Have You Driven a Manual Shift Car?

Last week I was in conversation with a client that will begin coach training in September. We were discussing the coaching distinction of the body and how we can shift it to shift our language and emotions or moods.

Gaby shared a great metaphor that supports her making meaning of this distinction and how it can serve each of us.

When Gaby shared her metaphor, my first experience with manual gear shifting came rushing back. Have you driven a manual shift car? If so, I'm sure your memories and stories are coming back as well. When I was a senior in high school my father gave my sister and me a "junker" with a manual gear shift to drive... an older Ford coup of some kind Daddy had taught us to drive on Mother's automatic Chevy station wagon so we discovered that a few things were different with this car. When we lurched jerkily down the street and that it would take some practice to not lurch down the road. In fact some of friends who rode with us the first few days suddenly declined our invitations until we could demonstrate better driving skills. It must have been pretty rough driving those first few days.

The metaphor is a car with a manual gear shift. Our body is the car and each of the gears allow us different possibilities.

"We are feeling creatures who think versus thinking creatures who feel."
- Jill Bolte Taylor

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Ontological/Transformational Coach, can support you in discovering new directions in your life so you can connect to your true self, your true needs, your true desires... remember what you came to do in this life.

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