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The name Enteleos means "the completion within." The Enteleos Method quickly transforms limiting emotions into powerful inner states of wholeness. These inner states are signposts to your deepest fulfillment. From here you move forward with a visceral, tangible pull that is irresistible because it is so deeply and authentically your own. Enteleos appeals to smart people who have emotions that interfere with their success, who don't want therapy or medication. Work with me in one-on-one sessions over the phone. In twelve hours or less you will clear the old limitations and launch into your future with purpose and clarity, knowing exactly what comes next. Ask me about my "human parity" fee schedule. Want to know more? Read the other pages on this site and follow this blog. (Better yet, contact me directly and let's talk!)
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 11:58PM | Joe Shirley 
We are material bodies in a material world, and our consciousness is built upon this engagement with stuff. Come on a tour of substances for a few feeling states, and reflect on what it means that feeling is grounded in such a tangible foundation.
Friday, October 30, 2009 at 8:56PM | Joe Shirley 
In this second episode of Enteleos Moments, we take a leisurely (14 minutes) tour through the varieties of anger. Take a peek into the inner world of a dozen people's experience of anger through the somatosensory insight practice. You'll be surprised at the diversity. And you'll appreciate just how limited our conventional language is when it faces the task of conveying the unique nuances of individual feeling experience. An eye opener.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 6:48PM | Joe Shirley 
In this, the first Enteleos Moment, we take an inside look at the feeling mind by visiting one woman's experience of "Should." She is a yoga teacher starting out in her career, and the harsh judgment of this feeling kept her off balance, always thinking she wasn't good enough, wasn't doing enough, and had no business teaching what she loved because there were so many ways teaching SHOULD happen.
Sunday, October 18, 2009 at 11:56AM | Joe Shirley We humans are smart. We have been asking good questions about human nature, about the experience of life, about consciousness, for many thousands of years. In all that time we've discovered a lot.
Saturday, October 17, 2009 at 9:34PM | Joe Shirley I woke up in the summer of 1979 as I turned 20, reading Dostoyevsky. I was struck by the knowledge that the human world I inhabited was false, off track. In contrast to the ubiquitous pain I had experienced in my own life and saw everywhere around me, (including in the novels I was reading), I had an intuitive understanding of some higher truth that exposed this suffering as a colossal mistake. I couldn't articulate my perspective but felt it deeply.
This incongruity between my intuition and the evidence around me has driven me throughout my adult life. I didn't realize until 30 years later that this core mismatch dates back to my infancy. I was born to toxically dysfunctional parents who were together only because of my existence. The suffering surrounding me was hell, and I knew somehow I was responsible for its existence. Without me, they wouldn't be together, she wouldn't be enslaved, he wouldn't be abusing, I wouldn't be burdened by a melancholy so heavy it poisoned every waking moment.
Monday, September 28, 2009 at 3:10PM | Joe Shirley Here's how Somatosensory Insight works:
You turn your attention to the inner sensation of the feeling that's in your way. Then, led by highly-structured questions, you identify a tangible, sensory image representing the sensation, with qualities of texture, color, and temperature. It's as if you are taking a vivid X-Ray of what you're feeling.
Next, you invite that image to transform, again led by clear, structured questions. In just a few minutes you experience a unique state of wholeness, resourcefulness, power, or clarity. This is your future, fulfilled self calling to you.
Here's an example. The feeling "Untrusted Self" became "Inner Source."
Method Friday, September 25, 2009 at 5:46PM | Joe Shirley I know a little something about the experience of intense emotion. Seen as a “moody” child, I grew up with deep resentments, hatred, and despair alternating with moments of great hope and grandiose ambition. My life had two phases: at school I was the brilliant golden boy voted “most likely to succeed.” At home I was a “jackass” who couldn’t do anything right. The daily alternation warped me, I suppose. I went off to college, burned bright for the first two years, but crashed after a junior year abroad that sent me over a precipice I never saw coming and never named until seven years later.
By that time, 1987, the diagnosis of bipolar disorder was almost a relief. Perhaps the mess of my life had a cause. Maybe it wasn’t my fault.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009 at 3:40PM | Joe Shirley In The Enteleos Shift, we discover that our challenges and conflicts contain within them the seeds of a future flourishing. We access this compelling future by turning our attention to the deep wisdom of the feeling mind.
By “listening” with feeling, using a practice of somatosensory insight to bring feeling into tangible relief, we gain a precision and power which was previously inaccessible to the feeling mind. This skill enables us to surface the deeper impulse within every part of us and reveal its ulterior, positive intention. We discover that every feeling, mood, impulse, motivation, thought pattern, and behavior seeks wholeness. We discover that every part of us contains the seeds of its future destiny as a complete, fulfilled being.
By nurturing these seeds and inviting our future selves to take root today, we gain access to guidance from our highest destiny. We find ease in moving through life, power in the actions we take, grace in our relations with others. We learn to trust the deeper pulse of our own souls and to effectively shape and express the our destiny into being through the choices we make in our everyday lives.
What kind of world would it be if all of us had easy and natural access to this?
Tuesday, September 15, 2009 at 1:12PM | Joe Shirley March 1980, Arthur’s Seat overlooking the city at 2 am.
I come here often, striding the massive hill at all hours of the night. These days I am sleeping only every other day because I crave the fugue state that overtakes me on my nights awake. This night, I have been reading Teilhard de Chardin’s Phenomenon of Man and am captivated by his idea of the noosphere, a kind of global consciousness transcendent and integrative of ordinary, unitary consciousness. I feel I am on to something big, sensing insights just across the divide waiting for me to reach out and bring them home.