Day 8 Lighthouse Leadership Series - Cultivating Resilience in Leadership

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Welcome to Day 8 of our Lighthouse Leadership Series!?

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Today, we explore a core principle of cultivating resilience in Leadership: the transformative power of a nurtured relationship with oneself.

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Recognizing Yourself as a Lighthouse

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Your relationship with yourself deeply influences the quality of your leadership. This concept is the essence of the Lighthouse Effect.?

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A nurtured self-relationship means regularly engaging in self-care, self-awareness, self-compassion, and remembering to pause. It's about maintaining your inner well-being to be a steady, illuminating presence for yourself and others—much like a lighthouse standing firmly and guiding ships through stormy seas.

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Activating Heart-Coherence: The Heart of Effective Leadership

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Heart-coherence is where your heart, mind, emotions, and spirit align harmoniously, enabling clear thinking and genuine emotional self-awareness. Achieving this starts with how leaders treat themselves. Deep breathing, mindful reflection, contemplative journaling, meditation, time in nature, and prioritizing emotional health are all vital. Activities Like these foster personal well-being and enhance your capability to lead with empathy, authenticity, and inspiration.

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The Transition from Negative to Positive Attractor Fields

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In the work of Dr. David R. Hawkins, an attractor field is described as a type of energy or force field that influences human behavior and consciousness. These fields are associated with specific levels of consciousness and emotional states, ranging from lower energies like fear and anger to higher energies like love and peace. An attractor field acts like a magnet, drawing people into behaviors and thought patterns that resonate with its particular energy level. For instance, someone in a higher attractor field of joy experiences more positive interactions and outcomes. In contrast, someone in a lower field of resentment or anger might repeatedly encounter negative situations.

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In the global workplace, negative attractor fields such as anxiety and depression are prevalent, costing the global economy US$ 1 trillion per year and forecast to reach $16 trillion by 2030 (Chodavadia et al., 2023), driving a culture of burnout. By cultivating a strong relationship with themselves and operating from a place of coherence, heart-coherent leaders have the unique capability to influence and shift these environments for the better.

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Heart-coherent Lighthouse leaders have a unique capability to shift attractor fields due to their mastery over their internal state, which influences their external environment and interactions. Leadership lighthouses stabilize their emotional responses by maintaining heart coherence, suspending judgment, creating equanimity, and maintaining a consistent resonance of calm, clarity, and positivity. This coherence emanates outward, effectively transforming the collective mood and mindset of the team or organization. As a result, heart-coherent leaders can shift individual and collective attractor fields from negative to positive, fostering environments where trust, creativity, and collaboration thrive at the core of operational coherence and coherence-based company culture.??

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A heart-coherent culture creates a positive dominant attractor field rooted in values prioritizing individuals' and teams' emotional health and well-being. Leaders who embody this approach help transform their work environments from zones of stress and burnout to spaces where creativity, accomplishment, and productivity flourish.

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The Practical Impact of Heart-Coherent Leadership

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When leaders prioritize their internal coherence, they radiate a stable and grounding attractor field of positivity that supports respectful engagement in resolving big problems. This radiant attractor field has a tangible effect: it reduces workplace stress, enhances team cooperation, and contributes to overall organizational health.?

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In Dr. David R. Hawkins' book "Power vs. Force," positive dominant attractor fields have significant regenerative and healing effects, especially on individuals operating below the level of courage (Hawkins, 2014, p.97). These positive attractor fields, characterized by love, peace, compassion, and joy, help elevate individuals' consciousness, promoting healing, resilience, and greater well-being. Exposure to these higher energy fields can catalyze a profound shift for those below the line of courage, encouraging a move away from destructive patterns toward growth and health. The opposite is true when the dominant attractor field falls below the line of courage, such as pride, anger, and fear. Dominant negative attractor fields move toward destructive patterns that deteriorate growth and health, which brings us back to the annual $1 trillion dollar global business problem, anxiety, and depression. The connection between anxiety, depression, and burnout is that anxiety and depression are the negative "attractor fields," the driving force behind the occupational phenomenon of burnout, recently recognized as such by the World Health Organization (World Health Organization, 2019).

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By embodying self-awareness, self-care, and coherence, Lighthouse leadership can invite, inspire, and encourage their people and teams to adopt practices that prioritize coherence-building, individually or as a team, creating a cycle of positive energy sufficient to transform an entire organizational culture.

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Day 8 Contemplative Question:

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Reflect on the relationship you have with yourself: In what ways might this relationship be shaping your leadership style and journey??

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How can enhancing your self-care and inner balance empower you to foster a more positive, regenerative environment for yourself, your team, and your organization?

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Stay tuned for Day 9 of our series on Lighthouse Leadership as we explore Building Trust Through Coherent Communication: The Heartbeat of Lighthouse Leadership.?

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Let’s light the way to exceptional leadership together!

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#LighthouseLeadership

#HeartCoherence

#CultureChange

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References

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Chodavadia, P., Teo, I., Poremski, D., Fung, D. S.S., & Finkelstein, E. A. (2023, February 14). Prevalence and economic burden of depression and anxiety symptoms among Singaporean adults: results from a 2022 web panel. NCBI. Retrieved May 6, 2024, from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9925363/

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Hawkins, D. R. (2014). Power Vs. Force . Hay House.

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World Health Organization. (2019, May 28). Burn-out an "occupational phenomenon": International Classification of Diseases. World Health Organization (WHO). Retrieved May 6, 2024, from https://www.who.int/news/item/28-05-2019-burn-out-an-occupational-phenomenon-international-classification-of-diseases

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