Get together

Nov 22nd, 2010No Comments

What if you get together up on Saturday morning with your significant other or friend and shared what each of you wanted to do this weekend. And then do some of those things together.

One of you may want to rake leaves, see a new movie that just released, and take their son to the park. The other may want to visit a friend in the hospital, shampoo their carpet, and delve into their new art project. You could each rank them in order of importance and then do those things together. Start with each of your number one thing that you wanted to do.

Work as a team to make that experience as rich as possible. Put your heads together to tag-team something that one of you has been putting off. Support one another to take a risk and try something new. Explore and enjoy those things together.

Intimacy requires exposure and discovery. You would both be able to expose and share part of your world with the other. Each of you would be able to allow another human being in on something that is really important to you. They could experience it with you. They would get to know and understand that part of you.

In turn, both of you would be able to discover part of your partner or friend’s world. You would get to experience what is important to them and what life feels like to them. You would understand why that is important to them. You would get to share in something that they are excited about. You could feel something that they feel sad about.

You would have some shared experiences with each other. Nothing makes a relationship stronger.

And you would no longer feel like you are all alone. You now have a cohort in crime. A friend. A partner.

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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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