The Awakening Process of Contemplative Intelligence

You can either stay stuck in your circumstances or unstick yourself. These are the two roads that diverge before us in life. The Awakening Process of Contemplative Intelligence is about the science of finding your spiritual self. You can either do nothing about what holds you back and ignore the inner pull and desire for you to create something special, something with legacy and impact in your life or, or you can be overcome by thoughts and emotions that become your reality. Depression, personality disorders, all fear and anxiety are caused by how we think, feel and act over time. Our attitudes, thoughts, moods, responses to people and things and our traits and attitudes define our personal reality. Only when we change the way we look at things do those things themselves change – but change they do! We can all heal our lives and we all have an inner desire to want to change them for the better. That’s the why. The how part of how we actually do it can be more complicated and even feel overwhelming at times.

“Life is an experimental journey undertaken involuntarily. It is a journey of the spirit through the material world and, since it is the spirit that travels, it is the spirit that is experienced. That is why there exist contemplative souls who have lived more intensely, more widely, more tumultuously than others who have lived their lives purely externally.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

When we know we need to move and shift and we yet for most of life we don’t know how to – that is hell! Contemplative Intelligence which is your ability to think about your own thinking, to become a witness to your thoughts and your mind and learn the art of meta-thinking is the how that we have been taught by our forefathers for thousands of years. We must overcome the self, the persona and the automatic programs we have been running since childhood. To date that we need to learn how to stop. Not start. Thats the paradox of life transformation. It is the “be still” mystery that governs all things. When you start to understand how your Contemplative Intelligence works, where it is located in your body-heart-brain and how to manage it successfully, you will have begun to master the art of awakening to your higher self. We call this returning to your Sacred Self in our CQ programs. It is the essential journey that we all eventually want to and then have to take.

Evidence is important in any scientific endeavour. We want lots of it but settle for next to none of it in life. Whats true today may become a lie tomorrow. nevertheless we needs to be pointed as efficiently as possible to what words and what doesn’t. Science smacked us in the face hard over the past 100 years. Why not marry science and spirituality. Dualism is a mind trap anyway. There are many perspectives but only one reality.

RESEARCH SHOWS EXTRAORDINARY LONG TERM BENEFITS OF CQ

We have collected data of several thousand people who have been through our programs and events at The Center for Healing and Life Transformation. https://markllockwood.com/evidence/

We measure peoples physical, psychological and emotional states with psychological tests and then we track their progress in all areas as they pass through levels 1-4 of the work. Thousands of success stories have been documented as evidence that the work is a new world wide science that people need to heal their lives. An 18% to 68% increase in happiness and decrease in stress or a switch from grey matter to white brain matter, from survival mind to thrive mind (limbic to prefrontal cortex neurobiological changes). These changes are mapped in individuals who are burnout out all the way through to suicidal, manically depressed and anxiously incapable of leading a normal life.

A DEFINITION OF CONTEMPLATIVE INTELLIGENCE (CQ)

Contemplative Intelligence is the ability and capacity to use our meta-cognitive abilities. It is about the conscious awareness of putting your physiology, psychology, emotions and spiritual aspects of yourself together in ecstatic motion. Contemplative Intelligence gives us the ability to recognise, understand, and executively manage our own mind, body and emotions and in so doing manage relationships and social interactions at an advanced level, that is above the norm. Contemplative Intelligence helps you with developing wisdom and advanced awareness and insight that helps you to reduce stress, stay present and recognise the reality (truth) of people, places, things, situations, conversations and events that are undistorted by subjective experience. Your intellect will not get you to where you need to be. This is why what has been referred to as some sort of awakening or shift is necessary to live life efficiently, purposefully and well. Something our ancestors in history have fallen very short of century after century. Having developed Contemplative Intelligence you will be able to take an endless self regulated and loving gaze at reality and naked truth exactly as they are, unhindered by personality or ego defence mechanisms. 

Whilst in the life of the intellect ‘contemplation‘ refers to thinking profoundly about something, in the religious life contemplation is a kind of inner vision or seeing, transcendent of the intellect, facilitated by means of practices such as prayer or meditation. To our clients it refers to living an authentic life on purpose and with meaning. Contemplative practice is about ending your own suffering. It is about awareness and conscious involvement in living a good life on this planet. Even if you choose a simple one. Contemplative Intelligence work or therapy if you will, yields a kind of knowing which changes the whole of one’s life. Yep, expect changes physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. This movement of heart and mind, ignites a love stronger than anxiety, depression addictions or even death and illuminates the mind with the very splendour’s of God realization and self actualization.

SEEING IS BELIEVING

We have data evidence that shows regular people from different parts of the world with totally different issues from depression to arthritis do miraculous things to heal their bodies minds and souls in just 6 to 8 weeks from starting to do the work at the center, with our courses or at our events. Research from 5000 studies and 50 000 reports from Yale, Harvard and Stanford show extraordinary benefits of mindful practice that gets us out of survival mind and emotional memory in the body to a new place of higher thinking, feeling and functioning. Harvard Medical School Phd’s recently announced “extraordinary, long-term benefits” Virgina medical school found that anxiety, mild depression, chromic pain, asthma, ADHD, and high-functioning autism, that can be treated with mind-based interventions. Browns university showed open-awareness and concentration, each with its own psychophysiological and neuro-cognitive effects. Insomnia, stress, anxiety spectrum disorders, and mental health though to proven insomnia, stress, anxiety spectrum disorders, and mental health improvement research at Harvard medical school.

Using Contemplative Fitness skills in your The Awakening Process of Contemplative Intelligence to re-route your neurochemistry back into Sage mind, re-allows creativity, emotional and social intelligence and ultimately well being, balance and bliss consciousness to reign supreme. Healing benefits of Contemplative Intelligence may outweigh even the medication routes. Through a series of CQ Centering practices daily you will be able to move to an entirely new part of the brain, from closed to open, and allow an infinite potential of possibilities back into your life. We then thrive rather than survive and in doing so we are able to heal most of our blockages in a short space of time, and then move to maintenance of the minds CQ centering practices. Healing benefits of Contemplative Intelligence have been proven by over 50 000 studies and 500 000 research reports. Self regulation heals lives. Fast!

Contemplative Intelligence (CQ)© is a neurologically based program that actually changes your neurochemistry to get you out of limbic system or survival mind, and move you to the intelligence center of your prefrontal cortex where you can reach your goals and live your dreams daily. The Healing benefits of Contemplative Intelligence can even shrink your hippocampus, that you can enlarge with stressful thoughts over time. So it actually changes your brain. Mark L Lockwood who designed Contemplative Intelligence (CQ)© says that you move from the fight, flight freeze or the downstairs of your brain to the upstairs. It is upstairs in the prefrontal lobes that creativity, energy, wisdom and freedom reign supreme.

WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT CONTEMPLATION

Stanford also discovered that the work creates the ability to bring about “tolerance of the difficult experiences we inevitably encounter as human beings”. With the cultivation of this “affect- tolerance”.

IMPROVED AFFECT TOLERANCE

Research has found that contemplative practices result in “greater mind-body awareness, an ability to reduce stress through emotional self-regulation, and, ultimately, the possibility of a “meditative-cognitive component.”

Harvard Health did tons of research on the fight or flight stress response, Amygdala Hijack response, and discovered that its long term effects can be chronic physical and psychological illness. The work actually lowers High blood pressure, artery-clogging deposits and brain changes that cause depression, anxiety and more. They even found that it creates obesity, by causing people to sleep and exercise less and eat more.

HOW CONTEMPLATIVE INTELLIGENCE IS USED

Recent advances in functional MRI (fMRI), which measures how neural activity changes blood flow, have allowed scientists and psychologists to witness the real-time working of the brain for the very first time. We are now able to pinpoint the regions of the brain involved in producing different thoughts or feelings and identify the neural functions involved with the activation of lower and higher thinking, or survival and thrive mind.

What we do is two fold. We double down on the work of growth, change and transformation by first halting the personality traits developed over decades that keep us stuck, anxious, fearful and in survival mindsets. Then on the opposite side we activate the 7 Pathways back to what we call the sacred Self. This is the authentic self. It is the journey of The Awakening Process of Contemplative Intelligence.

Some of the almost unlimited research references

1. Brown University Studies – The Rationale Behind Contemplative Studies https://www.brown.edu/academics/contemplative-studies/about/rationale

2. Contemplative Practices Behavior Is Positively Associated with Well-Being in Three Global Multi-Regional Stanford WELL for Life Cohorts

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9603492/ 3. Harvard When science meets mindfulness

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/04/harvard-researchers-study-how-mindfulness- may-change-the-brain-in-depressed-patients/

4. Yale school of medicine New study finds links between meditation and brain functions

https://medicine.yale.edu/news/yale-medicine-magazine/article/new-study-finds-links-between- meditation-and-brain/

https://news.yale.edu/2020/07/27/improve-students-mental-health-yale-study-finds-teach-them- breathe

5. (HRV) Heart rate Variability with mindful control techniques

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336102320_One- minute_deep_breathing_assessment_and_its_relationship_to_24- h_heart_rate_variability_measurements

https://www.heartmath.org/assets/uploads/2020/10/overview-of-heartmath-coherence-model-in- advancing-health-and-medical-science.pdf

6. National Library of medicine – Large effects of brief meditation intervention on EEG spectra https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7649620/
7. Meditation effect on Health and wellbeing https://www.forbes.com/health/mind/benefits-of-meditation/

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