Self Awareness
EVERYTHING IN YOUR LIFE IS GENERATED FROM THE RELATIONSHIP YOU HAVE WITH YOURSELF.
Where you are coming from within yourself will determine the grace and joy that you will achieve your goals in the world.
Although we are pretty much all very similar we are also absolutely unique. Each one of us has come to answer a very particular set of questions and if we answer them during our lifespan i believe we die feeling fulfilled and content. Our Families, schools, college and work life don't appear to draw out a persons individuality and uniqueness. We also don't seem to have been designed to have a very good sense of Self.
So you might want to sit down and ask yourself "What for you constitutes a meaningful human life"? and what questions do i think you've come to answer in this life. Not what you think the world needs but rather what brings you alive.
In this journey of finding the self its also imperative to look at various aspects of our human evolution on the planet and become conscious of a few of its effects on conditioning who we are today. For example. Most of us live in a post industrialist, patriarchal, reductionist world. These all have very powerful conditioning abilities. Once you are aware of these they no longer sabotage who you think you are.
I believe that if you want to be fully engaged with the world today a new type of Self Awareness is required that answers to and is relevant for the times we live in. I began this search at about the age of 7 and after passing through countless traditions both western and eastern i finally feel i now have a system that answers the questions or points to "What it means to be fully human and yet embrace a path of Being present, aware and awake in the world". Some of the ideas and methodologies come from other traditions and many from my own experiences, shifts in consciousness, healing and awakening. Deep appreciation to everyone who has taken the time to help me heal and reveal what I've found within.
If you find this arousing your curiosity or calling to you to move to deeper ground in your own life, do get in touch.
Focusing
Focusing i believe holds a part of the jigsaw puzzle in answering this question " A sense of self ".
Focusing was developed by Eugene Gendlin and his colleagues when they began asking why therapy succeeds for some clients, but not for many others. In their research they found that the successful clients could be spotted easily.......Differences in methods of therapy meant little......What did count, the researches concluded, 'is what successful clients do inside themselves'. They were Focusing intuitively. The Focusing skill - in which one makes 'contact with a special kind of internal body awareness' -- can be learned by anyone in or out of therapy. -------"Washington Post"
Focusing has many applications and is presently used in psychotherapy, business, education, creative writing, healing, biofeedback and meditation.
Focusing is a major contribution to contemporary psychotherapy.....Gendlins somatic viewpoint goes beneath the failures of psychotherapy to find a subconscious reality that is as dependable as it is non-verbal. "Somatics" Magazine.
The Focusing instructions and steps help to cultivate a internal bodily awareness that is so very much the foundation of new spiritual practice. D.P.Brown, Ph.D. Department of Psychiatry Harvard Medical School.
