Conscious Growth Workshop – weights analogy

I attended the Conscious Growth Workshop on January 15-17 in Las Vegas, hosted by Steve Pavlina. In the workshop we worked with the universal principles of growth, as illustrated in the Truth Love Power triangle below.

Truth Love Power triangle courtesy StevePavlina.com

Steve used an analogy that I found particularly useful in reminding me how to use these principles. The analogy refers to weights you would lift at a gym in order to improve your physical strength.

Truth refers to accepting the real situation of where you are now, and where you want to go (your goal). When you exercise the principle of Truth, you become clear of how heavy the weight is (i.e. how difficult it is to get to where you want to go) and how strong you are (i.e. your ability to get to your goal). When you are out of alignment with Truth, you are not fully accepting your situation and/or the consequences involved in getting to your goal, so it will be difficult to get to your goal. Truth can help bring clarity to the situation, so you can figure out where you want to go, what the consequences will be, how difficult it is to get there (how heavy the weight is) and your current ability to get there (your ability to lift the weight or how strong you are). Exercising Truth involves fully accepting where you are now. It also involves fully accepting the consequences of getting to where you want go.

Power refers to your ability to get to your goal (i.e. how strong you are). Just like progressive training (progressively lifting heavier weights to get stronger and stronger) you can undertake power exercises to progressively train the abilities that you need to get to your goal. Exercising Power involves progressively training your abilities so that you become stronger and more able to lift the weight required to get to your goal.

Love refers to your social support group which directly affects how difficult it is to get to your goal (i.e. how heavy the weight is). When you are surrounded by a positive environment, it becomes easier to get to your goal (i.e. the weight becomes lighter). However when you are surrounded by negative influences that hold you back, it becomes much more difficult to get to your goal (i.e. the weight becomes heavier). Exercising Love involves engineering your social support group to make the weight lighter so you can more easily get to your goal.

Truth, Love and Power give rise to four more principles. I recommend reading Steve’s book or attending a future workshop to get a grasp of how these work. Essentially, the idea is to re-align your life with these principles. When you analyse your life in terms of the Truth Love Power triangle, it becomes clear what area of your life is out of alignment. Exercising the appropriate principle will be critical in getting you on track to achieving your goals.

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