Hoffman Process The World-Famous Technique That Empowers You to Forgive Your Past, Heal Your Present, and Transform Your Future

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 Have you tried to change but, even with the best of intentions, ended up doing the same old things in the same old ways? You've 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, you're still dissatisfied in the same job, you still follow the same old cycle of "I love you and can't live without youI hate you and don't 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 inas 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 surgeon's 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 experienceof 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 layersBorysenko, Joan is the author of 'Hoffman Process The World-Famous Technique That Empowers You to Forgive Your Past, Heal Your Present, and Transform Your Future', published 2004 under ISBN 9780553382761 and ISBN 0553382764.