So I have been blessed to get free tickets to see both Eckhart Tolle and Deepak Chopra speak over the last two weeks. Both were wonderful - accomplished people who obviously knew things deeply and were ready to teach. But I have to say, while Dr. Chopra's talk held lots of fascinating information - it was Eckhart Tolle which was profound and affecting for me. Why? I think it goes to getting information vs. an experience.
Chopra, a doctor and lecturer, did just that. He lectured. With a couple short imaginative exercises (a minute or so), which he honestly didn't seem very comfortable with. I came out with some new thoughts and new questions, but was quite ready for it to be over.
Tolle engaged us in trying to *be* a different way for the three hours. To experience presence in a different way. He brought forth experiment after experiment, and experience and experience. I felt challenged and called forth to try to feel, be, think, and *not* think differently with him. It was a "lab class", I guess. And I was moved in a way that hasn't gone back yet.
I think we need to remember the value of the therapy we do. Sure, clients often refer back to something we taught them, or said - a rule, a phrase, a tool. But underlying all that, and where I think the most profound healing comes is when they experience something radically different with us.
It's when we listen, accept, receive, see, understand, love, challenge, hold, stay with, call forth, contain, connect, resonate and be with them in a way they have never experience before that the movement and healing happens. Things that reading a self-help book just can't do.
That is our deep value. That is the intangible, esoteric value we bring. Don't forget it. Don't undervalue it.
Namaste, Your Grateful Guy
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I love the posts you are doing here, GG. It really is so much less about the interventions, words, and "right words" and so much more about our presence and energy. I think it is by far the most important thing we bring into the room, into our relationships with our clients, and our relationships in general. Science is talking about the importance of mirroring neurons now, the way in which we literally become like the people we interact with most directly. But the East and the indigenous peoples of the world have understood about Transmission for eons.
I love sitting with you here and picking up on the way in which you value what presence, and specifically your presence, brings to the clients your energy attracts. It is our greatest gift. Yes, our training and the information we provide are important. Very. But they are so much more potent when offered through the very particular and special energy each of us bring in terms of who we are at our depth.
Well done, GG! Keep blogging.
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