The Hoffman Process: The World-Famous Technique That Empowers You to Forgive You

Description: The Hoffman Process by Tim Laurence, Joan Borysenko Readers learn how to let go of the past and break compulsive patterns with the help of the powerful methodology of the Hoffman Process. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description For more than 35 years, the Hoffman Process has been recognized as one of the most potent transformational processes; however, the 8-day residential program is out of reach for most people. Now, Tim Laurence reveals this powerful methodology with warmth and clarity. Using practical exercises, personal stories, case histories, and insightful commentary, Laurence skillfully teaches how to identify and resolve the inherited patterns of behavior that cause emotional and spiritual pain. In this book readers will learn powerful ways to:Break the compulsive patterns that run your life, exercise your own free will, and regain control of your thoughts and behaviorFree up energy by releasing your pent-up resentments and directly experience your own spiritualityIdentify what you really want in life, and finally make the changes you have been putting off for yearsThe Hoffman Process is endorsed by an extraordinary array of experts and leaders from all walks of life, and it includes the results of a grant research study proving the long-term effectiveness of the Process. Author Biography Tim Laurence is the founder of the Hoffman Institute UK and director of Hoffman International, who organizes the Hoffman Process in 14 countries. He spent much of his adult life in the United States, where he studied with Bob Hoffman. He is now married and has two sons. Review "The program in this book is the finest and most complete expression of what healing and spirituality are all about. If it was the only book available on psychospiritual transformation, it would be enough."--Joan Borysenko, co-founder of the Harvard Mind-Body Clinic, author of Minding the Body, Mending the Mind"The Hoffman Process brings forth spiritual leadership in a person. It made my spirituality come alive. Through the Hoffman Process I actually brought my faith into my daily actions."--Ken Blanchard, Ph.D., Chair, Blanchard Training and Development, Inc., Author of One-Minute Manager"The Hoffman Process is the most effective method I know for releasing your original pain and connecting deeply and joyously with your Soul. I recommend it without reservation." --John Bradshaw, author of Creative Love, Homecoming, The Family and Healing the Shame That Binds You "This was an experience more profoundly healing than I imagined possible." --Susan Griffin M.A., Emmy Winner and Pulitzer nominee, Author of several books, including A Chorus Of Stones Review Quote "The program in this book is the finest and most complete expression of what healing and spirituality are all about. If it was the only book available on psychospiritual transformation, it would be enough." --Joan Borysenko, co-founder of the Harvard Mind-Body Clinic, author ofMinding the Body, Mending the Mind "The Hoffman Process brings forth spiritual leadership in a person. It made my spirituality come alive. Through the Hoffman Process I actually brought my faith into my daily actions." --Ken Blanchard, Ph.D., Chair, Blanchard Training and Development, Inc., Author ofOne-Minute Manager "The Hoffman Process is the most effective method I know for releasing your original pain and connecting deeply and joyously with your Soul. I recommend it without reservation." --John Bradshaw, author ofCreative Love,Homecoming,The FamilyandHealing the Shame That Binds You "This was an experience more profoundly healing than I imagined possible." --Susan Griffin M.A., Emmy Winner and Pulitzer nominee, Author of several books, includingA Chorus Of Stones Excerpt from Book 1 FED UP WITH TRYING TO CHANGE? God regards with merciful eyes not what you are nor what you have been, but what you wish to be. the cloud of unknowing H ave you tried to change but, even with the best of intentions, ended up doing the same old things in the same old ways? Youve read the books, taken various courses, and bought the T-shirt, made firm resolutions and even told all your friends about those promises, only to return swiftly to the same old place in your life? Sometimes you even feel worse and then you beat yourself up for breaking your own promises. You still feel overweight, youre still dissatisfied in the same job, you still follow the same old cycle of "I love you and cant live without you--I hate you and dont ever want to see you again" in your relationships. Sound familiar? Bob Hoffman was working in San Francisco, leading individual sessions, when it became clear that he was often hearing the same old stories about people getting stuck. His clients were usually the world-weary types who had tried just about everything else and had come to him through desperation. He felt there had to be another way beyond merely talking things through. What could enable someone to change fundamentally? Over the course of several years, he came to develop his own practice of moving people through the blocks in their lives. He earned a very solid reputation among a circle of San Francisco area psychiatrists and therapists by helping some of their toughest clients. They had referred these people when more-traditional methods failed. From 1967 until his death in 1997, he worked first in the US, then in South America and continental Europe, and, finally, in the UK. The culmination of his techniques was the Hoffman Process, a sequence of exercises that moves us from Awareness of our blocks to finding Expression for them, followed by self Forgiveness and, finally, New Behavior. BOB WHO? When I first met Bob Hoffman, I had an interview with him that probably lasted not much more than half an hour. But during that short time, he managed to touch me deeply. I cried for the first time in months, suddenly aware of my sense of loneliness. I got angry at the injustice I had felt as a child. I laughed at his crazy wisdom. With his help I saw a higher reality, beyond my normal consciousness. This is how I want to live, I told myself as I left the interview. I want to feel all parts of me fully alive again. Bob was part genius, part crazy fool. He was the wisest of men and the simplest. I never saw him reading a book on psychology, but he knew more about the human mind than most of my former teachers put together. He was deadly serious about helping people to leave their pain behind and had a terrible sense of humor that delighted in appalling puns. He could melt you with his doleful eyes and find the right buttons to drive you madly angry. He could call you a sensitive, loving person and an hour later say you were being a two-faced phony. He did not live by the normal rules and took great risks in--as he put it with characteristic lack of modesty--"pushing people toward Heaven." So if he discovered or just sensed that you were stuck in a pattern, he would march right in there, all five feet six of him, with his psychic surgeons knife. Bob Hoffman was not a qualified psychologist or psychiatrist. His knowledge of the human condition was one based on his intuition, as well as direct experience--of his own life and the lives of his clients. He was a formidable natural psychologist, a gift shared by many people who closely watch the cast of characters and their display of human nature around us. Perhaps it was his lack of formal education that enabled Bob to see through the layers of denial in his clients. When I first tried to blind him with my own knowledge--terrified, of course, that he might see the real me underneath--he looked at me kindly but directly in the eyes and said, "You cant fool me. Im too ignorant." Bob was a gifted psychic and wanted to use his gift to help others. He realized that the brightest of people could fall into self-destructive behavior, so the answer could not lie in intellectual reasoning. He saw that there was a gap in our comprehension of the world, a gap that no body of teaching had yet approached. The gap, Bob realized, was that we learn our habits emotionally; therefore, we can only come to healing by releasing emotionally. This could not be done by talking. It had to be done by expressing the full range of emotions and then arriving at a complete sense of compassion for our parents and ourselves. It was to be a new education, a reeducation of the emotional part of ourselves. He tested out this theory, and it worked--so much so that the professional community started beating a path to his door. He was persuaded to train a group of therapists in his method. Now, Bob was never really one to write things down. Fortunately for him, he found willing helpers to transcribe what came to him naturally. He named his theory the Negative Love Syndrome, and the four-part model of our being, the Quadrinity. THE PROCESS: THERAPY, EDUCATION, AND RITUAL As a method of change, the techniques you are going to be using work in a variety of ways. They provide a bridge that few others have ever been able to build or even imagined building. Its a bridge that connects the therapeutic benefits of "self-inquiry" to the world of "education" and to the methods and practices of "ritual." As personal growth, the Process helps to identify and resolve issues of the past that affect our present lives, whether they involve relationships, work, or career, or our roles as parents or as spiritual beings. It is not, however, concerned with making a diagnosis and listing personality disorders. Bob used to say, "These are your patterns of behavior," but quickly would add, "but they are only patterns--you yourself are much more." Instead, the Process aims to build up a healthy sense of self that does not need to rely on others, especially parental and authority figures, but that can stand independent and willing to take responsibility for its own actions. A healthy ego is one that is centered in itself first and has worked on its own development through the various stages, from the healthy "no" of a two-year-old, through the rebellion of a teenager, to leaving home both literally and metaphorically when we come of age. As education, the Process teaches that we can be led out (the Latin e-ducare means exactly that) of old patterns of behavior and can be taught--or, more importantly, teach ourselves--new ways of being. It is a very emotional education, meaning that we feel our way through it, and by that method it lodges deeper within our own learning system. Without it, we would always have to have someone either doing the fishing for us or being paid to teach us how to fish. This way we can go out and find food for our own nourishment. As ritual, the Process makes real this passage into the world of self responsibility. You may be already familiar with the work of Joseph Campbell, who spent his entire life inquiring into the universal rituals of the Heros Journey. The stages he identified were: * Separation--we leave our everyday world * Initiation--we go through a series of tests * Return--we take our learnings back into everyday life So it is with the Hoffman Process. Doing this work, you are taking time out of your regular life to undergo a set of tasks and challenges, a kind of inner search for the dragon. You confront this dragon, slay it (or sit down and have a cup of tea with it, learning the gift it can offer us), and then go back into your regular life again to apply what you have learned. You are forever "marked" by this ritual. THE HUMAN CONDITION: FOUR ASPECTS MAKE US WHOLE The three pillars of personal growth, education, and ritual build firm foundations upon which we can turn from a human doing into a human being. The Quadrinity Model plays a key role. Bob Hoffman explained that we are composed of four parts, which he labeled the Quadrinity. These four parts are: * our Emotions or feelings * our Intellect or thoughts * our Spirit or essence * our Physical realm or body All four parts will be involved as you work through this book. Our emotional self develops from birth onward. Its function is to provide us with the feelings and emotions needed in order to develop enjoyable and productive relationships with others as well as ourselves. We need relationships to belong, to love and to be loved. When we experience any form of emotional deprivation as children, we acquire feelings of rejection, humiliation, abandonment, and betrayal, which we recreate in our subsequent relationships. Our emotional well-being and growth can be stunted, and we do not mature emotionally. And childish patterns can remain. We say "no" without thinking or automatically reply "I cant do that" when facing a new challenge. We are petrified of standing up and speaking in public. "What if I get criticized?" says the emotional self childishly. The intellectual self develops from around six years onward. Its function is to provide us with clear thought and reason in order to make decisions in a healthy and rational way. It is required for the development of reason and to ensure survival as we continue to grow and mature. We are driven forward in the world by our need to know. When this is not encouraged or is overstressed in childhood, we develop feelings of Details ISBN0553382764 Author Joan Borysenko Short Title HOFFMAN PROCESS Pages 288 Language English ISBN-10 0553382764 ISBN-13 9780553382761 Media Book Format Paperback Illustrations Yes Year 2004 Subtitle The World-Famous Technique That Empowers You to Forgive Your Past, Heal Your Present, and Transform Your Future DOI 10.1604/9780553382761 Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2004-06-01 NZ Release Date 2004-06-01 US Release Date 2004-06-01 UK Release Date 2004-06-01 Place of Publication New York Publisher Random House USA Inc Publication Date 2004-06-01 Imprint Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Div of Random House, Inc DEWEY 616.8914 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:141706431;

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