The Project
"Personal Transformation is the on-going process of becoming fully oneself and sharing that with others. Through it, one knows and experiences connectedness and unity with all that is".
{Dorothy speaking for all of us who wish to grow, cited in Braud and Anderson 1998 p127}
According to the Wisdom traditions from across the ages and around the world an amazing life comes about through self-knowledge. Self-knowledge is gained when we connect deeply to our own inner experience. This experience consists of feelings & emotions; thoughts, concepts, ideas, beliefs; and a sense of knowing or intuition, - these may be called inner guidance systems. The Amazing Lyfe Project is concerned with enhancing participants' knowledge and understanding of the three inner guidance systems, or elements of consciousness that we call Mind, Emotion and Intuition. Our experiences arise from the interplay of these elements. When we are deeply in touch with and have achieved a balanced synthesis of these elements, we are living more consciously, and with greater self-awareness. This increases our ability to live fully and peacefully and cope with the inevitable stresses and challenges that life throws at us.
The aim of Amazing Lyfe is to IMPROVE WELLBEING BY PROVIDING EXPERIENCES AND LEARNING THAT WILL CHANGE THE WAY PARTICIPANTS THINK AND FEEL ABOUT THEMSELVES, AND THEIR RELATIONSHIPS TO SELF, OTHERS AND THE WORLD, through SELF KNOWLEDGE, UNDERSTANDING AND ACCEPTANCE to be achieved via the tools of meditation, emotional awareness, reflection and other consciousness technologies.
Our culture tends to over value the intellectual aspects of mind, deny, resist or trivialise the emotions and ignore intuition. This results in an unbalanced life, often leaving us wondering why we strive and fail to feel fulfilled etc.
The Amazing Lyfe project is a new and unique approach to tried and tested methods of education. It compliments traditional education by offering children and young people a chance to learn about their mind, emotions and intuitive knowing in a new way, and to have experiences that offer positive, fruitful and healthy ways of dealing with the pressures of modern life. The AML also provides a safe space within the school day for experiencing deeper connection to self, others and the environment.
The Amazing Lyfe Project utilises a holistic education curriculum developed using a combination of approaches, including psychosynthesis practices, meditation and mindfulness, cognitive behavioural techniques, yoga and logotherapy. The Project uses methods that combine Eastern and Western Scientific and Metaphysical views of consciousness and wellbeing.
The programme is designed to bring out and support the development of the unique, individual nature of each participant by being flexible and responding to their stated goals and needs. It imparts values and offers tools and skills for the students to apply to every day situations that come up in their lives, so that they learn how to use this new knowledge effectively.
As for personal transformation and reaching our potential, I offer the words of Dr Joan E Howell, who describes so eloquently our ability to choose in this case whether or not to create an Amazing Lyfe....
"It finally resolves into a question of whether we have the will to believe, the willingness to accept, and the determination to execute, or whether we are content to remain hypnotised by race suggestion"
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