Good Day to you!
How do we create? From the moment of the formation of our personality, we create. And while we may never know how and when that happens (wow, the mystery), we do create our patterns, our relationships, our abilities and our challenges.
The themes come along with the creation of the personality; themes that emanate from the soul. For at all times we are living to fulfill the soul's purpose, which is to complete the soul, thus to expand the Mind of God/Cosmic Consciousness.
As we go about the business of any day we are creating - too many things, situations, to count. So every day in our experience is an expansion of that Consciousness, and it is essential to the whole scheme of things, well beyond our limited, linear thinking. We are so much more than we can know, aren't we?!
Meeting an obstacle in my life means struggling, still, in this physical, emotional and logical package. The good news is, the longer I practice the more skilled I become and the more I am aware of the larger purposes I am here to achieve.
We are perhaps most challenged when it comes to relationships.
A situation arises that causes pain, that brings us to questioning all that we have contributed to that pain, and all that seems only to belong to someone else. Plumbing the depths of our being we either suffer endlessly or we acknowledge, eventually, the larger purpose in this design and find peace.
I am written into the fabric of the lives of every person I know and many I may never meet. Each of them is written into my script, too. Our designs are preselected, but the means by which we choose to interact is up to us. Those actions are directed by free will.
It is comforting to me to know that when I meet my biggest challenges that I am serving some greater purpose, even while I struggle, even while I trip and have to pick myself up. And I am especially gratified to know that achieving a level of objectivity is an act of faith and of grace that contributes to human evolution. Every day offers opportunities to practice and improve. Every day I create opportunities to practice my free will. I am no puppet manipulated by a force outside myself; I am not subject to the will of any other person.
Does that sound grandiose? Wisdom tells me that it is not; that the more confident we are in our part in the grand scheme of things, not from ego but from conviction, the effect of that insight is exponential.
I love practicing on the little things in every day life. What time is it? Breathing, I know. What is the next best thing to do? With a breath my System tells me what it needs or how I will best use my time. I still need to think about it to achieve my goals for objective creativity, but one day, with practice, I will have achieved a balance in my complex system; mental, emotional and physical bodies will align with Mind and life will be effortless.
I thank every person who helps me practice. Yes, it may take me a breath or ten to conjure up the means to appreciate them :) But there is no greater purpose, no greater reason for being. And I am GRATEFUL.
I hope you enjoy a "master-full" Wednesday! I'll breathe and do my best, too.
Phyllis/Phyl-El
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Monday, July 29, 2013
Formlessness
Hi, Everyone!
Well, it seems I'm back after a full year. I don't know yet what it means to be here again, but the rhythm is similar to 30 years ago when I was guided to get up by 6:00, exercise, shower, write for half an hour, then get on with my day. And so the cycle, while familiar, is brand new in these days of formless creation.
We entered this new formless energy, this Third (New) Earth, over four years ago, and apparently we've adapted pretty well since we are still here and we're functioning. More than that, we can breathe and feel ourselves better equipped, wiser and more fully involved than ever before.
This formlessness is like being in a room with walls that ripple and evaporate, leaving us to decide what form our rooms, our lives, could take with intention. We're wide open to options we've never dreamed before. This is a heady - and often intimidating - experience.
In the midst of this we are reviewing our histories; like farmers tilling a field of rich loamy earth, we are turning up and examining the underside of our lives. And we are encouraged to do so with as much objectivity as possible, to breathe and observe without judgement any condition or behavior, any current or past belief that is part of our past.
I recently read an essay on how to do this that was very eloquent. It was not practical. Only the most esoteric and evolved student has resolved the emotional body and the stored memories that influence our present. I am not one of those. I am still here in this human suit with physical, mental and emotional complexities, still evolving the best way I know how. And when I find myself reviewing a situation of the past, I know my emotional body will persist with symptoms until I am willing to tap into those emotions and release the energy that produces those symptoms.
Sometimes that means venting, purging, being loud and boisterous with tears and foot stomping and raging. Sometimes I can breathe through the symptom, thank it for its gifts, ask for any further Wisdom, and replace it with new intention. Often, both processes are necessary. Having done my share of purging, I'm grateful that now, more often than not, the breathing cycle does the trick. All that I learn from my clients informs me, and they often receive counsel to do the purging - and that the emotional body does not care at all what we think, how we've rationalized a situation. It must persist with its symptoms until we've learned from it what we've promised to learn in this life cycle.
In formlessness we are unrestricted by the past. The memory is still there. We are born in karmic patterns, so memory still plays a part, but they can become just that, memories, that no longer control our lives. Yesterday I heard, "Verses versus Vices." For me that means writing to heal and replace old patterns. Over the years writing has given me solace and hopefulness for all the help we have available. For others the catharsis comes through music, exercise, dancing, nature, etc.
We are encouraged to speak out loud to whatever symptom we discover and to offer thanks for the help that is so abundantly present for each and every one of us.
As we breathe generously into the formlessness we will recall, we will till up, the stored memory, and more efficiently than ever open ourselves to living with increasing ease. We deserve it.
Breathing with you, in gratitude,
Phyllis/Phyl-El
Well, it seems I'm back after a full year. I don't know yet what it means to be here again, but the rhythm is similar to 30 years ago when I was guided to get up by 6:00, exercise, shower, write for half an hour, then get on with my day. And so the cycle, while familiar, is brand new in these days of formless creation.
We entered this new formless energy, this Third (New) Earth, over four years ago, and apparently we've adapted pretty well since we are still here and we're functioning. More than that, we can breathe and feel ourselves better equipped, wiser and more fully involved than ever before.
This formlessness is like being in a room with walls that ripple and evaporate, leaving us to decide what form our rooms, our lives, could take with intention. We're wide open to options we've never dreamed before. This is a heady - and often intimidating - experience.
In the midst of this we are reviewing our histories; like farmers tilling a field of rich loamy earth, we are turning up and examining the underside of our lives. And we are encouraged to do so with as much objectivity as possible, to breathe and observe without judgement any condition or behavior, any current or past belief that is part of our past.
I recently read an essay on how to do this that was very eloquent. It was not practical. Only the most esoteric and evolved student has resolved the emotional body and the stored memories that influence our present. I am not one of those. I am still here in this human suit with physical, mental and emotional complexities, still evolving the best way I know how. And when I find myself reviewing a situation of the past, I know my emotional body will persist with symptoms until I am willing to tap into those emotions and release the energy that produces those symptoms.
Sometimes that means venting, purging, being loud and boisterous with tears and foot stomping and raging. Sometimes I can breathe through the symptom, thank it for its gifts, ask for any further Wisdom, and replace it with new intention. Often, both processes are necessary. Having done my share of purging, I'm grateful that now, more often than not, the breathing cycle does the trick. All that I learn from my clients informs me, and they often receive counsel to do the purging - and that the emotional body does not care at all what we think, how we've rationalized a situation. It must persist with its symptoms until we've learned from it what we've promised to learn in this life cycle.
In formlessness we are unrestricted by the past. The memory is still there. We are born in karmic patterns, so memory still plays a part, but they can become just that, memories, that no longer control our lives. Yesterday I heard, "Verses versus Vices." For me that means writing to heal and replace old patterns. Over the years writing has given me solace and hopefulness for all the help we have available. For others the catharsis comes through music, exercise, dancing, nature, etc.
We are encouraged to speak out loud to whatever symptom we discover and to offer thanks for the help that is so abundantly present for each and every one of us.
As we breathe generously into the formlessness we will recall, we will till up, the stored memory, and more efficiently than ever open ourselves to living with increasing ease. We deserve it.
Breathing with you, in gratitude,
Phyllis/Phyl-El
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