Lección 1
Exploring The Ordinary World
You are a hero on an extraordinary journey. Today, we will begin by turning toward our life as it is right now, our ordinary world. We will explore the practices of cultivating safety, satisfaction, and connection. Entering the ordinary world means studying the self as a way of going beyond the self. Today's suggested activity is to do an audit of your life for the following week – how are you doing with exercise, diet, sleep, meaningful connections, work, spiritual practice, and mood – checking in to see how your ordinary world is going.
Lección 2
Answering The Call
Let’s explore what calls to you, what beckons you, and how you transform your life. The call can begin with an accident, a blunder, or a wrong turn. Or it can be an aha moment, an inspiration, a thud or tingling of your heart. What is the request your life asks of you? You may be called to begin or end a project, a job, a relationship. We are called to go deeper, to leave what is known and comfortable to find our own truth. Asking powerful questions is a useful practice to better understand and work with what calls you: Why are you here on the planet?: How’s it going?” What actions might you take in response to these questions?
Lección 3
Recognizing Resistance
Resistance, fear, and caution are natural responses to change, to the idea of leaving what is known and comfortable. Recognizing and becoming intimate with your resistance, the nature of it, the patterns, how it feels in the body is an important step toward finding your true power.
Lección 4
Finding Allies & Mentors
Finding allies and mentors is more than an idea or aspiration. It is a practice. Start by noticing who are your allies and mentors. How might you cultivate and deepen these relationships? Then, who are possible allies and mentors? How open are are you to being helped and supported? Notice your patterns and possibilities around being helped, mentored, and supported. Today, you will be encouraged to take on finding and allowing allies and mentors as a practice.
Lección 5
Tests, Challenges, & Failures
In today's lesson we will focus on learning to not avoid the challenges that comes with being human. Managing change can be an ongoing test and learning experience and it's important to bring attention to the process of transforming difficulty into learning and opportunity, satisfaction, and joy. In this lesson we will be working with the 4 Noble Truths of Buddhism: The truth of discomfort and suffering; the truth of noticing the cause of suffering; the possibility of finding freedom: creating a path and practices leading to greater satisfaction and greater power.
Lección 6
Finding Freedom
Today we will discuss how to finding freedom through cultivating a set of practices to see more clearly. Paying attention to your habits and patterns that limit you, clarifying your intention, bringing greater attention to your speech, your livelihood, and your effort, and deepening your mindfulness practices are all ways to find your freedom and true power.
Lección 7
Finding Your Power
Experience the experience you are experiencing. Your power is embedded in accepting and not resisting or pushing away you full experience. In today's lesson we will be asked to notice the three levels of reality: the ordinary world, the aspirational or compassionate world, and the absolute world. Noticing what vows or promises you live by and cultivating healthy vows. Learning to live by vow instead of by habit.
Lección 8
Letting Go & Surrendering
Life is short. We know that we will die and none of us knows when. Don’t wait. Live your life fully right now. Practice radical acceptance. Embrace a beginner’s mind. Find stillness in the middle of change and stress.
Lección 9
Returning To The Ordinary World
In today's lesson we will explore the four foundations of mindfulness: mindfulness of the body, your feelings, your mind, and patterns. As we return to the ordinary world we re-visit questions of meaning, values, and alignment. We’ll explore the practice of noticing our heart’s desire. We will cultivate greater resilience and find new ways to work with success and failure.
Lección 10
Integration And Continual Practice
This is the end of the course and it is also the beginning. The journey of growth, of life, of being human is a cycle – of noticing, discovery, of entering the unknown, and being transformed – again and again. The importance of wholeheartedness and sincerity. Embracing the world of the absolute, and yet, the need for continuous practice. In today's lesson we will wrap up with a discussion on four key superpowers: selflessness, timelessness, effortlessness, and richness. This is the journey of searching and finding – for your true power.
