Sensing then and now
In our conversations let us make space to explore our sense memories and our sensing in the moment. There is much value here if we can get beyond the fast thought we barely recognize as not our own.
:- Doug.
Archive for September 17th, 2022
A Lakota Sioux term
A Lakota Sioux term: “Mitákuye Oyás’iŋ” (All Are Related or All My Relations). I am coming more to believe this saying, no, absorb this saying into my being. All living are related through living.
:- Doug.
Cool and thin in our fingertips
Intimate conversation flows from intimate revelation. It runs in spiral streams. I say what’s important to me. You respond with yours. I go to deeper waters. You as well. We sense in our fingertips something cool and thin and then begin to find these waters came from the same underground river. Shared source.
:- Doug.
Pre-words whispers
When you hear a metaphor, it is an entry into the pre-words inner processes of this person. It whispers what they really feel or think. You can come closer. Just here. Hear more than one? Pick the last. Metaphor whispers.
:- Doug.
Switch your metaphors
Interpret. Use your words to reflect back what you heard the other say. More importantly use your frames, your angle of view. For example, if the other uses sports and war as their primary metaphor and this does not enliven you, look for a picture that sources from your core. Perhaps it is cooking and the warmth, flavors, and gathering that brings. Speak your heart. Switch metaphors. You may both learn. You may come closer together. Share metaphors.
:- Doug.
