Nature Guides. Fall & Presence Pauses.

Photo by Susan Walters Minker

My Chinese medicine acupuncturist reminded me this week that as it’s fall, and the body wants to follow the natural cycle of nature. That means the body needs:

• slower pace

• more rest

• presence pauses

She said go sit with a cup of tea.

Clarity lit up. I was reminded of the transformational alchemy of nature, body nurturing and presence pauses.

Doc’s a wonderful practitioner and has helped me with healing my spine and body.

A herniated disc buckled me last spring, physically, emotionally and energetically. I sought her out, for her acupuncture and Chinese medicine healing experience. Treatments are often not necessarily blissful, not like a spa day treatment. Yesterday’s treatment was not a spa day experience.

Chinese medicine offers ancient wisdoms of life and medicinal knowledge. It’s about healing through life force energy (qi), connecting body, energy, nature, emotional, spiritual, mental and physical health realms. To me this all makes sense … I live at a nature retreat center, Bend of Ivy Lodge.

My chinese medicine doc talked to me of the need to be present. Her mention of presence brought a smile. I’m a Presence-Based Coach, and our retreat center was co-founded by Doug Silsbee, the founder of Presence-Based Coaching. Coincidentally, I heard Doug’s name fondly repeated that same afternoon by many attendees in a program by Cultivating Leaderships’s founder Jennifer Garvey Berger. Program was on on Navigating in Uncertainty. Yep, that’s now.

Double reminder that day of the power of Presence.

How do you find presence?

Later that day, nature brought me a soothing presence pause. A lone humming bird came to my humming bird feeder and just sat there, still, for 20 minutes. I was present, and amazed. The feeder had been a popular humming bird magnet all summer, with birds often dive bombing others away. Never had a humming bird paused for more than a minute or two. Til now. I paused, and watched in awe and curiosity. It was therapeutic.

I often need reminders to slow down, pause. How about you?

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Enneagram. Personal Growth Super Map

The Enneagram is buzzing, exploding in popularity as a super map for guiding self-awareness growth. It’s a tool for amplifying human potential. Seems 2020’s global system chaos shone a bright light and hunger for deep personal growth. There’s growing awareness this key to better survive, navigate and thrive in the constant uncertainty of life. Our new normal.

The Enneagram is an eon’s old wisdom map of undetermined origin, a blueprint for psychological and spiritual growth. It’s a blue print of personal growth that emphasizes inner self-awareness and system awareness. What’s the payback for a person to go deeper, unearth our mostly unconscious patterns. Huge. Brain studies show humans typically operate at a level of 5% consciousness and 95% unconsciousness.

Maps guide us to get from one place to another whether for a destination, trip, adventure, journey or crossroads. Enneagram is that, a complex map and framework.  It assists in  a person’s self-awareness growth journey, with pattern insight possibilities.

Building your inner, other and system awareness creates more conscious living and leading. Discernment and wisdom come with growth. Another payback is transformation happens.  

Higher system awareness brings a higher birds eye life perspective, of subtle and not so subtle energies. Awakened are senses, intuition… an ESP level sensing. Manifesting energy opens. This benefits self, partnerships, families, businesses, relationships, teams, political systems, global systems … our collective systems.

 My suggestion is be curious, aware and open to discovery and questioning with the enneagram. There are many different enneagram tests out there. And mistyping can happen. If you take an enneagram test, see what resonates and what doesn’t.

Invest in yourself. Explore self-development maps yourself and see what resonates, and doesn’t. Be curious, aware and open.. to discovery and questioning.

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