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

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".

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.

Harvest, water, weed.

We have a bumper crop of apples on one of our trees this year so for the past week I have been going out each evening to harvest them. I remember once hearing Bob Flowerdew, the organic gardening pioneer, saying that when you go into your garden you should first harvest, then water and then weed. I tend to do the opposite. Start with the weeding, finish with some watering and if I still have time and energy harvest.

This week I have been following his advice and as a result, my experience of the garden has been totally different. Its pretty obvious really but I now go out looking for fruit to harvest rather than weeds to attack. Then I will look for plants that need water, so nurturing. I do still find time to remove weeds but I find I am looking for where weeds are limiting the growth of plants rather than just making the place look untidy. As a result the whole energy with which I engage with the garden has changed to appreciation and nurturing rather than combat!!

I have found myself wondering whether this might extend beyond the garden. Last week during a Matrix session someone told me they felt that if I could change my beliefs about money everything would change. Driving home I started turning all my beliefs about money on their head and laughed when I got to, "Money does grow on trees."

Ridiculous as this may seem I began to wonder if I was just failing to "harvest" in my business in the same way as my garden. It was a really interesting exercise. Try it yourself. Do you sow seed, water, fertilise, prune, weed and harvest?

More importantly, I realised that starting with the harvest meant I was looking for what was successful in the garden rather than focusing on what needed fixing. This does apply to everything. Where attention goes, energy flows. So focusing on the harvest will bring more to harvest whereas focusing on weeds brings....more weeds!