Coaching as Instrument: Being like water

This Week's Attunement 

"You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become like water, my friend.” 
— Bruce Lee

What's Inspiring Me
So I can continue to do what I do and inspire my clients as well

“I dropped a tear in the ocean, when they find it, that’s when I’ll stop loving you.”
—  Jay Sean

What I'm Learning
So I can improve myself as a coach, as a human 

Poet and novelist Margaret Atwood on being like water:

"Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing, in the end, can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does."
— Source: The Penelopiad

It's said that up to 60% of the human body is made up of water. Yet, instead of taking on the qualities of water when we are under stress or in conflict, we are more likely to take on a more rigid stance. We stiffen around our position. We harden our hearts.

Even the martial artist, Bruce Lee, understood the power of fluidity during a struggle. He is famous for saying: "Be like water, my friend."

The author Margaret Atwood explains why adopting the qualities of water is so beneficial: "Water doesn't resist. Water flows."

The wisdom of being water is hard to argue with yet so difficult to employ, especially in conflict. What might be possible if the next time we felt irritated, or became upset or recoiled in disgust or contempt, we noticed our initial reaction and then simply became like water, at ease, strong and powerful yet accepting, flowing and patient?

What might be possible?