Mark Matousek – Writing To Awaken

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Mark Matousek – Writing To Awaken
WRITING FOR TRANSFORMATION

It’s not enough to simply write anything that pops into your head…
Unstructured writing can reinforce that which binds you, rather than help you discover that which frees you.
A truly liberating practice uses writing as a way to probe your depths — chipping away at the ego, exploring buried feelings, and accessing your vulnerability. As a result, you’re able to tap into Spirit and expand your inner resources of love and compassion.
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A transformative writing practice takes skillful inquiry, as well as the kind of discipline we usually associate with other practices dedicated to spiritual growth. And as you venture into areas that generate resistance, it takes courage to continue moving forward instead of sticking to comfortable, more familiar terrain.
The rewards of a deep and powerful writing practice are immense — providing you with a way to access and examine revelatory insights, powerful truths and your innermost Self.
More than anything, you’ll discover your unique genius, a path for manifesting it in the world, and how to transform any blocks into breakthroughs.
When you discover how to realize the transformative power of writing, you simultaneously:
Gain a powerful tool for your spiritual path — one that’s always available to you

Access your truth so deeply that it opens doorways to your boldest visions and your highest purpose

Explore your inner depths in ways that greatly enhance how fully you show up in the world — making you a more compelling teacher, leader, activist, coach or entrepreneur

When you know yourself fully, you’re able to relate from your authentic center — being more heartfelt, insightful, truthful, funny and creative. And others find that compelling, as they also yearn for more freedom and integrity in how they engage.
When we sense someone is integrated and at peace with themselves, we trust them more and are drawn to interact and work with them.
People respond more powerfully to someone who is clear, authentic and whole.
WHAT YOU’LL DISCOVER IN THESE 7 MODULES

During this 7-part transformational intensive, Mark will guide you through the fundamental skills and competencies you’ll need to create a daily writing practice that cultivates a more authentic, self-aware and spiritual you.
Each contemplation and training session will build harmoniously upon the next so that you’ll develop a complete, holistic understanding of the practices, tools and principles you’ll need to sustain your spiritual writing practice.
You’ll emerge with:
Deeper access to your spiritual identity

Greater understanding of your authentic desires

Enhanced ability to discern the ego’s voice from your soul voice

A wider angle lens on your “life myth”

An inner refuge that you can turn to for wisdom and advice

Greater freedom from shame related to your shadow (and understanding of its wisdom)

A higher comfort level with your secret passions and fears

Increased discernment about where fear is blocking desire in your life

A non-dual approach to desire

A more profound understanding of your personal source of meaning and purpose

The ability to focus your intentions, stop procrastinating and practice discipline with kindness

Tools for healing from deep wounding in your life

Expanded access to your personal and creative genius

Deepened ability to express your innate gifts in the world

MODULE 1: WHO AM I?

ACCESSING YOUR SOUL

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Every life is a work of fiction. Behind your worldly mask is an essential self — a soul identity — whose powerful voice communicates your unique truth and deepest desires. Many of us suffer from mistaken identity. Until we access this soul awareness, we’re split off from our own true nature and distanced from our gifts, passion and purpose. In this module, we’ll be exploring the gap in our lives between how we show up in our writing (and the world) and our true authenticity, and how to examine it through self-inquiry.
You’ll discover how to:
Gain access to your soul identity

Identify your authentic desires

Discern the ego’s voice from your soul voice

Listen to creative counsel from within

Consider your life myth from a soul perspective

MODULE 2: THE SECRET LIFE

FINDING YOUR INNER REFUGE

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The first step toward authenticity is surveying your secret life. Without exception, each of us has one — that vicinity of self that is yours alone — filled with memories, totems, obsessions, longings, dreams and vulnerabilities. This inner refuge contains a wellspring of inspiration and self-discovery. The soul loves specificity, intimacy and subjective uniqueness. In this module, we’ll be inquiring into our own secret lives, and how they provide us with wisdom and balance.
You’ll discover how to:
Build an inner refuge of wisdom

Examine the obstacles to this refuge

Transcend shame about your shadow

Connect with shadow wisdom (this is where the juice is)

Identify your secret passions

MODULE 3: FEAR & DESIRE

LIBERATING YOUR TRUE PASSIONS

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The tension between fear and desire determines your quality of life. To live passionately, you must learn to walk this edge between both. But how is this possible? Our impulse toward control often prevents us from venturing through fear toward our deepest longing. How can you surrender control and abandon yourself to desire (without hurting others in the process)? When is it wise to listen to fear? Why are you afraid of things you crave (and vice versa)? In this module, we’ll be looking at the interface between fear and desire: how we walk the line — and sometimes tumble over it into passion — and the role of moral conditioning in the dance.
You’ll discover how to:
Identify where fear arises

Isolate where fear blocks desire in your life

Step outside the moral matrix that binds soul to ego

Practice the “art of abandon”

Understand a non-dual approach to desire

MODULE 4: THE QUEST FOR MEANING

FINDING WHAT TRULY MATTERS TO YOU

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From a soul perspective, what does your life really mean? Do you wonder whether you matter or not, and for what purpose you have been born? Our quest for meaning is hardwired in us. “We tell ourselves stories in order to live,” wrote Joan Didion, and from these stories, we derive meaning. Without meaning, life’s tribulations lose their power to transform us. As Viktor Frankl famously taught, suffering without meaning equals despair (S-M=D). In this module, we’ll look at what our existence means (to ourselves and the world), where our sense of purpose comes from, and how to harness our energies to reach higher goals.
You’ll discover how to:
Locate your personal source of meaning

Overcome obstacles to meaning in your life

Strengthen your commitment to purpose

Connect your personal meaning to the greater good

Reconstruct your life myth to accommodate authentic meaning

MODULE 5: THE MYSTERY OF LOVE

DEEPENING YOUR INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS

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When Viktor Frankl was in Auschwitz, it was the hope of seeing his beloved wife again that gave his life meaning. The power of love enabled this great psychiatrist to survive. Love is the greatest mystery — our very reason for being. Why, then, can it be so enigmatic, unstable, unpredictable and challenging? The answer is that love is a practice. Like every practice, it is often difficult and requires discipline, commitment and tolerance of discomfort. This is how love yields its joy, “against the grain,” in the Buddhist saying. In this module, we’ll be using our writing to plumb the mystery of love in its myriad varieties — passionate, platonic and familial.
You’ll discover how to:
Access your soul’s power to love

Heal from breaches of love in your life

Appreciate the variety of love relationships you have

Accept the shadow in love

Reaffirm love for your precious existence

MODULE 6: INTENTION & POWER

CREATING FROM YOUR INNER SOURCEE

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The soul is a power source. We plug into this source through intention, which shapes and guides us through life, holds our aim, and keeps us on our path. The world is full of brilliant people whose lives would improve dramatically if only their intentions were focused. Without concentrated intention, creativity suffocates and dies. Manifestation requires single-mindedness. In this module, we’ll learn practices for focusing and strengthening our intention in order to reach our goals.
You’ll discover how to:
Focus your intentions

Find the path of least resistance to what you desire

Stop procrastinating

Practice kind and consistent discipline

Commit to your own dreams

MODULE 7: AWAKENING GENIUS

DISCOVERING YOUR UNIQUE GIFT

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Each of us is born with a unique gift. The Romans called this gift our “genius,” and explained that we come into this world with a “tutelary deity” that guides us toward our own fruition. The deity is our soul itself. When we free this soul, we liberate our inherent creativity and the inborn offering waiting to be born. If you do not offer your gift to the world, it will never truly exist. But what is your particular genius? What will the flowering of your soul be? In this module, we’ll learn about efflorescence (what Christian mystics called “viriditas”) — poet Dylan Thomas described it as the “force that through the green fuse drives the flower” — and how we fuse with this power in daily life.
You’ll discover how to:
Identify your personal genius

Understand what its voice is telling you

Fuse with your creative genius

Manifest the gifts you were born with

Connect these gifts with the world around yo