Posts Tagged ‘presence’
Strategy and tactic for triggers
Questions from The Trust Workshop: What strategies help you build a lot of energy, when you feel empty but really need to be present very soon? First I’d like to distinguish between strategy and tactic. A strategy describes where we are trying to go and how we’re going to get there, while a tactic is…
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The two-year itch
Another two years has past and there it is. The need to change something. To move somewhere new. To change jobs. To shake it up. It’s very common in the United States due to the intervals of our education system. Two years of middle school, two years of lower class, two years of upper class,…
Read MorePresent to the process
A question worth adking regularly… Am I doing anything in my life just to get it done or am I present to the process of doing? Because the former misses the point and the latter is living.
Read MoreThe gift of held space
Held space is a gift that can be challenging to give and also rarely consciously received in the moment that it’s happening. The silent practice of allowing a person to thrash with their thoughts, hunt for clarity in their emotional labyrynth, and test a perspective without passing judgment or jumping to solutions is often the…
Read MoreWhen we’re bad at meditating…
It’s still worth it. If you go to see the Sistine Chapel, and it’s a crowded day, it’s still worth it. If you go eat at Tartine Bakery in SF, and the line is around the corner, it’s still worth it. To even recognize that there is something on the other side of the distractions…
Read MoreFinding presence
Lying in bed trying to fall asleep. Holding my son when he cries at night. Floating in the moment before I adjust someone after learning that they had just lost a parent. There are many moments in life that are made better when experienced with presence. And by no accident these are the most difficult…
Read MoreLife never doesn’t happen
We’ve all heard the phrase, “life happens.” We tend to say to others when we notice our life happen. Most of the time our life is like our body. We use our body to walk, sit, talk, move about and experience the world. But we don’t really think about it. When I’m jamming to Alanis…
Read MoreThe 144,000 second work week
Marcelo Garcia is considered by some to be the Michael Jordan of Jiu-Jitsu. He has attributed his success to breaking into thirty steps what his opponents see as a three-step move. If you can break up one opportunity into ten, you create more points of potential intervention. You gain multiple entry points where you can…
Read More35,000 decisions
The decision to be healthy is not just one decision. We make roughly 35,000 decisions per day and each of them is an opportunity to influence health for better or worse. There is variability is the number of decisions among people of course. For example, a child’s choice count is perhaps closer to 3,000. Regardless,…
Read MoreListening is relational proprioception
Proprioception is the perception or awareness of the position and movement of your body. The reason this is important is that you use this information to guide your decision making about position and movement. As you walk, it is proprioception that tells you the shape and firmness of the ground and helps guide appropriate motor…
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