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“Take one step backward into the unknown.”
– Adyashanti
All talk of moving forward -- toward your vision, toward what you want to accomplish – will now be interrupted. Offering a splendid interruption like a suspended motion, to allow you to be…in suspense.
– Adyashanti
All talk of moving forward -- toward your vision, toward what you want to accomplish – will now be interrupted. Offering a splendid interruption like a suspended motion, to allow you to be…in suspense.
Charise’s Turn:
We recently had ten “Days of Awe” that began with the Jewish
New Year of Rosh Hashanah. According
to Jerome Rosen, a coaching colleague, this is “10
days to be encouraged to see the aweness everywhere and to reflect on what has
passed and to embrace the coming year.” Whether you follow this tradition or not, it offers inspiration.
The first inspiration for me was
hearing the word “aweness", which isn’t a dictionary word, but resonates with
the feeling state of awe. I wanted
to experience that feeling state, let it permeate. In the spirit of a coaching
prompt, I gave myself an assignment to contemplate and write down one thing
a day that awes me, for ten days.
Such an act of contemplation is not like going on a
retreat; but in the midst of my daily routine I stayed keenly attuned to my surroundings, to
what appeared, to my own attentiveness. I was giving importance to receptivity and to my inner engagement with
the world. More yin for my yang, you could say. When you’re in this mode, it’s
easy to be surprised. On the last day of the ten days, my
web designer called to say, “your site is live!" .
Get Fired Up:
Being fired up is usually about expansion – moving outward,
yang energy.
How about a quieter fire -- one that draws in, one that welcomes the world to pull up a chair to your hearth, to your creative spirit?
“Seeing the aweness everywhere…” is not something that comes to me naturally. If left to my own inclination, I am a doubter and see darkness more than the light. I am grateful for messages from the universe to see the love and light. The “Days of Awe” are also about ‘teshuva”, which literally means return. I embrace it as the the inward turning toward the Source of wisdom and strength. Thank you, Charise, for bringing contemplation into our exchange.
ReplyDeleteOm shanti,
Jerome