word |
We
are taught very early that being "needy" is undesireable. Our culture
reveres self-reliance, sometimes to a pathological extreme. And our
"needs" are often considered dirty, shameful or bad. "Need" is often
treated like a "four letter word," but to our detriment.
When
we are children, our needs reflect what is required to keep us alive,
initially physically, and eventually emotionally and spiritually as
well. Today's culture focuses more on the existence of and value for
our basic and higher human needs as individuals than in past eras. In
prior generations, more attention was paid to how we conformed to
societally defined roles. We were molded to fit the roles, rather than
developed as unique human beings with inherent worth.
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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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