What If There’s Nothing to Figure Out
I enter the New Year with a double whammy: a birthday and a new year—both of which can throw my Capricorn mind into overload with all that might be possible if I could just FIGURE IT OUT.
After all, the war cry of the Capricorn is:
“There’s a harder way to do this, and I’ll find it—even if it kills me!”
This pattern is deeply embedded, and I tend to succumb to it before the wiser part of me steps in to remind me of something my great teacher Angeles Arrien often said:
Each day there are two plans.
My Plan.
And the Mystery’s Plan.
I’ve lived enough life to know that the Mystery’s Plan is always the higher road—designed for greater freedom, deeper joy, and a more truthful expression of who we are.
That understanding gave rise to a new program—one that opens us to the Mystery’s Plan.
“Speak a new language so the world may be a new world.” – Rumi
This decree has been working me for more than a decade as I’ve pondered: What if the language that leads to a new world isn’t the spoken word at all?
The promise at the heart of Transformational Speaking—“If you want to change the world, tell a better story”—began asking for something more. I sensed that words can only take us so far if they’re not informed by greater sources of wisdom—wisdom we ignore at our peril.
Hence… this new program.
In October, thirteen of us gathered at MEAWisdom’s Santa Fe campus—the expansive 2,600-acre Rising Circle Ranch—to beta test what I now call the Listening Playground™.
The invitation was simple:
What might be revealed if we devoted ourselves to listening beyond the mind?
What unfolded was beyond words.
We listened to our bodies, to the land, to timing and synchronicity, to the whispers of intuition, to our individual ways of knowing.
We listened to each other in ways that opened doors we couldn’t have anticipated.
And we listened together for a new story for our world—one that invites us to live it now and bring it into form together.
And not only was it profound—it was easy.
As Bruce Mezan reflected:
“We didn’t have to ‘work’ to find insight; we simply opened ourselves to being found by it.”
Perhaps it is simply human to cling to our ideas of how things should be, instead of recognizing the much larger intelligence at play.
Today, I look back on a life that unfolded in ways I never could have imagined—and recognize I didn’t have to make it so hard. You mean I can substitute grace and joy for drama and trauma by trusting all the ways Life is speaking to me? I’m in!
My wish for you in this new year and always is this:
That you know your life is guided and blessed—not only in hindsight, but as you are living it.
If you sense it is time to step into a higher dimension of both your speaking and your life—and to stretch your imagination for what’s possible—I invite you to join me on the Listening Playground!
Bring your big questions—for yourself and for the collective.
We will explore the oft-forgotten compass that points us back to ourselves—and forward into a future we can’t yet see.
This can only deepen the impact of our speaking as we Listen for the new story.
P.S. This is the work that carries us into who we can be—as speakers, as humans, and as contributors to a world in transition.
With Transformational Speaking, you let your life speak.
With Transformational Listening, you let Life speak to you.
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