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About Us And Becoming the architect of your life
We are teachers and consultants for inner and outer progress.
The expressions and information here were designed for the purpose of creating uplifting change within, with the realization that in this way, uplifting change may then take place in the world. This was the goal of my teachers who have now passed on, and continues to be the goal of those still working with me to offer this opportunity today.
And for any lasting and expansive shift to happen, something needs to change at the deeper levels. True inner connection allows true external connection.
Yet, we do not need to win every battle. We only need overcome a few internal battles for our own worlds to change, and for us to then have life-elevating expressions to pass on.
What we wish to offer here are understandings containing both traditional and new elements, for everyone wishing to improve at every level, and in all aspects of life.
The Life Architect Spectrum, or LAS, is not about any one idea; further, it is not just about methods to help you progress, but about experiencing, creativity, appreciation of art, nature and life. Some have named it "a fully integrated experience, idea and practice spectrum.
In this introduction, I will cover some vital parts of the progress spectrum. Understanding these aspects can lead to liberating progress in any individual wishing to experience totally fresh possibilities and opportunities...
Many Methods
There exists a staggering multitude of practices and methods out there; however, they are all attached to just a few primary drivers, and a clearer understanding of these drivers can provide a significant boost to our lives. Further, understanding what resides beyond the known drivers can dramatically improve our position, and can improve it beyond, and even unimaginably far beyond, our previous belief threshold.
When we strike essential zones, particularly in a more balanced harmony, we will have new thoughts, new energy, new feelings, new connections, stronger beliefs, as well as greater experiences. Yet without deeper insights and the ability to pierce the layers of doubt, we will repeat the same level of experiences again and again, and know nothing more...
Each individual aspect of the spectrum contains large volumes of perspective-changing capacity on their own; yet, when supported by a fuller, or especially complete harmonization/integration of aspects, maximal opportunities quickly proliferate.
This spectrum includes the traditional and the new, the internal/external components, promoting elements of greater belief, perspective, experience, receptivity, as well as low-friction/high yield methods.
And It Shouldn't Be So Hard...
As my teachers often relayed to me, and as I often mention, some of the best instruments for change are indeed low-friction approaches. By using low-friction techniques and practices, we interface with our difficulties in smaller bits, from different angles, through a unique set of lenses and/or with greater strength and energy.
Note: gaining these abilities are not necessarily always about enhancing our own strength, but about successfully opening receptivity in order to more fully accept the support of effective outside guidance. Much of what one may learn here is about elevating levels of general belief (and as a result, one’s more specific, positive beliefs). For when we are in more non-receptive states, we have little idea how many opportunities and experiences are actually passing us by (until something comes along to awaken or reawaken those realizations).
Hard And Soft Approaches
To use a low-friction approach is to use a soft approach, and to use a high-friction method is to use a hard approach. Many, without fully realizing it, attempt to use some of the highest friction approaches right out of the gate, and often find the results extremely to at least moderately disappointing. While I teach the external and internal, as well as hard and soft methods, the more internal, friction-free techniques, again, can awaken understandings and abilities within us in a very gentle, yet efficient manner.
In other words, we don't need to face colossal monsters before we are truly prepared, but once we are prepared, we can truly face anything.
One of the aspects I'd like to provide further coverage on now are the different variations of the more frictionless angle. Some of these practices and ideas are better known, while some have only been passed to a mere handful of students. Beyond this, some are slower-burn, while others have much more immediate, and clear effects -yet all have their place .
Examples And Their Power
Some of the more internal, softer approaches rest in the meditative field. Now, you have likely heard about meditation and mindfulness, perhaps how they are utilized by gold standard therapies, and how they, and the concepts surrounding them, possess many of the underlying elements behind the more effective life-progress techniques known. And what those who are less familiar with meditation/mindfulness may not realize, is that the methods are likely far different from what they are imagining or hearing about.
Further, even to those more familiar with standard meditation, there is very likely much more to be explored than you know.
Yet how do meditation/mindfulness, and the concepts surrounding these practices, possess so many of the more effective approaches? Ultimately, to prevail in any endeavor, we need: Focus. This means the ability to continually remain with our goals and intensions despite competing worries and distractions. These competing worries are often the very thing separating one who is accomplishing/completing at several levels higher, from one of keeps finding themselves stuck on page one.
We additionally need receptivity. This allows us the ability to accept and/or observe beyond old boundaries and into more enlivened experiences. This is our fire, the energizing element, our powerful motivator.
We additionally need: perspective. This is the ability to see freely from wider, higher viewpoints. And it doesn't take a thousand Olympian perspectives, just a few critical, subtle shifts and we can change our lives for good...
And finally we need: release. This aspect follows, and is part of, perspective and receptivity. This equals the ability to more readily release unnecessary burdens, false identifications, fears, hang-ups, and the outside negative/limiting influences.
And in the meditative/mindfulness realm we focus, we accept and allow observation of thoughts, feelings; yet, we do not follow these objects of mind. Rather, we watch them from unchained vantage points without being lead by them, and are therefore both able to accept, release or even reverse the appropriate elements.
Exploration
What all of this amounts to is an inner exploration which lays an activated foundation or substrate to begin accepting, discovering, deciphering and believing in more effective ideas, guidance and abilities (both those we already "know" and those we can become drawn to discover).
Much can be uncovered in a short time of meditative inner focus. Of course, those who have been immersed in such expeditions for many, many years, begin to devise ideas. In rarer cases, they devise entire systems which they then may pass onto others for their great benefit.
Low Friction Method
Again, in mediation, most of the changes occur without the typical friction or resistance we'd normally encounter in standard mode (or while trying to think/struggle our way out of the labyrinth, while still within its confines). Again, this is possible because in meditation/mindfulness, we are training to ultimately observe freely around our barriers, rather than attempting to lift their full weight with the same thinking that laid them in our path to begin with.
The Fuller Spectrum
As hinted previously, though much can be achieved through one type of standard meditation alone, when other routes, ideas and practices are harmonized and integrated, the breakthrough force becomes stronger, often many times stronger.
This is why I combine Life Renovation methods with various forms of meditation and mindfulness, and why I offer more than just one variation of meditation.
One far lesser known type of meditation, a variant called EM (or Essentials Meditation), trains receptivity to exceptionally high levels. Receptivity is not just about accepting thoughts or feelings, but also includes the ability to harness and generate greater levels of uplifting energy (love, appreciation, various sensitivities, strength, belief, serenity, and high inspiration.)
And these play a large part in tapping into a higher state of belief -a summit of belief we only catch glimpses of from the lower plains.
Also recall now that in elevated states, possibilities open rather than shut. Indeed, most of us can relate to the way that downing states tend to shut down openness, connectedness, and therefore, close down possibilities.
More About EM
In Essentials Meditation , we're not only learning to simply remain in focus (though that is part of it), we are instilling amplified levels of pure, beautiful states and energies directly and immediately.
Just as we can learn to see around thoughts and emotions from a freer perspective, as well as accept and release them in standard meditation and mindfulness, we learn to accept and receive the essential states with much lower friction or resistance in Essentials Meditation.
Distractions
Distractions may carry us away from focus in standard meditation and in life. Beyond this, distractions can carry us away each day from one of the the very purposes of life (ultimately our more positive states). Yet, in Essentials Meditation, we learn how to keep focus on these vibrant energies. As I'll often mention, the elevated condition of our inner world responsively draws like elements from the external world.
Improving our state is a type of strategy, and one which is most effective at helping us achieve our goals, shatter our limits, which allows us entry into a whole new realm of life perception...
I hope you have gained much from this information thus far, but this is only the beginning of the journey for those who wish to learn more.
The Aspects Of The Life Architect Spectrum
We need a system consisting of a more holistic spectrum, if we are to increase our chances for growth in any area. All great teachers are in agreement on this point.
Yet, it's difficult enough to locate truly effective guidance on even one or two aspects, and even more difficult to find guidance which reaches to the core, to the root, on several aspects.
What we are usually presented with are high-friction approaches, or those we make more frictional ourselves. However, all major aspects vital to uplifting change are represented in the LAS, and with most consisting of low-friction, high yield elements (the exceptions are notable).
And as you'll see, these understandings were designed to be the quickest, easiest, yet simultaneously the most effectual for inner and outer change. Yet here's the thing: as life enhancing as these cornerstone methods are, they are part of a vision and project to be shared at no cost.
Who's It For?
Everyone. Note that this spectrum works equally well for those looking to simply improve relationships, their communication, their studies, to relieve stress, anxiety, depression, to uplift their inner and outer strength, energy, focus and for those seeking to soar, to experience something beyond past thresholds, to obtain the sharpest edge of performance in highly competitive situations, or to elevate their level of belief beyond previous belief.
The Life Architect Spectrum is a harmonized, integrated system based upon the following fundamental elements:
Receptivity and Expression: In life, we often become stuck, repeating the same cycles again and again. Limits arise when we cannot open to new (or revived) understandings and energy. Rather than flowing like a free and lively steam as they should, our emotions, thoughts and beliefs can become concretized. We then feel shut down, where our focus becomes fixed on more superficial, external indulgences only -ones not often designed as life expanders, but as mere distractors and numbing devices. And without inner receptivity, all external events grow closer to meaninglessness…
By contrast, when there is both inner and outer connectivity, all synergizes towards life deepening and expansion, where radiant experiences can begin to flow effectively, bringing heightened sensation into every atom of our being, as never before.
Perspective: To see from new and more panoramic vistas. When this happens, it's a powerful and empowering experience, for through this, we can see new hope, new strength, new possibilities, new regions of life; though, it's unfortunately rare for this to occur naturally in a significant way. Yet, this is not because anyone lacks the ability, it's because the grooves of old patterns run deep. That is, greater guidance and experiences are not as readily recognized or accepted, unless something comes along to awaken/reawaken that realization within us. And this usually requires something unusually powerful, though something which is certainly not out of reach...
Yet, with the freedom of perspective, we can see from a distance, outside of the maze, we can navigate around old habits, circular thoughts, addictions and negative feelings/cycles; we can see beneath the false layers, relieve unnecessary burdens, become untethered form our past, our guilts, perceived curses, and fears of future. Seeing from a new angle is, in fact, a necessary condition for changing the direction of anything in our life. If we ride the same circular track, we can only identify the same, feel the same, and therefore, doubt the same; yet, there are ways to break the circular track for good. Very often, the most effective methods are the simplest and smoothest.
Connection: Connection is the place of contact between two or more points (or people). However, connections can mean much finer, more meaningful points of interaction, where the heart of vibrant nerve centers unite (think of the 80/20 rule). This is not the target board we are talking about, but the bullseye...and perhaps the bullseye within the bullseye.
We sometimes learn to strike finer nerves of connectivity within limited areas, but usually only after much trial and error- such as gaining certain skills only after years of practice. Yet, if we could more directly bridge the gap between ourselves and the essentials of life, how might this unburden our time, our energy, our resources, our mind?
In truth, we can become more sensitized to locate and form these kinds of essential harmonies and unions in all territories of significance: with our inner and outer relationships, our studies, our skills, our finances, our health, our energy. And it can all be accomplished in a way that's easy and natural, where the journey becomes part of the destination. A still deeper truth, is that this potential waits caged within everyone. Indeed, we've all known one of those stellar moments, where we tapped into a precise avenue of connection, at least on a small scale. In this zone, we were able to do things on a level we previously believed was "locked" to us.
Yet, by removing a certain stratum of hinderances, doubts and fears, blurred regions immediately come into focus, where we find the halls of truer discernment. It's in this way that we may find the deepest connections, and find them again, where they may remain our allies for life.
Experiences: Rich outer experiences can bring much shape, flavor and color to life, which can bring shape, color and spark to our spirits and thoughts. Beyond this, experiences of a fuller dimension are the best way to know, and understand. Indeed, fuller experiences expand our library of knowledge as they simultaneously offer perspective and connection.
And as we intake, so we output. Or, as one of my mentors once said, "As we experience the interesting, we express the interesting."
Yet, as I often mention, the gates of reception reside within us. The choice is ours to open to new frontiers, or to turn from them.
If our heart and mind have grown harder, if the gates have closed, even significant external events and obtainments will do little to raise our spirits. In this case, better things will then be sought where they cannot be found. Yet, no matter how tightly the doors seem to have closed, this is only how it seems...
The more the veil is lifted within, the more it will be lifted without. The inner and outer world are part of the total network, all designed to flow smoothly and responsively to one another. Yet, these pipelines often disconnect, and we wonder why the world seems so out of synchronicity with our desires and needs.
When we train to instill valuation, experiences are savored and appreciated to a higher degree, and we draw the extraordinary from the seemingly ordinary. With this, we develop a wider sensitivity and sensuality to soak up all experiences. When the internal and external draw into closer harmony, the old becomes new, and the new, newer. We can then know life in more vivid color, sound and detail than ever before.
Living Examples: We might not believe it until we can see it, but how much more do we believe what strikes all senses in the fullest of dimensions? No example is as effective as a Living Example. Living examples make the deepest impressions because they are both relatable and difficult to deny. They are relatable while also being capable of lifting us higher, perhaps much higher.
Through such paragons, our doubts may fall away as quickly as our inspiration grows.
These exemplars are brought to us to show that we can transcend as they have -if not precisely as they have, perhaps similarly or perhaps even more spectacularly.
However, the light of examples reach our core most effectively given the presence of the following elements: our own receptivity, and the ability of the exemplar to melt away our barriers.
If done in the precise way, a teacher or guide can effectively shatter resistance and doubt in moments, where a lifetime of somewhat indifferent advising usually achieves little or nothing.
As we are inspired, so we inspire.
This was an instructional covering some of the main aspects of the full spectrum.
More coming soon (site still under construction).
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