Your vibrations help … enormously … - Reason 33

Vibrations are based on thoughts, feelings, emotions and attitude which are all invisible, but they can be felt and impact in decisions.  They influence people in relation to how they feel about a situation, words used, work and other aspects of life.

For the employee, it is the vibration he or she receives from the boss for arriving late or for having done a good job, that is, it is that unspoken energy, an important piece of the communication process as vibrations give a certain strength to words, making them more powerful, more energising, more joyful, or more sad.

Leaders refine thoughts and feelings in such a way as to make better decisions and to create an influential environment, so others feel empowered.  In other words, they create proper vibrations.

As an example, many years ago during a session of Call-of-the-Time Dialogues[1], a very old Indian lady, Dadi Janki, came into a marvellous Victorian-style room where a group of leaders had gathered.  Although some of the people had not met her before, everyone became very silent and after Dadi Janki left, people commented how they felt powerful energy coming from her, they felt in total peace.

A similar thing happens with any leader: their vibrations can change a person’s state of mind or way of working.

(Excerpt from the book 82 Reasons to be a Leader)

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[1] Call-of-the-Time Dialogues is a programme organised by the American scholar Peter Senge and the Brahma Kumaris.  It gathers leaders of different areas for a dialogue on a specific topic or a retreat.  http://www.brahmakumaris.org/us/partnerships/callOfTheTime

The Power of Dialogue

During almost 30 years, I have been practicing meditation and I have been part of a spiritual path, Brahma Kumaris. I am used to tune with different people, places, in a quick way. However, I had a very powerful realization in relation to the power of dialogue, and I want to share it.

The first week-end of December, I had the opportunity to be part of my second Call of the Time. Using the methodology of dialogues, linked to key motivational speeches, I realized the power that lies in the collective in a different way I have known up to that moment.

Under a pouring rain and a climatic change that challenged the forecasting – as the sun showed as it would want to be part of our dialogue as well – we have sat and talked, framed by the landscape that made us all look like we were in some kind of painting, in the mountains near Medellin.

First of all, I’ve realized that by creating a harmonious and creative environment, we are able to evolve our thought within the group. Normally, this happens at an individual level, or maximum in couples or groups of 3, as it is not easy to do it among 30 people. How did we complement ourselves, how did we help and challenge each other to think beyond all we have thought up to that moment?

Second, we shared emotions at very deep levels. We’ve opened our hearts, revealing what we are used to hide behind masks and social expressions. The dialogue enabled us to have courage to use emotions to grow and go beyond the words. It was in this way that the dialogue penetrated the soul, leaving the superficial theoretical level and getting into something experiential.

From emotions, we reached feelings. It s like when you leave the waves towards the depth. It is not simple to go there and in such a short time, with so much people… but I feel we have got to reach very close to share our hearts. We got to overcome inner differences and to become one.

Last, there was the experience we have a future together. There is something, a task or project, we will share, we will be and we will do together. I don’t know what will be, but future was sown in that weekend, in a brilliant way.

The main lesson I keep is the power of the dialogue, something I want to live much more.

The Call of the Time is a leaders’ community that is bein created worldwide.

The Call of the Time

What is the call of the time? At this moment, what is the world calling from its leaders?

Many years ago, The Call of the Time started as a process to create a new community of leaders. Going against all odds, it proposed to create a community of leaders who think, more than doing.

We live in a world of doing and so that is what is so new in relation to COTT - we don't do, we just think and we let our thought get stronger and stronger.

I've participated of its 12th edition. It was in a wonderful place near Oxford, England, where one day Lewis Carroll looked amazed at his student, Alice, and created one of the masterpieces of universal literature; at that same place, a group of leaders get together almost every year to go through the glass that separates us from a better world.

It was a free space where people can say whatever they feel related to the topic. It was a strange title for me, even though I am with spirituality for almost 3 decades: The power of Pure Thoughts in the Collective Experience. But it gained new context in the voice of those people whose lives are dedicated to humankind.

Peter Senge was there. I am a kind of his admirer for many years, since the launch of The Fifth Discipline. He was our facilitator and he was also a participant there. He helped us to open our hearts completely and free ourselves to lead better, to look at others in a better way. Thanks to his magic way - soft, almost non-existent - an American facilitator could share what happened when she got divorced and I was able to share my own situation with my father whom I still never met in person since I was 3. He helped a Muslim sheik meet an Israeli Professional through their hearts which are equals. And he helped us to hear the horrible and fascinating story of a massacre in Africa told by a leader who helped so many at that moment and yet, sounded as he did not do a thing.

If Peter helped our minds to meet, our hearts melt with Dadi Janki, the maximum leader of Brahma Kumaris in the world. When she first entered the hall, she just stopped and looked at each one, with so much force and power. Her contribution was valued as treasure by everyone, it does not matter Dadi does not have any kind of certificate and she had went through proper education only for 3 years in her life. She is a leader everyone wanted to hear and be close to her.

Her example of a small white stone used by Indians in the past to purify water captivated everyone in such an extent that one of the participants collect lots of stones from the soil and gave one to each of us. The idea behind is that if a small stone can purify water that can help so many, what can't we do for the world? That is the power of pure thoughts - to purify the atmosphere around.

The end was emotional: we all stood up and sang Row, Row, Row Your Boat (yes, that song...). There was a unity among us, a common feeling, and one of us let that go, crying. Dadi just embrace her and dried her tears with a big smile. We all left smiling, that is probably why we have COTT - to teach us, leaders, to smile again, a smile that comes from a deep reflection.

Take care!