Diamond Approach of the Ridhwan School

The Diamond Approach is a path of wisdom, an approach to the investigation of Reality and a method of working on oneself that leads to human maturity and liberation. It is a spiritual teaching, a method of connecting with our spiritual nature and bringing it into our life. The Diamond Approach represents a new paradigm in human/spiritual knowledge and understanding. It is not a synthesis of existing knowledge, but rather a new, more integrated understanding of the entire human psyche – ego, personality, soul – and the psyche’s relationship with its fundamental nature.

As a contemporary spiritual teaching, the Diamond Approach to Inner Realization considers the totality of the human being. It is a path of self realization and human maturity based on an original synthesis of modern discoveries in the field of psychology and a new paradigm about spiritual nature.

Aspects of our essence are readily revealed through the heartfelt understanding of our normal everyday experience. In this way we can attain spiritual realization at the same time that we become liberated from our psychological patterns and limitations. Such an approach makes it possible to be a full human being in the world while grounded in the eternal spirit.

The Diamond Approach differs from most other paths in that it recognizes the uniqueness of each individual soul and adapts itself to each person’s needs at the time. It does not require that people adapt to some ideal, but welcomes people as they are and helps them to take the natural next step for their unique development.

Following this path, we have the opportunity to discover, realize and actualize our true nature, our deepest spiritual dimension. The Diamond Approach uses methods such as meditation, self-remembering and inquiry to support this process of realizing our true nature. By making intimate contact with the truth of your everyday life, you can know the depths of who and what you are. You can learn to invite Being itself to provide you with profound guidance and understanding for your inner journey of self-discovery. You can come home to the still sweet simplicity of spirit while living in today’s complex world.

INQUIRY

Inquiry is not an activity aimed at bringing one to a particular state or capacity. Nor is it a means of discovering what stops one from arriving at a certain outcome. Inquiry is a means of inviting our true nature – which has much greater intelligence and awareness than our conscious mind will ever have – to reveal itself and guide us to a deeper understanding of reality and our own truth. True inquiry does not assume that one outcome, one experience, or one feeling state is better than any other at any given time. Inquiry invites whatever is here to show itself and reveal its truth. And each revelation, if allowed and held with respect and interest, will lead to understanding and revelation-and the further unfoldment of the soul.

Inquiry is something that arises in the midst of your experience – as part of your experience, not separate from it. In other words there is not a person here inquiring into something over there. The Inquirer has to be within the field of inquiry itself. This is different from inquiry in natural science, where the object of inquiry is outside you and all that is needed is to not interfere with it.

Ego encrustations begin to break up when we start to see images as images, structures as structures, patterns as patterns, and projections as projections. All of these are created and held together by our beliefs that they are reality. The more you see them as they truly are, the less you believe in them and the more they start to break up and dissolve.

Inquiry doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re always thinking about things or formulating questions in your mind. You are simply aware and curious; you love to know and feel reality fully and clearly. You’re happy to know reality as deeply and precisely as possible. If experience is not clear, you are simply curious about it. Openness to experience becomes dynamic, challenging experience to reveal its truth. Once in a while, this curiosity might formulate itself into a specific question. You recognize that you don’t understand something, and out of love, you wish to understand it. So questions come on their own when necessary. The ongoing practice of inquiry is therefore more an awareness of your experience, a recognition of when you are transparent and when you are opaque. Your interest is in understanding.

If we understand that inquiry springs out of the lightness and openness of joyful curiosity, we begin to see that the attitude of the inquiry itself doesn’t have to be influenced by the content. The inquiry itself is an expression of openness, lightness, curiosity and love.

The beauty of working with Essence is that there’s no place that you can get to emotionally that doesn’t turn out to be fine if you just stay with it and continue to inquire. So there’s no bad place that you can get to on the essential level. Inquiry and exploration, if carried deep enough, is bound to manifest Essence in one way or another.

When we are inquiring, we are holding the content-the various facets of experience – and then interrelating those elements, seeing relationships, and analyzing and synthesizing, but our consciousness not only holds the whole interrelated field, it also sees through things.  It sees through the veils, defenses, and resistances to underlying meanings, to underlying parts of our experience. We notice that our perception not only has a wider vision, but also that it can have a penetrating capacity. The penetrating capacity goes directly to the essence of the matter through brilliant illumination that pierces as it illuminates. Our consciousness is so smooth that it can move through little cracks, into tiny, subtle places. Brilliancy can seep into and penetrate those little subtle cracks and allow our consciousness to see things we wouldn’t normally see.

Inquiry is a dynamic functioning of our consciousness, of our soul, that is flexible, responsive, and playful and thus is truly intelligent. It is inspired by intelligence and informed by understanding. As you inquire, you use your intelligence, and you apply whatever understanding you have to the experience of the moment. Inquiry is not a matter of asking a question haphazardly; all questions have to be asked in an organic way. That is what the intelligence is: an organic and appropriate responsiveness to each situation.

Inquiry requires the global awareness of mindfulness without identification so that you can see the entire situation you are working with. As you take on the whole situation, you start recognizing patterns. As you see the patterns, the inquiry starts focusing and concentrating on where all the patterns lead.

We can say that inquiry is a process of always opening and opening and opening, endlessly and freely. And it opens from any place, from any direction, from any level, from any position. If you really want to go into your adventure with no limitations on how far and how fast you can go, openness has to be total and absolute. The moment you limit the openness you have limited the amount of energy available for the journey. So the process has to be open-ended in every way: in terms of how you go about it, what you inquire into, and where the journey takes you. Every limitation has to be challenged, or at least you have to be willing to challenge it.

ThetaHealingTM

ThetaHealing^TM is a healing modality that that utilizes quantum physics, hypnosis, and unconditional love to facilitate rapid lasting change and healing. Until recently the theta brain wave state was believed to be accessible only in deep sleep or yogi-level meditation. Once in a theta brain wave state, the ThetaHealing practitioner connects with god/source/spirit/whatever you choose to call it to tap into the quantum field and identify and correct issues in the physical and emotional body by shifting limiting beliefs and moving positive energy.

Theta can be used to clear negative beliefs that might be blocking you from discovering your purpose, pursuing your dreams, experiencing the flow of abundance, and having a deeply satisfying and meaningful life.  ThetaHealing can help you realize your full potential and manifest your dreams.

Some beliefs are formed during our childhood experiences, others are passed down through the morphogenic field around our DNA, and still others stem from past lives and the collective unconscious (aka The Akashic Record).

With Theta Healing^TM, you can choose your beliefs and consciously create your life. You can heal physical ailments, and reprogram your neurology for abundance, success, love, happiness and anything else you can imagine. Lasting change is possible when beliefs change.

Money Coaching

Money Coaching combines both practical financial guidance with sound psychological principles and universal spiritual beliefs to help transform your relationship with money and lead a more purposeful and prosperous life.

Through a step-by-step process, Money Coaching will guide you to a deeper understanding of unconscious beliefs and patterns that create stress, anxiety and fear and prevent you from having the life you desire.

Money Coaching will help you:

* * Rid yourself of money anxiety based on false beliefs and unconscious patterns

* * Change how you think and feel about money, so that you can unblock the flow of money into your life

* * Develop peace of mind through creating a balanced life- financially, emotionally and spiritually

* * Discover how money affects your relationships

* * Assess your “money type” and understand the impact it has on your life and your relationship with money

* * Learn to understand how your “money type” was formed and what you can do to change it

Neuro-Linguistic Programming, NLP

Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as “a model of interpersonal communication chiefly concerned with the relationship between successful patterns of behaviour and patterns of thought underlying them and a system of alternative therapy based on this which seeks to educate people in self-awareness and effective communication, and to change their patterns of mental and emotional behaviour“.

Founded by, Richard Bandler and linguist John Grinder, in the 1970s, to find ways to help people have better, fuller and richer lives. They coined the title to denote a connection between neurological processes (‘neuro’), language (‘linguistic’) and behavioral patterns that have been learned through experience (‘programming’) and that can be organised to achieve specific goals in life.

It is an extraordinarily effective and rapid form of therapy, capable of addressing the full range of problems such as phobias, depression, habit disorder, psychosomatic illnesses, learning disorders. It offers the potential for self-determination through overcoming learned limitations and emphasizes well-being and healthy functioning.

Later, it was promoted as a ‘science of excellence’, derived from the study or ‘modeling’ of how successful or outstanding people in different fields obtain their results.  These skills can be learned by anyone to improve their effectiveness both personally and professionally.

Ericksonian Hypnosis

Milton Hyland Erickson, MD, American psychiatrist specializing in medical hypnosis and family therapy. He was founding president of the American Society for Clinical Hypnosis and a fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association, and the American Psychopathological Association. He is noted for his approach to the unconscious mind as creative and solution-generating. He is also noted for influencing brief therapy, strategic family therapy, family systems therapy, solution focused brief therapy, and Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP). He developed an extensive use of therapeutic metaphor and story as well as hypnosis and coined the term Brief Therapy for his approach of addressing therapeutic changes in relatively few sessions.

He was noted for his ability to “utilize” anything about a patient to help them change, including their beliefs, favorite words, cultural background, personal history, or even their neurotic habits.

Through conceptualizing the unconscious as highly separate from the conscious mind, with its own awareness, interests, responses, and learnings, he taught that the unconscious mind was creative, solution-generating, and often positive.

Hypnosis is a word that describes a state of mind that enables people to accept new beliefs, ideas, and responses into a willing participant’s mind without critical or judgmental scrutiny. This avoids client rejection of these new ideas.

Results Technologies/Results Coaching

Next Generation tools for accelerated achievement.  A hybrid science growing out of and improving on several models dating back to the last century.  What started with Korzybski’s general semantics, NLP, and Ericksonian Hypnosis, combined with recent advances in quantum physics and neuroscience to allow change in a fraction of the time it has taken in the past.  It’s like getting a major upgrade to the software in your mind.  This creates instant change on the subconscious level of the mind allowing you to create the life you want by expanding your self-concept and expanding the results that you are able to produce in any context.  We can shift the way you store values and beliefs in your body, releasing subconscious blocks to your success, so that you can change what’s important to you.

There are two things that determine our success in life: our internal communication (how we communicate within our minds and bodies, our thoughts) and our external communication (how we communicate with others).  Results Technologies enable us to change internal and external communication and shows people how to be influential in their own lives.

When we release limiting beliefs and negative emotions, then we become more of who we really are.  It’s a means of getting closer to our spiritual nature.