A short YouTube monologue by Steven (Stephen) Barnes titled "HealingEmotions#10: Teaching Others" that presents the final step of a 10-step personal-development sequence: consolidate growth by teaching others. Barnes argues that genuine learning is evidenced by lasting behavior change, recommends sharing lessons (support groups, mentoring, blogging), and directs listeners to his site for more resources.
Hi, this is Stephen Barnes of the Diamond Hour welcoming you to Healing emotions. Step number 10 teach others now. The last step of the hero's journey is variously called the student becomes the teacher. Return to the village with the elixir and movement to the higher level. It represents the end of one phase of life and the beginning of another. Any experience that takes you through the dark night of the soul will teach you about who you really are, about what reality really is. If you learned the lesson, you will be changed forever. If you are not changed, if you repeat the previous behaviors, you did not learn the lesson. This bears repeating from a slightly different direction. Let's try this again. Information that does not change behavior is either trivial information and useless or you never really learned it in the first place. Once a lesson is truly learned, it should not be possible to go back to the old way of doing things. Contrary to what some may teach, the hero's journey pattern is not a circle. It is a spiral describing growth up a staircase described by the yogic chakras or Maslow's hierarchy or any of the other systems of deep thought encoded in religions, philosophies and evolutionary systems around the world. How can you know that you've moved to the next level? How do you anchor new knowledge in your body and mind? Well 1 take consistent new actions and 2 teach others what you have learned. Rather obviously I really like number two. Anything you've legitimately learned that has changed your life for the better. You have both the right and perhaps even the obligation to teach. Take the self pity and false modesty out of it. A 10 year old can teach a 9 year old. Believe me, you have things to teach. Once you've learned the path to healing your emotions, finding love, banishing or reinterpreting fear, dealing with shame or guilt or loss. Join or start a support group, mentor others. Blog about your experiences. Tell the truth ruthlessly. Trust me, telling the truth helps groove it more deeply in your own consciousness and also provides a beacon for others seeking a way out of their emotional morass. The best way to be sure you know something is to teach it. Share it. Stand up and say clearly that it is possible to win, that there is hope. I would suggest that you go back and take a Look at these 10 steps again and begin to apply them and send comments if you have additional questions or suggestions. These steps have been tested on many students and they've worked for a very long time. It is my hope that you will use use them to gain the kind of clarity and power and purpose in your life. That is truly your natural inheritance. This is what we should all have been to have our goals, our dreams, our intellects, our physical energy, all operating in alignment to create adult, aware human beings. If you enjoy this approach to personal development, you can learn more at my website@www.diamondhour.com. and until the next time we speak, I'd like to remind you to be the hero in the adventure of your lifetime. You're the only one who can take care of.
