Today I led a meditation session for a company and was surprised by the results of one of the meditation exercises. The results where surprising as they did not reflect my 'expectations' for the exercise. It reminded me of how everything has a perfect flow, that we cannot dictate nor determine the results in life and to expect the unexpected.
It amazes me that despite knowing better than to set an expectation, given that and in somewhat hard core phraseology 'expectation is the mother of all evil' (extreme yet to the point!) I still find myself setting them. In this process I find myself laughing as I see life unfold exactly how it chooses leaving my expectations to the side like discarded food scraps. Aware as I am of meeting the ever changing and flowing needs of a group of people, I take care when designing sessions to allow space for the participants individual processes to come to the fore and be honoured and explored. Whilst creating my meditation sessions, I give myself additional freedoms to my already free flowing style of session creation and allow the content, readings, themes and exercises to come to me of their own accord in the weeks and days leading up to the session. To knit the session together before delivery, I then sit in a state of deep relaxation and meditate on what the group most needs and make adjustments accordingly. Despite using a meditative approach of tuning into the needs of the group I realised today that I still had a desired outcome in mind. I had still allowed my mind to create a structure to take the group on a specific journey with a specific end. In reality the journey they went on was somewhat different from what I imagined. I feel grateful for two insights that came from this experience, 1) to have met this supremely clever trick within my mind that lets me believe I am creating a session that holds no expectations, whilst this is not actually the case 2) that whilst I am delivering a session that then takes its own journey instead of 'my one' I am able to roll with it, with very little attachment to my original 'plan'.
Learning to work in flow, giving true value, without gentle manipulations is a fascinating and subtle journey in self-awareness in communication.
Bring it on!
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