Don’t forget to meditate! Day 28
"If we understand community as a place to mature our practice of steadiness, patience, and compassion, to become conscious together with others, then we have the fertile soil of awakening."
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Jack Kornfield, After the Ecstasy, the Laundry, P. 243
This guided meditation reflects on how we can awaken through conflict. If we learn to release blame and deepen attention to our embodied experience, conflict can become a portal for more loving, alive relationships and awakening into the fullness of our being.
Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life (PuddleDancer Press), has sold more than one million copies worldwide and has been translated into more than 30 languages. Nonviolent Communication is the integration of four things:
· Consciousness: a set of principles that support living a life of compassion, collaboration, courage, and authenticity
· Language: understanding how words contribute to connection or distance
· Communication: knowing how to ask for what we want, how to hear others even in disagreement, and how to move toward solutions that work for all
· Means of influence: sharing “power with others” rather than using “power over others”
We spend so much of our lives talking to each other, but how much are we simply running on automatic—relying on old habits and hoping for the best? Are we able to truly hear others and speak our mind in a clear and kind way, without needing to get defensive or go on the attack? In this groundbreaking synthesis of mindfulness, somatics, and Nonviolent Communication, Oren Jay Sofer offers simple yet powerful practices to develop healthy, effective, and satisfying ways of communicating.