The \”Path to Self Leadership\” involves distinct steps towards achieving awakened leadership and heart-centred change mastery. This path emphasizes personal development and balance, leading to inner calm, resilience, and the ability to contribute more effectively. Here\’s a breakdown of the key steps:
Step 1: Entering the Stream This involves letting go of ignorance and poor motives by moving beyond anger, greed, and hatred… This step focuses on achieving personal happiness and recognising the beauty of life without these negative emotions… Skills include anger and fear management and moving to higher awareness.
Step 2: Awareness This step centres around becoming mindful of the body, feelings, mind, and objects1. It involves understanding the interconnectedness of mind and body and how emotions can disturb clear thinking… Skills for this step include natural body and mind connections, inner listening and achieving a balance of reality, energy, attitude, and life.
Step 3: Effort Focus on directing life towards goodness by \”doing the right thing,\” preventing and fixing wrong actions, and sustaining a positive space. This involves differentiating between \”doing the right thing\” and \”doing what right,\” honouring diversity, and understanding moral and natural law is.
Step 4: Success Creating a desired outcome through diligence, energy, awareness, and penetration…. This step requires a clear heart and sustainable motives. Skills include detaching from rejection, linking actions to passions, and having a purpose greater than oneself.
Step 5: Powers Developing faculties, capacities, and abilities in higher realms, such as confidence, energy, stability, concentration, and proper understanding. This includes harnessing intuitive powers to create change and choosing a social issue to focus energy on…
Step 6: Awakening: Achieving full attention, understanding universal laws, experiencing energy, joy, ease, concentration, and letting go… This step is described as almost automatic for those who have diligently followed the previous steps, leading to a natural integration of these qualities18.
Step 7: Humility Returning to the beginning with loving-kindness, joyfulness, equanimity and compassion…. This involves giving joy and happiness to others, acting unconditionally, and removing suffering…. On the second pass through these steps, these values are established, and contribution becomes more powerful and natural, leading to broader leadership roles.
Chris Walker emphasizes that nature provides a model for human growth and leadership, offering a direct path to awakened living… Nature is seen as a raw and honest teacher, offering insights into the dynamics of life and the evolution of consciousness… The ultimate goal is to find contentment and act from a place of inspiration rather than reaction.