A practice in seeing yourself as a positive influence in the world. You breathe in the good around you and amplify it as you breathe out.
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About This Practice
Most of the work in the 4-Steps™ is about what happens inside us. This one looks outward, at what we bring into a room.
The belief being worked on here is one many people carry without examining it: that they are, at best, neutral. That whether they show up makes no real difference to anyone. It is a quiet belief and rarely stated, but it shapes a great deal, because someone who thinks they add nothing tends to withdraw.
So this practice asks you to take a different position and sit with it. You draw in the good that is already around you, hold it, and send it back out amplified rather than diminished. That is not a metaphor about energy. It is a rehearsal of a belief about your own worth and effect.
Value is one of the three themes underneath every difficult emotion, alongside trust and acceptance, and this is the practice that works on it most directly. It also has an outward effect. People who believe they contribute something behave differently toward others, and others notice.
Micro Practice: Three Breaths
Before you walk into a room, take three breaths.
- Breathe and become present.
- Breathe in the good that is already here.
- Breathe out and add something to it.