The Gathering Room: The Perfection of Connection

Is there something you’re having trouble with that you’re trying to do perfectly?
If so, you’re not alone… As Martha reminds us in this episode of The Gathering Room, we are all trained by the culture to strive for perfection and to look for it in others.
However, you are not going to show up perfectly-because it’s impossible! If you show up not to be perfect but to connect, nobody will care that you haven’t done it perfectly.
As Martha says, we are here to be connected with a world in which all of us are imperfect.
Martha is currently learning Spanish, and she recently stumbled her way through a conversation with a Spanish-speaking friend. Despite her less-than-perfect Spanish, the joy Martha felt connecting with her friend in that language was a “return to the sacredness of communion.”
If you've been struggling with the desire to be perfect, and you want to learn how to drop into imperfection and connect to yourself and others, be sure to tune in. You’ll also be able to experience connection through Martha’s guided Silence, Stillness, and Space meditation.
Show Notes: marthabeck.com/gathering-pod/...

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Regarding getting a headache when imagining the space between your eyes: headache or eye ache? I find that as I close my eyes and try to imagine the space between them, my eyes instinctively converge to a painful extreme--as if they're trying to actually *look at* that space! With my eyes open, they go unfocused but don't cross nearly as far, and that doesn't hurt.