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?
Comments
5 Responses to “The Growing Space (2)”
Hi Santari!
This is very inspiring and very you.
I think Body of work is a very appropriate term because it is about embodying who we are and what we stand for.
I love that you insist on showing the beauty of what we might otherwise pass over and miss. It´s right there in front of us.
“What I see unfolding in us is a desire to grow and be revealed”.
Thank you!
This is beautiful Santari! Really beautiful stuff xxxx
Great article, Santari… I also like that you pointed out the changing nature of our life design.
Stunning and, as always, very timely! Beautifully right on the button … actually my button nose is twitching with the joy of reading this today
xx
ps … love the martian citizenship …. you ROCK!!