Posts Tagged ‘EMPOWERMENT’
FROM WAYNE
“Wonderful to reconnect with the enlivening, empowering, magnificent energy that is the Satvatove Experience. Thank you David and Marie for all the hard work you’ve done through the years to get this seminar to where it is and what it is now.
I got much more out of this than I did the previous two times – and that’s saying a lot.
I truly value your association, and I’m indebted to you both.”
EXAMINING OUR ASSUMPTIONS
Excerpt From Relationships That Work: The Power Of Conscious Living
- By David B. Wolf
Awareness of our assumptions, or belief systems, enables us to consider whether they actually work for us. It also allows us to be open to alternative, more satisfying possibilities for viewing ourselves and the world. Being conscious of our assumptions helps us to take responsibility for changing them, or purposefully utilizing them, rather than giving power to our belief systems to determine our life from beneath the conscious surface.
One of my assumptions is the conviction that we are inherently spiritual persons, whose nature is to serve. Another assumption I embrace is that each of us possesses the capacity to handle our lives with a high level of effectiveness. By expression of our innate qualities we are able to produce extraordinary results in our life.
Presuppositions can filter our perception of reality, often preventing us from accessing our facility for conscious choice. Let us take a look at how this process conceals awareness.
I recollect an experiment in an undergraduate cognitive psychology class. We, the approximately two dozen students, were the subjects. The professor showed us a film, about a minute long, of a staged robbery on a city street. Afterwards each student completed a questionnaire of 20 closed-ended items. The questions dealt with details of the movie crime we had just witnessed, including items such as “Did the robber have a gun?”, “Did the robbery victim hold her purse in her left hand?”, “and “Did you notice a bakery on the street?” Next to each “yes” or “no” response we indicated whether we were “not sure” or “sure” about our response, and, if we were sure, whether we would be willing to give this response as testimony under oath in court. After again viewing the film and tallying results we found that every person in the class had been willing to testify to at least one lie.
Unexamined assumptions, instead of facilitating our understanding of reality, serve as a barrier to a fresh experience of reality. We can extend this to our life, where often we do not experience a situation as it is, or a person as he is, because we have already assumed how it must be, or what she must be like.
With transformative communication and spiritual empowerment we assist you in conscious living, in living life intentionally, not accidentally. It’s vitally important to determine whether we are living life out of unconscious habit, or whether we are consciously choosing this way of being and acting because it genuinely works for us.
To grow we need to examine our assumptions, about ourselves, relationships, abundance, and each aspect of existence. This process involves challenging the limitations of our worldview, and our view of what is possible for us to achieve. Frequently those limitations are composed of self-created conceptions and perceptions. Perceptions are powerful. They create restrictions as well as opportunities
True Power in Police Work: A Story of Transformation
by Jens Kirschner
From the Satvatove Archive:
In February 2006 I visited the Satvatove communication and transformation seminars. Till that time I considered myself as intelligent, self-confident, male and superior. I was able to express myself very well and convince others about my views. Discussions were battles for me that I wanted to win. Based on what I had heard about the Foundational Course, I did not consider it to be of great importance for me. I looked at the Advanced Course as a challenge.
In both courses I experienced completely new patterns and ways of dealing with myself and other people. Already in the Foundational Seminar I felt shaken, confused, weak and needy. Several times I wanted to run away as I was rediscovering my emotional personality. At the end of the Advanced Seminar I had decided to leave my job as a police officer, as my newly discovered “soft” side didn’t seem to fit that occupation anymore. However, at the start of the course we had agreed not to make major life decisions till at least two weeks after the end of the seminar, so I remained in my job.
After the courses I developed a new kind of self-confidence. I’ve reflected on myself and have learnt to accept other people with different opinions. I’ve learned to care about myself and in doing so I’ve also learned to show my environment that I care. I wouldn’t say my life is easier now. In some ways it has become more difficult since I’ve started to genuinely take responsibility for my life. But I have so much more energy available now and for the first time in my life I really feel alive.
My personal change has definitely affected my work as a police officer. Colleagues and citizens feel understood by me, valued and accepted. They have expressed how they have noticed and appreciate the shift in my character. I now feel much safer in my dealings as a policeman. Conflict situations are much less about me personally. In recent months, due to awareness of myself and attentiveness to be empathic in communication, I have encountered only one situation where a citizen resisted my actions in my law enforcement capacity.
In that special case I acted with fierce determination, while simultaneously considerate towards the offender. He was aggressive, and a threat to other young men present, as well as to myself and other police officers. To protect everyone involved I acted quickly and firmly. I did this with calm, with clear intention not to harm. I forced the offender to the ground, and the situation was efficiently resolved. Afterwards I helped the young man to his feet and with gentleness explained about further procedures. My colleagues were amazed that the encounter ended in an almost friendly mood between everyone. Instead of leaving police work, I am endeavoring to integrate my discovered qualities and personal communication strategies into this vocation, and the results have been deeply rewarding.
