If it feels good, you're doing it wrong.
First Tenet of Explorations - Relax
When I'm asked WHY Explorations is the most effective personal power program in the world, it boils down to the simple, yet PROFOUND tools by which we can all unlock and UNLEASH the ancient power coursing through our veins at EVERY moment. Through my experience and training as a legally licensed therapist, life coach, musician, martial artist, entrepreneur, and spiritual guide, I have distilled EVERYTHING needed to truly become ourselves into what I refer to as The 4 Tenets of Explorations.
While the application of each tenet of the program can vary wildly based on the needs or the group or individual I'm working with at the moment, I will try to capture the spirit of each, beginning with the first: relax. This is the MOST important, but by far my LEAST favorite of the tenets, the reasons for which will be clear in a moment.
To begin, It is my belief that this ancient, universal power possessed by every human being exists by virtue of being, itself. Therefore, if it is a natural aspect of our being, then rather than having to work to ATTAIN something we DON'T HAVE, we must find the ways in which we are DEFENDED against that which we ALREADY POSSESS. And since we defend ourselves against that which we perceive as threats, the process of RELAXING these defenses is, to put it plainly, horrifically violent and painful as we face our greatest fears and traumas in pursuit of our true power.
To properly Explore "relaxation," I often take up to an entire day of one of my seminars, a rule of thumb to guide your practice of "relaxation" within the program is this...
If it feels good, you're doing it wrong.
- Leslie