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Contemplative Intelligence© Transformation, Healing and Spiritual Wellness with Mark L Lockwood (BA)(Hons)(psy) founder of Contemplative Intelligence© and The Center for Healing & Life Transformation in South Africa
Depression, Addiction and Anxiety Unplugged is about how we can't continue to just follow mainstream, medicine and medical models for mental health that are not working amidst a mental health crisis. There are other, more powerful ways to heal Depression, Addiction and Anxiety as well as everything in between
Have you ever wondered why, despite our best intellectual intentions, so many of us remain trapped in cycles of self-sabotage, emotional distress, and addictive behaviors? Why does long-term emotional stability feel out of reach even after years of conventional self-help or therapy? At the root of chronic emotional unmanageability lies a powerful psychological dynamic: The King or Queen Baby archetype.
Explore the "Ozempic Divorce" phenomenon. Learn how rapid weight loss affects marriages, brain chemistry, and personality. Discover the importance of a Human Audit at Healing and Life Transformation.
Breaking the invisible chains inherited from dysfunctional families that is impacting your marriage or relationships with your partner, your kids and yourself. Learn how this can lead to family estrangement, divorce, miscommunication and an unhealthy relationship without your knowledge.
What happens when the first, second, or third antidepressant doesn't work? In this episode, we dive into the science of Treatment-Resistant Depression (TRD). We explore emerging therapies—from Ketamine and TMS to lifestyle interventions—and discuss why a "failed" treatment isn't a failure of the patient.
Contemplation teaches you to think about thinking and may be the highest form of intelligence that we have. It is a dance with the physical, psychological, and the spiritual and has a tendency to heal people and then transform them.
The 10-Step Paradigm Shift for Addiction Recovery works on the addictive personality and not symptoms, substances or anything else. It goes straight for the jugular and is one of the best ultra-modern addiction treatment programs today.
For millennia, spiritual awakening was the domain of mystics and sages. Today, neuroscience is mapping the very circuitry of transcendence—and the findings are extraordinary.
We spend our entire lives constructing narratives about ourselves. I am successful. I am wounded. I am creative. I am broken. I am strong. These stories become the masks we wear, the personalities we project, the identities we defend.
Own Your World: How the Navy SEAL Concept of Extreme Ownership Can Heal Your Past and Forge a Life of MeaningIn the high-stakes, life-or-death operations of the U.S. Navy SEALs, there is no room for excuses. Blame, finger-pointing, and victimhood don't just lead to failure—they lead to catastrophe.
Here are 50 Inspirational and Spiritual Affirmations from The Paradigm Process that will help you to profoundly heal and transform your life. The Transformation of Identity: A Journey from Fear to The Sacred Self
My friend, there is a current that runs deeper than thought, a language older than words, a truth that lives not in the mind's bright reasoning but in the softest chamber of your heart. It is the hum of your own soul, a sacred pulse that has never stopped beating, a whisper that has patiently waited for you to grow still enough to hear it. Unmasking Your True Self starts with realising you are wearing masks of the personality.
The universe operates according to immutable principles that govern all aspects of existence, from the smallest particles to the grandest galaxies. These spiritual laws, often referred to as universal laws, provide a road map for understanding our reality, influencing our experiences, and manifesting our deepest desires.
The content emphasizes the call to embrace the Contemplative Christ, who invites individuals to awaken from the illusion of the ego to discover their True Self. Through practices of contemplative intelligence and surrender, one can experience profound transformation, love, and peace, ultimately leading to a renewed connection with the divine essence within.
In our fast-paced, technology-driven world, finding moments of genuine peace and clarity can feel like an elusive dream. Yet, within us lies a powerful capacity for inner exploration and transformation: contemplation. Contemplation is not merely a passive act but a dynamic and profound practice that holds the key to unlocking our highest potential.
This model designed by Mark L Lockwood BA(psy)(hons) is an addiction psychology specialist with 24 years experience, that teaches Life Transformation and Addiction Recovery strategy for people all over the world who want to recover from addictions and of course depression, anxiety, dual diagnosis, personality disorders etc.
Contemplative intelligence is, in many ways, the mind’s highest intelligence. Like the binary system, composed of zeros and ones, life can be viewed as a series of problem-solution cycles. These zeros and ones can represent the questions and answers of life.
This practice encourages a journey inward, aligning with your truest self through meditation and mindful visualization. By engaging daily in this process, you develop awareness of your thoughts and emotions, fostering positive energy. The exploration of gratitude and release from negativity leads to transformation, unlocking innate healing potential for a fulfilling life.
Mark L Lockwood explores the nature of God consciousness and the interconnectedness of mind and matter. It emphasizes that humans are spiritual beings experiencing a physical existence, urging us to undergo spiritual awakening to realize our potential. The journey towards higher consciousness is highlighted as essential for understanding science, mind and matter, love, self, and the divine.
Today, we delve into the extraordinary potential within you: your extrasensory self. This aspect, intertwined with your energy, grants you divine access to heightened perception and unique talents. As a human being, you're capable of transcending the limitations of your five senses and tapping into a higher dimension of consciousness.
Masks 2 Mastery Introduction to CQ Healing meditation and how it works. Here Mark L Lockwood BA(psy)(hons) discusses how the meditations work on healing the dis-ordered and dis-eased personality and how we can create actual change in life when we use the work to access our higher self, our Contemplative Intelligence (CQ) and create the lives want to for ourselves.
We learned to treat the personality with the best therapy model we could find which is the Paradigm process for depression treatment. We grew tired of hearing that people of the world now believe that they have to cope with depression, anxiety, burnout and personality or mood disorders.
This work, the practice of Loving Inquiry for healing & Life Transformation designed by Mark L Lockwood has been designed as a way shower. It is a close companion, a highly spiritual and wise friend who you can walk with towards authenticity and to the love of life. Whenever I am confused, fearful or suffering I can turn inwards and do the work of Loving Inquiry.
THE 3 SECOND RULE helps us to get into the magical gap that as Mark says is the change that changes everything. Famous psychologist Rollo May said if you like at Olympic divers, just before they take the plunge, they PAUSE. This is the 30 second rule we can all follow to start to change our lives around. Here is the science behind it.
We have it all backwards and skyrocketing addiction problems are a result. We explore how to treat what lies beneath the mask of the addictive personality is the journey we need to conquer
We have learned a lot over the last decades about the science of getting well. The more we learned and observed about healing the clearer the model became to us. We started to understand the similarities of depression to addiction and generalised anxiety to personality disorders and codependence.
We humbly found and tested a system of healing, growth and recovery that has become known around the world. This opening of the doorway between the conscious and subconscious mind started to heal people – FAST!
Years of in depth research into looking at how normal people do extraordinary things including radical healing, have shown us the real secret to healing your life is nothing external. It is not the medication but the mindset. When we get underneath the hard exterior of our personality, our masks, we discover something beautiful - ourselves.
Create your own brain health Revolution - Rewiring depression, trauma and stress by boosting brain function by Mark L Lockwood BA(psy)(hons) the creator of Paradigm Process, Contemplative Intelligence
Founder of Center for Healing and Life Transformation, Mark L Lockwood BA(psy)(hons) discusses how they have made the miraculous happen in addiction, depression and personality disorder treatment by using the Paradigm Process of healing
Paradigm Process of Healing your Personality teaches you how to become aware of the masks of persona.
A Metta Meditation for Meditation for Mindful Mental HealthToday we practice meta meditation to liberate the body, heart, and mind from anger, resentment, frustration, and unkindness with loving kindness.
Paradigm Shifting Anxiety is about how we heal and transform our lives instead of just coping with anxiety, panic attacks and stress that hinders our journey from the inside out
We all have the ability to heal whatever holds us back. All personality disorders and dis-ease including depression and anxiety related issues can be healed and then transformed when we become aware of the blocks created by our personalities and then the 10 Pathways beyond the persona that take us back to our Sacred Selves. No one needs to stay lost, depressed or addicted and profound healing is available to everyone who is willing to do the work of Life Transformation.
Mark discusses with Sacha Kent from We Thrive - How Fear creates dis-ease and the way we restore ourselves to health. Experience shows us that learning about the power of loving ourselves well cannot be underestimated in todays world. The way we love ourselves benefits deeply from a disciplined system of self loving practice that gets us out of racing minds that are hijacked by the pace of our social environments.
There is a wonderful shift, the paradigm shift to power, going on as people all over the world are waking up to what life is really about. New generations of people, having seen the mess that hedonism, greed, power-hungry agenda’s, materialism, inequality and many other traits of human nature have left us, are changing themselves and in so doing are changing the world.
The powerful overcomer meditation is designed to help you shift your energy to make changes in the body that in turn shift energy upwards to open the heart. Once we are guided by empathy and self love we are able to move into the creative centres of the brain where we can open up to new possibilities. Practice much like anything else makes the experience more powerful as you progress through the work.
Today we examine the science of finding your spiritual self and how we can move towards a definition of contemplation that you can apply to transforming your life. Contemplation is the ultimate expression of our higher or spiritual lives.
Learn how life is just like any other journey down the highways of life. You need to know where you're going and what you're doing before you set off, otherwise you're likely to get lost and lose your way
Most of us are sleep walking through life believing that things are more random and chaotic than ordered. Structure, patterns and hierarchies are not that easy to see at first. A certain level of depth is required to begin to understand The Stages of Life and Spiritual Awakening and how they unfold for each of us as individuals, as complex human beings that are part of a much bigger system than the space and time that anyone can experience subjectively themselves.
The mindset of change - The Paradigm Process is the program we use to teach people how to get unstuck and return to Sacred Self
Mark L Lockwood talks with Richard Pearce on the Healing & Life Transformation Podcast about what we need to do to get from point A to point B as far as change is concerned.
Mark L Lockwood BA(Hons)(psy) Leading life strategist and clinical Director of Center for Healing and Life Transformation in South Africa has helped people internationally heal from depression and other disorders and disease in relatively short periods of time. Using new scientifically tested and proven methods of what he calls the Contemplative Intelligence (CQ) process of dealing with mental health issues.
Change requires an aware consciousness or it is just not going to happen. When we decide we want something new for ourselves, a better self, then we are going to have to apply a new consciousness to effect that change and growth. Ships are built, they don’t come in, so waiting for change to come to us is a waste of time and effort that will leave you feeling tired, stressed and let down.
Total abundance mediation is a powerful meditation designed to help you to connect to your intentions in the contemplative filed and attract what you have always wanted back into your life, now.
The purpose of meditation is to slow down your brain waves and get beyond the thinking, analytical mind. When you get into the space of intense relaxation and focus at the same time then you have opened the doorway between the conscious and subconscious mind.
Monitoring the data from people all over the world with a multitude of different backgrounds and physical, mental and emotional issues we started to see that they healed in the same ways. We found distinct correlations in how they overcame their presenting issues of depression with this work.
Healing and Life Transformation is our most serious business. If we are not growing, evolving and becoming more conscious, somewhere down the road we will end up in mental and emotional trouble of one kind or another. Getting yourself to the highest possible states of consciousness is the most important thing you will ever do.
You are creating God and that's what you need to understand is going on within you. You are creating God and God created you. Now look at that mirror image. That Imago Dei or image of God within. You are creating God and God created you, and I am that I am which includes absolutely everything, including you and me. So, you are creating God every time you move towards finding your authentic, your sacred and your higher self.
There is no benefit to any individual who chooses to throw out the profound spiritual teachings of Jesus Christ. The idea he shared was that if one makes it, all make it. It is almost too simple to teach or even believe for that matter.
Your reptilian brain is intimately locked into our Distraction Deficit. This part of the brain is attracted to sensation based language. What we see watch and hear on social media is geared to make us impulsive. Impulsive enough to buy, click, follow and go down tunnels and rabbit holes we don’t even know exist. Just a few seconds and we make choices. Vital and important choices that become part of our decisions that shape our lives.
Life is therapy and it is designed to help you a lot. God is the therapist and life is the therapeutic process that gets everyone in this human family through their distortions and back to reality. The key is knowing that through all your problems, traumas and trials you’re always in session slowly becoming more conscious of the broad reality of God, self and all things other.
Self-actualization is the complete realization of one's potential, and the full development of one's abilities and appreciation for life. This concept of the traits of self actualisation is at the top of the Maslow hierarchy of needs, so not every human being reaches it.
We enjoy some humour with this song about alcohol made up from Doctor Jordan B Peterson's talks. Alcohol is most definitely one of the most common means to get ones life into a downward spiral. It is used by the youth. It is used by the stars we see on television and is used to show the part life in movies and on screen. Then we have the music industry which does a great job to glorify it as well. There are no winners and only truck loads of PTSD
To understand the nature of the universe looks like an impossible task to some people. Yet now we know that the best way is to understand it is to understand yourself first. Your job and mission is to get to know thyself and if you are an infinite wing you must know everything else at the same time. Otherwise you will always have a limited understanding of things.
The world is transforming and so are you. Both of these are happening at the same time, despite much resistance from many people who could be described as those who are sleeping. Blissfully unaware that any such transformation is occurring. If we look contemplatively at our world today, and the transformations we and our world have been through it becomes much easier to see.
Contemplative Walking is something anyone of us can start at any time to begin a practice that is so simple, yet so profoundly powerful that the elixir of these two friends, along with the simplicity and the wholeheartedness it brings, can allow you to the space for necessary healing and personal growth.
Understand why you are living this life. Then transcend it. Without the proper work, our minds are set on a trajectory towards getting more and more closed off and riddled on ego defence mechanisms. Just like keeping fit keeps us physically capable, our minds also need to be kept mentally fit with Contemplative Intelligence© practices.
When you become more conscious you will have the ability to heal your life. All that therapy is, is the simple process of becoming more conscious of yourself, others, the world and God.
The Imposter Syndrome is all about self doubt, self worth and feeling like a fraud. It is fuelled by our the inflated worth of others, and the lack of any of that worth for our own successes. It is like a confidence kill switch. Impostor Syndrome can be linked to other areas of self-doubt, such as fear of success, failure or self sabotage.
Healing is essential to everything that lives and breathes including you. If we do not heal and carry on as we do the world will die in the next few hundred years. You are the one, along with the rest of us, that must heal yourself so that you can help heal the world. Healed people heal people! Many of us sit with depression, fear and tension like it's a choice. The only decision to be made is the one to heal as best as you can, as soon as you can.
Fear Addiction is something that almost everyone will face today as our minds move into survival mind through the added stresses and strains of modern day living. There is a way to overcome Survival mind and heal from Fear Addiction.
Chakra's lay out the maps from ego to spiritual awakening. From sleep walking through life to living a life of purpose. They mark out the road to contemplative intelligence just like everything else does. All paths are leading is to Higher Consciousness. If we use the right maps, we keep the energy, the path and the mind open. When we don't do this depression, stress and anxiety reign. That is, until we wake up and see what is in plain sight!
Wendy's mother their Peter Pans in their relationships. Wendy as rescuer is the woman behind Peter Pan. There must be someone who deals with the things Peter Pan doesn’t do in order for Peter Pan to exist. Wendy is the enabler in many relationships and marriages today who codependently try to control and compensate for a partner who just doesn't want to grow up!
Contemplation is the art of healing stress and increasing performance beyond what we have ever imagined before. Listen to how CQ will help you scientifically transform neurological patterns that keep us stuck, ill or depressed. Increase emotional, psychological and spiritual wellbeing by practising laser focus coupled with proven mindfulness techniques.
This poem forms part of our contemplative intelligence program that is used by many people to heal depression, trauma, anxiety and even addictions. Both the words and the wisdom are profoundly healing. Dive into the energy and bathe in the light the author Carol Bieleck brings to the surface of our emotional selves, as we learn how to Breathe Underwater. #poetry #wordsofwisdom #contemplation #centeringprayer
Learn about the Peter Pan Syndrome in addiction recovery treatment. Petra Pam in the feminine. It describes an attitude where we try and avoid the pains and struggles of life and live in a virtual "Neverland". How to recover from the Peter Pan or Petra Pam Syndrome is not always easy. The personality is laced in defense mechanisms and subconscious weaponry to keep you a child, who doesn't have to experience adult emotions and issues.
Say these magical words everyday. A Magical and life changing affirmation and meditation piece from U.S. Anderson that can help you to open the lock to finding inner peace within. Practice these words often and learn of the unlimited power that is yours, in you. Discover how you can use the power of meditation and positive affirmation to work for you. Love your Transformation! Start your day right...end it even better.