There is a constant message out there to step outside your comfort zone, challenge yourself, face your fears etc... What has become more and more clear to me is that a person's comfort zone is based on their own personal wants and desires. So often it has based on what society deems as important.
We have been in a competitive based, success driven world for too long now and that's finally shifting. We are heading into a very different time in our evolutionary consciousness and it will call for different types of people. This is being talked about more and more in the mainstream.
There will be more focus on collaboration, service, purpose, and community. Basically a very different world than what we have been used to until now. The people who are impacting our world will have a very different message.
I named our tribe"Waking Brilliants" because I see Brilliants as those people who have been staying quiet, hiding their brilliance or protecting themselves from a high pressure, competitive and critical world.
It's those people who are highly sensitive, who gather lots of information as they go through life but don't often share it because it's too overwhelming. For "High Sensitives" the world is not nearly safe enough or gentle enough to allow them to share safely.
The unfortunate thing is that "High Sensitives" are a wealth of information. They gather information from all their senses. They pick up on nuances, they feel other people so acutely that in a lot of cases it causes them pain. Their comfort zone, their world, looks very different than someone who is a highly competitive extrovert. The pressure is invigorating for some types of personalities while debilitating for others.
Daniel Pink in A Whole New Mind talks about the power that empathy will have on our future society, Brenee Brown talks about the power of vulnerability. In the book Quiet, Susan Cain talks about the introverts.
All of these people who we don't hear from because of the environment we have cultivated, make up a huge percentage of the population that haven't had a voice until now. Those are the "brilliants" that I talk about and that is where gentleness plays a key role.
By creating a new culture of gentleness, understanding and compassion in our world, we make space for those who hold the keys to unlock our future to step forward and share. We will start to hear about the amazing gifts and invaluable insights that these human sensitivity geniuses have to share.
Gentleness and openness creates an environment for them to feel safe and secure enough to join the conversation of life and to share their brilliance. We have been living our life and been educated with only half the story. These Brilliants are a key element to our survival as a community.
To allow for this change it's as simple as cultivating gentleness, kindness and understanding, firstly with ourselves and then with those around us. Then watch it start to spread and see who steps up to speak and what they have to say. We are heading into very exciting and enlightening times.
Marilyn Foreman is a human potential catalyst, a speaker, trainer, facilitator, author, Parenting, Life and Business coach and founder of Waking "Brilliants" and Inspiring Parents and Kids.
She has a Bachelor of Child Study and has worked with parents for over 30 years, studied vibrational psychology, wavelength and energetics for 20 years, has decades of training in personal development and years in the corporate world. With her courses books and podcasts, she specializes in teaching, inspiring, encouraging and empowering women (primarily) to realize their brilliance, their gifts and talents so they can share themselves with the world.
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