A TASTE OF ENCHANTMENT - Accessing Wonderful Memories

Written by Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein


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There is pleasure and new chances to bring joy into your life in reviewing your life fromrepparttar perspective of looking for happy memories. For example, you may remember enjoying archery when you were a child at day camp. Perhaps you loved being out inrepparttar 126264 field and basking inrepparttar 126265 sun. Actually you were not interested inrepparttar 126266 archery so much as a chance to have free time, and socialize and joke with your friends. Your best friend may also have loved archery, but she loved it for different reasons. She was determined to become a champion and winrepparttar 126267 blue ribbon atrepparttar 126268 end ofrepparttar 126269 season. Her intentions and experiences of pleasure were very different from yours.

Now when you brainstorm ways to bring more joy into your life, you might pick sitting at a park or spending time walkingrepparttar 126270 boardwalk, or planning more time with friends. Meanwhile, your friend might decide to take tennis lessons and become a competitive player. These are certainly different roads to pleasure and joy.

Exercise: For enchantment starters try listing three things you enjoyed doing as a child. How could you find ways to do them again or what else could you try as an adult that might be similar? I hope you have enjoyed this taste of enchantment.



Dr. Holstein is the originator of The Enchanted Self and a psychologist since 1981. She is the author of two books: The Enchanted Self, A Positive Therapy and Recipes for Enchantment, The Secret Ingredient is YOU! Dr. Holstein speaks on radio, and appears on television in NY and NJ. She gives lectures, seminars, retreats and audio interviews on LadybugLive.com and is in private practice in Long Branch, NJ with her husband, Dr. Russell Holstein.


Ah, Sweet Memories - Part Two

Written by Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein


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Dresses, many ill-fitting and old, hide inrepparttar depths of my closet, appearing as briefly as butterflies in Spring cleaning, and then carefully return to their hooks and hangers becauserepparttar 126263 loss of their colors would somehow diminish my being. Like my relationships, they stay safely inrepparttar 126264 shadows, each waiting forrepparttar 126265 vibrant moment to emerge from its Plastic bag chrysalis whenrepparttar 126266 light changes seasons. My mother's coral wool dressing gown, my father's tasteful maroon ties, my daughter's first velvet gown, an unmistakable Evening-In-Paris blue, a length of bright Marimekko left from my son's window curtain -- each has a spot in my Technicolor memory. Bred onrepparttar 126267 still enticing black and white films, a secret part of me breathes a quick sigh of relief whenrepparttar 126268 movie is in color!

Like my mother, I find myself chasing Tiffany windows in obscure towns and places, their brilliant tones enveloping me in awed silence as they did on Sunday mornings long ago. Unable, to rationalize a splurge onrepparttar 126269 real thing, I have carefully arranged a pauper's ransom of colored glasses and bottles onrepparttar 126270 eastern sill to greetrepparttar 126271 early morning light. Drawers burgeon with sheets of wrapping paper too beautiful to be sacrificed yet to packages; silk scarves spanningrepparttar 126272 generations lie in neatly folded piles looking for a more swan-like neck than mine.

Yes, it is I, screeching to a stop in front of summer's roadside stands—surely there is a friend who will delight inrepparttar 126273 medley of marigold yellows and cosmos magentas as much as I. Only a woman committed to keeping all 64 colors in a single, dog-eared yellow box would buy flowers instead of cucumbers for dinner, would count Provencal sunflowers instead of sheep on a sleepless night. There is not a jelly glass (see how that one looks blue inrepparttar 126274 afternoon light!) too dusty forrepparttar 126275 optimistic crimson ofrepparttar 126276 last November rosebud, nor a moment too full to wonder atrepparttar 126277 purpling miracle of sunset, where, at last, one might search betweenrepparttar 126278 gilded folds of cloud and finally capturerepparttar 126279 elusive sky-blue pink.

"Color", continued this morning's speaker, "frolicked likerepparttar 126280 child atrepparttar 126281 edge ofrepparttar 126282 sand" inrepparttar 126283 chosen artist's works. In color liesrepparttar 126284 kaleidoscope of my life,repparttar 126285 fire opal of my imagination, andrepparttar 126286 palette of my memories and dreams. It isrepparttar 126287 prism of my soul, illuminatingrepparttar 126288 depths andrepparttar 126289 dark.

Dr. Holstein is the originator of The Enchanted Self and a psychologist since 1981. She is the author of two books: The Enchanted Self, A Positive Therapy and Recipes for Enchantment, The Secret Ingredient is YOU! Dr. Holstein speaks on radio, and appears on television in NY and NJ. She gives lectures, seminars, retreats and audio interviews on LadybugLive.com and is in private practice in Long Branch, NJ with her husband, Dr. Russell Holstein.


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