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Living Personal Genius Training "Meta-states level II"

“Living Genius or the Genius of Living Life to the Full”

Rarely does one have the opportunity of saying that a training sets out to map uncharted waters and of really meaning it: LIVING GENIUS is one of these.

Some years ago, you may have watched a television programme presenting an international exhibition of Botticelli’s illustrations of Dante’s Divine Comedy, held at the Royal Academy of Arts in London or, even better, were one of the lucky ones who went there to visit it. When I saw it, I was immediately struck by the fact that, whereas Botticelli presented us Hell in all its graphic, gory details, his drawings became ever more abstract and symbolic as Dante ascended the levels of Purgatory with Virgil, and of Paradise with his beloved Beatrice.

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I immediately linked it to the fact that we are intimately familiar with unresourceful states, which we mayexperience with an surfeit of sensory-specific information on a daily basis, but that we often have little sensory awareness of resourceful states, often noticing that we had been in one only after we had left it.

“No News Is Good News”, goes the saying. Some years ago, attempts were made to show television news bulletins that would only present good news items. This didn’t last long as few people watched it. You see, the obverse also appears true: “Good News is NO News”. For us, in general, “News = Bad”. Thus, news of horror or terror have an immediacy which news of joy and bliss do not. The former wrench our guts, make us want to vomit, tug at our heart strings, whereas the latter…, well what do the latter do for you? Shouldn’t we feel elated, transported, and lastingly uplifted by these? We can, provided we have strategies in place to do so.

Whereas un-resourceful states often have a very specific location in the body, resourceful states often are far more diffuse, spread throughout the body, or expressed as a whole-body state. This lack of representations of resourceful states, of specific anchors, and therefore of strategies, may explain why many people relapse back into un-resourceful situations. They simply can’t imagine how life would be different without their problem and hence revert to familiar, well-worn ruts. Luckily, there are now ways of creating grooves of similar attraction and power: with Meta-States.

Indeed, those who have had Meta-States training (ACCESSING PERSONAL GENIUS) will recognize that few un-resourceful states are simple states, but that they actually have many (often far too many) meta-levels of thinking and feeling associated with them, whereas resourceful states appear not to.

“I just do it,” “I just feel it,” “I just am,” do people reply when you ask them about their resourceful states, and little can they usually add to this. And yet, behind each of these, as in Dante’s Divine Comedy, there is also an abundance of levels that take us there, and for the lucky few, enable us to stay there, no matter what the world throws at us, enduring with our head high even in difficult situations, triumphing over overwhelming odds, allowing us to embrace the sublime and to benignly laugh at the ridiculous. We can all do that, when we know how, and that’s what the LIVING GENIUS training seeks out to enable us to do.

There are several good reasons for you to want to do this: in addition to becoming more happier, more effective human beings, evidence is at last accumulating that resourceful states are good for your health and well-being: they promote your longevity and even appear to reverse poor health conditions, such as cardiovascular disease. Not only can you think better, but also feel better, both at mind AND body level.

Furthermore, well-formed resourceful states not only benefit you, but they also appear to benefit the people you’re with, your community and society at large, creating “chains of positive meanings for others and creating upward spirals that transform communities into more cohesive, moral and harmonious social organizations” (Barbara L. Fredrickson, in AMERICAN SCIENTIST, July-August 2003).

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So, come and map out your own if you want to build your intellectual, physical and social resources.

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