The Leadership Dojo: Build Your Foundation as an Exemplary Leader

homily,

When William James, the renowned American psychologist, said, “The deepest human need is to be appreciated,” he wasn’t making a casual heart-warming statement to soothe. Through decades of studying people, he saw the core emotional need we have is for our concerns and needs to be seen and acknowledged.

When we blend we learn to blend with what is, not how we think things should be.

new practices are required to take new actions. When we fully comprehend this, we gracefully allow the time to practice so that we can embody new behaviors.

From a somatic perspective, Spirit is a felt bodily state. It’s an embodiment of a state of consciousness in which the attributes of depth, connection, power, being, unity, wholeness, and love are directly experienced. It’s a process, not an end state, in which one is moved and informed by a power called energy, ki, chi, élan vital, prana,

Energy follows attention. What we put our attention on will appear more vivid in our field of our awareness.

A natural response to fear is to lift the shoulders, and if we chronically hold our shoulders up we’re inviting the emotion of fear. We may not have anything to be afraid of or even think we’re afraid of something, but raised shoulders move us toward a fearful experience of life.

To blend effectively one must act from a state of feeling and sensing; this requires us to live fully in our body. Blending asks us to be with someone in an extraordinarily intimate fierceness, to join with others in order to negotiate separateness, to transform aggression from discord to accord. This doesn’t mean compliance, acquiescence, or submi

Now release the jaw at the hinge and the chin. Our bodies are designed so the teeth never have to touch. When we clamp down on our jaw and gnash our teeth we’re usually chewing on something at an emotional or mental level. Notice that when you release your jaw, the breath will also drop. A chronic holding in the jaw is often transferred to the neck