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REFRESH THE SOUL MEDITATIONS
Embracing Nunchi: The Path to Social Harmony and Personal Growth
Honoring social cues leads to deeper relationships with yourself and others
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The key to nunchi (noon-chee) is reading the room and honoring everyone by entering free of assumptions. It becomes a path to embracing social harmony and increasing personal growth. It is a way of life.
Nunchi (눈치) means eye-measure. It is the art of gauging how people are thinking and feeling so you can create connection, trust, and harmony. This life strategy dates back over one thousand years as a form of social intelligence — a way to read and understand the room.
It is often compared to emotional intelligence and situational awareness, except for a major difference: nunchi concerns the whole organism, not just its people. Having nunchi means you are not selfish, autonomous, self-sufficient, arrogant, or pushy.
The mindfulness of nunchi is because of its emphasis on the here and now, which is counterculture to many Western traditions. Nunchi is a way of adapting to current social climates as you are in the present moment. It requires using your five senses.
