Behave Yourself!

Episode 30 March 01, 2021 01:04:01
Behave Yourself!
Our Friendly World with Fawn and Matt - Friendship Tools
Behave Yourself!

Mar 01 2021 | 01:04:01

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Hosted By

Fawn Anderson

Show Notes

 

2 nuggets of wisdom from Santa Monica:

Calmly and reverently carrying on, holding your center in love, no matter what is going on around you in the outside world.

It is an honor to be invited to someone’s home. Treat it as such.

We also talk about “entitlement” and what that means. What are we entitled to in life? This leads us to the topic of appreciation.

This week we travel to different countries (via a book and our kitchen table) to discuss how we’re supposed to behave in different countries. If we are in quarantine and can’t travel for now, might as well brush up on etiquette from different countries. Which countries do you greet with a handshake? Who kisses once on one cheek and twice on the other cheek, hold hands, not hold hands, late or punctual, to gift or not to gift when visiting someone’s house, where to not use your hands for gestures as you speak, eye contact or no eye contact, to say yes or no thank you when you are offered something, to use a fork or spoon, to compliment or not to compliment…every culture is different. We need to behave ourselves, understand each other’s customs, marvel in each other’s beauty and enjoy each other’s company when we get together again.

 

Snippets from our talk:
To take one step towards the next step; to go from left foot to right foot, is all about imbalance. It's a leap of faith because in between the steps, you don't have any balance at all; no connection to the earth. You're basically mid-flight. We work with that imbalance and get to a point where it becomes a beautiful, graceful step.

Walking is really kind of this controlled fall.

Everything is always in a state of imbalance. Just make the world more beautiful, and in a reverent way, hold that beauty until that beauty, that love, transcends everything. Even if you have misunderstandings and conflict, if it is coming from a place of love, it will be understood.

“If you have no peace in is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” - Mother Theresa

“Your words have power. Use them wisely.”  - anonymous.

“Raise your word, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”  - Rumi.

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