Unique Personal Process

When I work with a client we spend a good amount of time really looking at how they view the world, their business and their relationships. We move from detailing the facts, the information, to feeling and how their emotions are involved. What all of this then means tops the process and allows for a thorough investigation of any situation.

In and amongst the findings there are often a lot of hopes and expectations that are unstated, not considered or plain hidden. These can act as little sub routines that affect our mood, connections and performance. Once a person has spotted or uncovered what they habitually tend to do in certain situations and how that behaviour ellicits certain responses they can start in awareness to respond and approach situations accordingly and appropriately.

This is a sort of curation, a process of digging out deeply held beliefs and drivers and checking if in principle they are serving us and others in the context of our lives.

Dan

Cat like

Ok, I need to move today, I need to get physical, do something that fits the bill, hits the spot, scratches the itch. I feel like I need to get lighter, fresher, looser and energised. I want to create some openess in my back, some solidity in my legs and really get my breathing deep and full.

On days like these I usually do my chi kung. I practise a five animal spontaneous chi kung that is a free form healing chi kung. I've practised this for fifteen years now and it has been an injunction that never fails to balance me out, preserve my health and leave me more creative.

Finding an activity to work at the physical subtle level of our body is foundational to my self leadership coaching approach, it's here that we experience stillness, movement, energy and play. So often these elements are lost in the seriousness of the "burden" that can so easily become a reality.

So, like a cat waking up and finding exactly the right balancing moves, what will you do today that enlivens, envigorates and encourages your spark, your life-force?

Dan

Sitting

When sitting, sit. A Zen dude said that. So let's try it. Just sit. Be, sitting. Don't add, don't comment, don't analyse. Sit. Three little letters. Something happens when we sit. We notice we can't stop sounds, thoughts, breathing, cars, wind, gurgles, fidgets, panic. What a cacophony!

Sit for a little longer. Allow. Open. Feel the impulse to stand, think, speak, comment. Sit some more. Sink into simple sitting. Doesn't mean anything. Doesn't do anything. Doesn't add anything. Just sit. See how everything happens within your sitting, even you.

Dan