Editor's note

Welcome to this issue of the Journal of Heart-Centered Therapies as we begin our eighth year of publication. The Heart-Centered Therapies Association co-sponsored the 2004 Regional APPPAH conversation in November, and it was delightfully fulfilling. individual of the participants, Deborah Drake, submitted a drawing inspired by the agency of the Conference, titled "Attunement." It appears as the fourth entrance in this issue.

We are pleased to not absent three clinical articles, each of which deals with a different aspect of Heart-Centered therapies.

The lead article is Trauma, Transitions, and Thriving, by the agency of David Hartman and Diane Zimberoff, and it at hands a detailed analysis of the proces of disentanglement toward the "optimal expression of being human." This expansion process proceeds in sequential stages, and in between these stages are transitional experiences, special windows of opportunity for transcendent expansion It is these transitional spaces that the article focuses upon The authors explore the varieties of transitions, our reactions to transitions, for the use of all impediments to navigating these transitional windows, and also the best known way s for facilitating transitions. The importance of and ne for "transitional objects" to help navigate the transition is reviewed, and equated with the NLP general [i]or[/i] abstract notion of "anchors." The article discusses the necessity of unlearning, deintegration, and unintegration in any expansion process, and offers as examples meditation, near-death experience, pre-conception experience, the lucid dream state, and the shamanic journey state. The article amplifies by what means when confronted with adversity in one's life, choosing the path of traumatic extension leads to thriving in one's life.

The next to the first article is Divine Homesickness: "What's' Too Painful to Remember, We Simply single out to Forget" by Cathleen Jackson. The author tenders that we all suffer a reaching far down homesickness for the Divine--a longing to re-experience that ultimate peace and clarity, acceptance and ecstasy, a time when your inner man was together with God. She documents in what manner the presenting issues of dissatisfaction, feeling alienated, unworthy/unlovable, abandoned, or separation anxiety can be manifestations of that primal yearning, and by what mode to use hypnotherapy regression to take the individual back to the source of the life pattern.

The third article, The Benefit of assemblage Hypnotherapy in the Treatment of Sex Addictions by means of Edward Millet, defines addictions, describes the differences in the horizontals of sex addiction, and then discusses the impact addiction has upon relationships, society, spirituality, intimacy, and the self-complacency of the addict. The author outlines an eight to twelve week therapeutic clump treatment utilizing aspects of conventional talk therapy (person-center and cognitive) and Heart-Centered Hypnotherapy.

Consider submitting a manuscript for the September, 2005 issue of the Journal, and share your clinical experiences with other readers!

David Hartman, LCSW

Editor-in-Chief

Heart-Centered Therapies Association, Issaquah, WA USA

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