Starting A New Tradition – Send Some Lovingkindness on the Equinox!
I’ve had this woo-woo, new-agey idea kicking around my head since early 2007. It first popped into my consciousness during a weekend seminar on Energy Leadership, conducted by the amazing teachers at the Institute of Professional Excellence in Coaching (IPEC), from which I received my coaching instruction and certifications. For the final project of our training that weekend, we were encouraged to “think outside of the box” and come up with original, radical ideas that would spread the concept of Energy Leadership. (What is Energy Leadership? The mastery of one’s actions and reactions through increased self-awareness. By acknowledging and accepting responsibility for our thoughts and beliefs, and the emotions and behaviors we allow them to produce, we can better choose our responses to the slings and arrows of life. We can decide the grace - or lack thereof - with which we navigate through our days, and better determine our own experience of life....