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The MythoSelf Process: a licensed NLP trainer, Joseph Riggio discussed the transformational MythoSelf Process with Richard Beaumont. It is a complex system to explain but in essence it speaks of a series of internal mythologies we all live, without being conscious of them. It holds out a promise that once we become conscious of them, we can live at 'our best' at all times.

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One can never accurately predict how any interview will pan out. Expectations are either met or not, and on the day, in the moment, the conversation often hurtles off into unknown territory. Occasionally there are radical surprises--my meeting with Joseph Riggio was certainly one of those times. I had planned an interview/ filming session of around an hour and a half. It was five and a half hours later when I left inspired after much smiling, laughter and shaking of hands with talk of further work in the future.

Riggio is a charismatic being, full of acute observations and in possession of a razor sharp mind. Interviewing him was highly stimulating and took me onto new and valuable ground that enabled me to see the world afresh, something of a novelty having seen so many people and paths during nearly 18 years of running Kindred Spirit with all the weird and wonderful topics we've investigated.

He is the founder of The MythoSelf Process. His website carries claims that would make most of us blink rapidly with immediate doubt: for example, 'The MythoSelf Process begins with the discovery of who you are and how you are, at your very best--we've all had those days when we wake up and the world has organized itself so that you have what could only be described as a perfect day--when you are beyond all sense of limitation or constraint. The MythoSelf Process goes beyond waiting and hoping for a day like this "to just happen". Instead, by learning how you are on days like this, on perfect days, you can recreate them and have them whenever you choose--anywhere, any time--regardless of the circumstance.'

The Hero's Journey

Central to the MythoSelf Process is being able to move to a position where one can operate from the centre of one's being. For Riggio this transformational journey is organized around the 'Hero's Journey'--a term coined by Joseph Campbell, the world's foremost authority on mythology. All mythology, Campbell tells us, is the movement from a state of dependence to a state of independence and finally building to a state of interdependence. It is the quintessential human journey. From birth each of us is born dependent and we each struggle to establish our own independence through adolescence to adulthood. Then, if we remain on our own...

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