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The Power and Potency of Empathic Listening

How potent and powerful it is to help people feel met and seen and to calm down, to where they have access to their own answers. There isn't much fixing or helping or advising that needs to happen once we're seen. At least that's my experience.   And I guess it's pretty universal.    My whole focus and intention is really about discovering a deeper way of relating and making connection than most of the world actually experiences, or engages in. Bringing that in. Being part of the wave of bringing that in to the human social cultural structure.   And the thing that happens when we are actually deeply feeling connected and connected with, is that we re-discover our essential selves. We reclaim our personal and spiritual power.   The families we are raised in are a so often dysfunctional. As children we sacrifice our capacity for self connection, mindfulness, awareness and presence, in order to belong. But that connection to our awesome essence is essential

Dancing with my Self

Let it emerge. Don't get enamored with yourself or anybody else. Accept yourself as you are without judgement.  see what is. you have no further problem. (Alan Watts) without judgement Establishing self connection, you can't rush it. wait for it to arise re-finding.... prioritizing allowing myself (In every moment, watch what you are doing, you must be simply, awake and relaxed- A. Watts)  wait for the inspiration you have to not know refining allowing myself (become yourself) Discovery every moment (you have to let yourself happen) not knowing become liberated. Be You, not knowing, not knowing, not knowing, waiting, ready to hear. Don't let repetition ever really be repetition don't go mindless; every repeat is a new movement Don't try to predict your movements. Let them come to you as inspirations; authentically arising movement Catching different parts of the music, whatever part you fancy whatever feels good,

Contact Improv asks us to Embrace - it all

Achieving inner stillness through attention to, and acute observation of our impulses; our bodily experience. Meeting at the point of touch and exploring, through mutual responsiveness, what movement wants to unfold from an authentic, neutral space Curiously exploring that meeting, that point, that present moment, while maintaining full, unconditional presence. Saying, “YES!” in response to the other, without diminishing our self; without compromising our own authenticity. Surrendering to process, letting go of judgment, of intention, of willfulness. Experiencing a spaciousness that allows full acceptance self and other. As we are. Mutually supporting what is happening. And when there are ‘disconnects’, stopping and waiting. Waiting for that full presence to come into each of us again; for that felt sense of, “Ah yes, you are here, I am here, we meet here.” And in agreement, continuing. Joined, yet separate and individual. Connecting. Co-creating. Communing. Communion.

Don't let anything be the reason you don't dance!

Spontaneous first time recording my dancing. My tech will improve!  :)