Breakthrough the Ordinary
A New World View: From Individualism to Inclusion With Dr. Ray Blanchard
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Quick takeaways
- Shifting one's worldview is essential for achieving a breakthrough and transforming one's life.
- Transformational trainings involve experiential work that deepens self-awareness and provides opportunities for personal transformation.
Deep dives
The Importance of Shifting Worldview
To have a breakthrough and transform one's life, it is crucial to shift one's worldview. Our worldview is shaped by our beliefs and perspectives, which influence our actions, reactions, and results. By recognizing and examining our belief systems and perspectives, we have the power to make profound shifts in our lives.
Understanding Worldview and Going to the Source
Worldview refers to how we see and interpret the world. It is our unique perspective that determines our attitudes, actions, and reactions. Going to the source of our worldview involves understanding the experiences and events that shaped our fundamental perspectives. By exploring the origins of our worldview, we gain valuable insights and choices for transformation.
Experiential Work and Transformational Trainings
Transformational trainings involve experiential work that goes beyond mere conversation. Through activities and experiences, participants gain direct insights and understanding. These trainings help individuals explore and deepen their self-awareness, illuminating the factors that influence their worldview and providing opportunities for transformation.
The Principles of Transformation and Right Relations
The principles of transformation are universal and apply across cultures. They include concepts like intention, purpose, choice, commitment, and personal responsibility. One key principle is being in right relations, which focuses on our connection and accountability to all things and promotes a shift from egocentricity to an ecocentric worldview.
What you believe is what you’ll see…
Often, the narrative is that we are being held up by limiting beliefs when it comes to achieving the life we envision. Early experiences in life build those beliefs and thoughts, those beliefs and thoughts affect our feelings; feelings become our actions, and actions form our habits.
Our habits cement our thoughts. The cycle becomes a pattern. Then, we fall into the egocentric trap that holds us back from achieving our full potential.
In this episode, our guest, Dr. Ray Blanchard describes the process by which he helps people spiral back into the source of their fundamental worldviews that dominate their life, make distinctions, create new beliefs, shift into an ecocentric worldview, and realize the life they envision in a whole new positive perspective.
Here’s what we’ve learned from Dr. Ray Blanchard:
01:24 How to achieve a breakthrough by shifting one’s worldview
06:29 Helping people transform their worldview to accomplish what they want in life
09:03 How making distinctions help people see deeper through themselves
10:29 Describing vs. experiencing
14:04 The guiding principles of training that transcends cultures
20:46 Transforming from the egocentric to the ecocentric relationship
24:10 The overmind that cares about how one’s actions affect the world as a whole
28:34 How egocentricity sets us up to self-hate, hurt, and self-destruction
31:08 The Great Spirit that binds us all together as one
35:08 The practice of creating a deep connection with others
39:19 How we achieve safety and transformation from within ourselves
42:35 What mindful noticing without judgment is
3 Ways People Can Become Stronger and Resilient From Within
Increasing Endorphins in the Body
(42:35 - 45:06)
- Practice the ability of mindful noticing without judgment
- Start to notice your environment, start to notice your own emotions, your own thoughts, your own feelings. Start to notice the interaction between you and other people
- Then, find yourself addressing all these intervening thoughts, and you might find yourself judging.
- Dismiss the thoughts. Just relax and let it go. So you end judgment
30 Days of Mindful Nature Walks
(45:17 - 45:56)
- When you’ve started to be mindful and noticing.
- Take an hour of silent walking in nature.
- Then get into a few minutes of walking in nature.
- And then just be mindful and just notice.
- Do this for 30 consecutive days in a row at sunrise.
If you can do it just for a few minutes a day, it would be a profound and life altering experience.
Networking
(45:57-56:10)
- Network or work with other people.
- Share with other people and learn.
- Let other people share with you.
- Develop yourself in a personal learning community.
When you share things, you become aware and notice.
Episode Challenge
Oneness & Connectedness (36:10-36:48)
Episode challenge of the week
Practice this practice of Oneness and Connectedness with a person who is comfortable with you and is up for it. Do this long enough to take the superficial thoughts out but not long enough to be uncomfortable
- With people in your life who you're close to, take a few seconds to look into their eyes
- Try to look beyond their eyeballs and see through the essence of their being
- Look into their heart and into their soul.
- Let them look into yourself and feel your connection.
You will feel the profoundness of this practice.
If you try this exercise, let us know and tag us @iamclaudine and Marc Anthony at the @btopodcast.
About the Guest:
Dr. Ray Blanchard is an educator, coach, consultant, and internationally acclaimed master trainer. He has personally trained over 300,000 participants, mentored 300 trainers, and coached various top-tier executives and leaders globally.
He specializes on:
- Personal Transformation Training,
- Leadership Development and Team Management
- Lifestyle Coaching and Mentoring
- Wealth Generation
Having distinguished the key factors that generate individual breakthroughs and lasting corporate performance, he uses accelerated learning strategies to open awareness, illuminate purpose, and inspire service to create self-transformation and cultures of care.
He holds formal training in Psychology and East-West Philosophy. For over 40 years, he has influenced the personal development industry by designing and delivering premier training in the United States, Canada, South America, Japan, China, New Zealand, and Russia. He is a member of the acclaimed Transformational Leadership Council, the Association of Transformational Leaders, the Evolutionary Business Council, and was knighted in the Order of St. John.
A graduate of Washington University (St. Louis) and the University of Oregon, Ray has a relentless passion for ongoing learning and contribution. His signature work was featured in the Heroes Quest wisdom webinars, the Launch Your Dream workshops, the TrainUP trainer development program, and other conscious media productions and documentary films.
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