Jim Gates

  In my article on my website: psychological and spiritual dimensions of the 10 series I say that healing is about reclaiming our own personal power. As a practitioner I am supporting my client in that endeavor. It is their choice that has to be the ultimate decider of where we go. I think to really truly make good decisions about where we go in our life requires that we get in touch with how we really feel. Getting in touch with our feelings has to be the basis of healing and of living a life that is fulfilling,  joyful, and harmonious with who we are. So as a practitioner,  …

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A beautiful poem attributed to Charlie Chaplin. As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth. Today, I know, this is Authenticity. As I began to love myself I understood how much it can offend somebody if I try to force my desires on this person, even though I knew the time was not right and the person was not ready for it, and even though this person was me. Today I call this Respect. As I began to love myself I stopped craving for a different life, and I could see that …

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Human beings have contemplated the issue of fate vs choice, and the issue of free will since the beginning of thought. Our current society still struggles with this question; in philosophy, religion, science, social issues, medicine. Here I want to look at it in the field of healing, particularly our own healing and well-being at the individual level. People come to me because they want their life to be better. Maybe they are suffering or they want to have a better quality of life now and in the future and haven’t found that the choices they have discovered so far are satisfying to them. …

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