When we began contributing to this dream of creating an opening for an online community rooted in Gift, we could not stop sharing and connecting the dots.
These are a few of the elements that gracefully stayed present in my life and fueled my curiosity and interest:
languages and how they color our perspectives; I've always been drawn by languages and communication and the more I was told I had to have a certain level to get by, the more I became convinced that communication is so much more than language skills, no matter how much I nerd about languages.
beliefs, how they get formed and shape our behavior; there would be a lot to say here and for now and just because these days I am very much into this - beliefs are a 'nice to have' next to experiences. I have realized I am a hunter of experiences, meaningful conversations, long walks, eating a juicy fig. And then at the end of the day I'll read my books and play around in my head with beliefs...
formal coaching tools combined with intuition; searching to use my skills to benefit all, I stumbled upon self-development jobs and got trained in various tools. And now I like to let my intuition play with them.
yoga and mindfulness; practices around these sciences happened in my already adult and a bit more conscious life. So I got to engage with them as far and as much as I wanted and needed. These days I like to share them with children and some of the people in the small village we live in.
I used to (and sometimes still do) live life in comparison to others - those notions of I am doing it better or worse than the next person. So I would say that I'm a yoga instructor but only just beginning so they must be better than me. Or I've read all of Pema Chödrön's books and so should they in order to get to the depth of conversation I'd like.
And then something shifted and I realized I am here to live a life that aligns as close as possible to the flow of life. For that, I need to listen to the gifts around me more (the trees and bugs and animals and rocks) and I need to contemplate the moon a little longer and touch the earth a little softer.
Gift is one way I let myself be lived - today what I offer might be a smile and what I take might be a lemon that fell off the tree on my hike.
