Glossary: Mood Disorder

Mood Disorder: any of several psychological disorders characterized by abnormalities of emotional state and including especially major depressive disorder, dysthymia, and bipolar disorder called also affective disorder.    Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Depression (Psychology): a psychiatric disorder characterized by an inability to concentrate, insomnia, loss of appetite, anhedonia, feelings of extreme sadness, guilt, helplessness and hopelessness, and thoughts of death. Also called clinical depression.    The American Heritage Dictionary

The Quadrinity Process

The Hoffman Quadrinity Process is a seven and a half day retreat that empowers you to resolve previously immovable blocks to healthy relationships, self-knowledge, emotional freedom, and radiant spirituality. It is based on the principle that persistent negative behaviors, moods, and attitudes experienced in adulthood have their roots in the experiences and conditioning of childhood which we call the Negative Love Syndrome. Until this conditioning is understood and resolved, it continues to undermine our adult lives.

The Hoffman Quadrinity Process is Adapted from the original designed to heal and transform these negative, self-defeating patterns and bring about a powerful realignment and integration of four fundamental dimensions of our being — intellect, emotions, body, and spirit. Taken together, we call this the Quadrinity.

Benefits

Since 1967, more than 50,000 people worldwide have used the Hoffman Quadrinity Process to achieve personal strength and inner peace. The benefits they have reported fall into three broad categories:

• Emotional healing and freedom;
• Compassion, self and others; and
• Spiritual Awakening.

Positive and Lasting Results

When people come to the Hoffman Quadrinity Process with a strong commitment to make positive and lasting changes in their lives, they accelerate their personal growth and development.

Over the past 35 years, this work, based on the insight of Bob Hoffman, has been developed and refined in collaboration with leading professionals from several disciplines including psychotherapy and mental health, spirituality and the human potential movement. Scientific study supports the benefits offered to the public by the Hoffman Quadrinity Process.

Scientific Study

In the 1997 dissertation of the German psychologist Christiane Windhausen, at the Wilhelms-University Muenster in Westphalia. The ratings on the Frankfurt Self-Concept Scale showed that the Hoffman Quadrinity Process graduates, in all cases, had not only made a rapid improvement, but had also remained stable throughout subsequent tests and studies. The study produced highly significant data regarding the corresponding improvements on handling general problems-management scale (FSAP), confidence in behavior when facing decision-making (FSVE), and in general self-worth ratings (FSSW).

The System-Checklist proved that between the first and second assignments compulsive behavior and depression were reduced, and a steady improvement continued thereafter. However, the most important result in the Insecurity Questionnaire showed that for those on the Hoffman Quadrinity Process, it produced an immediate and significant reduction in anxiety that continues past the end of therapy.

Summing up Windhausen explains:
It is evident that the depth of therapy achieved during the 8 intensive days of the Quadrinity Process, is at least equal to three months of group therapy at Fliednerkrankenhaus Hospital. On all 38 scales, assessments recorded from the Hoffman Quadrinity Process graduates were higher than those of the therapy controlled group, and in 11 out of the 38 groups, there are significant differences in the ratings in favor of the Hoffman Quadrinity Process. Among other things these ratings relate to self-worth, self-confidence, sensitivity and mood, spirituality and intimate relationships and other kinds of friendships.

Windhausen stresses that the results of her research are particularly impressive in the ratings for compulsive behavior and anxiety. Here the Hoffman Quadrinity Process also appears to bring about effective long termed improvements. She also shows that through the Hoffman Quadrinity Process, participants experience a rapid increase of their 'social-resonance' - that is to say, they are more open towards other people after the Process; they are more able to express their needs, as well as having more intense experiences.

Further details about this and other studies can be found on our strong and lasting results page.

Locations

The Hoffman Quadrinity Process is taught at two locations in Australia: in Melbourne, Victoria, and Byron Bay in Northern New South Wales.

Bob Hoffman discovered this overall dynamic and called it the Negative Love Syndrome. He also learned how to unleash the power of the Spiritual Self so we can heal ourselves. To learn more about Bob's work, the theoretical underpinnings of the Quadrinity Process, and whether or not this work is right for you, you may self-help yourself to: The Negative Love Syndrome and the Quadrinity Model or download it as a pdf file .

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