Holding on to Hope

Keeping yourself inspired and motivated resides in the same family as holding on to hope. Some of this hope may come about thanks to others in our environment who help us keep having hopeful thoughts and emotions, such as friends and family, but some may come about because we're out there, learning and reading and listening, and may realize - thanks to that pro-activity - that there is hope regarding whatever it is we wish to bring about or achieve after all, due to the information gleaned from it.

The short message today is that if you've attempted to find inspiration or motivation by the usual means (i.e., immersing yourself in material by writers and speakers who inspire and motivate), and it just has not worked, and if you are not getting enough (or any) words of hope from members of your immediate environment, you might just find that you will find hope by expanding your horizons.

Think: what are your sources of reading or viewing or listening on a typical day? How about reading outside those parameters? Perhaps - if you are, for example, an artist - you would benefit from information derived from the world of business. Making it a habit to peruse the headlines of just a few business journals or papers on a daily basis might add to those nuggets of hope that have been dwindling, because of pertinent information you find there. Likewise, if you are in business, replete with much information from that arena, you might benefit by foraging into the world of psychology or literature or neuroscience, again, by merely making it a daily habit to peruse headlines of several journals in those areas. Thanks to intuitive modern applications such as News360, among many others, you can do this in a minimum amount of time.

Hope: a visceral emotion, that may gain strength from unexpected sources.

Image: Samos Island, Greece

Books by Dr. Gabriella Kortsch:

Rewiring the Soul

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Reviews From the Back Cover:

"The masterwork of a profoundly gifted healer of the soul. Dazzling, challenging, wondrously useful." Peggy Rubin, Director, Center for Sacred Theatre, Ashland, Oregon; author: To Be and How To Be, Transforming Your Life Through Sacred Theatre

"Rewiring the Soul is one the best introductions to the spiritual life I've ever read. Not esoteric but real-world & practical. The implications are profound." Peter Shepherd; Founder Trans4mind.com; author: Daring To Be Yourself 

"The human being's directory to the soul. A breakthrough for those seeking practical assistance, those of a more mystical bent & every soul awaiting discovery." Toni Petrinovich, Ph.D.; author: The Call: Awakening the Angelic Human

The Tao of Spiritual Partnership

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Praise for The Tao of Spiritual Partnership

“All humans seek the illusive touch of another's Soul, which opens us to the sense of belonging to something bigger than the self. Dr. Kortsch has given us the true "tao" of relationship in this brilliant exploration of emotional tapestry. We will be grateful for this illumination of spiritual partnership for generations to come."
Chris Griscom: Spiritual Leader, Author (among others) of: Ecstasy is a New Frequency

“Eloquently and comprehensive, showing how your primary love relationship may be a sacred vessel that transports you and your partner to a place of mutual healing and expansion.” 
Robert Schwartz: Author of Your Soul’s Gift: The Healing Power of the Life You Planned Before You Were Born 


The Power of Your Heart: Loving the Self 

My new book: The Power of Your Heart: Loving the Self, is just out. Here is a brief excerpt from the Introduction:

It is your right to live a life of love. It is your right to understand that loving yourself first is not a selfish way of behavior, but one that allows you to live that life of love. However, it's highly probable that you never got the instruction manual explaining exactly how to accomplish this. Possibly your family - and it may have been a loving family - considered loving the self an act of selfishness. Or perhaps the members of your family simply didn't practice loving the self, and of course, what you didn't see - what was not shown to you - while you were growing up, meant that you just didn't learn how to apply it to yourself. The closer you are able to move towards loving yourself, the closer you will be to living a life of love - quite independently of whether you are in a love relationship or not. A life of love can be lived with or without a partnership, because a life of love implies that you know that it all begins with you by loving the self. The more clearly you understand how to love yourself, the more clearly you will see that it is very hard - if not impossible - to love others in ways that are unrelated to fulfilling any of your needs. Loving yourself first is - for so many of us - one of the hardest things we will ever learn how to do. But know this: the benefits affect you in every particle of your being - body, mind, and soul - and are greater than you will ever be able to imagine.

Note: If you are wondering why this blog is now only appearing on alternate days (excluding Sat/Sun), it is because I also post on my other blog on the others days. That other blog is Rewiring the Soul so named for my first book. Click here to visit the blog and/or to sign up for the feed.