I have a dream of one day offering a year-long embodied exploration of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. But not today.

Today, I am setting the intention of sharing with you thoughts, ideas, explorations prompted by my (mostly) daily reading of Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People from a somatic movement and embodiment perspective.

The January 1st quote is this:

If we want to change a situation, we first have to change ourselves. And to change ourselves effectively, we first have to change our perspectives.

My rewriting of the January 1st quote is as follows:

If we want to change a situation, we first have to change ourselves in relationship to the situation.

And to change ourselves -our actions and our thoughts - we first need to be able to observe the wealth of sensory information that our body is experiencing in response to the given situation as well as the reactions our body is experiencing to memories and unprocessed emotions of PAST situations that have had a similar resonance to this present moment situation.

These sensations are the basis of our perceptions, our thoughts and our actions.

The practice of slowing down, observing, and allowing space to be in the reality of this moment (as compared to being in reaction to things not actually in this present moment),

THIS is how we change our perceptions.

Thoughts? Comments? I would love to hear them.