Vive Magazine, an Australian publication for businesswomen, issued an article titled “Five Steps to Mindfulness” in its June/July issue.The article, which discusses various means by which to live in the moment in life, extensively mentions Landmark Education, including quotations from Landmark Forum leader Cathy Elliot. Excerpts of the article appear below:

But beyond psychology, how does living in the present work in practical terms? Landmark Education addresses this issue in the courses and forums they run geared towards professionals. According to Landmark, much of the way we live our lives is based on the meaning we attach to the things that happen to us. The theme of breaking a habit and working to create a new or more constructive behaviour recurs. “It’s very human that when something happens, we interpret it in some way,” says Cathy Elliott, a program director at Landmark Education. “The moment we make it mean something in relation to something else, we collapse what actually happened.’

What follows is a natural tendency to gather evidence to support the truth’, or form an interpretation of an event. This can result in ignoring things that don’t match that thought pattern. According to Elliott, this means we often don’t see life the way it is, but as a personal version filtered through how we see the decisions we’ve made.

A good example of this is how past partners (or even parents) often haunt current relationships. “We think we are relating to the person in front of us, but most of the time we are reacting to a situation from the past that happened with someone we are not over.’

Being aware of this situation goes a long way to help ensure we don’t relive the past in the future.

Examine the Vive Magazine site for more information.