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EFS WORKSHOPs, Materials

Participatory and practical workshops are offered by the Emotional Freedom Service (EFS) to help you become whole by healing from emotional distress, integrating various parts of yourself in a harmonious way, releasing excessive stress, and moving towards a body-mind-spirit wholeness by opening to the divine within and outside of us. For workshop requests and enquiries, email efs@antidemalta.org or phone Tony on 7932 6725.  This page below is for tools and documents of interest to participants at these workshops - or to any other persons.  There are tools and resources relating to each Life Practice that you may wish to download from here.


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Materials for Workshop on Essential Life-Practices for Becoming Whole
PRACTICE 1 - THE WELCOME METHOD — IL-METODU TAL-MERHBA
PRACTICE 2 - THE TAPPING METHOD — IL- METODU TAL-TAPTIP
PRACTICE 3 - BEING MINDFUL — KUN KONXJU-ATTENT
PRACTICE 3 - RELAXATION — TIRRILASSA
PRACTICE 4 - SIMPLE MEDITATION - MEDITAZZJONI SEMPLICI
PRACTICE 5 - SELF-COMPASSION — NAGHDER LILI NNIFSI
PRACTICE 7 - CENTERING PRAYER — IT-TALBA TAL-KUNSENS (PRATTIKA
                         KONTEMPLATTIVA)
PRACTICE 8 - CHANT PSALMS ETC — GHANNI S-SALMI ECC.
PRACTICE 9 - HAVE COMPASSION — AGHDER
PRACTICE 10 - OPEN TO THE HEALING PRESENCE — INFETAH GHALL-PREZENZA FEJJIEQA
PRACTICE 11 - DRINK SUFFERING, TRANSMIT PEACE --- IXROB TBATIJA,      
                         IBGHAT SLIEM
BIEX TGHIN LILEK INNIFSEK  - 33 Self-Help Articles In Maltese



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Last updated 16 March 2020

[] Under Practice 7 below, A Video Clip in 2 parts, about 8 minutes each, on how to do the contemplative practice of Centering Prayer, from Contemplative Outreach, with added captions in Maltese and English has been included here for you to download - see under Practice 7 below.

[] Under Practice 10 below, two new illustrated files have been added to help you release suffering in yourself and in others through opening to the divine Healing Presence.  All of us can potentially do this.  Results may be expected to improve with practice. The humility involved in Centering Prayer practice helps.   16th March:  Guided-meditation audio .mp3 files, Maltese or English, for doing this practice  by yourself, have been added. Also added: English and Maltese illustrated posters for this spiritual healing Practice.. 

[] Jekk inti jew it-team tiegħek qed ikun affettwat ħażin mill-ħidma ta' mogħdrija li tagħmel jew tagħmlu ma' persuni f'ċirkostanzi ħorox u trawmatiċi, hawnekk issib kors ta' taħriġ. Adattah skont il-ħin u l-bżonnijiet tiegħek Powerpoint 28MB pptx. KORS

Here below you will find tools and other resources for each of the Life-Practices for Wholemess
Hawn taħt issib għodda u riżorsi oħra dwar il-Prattiċi tal-Ħajja Sabiex Tkun Aktar Sħiħ


Click on any these documents to download them:
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Materials for Workshop on
Essential Life-Practices for Becoming Whole



PRACTICES FOR WHOLENESS - Workshop Presentation
Summary chart of Life-Practices-for-Wholeness Workshop MALTI.pdf
Summary chart of Life-Practices-for-Wholeness Workshop ENGLISH.pdf
All the presentation slides are here in PDF format (In Maltese):
GWIDA-workshop_prattici_20pdf_master.pdf

PRACTICES FOR WHOLENESS - Wisdom Stories corresponding to the Practices
The entire Wisdom Stories booklet (version 1) is here in PDF format:
Wisdom Stories for Prattici Workshop 3rd Edition.pdf

Distressed? Suggestion: Try cycles of Tapping + Relaxation + Spiritual Method,
measuring the intensity-of-distress (scale 0 - 10) before each cycle. Do Testing
(see below) the next 2 or 3 days to see how permanent your results are.

More tools and resources below, sorted in relation to each Life Practice.
Practice 1 - The Welcome Method --- Il-Metodu tal-Merħba
Practice 2 - The Tapping Method --- Il- Metodu tal-Taptip
The TAPPING METHOD for releasing emotional distress
Metodu tat-Taptip MALTI Ver3.pdf
Illustrated Tapping EFT Method ENGLISH Ver3.pdf
Tapping recording sheet ENG Ver2.pdf
9-Gamut procedure.pdf
TESTING - Testing your Self-Healing results.pdf
Practice 3 - Being Mindful --- Kun Konxju-Attent
Guided Mindfulness Meditation audio-clips
Meditation A - The Three Minute Breathing Space (6MB):
     3mins The Three Minute B.m4a
Meditation B - Mindfulness Of Body And Breath (14 MB):
     8mins Mindfulness Of Bod.m4a
Meditation C - Exploring Difficulty (18MB):
     10mins Exploring Difficul.m4a
Meditation D - The Body Scan (26MB):
     30mins The Body Scan.m4a
Practice 3 - Relaxation --- tirrilassa
Practice 4 - simple meditation -- meditazzjoni sempliċi
Practice 5 - Self-Compassion --- nagħder lili nnifsi
Practice 7 - Centering Prayer --- it-talba tal-kunsens (Prattika kontemplattiva)

Being SPIRITUALLY WHOLE, complete in God
Keating Active Meditations (Malti transl).pdf  -- A translation into Maltese of the book of short inspiring texts by Fr Thomas Keating called "Active Meditations for Contemplative Prayer."
Towards a More Contemplative Outlook.pdf
Lejn Attitudni Aktar Kontemplattiva.pdf
CenteringPrayer Method Leaflet ENGLISH.pdf
Centering Prayer Fuljett dwar il-Metodu MALTI.pdf

VIDEO  Guidelines for doing Centering Prayer.  Meet your spiritual level,  your deeper self (which is your participation in the divine), and, maybe, more. These gujidelines are brief, expert, and profound instructions in English by Trappist Abbott Fr Thomas Keating with both Maltese and English captions visible on-screen at the same time. You can play it online, but it is better to download it to your computer or mobile phone so that you can play it at any time, using Windows Media Player or other video player.
VIDEO Part 1 - Guidelines for Centering Prayer - Part 1 (9 minutes)  543MB
VIDEO Part 2 - Guidelines for Centering Prayer - Part 2 (7 minutes) 383MB
Download a folder with both the above files
Guidelines for Centering Prayer by Thomas Keating (English) PDF
Guidelines for Centering Prayer by Thomas Keating (Malti) PDF

See also our Centering Prayer method and group page in this website.  This includes a brief glossary of terms.

PraCTICE 8 - CHant PSALMS etc.   --- Għanni s-salmi eċċ.
Practice 9 - HAVE COmpassion --- AGĦDER
Were you a participant at one of the Practices workshops?
Practice 10 - Open to the Healing Presence --- iNFETAĦ gĦALL-preżenza fejjieqa

Note:  Want these links conveniently on your mobile phone?   Here is a small half-page PDF file with the live links that you can click when needed.

TESTING - how and why to test your Self-Healing results.pdf
Personal Peace Procedure fr Unseen Therapist, Gary Craig Ver 2.pdf


Practice of openness to the Divine Healing Presence

Try opening yourself to the highest spiritual power. Here are English or Maltese audio clips for this special Practice.
Here are audio clips , about 15 minutes each, in English, of guided meditations that you can use to encourage your own healing or liberation, or that of another person, through this Practice "Open to the Healing Presence ".

IN ENGLISH:

Illustrated Posters:
Release suffering in YOURSELF OR SOMEONE ELSE through openness to the divine Healing Presence

Audio MP3s

Here are audio clips in English of guided meditations that you can use to encourage your own healing or liberation through this Practice "Open to the Healing Presence "
Audio English MP3 A: Relax and Open to Divine Sea of Love
        /uploads/5/7/2/6/57264959/relax_and_open_to_divine_lake_of_love_fluteinout.mp3
Audio English MP3 B: Relax and Open to Divine Healing Presence
       /uploads/5/7/2/6/57264959/relax_and_open_to_divine_healing_presence_fluteinout.mp3
Audio English MP3 C: Relax and Circulate Love
       /uploads/5/7/2/6/57264959/relax_and_circulate_love.mp3

Note: Audio A uses a special evocative metaphor; Audio B is more straightforward. Audio A and Audio B each include Audio C.   Audio C may be suitable for those who do not believe in a Higher Power.
The Sea of Love metaphor is adapted from Gary Craig

BIL-MALTI

Posters bl-istampi

Inħeles INTI mit-tbatija bi ftuħ għall-Preżenza t'Alla li tfejjaq
Għin lil ĦADDIEĦOR jinħeles mit-tbatija bi ftuħ għall Preżenza ta' Alla li tfejjaq

Awdjo .MP3

Hawn 2 audio clips bil-Malti b'meditazzjoni iggwidata sabiex waħdek tagħmel din il-Prattika: "Infetaħ Għall-Preżenza Fejjieqa t'Alla." sabiex tfieq jew tinħeles.
Audio MALTI MP3 A: Irrilassa, u infetaħ għall-Baħar tal-Imħabba Divina
        /uploads/5/7/2/6/57264959/audio_malti_a_rrilassa_u_infetah_ghall-bahar_tal-imhabba_divina.mp3
Audio MALTI MP3 B: Irrilassa, u infetaħ għall-Preżenza Divina li Tfejjaq
        /uploads/5/7/2/6/57264959/audio_malti_b_irrilassa_u_infetah_ghall-prezenza_divina_li_tfejjaq.mp3
Nota: Audio A tuża' metafora speċjali u effettiva.  Audio B huwa aktar dirett.
PRACTICE 11 - dRINK SUFFERING, tRANSMIT pEACE  --- iXROB tBATIJa, iBGĦAT sLIEM

Your Comments

Practices workshops have been held in Tarxien, Floriana (hosted by Segretariat Azzjoni Soċjali tal-Azzjoni Kattolika), Baħar ic-Cagħaq (held in collaboration with Franciscan Centre), Siġġiewi Parish (Kummissjoni Djakonija), St Julians parish (Kummissjoni Djakonija) etc.   Contact us on efs@antidemalta.org to have a suimilar workshop customised for your interested group, organisation, or department .


BIEX TGHIN LILEK INNIFSEK (Self-Help Articles In Maltese)
Ebook containing Articles 1 – 28 only 

To download some of the following individual articles 1 – 33,
click on the ones you want, below.

Lista ta' Artikli (Werrej) 1-33.pdf

01 – It-Tifel Ġewwieni Tiegħi, Xi Jrid Jismaghni Nghidlu?    
02 – Kif Nista’ Naħfer Lili Nnifsi?            
03 – Kif Nista’ Naħfer Lill-Genituri?            
04 – Ir-Rabja u l-Belveder                
05 – Biex ma Nitkaxkarx – Il-Metodu tal-Merħba    
06 – Kontra l-Ansjetá – Il-Metodu tal-Kummentarju        
07 – Kontra l-Ansjetá – Kun Konxju-Attent        
08 – Ergajt Waqajt! – Meta tirkadi, x’taghmel?        
09 – Inzomm f’Qalbi – L-Ewwel Parti                
10 – Inzomm f’Qalbi – It-Tieni Parti    
        
11 – It-Tbatija Tieghek – Dahla                
12 – Tbatija – Id-Dwejjaq Huma Ghodda        
13 – Tbatija – X’hawn, Iss’issa?                
14 – Tbatija – Tad-Dahq?                
15 – Tbatija – Rawwem Imhabba u Gentilezza    
16 – Nista’ Ngħix fil-Moghdrija?            
17 – Dejjem Jiena l-Vittma!                
18 – Inpattihielu!   
19 - Sitt Passi Biex Issolvi Problema
20 - Nista' Nagħder Lili Nnifsi?

21 - Il-Gratitudni Tferrah
22 - Nista' Nghix fil-Ferħ?
23 - Inhobbu, Imma...
24 - Ixrob Tbatija, Ibgħat Sliem
25 - Marta, l-Inkwiet u l-Merhba
26 - Jikkritikani Minn Ġewwa
27 - Kien hemm Negligenza Emozzjonali fi Tfulitek?
28 - Nisrani Jista Jhobb Lilu Nnifsu? (Malti + English)
29 – M'Ghallmunix Intelligenza Emozzjonali

30 – Dell Gewwieni u Shuhija Moħbija
30 - Inner Shadow & Hidden Wholeness
31 – Fieq u Fejjaq ma’ Alla billi tinfetah għall-Prezenza Fejjieqa
32 – Irrilassa!
33 – Ghix il-Mument!


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