New Inspiration for Third Ways in Conscious Living
“Third Ways” has yet another amazing meaning as the next level of transformation per Gay Hendricks’ “Conscious Living: How to Create a Live of Your Own Design” book.
Conscious Living is the latest heart-centered coaching method that I’ve read about. With this post, I’m adding it to my canon of Technologies of the Mind. It is Gay Hendrik’s authentic journey of self-discovery and evolution as a therapist and life coach.
The “third way” is the the third level of transformation that Hendicks identifies. It is perhaps fortuitous that I read about it when my “thirdways.net” came up for renewal at GoDaddy. This eery coincidence gives me inspiration to continue blogging on the site after a bit of a hiatus.
In Hendricks’ taxonomy of transformation the first level the we’ve known is the Newtonian level (in an interesting analogy to physics). Newtonian self-improvement is what many have been learning from Napoleon Hill, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Wallace Wattles, Mary Morrissey, and may other transformation teachers based on the Law of Attraction. At this level we visualize our dreams, say affirmations, and take action to attract the life we would love.
The next level is the Einsteinian level, where you identify and transform what life coach Mary Morrisey calls your paradigms. The obstacle is the way. This is also the therapists perspective. But Morrisey and her master coach Kirsten Wells are decidedly bent on “therapy light”, an Occam’s razor of therapy in which it is enough to just be aware of the paradigm, not deeply examine it.
Hendrick’s third way is where life starts to just flow because you are focusing on what you want and you are releasing your paradigms and you’re able to operate without undue attachment or push. Therefore most the time what happens is what you’re focusing on and when it doesn’t you let whatever happens be okay.
Finally, here’s a more thorough book review of Hendrick’s Conscious Living book.