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Step 3: Participate in the Discussion About This Lesson #2
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Online Forum Discussion: Take this question to your Vision Council: How are you living in alignment with Vision now, and What beliefs, behaviors, and attitudes need to shift or be developed to become more aligned to Vision? (Asking this question to Soul and to the Vision Council will reveal a lot of information. Try to capture it all, and remember you have a choice as to what you share in the forum.)
I love each of you for your honest reflections here, taking your presence on the planet seriously and having the courage to ask the hard questions of yourself. It’s so comforting and encouraging to hear the cries that resonate with my own about living it well, and with meaning and hopefully to a good end for others and the planet – questions asked by a seeming few in this culture. In reading your comments, I was reminded of a chapter in my favorite book by Jon Kabat-Zinn Wherever You Go There You Are. It’s entitled What’s my Job on the Planet with a Capital J – And it says, “What is it on this planet that I know something about, that probably won’t happen unless I take responsibility for it?” It’s not a question that we will ever fully answer, but if we keep asking throughout our life it might just take us to some places we’d never gone otherwise! Or another way of putting it within this context is not what am I gonna do with my life but: What does my life(or Soul) want to do with me? Vision for me at this stage of my life is much more about being in a contemplative, inquisitive and thoughtful way of being, breath after breath. And, as many of you have already testified to, approaching myself with kindness and compassion and in some way or another welcoming home the exiled or injured parts of myself and in so doing learning how to guide others on occasion to do the same seems like what authentic coaching/guiding is about. I really feel your soul-searching questions about how all of this relates to vocation or calling. I admit I’ve spent some anxious hours (probably egoic in nature) trying to figure out what I SHOULD do and always feeling “less than” about it. I really believe that for me to be more aligned to Vision today requires more stillness, not just in mediation or at my sit spot, or attentive walking and hiking, but as a practice, a surrendering with each out-breath. I need to relax and, for myself, be a bit more trusting of the unfolding and the opportunities that arise. Living Vision may not be so formal or structured as I once imagined, all the more reason to practice the skills of this course (and others) in readiness for the unfolding possibilities!
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15 Years ago my vision was to be in the technology world, I did not care what line of field, repairing computers, networking, running my own computer business “Ultimate Nerdz”
When I was introduced to nature I knew with my heart and Soul that that’s where I was supposed to be. I went on a wilderness retreat 3 years ago to do some work on myself and some of the clients there thought I was the therapist. lol So when I got laid off my IT job back in Feb. I thought to myself, this is a blessing, I took all I had heart soul and mind and here I am, Nature and helping people. -
How are you living in alignment with Vision now, and What beliefs, behaviors, and attitudes need to shift or be developed to become more aligned to Vision?
What I recognize is how my vision has changed over the years and how it has stayed consistent. I believe that taking this class and joining an organization that has a mission in line with that vision through an upcoming hopeful job change, will put me on the right path. I recognize I have traded elements of my vision for ease and convenience. I have sacrificed deep satisfaction for comfort and security. I think I need some more answers from those in my environment as to if all can be achieved in this place.
