When you are around someone whom you describe as radiant, you’re basking in their apparent light. You are in the presence of someone who is ‘beaming with hope or joy or love’ (Concise Oxford Dictionary). It is often very nourishing, and you may find yourself wanting to rub up against that person, perhaps hoping some of their radiance will spill over onto you. So how do you become radiant yourself, and what effect does it have on your business?
Radiance – I’ve defined it above, although another meaning in this context is ‘emitting rays of light’. And that is what someone who is being radiant appears to be doing, shining light everywhere they go. When light is shone, areas of darkness are shown to us. So anything that has been hidden in the darkness can come to the forefront of our attention and become healed, or wither away and die. And if you think about light, that is what happens to all living things – they either grow in it or die in it, depending on whether they have the other necessary things for life such as food and water. As humans we are naturally drawn to light; it is a symbol of hope, of new beginnings, of life. In business terms, shining light will show up areas of neglect, systems not working very well, unhappy people. A successful business needs these areas attended to, so shining the light, while being uncomfortable, is often necessary.
Requires – also known as ‘needs’, meaning something ‘depended on for success or fulfillment’ (Concise Oxford Dictionary). So the joining word between radiance and retreat tells us that if we want radiance, we need retreat. If we want a successful business, we need to find what it is that makes us feel successful and fulfilled, and translate that into business terms.
Retreat — meaning ‘go back, retire, relinquish’; or ‘a place of shelter or seclusion’ or ‘a period of seclusion for prayer or meditation’. All of which imply a returning to a period of time, a place, or a knowledge of another dimension, or the source of who we are. Normally in our society we think of a retreat as a few days away somewhere, not just a holiday, but perhaps alone, and/or focusing on our connection with our spiritual self. It can however be simply a few moments of sitting still and turning within. It can be taking time out of your normal routine. It can be your daily meditation.
Whatever you decide that retreating is for you (and for me today it was spending time in nature at 9.30am on a Monday morning on a beautifully sunny day, rather than at my desk), it is completely necessary for radiance to shine through you. That is what happened to me before I wrote this article; and it only came to me to write this article while I was on my walk, ‘retreating’from my normal self, and therefore able to allow the connection between my soul and the soul of nature to be present in my body. Result – heavenly. I was without doubt radiating light for most of my walk, and felt then inspired to come here and write this article. Not only that, a new idea for a business product came to mind, plus clarity about how to progress with it.
So retreating regularly becomes essential for business development, personal fulfilment and consequently the happiness of your customers or clients. If you want these things, invite radiance through retreat into your life now.
(NB Thanks to my friend Dorota who came up with the sentence Radiance requires retreat, and which I have never forgotten. She is one radiant lady, see her website at www.alchemyassociates.com).
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Radiance Requires Retreat
When you are around someone whom you describe as radiant, you’re basking in their apparent light. You are in the presence of someone who is ‘beaming with hope or joy or love’ (Concise Oxford Dictionary). It is often very nourishing, and you may find yourself wanting to rub up against that person, perhaps hoping some of their radiance will spill over onto you. So how do you become radiant yourself, and what effect does it have on your business?
Radiance – I’ve defined it above, although another meaning in this context is ‘emitting rays of light’. And that is what someone who is being radiant appears to be doing, shining light everywhere they go. When light is shone, areas of darkness are shown to us. So anything that has been hidden in the darkness can come to the forefront of our attention and become healed, or wither away and die. And if you think about light, that is what happens to all living things – they either grow in it or die in it, depending on whether they have the other necessary things for life such as food and water. As humans we are naturally drawn to light; it is a symbol of hope, of new beginnings, of life. In business terms, shining light will show up areas of neglect, systems not working very well, unhappy people. A successful business needs these areas attended to, so shining the light, while being uncomfortable, is often necessary.
Requires – also known as ‘needs’, meaning something ‘depended on for success or fulfillment’ (Concise Oxford Dictionary). So the joining word between radiance and retreat tells us that if we want radiance, we need retreat. If we want a successful business, we need to find what it is that makes us feel successful and fulfilled, and translate that into business terms.
Retreat — meaning ‘go back, retire, relinquish’; or ‘a place of shelter or seclusion’ or ‘a period of seclusion for prayer or meditation’. All of which imply a returning to a period of time, a place, or a knowledge of another dimension, or the source of who we are. Normally in our society we think of a retreat as a few days away somewhere, not just a holiday, but perhaps alone, and/or focusing on our connection with our spiritual self. It can however be simply a few moments of sitting still and turning within. It can be taking time out of your normal routine. It can be your daily meditation.
Whatever you decide that retreating is for you (and for me today it was spending time in nature at 9.30am on a Monday morning on a beautifully sunny day, rather than at my desk), it is completely necessary for radiance to shine through you. That is what happened to me before I wrote this article; and it only came to me to write this article while I was on my walk, ‘retreating’from my normal self, and therefore able to allow the connection between my soul and the soul of nature to be present in my body. Result – heavenly. I was without doubt radiating light for most of my walk, and felt then inspired to come here and write this article. Not only that, a new idea for a business product came to mind, plus clarity about how to progress with it.
So retreating regularly becomes essential for business development, personal fulfilment and consequently the happiness of your customers or clients. If you want these things, invite radiance through retreat into your life now.
(NB Thanks to my friend Dorota who came up with the sentence Radiance requires retreat, and which I have never forgotten. She is one radiant lady, see her website at www.alchemyassociates.com).