What is acreativespace?

I had a very humbling experience on Thursday night when I was interviewed by Sandie Sedgbeer on the Awakening Zone.

The past ten years of my life have been absorbed in the world of frequency and the past three in the construction of the consciousness which we know as acreativespace. 

Given the opportunity to talk about it for an hour and a half to an educated audience with a knowledgable and enthusiastic host would seem to be a dream come true. 

I came out of the conversation somewhat dispirited and frustrated. I left the interview with one question nagging away at me and it was the very question I was there to answer. 

That question was WHAT IS ACREATIVESPACE? 

If I left asking that question, what on earth must anybody listening be thinking?

So...What is acreativespace?

What is interesting is in the opening section of this blog I described acreativespace as a consciousness as opposed to a business and this, I think, is where the answer to my question lies. Smarter questions do work! 

Early in the history of acreativespace Ltd we realised that to fulfil its potential acreativespace should not be organised as a traditional business. Its function was to create a space in which all those interacting with it could become a full expression of their essence. 

This included ourselves. It was not the task of acreativespace to provide us with a living but to create the environment in which our true expression would allow us to create the lives we love, in a place we love, with people we love.

At a practical level this meant it needed a presence within the current paradigm of survival. It had to pay the rent and keep us warm. It had to embody. But behind that it's real function was to be the space which allows authentic expression... a physical space; an energetic space; a spiritual space.

The true essence of acreativespace is an intelligence and organizing principle behind the arising of form. It is the un-manifest, the eternal. I borrow these words from Eckhart Tolle and they are, in part, his definition of consciousness. 

To define acreativespace as consciousness may seem crazy, but that is how I perceive it. My journey with acreativespace has been a trip into consciousness itself. 

How do you market consciousness?  

Quite simply you don't. 

My frustration on Thursday was my inability to communicate what acreativespace can do for you, your family, your business or whatever your perceived needs. 

But therein lies the problem. Perceived needs.

Within the current paradigm of lack, we operate a business by identifying, or more commonly, creating a demand or need, and then providing the goods or services which solve the problem or satisfies the demand.

Basically we are told that we are not enough and that there is a something available which will make you enough. This applies as much to many spiritual teachers as it does to the cosmetics industry.

What if the message is that you are enough?  You do not need to buy my product. Engage with us and nothing in your experience will change. Pretty tricky sale that! But at its core it is the truth of our message at acreativespace.

So what do we offer? 

Simply stated we are selling space. In effect we are selling nothing. In that space your essence will be able to breathe, be able to express and will connect you to the infinite abundance that you are. You will see through the illusion of lack and there is literally no price tag on that.

Do not engage with acreativespace to remove a problem. Engage as a demonstration that all problems are an illusion. 

Each time you buy something to remove a perceived lack, to remove a concern or surpress a fear you are cementing the reality of lack and buying into the fiction that there is something to fear.

Be brave enough to buy something because there is no lack and that the something you buy will make no difference to your external world. Shattering the illusion of lack will release you to create any experience you choose, it will catapult you into the void, or into a truly creative space.

Do you believe in Father Christmas?

Last week Charlotte and I decided to set ourselves an outrageous target for The Happy Home Stone. I can see no logical way in which we can achieve it and that is why we set it. One way of getting me to “let go”. Since then it feels as though the Universe’s response has been,  “OK, if you want to reach this target we need to look at a few small limiting beliefs...”

Later that day I listened to a call on a programme called the Money Breathrough Method I have recently signed up for. This is a programme by Kendall Summerhawk and I signed up when I heard her say “How you do money is how you do everything.” During the call she took us through her Money Breakthrough Method which is a series of nine questions designed to help you discover your underlying belief about money. After the call I was eager to apply it to myself so I wrote down the questions and took myself off for a bath...the only guaranteed place to find any peace and quiet in my house. An hour and a number of top ups of hot water later I had it and WOW! It was like toppling dominoes!

I realised that I believed you have to work hard to make money. All my family stories are about my grandmother working extremely hard to save £100 to start the family business etc. I then realised that if this is my belief then it will create my experience and my experience will of course reinforce my belief. I could see, however, that the belief came first and I had stumbled upon a belief that was so deep seated that I regarded it as truth. This sent me off in search of my other “sacred cows”.

I uncovered a whole raft of beliefs which I had inherited from my parents. Beliefs so deep seated that each time I uncovered one it was like finding out Father Christmas wasn’t real. I began to see how perfect the Father Christmas story is. Adults you trust fill your head with stories of an old man climbing down the chimney to leave you presents. You don’t question it and then one day you find out it’s a pack of lies. Do you think the Universe is perhaps giving us a hint for later in life?

Where else could I find deep-seated beliefs which if I could change might change my experience of life? I recently embarked, very reluctantly, on a major programme of dental work. If I could uncover the underlying belief that was creating this experience could I change the experience.....i.e. avoid it. I have tried everything else, Matrix Energetics, The Programme, mandalas, you name it I have given it a go. So I dug around for the beliefs and found some great ones and the date of my next appointment approached.

Well, two and a half hours later after a lot of drilling and root canal treatment I emerged. Sitting on the train home with a very sore jaw I pondered what I was getting wrong. Then I got it. Everything I was doing was to avoid the experience because of fear. I was trying to change a belief to change an experience because I was afraid. When I am no longer afraid of the dentist then I suspect suddenly I will no longer need to go - but I won’t mind because I am no longer trying to avoid it. Suddenly I could see the gift in the experience, I stopped resisting it and I felt that wonderful peace I am coming to know as presence.

So I don’t believe in Father Christmas....but as for the Tooth Fairy....at least she seems to have money sorted!

with love

Tracy

The Faith Point

Back in December Bill had a dream in which he saw a triangle with the e-pendant in one corner, the Happy Home Stone in another and the word faith at the top. I was intrigued because at the time I felt that I was experiencing something I had started to call a Faith Point.

I looked up the meaning of faith and found "belief that is not based on proof". This was exactly where I felt. It was the run up to Christmas and although I felt that something significant had changed over the past few months I found myself looking at a set of events and circumstances that looked exactly the same as the year before. Had anything changed or was I just deluding myself?

It was the time of the solstice - the shortest day, the time of greatest darkness. I kept thinking of the expression, "The darkest hour is just before the dawn." I also got the sense that it was the point where I often lose hope and give up. Looking at it in terms of the Law of Attraction I could see that I would have an idea and start to implement it with great enthusiasm. At some point though my doubts would overwhelm my enthusiasm. I suspect that just at the very moment when my initial idea was about to be realised, my frequency would change to frustration and hey presto -  my experience to one of frustration.

Over the solstice it bordered on despair. As I relayed my woes one evening to my daughter she said, “Mum, I hate to say this but I think it’s a faith point.” I agreed with her and said that I just wish I understood what was going on ..... at which point she said, “But then it wouldn’t be a faith point!” Smarty pants!!

Undeterred, I have been trying to make sense of the Faith Point.  After Christmas, I read Neale Donald Walsh’s book, The Storm Before the Calm and I found the following:

“ The trick is to stay positive in a sea of negativity. The trick is to know that the process is working even when it looks as if it is not.”

Then last night I read in a great book called The Science of Getting Rich (free to download from the internet):

“Every individaul has the natural and inherent power to think what he wants to think, but it requires far more effort to do so than it does to think the thoughts which are suggested by appearances. To think according to appearances is easy; to think truth regardless of appearances is laborious and requires the expenditure of more power than any other work we are called upon to perform.
.....Every appearance in the visible world tends to produce a corresponding form in the mind which observes it, and this can only be prevented by holding the thought of the TRUTH.”

Belief not based on proof, to know that the process is working even when it looks as though it is not, to think truth regardless of appearances....that for me is the Faith Point and as 2012 progresses I am beginning to feel that we may have collectively crossed it!

Tracy

Is your skip full or empty?

Last Saturday’s full moon had quite an effect on me and from the conversations I have had over the last two days, it seems I might not be the only one.

For me it seems to have dredged up loads of stuff I thought I had said goodbye to some time ago and watching it playing out once more has been unpleasant to say the least! I wanted though to share something that happened to me on Tuesday morning.

We have been having building work done at home and as I was looking out my bedroom window on Tuesday morning I saw the lorry arrive to take away the full skip. It had an empty skip on it and I wondered if we were going to be getting yet another one to fill. I found myself wondering how the driver would swap them over. Would he unload the empty skip and then take away the full one....leaving the builders to manoeuvre the empty one into place? Would he take away the full one and them come back with an empty one later?

I watched intrigued as he lifted up the full skip and placed it inside the empty skip on the truck. He then moved the chains onto the empty skip and lifted the full skip inside the empty skip back on to the drive. Finally he move the chains again and lifted the full skip back onto the truck and drove away. Magic!!

As I stood there marvelling at the solution, I got the impression I was being shown something about how change happens. Yes, I know, some people have guides who are angels....I have skip drivers! I imagined how I would feel standing at street level on the drive. I would watch the rubbish in the full skip being taken away.....great. But then, “Oh no! What’s this? Here it comes back again!” Would I see the empty skip carrying it.....or would it just look like all the rubbish returning?

I wonder if that is what this recent full moon has been like. Bringing to the surface a lot of rubbish we thought we had got rid of. But underneath there is something new we can’t quite see yet. Is it the arrival of something new that is sweeping away the old. It could feel pretty awful if we just look at the rubbish but if we wait a few moments longer the rubbish is going to be taken away leaving something new..... hopefully not another empty skip to be filled with yet more rubbish!


with love

Tracy

Are you asking smart questions?

When you find things a little tough or a familiar pattern plays out do you find yourself asking the same old questions? "Why is this happening again?", "Why me?", "When will this stop?"

If you do, you are not alone. And if you do you will continue to experience the very thing you are so tired of.

These types of question are open requests to the universe to give you more of that experience. If there is a lesson in every experience, asking why something is happening will bring about more of that experience, perhaps dressed up in a different way or presenting as a different person, but you will have that experience again.

Giving attention to what you do not want is a sure fire way to make it show up again. This is why people find themselves stuck in the same old patterns year after year.

Victims remain victims as much through the "why me?" question as through anybody else's actions. The perpetrators are simply players in that person's game fulfilling the Why me request.

With all that is happening in the world on a collective and personal level it is really important to get some discipline with the questions you ask. There is a lot of free floating anxiety around and even though that anxiety may not be yours, it is easy to try to give it a context and go straight to your personal data bank of anxiety stories: my kids wont get a job, they dont like me, I will run out of money, my bum looks big in this!

As your awareness grows and you find life a little tricky do not get stuck in the loop with sloppy thinking and perserverative questions.

One of the most powerful tools we use is to ask a smarter question. The open ended question gives the universe the opportunity to show you something new or closer to your chosen feeling. Questions starting with "how would it feel...?" or "what would it look like..." are very effective, although you require awareness and maybe non-linear thinking to interpret the answer.

What about "If there is something here that might be helpful what would that be?" "How would it feel to be the abundance that I am?"

We use these type of questions frequently and would encourage you to do so.

Remember, the answer always lies where the question is asked. Our job at the moment is to ask smarter questions. That is one reason I love working with kids, their questions are normally fearless and creative and the ones we overlook!

To play with this tool please send us examples of your open ended smarter questions.

We will publish a list of them all and reward the one we like the best with a free Happy Home Stone worth £49.95 (visit www.happyhomestone.com ) .

Please send your suggestions to mail@acreativespace.org or post on our Facebook page .

How would it feel to get a great response to this blog?

Bill

Bunga Bunga Time

We had a great response to the 11-11-11 balance and enjoyed a calm and powerful day. Leading into 11-11-11 someone explained to me that beyond that date it 'would be all downhill'. Downhill is great if you are on a bike but it has other less positive interpretations. Whilst 'plain sailing' was perhaps the message he was trying to convey, the mixed interpretation of downhill proved very accurate.

The backdrop to the past two weeks has been the familiar frantic activity on the sun, with an 800,000 km magnetic filament stirring things up, and the usual associated microbial gymnastics. If any of you had 'enjoyed' a 'lively' stomach, an indecisiveness around food choices and a diminishing in cravings then you are not alone.

There was a keen anticipation of a calming of the energies on or around 11-11-11 and indeed for a number that proved to be the case. However my experience was of a particularly trying week, where old patterns turned up with a concentration and insistence which was difficult to ignore and despite all my lectures on managing your energy I had a few days which reminded me of the old days! Judging by my observations and the many calls we have had I was not alone. Indeed, some of the patterns presented themselves in a way which a number of people described as 'their worst nightmare'.

Once again this is the passing away of the who you are not. The old stories are running for the door as your true essence starts to emerge. My advice is open the door and bid them farewell. If you choose to engage with the stories they will persist and with the increasing speed of manifestation they will show again up sooner rather than later (look at Egypt for a macro example).

The great news is that a touch of awareness, using your grounding cord, pulling on your Power Pants and processing the information in the right station will clear the way for incredible times. This volatility has already begun to settle and the period through to December 12th should see an increasing calm. The speed of manifestation will work to your advantage if you continue to manage your energy with awareness and authenticity. Watch your children closely as they should revel in the new energies.

Above all be gentle with yourself. These are incredible times and if Berlusconi can't wriggle his way out the change then I am sure I can't. When democracy falls in Greece you know you are witnessing something amazing. Today we heard that this period will see the falling away of the fear body and if that is the case we may enjoy the equivalent of Belusconi's Bunga Bunga Party!


Bill

How are you feeling?

How do you feel?

That is not a how are you feeling today question.

That is a what mechanism do you use to feel question.

Have you been blasted by 'spiritual teachers' telling you to get out of your head and into your heart? There seems to be a message that the mind is bad and the heart is good, and then the same messenger will smuggly tell you there is no good and bad. They then present a mind based technique to get you out of your mind. Whilst you are busily trying to process that information (without using your mind because you now understand that to be 'bad') the 'teacher' is quietly, and often unconsciously, helping themselves to a large chunk of your power.

I put my hand up now. I got caught in this typical energy 'exchange' myself. Sorry!

The reason we are directed to the heart is that it is commonly accepted as our feeling centre.

But do you feel with your heart?

The heart produces the most powerful field effect in our body and is an amplifier and transmitter of the frequency we are holding. The question is does it have to process all the information as well? My feeling is that we have different centres to process different types of information. High frequency information is best processed by the mind. Low frequency information (feelings) are best processed by the gut. The information is processed and delivered to the heart which resonates with our truth and well being, and feels crappy if the information is not a match.

When someone tells you to get out of your mind it would help if they were a little more specific. Get the low frequency feeling information out of your mind for sure but don't ask the heart to process it, send it to your gut, (leaving your maths homework in the mind)!

If someone is projecting their truth onto you (some call it teaching), process that information in your mind and your heart will let you know if it resonates or not. Similarly, if someone invites you into an experience let your gut process that information and your heart will provide confirmation or otherwise through resonance with the feeling.

When dealing with money let the gut make it and the head count it. Don't work out if you find someone attractive in your head let your gut tell you. When learning new conceptual ideas let your mind play with the information. Your heart sits in the middle of all these information flows and resonates with your own truth, don't ask it to do the processing for you. If your heart resonates with the information it receives you will feel an excitement or energised and that feeling is exploded into the universe with a clear I LOVE THIS GIVE ME MORE PLEASE signal.

The mind is fantastic, the gut is fantastic and the heart is fantastic.

Pavarotti was a great singer but his dancing sucked. Einstein was retty cool at thinking but not so good at the javelin. Let them do their appropriate job.

Your heart knows, but your mind had to tell it about the content and your gut had to feel it.

You are powerful, own it and don't let a bit of third grade NLP or psychology try to steal your power,

In the spirit of this communication if this information feels horrible trust your heart and hit the delete button. If you went straight to your heart as your teachers so often advise you wont have got this far!

Bill