What can you expect during the process?
- A challenging of your comfort zone
- Breaking and changing uncomfortable habit patterns
- An indepth look at the belief structure that underpins your current situation
- Techniques and strategies to address specific issues
- Use of behavioural and psychological profiling
- An Action Replay (the story that brought you to here)
What are the outcomes of this process?
- Motivation for a new life
- Re-inventing yourself through mind-set change
- Stepping beyond boundaries
- Recognising the unconscious beliefs that have sabotaged your potential
- Understanding addictive patterns
- Increasing your energy levels
- Calming your busy mind
- Improving the quality of your relationships
- Strategies for building confidence
- The building blocks for courage
- An increase in income
- A high level of personal clarity
- Going beyond fear
Do You Have the Benefit of Mindsight and the Four Key Life Skills?
As we journey through life we have sometimes wished that we had the benefit of Hindsight. We would not have made the same mistakes or we would have avoided doing or saying things that now we may regret.
The good news is that it is never too late to develop Mindsight. Now you may not have heard what this Mindsight is. Mindsight is a word coined by Dr Daniel Siegel, a Scientist, Educator, Psychiatrist, Pediatrician and Psychotherapist. The interesting thing about this man is that he has come to the same conclusions as meditators and one of the reasons is that he took part in a Buddhist Retreat many years ago with fellow scientists and researchers who were, as far as I can gather, all interested in the mind, the brain, neuroscience and relationships.
Mindsight is described by him as “a kind of focused attention that allows us to see the internal workings of our own minds. It helps us to be aware of our mental processes without being swept away by them, enables us to get ourselves off the autopilot of ingrained behaviour and habitual responses and moves us beyond the reactive emotional loops we all have a tendency to get trapped in.”
In our lives it is vital that we can tap into the power of our minds rather than just being taken over by our thoughts and emotions at any time of the night and day. Dr Siegel calls Mindsight our seventh sense.
I think Mindsight is a good word for the market place because Meditation or Mindfulness as a tool for the marketplace is not a very good selling pitch as many think it can be achieved through machines or by chanting a mantra or humming Om. They are told by marketers that by buying a product or doing these things they will surely find the key to the riches of the universe.
The truth is that Dr Siegel on his retreat was experimenting with his own inner reality and knowing full well that we humans are hardwired to connect with each other also saw that on a retreat such as the one he was on, this desire to connect with others was not easy to stop voluntarily.
After a while on this retreat, probably ten days, he saw that the energy which naturally goes out to connect with others, when not acted upon, finally and ultimately reverts back to our selves and to our inner reality.
This was a revelation to him it seems and changed the nature of all his future research into the brain, the mind, his psychiatric approach, people’s problems, their challenges, the way people tackled life issues and more importantly their overall success as a person in the realms of work, love, relationships, personal and business success.
What I have seen in my own life and in working with people generally is that we do need a certain objectivity, openness and observation otherwise called by Siegel the tripod of reflection. The words I would use would include dis-identification, vulnerability and self-observation.
Sometimes we need the power of reflection when “we have taken the low road,” as Siegel describes his own experience when he “lost it” with his children one day. We also need the power of Mindsight as it also helps our ability to know our own minds as well as the minds and hearts of others.
We see that Mindsight, Watchfulness, Self- Observation, Self-Remembrance or Self Awareness are the keys that lay the foundation for the other three Life Skills of Self Mastery, Empathy and Social Skills which another famous guy called Daniel Coleman, feels are the essentials to a life lived well.
Research carried out revealed that Mindsight (read witnessing, self-observation, self- remembrance et alia) supports not only personal and interpersonal wellbeing, but more importantly greater effectiveness at work and school.
It appears from research that it is never too late to stimulate the growth of the neural fibres that enable Mindsight to flourish and that we can start as soon as we are ready. As we become more attuned to watching our inner world or sea of thoughts and emotions, as we become more skilled in Mindsight practice we move towards a state of integration and harmony. More importantly we can move to repair the damage we have caused in our relationships when we “lost it.”
All we need is a willingness, an openness and the knowledge that if others have done it we can to. When we can learn to develop this quality of Mindsight, we can honour the differences in each other whilst not shutting down or closing off; we can express our different attitudes whilst remaining open to learning and we can learn about ourselves by watching our often trigger happy reactions when we have been caught off guard and take the low road.
Much more will come out of this new frontier of neuroscience and plasticity and the powerful effect of mindfulness/Mindsight, not only as regards the mind but as it directly impacts the power to shape our brain’s firing patterns and as it affects quite amazingly the structure and architecture of the brain.
With the advent of many books on neuroscience, where the positive and astounding effects of meditation on the human psyche and human life are chronicled, I can see that now there is some possibility that it will become of more interest to those sensitive souls who not only want a successful life in the true sense of the word “success,” but want a happy, contented and fulfilled life with all its surprises.
Don’t pay attention to something you would not like to become; only pay attention to something you would like to become, because this is the beginning.
Warm wishes
Chris Borrett
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