Explore the Amazing Potential of your SQ

 

 

Spiritual Intelligence

 

Spiritual intelligence is an innate dimension of intelligence with immense benefits.

 

Benefits of SQ

 

•  feel greater fulfilment 

•  find deeper meaning and purpose 

•  turn negative into positive thoughts & emotions

•  employ your full resources and be your best in any situation

•  wisdom  •  compassion  •  integrity  •  joy  •  love  •  creativity  •  peace

•  help others and improve society by using a higher dimension of your intelligence

 

Results of SQ

 

SQ regulates IQ and EQ with wisdom, compassion, integrity, joy, love, creativity, and peace. Spiritual intelligence thus increases personal fulfilment, improves your performance, and motivates altruism and social responsibility. When SQ is exercised on a community-wide scale, new norms are created and society is thus transformed, as governments are repurposed and corporations are reformed, according to spiritually intelligent principles. SQ therefore results in cooperation, tolerance, and peace between people at the individual level, and between different groups in society, and between different cultures and nations. Consequently, spiritual intelligence represents the necessary and sufficient means of individual and collective transformation.

 

Secular Methodology

 

The experience of spiritual intelligence is based not on religious faith, but on secular principles derived from scientific research. This video provides a brief introduction to the methodology.

Dimensions of Intelligence

 

At the beginning of the scientific study of intelligence in the early 20th century, the definition of intelligence was restricted to intellectual intelligence (IQ). This narrow definition of intelligence prevailed until the mid 1980’s, when emotional intelligence (EQ) was identified as another dimension of intelligence of equal, or even greater, importance. Recent advances in psychology and neuroscience identified spiritual intelligence (SQ) as a further dimension of intelligence that is even more significant. SQ governs IQ and EQ, and is therefore the senior dimension of intelligence.

 

Science of SQ

 

Spiritual intelligence is not based on religious faith. SQ is an innate capability that everyone can use without relying on religious beliefs. The scientific evidence for spiritual intelligence is based on a synthesis of findings from different fields of research, including cognitive psychology, psychoanalysis, transpersonal psychology, and neuroscience. Universities worldwide study the SQ paradigm and its many applications. At Oxford University for example, SQ is the core of the Strategic Leadership Program. SQ training is also used in the workplace to improve job satisfaction and raise productivity.

SQ and the Brain

 

SQ is distinct from IQ and EQ neurologically. IQ and EQ are primarily localised in opposite hemispheres, whereas SQ is associated with hemispheric synchronisation and whole-brain activation at the same frequency. The SQ neural frequency thus combines part-brain functions from both hemispheres into the integrated field of the whole brain, which represents the same brain state underlying meditation and the experience of presence. SQ capability is therefore hard-wired in the human brain. However, conscious exercise of attention is required to engage SQ, except when SQ occurs spontaneously.

 

How to experience SQ

 

Spiritual intelligence is easy to experience. We all experience SQ spontaneously at times. But spontaneous moments of SQ are rare, and they usually occur at random. Therefore it’s important to know how to experience SQ intentionally. When you can experience your SQ voluntarily, at any time and in any circumstances, you convert your spiritual intelligence from a random fleeting experience into your most valuable personal resource. This video provides step-by-step instructions on how to activate SQ intentionally.

SQ Education Program

 

The SQ Institute provides education and training in spiritual intelligence, for health professionals, educators, trainers, coaches, and the general public. For more information about SQ education courses, please visit this page about the SQ Education Program.

 

SQ Webinar

 

You are invited to a free webinar on the secular principles underlying spiritual intelligence. Also included in the webinar is an outline of the SQ Practitioner Training Course. For more details about the content of the webinar, and to book your place at the next webinar, please go here.

Why “Q”?

Why is “SQ” the abbreviation for spiritual intelligence rather than “SI”? The letter “Q” stands for “quotient” which means amount or score. Thus IQ means your intellectual intelligence quotient, or your IQ score. Similarly, EQ means your emotional intelligence quotient, and SQ means your spiritual intelligence quotient. Usually the term “SQ” is read simply as “spiritual intelligence”, leaving the word “quotient” unsaid.