This is a practice that has captured my attention for several months where I work: a large non-profit which adopted a small 20-year-old non-profit I cofounded with a friend who has ALS. \u00c2\u00a0 Going about my business trying to help disabled clients directly, one-on-one (a leaf on the tree of an organization with hundreds of employees), I kept thinking about the organization as a whole (a top-down, chain-of-command agency) and how, like any natural entity such as a tree or the human body, to be healthy it needs to allow communication in both directions. \u00c2\u00a0I finally wrote up a couple of pages and gave it to the CEO (talking about the collaborative need for both efferent and afferent nerves in the human body , recounting an experience of sitting at a Zen retreat after which my leg was numb for the next half year, and how this was not a good way for my mind to take care of my body, etc). \u00c2\u00a0The CEO was interested enough to invite me out for lunch last Monday, so we could talk more. \u00c2\u00a0But I don’t yet see that I have nudged this man who is \u00c2\u00a0in charge to do anything differently. \u00c2\u00a0I’m glad I made this communication (which felt like something prompted from the Field Communique in a rather holistic way), but now I feel like a witness, not an actor, in how this organization goes about it’s long-established, rather inertial path). \u00c2\u00a0And I wonder, in our daily lives, does even the urge to change how things happen come down to an opportunity for awareness and for the spontaneous communications that may not have any noticeable affect on the people with whom we communicate. \u00c2\u00a0As an acquaintance of mine, who spent several years dying of ALS, put it: “Kiss it, Bless it, and let if Fly.” \u00c2\u00a0And in the process the harvest may be a loosening up of the experience of being stuck in the accidental place where life’s conditioning has plopped us down.– Michael<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This is a practice that has captured my attention for several months where I work: a large non-profit which adopted a small 20-year-old non-profit I cofounded with a friend who has ALS. \u00c2\u00a0 Going about my business trying to help … Continue reading