"Let go of your ego and your ego's desires, and be guided by the Divine" - anon
Typically when a new student joins one on my courses while I'm training NLP, they go through 4 stages:
1] Victim mentality - they start off feeling powerless, at the effect of circumstances in their lives, complaining and protesting, fighting authority yet nothing changes. It's always everyone else's fault - the economy, the government, their parents, their education, blah blah blah.
These guys don't come on NLP courses, though occassionally they are SENT!
2] Seizing control - reading a book, or listening to a cd, or hearing a speaker or trainer wakes them up and challenges them to look again. The student learns about intention, visualisation and the crucial need for action. Things then start to get slightly better and they get glimpses of magic in their lives - synchronicity, manifestation, coincidence
Can you relate to this?
3] They wake up - unplug from the Matrix, remove the shroud, and finally part the curtain. They realise that intentions are limitations, that "attraction" and "intention" suggest a gap, and there is no gap.
The student starts to tap into their latent power, but they still get frustrated at things in the world of physical form that they can't seem to control - money, bodyweight, health.
4] Surrender and silence - They stop striving and efforting and instad go silent. Surrender to the Higher Self/Spirit/God/Quantum Field/I'o/insert your label of choice here.
If you let go and trust [as amply described in Beck and Cowen's Spiral Dynamics - see http://www.thelatentpowerofyou.com ] and evolve from level 5 to level 6. Connect with the Higher Self, get inspired and act on it. The student's world fills with awe and wonder and gratitude. And there's no going back...
So what stage are you at, or have you realised yet that in fact there are no stages...?
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1 comment:
This sounds like the "Four Stages of Learning," a theory posited by 1940's psychologist Abraham Maslow. The Four Stages of Learning are an explanation of how people learn something, progressing from 1. Unconscious Incompetence (you don't know that you don't know something), to 2. Conscious Incompetence (you are now aware that you are incompetent at something), to 3. Conscious Competence (you develop a skill in that area but have to think about it), to the final stage 4. Unconscious Competence (you are good at it and it now comes naturally).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_stages_of_competence
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