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How Does It Work?
The method behind the tools and techniques of our courses is a unique synthesis of contemporary psychology and traditional spiritual teaching. Brad Brown, co-founder, once described the core of these practices in the following terms:
Reality-based learning
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“When we are stuck in the way we habitually see things, we don’t think of much more than surviving, getting by, or doing our duty to someone or something. We go after anything that makes us feel better for a while, anything that sells itself to us, so we feel better. We don’t recognize that life itself is here for us: we can’t see it, we don’t know it. We’re too busy surviving it, too busy getting through it, too busy fighting it. We fight to keep our heads above water, so that what life is really offering is not perceived and is not available to us."
Feeling better is only temporary
. . . to my creativity. I start to act out of who I really am, rather than who I am afraid of being or becoming. I am really sure about this human being that I am, and whom life has been calling forth since the day I first drew breath. In that way, life is creating us all anew every day, and you will create yourself anew, as soon as you start to connect with reality itself, just the way it is being given to you.”
"When I use the tools presented in the More To Life program, something unique starts to happen...
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As a young seminary student, Brad Brown (co-founder of the More To Life program) used to pencil the letters “YBH” in the margins of books as he was reading and studying. “ Forgive others.” Yes, but how? “Love others as yourself.” Yes, but how?
The goal of the tools and practices he worked on throughout his professional life is that they offer people practical “hows” to live out their own highest values.
A central insight is that when we learn to separate what is really happening around us from the interpretations we make up in our minds, we also change our way of seeing what is happening. We begin to shape a response to life as it really is, not the way we think it ought to be.
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Once we are able to step free from the grip of our emotional reaction to the apparent meaning of things, as interpreted through the filter of early childhood decisions, we can start responding to life and learning from our experience instead of struggling to control ourselves, other people, and what is happening.
Experience things differently
A key skill you will learn in the
More To Life Weekend is an ability to notice your own reactivity and become aware of what is driving you to act.
This drivenness is revealed as an artificial state generated by unconscious fear, while creativity can be seen as a natural force that is supported by our connection with life.
As we wake up to our reactive patterns, we free ourselves more and more to act in ways that are appropriate to what is happening, whether this involves a heartfelt response to another’s experience or a clear analysis of a particular challenge.
We become more aligned with and guided by what’s real. We learn to transform habitual patterns of behavior into creative responses, furthering our lives in ways that are immeasurably more satisfying and measurably more productive.
Learn to transform
Being creative vs. being reactive
The difference between being creative and being reactive in daily life is very simple, but it has a huge impact on everything around us. Below is a diagram which illustrates the differences in the results we create in our lives.
Basically, something will happen in our lives – it could be large or small. At this point, we, as human beings, either consciously respond to it or automatically react. Each way of being creates very different results from the other.
Response
Creative Action
New Possibilities
Something Happens
Reaction
Driven Behavior
Limited Results
