Aliveness A Course For Everyday People With An Interest In Quality of Life
Identity • • • • • • •
How do you feel about yourself? Are you at ease with yourself? Who are you? When are you most yourself? When do you remember you were most yourself? What do you say about yourself? Exercises – Write 6 chapters to your story • • • • • •
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My childhood Me & School My work and me When I met the person I loved My wardrobe The wisest year of my life
This is to bring to awareness the way we think about ourselves and to assess how far away from who we want to be Understanding how the stories we have lived, become us Create visual auditory kinaesthetic approaches
Dreams • What do you really want? • Why do you want that? – Why do you want that? • Why do you want that? – Why do you want that?
• What dreams have you already made come true? How have you done that? • What are your best talents? How do you know? • Who do you admire and why? • Exercise – – – – –
Write down one dream in detail Analyse the dream Test the dream Write down each step to the dream Imagine yourself there now
• What do you actually do? Where is your focus?
Brakes • What is really stopping you? • Analyse this – Self image – Associations – Ties
• Revisit the dream and adjust • Now what is stopping you? • Exercise – Count how many times you use excuses to stop you getting where you want to go – Count how many times you do make things happen – What is the difference? – Where are your fears?
• This is the terrain / countermotion / resistance
Habits • • • • • •
Which habits help you and which hinder you? Procrastination Distractions Interruptions Habits of successful people Exercise – Imagine a person you admire – Now imagine their habits that support them – Compare and contrast to your own
• Mechanics / routines and patterns that link to motion and to resistance
Friends & Foes • • • • • • • •
List the most important people in your life Next to each mark if they help you in your goals or if they don’t or if they hinder you Consider why you are friends with them? Are they helping you get to where you need to go? Are you helping them? How about virtual friends? Do you have any? How can you develop new friends that can support you better? Exercise – Look back over the past three months and consider who you have seen regularly and if they have listened to you properly – Think about how you meet new people. What is it that attracts you to them? Understand your relationship dynamics.
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Surrounding forces / counter forces – witnesses When to listen / when to ignore Doubting Thomas’ vs champions Calculating risks of change
Money • How are you with money? • Careful, natural, spendthrift • What new habits do you need to cultivate to ensure your success? • Why? • What habits do you need to develop to support better financial success? • Exercise – Discuss with three close friends their views on money and how to spend it – Listen carefully to how they describe money and what they do – Remember a time when money flowed easily – How did it feel? – What is the one thing you would like to change?
Hint Sheets • Organisation • Do One Thing At A Time
Notes • Idea of conscious to unconscious and the frequency of consciousness • We can only shine a light on consciousness and open up the path there we cannot force people or preach to people • Currency is creativity imagination self awareness • Creating new language for the world of consciousness eg psychotherapy course has given AS new language
What’s The Point? • • • • • • • • • • •
What’s our philosophy? Allow nowness to appear in my life Assist it identify it name it give it permission What’s our promise? Making room for the untapped the unexpressed the invisible the unmanifest Nourishment What is your calling / destiny? Creating the right conditions for the coming you Training model / course / price Leading you back to where you started quote Working my way back to you…
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Refresh Reflect Retreat Antidote Recharge Simplify Clarity Inner peace Inward time Adventure Trip Explore new part of me in a special environment Frenetic life / retreat
process • • • • • •
Theory Discussion Practical Pre-work – written notes on each part A&S analyse and comment Opening session