"Real fearlessness is the product of tenderness. It comes from letting the world tickle your heart, your raw and beautiful heart. You are willing to open up, without resistance or shyness, and face the world. You are willing to share your heart with others." - Chogyam Trungpa, Shambala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior
Fear of vulnerability is one of the main obstacles to inner freedom. Part of the fear is internal, a message that there is something wrong with us if we show emotion. Part...
It's been almost a year since the thread of a possible retreat design began forming. Since then, I've been leaning into parts only to finding myself shutting down and distancing from them when the frustration that things weren’t progressing started to set in.
Essentially, I was getting frustrated with myself for the lack of progress, as I had given myself a personal deadline to create the retreat, and I wasn't meeting it. I started questioning my abilities and readiness and then...
It is morning and here I am trying to get up and get on with my day. Like the past couple of days, today is another early start, with little-to-no sleep. I try to get myself out of bed, and with all my attempts, it feels like my body isn’t ready. I tried to negotiate with it. Giving it time, but it's not working. I lean in and ask it, "what do you need to wake up?" What I heard isn’t what I wanted to and yet was not surprising. My body responded “I need you to...
Our movements and the way we hold ourselves are strong indicators to our perception of ourselves, the world and our subsequent behaviour. The postures and movements that we do regularly become ingrained. They become our patterns and the filtered lens through which we experience the world. We are all operating our patterns all the time. It feels comfortable and familiar, it feels like home. So we think that sitting or moving a certain way is natural, when in fact it is merely habitual....
The distance we live from our body is the distance we live from our self, from our emotional reality.
In the socially manufactured separation of spirit and biology the capacity to feel and sense has been lost. conscience, self-refection, historical memory, imagination, compassion, intuition, energy, and a spiritual truth are less accessible to us when our ability to feel has been trimmed from us. this leads to innumerable problems, including difficulty in building trust, working...
Dignity of life is what we need more of to care, connect and open
The elbow bump has become the new ‘hello’. A wave from afar, the new handshake. We’re living through a time where a simple trip out to the supermarket now involves face masks, gloves, hand-washing and antibacterial gel. Everyone around the world is making a conscious effort to create new habits with the sole purpose of keeping us all safe.
Prior to the Covid-19 era, the term and practice of inclusion was...
Like everyone else, pre-Covid-19, I had in place rituals that helped me stay connected to the world and the people I loved. My life had a structure that helped me work toward the future I wanted to create for myself, it had meaning.
All those rituals helped me feel that I am in control of my life and in-charge of my own destiny. All these rituals made me feel safe, connected and dignified.
Like everyone else, when Covid happen, I felt all kinds of feelings but most importantly, I felt the...
Activate your sense of action
it’s been almost two decades since my work with leaders began. My interest in leadership development was merely an interest in making sense of my own leadership journey and why personal leadership matters.
While working with leaders in my capacity as a facilitator or a coach, I noticed that although, they experience big insights, realisations, yet the integration of the new needed shift isn’t so easy, even at times creating more frustration and...
All flow from the same source. Walk backwards and you will see what you are here to serve.
This morning, I set to work on my medicine map. Medicine map is another way of looking at what am I here to work on. What is my contribution, but not from the head space of management and leadership model, but from lineage, mother nature ancient wisdom. I have been paying attention to the fractal and patterns that I found myself attracted and fascinated by in my walks, cycling, television watching,...
Sacred, simple and full of wandering twists and turns.
In the last 05 days, I started sensing the spiralling within. Feeling a bit overwhelmed with the various initiated projects and yet, no progress.
I could sense the tightening of the shoulders, a restricted breath, and tightness on the side of my front neck. Most importantly I am noticing the blockage in my throat, which for me, is a sign that I am not admitting something to myself and I am berrying myself under a pile of work to avoid...
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