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The 'science' and integration behind ATP
by Ted P. Attreides

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1. Interior World (subjective/intentional): Lifepower 'charger' breathing, bioenergetics, cognitive exercises, visualizations, affirmations, sacred self-transcending sexuality, adopting a conscious philosophy of life, subtle practices, bare-attention, self inquiry, and non-dual practices.

2. Exterior World (objective/behavioral): Exercise and physical fitness routines, core lessons on practical use of super nutrition and diet, use of life-affirming supplements including vitamins/minerals, optimum wellness practices, and inducement of theta and delta brainwave states of awareness through multiple modalities (including brain/mind machines).

3. Interior Collective (intersubjective/cultural): Making relationships with family friends and coworkers part of one's growth, practicing love/compassion in relation to others, decentering the ego-self, volunteer work, etc.

4. Exterior Collective (interobjective/social): Exercising educational civic and political responsibilities in social settings, practicing responsibilities towards the environment and the planet, etc.

Naturally, this new type of integral vision is very rare if not impossible to find in most self-help programs and courses, regardless of cost or time invested.

Most of these tend to emphasize partial and incomplete approaches such as single emphasis on optimum health, or meditation or psychotherapy and so on and so forth. Therefore a large number of intelligent and well-meaning individuals spend many years pursuing these less than complete approaches with minimal results and worse yet, very unbalanced constitutions.

Here's an example of this point, one can take the spiritual line alone (lets say meditation practice) to a very high level, but neglect the psychological and interpersonal lines -- so after years of practice they can still be egoistic or socially inept, or have addictions they cannot control.

On the other hand, the more wholistic and integrated the approach the quicker and easier you tend to see results and make positive transformations, and the more satisfying these are to you -- since that is the character of our multi-dimensional nature.

But having an integral vision that includes these four important dimensions is only half of the story of ATP.

You see possessing a 'map' (a model) that is all-inclusive and wholistic is not enough; that map by itself could not transform people. It would not!

What we also need is a way, an easy daily practice to assist an individual to make such transformative changes in their life. Thus the ATP Self-Discovery program not only provides an integral vision, but it also provides the 'missing link': an integral practice -- a practice that actually exercises body, mind, spirit and heart not only in self, but in culture and nature too.

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