Momentum, Breakthrough and Releasing our Gifts

It’s day 14 of the 14 Day Blogging Challenge and it’s time to reflect and gather the insights from the last 14 days.

First, even though I often write from my own experience, my intention is to connect with you. My belief, hope and intention is that if I write authentically, from my heart and soul, my words will touch you and have meaning for you and sow seeds of inquiry and inspiration that make a difference to your day and move you forward in some way. My intention is to bring the inspiration I am receiving through the writing process and share this inspiration with you. That is the art I am attempting to cultivate here – the art of connection, co-inspiration and conscious relationship.  I really welcome your responses – if my words touch you, please leave a reply.

I have loved this blog challenge. I always love writing but to write every day within an intentional group energy with a clear focus, has been an exhilarating experience for me.

I remembered that momentum creates breakthrough.

Before I received Mirror’s invitation to join the challenge I had been thinking about reviving my online transformational learning community and bookshop, Tribe in Transition. After eight years of intensive creative work, I’d put it all on the backburner a year ago. At the time I felt I’d run out of energy and direction and I thought maybe I’d done everything I came to do. Do you have these times too, when your creative projects seem to run out of steam and you put them aside for a while and trust?

Looking back now over the experience of this year I realize it was time to step back, take a breath and get a bigger perspective. It’s been necessary to loosen my identification with the work so that I can now move forward with renewed strength, courage and confidence.

In the last few weeks I’ve been hearing my books, ebooks and programmes – calling me, “Hey, over here, remember us. Don’t leave us sitting here gathering dust on a virtual shelf. You can’t just walk away… there’s more for you to do. Release us into the world. Let us go out into the world and do our work.”

Participating in the blog challenge, writing every day, reading the posts of others in the group, watching Mirror’s videos on the practical and emotional aspects of blogging, being in the flow of collective consciousness, has re-energised me with my work in the world. In addition to the posts I’ve also become clear what my next steps are, what my priorities are, who I am and what I have to offer others. And I feel tremendously excited and motivated.

Then there’s the inner soul work. The blogging challenge has been a vehicle for transformation for me. It’s carried me through an intense episode of confusion and vulnerability in my inner world. It has proved to me beyond any doubt that following our creative passion is the most powerful healing path. Have you ever had that experience?

Creative momentum breaks through resistance in the form of doubts, fears and limiting attachments. Creative momentum inspires, uplifts, carries, propels, leads, directs, ignites.

Another thing I’ve discovered is that I don’t need ideal circumstances to be inspired and to hold my focus. Where there’s a will there’s a way and I’ve been able to concentrate on my writing while the house has been decorated this week as well as major life events unfolding around and within me. In fact, it’s been the writing, as always, that has given me direction. When we commit to a path it shows us the way.

In my last post I wrote about the collective consciousness shifts that are stirring us all and how I have been affected by them. There have been many days over the last three or four weeks when I have felt the ground disappearing beneath my feet and I was left suspended, flailing, my self-care skills, wisdom and perspective vanished. I visited a state like depression where most of my energy had gone back to soul and there was only a fragile shell left to interact with others in the outer world.  However, alongside all of this, whenever I engaged with writing I immediately became focused, energised, excited, connected, purposeful, multi-dimensional, fully alive. It was the strangest experience – the part of me that was dying and the part being born were travelling alongside each other in the same body.

To be completely honest with you, when I look back over the years, since my conscious soul journey began, 38 years ago, I don’t know how I would have got through it if I hadn’t been so passionately creating. This has been a time of massive planetary upheaval as well as personal crisis, transition and transformation. I said in an earlier post that conversation and community are my lifeline, well, creative engagement is my life jacket, my boat, my sails, my oars and my rudder .

What has become very clear to me these last two weeks is that the fruits of our creative endeavours and our soul work are not ours to own. Just as our children are not ours to own, our creative projects are the children of our soul. I go back to Kahlil Gibran’s, The Prophet.

“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.”

“When you work you fulfill a part of earth’s furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born,…Work is love made visible.”

“And all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love; and when you work with love you bind yourself to yourself, and to one another, and to God.”

Our soul work, is a series of gifts, freely given from the infinite energy of the Universe. These gifts are the Universe calling us to be its eyes and hands and heart, to bring the message of conscious evolution into the Earth plane and in so doing to become the vehicles of conscious evolution or Love-in-action. When we accept the gift we enter into a co-creative partnership with soul and with Gaia and with the universe – yes, it’s that big! And we bring to this partnership all the skills and wisdom we have accumulated as a soul in this and previous lifetimes, including all we have inherited from our Ancestors through our DNA, and we create to the best of our ability. As we create we grow, we breakthrough limitations, we receive insights. The fruits of our efforts – be it a blog article, poem, book, work of art, song, garden, bowl, bread – these can only live fully when they are released and shared. (This doesn’t mean that we should not ask and receive money in exchange for our work but that’s a subject for another time.)

Releasing our work means taking the risk of being seen and that includes the risk that we may be criticised, judged, hurt or ignored.  To release our work means to set free our heart songs from their cages – we don’t know where they will go, who they will touch, how they will fare, whether they will survive. We release them because they are not ours to keep, they are not who we are, they have their own life and their own journey.

At best we are co-creators and guardians. We human beings have been blessed with the gifts of consciousness, choice and creativity. This is a privilege and a responsibility.  I stand in awe.

11^th October 2015