Standing in the kitchen. Peeling another onion! A reminder that there are layers and layers. We peel back one, revealing another.
As I pondered on a post last week inviting more grace and ease into my bodily movement, I reflected that there was, ‘duh’, of course another layer here.
With relevance for leadership. If leading is about engaging and galvanising others towards some common goal, then how does that happen if frustration, anger, irritation – whatever is not helpful - abounds?
If we can invite ‘in’, we can let go. Let go of the felt sense, often tension, of something not useful. First we have to notice.
If I’m fed up peeling onions again, I can notice how that feels. Where am I holding tension, or collapse, how am I slumped into fed-upness. Where exactly do I feel that?
And then, I breathe. Into that place. I start something new to let go the old.
Breath. That little miracle worker. We all know how to, yet do so poorly, so absent mindedly. That little miracle worker that allows us to expand, let go, and as my friend Francis Briers offers to ‘relax and tone’.
We keep on breathing, slowly, deeply into the belly – the holding goes. Gently then, the body comes to its relaxed, balanced, full and gently present state.
Do you get fed up peeling onions?
