The fingers on my left hand count the number of people in my life who are intimately synced with the flow of life. These few folks have mastered dynamic steering, dynamic resilience, dynamic flow, and dynamic wonder. These amazing people embody human flesh and are real connections – not Mother Theresa or Mahatma Ghandhi. And while the former leaders deeply inspire me, my teachers are the ones who face me, hug me, and consistently demonstrate behavior that burns truth in my heart and directs me toward exquisite now. These exemplars reflect the fresh muscles we are called to develop in this delicate and mysterious time… December of 2015.

Because I have tasted and even cruised in this spicy flow, I write from my direct experience. I write from my longing to continuously flow. I write from my heart knowing that this is the MoneyMoves^® issue which may have no mention of money. But seriously, you could add the word “disruption” to any topic about money. Most money angst feels like a disruption.

Life is a promise of disruptions! What? Yes, you read that correctly. An American English dictionary defines disruption as an unwelcome or unexpected break in a process or activity, the suspension of usual activity, a state of disorder caused by outside influence. Tell me an extended period that you did not experience a disruption and I will tell you that you occupied the fantasy world of Stepford people.

Are you interpreting disruptions as negative? Probably. I used to. I experienced most disruptions as – an interruption – something happening to me, against me. Even the definitions put a darker spin to them.

Within my master’s program with Integral Coaching of Canada, I am finding the opportunity to clean up my relationship with disruptions. To create new practices for building new muscles, and to acknowledge the strengths I embody which are built from disruptions. Below is a partial list of my current, right smack in the moment, disruptions:

Friend giving birth to twins
College age children home for the holidays
Aging parents, and mother receiving radiation treatment
Menopause, dry skin and rosacea
Home repairs from last winter’s damage
Daughter’s college graduation
Birthdays
Business planning, year-end completions – in all forms – for clients and members
Emails – spam and profound – way TOO many
Clutter and stuff in every crevice of the house
People I love, and others, wanting my attention

What are your disruptions? Take a minute to jot a few of them down.

Let’s not limit the disruptions to our own small circle. Global events fill our fields with deep care and concern for the many whose troubled lives would welcome what is on our lists of disruptions. In fact, aren’t many disruptions positive?

So what is it about disruptions that cause us to crumble, stumble, and bumble? Our disruption muscle asks us to deepen and widen in this moment. Let us create more space and gain access to the reality that DISRUPTIONS ARE THE SPICE OF LIFE. As I am learning from my Spirit of Practice program with Integral Coaching of Canada, dynamic flow activates the following ways of being in the spice of life.

• I am able to hold a long view.
• I am able to express a thoughtful response rather than a reactive response.
• I am able to answer what is called for that serves a wider field.
• I am able to take action in the context of a higher possible future.
• I am able to be open, to me, to others and to systems.
• In the midst of it all, I am able to experience grace.

I am not always able. Being able is not full embodiment but reflects the benefit of a practice. Being committed and practicing expands inspiration, direction and fruition. Simple, profound, and workable. I can’t realize full potential without a clear intention, finding meaning, a committed practice, and including my body. Below is my current example.

Intention: I intend to be the ocean, the wave and the energy that moves with the spice of life.

Meaning: As life evolves, being able to dynamically flow enables me to engage life wholly and skillfully, manifesting my reason for being. I welcome disruptions as the spice of life.

Body Practice: When I experience agitation, confusion, or surprise in a disruption, I place my right hand on my heart, my left hand on my belly. I feel the temperature, movement and pressure inside my body. I notice my thoughts and let them flow, like a wave. I state, “I am here. What wants to happen?”

Results: Grounded presence, smooth pace, hold a bigger perspective, lighthearted, open delight, connected and, yes, grace in the humility of being human.

You will notice the use of the word dynamic in this writing. The word commands respect. It is one of my favorite, descriptive power words – landing squarely on the truth of this is it.

Dynamic: Vigorous and purposeful: full of energy, enthusiasm, and a sense of purpose and able both to get things going and to get things done; Active and changing: characterized by vigorous activity and producing or undergoing change and development; Relating to energy and motion: PHYSICS involving or relating to energy and forces that produce motion.

Dynamic allows us to meet each and every situation or moment with intimate unfiltered presence. It claims our body as a necessary part of the picture. You can fool yourself into thinking that you are present to disruptions. But, you cannot fool yourself when you realize that your body wisdom allows for the skillful ways of being to dynamically spontaneously arise.

Welcoming disruptions as the spice of life,

Gayle