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Brexit and Becoming Unstuck: An Open Letter to Theresa May
Barcelona, Brexit, Beijing…
My morning radio is full of deadlock and dilemma.
Here’s the thing, when we’re horns to horns with someone, paralysed with no way to ‘get them to move’ then we’ve already lost sight of the answer.
That phrase, “when you’re in a hole stop digging,” comes to mind.
It’s time for something new. I don’t mean ‘new’ in terms of the content of the ideas, I don’t mean “oh try this negotiating strategy,” or “let’s think outside the box,” or working out what the latest blue-sky strategy might have to teach us.
No, I mean a new level of understanding of where the stuckness is coming from and therefore where the solution will come from.
No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
I don’t know that Einstein ever said the words that are often (I suspect mis-)attributed to him, but it’s a cute phrase and it serves a purpose.
Because ‘another level of consciousness’ is exactly what we need right now.
Consciousness (and, please, feel free to call it ‘perspective’ if that’s a more acceptable word in the world in which you move) is what is happening when we see how our experience is created, and…
