- Where does our environment and perception come from?
- Are all our actions and their results purely accidental?
- Are we at the mercy of the moods of everyday life, success and failure?
- Is the world a magical place which fulfils and has to fulfil all our desires?
- How can I get money, prestige, enriching relationships and good cooperations?
- Why do my plans or projects not work?
With such questions we all try to understand what happens in our life.
There are three possible ways to come to an answer:
The first way is to look at the phenomena facing us. For this we assume that these phenomena have to do with ourselves.
Example I: "Feel your body!"
F. is a sales manager in a pharmaceutical and cosmetics group. She manages 14 sales representatives. Again and again there is
tension between the wishes of the head office and the way the sales representatives work. When we looked at this phenomenon, we
first put the issue of tension into the room as a physical body to get a clearer perception of it. Then we focused on the subject:
What am I attracted to? In the third step we arrived at the issue of esteem for the higher levels of the company and the personal
way of thinking and looking at things of this female executive ("I fight like a tigress for my people."). We deciphered the individual
aspects of this statement with the help of "Michael Roach's ten principles" and got to know which personal point of view and
perception of the world was behind all this. By asking questions and thinking about it we came to a different understanding of her
own role in the context of the company. This changed her perception of tension in her body, her feelings and her way of thinking.
In a meeting with the sales manager of the head office which took place two days after our session, the problem solved itself due
to her ability to esteem and understand his function and point of view as well as her own function. Furthermore, this new way of
thinking changed the demanding attitude of the sales representatives and led to an openness and lasting personal responsibility from
their side. Tension and friction on the mental and physical level vanished and have not appeared again since then.
Background to this example:
In our life, thoughts, emotions and actions are interwoven with each other like in a web which is hardly visible at first. With the
help of attitudes and views from 2500 years of experience we can realise that our reality is created by our perception and that this
way we ourselves are responsible for fulfilment and success, lack and failure in our life, as our thoughts, emotions, words and actions
create causes whose effects come back to us later in time. This method of "embodying your feelings" combines models of perception from
Buddhist Tantrism and approaches of modern body therapy to make you aware of the signals retained in your subconscious. Physical
problems or vague feelings are signals arising from the subconscious. Instead of taking the effects at "face value", awareness of the
body is used as a means of change. In Buddhist Tantrism it is supposed that each perception, action and judgement is stored in our
entire cell structure. This results in a specific personal structure which condenses in the course of your life and leads to certain
events (bankruptcy, unemployment, bad investments, destructive relationships). This structure can be changed with the methods of
"Radiance", as described in the following example.
Example II: "A powerful, but bitter pill"
On a friend's recommendation the Radiance Coach is consulted by an entrepreneur. In the first half of the conversation the coach
secretly marvels at the strength and capability of his conversational partner and nevertheless asks the question: "If everything is
going so well, why are you here?" "Well, I was forced by my wife. She is registered as the owner of the company and she thinks that
the company is overindebted, but …" He tells his tough personal story: His parents burned to death before his eyes when he was nine,
he survived one year on the streets stealing and wangling, was raised in a children's home and in an SOS Children's Village later on,
finished his apprenticeship as a printer with great difficulty - these are some stations in this hard life. The coach pricks up his
ears when his client tells him that he had put the dream idea of every printer into practice, which is to print counterfeit money.
After being a prisoner on day release for four years, he resumes his normal work and starts to work off his debts. The story is long
and it is an equally long, arduous and difficult process to make him take responsibility. After three months the breakthrough: In a
conversation with the six main people involved, it is decided that the encumbered company he has clung to for so long will be
liquidated immediately. At the end of this day there seems to be a whiff of suicide in the air and the Radiance Coach starts to wonder
if his approach might have been too radical. But sometimes you have to swallow a bitter pill. After two weeks a telephone call. It's
the client's family. He got a job as a consultant abroad and his future prospects are excellent. Six months later he has paid back
half of his debts amounting to 40.000 euros, as he gets a good salary."
Background to this example:
The coach's approach was directly derived from advice given by the Tibetan Gelugpa Lama Drakpa Shedrup (1675- 1748) under the
title: "Stopping old bad karma."
In this process, "sincere regret" and the idea of an "antidote" composed of a change in our way of thinking, speaking and acting
play an important role. The resounding success shows that even in difficult situations Buddhist wisdom can be very useful for our
everyday life.
One last possibility of this first way is to see outside events as energetic phenomena. During our life, ninety-eight percent of our
sensory impressions flow into our subconscious mind and, depending on our personal experience, create our subjective perception.
In Tantric Buddhism, this is the model of "The Five Wisdom Energies". Each energy form is connected to a conscious and an unconscious
side. The unconscious side is reflected by emotions and how they express themselves by appearing in our personal world. The difficult
five key emotions are rage, stupidity, greed, arrogance and jealousy. If these emotions are transformed, a canon of released creative
energies as their counterpart can come to light.
These energies correspond to the way we perceive reality as well as to our way of thinking, speaking and acting.
Example III: "Play of the Energies"
In a trading firm with 540 employees and 30 branches, an inexplicable phenomenon has been observed for years: Almost every branch
reports a lot of pilferage and cheating by the employees. The task of "Radiance" is to solve this problem. After several visits to the
head office, the coach invites the owner and the most important employees to get together and talk. During our work with the model of
the Five Wisdom Energies and their unconscious counterparts (in this context, we do not call them like this, but we speak of
emotion/impression and emotion/expression) it becomes clear that there is a "subtle flow" of a smouldering dissatisfaction, an
unconscious anger, in this company, but nobody dares to speak openly about it so that this anger continues to seethe below the surface.
At this point, the coach has a private conversation with the founder and managing director focusing on the following main issues:
How do you personally deal with dissatisfaction and anger?
Do you find your own remuneration fair or how should it be?
In a longer conversation we explore how certain conglutinations prevent a wise utilisation of the potential. Within the next six
months, the phenomenon subsided as the head and founder no longer avoids conflict discussions but conducts them accompanied by a coach
in order get a more precise perception of his hidden anger and greed via his body and his way of speaking.
Background to this example:
The Mandala Principle of the Five Wisdom Energies heavily influences our perception, our inner world and our reality. You can find
general information about this wide field in the book "Five Wisdom Energies" by Irini Rockwell and on the Website
www.compassionate-economy.de.
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