~ Swami Sivananda
I have been blessed this morning with a most inspiring experience - The Dalai Lama is in attendance at the Mind and its Potential Conference, and not only is he speaking on the qualities of mindfulness and compassion but he embodies their very practice.
And just before we break for lunch, I prepare the presentation that I am to give at a lawfirm (hopefully before we return for the afternoon sessions). I look at the content I have collected together to FILL the allocated hour...
But what if I go in with the intention of being present to and inspired by whatever is present, then perhaps the content will arise itself.
I watch a respected psychologist, who came to his conversation with the Dalai Lama with such earnestness that he is forgetting to actually converse. Instead he appears to be caught up in what it means to him to be an "expert." I run another business that specialises in "expert" witness services for court.
But what if the key to being an expert or an authority is "to listen, synthesise and share" rather than lecture and judge. It seems an authentic connection and communication then becomes possible.
As a kids yoga teacher, this particular realisation helps me to talk and connect with kids wisdom rather than talk at them.
Have a wonderful week,
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