Frank’s Coaching Blog

When I was younger I loved organizing events, and I did a lot of it. I was pretty successful as well. A reason for my success was that I hardly forget to think of important details. I figured out much later how I did it. My secret was that I saw everything happening in my mind in Slow Motion before it actually happened. That way I could look around and check out what was going on in every corner of the venue where the event was taking place. Like a movie director and cutter  I could make changes, go forward and backward in the film. Then what happened during the event was Magic Rushrooms. What took ages of detail-oriented planning just happened in a blitz.

Recently I wondered how I could miss important details in several of my projects. No harm was done, but missing the details would later bite me when I had to put in much extra effort to get things straight.

One day when waking up my mind somehow slipped into the center of my body, around my solar plexus, and suddenly my whole life slowed down. I was again able to observe every detail, even my thoughts that lead to certain actions. That gave me an immediate feeling of better control on what I was doing.

One of my coaches requested me to practice slowness. As a way to do this she suggested I could do a breath meditation with no immediate goal apart from slowing down. I’ve done this a couple of times sofar, and it really helps to get back to the old state of being able to observe and influence, although it’s not yet the same power that I felt when I woke up that morning.

Frank