“Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at change.”
- Wayne Dyer
At the heart of Altered States Coaching is the understanding that the way we experience life is profoundly influenced by our state of being and the perspectives we choose. By learning the seven primary states of consciousness within the Altered States framework, individuals begin to recognize how different levels of awareness shape perception, thought, emotion, action, and ultimately life experience.
As this awareness develops, clients discover an extraordinary capacity: the ability to consciously choose how they perceive themselves, others, and the circumstances of their lives. This shift creates freedom. Limiting beliefs, recurring patterns, and habitual ways of seeing that once seemed fixed become visible and available for transformation. Greater insight, creativity, intuition, understanding, and peace become available.
The Altered States Coaching Flow illustrates how this transformation occurs:
Awareness influences state. State influences perception. Perception influences thought. Thought influences action. Action influences experience.
Most people attempt to change their lives by changing external circumstances. Altered States Coaching begins from a different understanding. As awareness expands and state of being changes, perception changes. As perception changes, new thoughts, choices, actions, and experiences naturally follow. Dreamwork plays an important role in this process. Dreams reveal recurring patterns of thought, feeling, belief, and behavior operating beneath conscious awareness. They illuminate the subconscious loops influencing perception, decisions, relationships, and life experience. By bringing these patterns into awareness, individuals gain the freedom to consciously choose new perspectives and more empowering states of being. Through coaching, dreamwork, reflection, and practical exercises, clients learn to recognize unconscious patterns, strengthen their relationship with their own inner guidance, and develop greater clarity, confidence, resilience, and purpose.
A central principle of this work is that our state of being influences how life appears to us.
From fear, life appears threatening.
From resentment, life appears unfair.
From gratitude, life reveals opportunities.
From love, life appears interconnected.
From peace, life is experienced with greater acceptance, presence, and appreciation.
The Altered States 7 Levels of Consciousness framework provides a practical tool for understanding how different states of awareness influence perception, emotion, behavior, and life experience. As individuals learn to live from states such as love, gratitude, trust, appreciation, and peace, their experience of life changes. They see differently, feel differently, think differently, and act differently. New possibilities become visible. Creativity expands. Intuition strengthens. Synchronicities become more common.
This is one of the central teachings of the great wisdom traditions. As our state of being changes, the world we experience changes with it. The alchemists understood this. The mystics understood this. The purpose of inner transformation was never escape from life. It was conscious participation in it.
Love is more than an emotion. It is a state of consciousness. It is a way of seeing, and a creative force that transforms perception and experience. As individuals learn to live from love more consistently, life unfolds with greater harmony, beauty, intelligence, and flow. What once appeared difficult becomes natural. What once appeared impossible becomes achievable. Inspired thoughts lead to inspired action. Inspired action leads to meaningful creation. Life becomes increasingly aligned with one's deepest values, gifts, and purpose.
ALTERED STATES 7 LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS MAP
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DR. DAVID HAWKINS MAP OF CONSCIOUSNESS