The sense for Just Question Just Play:
Our heart contracts and expands with our spirit.
Within is an essence that plays and explores life.
We are unique expressing the harmony that moves us.
We all deserve to feel respect and notice reverence for oneself.
Sharing our brilliance is humble.
What happens in the collective when we discover ourselves?
It was illuminating to meet a couple of old sages that live in Florida. They walked with me to open to my heart. Remembering how they focused on learning from us, makes me feel humble. In their company, the creativity in me began to unleash.
"When our illusions are dissolved, we can imagine new realities."
As I reaffirmed the gifts in me, the gifts I began to see in others amazed me; in part thanks to the respect and reverence of how the facilitators and classmates view me. It is touching to notice the systemic consequences of what we try to exclude and how all is connected; from Health, Family, Couple, Community, Teams, Work, Life Purpose to Leadership.
"Comprehending invites us to express ourselves and share with honesty and clarity."
For 16 years I shared teams and coached with more than a thousand players and their families. I also shared the court and the offices with opponents, referees, officials, facility employees, staff, coaches and executives. In addition I had the opportunity to accompany national teams and lead different departments of sports organizations. During the off-season I enjoyed organizing and offering summer basketball camps.
"Leadership is about inviting others to inspire and affirm themselves."
"Confidence in oneself moves us to add our abilities to the collective purpose."
"Sharing and collaborating is beyond competing and comparing."
One day I met a couple mystics in different parts of my grandfather's village in Spain. They invited me to discover some new doors of the dimensions of oneself. Healing our perceptions is an inner job. The depth of our perspective is related to the amplitude of our view.
"Our view depends on our compassion and gratitude."
I received formation at a university with a compassionate view of how to attend others. The whole staff embraced me with patience at a time in my life where I needed a caring structure. I had the opportunity to experience hospital work in the intensive care unit, palliative care, child oncology and other departments. I specially enjoyed child oncology because of the vital curiosity that we can express, even in the midst of suffering.
"Looking at death brought me closer to life."
We can contemplate life with open eyes as if they were closed and we can also contemplate life with closed eyes as if they were open. By focusing on our breath we are invited to notice the thick and subtle awareness of our body.
"Our body's sensations are keys."
A new dimension of attending my body with coherence and practice uncovered. Also sharing with classmates and teachers from different parts of the world was enriching. To attend one self is to uncover our relationship with our emotions. Emotions can be in charge of our life and recognizing them invites us to enjoy them.
"Emotions are Spirit in motion sharing intelligence."
I began to recover wanting to play by viewing other ways of teaching with closeness and experimenting my body in different sports and forms of body expression. I had learned to teach from the specific towards the global. During this junior college formation I learned to work from the global towards the specific. Adding both ways we can move with purpose.
"Movement is essential to nurture ourselves."
Life includes any movement
that tries to exclude any achievement
Life revolves around our agreements
so we can witness our own bereavements
Life embraces and receives any leaves
echos back and dissolves any greave
Life embraces us like the shade of a tree
it roots in the essence of our inner sun's weave
Grace to all who have crossed paths with me for inviting me to learn with you.
Grace to Pops, Mamá, brothers, sisters and our family lineage for being who you are.
Grace to my inner child and our heart beat.
Glory to the Source in all.
J.P.