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The Avatar Course is practical and experiential, your life being the central theme. It is a surprisingly effective method to realize desires, big plans, small improvements, dreams, projects, and personal goals. You learn how to let go of negative feelings, doubts, and limitations and to enjoy life moment by moment. The course gives you new potential to live with a deep sense of total freedom, according to your own personal standards and in harmony with your environment. Avatar is an investment in the rest of your life. After completing the Avatar program you will have a toolbox full of very effective techniques that you can use wherever and whenever you choose, to give your life the quality and form that you wish for yourself. Background
The development and theory of Avatar has been described in the book Living deliberately . Avatar is being taught in over 70 countries. Star's Edge International is the headquarters to the central administration and provides support to the worldwide network of Avatar masters . The mission of Star's Edge is to contribute to the integration of all belief systems and to help realize an enlightened planetary civilization. When we perceive that the only difference between us is our beliefs and that beliefs can be created or discreated with ease, the right and wrong game will wind down, a co-create game will unfold and world peace will ensue. Method: Learning by experiencingYou experience what you believeYour (conscious and unconscious) beliefs determine the way you experience your reality. By having certain beliefs you seek out or attract certain experiences, which in turn prove the validity of your beliefs. If you think that only hard work will lead to success, you'll easily find reasons for doing overtime. If you feel yourself to be a victim, you will probably wind up in all kinds of situations where you experience others to be taking advantage of you. If you are convinced (i.e.: if you have absolutely no doubt) that you are going to win a match, then you probably will. During the Avatar course you'll uncover your beliefs through experiential exercises. Then you can deliberately choose which beliefs are helpful for you, and which ones you would rather change or let go. Living deliberatelyAvatar takes you to the source of your life, the point where everything starts and where you can feel a strong connection to everything and everyone. You will learn to perceive your reality without judgments, preconceived ideas, or beliefs that control and shape your experiences. And from source you decide for yourself what experiences you would like to have, and you choose the beliefs that will help you realize your goals. An example: First you create a rock bottom belief in your ability to pass that driver's test, and only after that you get into the car to take (and pass) the test. The Avatar program doesn't contain any philosophy or theory that you should adopt. You decide what you would like to believe, create, or let go. And Avatar will provide you with the tools to realize this. Learning through experiencingDuring the entire Avatar Course you learn through concrete, practically oriented exercises and through direct personal experience. On day one you determine your personal goals for the course. You choose what you want to work on and how far you want to go. Avatar is an individual course within a group context, and the Master - student ratio is usually one to three. You always work at your own pace, for yourself and by yourself, and you get intensive coaching in a way that is stimulating without being confrontational or therapeutic. The content of the program and the nature of the exercises are very diverse. You may study the course material at one point, be given an assignment for self-analysis at another, or be sent outside for perceptual awareness exercises. Some exercises you do on your own, with others you get personal coaching from a master or other participants. Once in a while there is an exercise involving the whole group. Within a short time span your experiences can vary from meditative stillness to emotional and dynamic impulses. Often you will be amazed about your feelings and patterns, about your unconscious beliefs, but especially about your unrecognized potential. During the course you might experience doubts or sense limitations. Therefore your own motivation and input are important prerequisites for a good result. Here you will find a further description of the course program . The big questionsIn these times of rapid progress in the areas of science, technology, and prosperity, it still seems difficult to get a grip on challenges such as environmental issues, how to deal with conflicts, stress and such pending questions as: What makes my life worthwhile? How do I find inner peace and real fulfillment? Why don't I experience lasting happiness? How can I contribute to more peace and harmony in the world? In trying to solve these questions, something fundamental seems to be missing: a clear insight into how our lives and society work. Why do we always think, act and feel in a patterned way? And why is it that we often don't achieve what we really want? The Avatar Course not only deals with your daily life, but also with the big questions: Who am I? Who else but you can answer these questions? The Avatar program doesn't provide philosophies, theories, dogmas, or ready-made answers. What Avatar does give you is a way to find your own answers by experiencing them yourself, within yourself. You are the Truth which you seek. More informationIf you want to know more, you have several options to get all the information you need:
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In 1987 Harry Palmer discovered some profound insights about the way in which we create our reality. All events and experiences in your life are a result of your own way of thinking and the beliefs you hold. Your life today is a result of your past beliefs. Your future is being sculpted by the beliefs that you adopt right now. A practical example: If you are afraid you're going to fail your driver's test, then you probably will. Every athlete knows that a winner is especially strong on the mental plane. Harry Palmer discovered that we can deliberately (and very effectively) influence our beliefs. Based on these discoveries, he developed exercises and procedures enabling people to deliberately shape their experiences, and thereby their lives. This set of techniques, he called Avatar.