What’s REALLY within your control and what are you doing about it?
Monday February 23rd 2009, 4:03 pm
Filed under: Perspectives in Brief

Are you paying attention to what’s unfolding?  I call it “Walking in your own Shadow”

As a Shadow Coach and teacher of Shadow Coaching I have to be doubly aware of what I do in order to be able to put words around reality and reproduce models, snapshots in time or contextual insights so they can be repeated. I need to articulate what I do in such a way others can almost reach out and touch it.

When you can learn those concepts of mindfulness, those dynamics are present and awareness sinks in. You will not only learn how to go deeper and wider in the dynamics of working with others but your self-awareness or walking in your own shadows will increase as well.

That’s what happens in every realm of life, isn’t it? Every day someone might say something about which you have no clue and if you pay attention and your interest is piqued, you will be eager to learn more. If you do let that happen there won’t be a day where you won’t grow and learn and become even more masterful in your role. If you don’t pay attention to anything other than what you already know, you will be having a conversation of the deaf.

Paying attention creates interdevelopmentalism. Doing something with that seed or idea that’s planted can simply be magical. If your relationships aren’t interdevelopmental then you’re looking at your world from a position of someone who knows it all. Do you?  Will you ever know it all?

If we were more mindful of everything as it unfolded and let go of the control of what we think we want before it happened, life would go in a totally different direction. We would learn more, grow more, meet people we hadn’t intended to meet and evolve on a totally different plane.

We would evolve period. Control ensures stagnation. Awareness opens the world to possibility. Which sounds better to you?  This is the time to strengthen relationships, network more and see what’s unfolding in the world that you haven’t been paying attention to.  In my last newsletter I asked you the ramifications questions.  If you don’t expand your world consciously and continuously it will start contracting. Such is the way of the world, especially as we get older.

I’ll leave you with this…

“When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds; your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be” - .Patanjali (c. 1st to 3rd century BC)

With deepest respect,
Donna Karlin
Founder and Principal
A Better Perspective
ISSN 1913-6307

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