A Self-Mastery Action Plan
This is my way. What's your way? The right way doesn't exist.

"Spiritual training methods are like rivers, and all rivers lead to the ocean of God's bliss. The key is to find a method that feels right, and then commit to keep on keeping on until you can reach down deep within your Self and find the TRUTH that dwells within you!"

Life is like a game with laws and rules so for every action that you take, or refuse to take, you'll experience an equal and opposite reaction. Since life is LAWFUL, all of your actions create positive or negative consequences. Based on this fact, it would behoove you to make a Self-mastery plan based on the Universal Laws of Life. Sounds so simple doesn't it? All you have to do is make a Self-mastery plan, and everything that you want will manifest… but there's a catch!

Before you can design a Self-mastery plan with realistic goals and objectives, you'll need to know who you are; because if you don't know who you are, how can you determine what you really want out of life? If you put the cart before the horse, in this regard, you'll create a plan which will give you what you've been unconsciously conditioned by advertisers, your parents, and society to believe you want… things like being a millionaire, being as thin as a model, living in a dream home, not to mention power, fame and fortune, and numerous other material possessions. Remember that one of the biggest lies in the Universe is, "When I get what I want, then I'll be happy!"

THIS IS MY WAY. WHAT'S YOUR WAY? THE RIGHT WAY DOESN'T EXIST.

I'd like to share with you the Self-mastery training method that I've used to go deep within my Self. It's called the OBM1 SELF-MASTERY PROCESS.

These Self-mastery processes worked wonders for me, but I'm not saying that it's the "only way," because the "one and only right way" doesn't exist. Spiritual training methods are like rivers, and all spiritual rivers lead to the ocean of God's bliss. The key is to find a method that feels right, and then commit to keep on keeping on until you can reach down deep within your Self and find the TRUTH that dwells within you.

A Self-mastery quest isn't for the faint hearted. It's designed for people who want the whole TRUTH and nothing but the TRUTH. You'll need the courage and the fortitude to commit, study, practice, and emotionalize, which will help you dig deep until you reach your spiritual core to learn why you took birth. Humans learn by taking action through a process of trial and error. Studying, alone, doesn't work because it only creates intellectual faith. Faith without action is useless. It usually manifests into self-delusion, and there is little worse than self-delusion for a person who is on a journey home to self-mastery.

CHERYL D., MD, writes
"I have achieved greater personal authenticity, peace of mind, and
lightness from the Self-Mastery Process than from any program I've tried to
date. Using these powerful spiritual techniques, I am now able to access
higher levels of Self which has freed me to create a life of love."

Self-mastery processes are Self-empowerment exercises that create emotional healing. The Self-mastery and Self-parenting processes are a clinically proven way for Westerners to "dig a deep spiritual well" into the Self so that they can answer age old questions like, "Who am I?" and "What is my purpose for living?"

There are no prerequisites to enrolling in any of our Self-mastery Courses…none! You simply need a burning desire to learn about the truth of your being and a willingness to own all of your actions, because your beliefs really do create your reality.

 

If you asked me how I know that these Self-mastery processes work, my answer would be because of my personal experience, which has changed my life; because of the testimonies (I've included a few) of hundreds of my clients whose results I've clinically measured; because of the numerous other Self-mastery Coaches who facilitate these Self-mastery processes and hundreds of their success stories; and because "the truth shall set you free!" and these Self-mastery exercises help people to see the truth of why they feel the way they do, and what they can do about it.

Another question I hear often is, "How can you clinically measure an emotional healing process?" We measure our clients’ emotional improvements by noting the DECREASE in their EMOTIONAL UPSETS. Specifically, we measure the decrease in the duration of the upset (how long it lasts), the intensity (how severe it is), and the frequency (how often) of the upset from the time our students first enroll.

IF YOU CAN'T DEFINE IT, YOU CAN'T HAVE IT

A Law of the Universe states that, "If you can't define it, you can't have it!" So, let's define what the term OBM SELF-MASTERY PROCESS means:

1. OBM is an acronym that means...Original Belief Methods. OBM means that there is an original belief that is at the root cause of why you feel and think the way you feel and think.
2. SELF means... the God within you, the Holy Spirit, Christ Consciousness, Spirit, Nature, Buddhahood, subconscious mind, infinite wisdom, or any other term that you feel comfortable with that represents the infinite coordination that allows your heart to pump and your lungs to breath life.
3. MASTERY means... to consciously make your Spirit the MASTER and your ego-mind your servant.
4. PROCESS means... a series of specific actions that brings about an end or result.

THREE HEALING INTENTIONS… SEE, FEEL & HEAL

The Self-Mastery Processes have three specific healing intentions. The FIRST healing intention is to surface the unconscious beliefs that are hiding behind your ego defenses. This means that there is an original belief that is at the root cause of why you feel and think the way you feel and think. Let me explain further. When you were young, you needed your ego to automatically defend and protect you. Now that you are an adult, these conditioned responses could be inhibiting your growth because you can't fix what you can't SEE.

ELLEN, M.S., C.C.M.H.C. writes,
"I'm a certified mental health counselor who has had a private practice
for 20 years, and I have found the Self-mastery Processes to be shorter in term and far more effective then anything I've used to date."

The SECOND healing intention of the Self-mastery processes is to help you to reconnect with your INTUITIVE FEELINGS. The Language of Feelings (See Lesson #4) is the Language of Spirit, but since most parents don't allow their children to express their feelings freely, they unconsciously transmute and/or repress them. For example, if a child wasn't allowed to express anger, then as an adult he'll either repress it or transmute it. He'll block his true feelings and "think" that he's feeling sad or depressed. These Self-mastery processes help you to FEEL what you are really FEELING because…you can't heal, what you can't FEEL.

VICTORIA, a CHSC writes,
"After 10 years of alternative & traditional therapies, my mind was saying,
“I already know!' Thank God my heart knew not to listen!
Your courses helped me open to the ultimate truth of 'What is!'
I've experienced the healing power of the
OBM Self-mastery Processes and my life will never be the same!"

The THIRD healing intention of the Self-mastery Processes is to practice clinically tested Corrective Exercises, until you permanently HEAL. Once you can SEE the truth about yourself and, FEEL what you have emotionally denied, minimized, transmuted, or repressed, then you'll need to do corrective exercises to teach yourself new Self-empowering behaviors.

CORRECTIVE EXERCISES (like Self-parenting visualizations) will teach you how to emotionalize your truth. When you learn how to emotionalize your behavior, you will change and the imprint will be permanent. Emotionalizing is the key to permanent behavioral change. It's easy to read about why Self-mastery is important but to do it, live it, and feel it requires you to Commit, Study, Practice, and Emotionalize.

"WHAT IS SELF-MASTERY?"

Usually, when people first hear the term SELF-MASTERY, they associate it with perfectionism or with highly evolved beings such as Buddha or Jesus. Self-mastery is not about perfectionism, nor do you have to be as evolved as Buddha to be Self-mastered. If I sent you on a quest to find "the perfect tree," after some investigation and discussion you would probably conclude that there is no such thing as one perfect tree. It is the same with human beings. We are all perfect in our own unique way.

It's the same with SELF-MASTERY. Your quest is to be the perfect you that you can be. You are unique unto the universe and as such, your Self-actualization will manifest as you Self-master the perfection "within you." Always remember that your Self-mastery cannot be picked in someone else's garden.

SELF-MASTERY FACILITATORS MOTTO IS…
"One soul at a time, starting with mine!"

Practitioners who facilitate the Self-mastery exercises are called Holistic Spiritual Counselors, Self-mastery Coaches and Self-parenting Coaches.
Self-mastery facilitators aren't perfect or they wouldn't be here on the earth plane. It is their mission to achieve Self-mastery, so they teach Self-mastery over and over until they have learned it. A spiritual based facilitators sole qualification is that at some point he/she has made a deliberate choice to become one. The Universe needs these spiritual coaches to assist those who seek the TRUTH. It does not matter who the facilitator was before they were called to do this work. They have become a servant of the Universe by simply answering the Call. They have somehow, in some way, experienced their inner Divine Self, and this experience has created a spiritual rebirth. This rebirth brings with it a new mission in life; to serve Spirit.

SELF-MASTERY IS A MAIEUTIC METHOD

Self-mastery techniques are based on the principle that everyone possesses an innate spiritual understanding of his or her own truth, sufficient to change or remedy it. Accordingly, their duty is NOT to explain or analyze or solve their problem---but to facilitate the client's connection with their own truth, power, and enlightenment.

Self-mastery facilitators direct the person's attention into an area where they may not have been willing or able to look on their own. The most effective way to do this is by asking questions rather than by giving information, lecturing, or analyzing.

In the field of philosophy, this is known as the Maieutic [Ma*you'*tic] Method. It is associated with Socrates who is said to have utilized it. In this method, innate wisdom is elicited through asking questions as opposed to the didactic method in which information is imparted through lecturing, explaining, or analyzing.

Most traditional counselors use the Didactic Method. When a practitioner (no matter how well trained or well intentioned) voices his/her “didactic” opinion about a client to that client, there are several dangers. The obvious one is that the counselor's opinion might be incorrect in whole or in part. The other danger is that the counselor's opinion might be correct, but the client will feel accused and reject or deny it anyway.

CONNIE, a CHSC writes,
"Your Self-mastery Processes have changed my life! I now look forward
to each new day with joy in my heart. It's the best "gift" I've ever given
myself...a clean, tranquil, emotionally sound mind!"

The Maieutic Method allows clients to experience truth and understanding about themselves through a process of discovery that validates their own internal awareness and intuitive feelings rather than making them dependent on their practitioner. The Maieutic method has been an important element of the Sufi, Siddha, Buddhist, and Rabbinical traditions.

A SELF-MASTERY ACTION PLAN

There are fifty-four CLINICALLY PROVEN Self-mastery Processes. The Self-mastery processes are subdivided into three categories, compiled into a 1,000-page training manual, and supported by two six-tape, six-hour audiocassette albums and this fourteen-lesson textbook.

The first category of Self-mastery Processes is called the Clean Mind Processes. The purpose of the Clean Mind Processes is to surface your unconscious negative beliefs. The second category of processes is called Feeling Processes. The purpose of Feeling Processes is to surface and heal your repressed and transmuted feelings. The last category is called Corrective Exercises, which helps you to create new behavioral habits.

STEP #1 TO SAMPLE AND READ

I'm going to take you through the first few Self-mastery exercises as a fictitious person named Sue in order to help you better understand how the prerequisite Self-mastery processes work.

Sue, like everyone else who enrolls in any of Holistic Learning Centers’ training programs, will be given the opportunity to "SAMPLE" the healing power of the Self-mastery processes for her heart and she’ll be encouraged to read this textbook and to listen to the Self-mastery audio program for her mind… before enrolling!

If Sue is interested in learning more about what Holistic Learning Centers has to offer, her facilitator will answer any question she might have about: self-care courses such as Self-mastery and Self-parenting; self-help and family care courses such as Parenting Mastery, Relationship Mastery, Money Mastery, and Weight Mastery; holistic practitioner courses for new students and experienced practitioners who want to learn how to facilitate Spiritual Counseling, Life Coaching and Self-parenting; and professional certification courses that are for students who want to become holistic practitioners as well as for practitioners who want to expand their healing services.

BARBARA, a Chiropractor writes,
"Your self-mastery training methods are powerful emotional processes.
They opened my eyes to many of my repressed unconscious beliefs."

The Self-mastery processes are the cornerstones of the holistic courses that are facilitated by Holistic Learning Centers. We encourage our potential students to use their intuitive hearts to help them decide if our Self-mastery processes are the correct training method for them. We want them to experience our clinically proven exercises by reading this book and listening to the Self-mastery tapes first, because then our potential students will "know" why our Self-mastery exercises are the best training method for them.

TELE-SESSION & TELE-CLASSES

The first thing Sue will do is experience a Self-mastery TELE-SESSION SAMPLER. The tele-session sampler allows Sue to stay in the comfort and privacy of her own home while experiencing the healing power of our Self-mastery sessions over the phone.

The demands of job and family make campus-based education difficult. Fortunately, conventional methods are giving way to bold and innovative learning approaches such as tele-classes and tele-sessions. It’s a wonderfully convenient and highly successful way to learn. Also, tele-sessions are very spiritual because they will help Sue improve her ability to use her intuitive feelings.

Next, Sue’s facilitator will fill out HLCs’ questionnaire and her answers will help him/her to evaluate Sue in fifty areas. The questions analyze her conscious and unconscious old programmed beliefs. Her facilitator will answer any questions she might have and give her recommendations for Self-improvement. Also, the clinically tested questions will help Sue’s facilitator create a Self-mastery plan designed specifically for her.

Sue's answers will reveal what she unconsciously thinks about herself (her self-esteem beliefs) and consequently what she is projecting to others because… Sue's beliefs are creating her current reality! A large percentage of these beliefs were unconsciously conditioned into her when she was a child. Sue usually experiences her negative beliefs as uncomfortable feelings. Her questionnaire answers give her facilitator a specific set of criteria to analyze her uncomfortable feelings, which then can be used to help Sue feel better.

The SAMPLER will enlighten Sue as to what she was negatively programmed to originally believe. She can then capitalize on this information and vastly improve her future by learning how to dis-create (stop creating) the beliefs that don't work for her and to create Self-mastery beliefs that do work for her.

MARY, Human Resource VP writes,
"For 16 years, I've worked on ridding myself of the pain blockages in my life. The OBM Self-mastery processes have worked like a laser beam to identify the true reasons for the pain. I have eliminated old negative belief patterns. I feel Self-empowered and I know that I can create the reality I have always desired!"

If Sue demonstrated, as she experienced the Sampler, that she was spiritually ready to open up emotionally to the Truth about her inner Self, then her facilitator will recommend that she proceed to preliminary step two, an INTRODUCTORY TRAINING SESSION.

STEP #2 EXPERIENCE A SELF-MASTERY
INTRODUCTORY TRAINING SESSION

The second thing Sue will experience is an Introductory Training Session. The "Intro Session" is designed to teach Sue how HLC’s Self-mastery exercises work so that her ego mind will feel safe enough to proceed forward with as little resistance as possible. Sue will receive a large packet of training materials to help her prepare for her new Self-mastery training processes.

Sue's facilitator will teach her using both written training materials and experiential processes so that she can FEEL how the Self-mastery processes work. A Zen training parable states, "What you hear you forget, what you see you remember, but what you do you understand." Sue's facilitator will provide her with as many opportunities to "do" and “feel” the Self-mastery as possible.

The introductory training session will teach Sue how the Self-mastery processes work using many different processes including: the Unconscious Mind Process, the Enlightenment - Empowerment Process, the Tabula Rasa² Process and the One Deep Well Process. She will experience how the Self-mastery processes will peel each layer of her ego defenses until she reaches the root cause of her negative unconscious beliefs. She will realize why she needs what Buddha calls, “The Beginner's Mind." Sue's current emotional upsets will be measured so that she and her facilitator will be able to clinically measure her progress; she will learn about the Spiritual Distinction Meditation; the Four Self-mastery Disciplinas ³; the Seven Spiritual Truths; and the vital importance of all of these Self-empowerment tools.
 

SALLY, an addiction counselor writes,
"I've been a counselor for 14 years and no method that I'm aware of
can get to the heart of the matter as quickly & effectively as the
OBM Self-mastery Process does!"

Lastly, Sue's facilitator will teach her the purpose behind why, after each Self-mastery session, she will be given Self-mastery Assignments (SMAs). SMAs are designed to teach Sue how to do these Self-mastery processes on herself. Mastery processes will help Sue to rebuild herself, and the SMAs will teach her how to Self-facilitate them.

After experiencing the Introductory Training, if Sue and her facilitator agree that she is spiritually ready, willing, and able to open herself up to her own inner TRUTH, then her facilitator will recommend that she proceed to Step Three, which is for Sue to experience one of each of the three categories of Self-mastery processes.

STEP #3 SAMPLE THE SELF-MASTERY PROCESSES

Sue will experience one of each of the three categories of Self-mastery Processes. First, she will experience the CLEAN MIND PROCESS. Sue's facilitator, using the Clean Mind Process, will facilitate the surfacing of her unconscious beliefs on any topic that Sue chooses. This powerful experience will enlighten Sue as to how many repressed negative beliefs she needs to clean from the slate of her mind on her journey home to self-mastery.

The second Self-mastery category Sue will experience is the FEELING PROCESSES. Her facilitator will help her to begin to surface and heal her repressed feelings that are rooted in her past. Sue's mind has created ego defenses to protect her, but it is safe now for her to surface, heal, and release any old emotional baggage that she might still be holding onto. Sue's facilitator will help her to FEEL what she has been repressing so that she can feel and act in a Self-mastered way.

Karen, a business trainer writes…"I looked at a lot of programs before deciding on enrolling in Holistic Learning Centers’ facilitator’s Training Course. I chose HLC because I knew that in order to be the best counselor I could be, I had to clean up my own case first. I can now practice what I have learned with confidence and exuberance because I know that these methods really work."

The last Self-mastery process that Sue will experience is called a CORRECTIVE EXERCISE. The Corrective Exercises will teach Sue new, emotionally mature behavioral habits that she can use instead of the ego defenses that she needed in the past in order to "feel safe."

Corrective Exercises will teach Sue how to emotionalize her truth. When she learns how to emotionalize her truth, her behavior will change and the imprint will be permanent. Emotionalizing is the key to permanent behavioral change. It's easy for Sue to read about why Self-mastery is important… but for Sue to do it, live it and feel it requires her to Commit, Study, Practice, and Emotionalize!

After experiencing the pre-enrollment Self-mastery Processes, if Sue and her facilitator agree that she is ready, willing, and able to utilize the Self-mastery processes as a spiritual training method, then her facilitator will recommend that she enroll and commit to completing her self-mastery course.

STEP #4 IS FOR YOU TO
COMMIT, STUDY, PRACTICE AND EMOTIONALIZE

COMMIT because Sue needs to wholeheartedly COMMIT to her SELF-MASTERY COURSE as if it were the most important course of her life…because it is. Her Self-mastery Course is actually a college level course entitled SUE-ology. Sue's SELF-MASTERY COURSE will teach her all about SUE. The Self-Mastery Course Objectives include: Why Sue does what she does; how she was programmed; how NOT to pass her negative programming on to her family; why she represses certain feelings; how she can distinguish her mind from her spirit; how she can learn to speak the language of feelings; how to create Spiritual Relationships with her family, spouse, co-workers etc.; how to manifest an abundant life; how to unconditionally love and accept herself; how to fulfill her emotional dependency needs that were never fulfilled by her parents, and so on and so forth. Remember that as Sue learns how to love, appreciate, forgive, and communicate her feelings in a self-confident, emotionally mature, and self-mastered way, she'll bring this self-empowerment to her children, job, clients, and spouse.

COMMITMENT because until such time as one is committed, there will be hesitance and ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans; the moment that one definitely commits oneself, then Spirit moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would otherwise never have occurred. A whole stream of events issue from decision, rising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents; assistance, which no man could have dreamt, would have come his way. Because of this I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets: "Whatever you can do, or dream you can-begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!" W. N. MURRAY, SCOTTISH HIMALAYAN EXPEDITION, 1951

STUDY because it's easy for Sue, who is a woman of knowledge, to obtain Self-mastery, but it's very difficult for a person who is ignorant of the Laws of Life!

“It’s easy for a man or woman of knowledge to obtain God,
but it’s very difficult for a person of spiritual ignorance.”
SWAMI MUKTANANDA

PRACTICE because Sue learns by taking action through a process of trial and error. Studying, alone, doesn't work because it only creates intellectual faith. Faith without action is useless because it usually manifests into Self-delusion, and there is little worse for Sue than Self-delusion on her journey home to self-mastery!

EMOTIONALIZE because intellectual knowledge is easier for Sue to acquire than emotional knowledge. Conceptual thought does not require Sue to change her behavior. When Sue learns how to emotionalize the knowledge contained within these Self-mastery Processes her behavior will change and the imprint will be permanent. Emotionalizing is what Sue needs to do to create permanent behavioral changes.

The primary healing intention of HLC Life Coaches and Spiritual Counselors is to use the clinically tested healing exercises to help our students to: Remember… without unconsciously reliving their trauma over and over again.

THE SELF-MASTERY ACTION PLAN SMA

Spiritual training methods are like rivers, and that all spiritual rivers lead to the ocean of God's bliss. The key is for you to find a spiritual training method that feels right, and then commit to “keep on keeping on” with it until you can reach down deep within your Self and find the TRUTH that dwells within you. If what you've read in this lesson has resonated positively for you, then your SMA is to finish reading this textbook and to "Sample the Self-mastery Processes." Let your intuitive heart FEEL whether our Self-Mastery Processes are the correct spiritual training method for you.

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