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Dr. Craig Martin

Greg Voisen — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 03:08:43 +0000

Dr. Craig Martin, known to most as “Dr. Craig,” is a spiritual counselor, relationship expert, and author of Elemental Love Styles: Find Compatibility and Create a Lasting Relationship. He provides counseling based on astrology and his lifetime of studying worldwide spiritual practices like The Kabbalah, Druidic Mysticism, the Norse Ruins, Native American Shamanism and other ritual ceremonies. “I’ve immersed myself in many spiritual practices and I have always learned great lessons, whether it’s about stillness or joy or renunciation. I continue to find tangible pearls of spiritual insights from every culture,” explains Dr. Craig.

In his work he focuses on teaching self-awareness, acceptance and love in a simple way. He helps people realize that introspection doesn’t need to be difficult – but it is needed – to build great relationships in all aspects of your life.

Dr. Craig developed his unique method of counseling by combining his experience as a homeopathic doctor with his extensive knowledge of astrology. “Everyone has their own personal dilemma to solve and their own healing process to unfold to create the foundation that’s needed to nurture all relationships,” says Dr. Craig. He focuses on helping both individuals and couples achieve clarity and balance through self-discovery.

In Elemental Love Styles people find and understand their deeper needs through the four natural elements which represent the human personality types: Fire (creative and enthusiastic), Air (communicative and social), Water (emotional and intuitive) and Earth (practical and grounded). Dr. Craig designed the elemental system to determine deeper love needs based on psychological types. Through in-depth explanations of each, questionnaires, real life scenarios and a break down of how the elemental types relate to one another, people are able to rejuvenate their relationships.

“Love, honesty and inner growth are why we are here and what all relationships require. We want to feel that we are continuously becoming better people,” says Dr. Craig. Helping people achieve this common goal is what motivates him to share his messages.

Dr. Craig resides in Los Angeles with his partner Dan. When he isn’t counseling or writing he enjoys hiking, cooking and reading.

Podcast 258: Elemental Love Styles with Dr. Craig Martin

Greg Voisen — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 03:08:03 +0000

I had a lot of fun interviewing Dr. Craig Martin the author of “Elemental Love Styles“. In his book people find and understand the deeper needs through the four natural elements which represent the human personality types: Fire (creative and enthusiastic) Air, (communicative and social), Water (emotional and intuitive) and Earth (practical and grounded).

Dr. Craig guides the reader through an understanding of the elements, and how this effect your relationships. He states that each person is a reflection of the elements found in nature. Because the elements exist inside us as well as outside us, we don’t just go out in the elements; we live in them. They are part of us.

Dr. Craig has a very simple 44 question questionnaire which assist the reader in determining their personal elemental style. Once you have determined your style the book does a great job of providing stories and examples of how your particular elemental style relates to the other elemental styles. With this information you are ready to better understand, communicate and find a type that is better suited toward your personality type.

In our interview together Dr. Craig and I discuss what he refers to as “true intimacy”. All relationships need intimacy, but what is true intimacy. True intimacy is getting to know someone and having that person get to know you–and I mean more that knowing your name and what you do for a living. Getting to know each other means finding out how you affect each other. Intimacy is about openness with truth. Dr Craig explains when we have this kind of intimacy, we have the likelihood of have a much deeper, loving and compassionate relationship which will last.

Dr. Craig also states that one of intimacy’s major components is dynamic inner growth or DIG. DIG is about making better choices. It enables your relationship to work out better. A lasting relationship is one where you are going to have to work it out. You can’t run, blame, or become immobilized by fear.

So if you are interested in learning more about the “Elemental Love Styles” so that you can better understand your partner, then I highly recommend reading Dr. Craig’s book. It is one of those books where you have an aha not only about yourself, but about the people you love. If you would like more information please visit Dr. Craig’s website by clicking here.

Laurence Hillman

Jennifer Godbout — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:52:12 +0000

Born and raised in Zürich, Switzerland, Laurence Hillman began to study astrology at the age of sixteen and this has remained his passion for thirty years. He is a full-time professional astrologer, specializing in helping his clients understand their deeper purpose and their life’s calling. A force in the ongoing movement to merge astrology with depth psychology, his approach is practical and full of metaphor and Jungian insight.

He has lectured internationally and conducted workshops including “Star Cross’d Lovers” and “Mercury at Shakespeare’s Globe,” and at London’s Globe Theatre presented on Shakespeare and Astrology. At the Cycles and Symbols Conference in California, he lectured on “Venus in America” (co-presented with his father James Hillman). He has also taught at Jean Houston’s Mystery School and at Pacifica Graduate Institute.

He is the author of numerous articles, Planets in Play – How to Reimagine Your Life Through the Language of Astrology (Tarcher/Penguin 2007) and he is the co-author of Alignments – How to Live in Harmony with the Universe (Lantern Books, 2002).

Laurence holds a B.A. in Architecture and masters degrees in both Engineering Management and Business Administration. He has traveled extensively in more than forty countries, and is fluent in five languages. He now lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his wife and two daughters.