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The Five Change Dimensions

What

A multi-dimensional framework reminds us that we’re not just solitary, solid figures plodding in a linear way through a flatland existence. A primary reason for personal and organizational change failure is that change efforts, programs and initiatives are one dimensional. But life and business aren’t. The more we’re conscious that our energy, breath, thoughts and feelings reverberate, the better we can direct our power in a forward moving direction with a positive affect.

Why?

  • Metacognitive: Improving decision making and problem solving by bringing sub-conscious thinking and knowledge into awareness and creating space for, and practicing receptiveness to, insights and synchrony.
  • Logical-Philosophical: Engagement in dialog to discover hidden beliefs unconsciously driving assumptions, conclusions and expectations and examination to determine if those beliefs make sense, or not.
  • Metaphysical: Re-interpret your life as aligned with and guided by an invisible power allowing you to live your vision unconcerned with external circumstances, the ways and means through which you meet your desires, and how to make it happen. Feel the difference in your relationship with your body as you shift to this vantage point.
  • Mindful-Practical: Develop good habits observing your everyday mundane thoughts and actions, noticing when you self-sabotage and using that awareness to re-connect with your genuineness.
    From Shambhala SunSpace
    Sure, “mindfulness” sounds like a nice enough thing. But are its benefits real? We’ve compiled some of the latest scientific findings. For instance, did you know that office workers who practiced Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) for twenty minutes a day reported an average 11% reduction in perceived stress.

    Good stuff. And there’s more after the jump.

    More recent findings about mindfulness practice’s efficacy:

    • University of New Mexico researchers found that participation in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction course decreased anxiety and binge eating.
    • Eight weeks of MBSR resulted in an improvement in the immune profiles of people with breast or prostate cancer, which corresponded with decreased depressive symptoms.
    • A prison offering Vipassana meditation training for inmates found that those who completed the course showed lower levels of drug use, greater optimism, and better self-control, which could reduce recidivism.
    • Fifth-grade girls who did a ten-week program of yoga and other mindfulness practices were more satisfied with their bodies and less preoccupied with weight.
    • A mix of cancer patients who tried MBSR showed significant improvement in mood and reduced stress. These results were maintained at a checkup six months later.
    • The likelihood of recurrence for patients who had experienced three or more bouts of depression was reduced by half through Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy, and offshoot of MBSR.
    • After fifteen weeks of practicing MBSR, counseling students reported improved physical and emotional well-being, and a positive effect on their counseling skills and therapeutic relationships.

  • Emotional-Neurobiological: Practice leaning into the negativity and fear you most dread and notice how others react to a more vulnerable, compassionate, less protective and more forward moving, you.

How

The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore. — Rumi

Metacognition refers to one’s knowledge concerning one’s own cognitive processes or anything related to them, e.g., the learning-relevant properties of information or data. For example, I am engaging in metacognition if I notice that I am having more trouble learning A than B; if it strikes me that I should double check C before accepting it as fact.
—J. H. Flavell Wikipedia.

In Plato’s dialogues and other Socratic dialogues, Socrates attempts to examine someone’s beliefs, at times even first principles or premises by which we all reason and argue. Socrates typically argues by cross-examining his interlocutor’s claims and premises in order to draw out a contradiction or inconsistency among them. According to Plato, the rational detection of error amounts to finding the proof of the antithesis.[11] However, important as this objective is, the principal aim of Socratic activity seems to be to improve the soul of his interlocutors, by freeing them from unrecognized errors. – Wikipedia

“But if we decide that the universe is a friendly place, then we will use our technology, our scientific discoveries and our natural resources to create tools and models for understanding that universe. Because power and safety will come through understanding its workings and its motives.” – Albert Einstein Wikiquote

Mindfulness is an activity that can be done at any time; it does not require sitting, or focusing on the breath, but rather simply realizing what is happening in the present moment is mental content, including simply noticing the mind’s usual “commentary”. – Wikipedia