Are you feeling perpetually exhausted, caught in a cycle of stress, or battling inner demons like anxiety and addiction? Perhaps you’re experiencing burnout, a nagging sense of being “stuck,” or a deep yearning for something more. If this resonates with you, you’re not alone. Many of us find ourselves living from a “survival personality,” a collection of ingrained habits and fears that, while once protective, now hold us captive. But what if there was a proven pathway to break free and reclaim your authentic self?
Unlocking Your True Potential: How the Paradigm Process Can Transform Your Life
Mark L Lockwood, with two psychology degrees and over 25 years of dedicated experience in therapy and human development, has pioneered a comprehensive, scientifically-informed system designed to help you heal and transform your life from the inside out. His core philosophy is simple yet profound: “Your personality creates your personal reality”. This means that by consciously shifting your internal programming – your thoughts, feelings, and beliefs – you can fundamentally change your lived experience.
The Prison of Personality: Why We Get Stuck
This process reveals that by adulthood, many of us are operating from deeply entrenched “programs” developed in childhood. These “ego insurgents” – such as the relentless Controller, the critical Judge, the helpless Victim, or the demanding Perfectionist – were once defense mechanisms, but they often become the very barriers preventing our growth and joy. They keep us in a constant state of “fight, flight, or freeze,” leading to issues like depression, anxiety, and a pervasive sense of being unfulfilled.
The Paradigm Process: Your 10 Pathways to Freedom
The good news? You don’t have to stay stuck. The Paradigm Process offers a clear, 10-step program – “10 Pathways back to sacred self” – designed to help you shed these old patterns and embrace your true, “sacred self,” where peace, joy, and abundance reside.
At the heart of this transformation is Contemplative Intelligence (CQ)©. This isn’t just about thinking; it’s about “meta-thinking” – the ability to observe your own thoughts and mind, becoming a witness to your internal landscape. Lockwood asserts that CQ is a neurologically based program that actively changes your neurochemistry, shifting your brain from the reactive “limbic system” (survival mind) to the intelligent “prefrontal cortex”. This rewiring can lead to profound changes, even impacting brain structures like the hippocampus, which can be enlarged by chronic stress.
Another powerful tool within the process is Loving Inquiry. This practice helps you heal from fear by systematically questioning your thoughts and beliefs, especially those rooted in “false evidence appearing real”. By cultivating emotional openness and “heart-brain coherence,” you learn to surrender to truth and dissolve the grip of fear.
Through consistent engagement with meditation, contemplation, visualization, and these unique practices, you systematically “tackle each mask” of the ego and replace them with higher energies, attitudes, and beliefs.
Real Transformations, Real Results
The Paradigm Process has already touched thousands of lives, with documented success stories of individuals achieving “miraculous things to heal their bodies, minds, and souls”. People from diverse backgrounds, dealing with issues ranging from depression and trauma to chronic pain and anxiety, have reported significant improvements, often in as little as six to eight weeks. Data shows an impressive “18% to 68% increase in happiness and decrease in stress” among participants.
This “scientifically proven system of change” draws on extensive global mindfulness research from institutions like Yale, Harvard, and Stanford, demonstrating the extraordinary benefits of contemplative practices on mental, emotional, and physical well-being.
Your Journey Starts Now
If you’re ready to move beyond survival and step into a life of thriving, the Paradigm Process offers the roadmap. Don’t wait for external circumstances to change; empower yourself to create the reality you desire.
Explore the various resources available, including:
- The Paradigm Process Book – Your guide to the Alchemy of Transformation
- The Paradigm Process Course – 10 Pathways back to Sacred Self
- 5 session Beginner quick start Course
- The Paradigm Process Total Personal Transformation box set
- Inner Circle Membership
- The Center for Healing and Life Transformation in South Africa
It’s time to stop searching and start living. The work is waiting for you. All you need to do is show up for yourself.
Exploring the 10 step program to getting your life back
The Paradigm Process offers you a 10-step program to heal your life. Backed by scientific evidence we have accumulated from real case studies since 2012, we have developed a way to overcome whatever holds you back. How we found it was profoundly interesting and was the breakthrough we needed for seekers – people looking to actualize their full potential. We delved into psychology, dipped into philosophy, and studied all the religions around the world. We began to understand how the brain controls the body and how emotions, memory, imagination, and potential are all linked.
Paradigm Process of Healing your Personality teaches you how to become aware of the masks of persona who have adopted since childhood and how to replace them with healthy aspects of your highest, most sacred self
The Research
We then started applying and testing all the principles of healing and life transformation that we discovered and began removing what didn’t seem to help cause effective change. The Paradigm Process helped us at our inpatient treatment center double the speed of healing in the people we were helping. People from all over the world, suffering from all sorts of different emotional, psychological, and sometimes physical problems took part. What we found through the work and research was incredible.
We discovered that people became stuck in the first half of life. They experienced one type of fight, flight and freeze or another that was entrenched from years of thinking, feeling and behaving in certain ways. This is the most common formulation of personality which is all focused on survival. Ways that once worked for them in childhood, but no longer worked for them as adults. We discovered that people really did need a paradigm shift to move across the bridge into the second half of life where peace, joy and abundance resided. People become stuck in the prison of the personality without even knowing that is has happened. Depression, stress and tension soon follow because being stuck in any kind of prison is hell. Just ask someone who has dealt with depression for a bunch of years.
How the Paradigm Process works for you
When the personality is no longer serving you but hindering you then you need a new program. When a computer program becomes redundant we need to get rid of it and replace it with a new one. It is the same with the programs we run in our bodies hearts and minds. Because the world is changing so quickly we need to keep up. There is no room left to operate from money mind without inevitably falling from the tree. If we fall behind we fall into survival or victim modes that naturally keep us suppressed and distressed. At some point we know we need to run a new program however it is easier said than done in understanding where to find that program and how to install it. The 10 step program to heal your life is that program – the Paradigm Process.
The Paradigm Process offers people 10 Pathways back to sacred self that are workable, profound and easy to follow. Your sacred self is where your true values, emotions, desires and objectives reside. It is that part of you that is wanting more from life. It is that part of you that wants to actualise your full potential and grow personally and then heal the world. There are certain things that we learned in childhood that became our ego defence mechanisms. We developed what we call ego insurgents to protect us from a harsh and ever-changing world. We developed a controller insurgent. We also developed a judge a victim and a perfectionist insurgent. In fact we developed 10 ego insurgents that kept us safe from the world by creating a personality that became a personal reality for us all.
If your life is not working out for you as you wanted it to, which it seldom does in the first half of life, then you need to find a way out of your personality prison. We do this through the 10 pathways, one at a time, by activating self-love, gratitude, connection, and other traits that live in a completely separate part of our hearts, bodies, and brains. We sway the energy in the opposite direction! Essentially, we need to find a roadmap or a path to change. The Paradigm Process is that pathway. The program teaches you to let go of the 10 insurgent characters of ego that are essentially entrenched personality traits that hold you back. At the same time, it teaches you how to recover a sense of what can propel you forward in your personal life, your business life, and your relationships. The program helps you change your personality. In fact, it helps you to overcome it and transcend it.
The work of actualisation and change today is no longer something that we consider as an option. In today’s world growth change and transformation have become a necessity for everyone. If we are not growing and moving forward we are dying. At least dying neurologically. We are creatures that were designed for far more than survival. We have an innate desire within each of us to self actualise our full potential and then share that potential with the world.
Those of us who cannot find a way to actualize this innate desire end up suffering. We end up with addictions, depression, and personality disorders that hold us back. We end up with emotional, psychological, and physical manifestations of the very lack that we feel inside. The good news today is that everyone can heal their lives in a relatively short space of time. First, you have to know that there is a problem. You have to know that what you may have thought or believed was your natural state is just a way that you used to cope through life.
At first, we survive, then we thrive, and finally, we arrive. First, we need to know, much like Neo in the Matrix movie perhaps, that your mind is running a program that has become your personal reality rather than who you really are. Second, you need to know that the program of the mind is in a new earth, a new world, and needs an update. Better yet, we need to realize that new data, new thoughts, feelings, and perceptions need to be experienced so that you can wake up from the nightmare and transform your life and your reality, leaving all the masks you once wore behind. You need to cause effect and create rather than letting the mind dictate who you are and who you shall become.
Through meditation practice, contemplation, through developing a new understanding of how you body-heart-mind works, through changing thoughts, belief, energetics and focus you can begin to have a full paradigm shift. Tackling each mask and removing it layer by layer and then replacing those masks with the highest energies, concepts, attitudes, traits and beliefs is the way through the 10 Pathways. Our message is don’t stay stuck and don’t wait. The work is waiting for us all. All we need to do is show up for ourselves.
For more information on or about our private inpatient treatment centre in South Africa, on the beach in the Western Cape, or to work The Paradigm Process online or visit our retreats call +27824424779 or email centerforhealingandlife@gmail.com.
Whether you suffer from depression, mood disorders, suffer burnout or meaninglessness or need personality disorder treatment or substance treatment then get in touch to find out how to start to transform your life with our team and our program.
