IS: Clarity
Upcoming events:
- Sunday May 18: Community Hub 18.8
- Tuesday May 27: The Oasis
- Saturday May 31: IS Connection Call
Last week's newsletter was "Turning up the heat vs traction" and last Sunday's Community Hub call was "Collaborative Culture".
I worry, I weigh three times my body
I worry, I throw my fear around
But this morning, there's a calm I can't explain
The rock candy's melted, only diamonds now remain
Clarity by John Mayer
Clarity. I (as facilitator) was pretty unclear last week, searching for direction heading into our Community Hub call. I then played around with that experience in Sofia-Jeanne's Kintsugi container the next day. We've also been exploring some introspection-based frames in Intentional Ventures the last two Fridays. (Remind me to write about "internal corporate systems" some time.)
Clarity. There are places I don't have it — and I know that because I know what the experience feels like. You and I both do have and have had this experience, one of flowing without hesitation into an action in a way that feels like there wasn't even any decision to be made.
We flow to the fridge when we're hungry, or to the bathroom when we need that. Pretty clear. <interruption ensues in real life> Oh, or like that: kid stranded at school, needs a pickup — no conflict or emergency at home, so my keys were in my hand and my feet slipping into my shoes before I knew it.
We tend to call those situations clear, "when the situation calls for it," but of course it's actually (along with everything else) an internal experience. Our internal embodied feel is a very tangible guide to bring this sense data to our decision-making process! If we focus in a way to allow that holistic intelligence to be received by our conscious decider brain, it's got a lot to offer us.
Clarity. I want to feel more of it, and I can't find it by making a logical list of pros-and-cons. Finding the state of top-to-bottom coherence and integrity that flows cleanly and fluidly, that's emotional work and comes from listening to, respecting, and working with the emotional signals coming from our protector parts (to use IFS language).
The somatic landscape is climbable — we can use our senses to navigate away from the lower and toward the higher heights (of feeling good, valence, aliveness). ... But... ya know, this exposition here alternating between I-we frames isn't coming out very alive. I think I'll quit while I'm behind schedule and drop feeling obligated to finish or improve this. See ya next week!
Cheers,
James