From what PERSPECTIVE are you seeing life?
Many people experience a multitude of perspectives within themselves. You might even say to yourself or others at times, "Well, a part of me is like this.... and another part of me is this way..." You could think of these different parts of yourself as "subpersonalities." At Contentment Coaching, you'll discover what "parts" of yourself are present and operating, and learn to recognize when your perspective has been "hijacked" by a subpersonality or "hijacked" by your survival instinct (the reptilian/emotional center - fight, flight, freeze or flee).
Guiding Questions that can support self discovery include the following:
Subpersonalities can be running under your conscious radar, or they can become conscious. As your awareness of the various aspects of your personality becomes clearer, new possibilities open up that allow you to choose more clearly and freely how you will respond to a given situation and how you will live in accordance with your most authentic sense of Self, moment to moment.
Some common subpersonalities include:
Regardless of the various subpersonalities within you, however, if you look you'll also notice that there's something present within you that simply notices all of those parts and accepts them all. The part that notices doesn't have any content itself. It simply notices and accepts.
At Contentment Coaching, you'll learn to recognize and rest into that aspect of yourself that is contentless awareness as a way to make change within yourself, in your world and in the world at large.
This practice allows you to see more clearly what's stirring within you, and allows you to become clearer about from "where," "who," or "what" a decision or action of yours is coming. This is a powerful self-discovery!
Guiding Questions that can support self discovery include the following:
- What are the limiting beliefs that hinder me personally, professionally and/or spiritually?
- What kind of energy steps in, when there are challenges in my life?
- Am I still trying to be something to someone from my past?
- Who am I beyond any limiting conditioning from my life?
Subpersonalities can be running under your conscious radar, or they can become conscious. As your awareness of the various aspects of your personality becomes clearer, new possibilities open up that allow you to choose more clearly and freely how you will respond to a given situation and how you will live in accordance with your most authentic sense of Self, moment to moment.
Some common subpersonalities include:
- inner critic
- pleaser
- teacher
- scared kid
- doubter
- the judge
- the victim
- the whiner
- rebel
- caretaker
- martyr
- perfectionist
- boss
- romantic
- fixer
- problem solver
- savior
- obstinate child
- the intellectual
Regardless of the various subpersonalities within you, however, if you look you'll also notice that there's something present within you that simply notices all of those parts and accepts them all. The part that notices doesn't have any content itself. It simply notices and accepts.
At Contentment Coaching, you'll learn to recognize and rest into that aspect of yourself that is contentless awareness as a way to make change within yourself, in your world and in the world at large.
This practice allows you to see more clearly what's stirring within you, and allows you to become clearer about from "where," "who," or "what" a decision or action of yours is coming. This is a powerful self-discovery!
How does life look
from the perspective of
Contentless Awareness
(also known as attention)?
If you look into attention/awareness,
you can see:
- It’s Unconditional. It accepts everything. It neither pushes away, nor draws anything to itself.
- It’s completely unassuming, makes no demands.
- It is just here, being; completely without judgment. It embraces everything.
- It has no age, gender, race, religion, sexual orientation.
- It is still, present, whole, undivided, spacious, and free.
It may even feel like unconditional love.
AND people can feel loved, when we give them our attention. Is it any wonder, when attention itself has the qualities of unconditional acceptance? When we give attention to our feelings, needs and the sensations in our body – that is self-care, self-compassion.
We know when we are giving ourselves or someone else our full attention.
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Contentment begins with recognizing what's always here.
ATTENTION. It's never not here. But what is attention? And why does it matter? Attention is the "being" aspect of a "human being." Recognizing attention can allow you to embrace life more fully, empowering you to live in peace with every step you take. Attention itself is without content, nonjudgmental, yet intimately embraces all of our humanness. How does life look from the perspective of your attention? What happens when attention isn't glued to the mind, feelings and sensations? How can you shift from partial attention to full attention for each moment? Contentment Coaching can show you the way. |
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