Energy Management, Personal Power
and Psychic Self Defense
>>The amount of energy that a person can acquire and utilize is the basis of their effectiveness in life.
The purpose of this workshop is to explore the mechanics associated with acquiring and using energy. We are concerned with how energy and clarity is created and retained. We are also concerned with how we lose energy. The mechanics governing the loss of energy is explored and techniques of psychic self-defense are explored.
In order to take this course a student should be familiar with meditation and have an ongoing practice. The practice does not have to be extensive, fifteen minutes per day being sufficient. While the completion of the Introduction to Meditation course would be ideal, any practice, from any tradition, is fine. If a student wishes to take the class but is unfamiliar with meditation, private instruction can be arranged concomitant with the course. It is required for each student to maintain a journal of his or her meditation practice along with other insights developed during the course.
There are two basic assumptions that underlie our methodology.
1. We are conducting a workshop rather than a traditional class. Students learn in the same way they would learn either martial or fine arts, through practice. The student is taught a particular exercise. The mechanics and reasoning supporting the exercise is also taught. The student then practices the exercise.
2. There is no method or individual exercise that is best for everyone. Consequently the workshop is designed to present the student with a number of different approaches and exercises. The student then adopts the ones that work best for him or her. This is similar to the approach utilized in our martial arts program. Different students win using different techniques. It is the responsibility of the student to explore different techniques to determine which works best. It is the responsibility of the teacher to explain and present the exercises and to provide feedback on the student's experience.
Structure of Workshops
It is important for students to share their experiences as well as doing the exercises. Consequently the workshop is limited to 10 students. The workshop is conducted with students sitting in a circle. Students are encouraged to describe their experiences. The workshops last for 90 minutes and include eight classes and a field trip.
Course Syllabus
Class 1: Review of meditation practice.
The function of meditation in accessing energy
Meditation and Concentration: Seeing beyond words
The human Biocomputer and the Matrix:
The mechanics of Karma in creating the Matrix
The function of bringing your programming to consciousness
What is power?
Practice Journal: The importance of charting your experiences
Homework: Three-part energy survey.
Class 2: The Basic Problem, Passing Pleasure and Ongoing Dissatisfaction
The issue of change
Getting what we want, dissatisfaction and wanting more etc etc etc
The mechanics of detachment and indifference
Societies' game of Three Card Monte
What we own owns us as much as we own it
Various solutions - eight ways of approaching things
Homework: Inventory of possessions exercise
Read: Heart Sutra
Read: Insights by Dr Frederick Lenz
Class 3: How We Make Things Happen.
Self fulfilling prophecies and limiting beliefs
Money Exercise: Who really wants to become rich?
You can have what you want. How to know what you want?
Focus and bringing to awareness contradictory desires
Creating with words and the power of writing
Blame and Slavery: The power of taking responsibility
Using reframing to control the Matrix
Taking control of the programming and personal responsibility.
Consciousness Exercise: Money Awareness
Homework: Write a detailed description of something desired.
Class 4: Inaccessibility: First Principal of Self Defense
Being Inaccessible rather the Secretive
Who is threatened when you change? Who is happy when you gain more energy and power?
Inaccessibility and Etiquette
Practice in stopping invasive questions
The Personality, the Ego and the Self
Constructing Caretaker Personalities.
Dissolving personal history
Homework Two by two exercise
Homework: Report on stopping invasive questions
Read: Miss Manners Basic Training: The Right Thing to Say
Class 5: Strengthening the Body
Developing a six month personal physical development plan
Identifying self limiting beliefs concerning becoming physically stronger
Inaccessibility Strategy: Dodging the bullet of 'you'll never be able to do that' from friends and family.
Talking one day at a time
Homework: Go to the gym, dojo, yoga class or jogging track. Take the first step during the week or provide a detailed report on the obstacles and limiting beliefs that kept you from doing this.
Class 6: The Power of Language: Taking control
Intimate relations: Control what can be said and when it can be said
Fault lines in a relationship - identify and control
Avoiding low grade highs - bad rapping, complaining, gossiping
Cultivating enthusiasm
Mental static and original thought
Homework: Practice the 'Go Away' exercise to remove unwanted people from your mind
Read: How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
Class 7: Understanding and using Etiquette: Creating Respect
Etiquette: What it is and how to use it
Dressing for power
Assertiveness
What is respect: Two simple ways to cause people to force respect on you
A few basic principals of establishing rapport.
Homework: Miss Manners Rescues Civilization (selections)
Urban Warrior Field Trip
This is a Saturday afternoon field trip to the Metropolitan Museum. The purpose of this exercise is to bring to awareness the way we each process basic areas of value. The exercise consists utilizing different objects at the Met to bring to consciousness each student's approach to aesthetics, epistemology, logic, and ethics. The field trip takes about two hours.
Class 8: Recapitulation and Review
Experience of urban warrior field trip -
Advice on protecting and expanding the practice
Lessons learned - what worked and what didn't
Going beyond - "to make an end is to make a beginning"
Presentation of Graduation Certificates