The Great Updraft

Let’s look have a comprehensive look at James Fowler’s 7 Stages of Faith Development, which describe how we satisfy our basic need for meaning in ever more elaborate ways as we grow and mature.Learning what James Fowler discovered can seriously alter how you view yourself, others and human culture.One of James Fowler’s greatest contributions was to show us that faith is not necessarily religious. In the broadest sense, it is the guiding set of ideas, values and beliefs that drives our lives.James Fowler was also adamant that faith is a process, one which unfolds through seven potential stages.

If you want to reach high performance in your pursuits, you'd do very well to apply the 10,000-hour rule ASAP.What is the 10,000-hour rule? How can we use it to get really damn good in our pursuits? And what are some the common pitfalls involved with this way of looking at excellence?We cover all these questions in this episode.

• The four learner types
• Master your learning mentality
• My article on the 10,000-hour rule

It's time to debunk these four damaging meditation myths once and for all. These aren't just cute little cultural myths that have no real impact on meditators – they will stop you dead in your tracks as you attempt to build a daily meditation practice.In fact, they will prevent you reaching deep territory with this practice, leaving you stuck and frustrated, believing that you simply aren't up to it.

• Optimally process unpleasant emotions with mindfulness
• Train the core attention skills with meditation
• Believe you can't meditate? Read this

It's time to debunk these four damaging meditation myths once and for all. These aren't just cute little cultural myths that have no real impact on meditators – they will stop you dead in your tracks as you attempt to build a daily meditation practice.In fact, they will prevent you reaching deep territory with this practice, leaving you stuck and frustrated, believing that you simply aren't up to it.Let's bust these four meditation myths.Train with me: https://deep-psychology.com

A crucial part of learning how to learn is becoming acutely aware of the obstacles that block our path to excellence.Here we look at three dysfunctional characters – the Dabbler, the Hack, and the Obsessive. These are the three learner profiles you want to avoid. Together they’ll give you a spookily accurate assessment of how you prevent yourself reaching true competence and expertise.And in my article "Learning How To Learn + Skill Up: The Four Learner Types", we expand on these three learner types and look at the gold-standard learner: The Master. This character avoids all the learning pitfalls and ultimately prevails.You can use the exemplary archetype as a template for improvement in any area of your life, from your relationships, hobbies and career, to your overall approach to life.Train with me: https://deep-psychology.com

A crucial part of learning how to learn is becoming acutely aware of the obstacles that block our path to excellence.Here we look at the Beginner's Hump – the early period in the learning journey when we feel clumsy and incompetent. Our new pursuit seems impossible, and we wonder how we'll ever get there.Know that this is temporary. You will get through it, and we'll look at some tried-and-tested strategies for navigating this challenging period.

• The 5 Secrets of Achievement and High Performance
• Accompanying article on the Beginner's Hump

________________________________________________This episode comes from Module 3 of my popular course Master How to Learn.

In this video, we’re going to look at practical habits for maintaining a healthy mind and cover incredible insights into how the mind works. In watching this, you’re becoming a student of your own mind!These cover some of the best tips you’ll find out there from the best teachers. AND I have a tonne of case studies. I reached to folks on social media and they shared their wonderful stories of their own transformation. I’ll be sharing their stories with you!You might think this episode is a little long, but we're taught almost none of this. There’s a lot to cover, and it usually takes a bout of suffering before we discover this stuff. Prevent that ahead of time and start living more fully right away.

• The Pygmalion Effect
• Scarcity and Abundance Thinking
• The Subconscious Mind And How To Harness Its Power

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If you're a newbie meditator, this breathing meditation is a great practice. That said, this technique works wherever you are in the journey, and it has endless depth for advanced meditators.Before you do the meditation:– Setup: It's best you find a quiet spot so you can hear the instructions and fully focus on the exercise.– Mouth Position: keep the mouth relaxed, with the lips gently touching. Release all tension in your lips.– Posture: sit or kneel in a position that you can hold for 20 minutes and that enables you to keep your back straight.Learn more:

• 3-Step Posture Process for Meditation
• How to Build a Daily Meditation Habit
• 5 Best Mindfulness Meditation Techniques for Beginners

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What is the ego? Is it real or illusory? If it is illusory, how does it perpetuate itself?We'll explore these questions and more as I take you on a whirlwind tour of your ego's biggest self-deception mechanisms. These make you inauthentic, obnoxious and forever unfulfilled.We also cover very practical solutions you can begin to implement right now to free yourself from the ego's seductive grip, along with big-picture insights into why the ego exists and how we can functionally live it out.

Spiral Dynamics is a simple but powerful theory describing how human beings evolve through eight major stages, both historically, individually, and collectively.

Learning this theory has permanently changed how I view and treat myself, others, and the world at large.

What really is Spiral Dynamics? What levels of human development does it propose? How do we skillfully apply it to our lives?

We look at the eight stages of Spiral Dynamics, how they appear in the real world, and how to integrate them skillfully into our lives.

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