Cross-Training Body Mind Emotions Spirit | Rachael R. Resch

There are about 23 people in this Blue Belt group, including two trainers who are learning to lead Blue Belts, one Black Belt, Brown Belt me, and a handful of other belts who come in to audit one or two sessions.  In the past I’ve felt lonely in a large group like this.  So I’m focusing on bringing presence both to my relationship with myself and with the other people so I won’t feel isolated.

I am focusing on bringing clarity, boundaries and compassion to that aspect of my mental realm that attempts to distract me from the task at hand with thoughts, especially worrying and negative thoughts.  I am bringing curiosity, fatigue, willingness, excitement, love, fear, peace and engagement to my relationship with the Blue Belt training.

In Blue Belt Principle #5, The Power of Three: Relationship, we learn that a relationship consists of me, the other person and the relationship itself.  This principle teaches that when I look at what I bring to the relationship (instead of what I do or don’t do to the other person), I will see a reflection of myself.  In that reflection there is no blame or judgment, just information.  We take the focus off self or other and put it on what we bring to the relationship.  The relationship is a garden that we tend by what we bring to it.  If I look at what I am bringing to a relationship, I can see what is and isn’t nurturing it.