Thanks for the honest sharing. This post has me thinking about how different our times are, which calls for different interpersonal skills that may or may not be what we had to lean on before. What would that look like for each of us to go through a radical inner transformation to better show up for our times? Where are we out of balance and what parts have we disowned in the efforts to survive past circumstances? As Jung said, our shadows are full of untapped potential and creativity. Any huge shift in society invites us to make radical shifts within ourselves, given the nature of mutual arising and our inherent interdependency with life systems.
For me, I think practicing more silence and pauses in conversations would be a transformational experience for me. Not needing to solely use my excitement and stimulation of ideas as fuel for conversation. Yet for you and the rest of the world, we each will have our own unique journey through that process.
Thanks for the thoughtful comment. Reading it brought to mind the idea of structure. Much of social reality is structured for some kinds of communications over others. This is useful but also limiting. So I feel like the inner piece needs to be accompanied by the right kinds of spaces for good communication to take place.
Totally agree that the right kinds of spaces are definitely important. Yet I think we need to do the inner piece work no matter what space is available for us.
Makes sense to me, I think some communication-based practices would solve a lot of issues... some people too loquacious others not heard enough.... and everything in-between.
Just my 2 cents