- Counseling and Guidance to support increased Self-Understanding and Transformation -
PSYCHOLOGY AWARENESS WHOLENESS SELF-REALIZATION SPIRITUALITY
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“The intent in no uncertain terms is to awaken, or deepen already recognized, profound and natural shifts in perception that can support broader consciousness.” - Chris Menné
- Are you longing for more fulfillment with life? More of a sense of meaning, purpose, or Well Being?
- Or, are you facing discontent, unease, a challenging life transition, or suffering with overwhelming change?
- You know you want to do more than just react; you know you want to respond, to grow.
- You long to respond with clarity; yet established approaches to life sometimes fail to satisfy?
Comprehensive services here provide for adapting and more: You can improve, even transform.
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In addressing discontent, longing, or suffering; insight, courage, and life wisdom can be cultivated.
- There are well understood, yet often undeveloped, paths of upward trending psychological and spiritual development that you deserve to become aware of.
- These innate capacities provide extraordinary increases in capacity regardless of where you are in your personal development (see the latter portion of the resources page on transformation for more on this).
- Cultivating such capacity is a core component of services offered here.
If you are experiencing discontent, longing, are in distress, or suffering with a challenging life transition; or even just living with a haunting sense of “missing something,” that somehow fulfillment with life is not being realized; there is work that yields tangible relief while also cultivating opportunities to transform. It is work that is clear and responsible in nature, does not hold out false hope, and draws on well established psychological principals as well as universal spiritual perspectives.
It is available right here.
“Extraordinary transformations in consciousness can emerge when life’s challenges are totally understood, and then deeply experienced with increased awareness.” - Chris Menné
- Counseling and Guidance to support increased Self-Understanding and Transformation -
PSYCHOLOGY AWARENESS WHOLENESS SELF-REALIZATION SPIRITUALITY
“Life’s current experiences then are naturally engaged with greater insight, wisdom, and acceptance. Real relief from discontent, longing, unease, or distress and suffering becomes available… Relationships relax and can become much more satisfying… clarity arises as to how to best spend one’s time and energy.“
Immersion Counseling© is the core methodology used to catalyze enduring shifts in your consciousness that can provide tangible enduring approaches to addressing discontent, relieving longing, alleviating suffering; all intended to restore a sense of peace, an innate satisfaction with existence, and as appropriate - a robust sense of connection to your spiritual source. Immersion Counseling is also an excellent choice for those looking to deepen or stabilize an established psychological or spiritual practice. As applied here, such shifts in consciousness are cultivated via a gentle but deep examination of perceptions that can be the source of discontent, longing, distress, or suffering, and hence determine just how your quality of life is determined. In doing so, discontent, longing, or suffering typically associated with life’s most significant challenges can be vastly reduced; a profound sense of reconciliation with life’s experiences can be restored; enduring shifts in perception providing clarity, awareness, and equanimity can become available.
Life’s current experiences then are naturally engaged with greater insight, wisdom, and acceptance. Real relief from discontent, longing, unease, or distress and suffering becomes available. A renewed sense of agency and participation with life comes forth. Relationships relax and can become much more satisfying. Whether you are working, retired, physically well or ill, strong or weak matters not; clarity arises as to how to best spend one’s time and energy. > Cultivating this innate source of clarity is a core component of this service (see the latter portion of the resources page on transformation for more on this).
As the nature and extent of discontent, longing, or suffering alleviates you can expect to develop a sense of participating more fully with your experiences which can replace feelings of being swept-along or losing control. This alone can provide welcome relief and be deeply empowering for individuals, couples, and families alike. Once such a shift in perception is stabilized, in essence changing the consciousness “meeting” the situation; peace of mind, and authentic acceptance in navigating challenging life transitions can become available. Opportunities for lasting transformation can emerge and develop.
In like manner, for those facing a challenging illness, the alleviation of suffering as addressed here can support you in recovering resources to encourage the most authentic expression of your challenges to others as well as locating your most empowered approach to daily life.
- Counseling and Guidance to support increased Self-Understanding and Transformation -
PSYCHOLOGY AWARENESS WHOLENESS SELF-REALIZATION SPIRITUALITY
“Ultimately we are designed to observe, experience, and respond with in-the-moment insight, wisdom, and compassion - with minimal or no interpretation…”
Consider for a moment that we all form perceptions on experiences we have. Some perceptions we form report on experiences correctly. And some perceptions we form can report on experiences erroneously, or even report experiences incorrectly. Often, once a perception forms, human tendency is to “lock it in” or to “concetize the perception” and formulate beliefs. This tendency helps us build knowledge; however, if the original perception was incomplete or erroneous, one’s experience of reality is now potentially compromised and thereafter significant discontent, longing, or suffering can ensue. We can even develop limiting perceptions on spirituality and all too easily become attached to beliefs of having the truth instead of cultivating inner capacities to feel and know the truth on spiritual matters (as such this service is also very well suited to cultivating clarity on a spiritual path). ~ If the above paragraph has your attention, approaches offered here will likely serve you very well.
All direct in theory, but, if discontent or longing is due to deeply held beliefs and desires; or the emotional or psychic pain is due to intense or life threatening matters, sorting through the interwoven partial perceptions and the follow-on suffering can seem confusing, harrowing, even intractable. However, not knowing how to engage (or even locate) a clear perception of the source experience of discontent, wanting, or pain when faced with such challenges is very common. Thereafter we can easily move into unexamined interpretations of the original perception which can then intensify our discontent or distress, all of this unfolding as though there were no choice. ~ There is always a choice.
Services available here can re-acquaint you with your own guidance where there is choice in how you engage your experience where discontent, longing, and suffering can abate; perception is enhanced, clarity arises, and transformation has the opportunity to emerge. Ultimately we are designed to observe, experience, and respond with in-the-moment insight, wisdom, and compassion - with minimal or no interpretation; unexamined beliefs and incomplete perspectives can hamper this robust and pristine capacity which we all possess. > Gently undoing interference to accessing this innate source of clarity is a core component of this service (see the latter portion of the resources page on transformation for more on this).
Discontent, longing, or suffering in any form need not ever be in vain. Discontent, longing, and suffering can point the way to a fulfillment based experience that may not be initially easy or happy in a conventional-ordinary sense, but, a sense of participating fully with life’s experiences can result. This may sound simple, yet this is an enhanced shift in perception that can induce a profound sense of freedom and engagement. And in the midst of challenging circumstances that would otherwise seem limiting, fully participating with life’s experiences in and of itself can provide a sense of peace and even joy once we become re-acquainted with this essential quality. This essential quality can also open the door to ongoing transformation, a door that is always asking to be opened as we proceed through life.
(It is critical to mention here that one’s personal threshold of physical pain is a crucial exception to this discussion and the choice to medicate to relieve physical pain is fully endorsed)
- Counseling and Guidance to support increased Self-Understanding and Transformation -
PSYCHOLOGY AWARENESS WHOLENESS SELF-REALIZATION SPIRITUALITY
“In attending to discontent, longing, distress, or suffering; there are also well understood, yet often underdeveloped, paths of upward trending psychological and spiritual development that you deserve to become aware of through services offered here.” - Chris Menné
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Call Chris at 303-619-2780 to arrange a free consultation, or email via this (link).
~ Settle the Mind, Realize Wisdom, Open the Heart, Open to Spirit ~
“Ultimately we are designed to observe, experience, and respond with in-the-moment insight, wisdom, and compassion - with minimal or no interpretation… this is an enhanced shift in perception that can induce a profound sense of freedom and engagement.” - Chris Menné
The Intent and Mission of this service:
To provide Counseling and Guidance to support increased Self-Awareness. ~ To awaken or deepen already recognized inborn capacities which robustly address matters of discontent, longing, meaning and purpose, or challenging life transitions. ~ To promote the development of life changing transformations.
Chris Menné is a Counselor and Personal Advocate committed to serving the emergence of such inborn capacities which can relieve unsatisfying or difficult conditions, restore peace, and support transformation.
Drawing from an MA in Transpersonal Psychology to develop clear, thorough, and coherent approaches that best serve his client’s needs; Chris engages insights from traditional psychology (generally a cognitive-behavioral approach) as well as honoring the wisdom inherent in the core tenets of the world’s spiritual traditions (most often a mindfullness approach). Simultaneously perspectives from contemporary living teachers and philosophers of consciousness such as Adyashanti, Amit Goswami, Stanislav Grof, David Hawkins, Genpo Roshi, Eckhart Tolle, John Welwood, and Ken Wilber are also appropriately utilized to develop a broad working framework of Self-Understanding that is most suitable to the individual.
Providing guidance and support through on location Immersion Counseling©, and deeply experiencing life’s challenges with his clients (see Services); individuals, couples, and families can navigate life’s experiences and challenges more soundly and confidently through cultivating often unrealized inborn capacities. Whether an individual is new to psychospiritual work, or has an established practice, Immersion Counseling© nurtures the development of penetrating insights while also utilizing a progressive series of proven inquiry based injuctions to examine life experiences and locate both the psychological, and as appropriate, the spiritual truths behind life’s challenges. Throughout, an individual’s intrinsic wisdom can arise clearing discontent, relieving longing, or easing suffering, and allowing for a sense of peace to return. In doing so, significant transformational possibilities can develop.
There comes a time when we can reach a certain point of interconnectedness where the truth is recognized when heard or felt – such tangible perspectives can serve as an anchor to inner-peace. As such, in attending to the longing or suffering of his clients, Chris is also a spiritual friend to those seeking to develop or enhance such perspectives. His exploration of and clear attendance to these essential matters is his passion and life’s work. A sound facility with the subtleties of adult psychospiritual development supports his clients in attending to any manner of self-discovery as well as the cultivation of mature spirituality.
In addition to the inner-needs of his clients, Chris also has a resourceful capacity to attend to the often chaotic circumstances surrounding challenging life transitions. Whether a situation calls for intense yet heartfelt compassion, sound wisdom, or rock-solid capable pragmatism, Chris readily recognizes the profound need to stabilize circumstances prior to any substantial inner-work being achievable. Furthermore, if challenges involve physical care-giving, he is both familiar and comfortable with the daily requirements of physical care-giving that may be encountered in a home or in any care-giving facility.
Times of discontent, deep longing, disturbance, or challenging transitions can summon the well used aphorism, “Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures.” Indeed, when life seems to yield unresolvable disappointments, or when dreams seem put on hold or even crushed, there is still so much that can be done to reveal the true nature of experience. We can fully participate with all aspects of life. Through such willingness the promise of the ages is that life will participate with us. Together we can discover what you already know – that peace, and even a relative sense of ease can be available in the midst of the greatest challenges.
- Counseling and Guidance to support increased Self-Understanding and Transformation -
PSYCHOLOGY AWARENESS WHOLENESS SELF-REALIZATION SPIRITUALITY
“If ordinary people really knew that consciousness and not matter is the link that connects us with each other and the world, then their views about war and peace, environmental pollution, social justice, religious values, and all other human endeavors would change radically.”
- Amit Goswami from The Self-Aware Universe
“The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious.
It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
- Albert Einstein
