Sublime

The Self pivot takes the healthy energy of yearning to belong and swings it in the direction of reconnecting with our transcendent I/here/now sense of awareness, allowing that awareness alone to be at the core of what we take ourselves to be.

it should contain a broadly useful set of strategies for producing important life changes that work, and we should know why they do.

Much as we might want to stop this storytelling process and to change the story we’ve elaborated, the activity of our mental networks is largely automatic, much of it subconscious.

One person who has been working on developing the ACT skills wrote a powerful post on a Yahoo discussion list called ACT for the Public that beautifully describes what to expect of the ongoing journey.

Feeling like a cog in a machine suggests a lack of freedom to create your own areas of competence.

It helps us keep our cognitive talents focused on positive possibilities in the present moment.

The Self pivot begins by catching the hidden sense of your transcendent self.

At the same point when we develop this awareness, we begin to construct a story of our self—crafting the conceptualized self—which can block our awareness of our transcendent self.