Friday 9 September 2011

Brain Crack

Patrick, my son is a great source of YouTube clips. A couple of weeks ago he showed me one called, "Brain Crack." It's all about having great ideas but never getting around to executing them. As I watched it one word went through my head, "BUSTED". Patrick and I just looked at one another and nodded. "Brain Crack Partners in Crime."!!

Well on his birthday he phoned to tell me he had got rid of an enormous piece of Brain Crack. For a long time he had dreamed of busking, so on his birthday he picked up his guitar, went to Trafalgar Square and busked. He earned £2 and was thrilled. More by the fact that he had finally done it than anything else. I could feel I was losing my "Brain Crack Partner in Crime".

So the pressure was on. Then last week Bill mentioned something Caroline Myss had said about how until something moves below the heart into the solar plexus we don't have anything invested. I suppose an idea comes into the crown chakra as inspiration, then you visualise it (the brow chakra) then you talk about it (the throat chakra) and then you imagine how it would feel (the heart chakra). Then you have to commit, which deciding to do what is required to bring it to life. That's when it begins to get real. You apply your power to it. You "invest" in it. If you don't it just sits there as ....you've got it....BRAIN CRACK.

This week I decided to try something new. Each evening I have spent a few moments making a list of what I have done. In particular the brain crack I have dealt with. I have been really surprised at how effective this has been. Over the course of the week I have actually got through quite a bit of brain crack. The combination of awareness and focusing on what I have achieved rather than beating myself up about what I haven't, seems to have worked wonders. I have written three blogs rather than just think about them, sent flowers to my Mum rather than think it would be a nice idea, made fig jam rather than just buy the sugar, written letters to prospective clients for a new business, created a leaflet and put my boots on and gone for a walk rather than just looking out at the sunshine (there was some this week - honest).

As well as making inroads into my brain crack (there's still plenty left believe me) it seems to have started a flow of positive results in other areas. Almost as though by committing the energy in one area has allowed it to flow in others. It's early days but as they say, "initial results are promising".

Tuesday 6 September 2011

The Paradox of Separation

Whilst on a trip to Chicago to attend a Conscious Systems workshop by Mark Dunn I was reminded of a blog I wrote about a year ago highlighting the paradox we all face in our journey to Oneness or unity consciousness as some describe it.
The paradox is that to move toward Oneness we must first master our Separateness. In essence to become more aware of the connectedness of everything we must first become skilled at disconnection.
In our wisdom we have chosen a model of scarcity and survival as opposed to one of abundance (the Garden of Eden story). Survival has placed us in unhealthy relationships based on competition and co-dependency as opposed to co-creation and co-operation.
The result of this thinking has lead to a very inefficient and in fact destructive way of powering ourselves. Scarcity thinking leads us to believe that we cannot generate enough energy to meet our needs and fuel our creation and we have consequently set up circuits which allow us to draw, borrow or steal energy from other people. We do this through generating emotional charge and harnessing the resultant energy. This plays out in the typical persecutor,victim, rescuer triangle and we establish patterns in our relationships which allow us to draw energy from those around us. This is as true of the victim as the persecutor! These patterns also play out on a group level (think of your football team), and eventually national level (think of war).
We have come to believe that we need to reach outside ourselves to find our power source. This belief pattern is not only inefficient and destructive but actually costs us a lot more. Engaging in this game actually causes us to lose connection to self. We no longer listen to our heart or trust ourselves, we instead seek approval, confrontation or drama to survive.
The good news is that there is an infinite supply of energy available which will provide all the Power you need to drive your creation. To tap into that energy supply you need to re-establish the integrity of your internal circuits. We are in essence a re-chargable battery which is powered by duality. We are organised to set up a flow between light and dense frequencies and once intact this circuit can connect to the infinite flow provided by the universe and nature.
To establish this virtuous cycle we need to learn to disconnect from the co-dependent, competitive circuits and listen to ourselves for guidance. In effect we need to become more seperate to establish the circuit which then allows us to connect to the original Power Source. In this place we will inevitably see the connectedness of everything as we are plugged into it, and at the same time have the integrity to be an individual expression of that Source. Once we realise that we no longer have to compete to survive we can apply our incredible power to co-creation and co-operation.
The route to Oneness requires Separation. Strange but True!

Powerful Living Workshop, Saturday 24th September, The Creative Space centre.