There are two ways change happens…
1. You keep pushing on through, ignoring the fact it’s getting worse, using more control to try and get back on track, till you collapse.
2. You take proactive action and use the cracks as the early warning sign that your inner world could do with a tune-up.
These options for change happen at a micro and a macro scale. From you as an individual, to your family, your business or organisation, up to the global scale.
If you’re very astute you might have noticed there’s a lot of option 1 at a global scale right now:
Pushing on through, we’re trying more and more control strategies in an attempt to curb problems (long range missiles to control bad guys, digital ID to control…well who knows what, face recognition in shops to control theft, more extreme political parties to control the wealthy or the immigrants, higher taxes to control government debt…)
When have you ever found more control leads to better, more successful, healthier or happier outcomes?
Dominating-control, having power-over, to curb or control someone or something else – is the result of our naturally powerful masculine filtering through a layer of gunky unhealth.
Clean the filter and the natural flow of healthy masculine returns. (Note – this is in men and women.)
From those global examples above, I’d say we could do with more healthy masculine. And at the organisational level (ever had – or been – a controlling boss?) At the family level (ever tried to dominate your 2 year old or your teen?!) At the relationship level (ever had a controlling friend, partner or spouse?)
Doesn’t feel good does it. I know – I’ve been there. Both the controlling and the controlled. Neither feels good.
Changing this for good, sustainably, starts at the individual level.
When you clean the gunk off the filter, things change positively in you, in your relationship, your family, your work team, even your organisation…and all of this ripples out into the world.
If you’d rather take proactive action, than wait for collapse, you are literally doing the world the biggest favour.
Garry Turner is the living embodiment of this with how differently he’s leading systemic change, instead of the forcing or controlling his gunk would take him into before.
The more individuals who return to healthy balance, the faster the macro system will balance too.
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