Yesterday I grabbed a coffee with my friend, Simon, who is visiting us in Portugal for a few days.
He shared an update on his RegenChoice project, designed to help people connect with the job, community, or partner they’re looking for. Kind of like a matchmaking service for all kinds of connections.
Simon explained the challenge in connecting people lies in what he calls “ontological commoning,” finding a shared language so that people can understand each other.
All of this was quite interesting, if a bit academic for my taste, (that’s Simon!), and then we started talking about levels of consciousness. I began explaining the Three Principles understanding, which has been profoundly transformational for both me and my clients.
“That’s a very useful story,” he said.
I bristled.
How dare he refer to the spiritual understanding that had transformed my life as just a story?
I wanted to argue, to defend my position. I wanted him to get it. Really, I wanted him to agree with me. It felt awful.
So I stopped myself before those fighting words had a chance to come out. I thought about what I really wanted to say, and noticed something.
What he said was true. Every spiritual framework, philosophy or wisdom tradition we use to point to the truth is a story, not the truth itself. Even the ones that speak to the deepest part of us.
My need to be right – the ego’s favorite game – was exactly the thing standing in the way of the connection I really wanted.
So I said, “You’re right. It is a story. And isn’t it wonderful that we have as many stories to point to the truth as there are people to tell them?”
And like that, the argument disappeared. We heard each other. We felt connected.
It was a poetic demonstration of exactly the problem Simon is trying to solve, and probably did more to show the effectiveness of my story about how life works than any argument I could have made.
Which brings me to this…
The IMPACT membership is full of beautiful stories like these – moments of connection, clarity, and creative transformation. Not because we have the “right” story, but because we create space for people to discover their own.
If you’ve been curious, now’s the perfect time to step inside.
https://www.theawakenedbusiness.com/impactinvite/
Yours in love and play,
Steph
If you enjoyed this article, join my daily Wildspire emails list here for more playful and provocative musings on business, being gloriously human and changing the world.
