Personal Goals
Goals for Personal Development
Live your life from the perspectives of your highest and broadest potentials.
Internally support and direct your own spiritual development.
Understand how your life is a self-created dream and how you can awaken from it.
Learn self-directed life strategies for healing, balancing, and transformation.
Learn to live your life from innate, integral perspectives Become directed by self-aspects that personify transpersonal qualities.
Awaken from the childhood scripting and the self-created drama that turns your life not only into a self-created dream but into a nightmare.
Go beyond lucid dreaming to lucid living.
Identify and heal blocks and resistances to development.
Balance the various aspects of your day-to-day life.
Become an example of what you want to convey to others.
Provide a foundation for teaching Integral Deep Listening to others.
Live your life from the perspectives of your highest and broadest potentials
Are you living your life from the perspective of your highest potentials? If not, why not? Are you wasting your time blaming others or yourself? Are you stuck? Are you lazy? Are you stuck in overdrive? Are you making excuses for yourself? There are parts of yourself that see exactly what you are ashamed of, yet accept you completely for who and what you are. When you listen to them, they will free you and set you on your life’s path.
Internally support and direct your own spiritual development
It is only a matter of time before you outgrow every teacher, every guru and every exclusive religion or professional specialty. However, you will never outgrow your need to listen to the characters in the dreams you will have tonight. You will never outgrow your need to listen to your own innate potentials, because they will tell you the next step to take to make your most heartfelt dreams come true.
Understand how your life is a self-created dream and how you can awaken from it
The more you dream the delusions of your childhood script, your culture, your nation, and your ego, the more you suffer. The more that you awaken to the truth of who you really are, by practicing ongoing deep listening to yourself within the context of an integral life practice, the more fulfilling your life will become.
Learn self-directed life strategies for healing, balancing, and transformation
We all want to transform from a caterpillar to a butterfly! But in order to sustain our transformations we must create a solid foundation by healing and balancing our lives. In IDL you learn to create two Sanghas – an internal and an external spiritual community to give you the support you’ve always wanted and needed in your life.
Learn to live your life from innate, integral perspectives
Integral perspectives consider all stages of your past, present, and future development. They consider your various capabilities or competencies, called lines of development. They are multi-perspectival, in that they not only consider the above, but they address growth from perspectives of consciousness, culture, behavior, and social interaction. Integral perspectives do not have to be innate, intrinsic, or organic. Those provided by Integral Deep Listening are.
Become directed by self-aspects that personify transpersonal qualities
There are many transpersonal qualities. In Integral Deep Listening we focus on six that are associated with the stages of your breath, the round of your day, the cycle of each year, and the circle of your life and death. These six qualities are confidence, compassion, wisdom, acceptance, inner peace, and witnessing. To the extent that your life is directed by these qualities it heals, balances, and transforms itself.
Awaken from the childhood scripting and the self-created drama that turns your life not only into a self-created delusion but sometimes into a nightmare
IDL considers everything that happens in life as a wakeup call. Are you listening? If you are not the wakeup calls will grow from whispered dreams to nightmares. If you still do not listen, expect accidents, worry, illness, bad relationships, and “bad luck” to increase until you finally wake up and pay attention. This is the nature and source of karma and it is avoidable. Integral Deep Listening turns this karma into grace by first respecting, then understanding, and finally healing the roots of suffering.
Go beyond lucid dreaming to lucid living
IDL is a form of Integral Deep Listening. (Go to DreamYoga.Com to learn more.) You can approach dreaming as a spiritual discipline whose purpose is oneness with the divine. When you do so, you move from self-delusion, whether dreaming or awake, to clear wakefulness, called lucidity. IDL focuses on speeding up this process in your waking life so that your dreams will no longer act out the karmic dramas that unconsciously create suffering through the infusion of subtle doubts, fears, and confusions during your waking hours.
Identify and heal blocks and resistances to development
The reason you are stuck is because you have resistance to change. That resistance is there for good reason. Do you know what it is? Do you listen to it? Do you know how to listen to it? If you don’t, you are slowing your own growth and suffering unnecessarily. If you don’t, your suffering is limiting your ability to hear and respond to the needs of those you love the most.
Balance the various aspects of your day-to-day life
You are constantly juggling the demands of family, school, bosses, the need to make time for exercise, the need to eat a healthy diet, the need to be honest and the need to be loving. All of these demands are often overwhelming, and when you drop one it is easy to feel that you are a failure. Many of your self-aspects know how to balance all these competing interests much better than you do. When you listen to them you will be surprised at how much more balanced your life becomes.
Become an example of what you want to convey to others
Most therapists, coaches, doctors, and helping professionals are paid for their technical expertise. Whether or not they practice what they preach is beside the point. Clients are left to assume that the professionals they rely on are a lot healthier than they probably are. This can set therapists up for guilt and clients up for disillusionment when we do not live up to their expectations. In IDL this problem largely vanishes for many reasons, but the bottom line is that you are much more likely to find yourself becoming an effective and powerful example of what you want to convey to others.
Provide a foundation for teaching Integral Deep Listening to others
Misery is optional. The world needs you to learn Deep Listening so you can teach it to children, people with broken hearts, and broken bodies. You can be the change you wish to see in the world.
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