FLO Conscious Living

This project describes mental models and practical tools that support healthy living with conscious presence and compassion.

Conscious Living (CL) is rooted in healthy intuition, mindfulness, intention, and reflection. CL involves bringing attention to thoughts and sensations; responding with healthy and appropriate decisions; and continually reviewing in a virtuous cycle of learning and evolving.

Free/Libre/Open (FLO) values

In order to highlight the most important ideas and avoid noise and clutter, this project aims to curate, adapt, and synthesize different concepts from all sorts of sources into a holistic structure.

As a Free/Libre/Open (FLO) project, everything can continually evolve, anyone can participate, and there are no artificial barriers to accessing, using, modifying, and sharing these resources.

As you read, consider the adage of leaving a place better than you found it. Whenever and wherever you have questions or confusion or see room for improvements, additions, translations, or any other adaptations, we welcome you to collaborate with us.

Prefaces

• Can CL Save the World?
• CL and the Limits of Paradigms

Essential CL overviews

• Conscious Living and Healthy Intuitions
• Attune-Resolve-Review

CL Principles

• Attuning
  • Attention
    • Context vs Content
      Common contexts [click to expand]

      • Feelings
        • Constriction & Expansion
      • Stories
        • Dramatic-Triangles
      • Style
        Various forms of style [click to expand]

        • General Attitudes
        • Thinking Styles
          • Modeling Styles
        • Language Styles
        • [Voice, tone, and music]
        • [Kinesthetic styles]
        • [Visual styles]
        • Media Styles
        • [Task, tool, and design styles]
        • [Social-organizing styles]
      • Metaphors
        • The Stream Metaphor
        • Reflection
      • [Freedom]
      • [Perspective and scale]
      • [Paradigm]

• Resolving
  • Healthy & Appropriate (Prope)
    • Commitments [click to expand]

      • [Presence]
        • Consciousness and Acceptance
        • Observation, Interpretation, and Imagination
        • Mindfulness
        • Non-dual Awareness
      • [Responsibility]
      • [Curiosity]
      • [Integrity]
      • [Love & Compassion]
      • [Vitality]

• Reviewing
  • [Memory]
    • [Habits and unconscious]

CL Practice

• [Resolution tools and procedures]
• [Reminders]

FLO-CL Project History

• CLG to CL
• CHANGELOG

FLO-CL Project Development

• Contributing guide
• FLO-CL project style-guide

Authors and sources

Except where marked otherwise, the files here (so far) were developed by Aaron Wolf and Praveen Venkataramana. Among many sources, the most notable is the Conscious Leadership Group. See AUTHORS-SOURCES.md for further details.

Note on point-of-view and pronouns: The writing tends to use first-person plural "we". In some cases, "we" means the authors. More often, "we" means both authors and readers or more broadly "we people" (as in everyone in the world).

License

Files in the main branch here are under the terms of CC BY-SA, the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike International License v4.0. This is the most common Free/Libre/Open (FLO) license for non-software (non-code) projects and is the license used by Wikipedia.

The following is an informal summary:

"BY" means attribution, retaining the author's name (as identified on the work or noted in instructions where published) and usually a reference URL for accessing the original work. For this project, attribution should credit "FLO Conscious Living" and always link to https://codeberg.org/FLO-Conscience/Conscious-Living (though that link may be updated in the future, and then credits may also get updated though updating is not required).

"SA" means share-alike, which requires that any sharing of the work must keep the same CC BY-SA license, passing on the freedoms to others. This requirement applies to both simple redistribution and to adaptations (which should be clearly marked as modified).

Besides those requirements, anyone is free to use, adapt, and share any and all of the work in any context.

Community and conduct

While anyone can discuss CL in whatever contexts or groups, we have a dedicated community space in the Matrix.org system (a FLO chat protocol) at https://matrix.to/#/#conscious-living:matrix.org (within an existing Matrix client, you only need the #conscious-living:matrix.org part). There, we have public rooms: one to discuss CL concepts and another to discuss using CL in practice (actual life situations and so on). Participants can also set up private rooms for one-on-one or small group discussion.

As with all online communication, we urge everyone to use appropriate caution in discussing anything personal and sensitive.

The Code of Conscious Conduct applies to all communication and interactions around the FLO-CL project.

Note on safety and getting professional support

The CL concepts explore the full range of life experiences. Some of us may face challenges that are unsafe to work on without help. At each moment in our lives, we can consider whether to study and practice in private or with a group or with guidance from a coach/counselor/therapist/etc. May the CL concepts themselves prompt us in making the best choices.

The CL concepts are not certified by any authorities, and there are no guarantees about experiences or results. Everyone remains responsible for approaching these ideas with care. When in doubt, please get appropriate assistance.

When seeking support, we encourage careful consideration and due diligence, evaluating risks and costs. Although professional certification cannot guarantee someone as an appropriate guide, it does assure that they have completed a regimin of relevant study and training, and it can include legal fiduciary requirements (the duty to act in the interests of clients, unless doing so threatens anyone's basic safety).