About The BreakThrough System

BreakThrough is a well-organized system of steps designed to show us our built-in defenses and deep-seated, limiting beliefs from childhood that prevent us from living life fully. Learn how you can break out of your defensive shell.

Overview

The BreakThrough System brings to the surface the built-in defenses and deep-seated, limiting beliefs that prevent us from living life fully. In two modules, the BreakThrough System course empowers participants to take off their masks and open their lives to an improved experience.

From Becoming… to being

You know those times in life where things are not going your way and you find all the reasons to blame everything around you for the terrible time you are having?

“If only he would get off my back I could get my work done!”

“If I had only done this then that would be happening right now”,

“Because of traffic I am late”

“There is no time, so I can’t”

and so on and so on….

It is at these times that we blame circumstance, situations, people and even time for our experience of life. It is a recipe for living like a Victim. Blame and victim go hand-in-hand.

When you are stuck in Victim mode life has very limited options. So living fully is just not available and patterns of misery are repeated over and over again.

It is only when the heavy cloak of victimhood is put aside that we can begin to see other options for living life; options that begin to create freedom and the True Self can begin to be expressed.

BreakThrough is a clearly designed set of steps that will help you to see the pattern of blame and victim that you are living and shows you the deeper life story that is going on underneath the blame.

Deep conditioning comes to the surface to be re-evaluated. Old habits and beliefs can now transform to make way for living fully.

Find your Authentic Self

BreakThrough is a program that tends to the characteristic needs of individuals seeking self-honesty in a safe, truthful and supportive environment. BreakThrough is unique in its regressive investigative approach to uncovering the nature of conflict. It promotes the healing of wounds through the pursuit of the honest nature of their cause, helping us to understand and transform our relationships with ourselves and others.

Root of External Behaviors

BreakThrough 1 provides an understanding of what is going on inside of us to create our external behaviors. BreakThrough 2 and BreakThrough Interactive then progress deeply into understanding the nature of why this false-self-versus-true-self process is so valid in relating to ourselves and others.
The BreakThrough Practical helps the student learn how to lead someone through the Steps. Breakthrough Steps Intensive immerses each of us into the BreakThrough process, teaches us to be really strong Steps leaders, and invites us to consider that there is another way to live our lives.

BreakThrough in Detail

The Regressive Process

BreakThrough does not make judgments. It is not a seminar that promises to make you a "better person." It also is not a seminar that makes you believe you are perfect just the way you are. BreakThrough merely seeks to unshackle you from long-held beliefs that have created your current self-image and put boundaries on your ability to thrive.
In BreakThrough, participants start where they are, often in a place of self-doubt, self-criticism and self-blame, exhausted from trying to hide and cope with the persons they have become and perhaps do not like. From this place, they begin the regressive process, again not trying to become better or different, but only seeking to understand.

BreakThrough's Seven Steps are a deductive, not an analytical, process. It is rather like being a detective, seeking clues to a crime, with the "crime" being that, quite involuntarily in the first few years of life, we often "learned" that we were lacking and needed to be different or better, i.e. more intelligent, more beautiful, more this or more that.

In the Steps process, we take a single incident of conflict only, but, as we continue, we see that this one story follows a thread backward - all the way to childhood - and that life patterns and habits, time and again, repeat themselves in all kinds of conflicting situations as a result of this one deep-seated, unconscious belief.

The Steps help us to see what is really going on in any conflict - and it is both a relief and a shock to discover that ALL our conflicts are triggered by beliefs that happened back when we were just tiny children. The beliefs seem so ridiculous to us as adults, but it's easy to understand the kind of trauma that they would have been to the child - even if that trauma was somewhat unconscious way back then.

We also come to understand that in each conflict, every time one of our childhood beliefs is triggered, the trauma we experience has very little to do with the present-day situation and everything to do with the past event. Thus, in going through a regressive process, we put our past and present selves into perspective. The results are insights that are nothing short of extraordinary.

It is really exciting work. Each time we do a Step and discover a core belief, it is like pulling a thread that begins with the story of conflict we are having as an adult and ends when we discover learned beliefs that have been dictating self-destructive behavior all the way up to the present day.

As we discover these beliefs, we see how ridiculous and damaging they are. As we put them into perspective and acknowledge their effect on our behavior, something remarkable happens as our emotions begin to change.

Suddenly we start to understand our behavior and our experience of others in a different way. Thus, when conflict occurs, our new perspective does not allow us to react in the same old way. We start to be far more conscious of what we are doing and why we are doing it, and, increasingly, the concepts of blame and victim consciousness show themselves to be totally unjustified - no matter the situation.

Again, with the regressive process of BreakThrough we don't become better people in the sense of a new and improved self. Our focus, by working with the Steps, is to simply uncover what is quite naturally already there and was there right at the very beginning of our lives. As we more deeply understand what it is that has kept the faulty beliefs, defensive armor and personality masks so rigidly in place all our lives, a mental flexibility begins to be felt. Obviously this makes for a dramatic change in how we deal with conflict, as we confront it in an increasingly conscious, responsible way.

Thus, when we say BreakThrough is a regressive process, we mean it is a process of coming home to the self, coming back to our natural way of being, which can be very different from how we've come to live our lives.

Rather than encouraging us constantly to aim for a "new and improved" self, BreakThrough gives us a tool that allows us to come home to ourselves and make peace with our humanness and life in general. Working with the Steps, we have the possibility of leaving childish, needy behavior and false identities behind and rediscovering the ability to experience life in a truly childlike, honest and open way - a way that is truly natural to us.

BreakThrough shows us the way to go back and reclaim what is natural to all of us: our authentic selves.

 

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