What Might Happen If We Listened to Our Hearts?

Neuroscientists tell us that we have three brains: the one we normally refer to as the brain – and our heart and gut.?

I propose that our hearts and guts sense that there is something “off” with how we are living and working and that there may be a better way. Our brain-brain usually rationalizes those sensings away. Or we ignore them.?

Let’s stop ignoring them.

What might it mean for ourselves, our families, our communities, our world, if we acknowledged and honored what I call an invitation? An invitation to listen and allow our hearts and guts to contribute to how we respond to the incredible challenges we face, the wake-up call we are being invited to see and to relate to in whole new ways.?

We can use our rational minds to see where we are headed if we keep up with “business as usual,” based on the outdated understanding that we are separate.?

Many of us are recognizing that in actuality we are OneBeing.

I have been doing “market research” and attending various meetings and webinars about the future of work and business.?

The meetings included an OD (organization development) member organization; a panel discussion of Web3, culture and the future; and a future of work meet-up. The consistent theme was that people want or are exploring a new way of living and working together. We are concerned about the future of humanity and how we relate to one another, our well-being, our need to feel that we belong and that we are contributing our unique gifts (and know what they are).?

We want work cultures where employees and potential employees are listened to and their desires are seen, recognized and validated rather than ignored or dismissed as overly demanding. The attitude that, “they’re our employees, so they should do what we want,” is no longer viable. We are human beings, not robots.?

No matter whom I spoke with – whether it was the leader of the sales team of a multinational organization, the shareholder in a major law firm, incredibly successful entrepreneurs or people entering retirement – when I would explore what they thought about the idea that we are all OneBeing, to a person they said they believe that is true!?

When we allow ourselves to know who we are as one with everything and everyone, the essential nature of which is peace, love, harmony and fulfillment, we transform, and our organizations, relationships and activities transform.?

My challenge to myself and to others who know we are all one is to take the next step, which is to go beyond the?intellectual?knowing of it to the?lived?knowing of it.?

And in that,?everything?evolves to align with that. Our relationship with ourselves, our relationship with others, our relationship with the planet, what is possible for ourselves, our organizations.

We might fear the unknown as we let go of the old, outdated beliefs.?

However, I have found that I and those I help guide to live this understanding, experience more peace, creativity, energy and motivation. Relationships improve, productivity increases, problems are resolved in innovative ways.

We change the future by knowing ourselves now – in an embodied way, like we know how to drive a car. In this moment. We don’t have to develop ourselves. We can let that go.?

Here’s the easiest way I’ve seen to do that. Instead of focusing on what our rational minds want to tell us, we turn around, turn around and face the heart that is the source of the invitation. The heart reveals our longing to know ourselves and how we can create the world – and organizations and families –?that we truly want. We won’t find the answers in our rational mind.?

As we embrace Wisdomary Leading, we allow ourselves to be informed by the wisdom that is available when we answer the call of our longing and listen for the guidance.

How do we do that?

First, there are exercises that help us see for ourselves who we truly are. It is not something we can learn in our usual way; we must investigate until we know in our experience.?

One investigation:

Most of us identify with our rational mind, or ego. The ego is the activity of thinking and feeling, and not who we are. The ego is useful in certain capacities, so we don’t “get rid of the ego” (in fact that approach would merely make it stronger) but we begin relating to the ego in a different way and use it to?support?what we are up to with our lives.

Allow yourself to open to the possibility that you are not your ego.?

Now, notice that you see these words. You are aware that you see these words, are you not? Pause.

Next notice that you are aware?that you are aware?that you see these words. You KNOW that you are aware. Pause.

That?knowing?is who you essentially are. Always there. Always has been, yet seemingly hidden because we focus our attention elsewhere.?

Spend some time in this space. Come back to it often. This is?who you are. This is the place from which the guidance will arise.?

If you would like any help with this, there are three ways we can work together, as you feel called to do so:

·??????One-on-one personal and professional coaching

·??????Group programs

·??????Workshops within organizations?

If you would like to explore how Wisdomary Leading (Wisdomary = of or pertaining to wisdom) will support you, your work and/or your organization to go beyond what you might even think is possible now,?message me to schedule a Mini-Workshop Session. You will have the opportunity to have a direct, first-hand experience of your essential nature and have three practical exercises to support you to deepen this knowing.