Detailed Description of Private MythoSelf Facilitation

• Overview of MythoSelf® Facilitation
• Individual MythoSelf® Private Facilitation
• A Brief History of the MythoSelf® Process
• The MythoSelf® Process Today
• The MythoSelf® Process as a Spiritual Path
• A Brief Description of the MythoSelf® Process
• The MythoSelf® Process Unfolded
• Elements of MythoSelf® Facilitation
• Beyond Basic Individual MythoSelf® Facilitation
• Arranging Private MythoSelf® Facilitation

Overview of MythoSelf® Facilitation

Private MythoSelf® Facilitation begins with a discovery of who you are and how you are at your very best. This is the "shape and form" of who you are when you are beyond all sense of limitation or constraint - when you are having one of those days where, "you simply cannot put a foot down wrong."

We all had those days when we wake up and the world has organized itself so that you have what could only be best described as a perfect day. From the moment you open your eyes to the moment you fall back asleep this day has been "as good as it gets."

For most people days like this come 'once in a blue moon' - when the Sun and Moon ‚Jupiter and Venus have aligned just right ‚today will be 'your perfect day'. Maybe on vacation or when you've planned something really special or you're celebrating some unique event in your life - on days like this you find it possible, not guaranteed but possible, that you'll have one of those perfect days.
The MythoSelf Process goes beyond waiting and hoping for a day like this 'to just happen'. Instead by learning how you are on days like this, on 'perfect' days ‚ you can recreate them and have them whenever you choose - anywhere, anytime , with any one - or even with no one at all - regardless of the circumstance or situation ‚ no matter what!< span style='font-weight: normal'> The MythoSelf Process contains this magic.< o:p>
 
Individual MythoSelf® Private Facilitation

Whether you’re after more Self-Confidence, or greater Self-Esteem - whether it's Personal Development, Improvement, Growth or even more Personal Power, MythoSelf Private Facilitation can help guide you to these outcomes. You'll begin by accessing a "Ready State" - what you're like when you are literally ready for anything. Your MythoSelf Facilitator will tease this out of you, prompting you to recall what it's been like for you in your past when this was the case.
Using a proprietary methods learned in the MythoSelf Facilitator's Training program and refined through extensive personal supervision working with a facilitator you'll be experiencing what it is like when you are at your very best within minutes of beginning their work with you ... < /b>and it will occur in a comfortable, conversational way. This is due in part to the unique methodology used only by Certified and Licensed MythoSelf® Facilitators.
MythoSelf Facilitation sessions typically last for between one and four hours, depending on the facilitator and the intention both you and they have for the session. Usually the first session will be a little bit longer than subsequent sessions and you can expect that in most cases you'll work with a facilitator for between three and six sessions - again depending on yourself, the facilitator and the intention for the facilitation.
You will know without question what it's like for you to experience yourself at your best from the very first session, and subsequent sessions will be used to help you to generalize this experience throughout your life and/or to have immediate access to it in special situations where you most want it. These situations could range from personal relationships, professional encounters, making presentations, performing at an extraordinary level ... you name the situation and your facilitator will make sure that you have the learning and skills to access your 'best state' then and there - no matter what!

A Brief History of the MythoSelf® Process

Joseph Riggio initially designed the MythoSelf Process 1995 when he began delivering a training that he called the "Mythogenic Self?§ Process." At that time Joseph was a senior student of Roye Fraser of NLP America/Blue Dell Systems. In the early 1980‚ Roye had developed a proprietary model of working with people using a positive, excitatory framework he called the "Generative Imprint" Model after his study of Konrad Lorenz‚ work on imprinting as well as numerous other sources including Joseph Campbell‚ "Hero‚ Journey," the hypnotic protocols of Milton Erickson and the NLP source material. This work was absolutely unique in that instead of working with clients around their problems, the client‚ presenting problem became a lens through which to access a highly powerful and profound positive state Roye referred to as the Generalized Desired State (G.D.S.) ‚ a unique "Ready State" of pervasive well-being.
Initially the MythoSelf Process was a direct presentation of the Generative Imprint?§ Model delivered in a unique series of exercises designed by Joseph presented over a four days. This program was designed to offer participants the opportunity to experience Generative Imprint?§ Model for themselves facilitated by two of Roye‚ senior students ‚ Joseph Riggio and Nancy Ludwig. In the intervening years Joseph refined, modified and added to these initial exercises shortening the delivery time of the program from four days to three days and at the same time substantially increasing the depth of the experience for the participants. These exercises still remain at the heart of MythoSelf Process Facilitation and the basic MythoSelf Process 3- Day Program today.

The MythoSelf® Process Today:

We place a great deal of attention in the MythoSelf work today on spirituality and the position of the "self" in relation to that which is greater than self ‚ what you‚ you'llfind us referring to as "G.T.S." ‚ the dissolution of the experience of duality. Direct access to the perception and experience of "Being" provides the methodology we use to attain this state of spirituality.

There are two aspects of "Being" present in most Western philosophical disciplines. The first aspect represents the duality where self and other both exist ‚ this or that, here or there, past or future. This equates to "ordinary" perception in terms of cause and effect and linearity. The second aspect the singularity where all sense of self and other collapse ‚ becoming this and that, here and there, past and future, the unified point of pure perception and experience remains. The second aspect of "Being" expresses most closely what we aim at in the MythoSelf work.

In other words, the perception of experience as it unfolds without interpretation or filtering. The totality of the perception of experience fills and floods the experience of the individual so completely that all sense of boundary dissipates and dissolves. In assimilating this experience time ceases to exist and the individual stands at the center of the Universe while simultaneously extending to its outermost edge. "Like this ..." all sense of self also dissipates and dissolves into that which is "Greater Than Self" ‚ the experience of G.T.S. The individual experiences only the pure rush and exhilaration of the epiphany of "Being."

We organize the perception and experience of being present to that which is Greater Than Self in relation to the sense of yourself at your best (the Generalized Desired State ‚ G.D.S.) and the pervasive sense of wellbeing that accompanies it. From the G.D.S. the individual experiences anything and everything becomes possible.

Holding these two experiences, G.T.S. and G.D.S., in simultaneity and oscillating between them generates the state of experience that contains and manifests both, what we call INTENT. INTENT manifests most evidently as profound directionality in the individual‚ life, a sense of being on one‚ path ... living in accordance with one‚ purpose. You can equate this with Joseph Campbell‚ description of "Bliss" that he so often referred to when describing the "Call to Adventure" and the "Hero‚ Journey." You can also equate this approach with the Fourth Way path exposed by the mystic Gurjieff that equates to a complete spiritual fulfillment and unfolding.

The MythoSelf® Process as a Spiritual Path

The uniquely "Western" perspective of the MythoSelf approach makes this extraordinarily relevant within the context of the distinction often suggested between "Eastern" and "Western" approaches and philosophies. This distinction never requires resolution when this perspective becomes operative. This and That, Yin and Yang ‚ exist and operate simultaneously within this perspective and without requiring explanation or resolution. Referring to this particular and unique perspective as "Fourth Way" paths of spirituality has become common. Fourth Way spiritual paths refer to being "in the world" while pursuing spiritual awareness or enlightenment. This position remains uniquely different from those spiritual paths that emphasize moving away from or even exiting the world proper, e.g.: mediation, contemplation, hermitage.
Many well-known spiritual paths (both Eastern and Western) begin with the foundational premise of working with the "negative" or "shadow" experience of the individual ... put more simply what doesn‚Äôt work in an individual‚ life. This orientation generates an awareness of limitation and in doing so presents to the individual that which must be transcended, which in turn creates the opportunity for transformation.
The MythoSelf work begins from a decidedly different premise ‚ the most positive experience of the individual (this approach flows from origins in the Generative Imprint?§ Model). We access the most positive experience of the individual and use it as a lens to focus their towards the unfolding of awareness in relation to possibility (as opposed to limitation). Like this the individual experiences transformation in the instant of this awareness being present.

Another distinction between the MythoSelf work and many other spiritual paths concerns the difference between transcendence and transparency. Transcendence suggests moving beyond or above the existing limitation. Transparency suggests the dissipation and dissolving of all limitation. Within the MythoSelf work we prefer to address this as going to where limitation simply doesn't exist ‚ a higher logical level where the limitation becomes the perception of pure information without judgment. Transparency is a state of being that allows the individual to be present to the immediacy of the unfolding moment while fully and completely experiencing it ‚ creating the possibility of assimilating and integrating the unfolding moment. This moment exists outside of and beyond any boundary condition of duality.
 
A Brief Description of the MythoSelf® Process

Most simply put ‚
"The MythoSelf Process revolves around the unity contained in the "Unfoldment" of "Being."
While at first glance this description may sound somewhat cryptic ‚ we‚ would most like for you to experience it as a movement taking you from who you have been ‚ to the realization of both who you are being ‚ and who you are becoming ‚ to the point where the "who you become," you experience and express as a choice you have, with both the ability and resources to make. "Becoming" in this way unfolds endlessly within you and around you ‚ and of which you are an integral part. We refer to this state of awareness as,"Having the experience of your life." And, this we mean in the most literal possible way.
The processes, methodology, techniques, tools, notions and concepts contained within the larger structure of the MythoSelf Process are all there to guide and facilitate a person to have the individual experience of their unfolding into becoming themselves. To learn to let go completely of all pretense and masking of the essence of their Being. To become aware of themselves both in relation to the larger context that contains them and with which they have a profound and personal relationship ‚ and to know themselves as they are when they are most magnificent, most exquisite ‚ most free to express themselves and manifest a life without the burden of expectation or explanation.
Essentially, the MythoSelf Process explores and exposes a deep psycho-spiritual teaching and training that allows a person to come to know who they are and who they are becoming ‚ and creates the opening and possibility for a participant to recognize this ‚ and then to decide who they most want to be becoming. After realizing this deciding to organize themselves to have the experience of becoming that Being ‚ while coming to know precisely how-to go about doing just that ‚ all the while continuing to live the life they know, although not always as they know it.
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The MythoSelf® Process Unfolded

Upon considering this position it becomes evident that within a Fourth Way approach operating from the experience of "What Works" makes great sense. It allows the movement to enlightenment to operate from within the domain of possibility as opposed to that of limitation. The outstanding question then remains, "How do you access this position of pervasive well-being and pure potent possibility?"

We begin metaphorically or mythologically, by identifying the dominant metaphor or myth that drives the individual experience. Initially we elicit and access this as a body-based experience. This becomes evident by accessing the state as held in the physiology or the "somatic form."
Consider this example:
"When you think of yourself in terms of how you are at your best what are you aware of that true of you?"
"Thinking about a specific time when you experienced the world from the position of everything going well ... a position where you couldn’t put a foot down wrong so to speak ... what event comes to mind?"
"When you consider this event what do you become aware of about yourself ... specifically in terms of your somatic experience?"
The outcome of this elicitation becomes the basis of the entry into modeling the G.D.S. In most ‚ if not all ‚ cases a skilled facilitator performs this modeling, as it remains virtually impossible without guidance for most people to notice themselves with this level of precision.< br>
Once the facilitator establishes the G.D.S. the dominant metaphor or myth that the individual associates with it becomes the object of attention. The trick in making the dominant metaphor or myth relevant to the individual exists in uncovering the subjective relationship for them. How this metaphor/myth has shown up and shows up regularly in the individual‚ life. It will be an orientation that can be obvious and direct or elusive and suggestive. Either way the metaphor/myth remains the organizing paradigm of the individual. The singularity of the individual‚ experience both remains and transports the individual beyond the boundary of duality.

This work can be seen from either an Eastern or Western perspective without interpretation or adjustment. It parallels spiritual work that can be found in both Eastern and Western approaches beginning in antiquity. While no suggestion has been made that this work represents something new or even innovative, this approach has been organized in a way that makes it accessible within a modern context. The relevance of this approach within this context of this thread remains in association to the accessibility of it in reference to blurring of the distinctions between Eastern and Western ... and the updating of the spiritual ideas that were explored by humanity seen the dawn of consciousness to a modern, present day access taking advantage of the knowledge gained in the intervening eras of development.