Hello,
My name is Georgia Bazin and I'm a transformative coach,
Speaker and writer and I'd like to share a story with you.
In the middle of Covid,
My little cleaner adopted a little crow.
He isn't a crow,
He's actually a jackdaw and she was leaving him on his own in her flat all day while she went out to clean and he was trashing the place and in my wisdom I said to her,
Look bring him to me,
I will find him a safe space with a bird rehabber so that your place stops getting trashed.
So anyway she brought him to me in July 2020 and I had all my children at home and we were in lockdowns etc.
Anyway he was still a baby from that year and he came and he stayed with us,
That was from the July and it got to the October and whereas when he first came to us he would go out in the garden and he would stay in the space,
He'd sit on the lawnmower whilst we mowed the lawn and he'd sit on our shoulders and he'd stay in the garden.
One day he heard a group of people outside our garden,
It was a party over the road,
Anyway he discovered there was a whole life outside our garden and family and off he flew and I spent many hours trying to catch him and I met him amongst about 30 screaming girls and boys who were all tiddly and were having a lovely time at a party as late teenagers do.
Anyway from that point on I very quickly realised that he was not safe to be outside so he had to come and live with us and be inside permanently because a lot of people are very frightened of birds.
Anyway one day I was sitting in my kitchen and this is one of my very first big insights into how I create my experience in the thought and the present moments.
As I say I was sitting in my kitchen,
My earphones in listening to a podcast I believe of Michael Neal at the time,
In a little world of my own that deeply beautiful quiet space,
In swoops Jack whips my apple ear pods out of my ear,
Flies off down my kitchen and down my hall.
Up I got screaming,
I used the f-word quite a few times as I chased him down through my house and as I was chasing him really angry and peed off that he'd done this,
It struck me that he was just doing what a bird does.
He had no thoughts about whether this was right,
Wrong or indifferent,
He just wanted my attention and he knew it was naughty.
And as I ran down the hall just seeing,
Oh I really do get to choose my response to his actions.
Anyway I burst into laughter,
Fell down on my knees in the hall and just sat there laughing my head off at the fact that I just saw I could respond that moment in any way I chose to,
To his actions and that was really the very big beginning of my journey of understanding,
Oh this isn't just to this experience I get to choose my response,
This is in every single moment to anything that is outside of me,
I can choose where I go with it and all it takes is sometimes just that momentary pause to reset,
To come back into that quiet space of where do I want to go with this because it isn't about what's going on outside of me,
It's only ever about my internal response to what is going on outside of me.
Anyway I hope this has been helpful,
Have a beautiful day,
It's on here,
I hope to see you soon,
Thank you very much,
Have a good day,
Bye bye.
