Order allows us to explore and take risks

Sep 29th, 2010No Comments

Order is natural. Having a sense of order in one’s life is different for different people. It is essential to be spontaneous and take healthy risks in life.

Order requires discipline. Order creates structure. Parents create structure for their children so they feel safe enough to explore life. The same is true of ourselves. Order creates an anchor so we feel secure enough in ourselves to explore. We can venture beyond the experiences that we can control. We can expose ourselves and be vulnerable.

Order creates a channel for our strength can go forth from the inside. It allows us to trust ourselves and find confidence.

The opposite of order is chaos or random events. Chaos makes it difficult for us to count on anything. Counting on the things that are reliable gives us a foundation to go into the unknown. A launch pad. A base camp.

So what creates order for you? Is is straightening your desk or your house. Is is meditation, yoga, Tai chi, or exercise to create order in your mind and body? Is it is journaling to get closure with your day? Maybe it’s catching up with friend to feel like your relationships are intact.

Creating order might be a s simple completing an experience by thanking someone that helped you. My teacher to call this not leaving any “dangling participles.” It was his way to say tying up loose ends. Loose ends leave things unresolved and waste emotional energy. Getting closure and completion with experiences allow us to create order so we can be present and available in new experiences.

So taking life seriously means having order in our life. It allows us to be at our best when it counts most.

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Michael Hoffman’s passion is guiding people to connect with their natural gifts. He believes that we all have innate gifts that hugely benefit others and the world when we offer them. The purest example of these gifts is the Native American concept of medicine or the gift you offer your people. Michael defines your medicine or gift as the natural effect you have on other people when your heart is open. Unfortunately, the demands of our current culture to comply and fit in often distract people away from their inherent gifts and the natural expression of their being. Michael believes many of us have forgotten our dreams and what we are about. This sadly results in a loss of purpose, passion, and vitality. As an innate gift specialist, Michael offers retreats, classes, and individual sessions to allow people to reclaim their natural gifts. These venues allow people to identify, awaken, and offer their gifts. This experiential work incorporates Zen thought, Native American ceremony, rites-of-passage, and releasing limiting belief systems. Michael also maintains his meta blog to provide knowledge, skills, and awareness for unfolding your natural gifts. He is currently compiling this knowledge and research into a college class and book. Michael earned his Bachelor of Science in Psychology in 1987 and Master of Social Work in 1996. He is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. In addition to his formal education, Michael studied and apprenticed with a Zen Master and spiritual teacher for 22 years to learn how to guide people to understand themselves. He has worked with people professionally since 1986 as a psychotherapist and teacher. Michael currently resides in Oceanside, California.

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