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Out Here in the Fields (Field Theory)

Out here in the fields, I fight for my meals, I put my back into my living. I don’t have to fight, to prove I’m right, I don’t need to be forgiven.

The Who

It’s debatable, perhaps, how spiritual those lyrics are. My rationalization for including them is that I am attached to the music I loved as a teenager and that enjoying one’s attachments can be both playful and spiritual. Furthermore, we are “out here in the fields,” the life space fields of Kurt Lewin and the emotional fields of Bowen and Friedman. Without that perspective our awareness is like a narrow flashlight in a large cave. We are missing much of what we could potentially be aware of.

Lewin showed us that EQ is vital in managing change. His ...

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