Week
One
Tuesday, Lesson 1
Something is Culturally Amiss
~ The profound social and moral changes of the past half century have
devastated traditions, reconfigured families, rewritten rules, and upset
moral structures.
Friday,
Lesson 2
Are You
Overdoing it? ~ If you fill up all of your time, you will never have
enough of it. Cell phones and pagers, videophones and video-conferencing,
telecommuting and fax machines, Internet and e-mail, satellites
and the information superhighway all contribute to an overloaded life.
Week
Two
Tuesday,
Lesson 3
The Broken Promises
of Progress ~ As a culture we have created a perfect-storm of overwhelm. Our affluent, media-saturated age has spawned a rising tide of expectations. We expect health, wealth, and ease
from life and are discontent if more doesn’t come.
Friday, Lesson 4
Why we Drink the Kool Aid ~ What drives us to be constantly striving for
more, when very little satisfies us when we do get it? Have we outlived our
usefulness for such caveman instincts as fear, worry and negative self talk?
Week
Three
Tuesday, Lesson 5
We Have Met the Enemy ~ We all know the rest. Sorry to
burst the bubble but it is not the fault of our employer, spouse, parent, the
Protestant work ethic, or fate . . . our suffering is caused by the choices
we have made in the past and those we continue to make in the present.
Friday, Lesson 6
Our Thinking Dramatically Affects Productivity ~ Much of
our mental concentration is drained by ruminating about the past, or worrying
about the future. Part of the reason you are so busy is you're not getting
anything done.
Week
Four
Tuesday, Lesson 7
Quieting the Mind ~
Self-talk, guilt and exaggeration have you running around
doing things that are not only unnecessary, but taking you in exactly the
opposite direction of where you want to go. It
takes a quiet mind to know what is truly important.
Friday, Lesson 8
Letting Go ~ We've spent seven lessons examining the nooks
and crannies of your life finding the excess baggage that is suffocating
your happiness. Now we are going to learn how to kiss this stuff goodbye and
get rid of the excess baggage.
Week Five
Tuesday,
Lesson 9
Non Resistance ~ What you
resist, overload persists. Nothing worthwhile is found by swimming up
stream. A large portion of
your overloading is caused by your need to control much of what is
uncontrollable. When you give up trying to push and shove round pegs into
square holes, you'll find a whole new life.
Friday, Lesson 10
Non Resistance Part
II ~ Letting go of: blame, complaining, perfectionism, materialism,
competition and the mainstream media.
Week Six
Tuesday, Lesson 11
Simplify and Focus ~ 21st century life does not have to be
complex. In this lesson, we are going to look at some ways of simplifying.
Focus and concentration will be discussed. We are going to plug some of the leaks in your
concentration bucket.
Friday, Lesson 12
The Inevitability
of Change ~ If we can learn to see change as an integral part of life and not as a threat to our well-being, we will be in a much better position to cope effectively with the uncertainty that modernity yields. |
