I started to see an energy healer several months ago and didn’t think much about it at the time. I just thought it was a different concept that, as a life long learner, I wanted to learn more about. I firmly believe that hour several months ago truly my perspective on how to live my best life and how I interact with the world surrounding me. The name of my energy healer is Charlotte and she is amazing! I have recommended her to anyone who will talk to me about my experience. Energy healing is a partnership that one must be willing to work through in order to clear the clutter and bring the most joy into our lives.
What I have taken away from this process is that hard work does, in fact, pay off and I have been happier and more connected to that which is happening around me, including the people I surround myself with. Being intentional with a positive mindset has allowed me the opportunity to take time for a reset. I have been able to open myself to new experiences and feel as though what I deserve will come to me at the exact right time. This may sound a little crazy to you at first, but take a minute to really consider this concept. How may this approach help to alter your life in a more positive direction?
I then began to consider the concept of removing the clutter to bring the most joy into our lives through a recruitment lens - funny right??? Who would expect that from me? The one who constantly examines recruitment in ways that possibly haven’t been acknowledged before. It does bring up the idea of no frills recruitment that has been discussed for years now, but I’d like to take it a step further. Imagine a formal recruitment process with no clutter - no specific daily topics to cover, no conforming outfits or jewelry, no songs to learn and memorize, no questions to remember or facts to share, just the ability to be with other members of your organization knowing your priority is to sell your experience with one another to potential new members. What could that look like? What may that feel like? How would that process be managed? Would it have to be or could we all just be people simply getting to know one another, while sharing the values that we believe in and that we promised to uphold throughout our lives?
The energy chapters put into a formal recruitment process is currently wrapped up in what some may say is a show of financial wealth for an organization. While that may be true of some, how may we create a new process where we shift our energy to bring the most joy to one another and into our organizations as we work to recruit and retain membership?
As recruitment season begins to gear up, I can’t help but wonder what could we achieve together if we were to simply concentrate on the positive energy we put out into our sorority and campus communities as we hope to return to some kind of normalcy at our institutions. So much negativity surrounds the concept of fraternity and sorority life these days. Some have made poor choices that have significantly impacted organizations and that is what many potential members come into a recruitment process considering. How can we cancel out those poor choices?
I believe the answer is rather simple - heal our energy by clearing out the clutter and concentrate on the joy that membership has given us. Share our lived experiences. Respect, demonstrate in our daily lives, and describe the values that our Founders selected for us. Be confident in one another to collectively work towards recruiting a group of people who want to share in that joy and will work to the best of their ability to ensure those conditions and meaningful traditions continue to be passed down for years to come.