From the category archives:

Opening

My experience of opening

Seeing as I expect to learn some stuff about opening in my Year of Opening, I thought it might be useful to benchmark my experience of opening and see if and how it changes over time.
(If you’re freaked out by woo-woo, move along, please).
In the past couple of days, I’ve moved opening up my priority [...]

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My Year of Opening

I’ve written about Opening before as an essential part of navigating conflict.
I’m looking for a bit of focus in my life on my blog.
So, in the shadow of Julie and Julia, etcetereteretera, I’m entering a year.
A year of Opening.
It’s not a year of calm
Last night I wrote this:
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My Year of Calm
Towards:

gentle
warm
opening
conscious

Away from:

grumpy
snarly
suppressing
closing
pretending

Especially in times of:

crisis [...]

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There are a lot of people in here

This week I was in a situation where a Person I Care About was in pain.
(Been working out how I can be a) transparent and b) protect the privacy of the people around me  and Person I Care About seems to work. I’ve seen that movie where the person does stand-up and the content is [...]

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Navigating conflict

I’m a big one for over-riding principles. I think it helps to have a framework to put things into.
Whilst reading and noticing what happens for me during conflict, plus what works when dealing with emotions in my meditation practice, I think that the thing that makes the most difference is opening.
I’m even going to give [...]

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