Happy August Friend,
Did you know families and businesses have a lot in common when it comes to conflict?
When I was doing business and organizational consulting, I learned a fabulous trick for resolving conflict. I want to share it with you today!
If you have a great group of people, they are going to have very different views about how things should work.
The same is true with couples and families as it is in business. While you share similarities, your souls’ intentions, experiences, and perspectives vary. And that’s as it should be.
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Everyone is coming from different experiences and knowledge bases, they bring diverse perspectives you need to run a company or a home.
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It’s the diversity that makes life exciting and interesting. But it is also that diversity that causes stress, and even pain, when we don’t agree or understand each other.
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In order to alleviate the discomfort, you might find yourself spending a lot of time trying to convince someone about why they need to change.
And as a spiritual person, you probably know how that tends to go with them.
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The more you try to convince someone they need to change, the more they resist, and trench in to their established views, habits and choices.
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If you are in conflict with someone else, you know it can be difficult to find common ground and agreement when you are both coming from such different points of view.
But it is possible!
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In business settings, I learned to listen very carefully to what my opposition thought, felt and believed.
I made an effort to understand why they were coming from a certain perspective. I would even feed back to them what I understood their perspective to be. |
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Once, I truly understood the reasons behind their viewpoints, I could see how our views actually complimented one another.
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Instead of trying to convince the other person about how they needed to change to my viewpoints…
… I empathized with them in their journey and talked about the similarities I shared with them.
Then, when we both felt safe, I suggested a way our two perspectives could work together, synergistically.
We didn’t have to agree on everything, just enough to get started.
I moved away from either/or and toward both/and.
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Both/and is usually the greater path. |
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Sacred Feminine energy is naturally inclusive. When you engage both/and, you are using your Divine Feminine nature.
Consider the primordial womb. It is the great and vast darkness of space from which all life manifests.
The cosmic womb holds it all, without discrimination or judgment. It simply holds what has existed, is becoming, and will exist. |
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When we become like this sacred and infinite vessel of life, we discover just how much diversity of viewpoints we can hold—and it is immense.
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Even if you already know about the magic of both/and, consider accepting my invitation to keep it in your focused attention this week.
Where are the places in your life where more both/and could bring you and your loved ones, friends, and colleagues into less conflict and greater peace?
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Create Stronger Relationships with Family, Colleagues, and Friends
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Misa’s business and spiritual training gives her unique perspectives for creating harmony within one’s self, at work and at home. In their Private Counseling Sessions, Misa’s clients fluidly discuss with her their concerns related to health, home, life, and career.
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Misa has woken me up many times, providing just the "A-ha!" piece I needed to move my business to the next level. With everything she offers, Misa incorporates her vantage point that your work is your spiritual practice. All of this plus, her solid business background and powerful intuition, add up to the most enjoyable and productive coaching I have received. —Snow Thorner, Business Coach
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Enjoy These Free Resources for Resolving Conflict
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At the beginning of every month, we introduce you to a variety of free gifts (below) offered through MisaHopkins.com and her non-profit, SacredFeminineAwakening.com. Enjoy these gifts with love and blessings. |
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Holding Guided Meditation
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There Are No Others
We shared this meditation a few weeks ago, but it is so perfect for today’s topic, we thought we’d share it again… just in case you haven’t read it yet.
Misa brings this beautiful Zen Koan, that was given to her many years ago, into the Holding guided meditation for you:
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Be Held in Love—Free Gift
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| Experience greater ease, fulfillment and joy in your life, as each day Misa Holds you in the unconditional nature of Sacred Feminine love.
You can sign up for this special Holding at her non-profit organization, Sacred Feminine Awakening:
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This special report reveals the actions, feelings—even thoughts—that may be standing between you and health.
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Prescriptions from Heaven—Free Gift
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Prescriptions from Heaven are free daily reminders that there is a power living inside you—Heavenly power—able to transform your challenges into health, happiness and prosperity.
Each weekday morning, Heaven will send you a digital postcard with a brief personalized inspirational message to start your day right.
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