A move toward consciousness is sweeping the planet. This movement is founded on the belief that consciousness is humanity’s most valuable commodity.
The Foundational Story
Brandon Bays founded The Journey more than a decade ago when she cured herself of a basketball-sized uterine tumour. She transformed her personal healing journey into a set of tools that can be taught to everyone for their own healing and empowerment. "The Journey" is now being used successfully throughout the world.
Kevin Billett founded The Visionary Leadership Program out of a deep conviction that it is time for people to realize that the world is ready to make conscious choices, to choose conscious behaviours and to lead from a place of clarity. A former business man himself, his journey grew out of facing catastrophic failure and turning his life around completely.
Body Wisdom
Deepak Chopra has written extensively on how the body reacts to emotional trauma. He coined the phrase “cell memory” to describe how the body crystallizes experience into the cells.
While positive experiences open up the cell receptors and allow energy to flow in healthy ways, negative experiences shut down the cell receptors, creating energy blocks that can lead to illness and disease. The shut down becomes a trauma point that will not heal. Chopra describes the body as a healing machine. And yet these trauma points are transmitted from old dying cells to newly begun cells.
So getting to the original painful memory and opening up the cell receptor is the way to heal the cell. Brandon Bays’ "Journey" processes guide a person to access the old cell memory and release the pain so the cell receptors open up and healing can take place naturally of its own accord, as the body is programmed to do.
Don't Be Afraid of Emotions
In the recent movie Ghosts of Girlfriends Past the main character, played by Matthew McConaughey, learns the deep wisdom that having feelings is infinitely better than the abject loneliness of shutting down to life and feeling nothing.
It is part of the human experience to feel pain or anger or sorrow. As these emotions are embraced healthily, a person will feel more in harmony. Putting a lid on negative feelings or shooting them out at the people around us cause distress and unhappiness.
Emotional Trigger Points
Brandon Bays points out that trigger points – those moments when a person blows up or shuts down suddenly – are indications of deeply stored pain from past experiences. Psychologists recognize that emotion is experienced as energy. Emotion is the natural human response to the environment. Strong emotion, either positive or negative, can appear...
- Explosive
- Unbridled
- Messy
- Out-of-control
And so, many people avoid feeling their emotions. They may even have the false impression that emotion should be avoided. The consequences of this way of thinking can lead to many unhealthy behaviours and disease.
When pain and anger are stuffed down they develop a life of their own, exploding unexpectedly or eating at a person from the inside out.
How Emotions Play Out in the Workplace
Since the same humans who are avoiding feeling their emotions are usually working in environments which may trigger their emotions, it is obvious and natural that unhealthy behaviours may develop at work. The internal conflict that results may express itself as stress and unhappiness.
Unhealthy ways of coping with stress and unhappiness can show up, for example, as
- Finding someone to blame – The story of the difficult boss;
- Playing victim – The story of the person’s efforts never being good enough, and;
- Defending – The story of “don't look at me."
Kevin Billett’s work in the Visionary Leadership Program reveals that if a person is able to experience challenge in the workplave from a state of consciousness, the situation can be completely transformed.
Rather than finding someone to blame and feeding a blame story, a conscious individual will see the so-called difficult person as just a human, faced with his or her own set of challenges. This can create an opportunity for co-operation and finding out what is really at the core of the difficulty.
In the second case, if a person experiences their wish to feel appreciated as coming from a place of self-confidence, conscious communication can take place and fruitful dialogue can lead to a better working relationship.
In the final example, Billett offers tools that allow a person to find compassion for our humanness. This compassion leads to the dissolving of the defense game.
Consciousness is Mankind’s Most Valuable Commodity
In short, consciousness empowers individuals and creates true strength and healthiness for facing challenges both at home and at work. Consciousness truly is mankind's most valuable commodity.
References:
Chopra, Deepak. The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire: Harnessing the infinite power of coincidence. NY: Three Rivers Press, 2003.
Chopra, Deepak. Quantum Healing: Exploring the frontiers of nind body medicine. NY: Bantum Books, 1989.
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