Living Deeply-The Art & Science of Transforamtion in Everyday Life

Living Deeply transcends any one approach by focusing on common elements of transformation across a variety of traditions, while affirming and supporting the diversity of approaches across religious, spiritual, scientific, academic, and cultural backgrounds. Each chapter in the book ends with "Experiences of Transformation," exercises drawn from wisdom traditions or scientific investigations meant to enhance your direct experience of the material.

Opportunities to actively engage in your own transformation and that of our world are woven into the fabric of your everyday life. Learning more about the terrain of consciousness transformation can not only give you a map, but can help you become the cartographer of your own transformative journey. Research over the last decade at the Institute of Noetic Sciences has systematically surveyed hundreds of people's stories of their own transformations, as well as conducting over 50 in-depth interviews with teachers and masters of the world's spiritual,religious, and transformative traditions.

No matter who you are,where you come from, or what your current path is - whether you seek to transform your life completely or simply make adjustments that will add a layer of richness and depth to your life - exploring the many ways that transformation is stimulated and sustained can hold great power. Weaving together cutting-edge science with wisdom from teachers of the world's transformative traditions this book explores how people experience deep shifts in their consciousness, and how those shifts can lead to healing and wholeness.

By authors: Marilyn Mandala Schlitz, Cassandra Vieten, Tina Amorok
Preface by: Richard Gunther
Foreword by: Robert A.F. Thurman


KEY MESSAGES

Common and enduring principles can be found in all wisdom traditions and religions – there is a universal set of truths and values common to all peoples and cultures.

Transformation is an ongoing, natural process that is available to everyone in each moment.

Life teaches us what we need to know – the opportunities to learn suffuse each day if we are paying attention. Both painful and joyful experiences can be transformative.

Dramatic and lasting change for the better springs from radically shifting your perspective of who you are. This most essential change, the one from which all other changes arise, is a shift in how you view the world and your perception of what is possible.

Transforming your consciousness may be the most important thing you can do for yourself and the world.

Deciding where to direct your attention and intention has a profound impact on how you relate to yourself, others, the earth, and all living beings.

Transformation is a practice and must be lived in your daily life to be sustainable and meaningful -- transformation is about how we LIVE our everyday lives, how we behave in the world.

The more we become aware, awake, or “conscious,” – the more our life becomes a practice, and everything we do is a practice. We need to practice and expand our capacity for love, compassion and generosity.

Intention Matters -- One of the most crucial cultivators of transformation is intention – transformation is something we choose, nurture and cultivate into being.

Transformation brings with it an understanding of unity and entails the shift from “I to We” --You begin to live from a place and understanding that will benefit all.

Transformation brings about the realization that everything is sacred and we begin to quite naturally orient ourselves toward protecting and preserving all life.


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