Personal Spirit-Play and Prosper

The whole role of spirituality in business and its value has been pooh-poohed alot quite simply because it is associated with woo~woo and intiatives that were not tied back to meaning. If you set aside that personal spirit is an expression of outlook (lens on life), initiative (taking action) and sense of control (even in small measures) you can allow that personal spirit shows up as global initiative like the work being done by Communicopia and The Elders Or the increasing percentage of social enterprise businesses who are all about all three.

Meanwhile, traditional businesses drones on thinking it is business as usual when in fact the world is changing rapidly. Who is ready for the ride?

Millineals are. Indigo kids are. Gen X~ many are. Boomers~ some...depends on how much personal growth they have done. Traditionalists~ well you can find the odd person who has opened their mind to raging new ideas but for the most part the mindsets are pretty fixed. Mindset and spirit are not the same but they are related.

The impact of mass collaboration is that when people can freely express themselves, they do. Not rocket science but not yet fully absorbed at the executive and management levels. The flip from command-control style to participatory management is about releasing the human spirit so people can do what they naturally want to do.

When people repress themselves they create either depression or get aggressive. The energy has to go somewhere and spirit is energy lets face it! It makes sense then that companies are creating their own health and stress-related illness just by repressing people's desire to contribute to results. This makes no sense, or if it does someone please explain.

A recent interview with Dr. Nelie Johnson lays out the scientific and medical knowledge that supports this. To listen to the audio of the one-hour discussion where she lays out her journey from doctor to healer, the definition and root cause of disease (from research done in France), blocks to healing and how to help people engage click here  : http://www.audioacrobat.com/play/WB1TDGm4 

To download the audio and listen at your leisure click on this link: http://dawnajones.audioacrobat.com/download/DrNelieDoctorTurnedHealer.mp3

In the end, you wind up being pointed to the need to evolve, grow, adapt, flex, let go, embrace and how to know the difference. Absenteeism, addictions, stress-related illness are indicators of a culture of repression not expression. All of this in unconscious and invisible unless you know how and what to watch for. More indicators up next.....