On Genuine Listening: What is Wyrd?
Gestalt: Broadcasting our destiny in care of others
“We are all Genius from the moment of conception.”
December 2023
Southern Nevada
When we perceive someone as weird, odd or bizarre we are taking in the GESTALT, the overall perception of what is offered in the moment from our learned perceptions. If we re-act we are in some need of support of deeper ground work in our own self judgement.
What is Weird?
Wyrd ( Wyrrd) is the derivation of a anglo-saxon/norse/germanic origins that connotes one’s Genius ability, unique personal destiny, born from the stars (destinaire).
If we are to take from American psychologist James Hillman the idea of the archetypal Acorn Theory that roughly states: All that can ever be had as a mighty oak tree is found in total in the brilliance of a single acorn.
To reveal our calling or life’s work is contained at the beginning and it is the work in this life to decipher our souls code which is the harbinger of our aspirations built upon our own unique individual character.
Have you found your soul?
When we are lost in the weeds of our life we may internally register an unconscious re-action to others without the full awareness of our own self. The comparison is created of more or less, normal from abnormal.
You might say your patients/clients are strange, odd, unable to pinpoint what it is about their behavior that we may be at odds with.
It is our lens that provides the depth of field of understanding. The greater experiences with self awareness is our sage and wise understanding of others in relationship to and within ourselves. This is a kernel of the Acorn in theory.
In the mystical and cosmological of Chinese Medicine the human-being is an interwoven and highly texturized matter of subatomia. The origin of our emotions are seated in our organ systems as Zang Fu. This is one explanation from milennias’s of understanding. More on this in an upcoming essay.
Rehearsal into Our Future Understanding
It is a practice of many rehearsals and repetitions with many unsuspecting patients and acquaintances along the way as teachers of our own mind state that hone our capacity to better stand under these souls.
IF WE ARE not trained in observation and communication and have not had many interactions with a wide variety of differing quirky proclivities of others we will likely judge unconsciously moreso.
You have witnessed this in your life?
When we heal and let go of any preconceived projection of our own inadequacies of self judgement and our reflection outward from the mirror within we widen our capacity to love everyone in the moment they present themselves to us.
Judgements decisively fails to find its footing forward.
As a wise practitioner we look beyond this prejudgement and consider the relational whole GESTALT of that individual.
Pearl One, Pearl Two:
1. Take a word/term of negation or controlling directive and manage it out of your vernacular such as:
“No”,
“You should…”
“You are suppose to….etc.
Practice and rehearse replacing it with another supporting manner, or no-thing at all.
AND,
2. Before engaging with your client re-mind yourself:
“I will not interrupt and allow more space in silence.”
Blessings and Namaste,
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jin zhong hua