Leadership
Dr. Vil-Am Ben A‘Him, Co-director of YAHWEH Academy of Light
I found myself initially resistant to writing about leadership, perhaps due to my
personal issues with authority and my need to struggle against the establishment
( a leftover from my history during the sixties and seventies).
Then I remembered my idea I developed years ago about what type of leader we
really needed. I thought back then we needed not one leader but three, this to
limit the amount of personal ego and selfishness that might affect their
decisions. Three because there were three qualities I felt were important for a
leader to have and it seemed impossible for all three to be in just one person.
First was a person to inspire, communicate, to be the front person to make a good
impression. Second was the numbers person, the intellect, the one who could
grasp the complexities of our world. The third was the spiritual person keeping
us in integrity and making sure all decisions were of the highest for all
involved. Well I finally realized it might be difficult to rewrite the
constitution and although I dropped my concept, there was still something
bothering me about our expectations of leadership.
Several weeks ago my son, a design engineer in Boston, was sharing about a book
he was reading by Malcolm Gladwell called “Blink”. I have yet to read the book
by, but as I understood, it was about ‘rapid cognition’ or what we would call
gut feelings or intuition. The book went on to point out the value of trusting
in our first impulse and how this has helped many successful people and leaders
to achieve results beyond what one might expect. This concept reminded me of how
the research has shown that our left brain or linear and intellectual thought
process is very limited in the amount of information and speed at which it can
process. Yet our right brain, the spatial, imagery and feeling side has an
almost unlimited and instantaneous ability to give us information. The old adage
a picture (or feeling) is worth a thousand words certainly rings true.
Furthermore recent research at the Heart Math Institute has shown that our heart
has a separate intelligence. It directs and aligns many systems in the body so
that they can function in harmony with one another, communicates with the brain
and makes many of its own decisions. Doc Childre founder of the Hearth Math
Institute says:”New discoveries now reveal that within each of us there exists
an organizing and central intelligence that can lift us beyond our problems and
into a new experience of fulfillment even in the midst of chaos. It’s a
high-speed, intuitive source of wisdom, and clear perception ….a flow of
awareness and insight that we experience once the mind and emotions are brought
into balance and coherence.”
It’s called heart intelligence.
Many ancient cultures, including the Egyptians, the Babylonians, the Greeks as
well as the Chinese, Hindu an Islamic traditions, maintained that the primary
organ capable of influencing and directing our emotions, our morality and our
decision making ability was the heart. Even in the Old Testament, in Proverbs
23:7 :
It says
“For as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he”
So my thoughts on leadership lead me not to the normal evaluations on
leadership, but upon our accepted processes of getting information and making
decisions. Since our leaders are a reflection of who we are, it is up to us to
expand and trust in our abilities to decide from a new and deeper perspective
not only as to whom we choose to lead us but also how we choose to lead
ourselves. As Albert Einstein said years ago “The significant problems we face
today cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created
them”
About the Author
Dr. Vil-Am Ben A‘Him has been a Chiropractor for 29 years using cranialsacral and deeper energy techniques to help people get to and release the seed concepts and fears that have lead to their physical and emotional pain. He conducts seminars and a workshop based on these empowering ideas and is co-director with his wife Yashoda of the Yahweh Academy of Light.