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| Executive Coaching and Spirituality |
By: Santi Chacon
Executive Coach
She inhales deeply at the intrusion, flustered she lifts up her eyes from her computer screen, leans back in her chair, and stares at the VP of Operations. 'What Now!' she thinks, as she attempts to put a smile on her face. She listens to his concerns trying not to roll her eyes, least he take it personally. Nodding as she listens she could feel her heart rate quicken. "I told you...Paul', she scolds. 'I know..I know, I am sorry,' he mutters cowardly looking at the carpet. Feeling betrayed she politely asks Paul to leave her office. Paul quickly and humbly accepts her invitation to exit. He knows that his job and friendship are on the line, even if he acts quickly to resolve the issues at hand; he just needs more time.
All she needs is found in a breath. A breath is a gift from God to assist her on focusing on the present. God is found in the present moment, not in the future, which is a figment of her imagination or the past. Being still will help to dilute the internal torment of her anger and the taunting of her desire to keep composure. She can work to avoid the feelings of anger and betrayal that are currently overwhelming her and begging her to react.
Our Passions
Jesus: You have heard that it was said to the men of old, You shall not kill, and whoever kills shall be liable to and unable to escape the punishment imposed by the court. But I say to you that everyone who continues to be angry with his brother or harbors malice (enmity of heart) against him shall be liable to and unable to escape the punishment imposed by the court; and whoever speaks contemptuously and insultingly to his brother shall be liable to and unable to escape the punishment imposed by the Sanhedrin, and whoever says, You cursed fool! [You empty-headed idiot!] shall be liable to and unable to escape the hell (Gehenna) of fire.
Jesus makes reference to a moral standard (the ten commandments) and uses the concepts of the higher courts or the Sanhedrin as symbols of authority and judgment. There were acts in the Jewish community that required judgment and societal consequence. He soon correlates an act of rage to an attitude of heart, which is the seed of murder. He narrows the act of murder to the spirit of murder and the acting out of anger toward another.
A spiritual professional understands that displayed anger leads to down a path of illusion in a world where love is the only reality.
The relationship of anger to attack is obvious, but the relationship of anger to fear is not always so apparent. Anger always involves projection of separation, which must ultimately be accepted as one's own responsibility, rather than being blamed on others. Anger cannot occur unless you believe that you have been attacked, that your attack is justified in return, and that you are in no way responsible for it. Given these three wholly irrational premises, the equally irrational conclusion that a brother is worthy of attack rather than of love must follow. What can be expected from insane premises except an insane conclusion? The way to undo an insane conclusion is to consider the sanity of the premises on which it rests. You cannot be attacked, attack has no justification, and you areresponsible for what you believe.
You have been asked to take me [Jesus] as your model for learning, since an extreme example is a particularly helpful learning device. Everyone teaches, and teaches all the time. This is a responsibility you inevitably assume the moment you accept any premise at all, and no one can organise his life without some thought system. Once you have developed a thought system of any kind, you live by it and teach it. Your capacity for allegiance to a thought system may be misplaced, but it is still a form of faith and can be redirected.
-ACIM
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