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Blog postIn Christian theology, perdition is defined as a state of eternal punishment experienced after death, if a sinner does not repent to God. An example of perdition is hell.
In biocognitive theory, perdition is a psychological path of victimhood leading to addictions, compulsions, obsessions, and other dysfunctional strategies to avoid inevitable pain, when confronted with foreboding life challenges. An example of biocognitive perdition is any hedonistic behavior to avoid the existential -
Blog postIn the process of living our journeys, storms from Dante's Inferno make their presence to taunt our hero or victim archetypes. If we choose existential elegance, we draw from our invincibility, but if we capitulate to victimhood, we are compelled to the path of perdition.
And what are the terrains for our choices? Existential elegance engages eudaemonic embodiment of Aristotelian commitment to cultivate pleasure in meaning, purpose, and service - whereas victimhood avoids pain and see -
Blog postWhat does this have to do with the Empowerment Code?
Everything!
Because we are developing ageless leaders.
Now, we can proceed...
Younger Today
Today's blog is an excerpt of work I published several years ago. The focus is on my adaptation of the research of Harvard psychology professor Dr. Ellen Langer, who demonstrates how aging can be reversed. Time cannot be reversed, but you can reverse its biological effects.
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Blog postWhen we leave where we came from, there are those who stayed to archive the history of what was lived in our absence. These archetypal scribes are observants of the cultural continuity that provides grounding when we lose sight of our journey.
But what drives these cultural historians to inherently chronicle undulations of the Drift? They respond to a calling blind to vulgar eyes. Silent heroes offering lanterns of belongingness when we derail from our excellence and the pristine mean -
Blog postAs directors of our journey we write scripts, designate characters, determine heroes and villains, on a stage where we enact our dress rehearsals before performing for audiences in our theater of life. More than theatrical metaphors, we are thespians exploring horizons of love, constantly reminded of our mortality and the impermanence of our joy. Yet, we invent plays of hope and invincibility committed to auspicious endings.
But rather than victims from winds of chance, we are wounded -
Blog postUnselfing is a biocognitive term to express the process of detaching from the social and cultural labels of self. Unselfing occurs during deep levels of meditation or contemplative states. It is a groundless awareness that rids self of all its masks and labels. Without proper guidance, however, unselfing can be a frightening experience. In pathological conditions, it manifests as dissociative and depersonalization states during extreme anxiety reactions. Contemplative adepts can enter unselfi
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Blog postFoundational Terrain
The Empowerment Code is the first worldwide model that teaches wellness and productivity management based on proven decision-making principles of the immune system. Following ten central tenets, our training model applies immune-system wisdom to assess and enhance the Communication Culture of a work environment.
Empowering mandates in an organization are more conducive to wellness than incentives to modify lifestyles. The wellness and productivity cohesiveness -
Blog postA Seeker's Choice
If you want to bring meaning to your private journey of selfhood, I propose choosing one of two paths: The mystical scientist who enhances meaning of the measurable with the immeasurable, and the scientific mystic who expands horizons of the immeasurable with the measurable.
Based on these operational definitions, Einstein was a mystical scientist and Buddha was a scientific mystic. Both are essential contributors to the enrichment of our lives. But we don't -
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Blog postExistential Elegance
A term coined by Dr. Mario Martinez to describe a dimension of selfhood that finds pleasure in service, meaning, and purpose. Responds with commitment, honor and loyalty to self when abandoned, shamed, and betrayed by others. Chooses decorum when challenged by a world of vulgar eyes. Determines the rightness of the moment guided by a moral compass when enticed to engage malevolence.
Aristotle argued that hedonism (pleasure driven living) is not enough for -
Blog postTo lose at love is to gain existential elegance because the loss was grounded on giving your heart away with faith in reciprocity. Pain of unrequited love roams deep in shades of disillusionment, heralded by dreams of redemption that never materialize.
Paradoxically, as poetics goes, the best protection from losing at love again - is to love again. Each time, with greater commitment to discover what your new love admires in you that you deny to yourself. Then the journey of love advan -
Blog postOur precious selfhood can pose unsolvable questions and construct challenges void of solutions because the key to our invincibility is our capacity to enter storms without navigational instruments, give our hearts away wagering on reciprocity, and enacting existential elegance in the presence of vulgar eyes.
The relational incompleteness to navigate our future, and cognizance of our mortality, weave incongruous fragility feeding our tenacity and granting us eternality on a vessel of l -
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Blog post"Sancho, dress me slowly, I’m in a hurry."
This concept comes from Don Quixote de La Mancha when he asks his esquire, Sancho Panza, to help him put on his armor slowly, because he is in a hurry to go battle the windmills. Giving significance to this mantra of slowing down when you are rushing, trying to do too much in too little time, running late, or in some kind of urgency, you will intuitively slow down. Why? When you are in the urgent present you become accident prone an -
Blog postIf concrete is your challenge, moss is your strength. But how can a delicate living organism (moss) break through a strong non-living substance (concrete)? Because the essence of life is to thrive in the realm of constraints. Look for pathways in what appears impenetrable. The fissures in the challenges are portals to resolutions. The tools reside in your creativity.
Such is the way of Empowerment...
Your invitation to explore hybrid leadership...
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Blog postHow does Biocognitive Organizational Science bring relevance to the concepts of fate and destiny in the world market?
The fabric of organizations is shaped by the cultural parameters of the executive branch: policy makers that determine dictums to live by at work. Understanding the difference between the helplessness of fate and the empowerment of destiny is the foundation of hybrid leadership. In other words, executives can bring a cultural fishbowl to their organization, or the spir -
Blog postIn the Empowerment Code model we propose three terrains to take your ideas, your products, and your image to the market without selling your soul.
Organizational Terrains are contextual conditions that support a behavior, symbol, or concept that you want to convey to your audience. In the process of defining your contextual conditions, the three terrains are:
Excellence Enticement Exposure Excellence is the terrain where you identify the quality of what you are taking to the m -
Blog postDemons and sirens from our past collude with emotional vampires of our present to rob our joy. On the private journey of our hero within, we slay demons, ignore sirens, and restrain emotional vampires.
But why do we create these villains to roam our ecology of mind and invade our emotional space? Because our cultural editors teach us that imperfections must be punished and that our good fortune is a fleeting mirage only available to the gods.
How do we find the flaming sword t -
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Blog postThe Creation of Heroes and Its Perils There is much misunderstanding of what causes domestic violence in NFL players and other athletes. The common cause given is “loss of control” and the solution offered is anger management therapy. This sounds reasonable enough until you add drug abuse, prostitution, murder, DUI and sex offense to the dirty laundry list of some famous athletes. But it’s important to clarify rather than excuse, that NFL players fall below the national average on each of th
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Blog postAre those who disparage our offer of pristine love unworthy? Some are certainly void of emotional profundity, but I believe there are some who are incapable of embracing our plentitude because unworthiness limits their horizons of gratitude. How can one embody love without valuing selfhood?
For agents of malevolence, I confront with flaming swords of righteous anger, while bringing compassionate closure for those who choose the path of alienation from our greatest gift.
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Blog postTrusting your journey requires embracing paths without evidence to support outcome. The alternative is to live without risk of disappointment. A choice beckoning demons and sirens from the past and emotional vampires entrenched in the present. Trust is not commitment to be rewarded or action feigning a leap of faith. Trust is rather discovery of interconnectedness for those who dare to risk.
If expected outcome does not materialize, the valor invested remains impervious to slaves of r -
Blog postThere's a prevailing misconception about silence by simply defining it as absence of sound. I propose that contemplative silence is not only lacking sound but also void of thoughts. The essence of this silence, requires discerning that absence is not a void. It is rather a realm of incommensurable time and space.
And how can we experience moments without context? We can understand contemplative silence by shifting from identifying context to embracing nothingness. This notion of nothi -
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