Acid Test

When hearing from the other about you

Is it easy to listen to a story about you?

Can you lower your defences?

Do you trust the other enough to believe that they are lowering theirs? That they are hearing a bit of their own story in what they say?

Have they ever said so?

Do they give you the benefit of the doubt when you fail?

There is no guide here. No “if 4-6 YES then…”

When hearing from the other about you, there is the choice of an exit

A stopping, leaving, transforming

A journeying

A bit more alone

A bit more open to possibility

Or there is the choice of a deepening

A staying, creating, practising, adapting

A nesting

A bit more together

A bit more open to co-creation

But to find the choice-maker

You have to slow down

Breathe

Notice the admixture composite you hold in your hand

it’s weight it’s

speckled shimmer rough elation firm fragrant metal earth ore

How radical does you choice need to be? What is your body telling you?

We often say “I can’t make that kind of choice, because this and that.”

But “this and that” are also choices

“This and that”

Impurities mixed with gold

Mixed with you and the other when hearing from the other about you