In last night's call, I started a new series of Living Into Greatness calls all focusing on the Solutions to the Illusions we've been exploring.  Here's a little background for you on what makes up Illusions and Solutions:

• Illusions are sources of scarcity thinking
• Each illusion is made up of 3 primary conditioning patterns
• Each conditioning pattern is made up of conditioned beliefs
• Conditioning patterns are the pattern language of scarcity.

Coined by Christopher Alexander, world famous architect and author, a pattern language is a way to describe a series of patterns that identify a problem which occurs over and over again.  It gives language to, and allows people to relate to, a problem in accessible, understandable terms.

A Conditioning Pattern (CP) is a reoccurring chain of actions, reactions and barriers that keep us from living into greatness.  They are the primary evidence of illusions in our lives.  All the CP's make up the pattern language of scarcity.  In other words, by exploring the pattern language of scarcity mentality, we can identify and connect with the ways we may be living in scarcity, not greatness.

Just as there is a pattern language of scarcity, there is also a pattern language of abundance.  In future posts, I'll be sharing with you the 7 key abundance aptitudes which are the pattern language for abundance.  I'll also be sharing the experiental patterns that replace conditioned patterns.

Another quick note for purposes of definition:  conditioned beliefs are beliefs we internalized from sources outside ourselves (parents, education, society, cultural norms).  They are not beliefs of our true selves.  Lots more on this in future posts as well.

Questions?  Confused?  I'd love to read your comments.