Exploring admiration: unveiling its message
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The message of admiration
We don’t often talk about admiration. We speak of envy or jealousy, of a desire to have what other people have. However, less often we speak of admiration, the wonder and awe we have for something or someone.
Admiration is a powerful emotion and one that has a potent message for us if we are to listen. I have considered recently who I admire in the coaching and healing space and been curious about what it is that attracts me to them. What’s the awe factor I aspire to emulate? What’s the energy they have that draws me in?
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What admiration helps to illuminate
What I have come to realize is that I admire their authenticity and rawness. Their pure vulnerability and willingness to share with me and others in their community about how they are really feeling and doing. I find such power in their raw expression of human emotion.
It makes me feel less alone when I see and witness others in their own experience of sadness, shame, denial, grief, anger. I appreciate their openness and vulnerability to share and be present with what they are feeling and moving through and not simply push their discomfort away.
Sometimes others' rawness makes me uncomfortable and I wonder if that’s because I'm unable to be as open myself. I don’t envy them in the sense that I desire to have what they have. I admire them in the way that I desire to be as they are. To be open and honest. To be vulnerable.
There’s a gift in exploring our admiration for something or someone in the way that it helps illuminate what who desire to be or what we desire to do in our career and the world.
Reflection questions
Who or what do you admire?
What is it about that person or thing that sparks wonder and awe in you?
What can you learn from your admiration about who you desire to be in your career? What do you desire to do?
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