LIFE COACHING NEWSLETTER
March 2006
Life is more than you've been led to believe!
You are more than you've been led to believe!
"A novel cannot be written from the point of view of the victim because a victim does not make things happen. A victim is harmed by what happens and the story stops there. To have a story the protagonist has to transform fate into destiny."
Ginette Paris
The truth is that by the time we reach adulthood, most of us have been victimized by life. So how is it that some are fated to remain "victims" and live out lives of quiet desperation while others transform their lives and flourish forever after?
THE CONTRASTING QUALITIES OF FATE AND DESTINY
ROLE PLAYING CREATES OWN LIFE STORY
SCRIPTED LIFE ACTIVE STANCE
LIFE HAPPENSCREATES REALITY
The centerpiece of my work is self-discovery, which I personally consider to be the deconstruction of a cultural conditioning and leveling process that flattens and sorts human beings into narrowly defined economic slots – without reference to their inherent spiritual natures.
It is my belief that Individuation (the archetypal process of expanding consciousness often referred to as the spiritual journey) naturally transforms fate into destiny. Jung said "Differentiation, "the sine que non of consciousness," is the force piloting that journey. When this archetype grips our life, its requirement is that we pass out of a state of cultural embeddedness in which our functions operate passively within us, and move upward toward a higher state of consciousness in which we actively participate in the development and direction of those same functions. When we are enmeshed in our cultural embeddedness, we are unconsciously fused with our feelings and thoughts, with our senses and our intuition, with our values, ideals and beliefs. They have us. Instead, when we move into awareness, we consciously have feelings and thoughts, and sensory experience and intuition. We have values, ideals, and beliefs. And we have transformation.
Make preferences orderly,
Angela Maffeo
©March 2006
The schedule for the Day of Self-Discovery Programs at Radcliffe for 2006 is:
Sunday, May 7, 2006
Sunday, June 4, 2006
Email your comments and questions to: amaffeo@post.harvard.edu
