Engaging the Miraculous
March 30, 2010
Recently I did a coaching session with a client who described her physical challenges as resulting from over-enthusiastic self-medication many years ago. Her biggest concern was not the physical problem itself but the shame of what she had done to her body.
She talked, I listened, then I spoke about the need for her to develop a new relationship with her body. I said that sometimes we need to think about ourselves in terms of pure energy rather than dense matter. That gave her some relief.
Then I said that she could look at her body in a new way: letting go of the old picture of herself in order for a new sense of awareness to take place.
“It doesn’t matter who you see yourself as,” I said, ” it’s who you can be and who you are becoming that’s important. You’ve got to laugh inside you, for if you can laugh at this whole thing then you can have spectacular change, and it will be fun and effortless.”
She started to feel more alive and said that now there was the possibility of growth and new feelings to follow.
As we got more into the session, she mentioned a belief of needing to find the light in the darkness. So I worked with her faith and made her laugh again by saying that God would probably shrug his shoulders at what had happened and say “ah, so what?” – for her feelings of guilt and shame at what she had done to herself was only a self imposition, and could easily be transformed.
To prove that to her, we did an exercise together, energetically going deep into her body to presence a flow of energy that was her natural rhythmic pattern. I told her …
“If you go down to the cellular level you are actually starting to move into the realm of the miraculous, to feel the pulse of the potential waiting to emerge. You have to engage with it and bring it through, and allow your body to relax into something new and amazing. If you can move your attention to that happening … your body will behave differently, it will be different. You will feel the aliveness in the cells changing the physical state of the molecules.”
Eventually we reached a place where we could talk about standing in the power of any situation, regardless of how dire and hopeless it might seem, because all there is to do is release the story of what has been, in order to become a force that uses everything to advantage. I explained …
“There isn’t anything in you that can be a problem or cause for a problem. You change your emphasis on how you deal with anything and work with it so that it becomes valuable to you, that you have a valuable resource.”
When she heard that the metal plate inside her body could be perceived as a resource, she cried and said that she was special, that she could disperse the judgments that had been made about her body by others … and that a whole other possibility had been given to her.
Below is a short excerpt of the session.
We’ve got to expand the bounds of how we work with people who seem to provide us with problems that only the miraculous can possibly change. Well the miraculous is happening all the time, and what facilitates the miraculous is the ability to engage the miraculous.
I said to my new found friend -
“You’ve got to work the miraculous. It’s not that you expect a miracle to happen and that something will be amazing when it does – you’ve got to be the miraculous in action.”
Krista’s Declaration
March 28, 2010
My beautiful friend Krista shared her dilemma with me. She wanted to know how to live from a place of strength and have her work be her – all the time.
So I asked her what she is here (in this world) for. I asked her to speak from the place that cares, not from a place of entanglement and uncertainty but from the place of sureness and unending passion.
I told her, “You’ll be surprised at what you’ll say. Allow the energy to shape your words.” So she stopped monitoring her thoughts and engaged with the energy of what was ready to be declared. This is her declaration.
I am here to grab you
I am here to whip you into shape
I am here to rise you up
To wake myself up
To share in the laugh of that
In the beauty of that
To hold that up so other people can hear that
And want that
And have faith in that
And cry and just want to die for that
And that’s what they want
And that’s what I want
And that’s what I’m here for
And I won’t settle for anything less than that
Because that is what it is
There’s nothing else that’s worth anything at all
Not a goddamn thing
Krista Moore
www.KristaMoore.com
(reprinted with permission)
Immortal Being (3)
March 28, 2010
When I started this enquiry about immortality, I did some background reading around the subject and collated my thoughts about what I’m seeking to achieve. But it’s so intangible, for what I’m trying to touch and understand continually reshapes my thinking around it.
I’m seeking to understand how we can create the most amazing relationships to/with all life.
I’m seeking to reshape our thinking around physicality.
I’m seeking …
A close friend of mine mentioned that she had a pain in her lower back. It had persisted for about 9 months and nothing that she did could alleviate the ache. So I tuned in to what the pain represented and found the image of a dragon trying to uncoil itself. “It seems,” I said to her, “that a beautiful dragon is wanting to emerge from inside you. You need to develop a relationship with it.”
Now the dragon is a mystical and magical force. When we talk about it in terms of energy movement then what we are really saying is that we have an unfettered potential to achieve anything that we set ourselves to achieve. Not to daydream about how life can be – but to stand exultingly bold in our relationship with ourselves and declare proudly and passionately what we are here for.
I recall one of my definitions of an immortal – ‘any supernatural being who is the personification of a force’. Notice the wording. It is not common (yet) for people to talk about themselves as forces – and yet they are. A power and a force of amazing consequence. If people would realise the power and the beauty that they constantly keep in check then they would be devastated at what they are keeping from the world. If only they dared be the dragon force that they really are, and see (through dragon eyes) the mystical and marvellous force of enchantment that is this world, then they would engage with it all differently.
What are you here for, I say to you? What are you willing to cast aside and leave behind forever? Will you cast aside all thoughts that would keep you bound and stifle your creativity? Will you explore the unknown with a carefree smile and light flooding through your being?
Are you willing to explore the realms of the dragons and other immortal forces, and discover that the magical and the miraculous are a living normality? [continuation]
Immortal Being (2)
March 24, 2010
Information about our world, our solar system, and the Cosmos has exploded over the past few years. Amazing information has poured through the Internet, changing our ideas about what we thought was true, and expanding our pictures of reality.
Many people are getting more insightful access to what fuels their growth. And unsurprisingly these insights allow us to develop a more clearer bigger-picture view of what’s going on.
What fuels my growth? That’s easy – it’s my enquiry into everything: the getting of answers to the biggest of questions and then making practical use of it all. Currently, I’m fascinated by the physical possibility of immortality. Something compels me to better understand what is possible, how we can experience the magnificent power of that possibility, and then what to do with that knowledge.
So let’s return for a moment to those definitions of an immortal being in my previous article. I’m vastly interested by indefinite growth, knowing that aging is only a perception and an interpretation of change, whereas indefinite growth is our body’s response to unrestricted energy movement.
I’ve experienced a vast shift in past years through expanding my relationship with life. Instead of seeing myself as a human being with a barely perceptible energy field, I’ve become a limitless flow of energy. My energy field is the cosmos, my consciousness flows through all of it. My lived experience is to know myself as a blend of the physical and the non-physical in a perfect union. And the physical effect of that is a relaxed sustainable rhythm that’s unaffected by the passing of time.
I may go through physical changes and energy shifts but essentially my focus is upon growth: the potential for the amazing and the unimaginable to occur.
So, I wonder, if there’s a correlation between the regeneration cycle of Turritopsis nutricula (the immortal jellyfish) and the possibility of us as humans enjoying endless growth, as we explore the boundless potential of life through the lens of our evolving physicality. It seems that we are not really considering eternal youth or returning to a previous stage of our lives. We are considering something different.
To really enjoy the succulent invitation behind this promise of immortality, we must put aside any preconceived ideas about what dying is, as a process, and be ready to enter into a new covenant with life. [continuation]
Image: Turritopsis nutricula (the immortal jellyfish)
Immortal Being
March 22, 2010
“What the heck is that?” I hear you ask. “Is it a creature from a sci-fi movie?”
The photo is of a jellyfish species named Turritopsis nutricula, a creature no more than 4-5 mms wide. It’s cited as the only animal known to achieve biological immortality.
“Really!!” you exclaim. “You mean it lives forever?”
Well … theoretically … scientists claim that it has that potential. Here’s what’s known about its regeneration. When it reaches sexual maturity it has the ability to revert back to its adolescent (polyp) stage and renew its life cycle – effectively indefinitely – assuming that it doesn’t get eaten by predators or succumbs to disease. Through a cell development process called transdifferentiation, it is believed that some cells change their function, thereby altering the original life cycle. [source: Wikepedia]
It’s a tantalising story that raises a host of questions, such as, what prompted the creature to develop this process? Why haven’t other life forms evolved their own path to immortality? And what do we actually mean by immortality?
So let’s take a deep breath, let go of any scepticism we may have, and be ready to expand our thoughts of the cosmos.
Well start with the last question. The word immortal, I’ve found, has some interesting definitions, including -
- that which is capable of indefinite growth
- one who is not subject to death
- any supernatural being who is the personification of a force, and
- having no limits or boundaries in time or space or extent or magnitude.
Can you hear me purring with delight? To me, all of that describes our potential.
During the last 15 years, some of the greatest achievements in transformational change have been around -
- the recreating of ourselves: discovering our potential and choosing to live that
- discovering that we can shape our reality through the spirit of enquiry (rather than letting our reality shape us)
- cultivating energy awareness: defining life in energy terms: finding out what fits and letting go of what doesn’t resonate
- revising our ideas about time and space: being present: ensuring our thoughts do not define or limit what we do
- dedicating ourselves to conscious collective action
The results of these changes have been -
- To stimulate a desire in us to take responsibility for our physicality, including full ownership of our bodies, and gain a better understanding of what our bodies are saying to us.
- Better communication, as we explore what we already feel and know to be true.
- Energetic wholeness and sustainability, as we consciously remake ourselves.
- Energetic freedom from living in the present – and not living in the past or in the future.
- To live for something that’s more than personal self ambition.
All of this points to a renaissance in human thinking/being. If we can have more awareness of the nature of physical transformation, and orient to it as a good thing to fully master, then perhaps we can learn how to consciously modify our physical functioning with unquestionable precision and authority. And that requires evolutionary vision. [continuation]
Image source: http://zrooglepic.blogspot.com/2009/09/jellyfish-can-live-forever.html
Just in Case
March 3, 2010
I write these few words as an encouragement to others, who may be finding these days a little bit physically demanding. Just in case this gives some additional insight.
A friend recently celebrated her birthday and I sent her an e-card. In reply she said that she had just been in hospital with a suspected heart attack and high blood pressure. I was more than surprised. During the last few weeks I’ve heard similar reports about other physical challenges that are pressing people to reconsider what they are actually experiencing.
So, in the spirit of curiosity, I sent her back this email to get to the nub of the matter.
There are big physical changes happening and we are all feeling it in different ways – muscle tension, increased vibration, spaciness, sensory expansion, etc. So can we add suspected heart attack to the list? 
It’s never what you think it is. How about considering all this as energetic expansion?
This is her reply -
Santari, that is too funny. Honestly I don’t think for one minute I’ve had a heart attack, in fact if anything, I think it was the energetic expansion of the heart – not just in me but in the whole – and the high blood pressure is the excitement of all that’s new on the horizon, because there is definitely a lot of new beckoning and I’m up for it. By medical reports on the weekend I should be dead, but not this lady, too much to do and enjoy doing. It’s great. No worries.
My own particular thoughts are that we are energetically expanding from the inside: that we have only to relax and enjoy the changes taking place, and experience with delight our own unfoldment.
Here’s to the new – may it always be exciting and may we remember what excitement feels like.
Delightful image source: www.123RF.com