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Hope: Friend or Foe?  Vlog 40

8/2/2020

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Katie Hanus
8/3/2020 01:59:56 pm

I appreciated this, Michael. I have experience with hope as a distraction or denial of present circumstances, and I think that is not always serving me - the clingy “I hope things go the way I most want them to”. But I also have experienced hope as curiosity, as a way to connect with the present moment, by interrupting my thinking brain in rumination. It’s that pause between spaces (a “what if” kind of feeling state) when it’s most nourishing. Held loosely. Loved thinking about this with you, so thank you!

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Michael
8/3/2020 07:03:21 pm

Katie -thanks for joining me in this. It is a weird sort of thing in that I think hope at large is taught to be an important thing. No one ever taught me the shadow side of though. Reading your post what Im realizing it that in community, with support and conversation... perhaps we can help one another keep it in balance.

Thank you again for sharing your voice.

m

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Simona
8/4/2020 03:56:04 am

Interesting to hear and thanks for sharing! You know I'm always down for hearing all sorts of perspectives. I can understand the idea that hope can mess up things especially when it gets mixed up with emotions and fear, as it does a lot of times in business and health. At the same time, I am asking myself (and others) what is the alternative? When we start out with anything, there's technically a 50-50 chance that things can go well or not, so unless we have a lot of info to support the "not-hope" option, I'm going with hope! For me, it's about the vibration and the energy you're putting out in the universe to fuel the intention. If you don't hope, then why take a chance on anything? Business, love, kids, friendship, voting... anything. Maybe hope by itself, without anything to back it up (action, support, community, data etc) can become a foe?

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Dave Lederman
8/4/2020 06:59:01 am

You know where I’m going to go with this. Hope is a kind of paradox. And I believe it can be serving and expansive or constricting and damaging. Depends on the context and larger dynamics at play. History is full of stories of people who possessed some kind of hope or faith maybe is a better word, a conviction based on a knowing, that led to outcomes no one else could perceive. So when you talk in the video of when there isn’t evidence to support such a hopeful vision, it’s a subtle but powerful distinction what makes up the larger context. I definitely fall into the paradoxical trap of hope. It’s why all the positive thinking, what you think becomes things kinds of messages makes me feel a bit of a rub. Because it can seem like if I just hope and have faith, all will work out. What stood out most in your message was the distinction about present awareness. Is hope making you more present or more distracted? From the outside no one else can answer that for you. Just as many in jumping mouse’s village would have said jumping mouse was full of irresponsible or potentially dangerous hope. I appreciate the challenge or opportunity to think about hope more deliberately. Great video. Very much appreciated it.

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Trudy
8/4/2020 11:46:01 am

Margaret Wheatley puts it this way: "Hope is a filter we willingly place on reality. Instead of noticing what is, we obscure it with our needs and dreams, with our egos... When we move beyond the filters of what we hope for, we can see what needs to be done--right action--and act appropriately. We can act with compassion and insight."

And, beyond the belief that the opposite of hope is despair, the great Czech leader, Vaclav Havel describes hope this way:
"Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something is worth doing no matter how it turns out."

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