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Faced with an 8-hour legal deposition, this author opened his thought to Spirit's perspective and was able to answer all questions calmly.
Business meetings, job interviews, health care appointments, sales calls-- these negotiations sometimes produce stress for most of us. Will I feel pressured? Will the outcome be positive?
Negotiation outcomes depend heavily upon the perspective that YOU bring to it. Why? Your perspective influences your behavior, emotions, and the energy you send out-- including facial expression, body language and tone of voice. And these all influence the other people in the meeting-- their perspectives and their reactions to you and your ideas.
I got real about this when I was preparing for an all-day deposition as part of a lawsuit five years ago. It was really stressful. No…actually, it was terrifying. The attorney questioning me was going to try to prove his opposing side of the case with every word I spoke. I knew that my preparation for this meeting was going have to include more than role-playing the session and reviewing the facts yet another time. I needed to get a more spiritual perspective on the meeting and the people involved.
Here’s what I did. For several hours each day before the meeting, I’d intentionally open my mind to Spirit’s perspective on this matter. I acknowledged that She, being infinite, was really the only Mind involved in the proceeding. And that every person involved, including me, possessed an innate connection with this one Mind—with its perfect sense of truth, justice and equity. After a few weeks of this practice, I began to see that Spirit was actually the Mind of each of us…that this Mind was informing the consciousness of each one with positive, truthful and just ideas and intuitions that could clearly identify the truth and the most equitable disposition of the case.
The morning of the deposition, I got up early and drove a couple of hours to the office where I was to be deposed. I was surprised by how calm I was. For the most part, I responded to the questions (which lasted for over eight hours) deliberately and thoughtfully. And within a few months, the case was settled reasonably fairly and efficiently without requiring a trial, which would’ve been an extraordinary burden in expense and time.
In your next negotiation, try using your spirituality to improve your perspective and the outcome for everyone. Acknowledge and embrace as a present fact that the divine Spirit is the only Mind in the room. Relate to this Spirit as Mind, the source of constructive thought. Your Mind, and the others', too. This divine Mind is in control of every consciousness, now, embracing each one in clear-headed intelligence and tangible love.
Stay with this spiritual practice for at least a minute or two…or longer if you can do it comfortably. Do it often until your emotions and intentions about the negotiations and the people involved begin to feel more positive. If the meeting is off in the future, practice this daily, right up through the end of the meeting.
Mary Baker Eddy explains the effectiveness of this spiritual practice in her book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures: “The understanding … that there is but one Mind or intelligence, begins at once to destroy the errors of mortal sense and to supply the truth of immortal sense.” You can bring this powerful divine energy to your next negotiation! Miles Harbur is an MBA with 25 years’ business experience, and is now a professional Spirit-mind-body healing practitioner. He blogs at Miles Harbur .
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