My Precious.........!

The snivelling and scrabbling Gollum in Lord of the Rings portrayed a lost twisted and tortured being unlike any other in a movie by my reckoning. His utter addiction and compulsion to the power of the ring was depicted so powerfully that it was an almost iconic characterisation of those qualities...."my precious!!!"

Gollum had lost himself to his pursuits, he had truly been overwhelmed, overtaken and over ridden by the want and need for the awesome power of the ring, his obsession. He had transposed his precious self for the precious ring and had forgone and forgotten his precious self along the way.

I have had several encounters this week where I was deeply reminded of our precious selves. I don't mean precious in the "don't be so precious with yourself" sense, a very unfair statement anyway (why wouldn't we be?!) rather how often do we contemplate on our precious sense of self. Stress in my approach is often rooted in and increased by our own self alienation. The distance and separation we experience from our heartfelt true nature is expressed in unease, tension and loneliness.

Being alone is one thing, being lonely another. How often we feel lonely in life. Disconnected from the warm embrace of self acceptance and love. As we pass our precious selves over to business structure, relationships and activity we feel stressed and lonely. Integrating and informing all areas of life with a strong resonant sense of precious self is at the heart of self leadership where as much as possible, we are......"MY PRECIOUS!!"

Dan