TM topic 352 How do you respond to pressure?
I don't think there's anything very unique in how I respond to pressure. I do what I need to do and move on. There's not much time for standing still and letting it sink in. It's more like put out one fire and move on to the next. I'm very good at that. Compartmentalizing so that I can keep moving from one fire to the next. Tony told me once in regards to my job that I should "absorb and deflect" and I suppose that's as good a description as any.
Deadlines, due dates, appointments, meetings, demands and requests aren't the sort of pressure that effects me most. It may hurry my step or guide the direction I'm moving in but for the most part it rolls off my back. The pressure that reaches me, effects me - that's the pressure I can find from being 100' underwater in the middle of a large body of water. The openness, the grandness, the feeling of being a fragile infinitessmal speck in something so much larger than myself...that is the kind of pressure that I consider important. Knowing that you could be crushed and yet putting yourself there anyway, embracing the pressure and letting it take you under while trusting it to bring you back up again that is something I only find in solitude and underwater.
Deadlines, due dates, appointments, meetings, demands and requests aren't the sort of pressure that effects me most. It may hurry my step or guide the direction I'm moving in but for the most part it rolls off my back. The pressure that reaches me, effects me - that's the pressure I can find from being 100' underwater in the middle of a large body of water. The openness, the grandness, the feeling of being a fragile infinitessmal speck in something so much larger than myself...that is the kind of pressure that I consider important. Knowing that you could be crushed and yet putting yourself there anyway, embracing the pressure and letting it take you under while trusting it to bring you back up again that is something I only find in solitude and underwater.