Sensing And Shaping Your Future is a 30 page guide by Mitch Saunders concerning personal transformation and learning from "the inside-out". This document would be useful for anyone wishing to learn how to learn and change based on the textbook of his or her own body, as contrasted with approaches based on efforts to conform to an external ideal, or myths inherited from family or culture.

This material represents a distinctive synthesis, reflecting two decades of research and practice, and also reflects the influence of pioneering work by Stanley Keleman, at the Center For Energetic Studies. This approach to personal mastery and coaching emphasizes somatics-the physical-emotional-mental connections associated with human development and change.

Personal resilience is a physical-emotional-mental attitude combining sufficient structure to 'hold yourself together' with enough permeability and flexibility to really appreciate and be open to others and the world around you. Exercises are described and depicted for altering so-called involuntary reflexes in response to being surprised, insulted or challenged. With practice, people can shift self-limiting states of reactivity (including overly rigid responses or narrow thinking) to more resourceful states in less than 60 seconds.

Even more important than the ability to call up optimal states, this approach is about metamorphic change-the art and science of evolving yourself. This involves perceiving and appreciating the essence or dynamic purpose encoded and always unfolding within you, and using embodied self-discovery and volition to influence how you become a deeper and more well-rounded person. This embodied practice is a powerful and elegant method for growing new response options and neural connections that are the foundations for self-evolution.

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