“In this seemingly endless cycle of failure, our inner voice becomes quite the Chatty Cathy.”
New Beginnings
Written by Mhairi Dunlop
Fresh starts and new beginnings – what’s not to love? A chance to right the wrongs and fix the past, then everything will be all right in the world and we can start living our lives ‘properly’. However, how many of us find ourselves trying to ‘right those wrongs’ by using the same old methods and tools? Before long we find ourselves in a rut of repetitive actions and repetitive results of mediocrity.
In this seemingly endless cycle of failure, our inner voice becomes quite the Chatty Cathy; growing in aptitude to crush our confidence, smash our self-esteem and destroy any belief that we are worthy of what others appear to achieve with ease. We resign ourselves to the ‘fact’ that we are lesser beings; that we were never destined to have a good job, career success or loving, caring partner. As if this were not bad enough, Chatty Cathy also ensures we understand that if we can have that job, career success and loving, caring partner we will attain that all important goal of ‘happiness’. So we wake every morning telling ourselves today will be different but nothing different happens – and very soon we find ourselves wondering just when did our lives become Groundhog Day?
That was me – albeit sitting on a balcony in Tokyo, but there I was, channelling David Byrne asking myself “How did I get here?” I was living a life that would have scored highly on the scale of society’s understanding of happiness – good job, travel
ling the world, great friends and a loving, caring family – but there I was, in a rut that just seemed to get deeper and I was becoming more and more despondent. Gina and I would chat daily, often discussing the day’s frustrations, invariably concluding ‘there must be a better way’. And so the seeds of Spatial Awareness were sown.
Today, we both feel we have found a better way. For some, including myself, it takes a traumatic event to wake us up to a better approach to life. For me, it was breast cancer; I’m stable now thanks to the wonderful love and care I received, but my life will literally never be the same again – thank goodness. I was finally out of my rut of people-pleasing and rudderless direction. Yes, the journey at times has been (for it is still ongoing) tricky but on the way you
discover, amongst many things, what and who is truly important. It has helped me live my life with the respect it and I deserve.
The good news is we don’t all need to wait for the proverbial bus to hit us before we make the changes necessary to make sense of our world and get on with living.
But where to start? Since those heady days on the balcony in Tokyo, Gina and I have explored and studied many diverse tools. Gina focussed on making organizations better: change management, organizational analysis and governance. I immersed myself in all things about the ‘self’: from the Silva Method to quantum jumping [yes it really is a thing]; energy healing to meditation, with a degree in psychology and training as an EFT (Tapping) practitioner thrown in for good measure. Needless to say some things worked; others not so much.
I made sense of what was happening to me through trial and error; many trials and many, many errors. Now, while this is in itself a way to learn, it is highly time intensive with no guarantee of success. However through all this research and study, Spatial Awareness has developed into a solid philosophy founded on a concrete repository of streamlined, tried-and-tested methods, alongside psychologically-informed and evidence-based knowledge that we would love to share with you, your team and your organisation. We can save you the years of sweat and tears and work with you to find your better way. Those fresh starts and new beginnings can finally mean just that – all you need to do is call.