7 Qualities of The Expansive Mindset

As we undergo transformation, heal suffering and engage again with more vision and purpose, we find ourselves using a mindset that is unlike anything we've witnessed before. Welcome to the expansive mindset.

What are some of its qualities?

1. Ability to transform resistance: This is the key to being able to access the expansive mindset; our ability to relax our tension and anxieties, to surrender and transform suffering. Unlike the notion of Traditional Enlightenment which is pure surrender and letting go of that which holds us back, the surrender in the expansive mindset has the capacity to transform resistance in the moment - kinda like surrender in action.
2. New levels of identity, vision and purpose: Traditional Enlightenment dissolves our motive for participation so the expansive mindset asks; how can I re-engage from a space of meaning and purpose through my new identity which is part of my vision? Who am I, what am I here to do and say, and how can I participate from a meaningful perspective?
3. Mastering increasing complexity: I refer to complexity in this context not only from a diversity perspective, but also from an integration perspective. As we move up the levels of psychological development, we move from simplicity to complexity. So to what extent can we hold more perspectives (diversity) as well as integrate these perspectives for greater understanding? Diversity without integration results in chaos and integration without diversity results in a narrow vision.
4. Relevance: the idea of relevance is subject to context. Therefore any form of mastery in the realm of relevance has to do with a solid understanding of what's going on around us. This includes knowledge of systems, structures, environments as well as where people themselves are coming from (perspective). There's no ways we can begin to be relevant without first understanding the challenges we face in the present moment as well as to an extent, how we got here, and what we need to do to get there.
5. Cooperation: in the expansive mindset there's a shift from competition to cooperation. There's a shift from adversarial thinking based on limit and how do I control others to get what I want, to how do I work with others to create what I want. When we've relaxed the tension around our need to "get," developed a sense of identity, vision and purpose, then there's simply no one to be in competition with because no one can say or do what you can do. How can you work with others to develop your unique talents?
6. Community: through this type of cooperation are we able to form communities where we can give of our gifts, and help each other to realize our full potentials. The age of ascent has been grounded in the idea that there's something wrong for which we have to work furiously to put right. Societies have become more and more fragment as a result. The expansive mindset works at reengaging with community with a tribal consciousness flavor but more intentionally and purposefully.
7. Trail and error: the traditional concept of evolution has been to arrive at that perfect state without any acknowledgement of the messiness of the process. The creative process is littered with corpses of all the failed cosmic experiments. Looking back we don't see the landscape of littered corpses because they're not there. How many light bulbs did Thomas Edison make before arriving at the right one - 990 or something. The point is that the expansive mindset understands the creative process is one of trail and error, so arriving at a process that works is going to be messy.

What are your views on these qualities of the expansive mindset, and do you have any other ideas to add to the expansive list?