Rephael Perkel - Mind to Heart
Readings, reflections and insights on healing and transformation, spirituality and psychology

According to psychotherapist and author Eugene Gendlin PhD, traumatic experiences are stored in the body. In fact, all your accumulated...

The photograph on the right is of an insect relaxing on the wall of our recently rented overnight chalet in a Free State nature reserve....

You are influenced by your personality, but you have a choice not to be controlled by it. What could you accomplish if you stretched...

The deepest meaning of Chanukah is not that we transform the world by bringing light into the darkness. We transform ourselves by seeing...

This is the beautiful Chinese character for ‘Mindfulness’. The roof-like part at the top means ‘now’ or ‘this’ – in other words...

EFT heals trauma – case study explains how A young woman, Julia, came to see me in January 2013. She was suffering from debilitating...

Here’s more on the role of consciousness in the experience of pain and suffering. Dr Elisha Goldstein, in this illuminating extract from...

Psychiatrist Dr James Gordon’s illuminating perspective on depression and on the misuse of medication as treatment: Listen to this...

I’ve learned that underneath my neurotic behaviors lie unconscious purposes – usually to avoid some fear that I’m also unconscious of...

“The more we learn about neuroscience, the more we realize that human beings aren’t driven by our ability to analyze and cogitate about...

Are pain and suffering the same thing? Do they go together? Here’s a helpful perspective… #insight #courage #wisdom #emotion #perspective...

Liberation is not about freedom of the self. It’s about freedom from the self. – Osho As perfect as we may become – as evolved, as...

Humility does not mean you think less of yourself. It means you think of yourself less – Ken Blanchard

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” Marcel Proust Much of what holds us back in...

“Charity resolves the tension inherent between matter and spirit by freeing the material world from its self-absorbing tentacles” – Rabbi...

Nobody can fall so low unless he has a great depth. If such a thing can happen to a man, it challenges his best and highest on the other...

“Being a warrio… .

“Being a warrior isn’t about taking lives. Being a warrior isn’t about showing strength. Being a warrior is not showing how much...

Yes! If age gets in the way, then we’re in trouble. This applies to our cross-generational relationships. After all we’re all human. Can...

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