hello friends,
from guiding a coachee to visualize playing in a container of water to diving deep into the structure of my work, imagining it as a empty house with air flowing through it, the imagery of a container and a flow has been the theme for me lately. these images grounded me in an exploration about sovereignty - a word that describes that ability to fully live your own life.
if what we want is to fully live in our own expression of life, what does this image of container and flow offer us?
i see it as a way to interrogate how we come to know living in our own expression and fulfillment. we are trained into thinking that we need to be taught how to live well or correctly. from grade school all the way to leadership development programs, there is a thread of teaching you how to live the right way. but if we truly reckon with that idea, we recognize we donât need to be taught how to live, we simply need the container to discover, play, express fully so we may find it ourselves.
water doesnât need someone to tell it how to be water, it simply needs the structure to be in all expressions of itself, whether in a cup or in between lands. it is in both having the structure and playing within it that we find our sovereignty, where we find ourselves. when we create the containers for ourselves to be the water, we find our fullest expression of living.
as i play with this more and more i ask myself, what are the containers i need to live in the fullest expression of me? what are, as my loved one Jen Lemen would call, the rhythms, rituals, and routines that give space for the knowings i need? what are the spaces i am holding to find myself?
i invite you to play with this too, my friend: what are the containers you need now to hold you in finding your fullest, most fulfilling, way of living?
