Experiment Outline

The Sunflower Experiment is designed as a 12 week guided experiment.  The experimenter is you and the experiment is taking specific actions that we'll ask you to take and then observing and recording the actual cause and effect in your own life. 

This should NOT be treated as an e-book chapter you read each week.  You will loose out on the bulk of the value if you do that.  Words have a lot of power- but they are powerless to actually teach us anything lasting.  Their power is to inspire us to action and all real learning can (and will) only happen through our direct experience with applying the meaning of the words in our own lives and noticing what happens. 

The outline is based on the overriding analogy of planting and growing a garden.  The important point is that the principles involved in planting and growing a garden and becoming the type of person you want to become and having the type of life you want to have are really the very same principles.  So that in understanding how a principle applies to growing a garden, you better understand how it applies to growing yourself.   

To get a flavor for the major topics we'll be covering in the course of the experiment, here is a general outline:

UNIT 1 - UNIT 5:  The Gardener 

The major focus of the first 5 units of the experiment is on better understanding the gardener (you). Plants will grow much better if planted and nurtured by a gardener who knows what it means to be a gardener. You are the gardener and before we get into some of the specifics of the creative process of gardening, we need to first better understand the gardener.

Unit 1 - Preparing for the Journey Within

Overview of The Sunflower Experiment, Taking a "Baseline" Self Assessment Test and actually arriving at a number score as your starting point.  At the end of the 12 units you will take the same Self Assessment Test and get another number that will give you an idea of how much you've actually grown over the course of the 12 units. 

Unit 2 - Expanding Your Understanding Of Who You Really Are- The Gardener Of Your Life 

Learning to see yourself as the gardener of your life.  Understanding the 1% principle.  Understanding who you really are and the "Tip of the Iceberg" principle.  Understanding the "Two Selves" and the process of developing increased internal alignment.  What self-esteem really is and how to develop it. 

Unit 3 - Expanding Your Understanding Of The Creation and Growth Process 

Learning what your role is and isn't when it comes to creating/growing your garden.  Understanding what "The Secret" really is and means and learning how to apply it in your life.  Reverse engineering your garden- from effect to cause.  How to know what you are really asking for.  Understanding the difference between creation and construction.  Understanding the difference between right effort and raw effort and learning the 4 A's of right effort.

Unit 4- Accepting Personal Responsibility for Your Garden and Learning How to Learn From Life

Learning what you are and are not responsible for and starting to hold yourself responsible for only what you are actually responsible for and to stop holding yourself responsible for the many things you aren't responsible for which you have been holding yourself responsible for.  Understanding the Three types of business.  Learning what your true job is as a human being regardless of what you do for a living.  Understanding the mathematics of outcomes.  Accepting your power to assign meaning to everything that happens in your life and learning how to learn from life the easy way instead of the hard way.  

Unit 5- Accepting Your Current Garden with Peace and Gratitude and Becoming a True Optimist

Learning what it means to Love What Is.  Learning to see the positive aspects of where you are currently at.  Learning to be truly grateful for ALL things- not just all "good" things in your life.  What it means to be a true optimist.  Expectations and their role in your unhappiness.  How to express true gratitude.   

UNIT 6 - UNIT 12:  The Gardening Process

The major focus of the next 7 units is on the actual processes of gardening your life. These are tried and true principles and practices that apply equally to growing actual plants as to growing the type of person and life you want yourself to be and have.

Unit 6- Clearing Your Garden of Weeds

Taking on the weeds of damaged self-worth, guilt and grudges.  Understanding the difference between actual self-worth and perceived self-worth and understanding the impact that your perceived self-worth has on every aspect of your life.  Understanding the difference between right guilt and wrong guilt and using right guilt to spring you forward instead of wrong guilt to hold you back.  Understanding what true repentance is and actually doing it.  Understanding how grudges get planted and nurtured and how to pull them out by the roots.   

Unit 7- Choosing What You Want In Your Garden

A whole new way of looking at goals and achievement.  Finding, accepting and fulfilling your personal life callings.  Deciding what you really want and learning how to be guided to your true path through understanding principles of resistance and assistance.  Learning the important distinction between being stubborn and being steadfast. 

Unit 8- Protecting Your Garden From Common Destructive Pests

Building a protective wall around your garden. Learning how to recognize and protect your growing garden from common pests that will try to destroy your garden.  Choosing and setting your filters for what you will and will not allow into your garden.  Learning how to kill the pests of doubt, discouragement and impatience.  Learning to say NO to common distractions by having a more powerful YES you've committed to.

Unit 9- Nurturing Your Garden With Daily Watering and Sunlight

We get into more detail of what it means to direct your attention on a moment by moment basis and how what you give your attention to is what you will grow in your garden.  Learning to use your emotions as your guidance system to how you are directing your attention.  Learning to be receptive to your guidance system and to re-orient yourself when you've gone off-course.  Learning to focus your attention on what you want, not the lack of what you want.

Unit 10- Patiently Allowing Creation to Happen In It's Own Way

Learning the art of allowing and not forcing creation.  Being receptive and responsive to inspiration and taking inspired actions.  Understanding the difference between inspired action and motivated action.  Tapping your inner-guide for helping you make important decisions.   Learning how to capture inspiration and guidance and how to stay focused on the next step instead of getting overwhelmed by your perception of the total journey.  Attaining the creative state of relaxed enthusiasm.

Unit 11- Enjoying and Sharing The Harvest

Gratefully and humbly enjoying the harvest.  Learning to live more fully in the present moment by continual training of your attention.  Learning to be more fully present with people in your life.  Sharing the harvest instead of hoarding it- understanding the principle of circulation as vital to life. 

Unit 12- Inspiring Others and Committing to Lifelong Improvement

Learning how to share what you've learned in a way that people will accept it and you instead of reject you or resent you.  Learning what it means to be a consecrated gardener and committing yourself to lifelong improvement through the upward spiral of learning and teaching.  A final summary of all the key principles covered throughout the course.  Finally you re-take the original Self Assessment Test in Unit 1 and get your "New Baseline" score.  This will give you a quantifiable "progress" score of your journey so far.  It is NOT your final score- because there is no such thing- it is just your new baseline- from which you will continue to grow and develop as you continue to use all your newly gained (or rather uncovered) tools. 

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If any of this grabs your attention and captures your curiosity- then act on it right now and enroll in the Sunflower Experiment. You'll be investing in the most important thing you could ever invest in- Your Self. This could be your first lesson in learning to listen to and follow your Inner Guidance. If you are feeling excited and curious and somehow "guided" to having found this- DON'T IGNORE THOSE FEELINGS! Doing so is what has and will continue to keep you from becoming the amazing, deliberately creative gardener of your life that you really can be. Resisting Inner Guidance and letting the so called "rational" mind (which is really the ego) talk you out of what your heart urges you to do might feel safer, but it leads to mediocrity.

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