How Dr. Lynn Kesselman's Five Gate Training Program helped people?

Answer 1

Dr. Twerski is certified in psychiatry and is one of the best known

clinicians, authors, and philosophers in spirituality and the addictions

field with more than seventy books to his credit. Here is what Dr.

Twerski had to say about the Five Gates Program:

In Recover With Me, Lynn Kesselman describes how his

program for recovery, patterned after the 12 steps of Alcoholics

Anonymous, can enable a person to integrate the 12

steps rather than just comply with them. This is achieved

by a thorough understanding and clarification of the steps.

Not being satisfied with even the triumph of overcoming

addiction, Kesselman goes on, in Five Gates - The

Science of Healing the Spirit, to show how a person can

achieve emotional healing via fulfilling the needs of the

human spirit.

Over and above contributing to recovery from alcohol

or other chemical dependency, Five Gates can also be of

great help to people who have no substance abuse problem,

or for that matter, any other addiction. Anxiety, fear,

depression, disillusionment, and relationship problems are

not unique to alcoholics, chemically dependent people, or

other addicts. These are problems of the human condition,

and ironically, may have increased in incidence as science,

technology and medicine have made life more comfortable.

The marvelous advances in the sciences have addressed

the physical needs of man, focusing on the "how" of life.

The "why" of life is not in their realm. Yet, the physical

component of man is not the whole of man. The uniqueness

of man lies in the human spirit. All the comforts and conveniences

that science and technology can provide do not provide the universally sought‐after happiness. Man can be happy only when his spiritual as well as physical needs are

satisfied.

Lynn Kesselman's Five Gates provides a methodology whereby a person

can become whole. The gates of Five Gates are gates to happiness.