How to Flip From Competition into Collaboration
How to Flip from Competition into Collaboration:
Chances are, if you are still wearing yourearth suityou have encountered an overtly unhappy human being. Perhaps the display of unhappiness comes in their intonation, body language and/or choice of words. Much of our instinct to fight, run or freeze flows from an innate desire to be liked, right and understood: “I feel safe when I feel that you understand where I am coming from and validate my perspectives and input.” As you explore seeking to understand more consistently within your conversations through curiosity and fascination you will find that you have the ability to flip a space from one of competition to one of collaboration.
Learning how to flip from competition into collaboration shifts the entire energy within a room and physiologically opens up the brain’s ability to access valuable pieces of information that are all too often deleted, distorted or generalized in the mind muck that occurs in the ring of competition, it is an inner game worth learning the skill set needed for success in life. Understand that when people find themselves in an Animal Planet moment, kicking and screaming their way through the day, it is simply because they forget they are loved, safe and connected to their creator.
Exercise your soul in the way of love this week. The next time you find yourself in the space of an overtly cranky person, deliberately choose to increase your expressions of kindness and love. Step into the practice of asking questions to increase clarity and step out of assumptions and expectations. Knowing how to flip out of competition into collaboration requires an ability to notice when you feel defensive behavior bubbling up within your interior castle.
This is a wonderfully powerful practice. I have seen first hand how my choice for love & kindness resurrects love & kindness in the person to which it is directed. Love evokes more love; kindness evokes more kindness.
Step into the emotional state of behavior you desire to experience from people you encounter this week.
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