Quick and Simple Access To A New World of Success

Improving Performance and Results:

On July 30, 2020, I took part in an online session conducted by one of Landmark Worldwide’s renowned instructors - Dr. Vibha Katragadda. Landmark’s course leaders are Landmark programs faculty members who come from a great variety of backgrounds and are extensively trained to present ideas that are engaging, empowering, and produce extraordinary results. At this session, Dr. Vibha Katragadda presented some powerful ideas on how to access improved performance, better results, peace and productivity in our lives.

State of wholeness and completion:

One of the most fulfilling experiences in life is to feel whole and complete. It’s an indescribable state of abundance of joy, peace and energy which both fills us with satisfaction and inspires us to take our lives to the next level. From this state of wholeness and completion, we can clearly see effective opportunities to take action, create goals, pursue those goals and achieve results.

Life is not a challenge, it is a poetry - Discover and create new meanings every day:

Most of us have experienced wholeness, completeness and stillness at least fleetingly in our lives. Even if you’ve never consciously sought to do so, we occasionally find moments of balance and fulfilment in our lives. In those moments, we vividly experience a sense of perfection - nothing is missing, no one is wrong, everything is perfect. In these moments, we see life not as a series of challenges but as a joyful, poetic mystery.

Common human pursuit to move towards the state of wholeness and completion:

There are many spiritual and self-growth disciplines which offer techniques to achieve this state of inner perfection, stillness and completion. Most, however, teach practitioners that in order to find this inner peace it’s necessary to move away from people & responsibilities, move away from the world of actions, isolate themselves and remain secluded. It is very rare to find a discipline and reliable practice on achieving this state of wholeness and completion while in the midst of action, fully immersed in the battlefield of life, surrounded by other people and challenged by their expectations.

Is it even possible to maintain a state of inner fulfillment while fully engaged in the action-packed context of modern life?

Being Whole & Complete while fully immersed in Action:

Landmark Worldwide trains participants to do exactly that. Their uniquely designed courses offer new paradigms, practical tools, and practices to achieve a state of contentment while remaining engaged with the world.

In fact, in the paradigm of Landmark’s training, a state of wholeness and completion is only valuable when one is empowered to act and create. 

State Of Fragmentation vs State of Wholeness:

Many disciplines assign different names to our everyday chaotic, fragmented inner state and our ultimate or desired inner state of wholeness. For example, yoga considers the everyday wakeful state as “disconnected” and the ultimate state of inner balance as “connected.” The word “yoga” means, in fact, to connect or merge. Indian spiritual traditions consider virtually every other inner state as one of bondage or slavery; completion and connection, in contrast, is considered freedom or moksha. Every tradition uses different words – enlightenment, satori, being in the zone, awakening, sat-chit-anand, mindfulness, mystical union, amazing grace, ecstasy, and so forth – to describe some state of inner experience that differs completely from our everyday state of incompleteness.

Landmark Worldwide provides coaching in creating an experience of wholeness and completeness that doesn’t involve disconnecting yourself from the world. As per Landmark’s training and also my own personal experience, it’s important to create and maintain a foundation of wholeness and completion to achieve lasting results in the real, practical world. Most people will immediately see the benefits of creating such an experience of wholeness, completion and perfection for themselves and their loved ones.

So how can we do it? This is the most important question.

Common global MYTH - Money will give us an experience of completion:

In our everyday experience, we tend to think that if we get more money, we will experience a greater sense of completion and perfection. Some people consider power, success, health, love, family, marriage or the right career decisions are key to an inner state of perfection.

Access To The State Of Integrity - Our Word - Our Promises:

But Landmark offers a completely new, surprising approach to the world of wholeness and completeness. Landmark calls this state of being whole and completion as the state of integrity.

And the key to accessing a state of integrity is Honoring One’s Word.

This sounds like a weird idea.

We respect money, power, important positions, and influential ideas. But how can we respect our word? What does that actually mean?

Of course, in our own personal experience, we believe that we respect our own words and promises, at least to some degree. In this new paradigm from Landmark, you can elevate and expand this level of respect for our word.

Take Your Respect For Your Word to the Next Level:

Let us say, your current level of respect for your promise is X.

Now, take your level of respect to your own promise to 10X.

As you enhance your respect for your word, you will see new openings of actions and results.

Let’s take an example: suppose you have promised yourself and your family that you will remain healthy and fit. Your level of RESPECT for that promise is X.

Now, you are a nice, sincere person. You do try your best to remain healthy and fit. You value and respect the promise that you’ve made. So, you make your best effort. You try to exercise a few days per month and you attempt to eat healthier food. But sooner or later you let that promise slide; it was hard to fit the exercise into your schedule, and it made you tired, and you really wanted to eat your favorite unhealthy foods. Before you know it, you’ve rationalized your way back into your old habits and are living as a couch potato again.

Now, you have the choice to RESPECT your own promise to be healthy at a LEVEL 10X.

That means, increase your RESPECT for your own promise 10 times more. Resolve to take it seriously.

Respect Your Promise To Be Healthy - Discover NEW Actions To Be Healthy:

Now, see how that increased respect is expressed in your actions. With more intensity and focus on your promise, with a greater respect for your own plan, you take more concrete steps to achieve this goal and fulfill your promise:

1. You will be disciplined and regular in your exercise. Is it hard to schedule? Work harder to find a way to fit time into the gym into your day. Try different times, different exercise routines. You don’t just give up when the first plan doesn’t work: you try and make it happen.
2. You will regularly eat healthy, nutritious food. Is it hard to resist snacking on unhealthy things? Stop buying them so they aren’t around when you’re hungry. Not sure how to cook an appetizing healthy meal? Find a cookbook or some videos to show you how, or find a meal plan that ships healthy ingredients to your home.
3. You will take proper rest and take care of yourself. Set boundaries. Don’t work in your bedroom. Make sure you have eight full hours of sleep scheduled every night. Stop looking at computer or phone screens at least an hour before you go to bed.

Higher Respect For Your Word - Natural Discipline, Punctuality, Consistency:

Once you operate at this new level of respect for your promise, this level will become regular, routine and practicable. Change your expectations, and approach your promises seriously and strategically. Don’t make vague promises to try and meet your promises: treat them as important projects to accomplish by whatever means necessary.

Higher Respect For Your Word - Expanded View Of Your Promise - New Actions:

Now that you've increased your respect for your promise to be healthier, you will increase your respect for your health by a factor of 10 as well. This increased respect will manifest in other areas of your life as well:

1. Along with physical health, you will take care of your emotional and mental health as well.
2. You will carefully measure and maintain all biomarkers. Quantifying important statistics about your health will allow you to plan and meet measurable, specific outcomes.
3. You will create a predictable routine, strong habit, and a system to remain consistently healthy. It isn’t just going to happen: you have to plan for it.
4. You will identify and remove all obstacles to your good health. Part of planning for success is planning to avoid failure. Removing obstacles (such as junk food from your house) is a way to reduce the opportunities for challenges to your routine.
5. Communicate with others that you value your health and ask them to support you. Doing so will help make you more accountable for your actions. You’re not just keeping a promise to yourself, but to others as well.

New Dimensions Of Honoring Your Word:

And you can still increase your RESPECT even more. With every level of increased respect for your promise to stay healthy, other opportunities will open themselves up to you.

1. You may notice that your mental and emotional health is impacted by other people’s health in your environment. Now it becomes a group promise, one in which you are providing mutual support.
2. You will now take responsibility for their health as well. You will support your family, friends, and colleagues to be healthy.

Keep increasing the level of your RESPECT for your promise to be healthy to higher levels, and discover new dimensions to express that RESPECT.

Honoring Your Word In Other Areas Of Your Life:

Similarly, you can create a level of respect for your promises in your relationships, career, finances, business practices, and more. In every area of your life, when you enhance respect for your promises, you will discover new actions that you can take and better results.

No Upper Limit:

How much can you improve your respect for your own word? Is there a limit?

No: there is no upper limit to the respect you can grant to your word. You can treat the word as your own life. The more you develop and enhance it, the greater it will become. 

Practical Steps To Create New Actions and New Results:

How can you start enhancing your respect for your promise in any area of your life?

1. Select An Area: Start with an area that is important to you - Health, Family, Career, Money, Social Contribution, Spiritual Practice, Hobbies - any area of your life where you wish to see dramatic improvement.
2. Be Authentic - Identify Broken Promises: Check where have you dis-respected your promise, where have you broken your word, where you never even acknowledge that you are breaking your promises! Honestly assessing these areas is THE key to enhancing your respect for your promise.
3. Clean Up The Mess: Once you have identified your patterns of broken promises, you can take responsibility for these failures to follow through instead of blaming others or your circumstances. As soon as you take responsibility for your broken promises, you have already started respecting your promise and restoring your experience of wholeness and completeness.
4. Every Promise Matters: Every single broken promise breaks some part of you. It diminishes you and makes you smaller. Once you identify a broken promise, experience its impact and take responsibility, you have accessed the magical keys to expand your wholeness and completion.
5. Re-Create Your Promise: Now, re-create your promise. Clean up the mess you created by breaking it in the first place. Create and maintain a higher level of respect for your promise and take actions consistent with your promise.

This is a logically consistent and practical approach. The system is scientific and reliable and applicable to any area of your life.

New Results In Your Relationship By Enhancing Respect For Your Promise To Be Related:

If you increase respect for your promises in the area of personal relationships, you may:

1. Stop criticizing, judging or invalidating people in your life.
2. Appreciate them and acknowledge their contribution.
3. Support their success.

If you increase respect for your promises in your career, you may:

1. Report to work on time. You will naturally get more punctual.
2. Value your work more. Consider work as an opportunity to contribute and grow, rather than as an arbitrary set of tasks that has to be completed.
3. Manage your projects effectively. Complete all your work on time.

Novel Approach To Accessing A State of Wholeness and Completion:

It is useful to understand this approach to understanding and building integrity.

1. A state of wholeness and completeness is NECESSARY in order to take effective actions and achieve results in any area of your life. Landmark calls this state Integrity.
2. The way to achieve this state of wholeness and completeness is by honoring your word. Grant sufficient respect to your promise to be whole and complete, to live up to the level of integrity that you need and deserve.
3. To accomplish the necessary actions and results, EXPAND and ENHANCE your own respect for your promises. Expanding your respect for your promises is the KEY APPROACH to integrity - a state of wholeness and completeness.
4. Expanding respect for your promise starts by identifying areas where you have broken your promises and rationalized doing so. Take responsibility and clean up the mess.
5. Discover new actions and produce new results.

Landmark Worldwide - Set Of  New Distinctions:

Landmark offers a very valuable and effective coaching program about these ideas. Landmark has developed a set of different word-tools and ideas that provide new perspectives. Landmark calls these word-tools and ideas Distinctions. Integrity is a proprietary distinction of Landmark Worldwide. In its regular programs, Landmark trains participants to apply dozens of such distinctions in order to help participants to create lives full of productivity, joy and power.

In this particular new paradigm of performance, you can create a state of wholeness and completeness by honoring your word.

Uncover What You Respect:

HONOR and RESPECT is the key. If you respect your word, you will follow through more effectively with appropriate and life-enhancing actions.

RESPECT is precious. Be mindful of what you respect and what you pay attention to.

In the end, whatever you RESPECT will create your life.

RESPECT will mean whatever you value, give importance to, whatever concerns you and whatever you regularly/ habitually put your attention to.

Your reading this article and your interest in these ideas indicates your respect for discovering new access to the world of performance and results. Please share with me any new ideas and actions you are discovering through this article.

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