02.01.2010
  
Michael Fox CPCC,
founder of magine!,
is a professional
coach and trainer,
author and creative artist, whose work has been featured throughout
the world.

Michael is a
Certified Practitioner
of the
Myers-Briggs
Type Indicator.

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Canaries of the soul...   

As recently as the late twentieth century, coal miners descending into the poorly-ventilated depths were accompanied by caged canaries. Though an admittedly low-tech warning system, the metabolism of the bright yellow bird was sensitive to trace amounts of methane and carbon monoxide gases; the canary would die before concentrations of toxic gas reached levels hazardous to the miners. If the guardian canary stopped its customary chirping and, shall we say, assumed room temperature, miners were alerted to imminent danger and immediately evacuated from the mine.

 

What's the point of this cautionary tale? Just this. There are three remarkably common dispositions of a person's spirit that are actually "canaries of the soul"--harbingers of deeper troubles within. These dispositions include regret, fear, and impatience.

 

If your thoughts are consumed by regret, you're likely preoccupied by the past; if your thoughts are overwhelmed by fear, you're likely absorbed in the future. In either case, if you're fettered by either past or future, you're never fully alive and present in the, well, present. 

 

If, however, you are chiefly impatient--if you are always on your way to somewhere, (anywhere, perhaps, but here); if everything and everyone you encounter show up as interruptions; if you are frustrated, irritable, harsh, controlling, judgmental--there's good news and bad news. The good news is that you are indeed focused--on neither the past nor the future--but on the present; the bad news, especially for apprentices of Jesus, is that you're presently consumed by "your own stuff," by your own self-oriented agenda.

 

Regret, fear, and impatience are less vices to be overcome, than they are voices to be heard. They are canaries of the soul, guarding the innermost depths of our being, where coal is transformed into diamonds.

 

 

What are you sensing? What are you hearing? 

 

Michael Fox
m�agine!

530/613.2774
407 Myrtle Drive
Farmerville, LA, USA 71241  
In addition to personal and professional coaching,
m�agine! specializes in spiritual transformation coaching,
employing its proprietary models
--Values, Vision, Voice
and Heart, Soul, Mind & Strength--

as well as
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator� curriculum
published by CPP, the People Development People.

Michael's books include
 
Complete in Christ,
Complete in Christ Spiritual Transformation Workbook,
and Biblio�files.

Coaching fees are based upon a sliding scale. Contact us for details.
For additional information, visit our website at maginethepossibilities.net.

Limited scholarships are available for spiritual transformation coaching.
On the flip side, if you are able, please inquire about opportunities
to fund scholarships for those who cannot afford coaching fees.

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