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The Ladder of Consciousness

By Action Business Coach Dave Beam

I must begin this article with gratitude to Steve Chandler, one of my coaches.  I first heard about the ladder of consciousness in his audio presentation, mindshift.  I highly recommend his mindshift audio series.

At the bottom of this ladder is death.  Dead people are truly unconscious.  The next rung up on the ladder is fear; then a little higher is anger, then resentment, then anxiety, then worry, then concern.  The lower rungs of this ladder represent emotions that tend to bring you down and drain energy, effectiveness, performance, and creativity.

On the high end of this ladder is spirit, creativity, imagination, compassion, humor, intuition, and love.  On this upper end of the ladder is high energy, experiment, openness, lightness, engagement, focus, clarity and play.  When you are high up the ladder, you are highly aware and in tune.  You can see so much more.  Your whole brain is fully engaged, and you are at peak performance.  Some refer to this as “being in the zone”, or “hitting your stride”.

The obvious question is this; How does a person move up the ladder?  It is all about your thinking and chosen responses to your environment.  Other people can’t really “bring you down”.  Your circumstances are not really what will “lift you up”.  Rather, it is what you think about other people and your circumstances that will drain your energy and vibration, or lift you up and bring you into the zone.

Fear, anger, resentment, anxiety, overwhelm, as well as happiness, peace, love, patience, and creativity are all products of your thinking.  A snake cannot make you afraid.  It is your thought and belief about snakes that may terrify you.  That new customer that just said yes to your sales offer is not what made you feel great.  You are feeling good because of what you are thinking and believing about that sale and what happened.

The key to experiencing higher levels of creativity, consciousness, energy, relaxation, and peace lie in experiencing a shift in attitude and thinking.  It begins by realizing that your thoughts are not you, and you can choose to accept or reject any thought or belief that you have.  What you accept as reality is actually only what you believe and understand and interpret as reality.  It is very real to you, but the fact is you only perceive a small piece of what is real.  All of us perceive circumstances, experience, and life though our limited interpretation.  That paradigm, or belief that we hold is what creates our attitudes and state of being.

Simply stated, a coach is someone who helps you discover an alternative paradigm to your circumstance, and through great inquiry and questions, helps you see what you don’t currently see.  He can help you shift your paradigm, thereby leading you to higher levels of consciousness.  This shift enables peak performance and better results.  The coach helps you climb up the ladder!!

Would you like to step up to a higher place?  What’s stopping you?