http://leadingcoachescenter.com/blog/leadership/ever-thought-about-your-role-as-an-inspirer Sat, 05 Nov 2011 01:42:52 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 hourly 1 http://leadingcoachescenter.com/blog/leadership/ever-thought-about-your-role-as-an-inspirer/comment-page-1#comment-6 Meredith Kimbell Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:15:47 +0000 http://leadingcoachescenter.com/?p=420#comment-6 Opening possibilities, assisting leaders to stay in their most resourceful, creative states, celebrating successes, challenging, and helping to set systems that encourage others to contribute their best are obvious ways we inspire. I am exploring what inspiriation has to do with breathing. When we hold our breath, we are stuck, fearful and contracted. When we literally in-spire, we nourish, energize and open. When we ex-pire, we let go, cleanse and allow new in-spiration. The deeper the letting go, the greater the inspiration.... In our fast, stress encouraging world, what would it mean to explore breathing as a powerful, foundational resource? Rather than "woo-woo," I am growing in my interest in it as a meaningful, contribution to health, creativity and the bottomline. Thoughts? Opening possibilities, assisting leaders to stay in their most resourceful, creative states, celebrating successes, challenging, and helping to set systems that encourage others to contribute their best are obvious ways we inspire.
I am exploring what inspiriation has to do with breathing. When we hold our breath, we are stuck, fearful and contracted. When we literally in-spire, we nourish, energize and open. When we ex-pire, we let go, cleanse and allow new in-spiration. The deeper the letting go, the greater the inspiration….
In our fast, stress encouraging world, what would it mean to explore breathing as a powerful, foundational resource? Rather than “woo-woo,” I am growing in my interest in it as a meaningful, contribution to health, creativity and the bottomline. Thoughts?

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