Topic 主題：Staying Center and Grounded 保持在你的中心而且腳踏實地

Number 編號：Sat A6

Convenor 召集人：Dick West

Participants (including Bumble Bees) 參與人員：Jane, Evelyn, Wong, Jessie, Jorie, Jim, Mark, Linda

Insights 討論內容：

Why do you come to this group?

Dick: If I am center and ground it’s easy to “Yes” and “No” and it’s peace to me.  In my recent trip, I understood the energy healing is what I really like to to most.

What’s my path?, Who am I?, What am I about? Discovered when I realized I’d drop everything to do healing.  Ah-Ha!  Healing is my path.

Freeing to know – not own decision to how and relate to is…  just be grounded in ourselves.  All else happens normally.

Grounding = Living my rules (don’t need to “understand”)

Story – 28-day trip may steps <3 days/each.  I know what care for me.

Groundedness as a couple – comes from many sources, including long morning walks.

Ex. of groundedness “I’m not going to live in the US again, ever.” I’m grounded in this. Here: cared for, simulated, people take what we do and put it in their lives.

Cynthia Ong story: works w/ community in juvenile groups. Has a 64 yr old “advisor”. Talked about noticing coincidences coming together, bringing things together. This is a sign of being grounded. I’ve always had these experiences, but haven’t always recognized them.

Centered -à [leads to] a sense of fullness. Then able to let go. Things happen. Just notice them.

When you do feel centered and grounded [C&G]?

-         in conflict is when I know best. In smooth times, I really don’t know

-         I don’t feel the need to be C&G (does it = comfort?) C. doesn’t help me.

-         C&G … open to all

-         No shortage of things to knock me off ground

-         It’s the mind’s function to observe, not to judge.  Ask “what’s this situation about?” approach it from curiosity

-         Listen as if I totally believe everything, then just let it go. If it’s worth it for me, it just naturally sticks. If not, it flows away. None of this requires extra effort/energy from me.

-         I never make judgments,  just make choices [Dick … am I just playing semantic games?]

-         Ken Wilbur says whenever someone makes a boundary they have to defend it.

-         A lot of people give other people their problems.

Situations: in an organization it’s tricky. From the OUTSIDE it looks great, and you may join, then from the INSIDE you see what it’s really like. All that time and energy in joining. If you don’t like it, what do you DO?? My personal response is to be subversive. I find it’s better to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.

C&G – then it seems I know what things are about, and you know who you can trust to do what.

This is one reason I love the ICA Strategic Planning Process. We focus on contradictions. The question is: What’s going on now that has to change before our vision can become possible?