Amy Torres
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- A Course in Miracles, Love, Relationships, Life After Therapy, Forgiveness Work, Spiritual Psychotherapy, Communication Skills, Emotional Intelligence, How to Become a Miracle Worker, The Power of Awareness
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- Speaker, Teacher, Author
- Affiliation
- The World is My Oyster
Amy Torres is a Gestalt psychotherapist, interfaith minister, and yoga instructor. She teaches A Course in Miracles, which is the foundation of all her work. She has developed the Language of Love, Harmony & Beauty©, a form of emotionally responsible communication, conflict negotiation, and a way of "undoing" our identification with the ego.
Amy was led to A Course in Miracles by Paramahansa Yogananda in 1997 and received shaktipat from Jesus in 1998 (see http://facebook.com/ACIMYoga). Her spiritual counseling is guided by the Holy Spirit and used in service of the highest good for all.
Her work is a synthesis of many teachings, ancient and contemporary. The result is an intuitive method of emotional healing through body awareness which develops an integrated, empowered sense of self. This naturally leads to miracles of love, peace, purpose and joy.
She has developed the Language of Love, Harmony & Beauty©, which is a form of emotionally responsible communication, conflict negotiation, and a way of “undoing” our identification with the ego. She works with individuals, families and groups, teaching emotional intelligence and communication skills.
It was revealed to Amy that she was one of the ministers of God while working her way through Gestalt psychotherapy training (ask her to tell you the “undercover minister” story). A few years later, Reverend Torres was guided to formal ministry training as well and was ordained by One Spirit Interfaith Seminary in New York City. She has had many spiritual teachers and guides (see her photo tribute at http://facebook.com/AmyTorresACIM).
To see Amy's videos, sign up for her free newsletter, and receive a free gift, visit www.amytorresacim.com
To contact her, email miracles@amytorresacim.com or call 212-340-1201.
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God's Vision or the Ego's Eyesight?
More than one spiritual path explains that this world is an illusion. Even science now agrees. But what do they mean? And if this world is an illusion, what good does it do us to know that?
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Inexplicably, Predictably Happy
Recently a phrase popped into my head, "Inexplicably predictably happy." That's one way I experience God--words come to me and I can tell they are not mine (some people call this "channeling"). I was actually grieving at the time I "heard" those words, but even though I was grieving, I remembered to ask God to remind me of who I really was. In that moment, as I cried, I felt my heart expand and a peace move through me that was filled with joy. There was no logical explanation about why I needn't grieve--I just felt at peace, even as I wept.
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A Better Way to Say "I Miss You"
There was a time in my life when I was separated from someone I loved because he had to do military duty in Iraq. We were able to text and send letters and occasionally we even spoke on the phone. Inevitably we said, "I miss you."
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3 Things to Do When You Are Feeling Low
We all know the mood we call "feeling low." We may feel low because we lack confidence we can do something, or because we received bad news, maybe we're disappointed with life in general. Feeling low can be due to physical issues such as sleep deprivation or vitamin depletion. It can be an event in our lives which has lingering effects on us-e.g., a death, a breakup, or a job loss. Feeling low can be a form of chronic depression. Whatever the causes for feeling low, it is a muted state and calls for an infusion of energy.
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Reasons to Keep Faith Even Though You Can't Hear God
The reason people get terribly discouraged when they pray and can't hear God is because it seems as if God is not answering them. In order to keep faith, we have to open our minds to the idea that just because we believe "God doesn't care about me" or "God doesn't exist" doesn't mean it's true. Here are five reasons to keep faith even though, right now, you think you can't hear God: 1. God hears you even if you don't hear Him.r
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Shekinah, Divine Feminine & the Holy Spirit
Last night we had a guest from Israel in our Course in Miracles class. About an hour into class, I referred to the Holy Spirit as “He” and she bolted upright with surprise! “He?” she said, making sure she heard me right. “Yes,” I answered, “The Course in written with Christian terminology. It’s a genderless “He” but the masculine is used.” “Not in the Hebrew edition,” she said. “What does the Hebrew edition say?” we asked. “She,” was the answer. And then a lightbulb went off in my mind: Shekinah–the Divine Feminine.
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Practice Should Not Be Perfect
A Course in Miracles has an entire Workbook for Students which guides us through 365 days of spiritual practice. Let's look closely at Lesson 95 which takes particular care in describing how to practice. Once we have reached this lesson, we must be almost four months into our Workbook study. We are told that five minutes of every hour has special advantages at this stage of learning due to our human tendency to let the mind wander. Jesus knows we need mind training because we lack mental discipline. We are forgetful and distracted.
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Make Love, Not War
Making love starts in the mind. It is what we're thinking that turns us on or off. Making love can be using the body sexually to express love, tende ess, and pleasure. Making love can be purely sensual-e.g., giving your partner a massage or a bath-fragrant with essential oils. Making love can be sharing companionship-doing things together. Most of all, making love is letting our partner know that we see the best in him or her, that we genuinely like who they are, that they inspire us. Love is generous, non-judgmental, appreciative, and brings us closer.
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5 Practices to Progress on Your Spiritual Path
Many years ago, at an Al-Anon meeting, someone asked, "Are we human beings on a spiritual journey? Or are we spiritual beings on a human journey?" From A Course in Miracles perspective I would say we are spiritual beings on a human journey. Unde eath the limitations of our humanity, there is a boundless Light from which we can live. We can use our human journey as a classroom to learn about our true spiritual nature. There are many practices which can help us grow on our spiritual journey and, depending on your nature and circumstances, one may be more useful than another.
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3 Easy Ways to Improve Your Confidence Level
The three practices below are easy ways to improve your confidence level. I use them myself and have shared them with great success with clients and students for years. They are effective, powerful tools for everyone, and will take you to the next level of personal transformation.
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I Know You Really Love Me
For most of my life, I assumed there was something deep, dark and shameful about myself that would make people recoil in horror from me, if they really got to know me. This belief was unconscious, and it actually took a lot of work for me to admit this to myself. It was necessary, because I kept getting involved with people who didn’t value me. This included boyfriends, bosses, friends, family, casual acquaintances, and strangers.
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8 Ways to Develop Great Listening Skills
Have you ever been talking to someone who is looking around the room while you speak? Or who interrupts you to say something on a completely different subject? Maybe you were confiding in a friend who seemed distracted and when you accused her of not listening, she said indignantly, "I was listening!" and to prove it she parroted back the last phrase you had spoken.
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Amy Torres
"Beyond the body, beyond the sun and stars, past everything you see and yet somehow familiar, is an arc of golden light that stretches as you look into a great and shining circle. And all the circle fills with light before your eyes. The edges of the circle disappear, and what is in it is no longer contained at all. The light expands and covers everything, extending to infinity forever shining and with no break or limit anywhere. Within it everything is joined in perfect continuity. Nor is it possible to imagine that anything could be outside, for there is nowhere that this light is not." ACIM, T-21.I.8
"By focusing upon the good in [your brother], the body grows decreasingly persistent in your sight, and will at length be seen as little more than just a shadow circling round the good." ACIM, T-31.VII.3:3
"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all of the barriers within yourself that you have built against it." ACIM, T-16.IV.6
"The Holy Spirit has the task of undoing what the ego has made." ACIM, T-5.III.5:5
Contacting Amy Torres
Email Amy at miracles@amytorresacim.com or call 212-340-1201.
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