Drop the Rocks

I know ‘drop the rock’ is an adage in Twelve Step traditions.

The wisdom is that carrying stones as your daily companion makes living life weighty and hard. It obscures you from living now.

It's very human thing to do. 

I've been thinking about this and wondering if it would be worthwhile to let go, but keep a pile on the ‘back forty of your life’.

Those are words from author and teacher Stephen Jenkinson.

The stones are your regrets. 

I'll say this.  There's not a lot of wisdom living with no regrets.

Hear me out.

You don't need to wear them as a badge or as a victim. 

But a little weight-bearing is useful as a reminder to practice being present, steadying you as you navigate the choices you need to make for yourself, and those humans who live and work with you. 

And, visit the rock pile from time to time. This will be a reminder of the bittersweetness of life, and to live more presently. 

It's an ongoing dance between being weighted but not drowned by your regrets.

We can all learn from woulda, coulda, shoulda. 

This makes us kind, generous humans in the world of cultural amnesia and harshness.

It’s time to let go.

And, I’ve been thinking what if you created a business from the rock-pile—compost-heap of miscommunications, people quitting, not making payroll, all the things small businesses go through on the daily?

One of the outcomes is you’d be an effective leader and one powerful human beinig!

Are you guided by purpose, contribution, while lifting humanity up?

You have a commitment to be and allow other humans to be better humans. 

You’re more about collaborating and less about conquering (actually, phase out empire-building, zero sum game ways of being and running organizations).

From a recent client: 5 stars 

My Heart Stone experience guided by Mary Morrison was truly evolutionary and cleared some blocks of the past, keeping me from experiencing a new level of intimacy freedom in my partnership. 

This freedom has helped move me forward in all other areas of my life…. work, family, friendships. I can lead myself first and foremost and this enables me to lead others from a place of strength and integrity. 

I am grateful for Mary’s exquisite ability to hold an impeccable space of safety with empathy, compassion and deep wisdom. 

Clearly Mary has embodied and embraced the practices she utilizes, offering a wealth of personal experience to aid us in learning to lead ourselves first with heart-centered success. 

As the Chief Heart Officer of an IT Company, DTC, Inc., I have seen this type of personal growth work improve the company culture of a work environment. After all, every work environment consists of human beings offering so many different energies into the work environment that can sometimes be stifling to positive morale, and stifle productivity success with the products/services a company delivers. 

This type of work Mary is doing is the key to changing the human to consciously lead themselves first so they may then lead others from a place of strength. 

This changes work environments for the better! Thank you, Mary Morrison.

My clients know their bodies and their businesses are inextricably linked.

The leader's health = business health.

Business health = community health.

Community health =planetary health.

Post modernist western medical models unintentionally (or intentionally) don't see humans as an ecosystem connected to the outer ecosystem.

So within, so without.

So above, so below.

The thinking we're separate from each other is where illness lives.

I consult with organizations, starting with creating effective leadership, to show you how to intentionally design presence and calm so you infect your organization into a culture that nurtures your vision. 

Together, we plant and tend the seed to grow your strategic mission and vision for an organization and world that works for all.