The Enlightened Response by Ross Page Create the life you want - moment to moment, choice by choice ISBN 0-9542630-0-6

Warning: This book could seriously damage your erroneous perceptions of life. Only buy it if you think you can handle being continually happy

“The Enlightened Response is a DIY Life Coaching manual. It is a down-to-earth, practical approach to getting the best out of our lives.”
Lynn Hitchcock, Grant Hitchcock Associates

Up-side: This book could change your life for the better.

Down-side: Umm... can't actually think of a downside!

What's it all about?
Of course now we're going to tell you why this is a great book. More objective readers' views follow this next brief section.

Our view: The Enlightened Response is a life coaching book packed with meditation techniques, stress management ideas and goal-setting tips.

We ask children to choose Enlightened Responses when we plead with them to 'think before they act'. We expect our doctors to prescribe Enlightened Responses based on objective diagnosis of our symptoms. We hope that our leaders will choose Enlightened Responses, based on awareness of the facts, before they spend our taxes or plunge us into war. We can all become life coaches in our own lives through careful and objective observation, heightened awareness of reality, vibrant visions of our future and judicious choice of Enlightened Responses.

The Enlightened Response is about awareness and personal power; about learning to seize those moments, just before we make decisions or take action. Every second of every day presents yet another opportunity to choose responses that can bring us success in all facets of our lives - in business or pleasure, home or office, training course or golf course.

REACTION IS HABITUAL RESPONSE IS EFFECTIVE ENLIGHTENED RESPONSE IS POWERFUL AND CREATIVE

So why choose Enlightened Responses?

They can help you:

Understanding this one simple process can change your life forever:

Self Observation

Awareness

Creative Expectation

Enlightened Responses

Reading this book would be a really enlightened response.

A more objective view of this book

Readers Comments, Reviews and Press Releases

Julie Townsend, Brighton
I found the book very difficult to put down !!! I just had to keep reading. There was so much in there that I have taken forward and now use in my everyday life. It was incredibly thought provoking and just made complete sense to me. I have utilised what I gained from this book both in my personal life and in the business arena.

Additionally, I am currently studying to be a Life Coach and the book has also aided my studies immensely. Best £10.00 I've ever spent!!

Carl Sims, Namaste Magazine
Immeasurable damage has been done to both our inner and outer worlds by a culture where materialism reigns supreme. The Enlightened Response offers us practical tools for increasing our awareness, assisting us to relearn that we can consciously choose the way in which we interact with the world and our fellow inhabitants. The first step is to get to know ourselves – who we really are - enabling fulfilment of the true potential within each and every one of us. The Enlightened Response will take to you to a new level of understanding. An essential read for the rapidly changes times in which we live.

Tina Darby, Institute of Development Studies, UK
I have read the book and immediately used it in a 'Self Discovery' workshop where we explored habitual behaviour and the power of 'enlightened responses'. So in terms of its practicability (from a facilitator's view) and its readability (with and without supporting training) it’s a winner in my eyes!

Becky Vaughan, West Sussex
"When you know you are human but you've forgotten you are also divine, this book is a gentle reminder of how to keep a cool head and make choices from the heart.”

Leatham Green, Head of Organisational Development, ESCC
'It is always exciting when you come across someone or something that changes your view of life. To describe Ross and this book insuch a way, is no exaggeration.'

PRESS RELEASE – Lynn Hitchcock, Grant Hitchcock Associates
Have you ever said the wrong thing? Are you too busy to stand still for just a moment to listen to the birds singing in the trees? Are you disappointed when it rains in April?

Perhaps, you need The Enlightened Response.

The Enlightened Response is a DIY Life Coaching manual. It is a down-to-earth, practical approach to getting the best out of our lives. It encourages us, through careful observation of ourselves, the world around us and each other, to have more realistic, less disappointing expectations and to choose more positive, more ‘enlightened’ responses. It shows us how to learn to accept responsibility for our own behaviour towards others, and to change the self-centred, habitual or reflex reactions that have been so deeply ingrained. No two people are alike and no two people will have shared exactly the same experiences. Ross Page shows us how to become more aware of this basic fact and to use this to be more tolerant in our relationships.

‘My relationship with you, is in me, not in you’ - Ross Page in The Enlightened Response

Ross Page is a man who has travelled the world and has truly experienced life. This easy to follow book, and the suite of dynamic, personal development workshops also available, are a culmination of his own personal and professional experiences developed to help others create the lives they dream of.

Now, you have a choice:

• don’t read The Enlightened Response
• read it but ignore it
• read it and begin to enrich your own life.

Snippets and quotes from The Enlightened Response

Self Observation or Meditation?
Left to their own devices our thoughts will often feel a need to classify themselves either positive or negative; bounce back and forth, comparing themselves with the past and postulating about the future, and cap it off with an habitual reaction.

Practising Self Observation will teach us to be more objective and enable us to stand back momentarily and make enlightened decisions i.e. decisions made with a clearer understanding of the way our thought processes work. The resultant responses are more likely to be ones we have chosen, not those forced upon us by routine or custom.

For the purpose of clarity I will be using the term Self Observation in this book as a generic term to cover any form of Mind Stilling, Thought Focus, Meditation, Visualisation, except of course when quoting another source or discussing a particular method which falls under the Self Observation heading.

One method
I will offer ONE (and only one) simple and important technique to learn and practise, and then suggest fifty ways, and thousands of variations, for using it in our daily lives.

In brief:
‘Objective observation, of self and by self, will build awareness, reduce judgement, increase happiness and allow us to pause momentarily before choosing Enlightened Responses.’

Stress
'We stress ourselves more about what 'has happened' and what 'might happen' than what 'is happening'; and w e make the world and the weather and other people responsible for our stress. But have you ever noticed that when we point the finger of blame, there are actually another three fingers pointing back at us? It would seem a fair indication of where that blame lies!'

Happiness
'Happiness is a state of mind and not a product of circumstance'

Understanding
'Understanding is only a perception and bears little resemblance to reality.'

Thinking and Philosophy
'Our thoughts govern our lives. Therefore we can change our lives by simply changing our thoughts.'

Results
'The results I create are only part of the definition of who I really am. As part of my humanness I will have results that will be varied in their measurable value, including their quality, effectiveness and their impact on others. Will every new result define a new me? No, I am who I think I am and the results I produce from those thoughts are only part of what I do.'

Setting Goals
Monitoring progress towards our goals is of critical importance if we are to maintain momentum. Any tool or device we employ to achieve this aim should answer certain questions to be of practical use. Here are the questions I ask myself:

• What is the target?
• How far is it?
• How will I know when I have reached it? (and therefore when can I celebrate?)
• What are the measurable steps along the way where I can pat myself on the back for making progress?
• Can I do it?
• Do I want to do it?
• What’s in it for me?
• Will I like doing it?

Read The Enlightened Response and begin to enrich your life.

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