Thursday, May 21, 2009

TRANSFORMATIVE PATTERNS DISCOVERED

What happens when people have transformative, life-changing experiences? To find out, the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) invited members to submit accounts of transformative moments and their after-maths. From over 200 accounts, IONS researchers culled and collated certain conclusions, which they published in the Noetic Sciences Review.

* A deepening of trust in one's inner authority, a realization of one's ability to change.

* Although transformative experiences occur spontaneously, to have long-lasting effects, there must be a willingness to practice ongoing change, or life after life cycles.

* Not only moments of joy, but also of tragedy, of wounds that enable us to heal, help move the process along.

* A spiritual faith, or trust, improves the depth of the willingness to yield to the yearnings of the soul.

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