Five Mind Traps

1. A new Path of freedom

1.1. Realize certainity and simplicity is a false sense of containment

1.2. Establish a sense of purpose

1.3. Get out of out head and focuc on our bodies

1.4. Connect to our emotions

1.5. Compassion for ourselves and for others

2. We have a need to simplify stories that help us make meaning

2.1. There are no simple stories

2.2. We must question our conventional heroes, villains and other characters

2.3. Carry at least three different stories at once

3. We trust our own experience to believe that what we know is the right way to think about it

3.1. Our sense of being right is wrong

3.2. Recognize the feeling of rightness

3.3. Ask yourself qquestions to clarify your feeling of being right

3.4. Listening to learn

4. We are trapped by our own desire for agreement

4.1. Agreement can get us in trouble

4.2. Conflict can strengthen our relationships

4.3. New Approach to conflict

4.3.1. Listening to learn

4.3.2. Offering our own perspectives without judgement

4.3.3. We have to be ready to willingly enter into conflict

4.3.4. It will deepen our relationship and enhance trust

4.4. Disagreement can broaden our possibilities of options

5. We believe we can control our iutside circumstances

5.1. Loosen our grip over control

5.2. Stop viewing yourself as the one that will make things happen

5.3. Shift to a perspective that you can thoughtfully support outcomes that you prefer.

5.4. Powerful Questions

5.4.1. What can I help enable

5.4.2. What can enable me?

6. Our Ego

6.1. Nothing is going to change MY WORLD

6.2. A self Transforming state of mind

6.2.1. What do I want to be next?

6.2.2. What is at stake for me here?

6.2.3. Why is this so hard?

6.2.4. How do I know this is true?