SQ Education Level 2

Global Conference on Education & Teaching June 2021, Vienna, Austria Historically, the education system has been focused primarily on developing IQ, or intellectual intelligence. IQ manages facts and information, using logic and rational analysis. Less time and attention is given in schools to developing EQ skills. EQ is emotional intelligence, which is necessary to feel [...]

The Meaning of the Word “Yoga” The Meaning of the word “Yoga” is “to join” or “to yoke” or ‘to unite”. The definition of Yoga as “union” is associated more precisely with the union between the individual and the divine. Different Types of Yoga There are a number of different types of Yoga: Hatha Yoga [...]

Business is changing. Business practices that don’t serve a higher purpose beyond generating profits are being left behind, as more people “shop with their values.” This radical shift in the way business is done requires a new type of leader and a new type of organisation for a sustainable future. The new type of leader [...]

Spiritual intelligence is emerging as a new paradigm of intelligence, with applications in numerous fields. The top ten features of spiritual intelligence are summarised below. Top Ten Features of Spiritual Intelligence 1. Secular Spirituality As an innate dimension of intelligence, SQ represents a secular form of spirituality that everyone can access. SQ methodology is a [...]

Mindfulness Today Mindfulness is widely used as a form of meditation. One of the advantages of Mindfulness is that it can be easily used in the workplace without interfering with work activities. This is an advantage that Mindfulness shares with Spiritual Intelligence. Mindfulness and Spiritual Intelligence have much in common, but there are also significant [...]

Contemporary Spirituality The spiritual intelligence paradigm is based on a synthesis that integrates science and spirituality, and thus enables spiritual intelligence to be experienced directly, as an innate capability, without resort to religious beliefs. The SQ paradigm therefore legitimises spirituality in contemporary secular terms [1]. Beyond Theism Spiritual intelligence identifies with the inherent qualities of consciousness itself, which [...]

Human Identity Human identity is commonly assumed to be single and indivisible. However, on closer inspection of lived experience, it becomes evident that human identity has two fundamental and distinct domains: object-pole identity and subject-pole identity. These two poles of human identity are otherwise known as body-mind identity and existential identity which corresponds respectively to [...]

Spiritual Psychology Spiritual psychology belongs to the field of transpersonal psychology [1], which developed from earlier schools of psychology, including psychoanalysis [2], and humanistic psychology [3]. Transpersonal psychology formulates new concepts, based on evidence, to describe and integrate spiritual experiences [4] within modern psychological theory. Ego and Soul Spiritual psychology identifies the soul as the existential self, in [...]

Ego The ego is identified with the thinking mind at the object-pole of attention, which confines awareness to habits of thought and emotion. The mission of the ego is to seek satisfaction from experiences at the object-pole of attention. Regardless of the particular thoughts and emotions of the moment, whether pleasant or unpleasant, the ego’s constant search is based on [...]

Attention This video illustrates an important fact about attention. Attention is selective. We notice some things and we don’t notice others. We particularly notice things we expect to find. But we tend not to notice things we don’t expect to find. This fact has many important implications. Chief among them, in connection with the topic [...]

“We will not cease from exploration, and at the end of all our exploring we will arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” – T.S. Eliot First Pavement Walking home from the train station one night after work, I paused at the traffic lights and waited till they changed to let me cross the road. This was an [...]

What Spirituality Isn’t A popular notion about spirituality, widely held among members of the general public, as well as by some spiritual practitioners themselves, is that being “spiritual” is all about the ability to tune into the unseen world, the metaphysical or esoteric dimension of reality. However, spirituality is not essentially about being sensitive to subtle or esoteric levels of [...]