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Rephael Perkel - Mind to Heart
Readings, reflections and insights on healing and transformation, spirituality and psychology
The mind is a marvelous servant but a lousy master.
Either it serves us, or, by worshiping it, we end up serving it. When we become slavishly devoted to the dictates of our rational mind,...
Rephael Mendel Perkel
Nov 14, 20181 min read
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A Note on Fear
It is not the unknown that we fear the most. Rather, it is what we imagine the unknown will be, that frightens us the most. #fear...
Rephael Mendel Perkel
Sep 10, 20141 min read
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Trauma release – why a mind-body approach is essential
According to psychotherapist and author Eugene Gendlin PhD, traumatic experiences are stored in the body. In fact, all your accumulated...
Rephael Mendel Perkel
Mar 10, 20142 min read
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About Mindfulness
This is the beautiful Chinese character for ‘Mindfulness’. The roof-like part at the top means ‘now’ or ‘this’ – in other words...
Rephael Mendel Perkel
Sep 12, 20131 min read
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Further Reflections on Pain and Suffering
Here’s more on the role of consciousness in the experience of pain and suffering. Dr Elisha Goldstein, in this illuminating extract from...
Rephael Mendel Perkel
Aug 15, 20131 min read
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Discovering my authentic self
I’ve learned that underneath my neurotic behaviors lie unconscious purposes – usually to avoid some fear that I’m also unconscious of...
Rephael Mendel Perkel
Aug 1, 20131 min read
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