In a recent
Huffington Post blog, Dr. Cara Barker posed some provocative questions for this
season of introspection, contemplation and gratitude as follows:
·
What are we doing to bring about a world of collaborative action
for our children and our children’s children, seeded today in our thinking and
harvested tomorrow?
·
Are we willing to find the naysayer inside our own head and “out”
him when he gets in the way of living more gratefully, more spontaneously?
These
are especially good questions for us as women for as women we hold special
attributes which can, if encouraged, strengthened and used can bring about this
world of collaboration. As women, it is
in our nature to look for how individual actions affect the whole. We are more likely to see the interconnectedness
within the world, more likely to look for common bonds and relate to others
from an understanding of common goals.
Small
changes in ourselves can make big changes in the world. As we meet with family and friends over this
Thanksgiving week, I hope you will join me in being an observer as well as a
participant. Notice, as I will be doing:
·
Do I listen to my inner knowing or my inner terrorist, conforming
to the prevailing attitude?
·
Do I support conversations of “us vs. them” either actively or
passively?
·
Am I willing to look past the things that irritate me about people
or that I disagree with in people to find the good in them?
·
Do I teach by my example the kind of world I would like to pass on
to my children?
I
wonder what I will learn and how it will help me and my family to have a
wonderful Thanksgiving. May you enjoy
this season of gratefulness as well.
To
read more about the qualities we have as women that can support us in changing
the world, I would recommend “Awakening The Essential Feminine: Claiming Your
Influential Power” by Maureen Simon available on Amazon.com and Maureen’s
website – www.TheEssentialFeminine.com.
Judie
Fouchaux
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