Practicing vulnerability as a man...

Alright, mate.

How do you practice vulnerability without losing your masculine edge/frame?

Here’s what it sounds like:

“This is how I feel. This is what I’m doing about it.”

The key is not to be a suppressed “James Bond” character.

It’s to embody the way of the integrated man.

An integrated man does not...

1) Vomit his feelings onto those around him whilst avoiding responsibility.

2) Suppress his feelings and "white knuckle" them whilst suffering in silence.

An integrated man sits in full-bodied contact with his direct experience with it's thoughts, emotions and sense perceptions.

But he doesn't allow his experience to overwhelm him.

This is what emotional mastery means.

To feel what you feel, sense what you sense and think what you think...

And still decide on how you will respond and what your intention is.

The immature man is incapable of doing this.

He lives at the mercy of his emotions.

The mature man has learned that his emotions change like the seasons ... and if he allows his life to be dictated by them ... he will end up somewhere he never intended.

Learn what your values are.

Clarify your vision for the future.

Define your non-negotiable life principles.

And strive to live by them every day.

This will be your compass when the storms of life throw your ship off course (and they will).

Just a thought,

Oliver