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?
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/
Embodying Our Power
July 7, 2010
You cannot do anything unless you have the energy for it.
That’s such an obvious statement. You feel that you know what it means and yet you also realise that it says very little. There’s such a big wide-open space waiting, calling for your skill and understanding to land the latest spark of genius in it. That spark is mighty tricky. It hovers at the edge of recognition and then winks out again, compelling you to retrace your steps to find other words, other concepts that better fit your inspiration of what you want to say.
And there is so much to say about energy and the experience of embodying our power. Our power though is not based solely around a sensitivity to energy. To feel energy, to experience vitality, is only one way to talk about embodiment. Embodiment is about decision making, intelligence, physical relatedness, collective consciousness, and our understanding of what it is to be here. We need to take charge of and be responsible for everything that we are about. Decide what we are here for and then embody that in a powerful way.
Conscious embodiment allows us to let go of personal roles and a conformity to what doesn’t apply to us: it allows us to create ourselves newly. Questions such as “Who am I?” become completely irrelevant. “Who am I?“ is often echoed when people transition through an energy shift or are not clear on how to remake their lives. Here is what I offered to my beautiful friend Lisbeth, when she asked for advice on how she could understand herself better.
An even better question, I said to her, is “What level of work should I focus on next?“. For it’s really a matter of choosing something that’s important to you and then getting on with it.
So my advice is -
- Know that you are incredibly gifted in sensing and relating to energy, in ways that can benefit others.
- Feel that energy inside you all the time, able to be utilised at a moment’s notice.
- Find a focus for that energy on a daily basis.
- See that you are a front-runner of energetic mastery for a whole new generation of people, coming awake to themselves and their place in the world.
- Weave the power of that knowing into everything that you do.
- Each day wake up to yourself as a new expression of all that you stand for.
- Love who you are being in every possible way; align the whole of your life with your power; and glorify everyone that you meet – simply by being you.
As you read this, you will of course have your own ideas of what it is to embody power. You might pick over the words but you’ll have some general direction of where to take all of this.
It’s important to me that we lead our lives in an energetically masterful way, doing whatever is appropriate in alignment with the feelings that are evoked in us. But I’ve come to see that the knowing of what we stand for and the declaration of what we embody, is always there, whether we feel the energy of it or not. So I have to revise my opening statement to take account of that.
Once you have the energy for / of something then you literally know all there is to know about it, either because you are sourcing the intelligence of it or because you have an intimate relationship with energy. But also, once you make a declaration of what you wish to embody then you are the living embodiment of that, even when you can no longer feel the initial surges of what you thought would stay in place forever. What does stay is the commitment for being brilliant and the ability to know that whatever happens – however things look – you are the power of it in action, and therefore you get the say in how it all turns out.
Summer of Fun
July 2, 2010
The weather in the South of England is gloriously hot and seems ready to stay that way for the rest of the summer. So shades on, cover up well if you’re sun sensitive, and set up the garden gazebo – for it’s time to get out and play.
I’ve noticed over the past few months a growing desire for dancing, my body suggesting that it likes to explore rhythm and movement. So Soleira and I signed up for Salsa lessons, and I practice away early in the morning and just before bed.
Fun is sure on my mind. Let’s have fun. At the end of a recent teleclass, I was impelled to tell someone to get out onto the streets and have a party. You know, along the lines of the T-Mobile ads, where a big group of people spontaneously (orchestrated) burst into action. [see below]
A summer of fun is definitely brewing and now … here is my contribution to edge it along. So sing along in your best disco party voice, and see if you have the energy to jiggle for several rounds of it.
“Take To The Streets”
Dance, dance, don’t wait for a chance – to show us all your moves!
Dance, dance, without a glance to see if we’re in the groove.
For when you’re on fire and a sparkling
And your hips are a jiggling and shaking
Then there’s nothing can stop you from having
The most fabulous time of your life.
So take to the streets, and show us the beat,
That sets our bodies a moving,
And show us your power
On the beat every hour
Cos’ we’re here for the whole of the night …
Cos’ we’re here for the rest of our life.
YEAH!!!!! YEAH!!!!!! YEAH!!!!! YEAH!!!!!
Being Here
June 6, 2010
The June 4th NASA Science News article starts with “The sun is waking up from a deep slumber … higher levels of solar activity are predicted”. No kidding. Coincidentally on that date, my head seemed to be burning with the fire of the sun for at least 24 hours.
Yes, it’s been an interesting week of some amazing highs and some intense energy hits. And weaved around the experiences in there have been some incredible conversations about the nature of being. It’s easy to know that we are amazing powerful beings but (from a human perspective) that has to be backed up by our experiences of living that: not wishes, dreams or desires, but the living actuality that we are who we claim we are, right here and right now. Having ‘control’ of our life.
Sometimes that can be tricky trying to substantiate, especially when the fantastic energy high of one day seemingly peters out during the night. So you have to figure out exactly what is changing, align with the change, and realise that your orientation makes the difference to your experience of being here. In any energy exchange, transformation takes place, so we can choose the story of what the transformation is all about.
So here’s my story about my June 4th experience. I had been reading Robert J. Sawyer’s fascinating book “Watch”, which deals with a blind girl who is given sight in her left eye through a retinal implant, and who is also then able to experience the digital data streams of the World Wide Web as an evolving intelligence.
As I interacted with the storyline, it occurred to me that I could consciously track multiple streams of information simultaneously. That is something that I know I do non-physically but it’s not been my conscious physical experience to date. So having had the thought of the possibility I went into the experience of the actuality. Ouch!! Overload!
Well it’s just my interpretation of an energy experience but it gave me insight into an exciting exploration of ‘what if’ possibilities. I know that we know how to be vastly expansive: that our singular experience of ourselves effectively rejoins with collective consciousness at some point in our knowing. We know that we live here on a planet in our human bodies but we also know that we live in the vastness of everything. So being here is not a statement of place but a confirmation of what is.
Anyway, just to reassure my friends who read this blog and think that they are sometimes losing it, here are some guidelines to help us enjoy “being here” …
- The most important thing is to enjoy the experience -
- and remember that you/we create the experience -
- so love what you create and choose only that which really calls to you.
‘Being Here’ is more than an earthly paradise that we’ve dreamed about inhabiting. ‘Being Here’ is an awareness of the Cosmos and our myriad relationships with it; an awareness of this planet and our myriad relationships created here, that births the consciousness of new possibilities; an awareness of our physicality and our myriad relationships with life.
‘Being Here’ requires us to pull upon more of our vastness, and implement strategies that bring greater vitality into being. When we feel that the vastness of ourselves is not present then we must know what that means; must understand what to do next; and must know that there is no separation – for separation is not who we are or what’s so.
We are required to create with power, dignity, and delicious care so that every being is welcomed by us in the time that we spend together here. ‘Being Here’ requires focus – but being here is everything. You can’t be an amazing being in this amazing place without giving it all that you’ve got – and knowing that there’s more to come!
Image source: http://www.sfwriter.com/
Even Better Than
May 24, 2010
I realise that I’m back in that wonderful space of when I was a kid.
Experiencing again a carefree delight in everything, feeling the ginormous length of the summer blossom out ahead of me, loving the excursions into the countryside, and exulting in the glorious beauty of youth with the promises of lush experiences still to come.
Actually my days now are even better than the first flush of youth. In this second spell of youth I have many friends, spread across the world, that I celebrate a strong connection with. Not just casual contacts but people that I love and deeply care about.
Over the intervening years I’ve grown an ever-deepening love for life.
I feel cherished, loved and supported – seen, respected and understood – in ways that I never experienced as a child. I’ve come to appreciate that being open to others produces remarkable and wonderful changes in them and in me. And the delight I experience, in witnessing the graceful transformation of those that I love, somehow releases me to live at my own pace with no count of the days ahead.
In truth, I think that the world has undergone a release. The serious and significant phase of humanity, tight-lipped and enduring, has gradually been fading throughout my life. A new freshness has risen in those of us who have dared to hold out for something better, brighter, and more lasting than what we thought was the fragrant beauty of life.
We have added colour, originality, and the masterful strokes of our own creative outpourings, to say and declare that this now is the life worth living. And the powerful force that erupts within us takes us beyond any childhood memories to establish a new beginning, a new centrepoint for childhood, where beauty is continually revered and revealed, where the sharing of wisdom is our delight.
To have such depth of feeling was not available in my first youth. I didn’t know then what I was saying “yes” to. But now I do – boldly, enthusiastically, and with no holding back – I’m saying “yes” to something coming that’s even better than anything I ever dreamt could possibly be.
Wildly Creative Play
April 12, 2010
It was April 10th, a few days ago. The sun shone. We set up a big table on the patio and tumbled outside with our paints, crayons, oils, paper and an assortment of creative art materials.
Our Wildly Creative party day had arrived.
My wife had sent emails to friends in Canada, Austria, the US, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore … suggesting they host their own creative party. The vision was that we share our creativity and fun, by sending a consciousness wave of ecstatic delight around the world.
I managed to video some of our event – the video clip below gives a taste of what it was like. Yet I can’t fully describe the irresistable pull that drew me to the arts table. I’ve never sensed anything like it. Something in me wanted to be deeply involved: playing with paints, making an avatar, trying my skill at collage. I could feel the creativity – not just from the people but from an intense feeling in me to want to sit down with them and create. They created an energy field of active creative participation.
After my stint with the videocam I sat at the table and was given some tips on how to paint.
Painting is an undeveloped skill in me, so I wanted to see what I could do. I used basic principles -
- that you instinctively select the right colours
- that you allow the creative energy that dances in you to direct your movements
- that you allow patterns to emerge naturally and experiment with them in a light-hearted way
- that you learn by noting what is being created and let it stand on its own merits.
Here is my paper plate dragon: my first foray with paints since forever.
I acknowledge the magical spell of creativity that assisted with this. So be warned – if you’ve ever wondered where the creative urge, the desire to start something new comes from, then now you know – it comes from all of us! And that’s the power that we’re sending all around the world every day.
When you get into the spirit of play then you see all kinds of references to it. Here is one that I’ve just come across: using kid’s toys to solve grown-up problems.
“The laboratory is basically a glorified playroom,” says Jeremy Levy, physics professor at the University of Pittsburgh. “When we do experiments, it is a highly advanced form of play…we’re exploring new things.”
Read more at http://www.scientificamerican.com
Finally, check out Soleira’s page on Wildly Creative Play at http://www.wowingourworld.com
Decisions
January 31, 2010
My good friend, Erika Harris, posted an insightful entry on her blog recently entitled “Got a decision to make? This might help.” She had a dream in which she was presented with 3 paths or choices and she discovered that, as she walked along any of the paths, her walking would light up that path.
She concluded that there are no wrong turns or bad decisions.
Her article set me thinking along several lines of thought.
- That in the true nature of our being there is no need for regret of presumed wrong turns.
- That in the true nature of our being we never make mistakes or wrong decisions.
- That we already chose outcomes for ourselves regardless of any decision we appear to make.
- That in order to live fully here, we need to commit to living the true nature of our being.
What then, you might ask, is the true nature of our being?
I knew you’d ask that question. It’s what I’d ask too. So, what the heck – here goes!
The true nature of our being is that undeniable force of consciousness that says “What you really want is already here – so accept it. Who you want to be is already here – so be it. What you seek to create is already being created – so enjoy it.” Or something along those lines. It’s what we know to be true as we surrender everything that we believe we are and all that we are about.
So if there are no wrong turns or bad judgments then do we need to make decisions at all?
My feeling is that decision-making is not a thought based action – it’s more like allowing ourselves to have fun, to do whatever we feel called to, dancing in the power of what wants to happen. Perhaps, as Erika observed, it’s more about following the fun and being light with the steps that we take. Wherever we go is into unimaginable territory where we must allow ourselves to feel the rightness of every step we take. Wherever we go is into the realm of the infinitely expansive – and every step is completely liberating.
My friend Kerim has this to say about making choices “it is all coming straight this way, and all I have to do is loosen a little bit, honour where I am, and let it come in the time that it will.”
To which I add ~ let’s just enjoy and explore what we do as we co-create amazing things in our time together.
Shaping the being
January 11, 2010
Yep, that’s me, just getting the base ready for my snowman. I had to wait until the snow had enough consistency so that I could roll it and shape it. Just like building a sandcastle – you need the right mix of water for the structure to hold and take shape.
Soleira couldn’t be tempted out of the house. Too cold, she said. Wrap up well, said I. I’m fine here, she replied, snapping photos through my office window.
I did have a wild thought that we might have a snow-fight, but then, I’m the adventurous lets-build-a-snowman one and she is the I’ll stay-by-the-fire one.
Still, I had a lot of fun out there. It was just too tempting. I hadn’t messed around in snow since my army days in Norway over 30 years ago. But that’s another story.
My snowman building had a purpose to it. I was drawn outside for a good reason – and that was to physically shape something with my hands.
I’ve been working on my physicality for a long time. I’ve focused on reshaping my physical experience of life. I’ve allowed my once muscular build to be replaced by a more graceful athleticism and suppleness. Yes, I’ve watched the transformation with interest, not concern, simply allowing desired changes to occur, and now I’m working upon heightening my feelings for life.
I know it’s possible for me to be in a state of joy and for my friends to feel the resonance of that, even on the other side of the world. I’m at work on creating the physical delight of life as an energy-conscious experience, rather than another day of slugging it out.
It’s not about interpretation – it’s about physically aligning our beingness to the quality of living that we wish to embody.
Can you literally create life with the essence of joy in every cell fully active?
I leave the question for others to ponder, for I have my answer.
But back to that snowman. When he was finished, I found that my hands automatically started to smooth off the excess snow. I wanted him to have a crafted finish. Nothing more than that.
I’m fascinated by how much I’ve changed my awareness of how I work. At one time, I would have breathed life into my creations, thinking that they were created as inanimate. But now I see that life exists in every moment, in every action. And that the quality of that life is being shaped by every wisp of consciousness.
So here’s to the building of more snowmen and to the conscious shaping of our lives!!!
A Stunning Reality (3)
December 30, 2009
Magical Reality
Allow the magic to fill up every cell of your Being. Allow it to permeate all that you are. Rise up from the ground and grow differently today. Claim your power and brilliance to define your tomorrow, one step at a time.
Seeds take time to germinate and grow into flowers and trees and so do dreams and visions. Hold your visions with faith and they will become a reality. Everything you know came forth from that place of unknowing darkness and nothingness, before emerging into the light.
- Morgine Jurdan
“We are not the legacy of separate races that span time and space – we are magical beings, exquisite creations, that collectively are one being. And in the space where we radiate we see the design of magical reality.” – Santari
The recent movie “Avatar” creates a spectacular realism of an other-worldly culture, courtesy of digital animation. The story revolves around the ability to genetically create a life form and then transfer consciousness to it. In a sense that’s what happens in virtual reality games, where a gamer can be so engrossed in the game that he/she is the avatar that they control.
Besides the awe-inspiring capacity to involve people in the scenic beauty of the film, the power of “Avatar” is in the grace and courage of the native people, known as the Na’vi. Through them we are shown how to access information from other species and learn how to commune with their planet. Perhaps not new ideas but the way in which this is done draws us into their reality – and to us it is a magical reality filled with magical beings.
The question that many people ask after experiencing magical reality is how can they live it full-on, thinking that there is some point at which ‘normal’ reality takes over, believing that they are not magical beings themselves and therefore not capable of generating that reality.
The truth is that we can live many different realities, dexterously moving between them with complete ease. What is ‘magical’ to one person may be ‘normal’ to another. Likewise, what is ‘miraculous’ may also be viewed as ‘normal’. It’s why travel has such tremendous appeal – a change of location, meeting new people, having new experiences – all creates an ambience of excitement and adventure, necessary for growth. The desire for change makes perfect sense in our daily lives. So why not, I say to myself, generate a reality of our conscious choosing, a reality perhaps in which we view everything and everyone as magically supranormal.
All we need to do is to change the standards by which we experience reality. We know the realm of the breath-taking and awe-inspiring. We’ve experienced it through dreams, viewed it in stunning movies like “Avatar”, and read of it through visionary writings such as “Lord of the Rings”.
Something in us is inspired from the connection: something is stirred.
This realm of the magical and enchanted contains essential characteristics that deeply move us.
Moved, you ask – what is moved? It’s in the resonance, I say. The language of the magical evokes openness and connection. Shakes the core in such a way that we must surrender to the intimate contact. It’s in the pulsebeat of total acceptance of ourselves that we get to know others. And what is also stirred is the freedom now to invent ourselves in any way we choose.
As we choose to accept the magicalness, we feel a total kinship with all beings and automatically generate magical reality design in the most profound ways possible, excited by what is to come.
It’s clear to me that the nature of reality is a dynamic exchange of energy that involves and affects everything. We decide how much we wish to expand and increase our awareness of the interactions that take place. We generate the field of resonance in which the beauty of life is exemplified. It is for us to choose what we delight in and how we master the Art of Living in physical form. The delight is in every decision that we make and in every action that we take.
Here’s to a stunning reality for all throughout 2010 … and beyond.
Note: Explore the magical creation of Pandora seen through the lens of planet Earth – http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1xi8ZV/www.ecorazzi.com/slideshow/pandora-on-earth-12-places-and-things-that-remind-us-of-avatar/123//r:f