MythoSelf® - The Art and
Science of Living...

MythoSelf® history

Richard Bandler, one of the co-developers of Neuro Lingusitic Programming, (NLP, the study of how people process things internally), says that NLP is an attitude and a methodology. The methodology is modelling and the attitude, he says, is easy to describe, 'anything is possible'. Roye Fraser worked closely with Richard Bandler in the early days of NLP. He is one of only a handful of people who have kept the orientation to possibility intact in his own work and teachings.

Of particular interest to Roye earlier in life, in his military days, was his observation that those who went into battle expecting to return usually did so. He began to ask himself questions about how people organize themselves to live their lives and how they functioned, or didn't function. He began to explore the driving forces and templates against which people modeled themselves, around which they made decisions and through which they took action. His model he called the Generative Imprint™ Model.

The Generative Imprint™ is an individual's unique way of being in the world that is structurally well formed, facilitates functional well formedness, allows a person to know their place in the universe while aligning with their purpose, and generates a massive sense of readiness and possibility.

My knowledge of him comes from one of his most persistent students, a man called Joseph Riggio. Persistent in that he travelled for weekend after weekend to attend Roye's trainings for several years, until he was ready to take what he had learnt and begin to run his own trainings. Thus was born the MythoSelf® Process.

The MythoSelf® difference

So what's so good about it, you might ask. The orientation around possibility is a major step away from most other therapies and modalities available nowadays.

Lots of models will teach you how to sort out problems and deal with difficulties and all you get is to be an expert on your problems. It won't necessarily get you the life you want. Similarly for understanding.

If you understand why stuff happens to you, or you think you understand why you are the way you are, all you have is understanding. That may not get you where you want to go either. You probably understand that when you were a child your parents told you never to talk to strangers for your own protection. Does this understanding make it any easier for you to approach and chat to someone really attractive that you've never met before? I think not!

However, if you know how to shift your position so that what was a problem now becomes a situation in which you have a range of options, possibilities where before there were none, then you have a considerably more powerful starting position from which to move forward.

The MythoSelf® model includes structural and functional well formedness. Having both within one model is also very rare. Think of structure as who you are and functioning being what you do. Who you are will determine to a large extent what you do and how well you do it.

Zen, for example, aims at enlightenment, a way of being. Something like NLP, making money, sporting activities are functional skill sets. They are things that people do. Getting very skilled at one of these may not generate structural well formedness. In fact, sporty types are prone to injuries because their structure gets worse! A runners hamstrings get tight from repetition and injury to this particular muscle is common in these people.

Similarly, structural well formedness does not in any way guarantee functional well formedness. Someone who is high on drugs may have a great sense of well being and feel at one with the world, but may not be very functional at all!

However, they are never mutually exclusive either. Many martial artists, for example, after many years of practice, often develop a different posturing, you could say, a more relaxed attitude, a calmer way of being in the world.

So what if you put your attention on both and ensure that you start with structural well formedness and use that to determine the functional well formedness, which in turn serves to reinforce the structural aspect? So who you are determines what you choose to do with your life and the activities you engage in allow you to be more of who you want to be...

Progress may be slower initially because there is more to consider and organize, but once it's moving, it becomes self perpetuating and self actualising, with less and less effort required over time, as opposed to more effort to compensate for the imbalances which are being aggravated over time. This is one of the things that is so powerful about the MythoSelf® Model.

How MythoSelf® works

Another aspect that generates profound and generative transformation is the operation of the model at the level of ontology (the level of being, ie., who you are) and the transpersonal (how you fit into the universe). By making adjustments at these levels, or more specifically by allowing you to be how you most want to be, to be the person you know you could be, the smallest shifts ripple outwards giving rise to many and varied alterations in the universe.

These shifts are sometimes subtle, sometimes massive, but they rearrange the present so that the future you hold as a desire begins to become true.

Using the MythoSelf® Process the sense of self is first stabilized. Then the central theme is elicited, the alignment with your true purpose.

This is the beacon or guiding principle that is ever present (though usually hidden or forgotten) and it establishes a directionality, your own direction through life.

Knowing how this is held in your system allows you the freedom to have the experiences you want to be having, to live your own life.

What else?

Add to this

• the skillset that the MythoSelf® Trainers and Facilitators possess
• the unfolding of a person from themselves at the rate at which they are ready for
• the fact that the MythoSelf® model actually demonstrates the 'how-to' of 'be yourself, think positive, be your own person, live your own life... etc., etc.,
• the individuality of the process for each individual
• the way people learn how to be unchanging instead of constantly trying to adapt themselves to the world
• the way other models can be incorporated into this one yet it remains distinct and definitely more than the sum of any of the others

and, of course,

• the somatic basis (bodymind is one thing)
• the fact that it's the ultimate decision making model for having your own life

and you get a comprehensive and exquisite model that is simple in it's complexity and complex in it's simplicity.

Joseph Riggio

Joseph Riggio is the right man in the right place at the right time. His capacity to gather and assimilate information is phenomenal. When I say he takes many other models and incorporates then into the MythoSelf® model, I don't mean he takes bits and pieces of them. He first embodies these models himself, developing a deep understanding and a solid working knowledge of them. Only then does he add them to the body of knowledge that makes up the field of Mythogenics.

The work of such geniuses as Joseph Cambell and Clare Graves are utilized extensively. Much of the current understandings in the field of cognitive neuroscience, especially in respect to learning, are used to facilitate the profound and generative personal transformation that people experience when they go through the MythoSelf® Process. And Joseph also develops his own models for use in the areas of business, coaching, leadership and relationships that are based in the MythoSelf® philosophy.

Science of MythoSelf®

MythoSelf® is art and science because the model has elements of both. Science in that the model is the study of what works, it's about distilling the structure of how people get things done, how they successfully manoeuvre through life and get what they want. Studying folks from all walks of life and all areas of expertise and eliciting the structure of how they actually do the things they do.

This is then used in two ways. Firstly, the individuals get to learn their own patterns of success so that they can run them with intention and deliberateness. And secondly, patterns within the patterns are elicited and generalized so that they can be taught to people in order that they can be used in whatever sphere these people choose to operate. Remembering that all the time it's a diamond-bit-ended search for what works in any situation.

Art of MythoSelf®

The art is in how the model is used, both by the MythoSelf® facilitator leading the client through the process and moreso by the client who gets to live their lives from a place of possibility and creativity, developing new, different and previously unconsidered ways to get the outcomes required.

All this while knowing how to keep your sense of self intact... all ways... without compromise.

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