Taking the temperature

of existence

The room went cold.

Everyone froze.

It was as though the air was sucked out of the room.

When processing our lived experience, it’s frequently helpful to look at and explore opportunities presented by language that articulates the dynamics of our existence.

I hot with so hot with anger it took all I had not to explode. Eventually I cooled down.

Do these statements sound familiar?

When people are hot, it can be helpful to ask how hot are you? Are you wet wood that’s smoldering, or more like a bonfire? Are you the core of a nuclear reactor hot, or more like the heart of the sun hot?

If you’re hot, how long does it take to cool down?

How do you do it?

Are you pulsing, throbbing, crackling, raging or exploding with heat? How does the heat move? How do you move when you heat up? This can be used as a clue to know when you’re heating up without being aware that you’re heating up.

We can use physical, dynamic behavioral information as way of knowing how we show up. When we know how we show up in th…