For as long as I can remember, I’ve felt an internal push to make my life better. Perhaps I was looking for more fulfillment, more satisfaction, more joy…I don’t know. If you had asked me why I repeatedly upset the status quo of my life when things became too comfortable I couldn’t have explained it to you… it was unclear to me.
But what was clear was that I wanted more from my life. It was as if another part of me – one that lived in rest mode much of the time – took over my mind and spirit from time to time and challenged me to make a positive change in some area of my life. It was a drive to be a better person.
I didn’t understand it then. But now I view it differently, from the perspective gained from age, from hard-won personal growth and from the holistic beliefs I now hold. It was my spirit that carried me forward towards a more joyful, satisfying life…my spirit that helped me divest myself of old emotional baggage so I could become more of who I really was.
Yesterday we had our quarterly call with Martha Beck, the remarkable woman who trained us as coaches. Part of Martha’s conversation with us was a brief synopsis of the concepts in her recent coaching book, “Steering by Starlight”. Martha told us we’re born to focus on the shallows of our lives. We work towards detaching ourselves from the issues we have in various categories of our lives. We burn up these issues, or attachments the ring of fire, and gradually move towards the core of peace.
I understood this explanation ‘from the horses mouth’ in a way that I hadn’t understood the book or my study course with the Martha Beck Master Coaches. I realized that what my spirit has pushed me to do all these years was just what Martha described. She has her own words for it and I have mine.
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But what was clear was that I wanted more from my life. It was as if another part of me – one that lived in rest mode much of the time – took over my mind and spirit from time to time and challenged me to make a positive change in some area of my life. It was a drive to be a better person.
I didn’t understand it then. But now I view it differently, from the perspective gained from age, from hard-won personal growth and from the holistic beliefs I now hold. It was my spirit that carried me forward towards a more joyful, satisfying life…my spirit that helped me divest myself of old emotional baggage so I could become more of who I really was.
I understood this explanation ‘from the horses mouth’ in a way that I hadn’t understood the book or my study course with the Martha Beck Master Coaches. I realized that what my spirit has pushed me to do all these years was just what Martha described. She has her own words for it and I have mine.