If you haven’t been following along and read the past posts on this subject, I do urge you to do so now before continuing. Here are the links: EGO TAMING P1: How it all startedEGO TAMING P2: The Three-Pound Miracle As you have read in the past posts there are some fundamental flaws in a… Read More
In part one, I wrote about what it was like with a primitive brain and its essential function. If you had not read it yet, you could access it HERE. In this post, I want to jump forward about a few thousand years, maybe a million, to where we are today. Here is a chart… Read More
When I think about taming, the image that comes up is with my daughters trying to tame their hair in the morning. Always trying to get it just right, and the hair was just not cooperating. With a bit of understanding of what was going on, they were able to change things in their approach… Read More
IF YOU DO NOT KNOW HOW TO ASK THE RIGHT QUESTION, YOU DISCOVER NOTHING W Edwards Deming I have noticed with clients in the early stages of the coaching conversation that they are primarily focused on understanding “why” things are the way they are. Questions like:Why am I always depressed?Why can’t I stop this?Why am… Read More
I listened to a conversation with a fellow practitioner, Dicken Bettinger, and a guest when they started to talk about rummaging in attics and using it as a metaphor for what we sometimes do (okay for me a lot) with our minds. Think about how we use attics. At least for me, it stores items… Read More
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