Tip 2: Look
By maestro. Filed in Productivity |
List everything you know about a conflict. What do you believe? What do your opponents believe? What is clashing? What are the constraints? What is causing you and others anxiety? Just as writing a to-do list when the workload becomes overwhelming eases the stress, pulling together what you now know about a situation helps move you toward resolution and away from exploding!
Tip 2: Look
We can use many information resources to help us answer the question posed by a conflict. Vasilisa’s doll, symbolizing intuition or our inner voice, demonstrates the power of also looking to nontraditional sources. Some consider these “signs from the heavens” that will give us clues about where to proceed in this conflict. Open your inner and outer “eyes,” and you may see the solution.
Look To Your Dreams: Calls From The Pillow
Dreams are regarded as a valuable and accepted source of insight, inspiration, and guidance by virtually every cultural tradition in the world. Tibetans spend their lives watching and working with dreams. The Aborigines of Australia see their dreams as the most powerful aspect of their time on this earth. The Old and New Testaments speak of powerful waking dreams, visions, and sleeping dreams that changed history. Jungian and other psychological philosophies look to our dreams to decipher internal conflict and to gauge our mental health.
The function of dreams is to teach the waking mind how to forget what it thinks it knows but doesn’t.
— William R. Stimson
Since conflict as a state asks for an expanded or shifted perspective, listening to our dreams can provide great insight as our minds reprocess gathered information in novel ways. Just like our conversations, not all our dreams will yield tremendous, conflict-transforming insights. Author Kelly Buckeley states that cross-culturally dreams are watched warily since misinterpretation has caused great strife and conflict throughout history. Some dreams are classified as “true, meaningful and/or spiritually valuable, and other dreams as false, meaningless and/or spiritually insignificant.” However, we can often feel when a dream is ripe with information.
Taken From : The Way of Conflict—Elemental Wisdom for Resolving Disputes and Transcending Differences
