What's a term or word that at first felt very empty to you, but later on gained meaning?
One for me is 'holding space.' I used to think people who said that were hippies with some brain mash going on, but now it's a super real and useful term for me.
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I tried googling this but I didn't feel like I had any luck understanding it - I get presence, letting go of control of others, but not how "holding space" relates to these. Would you be willing to share your understanding of it?
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One example of 'holding space' to me is when a member of a group starts crying while processing something emotional, and everyone sits there in silence, their attention on the person, 'being with' them in their experience.
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'Freedom of association'
'Unenumerated rights'
'Compersion'
All seemed vacuous until they didn't.
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“talk is cheap” and “be careful what you wish for”
It’s the problem with cliches—compact wisdom that seems self-evident is hard to appreciate.
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“Everything happens for a reason.” While many use it in the context of theological control of destiny, which I find the be intellectually void as an idea, I have come to feel that everything that happens is meaningfully connected to everything that has preceded that moment.
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My wife has been using "holding space" recently, and I went through the same transition you did.
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