Awareness
"What do you get from loss? You get awareness of other people's loss." Anderson Cooper and Stephen Colbert talk about Gratitude https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u663u-SLIjQ
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"If I'm walking across the room and you want to help me because I'm stumbling, your instinct would be to want to put your hand under my armpit and your hand on my back and drag me across the room. It's not what I need. I need you to put your hand out so I can touch it. That's all I need. Then I know where I am in space and I can walk. The minute someone grabs me, now they're controlling the movement and I'm screwed because I can't overwhelm that force. If someone just lets me touch them, then I can walk a mile." - Michael J Fox, https://vm.tiktok.com/ZM2ddn8em/ Michael is referring to his relationship with people and his Parkinson's condition. However, the experience he describes is almost word-for-word transferable to all relationships between people. The best explanation I've seen about this concept if from Buck Brannaman. He describes very simply and clearly that working with horses is about guidance rather than force. People behave the...