The Growing Space (2)
August 26, 2010
Body of Work
In pursuit of wanting to make a difference, it’s clear to me that many people today are seeking to establish their own bodies of work. The term frequently pops up in conversation and coaching sessions.
A Body of Work is what identifies our skills and uniquenesses, and shouts out what we are here for.
The need to find out what we can offer, is a learning experience that is incredibly insightful. It requires some tuning in – to our knowing, to the core of our being or wherever we get our information – to find what is newly emerging. Just a few words can encapsulate the essence of what we have to offer life. And from that we can construct a body of work that matches our natural inclinations.
This enquiry can be deeply searching. Often the old associations have to fall away first before the new awakening, the new body of work, can reveal itself. And yet to stand alone in one’s body of work is tremendously liberating and exciting – it literally pulls something from your core and demands the space for it to emerge in its fullness. And I’ve seen that the more permission we give to this process, without holding anything back, then the more we can stand in our true power and authority.
Discovering what you are called to do, might not be an overnight revelation. You do have to create it for yourself – it is yours to create and nobody can do that for you. You have to be persistent and say what you are standing for, and then make a start, rather than wait for the right moment or the right conditions. Everything will follow from that start. So I encourage persistent enquiry through your own writings, insights, and conversations with friends who really do get you.
Generally, your body of work is built around your interests and passions.
There are 4 areas of interest that form my current body of work. They are -
- sourcing physicality (sourcing total physical awareness)
- exploring immortality
- discovering the power of expression through voice
- creating magical reality
Through these interests, I delight in rediscovering myself: I am a Pioneering Innovator, Knowledge Creator, and Enlivener of Awe and Wonder (amongst others). I came across these descriptions as I signed up for virtual Martian citizenship, on the NASA Mars Exploration Program website, and they fit me perfectly. But they don’t define or limit me or give me an identity – they are just fun labels.
Who I am and what I do today may shift over the next few months, so I’m attentive to what is changing and I allow the shifts to take place gradually, gracefully. I’m aware of what I choose to embody, because I know that my effect upon life doesn’t stop with me – it touches everything.
Design of Life
It’s essential to see what roles we are wanting to play; essential to explore our views about life and the contributions that we are wanting to make. I believe that our bodies of work should reflect our uniqueness and always be changing – that we grow new designs for life and new possibilities to live into.
I’m growing something and I’m not sure yet what it will look like. What I do know is that I’m in a creative space, like an explorer standing on the threshold of a new world where nobody has been before. And my actions grow the possibilities for life to flourish fantastically wildly, as if I was the water of life and the seed sower of visions and dreams.
I love what is already here. How could I not? How could I deny the design of Life, with all it’s flourishes and abundance, with all it’s mysteries and subtleties? How could I dismiss those touches that I’ve added myself?
In my design of life, I illuminate the most precious aspects of what might otherwise be passed over and missed. I call attention to the beautiful and the awe-inspiring, the obvious and yet miraculous. What I see unfolding in us is a desire to grow and be revealed.
Life beckons – that I stand in the glory of what I am experiencing and that I share my experiences.
When I was much younger, I didn’t have a relationship with Life; didn’t know what I had to offer; didn’t know that I had unrealised potential. But a new design grew in me – for a deeper truer me to emerge – so that I could get a better sense of what’s real and what I want to live and what wants to live through me.
In my view, you’ve got to grow yourself as Conscious Living Art – understanding the nature of what you are growing and encouraging this growth through your entire life.
There is a new design for Life … emerging right now … do you feel it?
The Magical Apprentice
August 23, 2010
One of my projects this year is the Magical Apprentice programme. It’s an individually tailored experience, although two close friends or partners can do it together. My friend Tanya suggested the name and the concept of it – to show people how to create a magical life for themselves and always be in the magical reality of it.
Originally, I conceived the Magical Apprentice to be a 3 day programme, in which I would share my specialist skills/knowledge, but now I am also envisioning an advanced 3 day experience.
I set out a series of topics that I knew would be useful as a starting point -
- Opening to Power
- Energetic Mastery
- Transformative Touch
- Evocative Voice
- Visionary Awareness
- Sourcing the Magical & the Miraculous
- Physical Authorship
- Knowing the Game
but when my first apprentice came along, all the step-by-step planning went out the window. As soon as we put down on paper all the points that were the most important to cover, then it became obvious that the programme was really -
- to uncover the nature and essence of the apprentice
- to discover the natural skills of the apprentice and the best ways of employing those skills
- to assisting the apprentice in applying magical creation to their ongoing real-life situations
- to encourage the apprentice to develop their own body of work
Here is how one apprentice has described the experience -
“It feels like being on the Control Deck of the Starship Enterprise.”
Everything is examined and explained, so that the apprentice is fully aware of who they are and what they are here to do. We cover everyday situations – but done from a vast expansive level. As one apprentice said, “It’s Cosmic and energetic but extremely practical. It’s out there but it’s also here, and not separate from. You get to see things on all levels.”
When an apprentice sets out their intentions, I ask them to be mindful that they are not being taught anything but rather they are being shown how to develop their own body of work. We look at a variety of situations that help the apprentice to gain perspective and the insight/confidence to source magic in their life. The emphasis on all things magical is important, because it helps -
- to introduce lightness in all that we do
- to keep things fresh and exciting
- to see the most amazing and unexpected possibilities develop
- to have creative purpose that magically uplifts and enhances the lives of others
Unsurprisingly, a Magical Apprentice is self-selecting and committed to energetic mastery and magical living. Here is what Dorothee said, after completing the first day of her 3 day Magical Apprentice programme.
“On the way home I thought if I were to say just one thing about working with you, it would be that one can take you by every sentence, every word, every letter, every ‘promise about magics’ that you make. And it will happen! For me this has even been far, far bigger, for I knew that others can know, believe in what you say, and thereby make it happen. I wasn’t sure for myself whether I can enter this space. But it happened for me!“
So are you ready for an amazing experience?
Are you the next Magical Apprentice?
You can register for the Magical Apprentice programme at this site – http://www.santarigreen.com/magicality.html
A Cosmic Panorama
August 20, 2010
Just watched an episode of the TV series “How the Universe Works”, where it showed an amazing picture of super clusters of galaxies, spread across billions of light years of space. The sight was awesome … to my eyes it showed an ordered structure that resembled the nerve connections in a human body.
I let myself imagine. What if? What if our physicality really does resemble, in a remarkable way, the design of the Cosmos? What if the Cosmos, as a sentient force, has the capability to intelligently resolve itself to our Cosmic interaction with it?
Over the past couple of months, I’ve completely let go of living as a human being, with all that that represents. I’ve relinquished that way of knowing myself because I’m far more comfortable living as a Cosmic Being. As a Cosmic Being I can live vast, feeling that all my senses are employed: my consciousness is the Cosmos, no longer confined to a physical body. As soon as I felt the possibility of fully living that in a physical as well as an energetic way, a great relief went through me – I didn’t have to be lesser, I could own now what I knew to be true.
My energetic body is also the Cosmos and I have just managed this year to align my normal way of life to a vast space of possibility not entrapped by human being thinking.
It prompts me to ask – how do you know yourself? What is it that you are living? Is it a role or fixed pattern of possibilities that you had no hand in creating? How do you choose the most appropriate life experience that doesn’t confine you in any way but gives you an extraordinary glimpse into profound newness where you have never been before?
Your answers may surprise you.
These images are not from the TV series but they correspond to what was shown. This Cosmic panorama suggests that what we see (what we observe about anything) is subject to our interpretation of what we can discern, based upon past experience.
But look closely. What do you really see? What is new to you? What feelings arise from seeing these pictures? Do you sense too that there is a great ordering throughout the Cosmos – and that the ordering has very much to do with what we are willing to develop in ourselves?
Our vision cannot be limited to what we see around us, whether that be a planet or a Cosmos, and our influence cannot be contained by where we think we are and what we think we are doing. We need to dream wild, to imagine newly. We must go beyond perceptions, beyond learnings, to create experiences that will amaze and astound us. Our thinking is no longer human personal – it is of Cosmic origin where we all understand everything as it is being created.
We are shaping the whole of the Cosmic experience. For are we not timeless Cosmic Beings exploring and creating new experiences beyond human perception of what is possible and doable?
Image source: http://viewfromthecenter.com/files/WIE-ViewFromtheCenter.pdf
Series trailers: http://www.yourdiscovery.com/video/shows/how-the-universe-works/morevideo/
The Growing Space
August 8, 2010
Towering up to 8 feet high, these giant sunflowers are flourishing in my garden. They symbolise this summer’s abundance. It’s been a very hot season and (apart from this past week) the flowers and vegetables have needed watering 3 times a day, to stop the ground from getting too parched.
Lucy, a 13 year old, came to visit and bemoaned that her sunflowers had wilted and died. Did you water them, I asked? I didn’t think you needed to, she replied.
much shaking of head and suppressed smile 
Over the years, I’ve taught myself how to look after plants and find out what they need in order to grow well. I’ve seen that to get best results you need to tune into them and encourage their growth, rather than just leave them and hope they will make it by themselves.
To me, the care of anything is about providing the optimum growing space and sustenance for it.
Several people have asked me recently how they can sustain their energy (and their expanded sense of self) after a teleclass, workshop or coaching session with me. My answer is invariably the same – you claim your authority to be here, you apply your energy to the life that you wish to live, and then you walk in the power of your authority. That simple advice works well, just like watering plants that are in need of a pick-up. But now I’m showing people how to create and maintain the space for their growth and their world/cosmic visions – and that requires something special.
I’m writing about a creative space experience in which fantastically brilliant, magical possibilities emerge.
It requires special attention. Each of us have specialities that need to be recognised, owned and put into action. For example, my friend Liz came to do a workshop and we discovered that she is a natural cosmic designer, a term that suited her well and gave her permission to own her flamboyancy. She loves design work, so we looked at practical ways for her to develop a life design consultancy practice.
First, she stepped fully into her new role and engaged the vastness of her energy field. She learned what it is to be a cosmic being: to feel and embrace the extensiveness of what she was stepping into; to see that her thinking now had more perspective; that she had a richer context for her life.
Then she discovered the nature of her work – to help people design a new way of being. So she energetically redesigned her own life experience to match her cosmic identity. As a cosmic designer she could drop her human facade of being small and unsure, in order to take on a role that had bigger energetic possibilities, where she no longer reacted to situations because now she could design her experiences according to how she wanted to live them.
Yes, I enjoy working with people to have them discover the qualities of living that they really wish to experience. That is so different from experiencing life in the same way over and over again. There is a conscious need to design exciting, fresh, and original creations. To nurture ourselves by using our energies to their fullest, for whatever body of work we are engaged in growing. And to realise that we are cosmic beings engaged on a redesign of life.
This is a time for creative cosmic gardening. You just don’t know what’s ready to emerge in your growing space.