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See the Pattern and Then the Potential

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See the Pattern and Then the Potential

Adventures in the Unseen World

Experiences keep repeating because we keep doing what we’ve always been doing. To change our experience and our results, we only have to change our actions. 

However, there is another way to look at patterns.  We can see patterns as potential.  You become aware that what continues to show up – for better or worse – is a result of your actions and thoughts. The patterns you have set up by your actions and thoughts are working to create the results that appear.  

You are the creator of the results you experience. Change your patterns and you will change the outcome.  All change comes from within you. 

What is working?

Because I’m retired there are a great many things about my life that are working.  Because I’m old there are a few things that are not working as well as I would like.  Let’s begin with the positive. 

I’m a much better writer than I was even five years ago, let alone 50 years ago.  That’s a positive that has built over time because it is a passion and a constant calling that I heeded. 

Over the course of time, I now know myself well enough to know I like to write in short forms so I do not undertake long detailed projects.  That’s a powerful realization – knowing what you like to do and what you don’t like to do. That helps you make good choices. 

I love to do shamanic journeying so I do that nearly every day. I love to play my flute so I do that every day.  I love to write so I do that every day.  See how easy it is to fill your day with things that you love to do!!

Notice what you love to do and simply do more of it.

What is not working?

Because I spend so much time encouraging my mind, my body has taken a bit of hit.  I’m smart enough to know what I need to do but I have to find more clever ways to get me to do it.  My inactivity is working to make my body less strong. I need to make changes in my viewpoint, my expectation, and my actions. 

Look for the pattern

I have to look for places I am willing to put in new actions that will correct the things that are not working.  If it means doing some Qi Gong when I stand up from my desk, then I begin there.  If it means a few yoga moves at the kitchen skink every time I am in that room, I can build on that pattern and add new designs.  

Create a pattern of reminders. I call them pulse points.  Walk through a doorway and let it remind you to stand up straighter. When you see the sun set out the window, turn and play your flute and offer gratitude for the day.  

A pulse point.  Something you do often that will serve as a reminder to begin to establish new choices, new habits. 

Look for the potential 

There is potential for strengthening my body each time I move around the room. There is potential for stretching even while sitting in a chair.  

I have a pattern of preferring to write in relatively short pieces.  But the potential becomes a collection of posts to make a book.  Use what you are drawn to.

I am doing very unusual shamanic journey work and the potential seems to include processes to teach others. Explore how you will share your passion.

My exploration of vibration healing has moved beyond tuning forks and humming and drumming. I am exploring the Unseen World for guidance and information and your next steps. Let your inner voice guide you.

Every thought you have is filled with potential.  It may or may not be yours to do, but if the idea appears, it is certainly yours to examine and perhaps explore a bit. 

What is the potential for the idea you just got? 

Know what is stopping you and see if it can be released

Thirty-five years ago I was told I could be a very strong motivational speaker.  

I did not pursue that because I was bogged down with a bit of shyness.  Perhaps a lack of confidence, perhaps not feeling I knew enough to motivate anyone.  In order words, I did not understand or know my own value, my own gifts, my own potential.

The result is that I am not a motivational speaker, but I am a motivational writer.  

Find where the gift fits and do that. 

Identify the pattern and then explore its potential.

Deeper Song Affirmation

I take conscious stock of the patterns in my life and look creatively at their potential.

Deeper Song Process

  • Take time to make a list of the things you do or think about what you want to do.  
  • Pick one and go exploring. Look at some training videos to see if the idea really appeals to you. What more could you do with the idea?  Where could it take you? How could you make it uniquely yours? What is in your way?  How can you get rid of that?
  • Find what is calling you and do that. 

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

Individual Curiosity and a Willingness to Change. 

Believe In The Power Of Your Own Ripple

Expand You Own Power Through Self-Leadership

Walk the Sacred Path Within Surely and Steadily and Leave a Trail  

Come Sing a Deeper Song

I help people who are consciously raising their vibration 
to explore the Unseen World 
so that we can help create a New Reality.

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Curiosity Alone is Transformative

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  Curiosity Alone is Transformative

Adventures in the Unseen World

When I stop to feel the softness of my cat’s fur I experience not only the silkiness of the fur but the warmth of his purring body beneath my hand. When I sit with our combined energy I experience the companionship and trust he adds to my life.  If I become more curious  I may begin to wonder what it feels like to be that small, or see at night, or be about to leap up to a chair, or purr?

Curiosity takes you on one adventure after another

My mind keeps me hopping. I spend days trying to explain what I learn in my shamanic journeys by writing posts. I follow where I am led and my curiosity and need to understand is taking me on a huge adventure. 

Curiosity allows you to add new ideas to your life

I had no idea the video talk I was watching would be so transforming. Or lead me on such great adventures. That was where I heard the phrase “Curiosity alone is transformative.” And here we are exploring that idea together. 

Curiosity gives you understanding 

I didn’t know I was going to become so interested in sound vibration until the right teacher showed up and I began to learn and apply what I discovered. I went exploring and expanded not only my understanding of how vibration works but how to use that understanding in my life. 

Curiosity offers you comparison

Being able to compare two choices is invaluable.  Where will this choice take me?  Where will that choice lead?  Explore both opportunities before you decide. Curiosity is power. 

Curiosity broadens your choice

When you explore, you discover more paths, more opportunities, more choices.  They are not all for you but knowing about them will help guide you on your own path. 

Curiosity gives you new ideas

I had no idea the speaker was going to talk about Koans. I also didn’t know I would resonate so deeply with them. Suddenly I turned and wandered a bit down the path that helps me understand those thought-provoking stories. Be open to new ideas and explore them.

Curiosity opens new doors

As I move more deeply and frequently into the Unseen World there are definitely new doors being opened.  Not thrown open, but hinted at, needing a choice from me before they open and take me on my next adventure. 

Curiosity is transformative

How curious will you be today?. Where and what will you explore? 

Where will it lead you?

Deeper Song Affirmation

I am aware of my curiosity and follow where it leads me. 

A Deeper Song Process 

  • Think of something you are curious about.
  • Go exploring. 

To Sind a Deeper Song Consider:

How to Open Space for Change 

How to Transform Energy Before You Release it

Leave Openness open

How to Interpret the Messages from Within 

How to Walk a Path of Inner  Stillness

Raise Your Vibration and Change the World. 

I help transformational thinkers raise their personal vibration so that we, collectively, can raise the consciousness of our planet.

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Play Your Body Song 

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Play Your Body Song
An Inner-world Exploration

In Qi Gong, there is a lovely practice called cupping. You cup your hands and “cup” your body in light taps along your meridians.  Up your arms, down your legs, on your torso.  It’s a lovely way to wake your body up from its night’s rest and get your circulation going.

I also use drumming as a vibrational healing practice.  I drum whatever rhythmical patterns come from within me.

It happens to be an interesting pairing – play rhythms on your body with the palms of your hands in order to stimulate the circulation and the meridians.

If you play your Body Song right before you step into the shower you will find that your bare body has different sounds in different places, which is a fun discovery all in itself.  Using your body as the drum, play some rhythms and enjoy the sound and the sensations. Remember to also swing your arms so you can tap on the organs closer to your back. 

I call this my Body Song because it offers rhythmic patterns to my ears and gets my body all primed for the day. 

Will you play your Body Song today?

Deeper Song Affirmation

I play my Body Song every day. 

Deeper Song Process

  • Using your slightly cupped hands, begin to beat a gentle rhythm up and down one arm.  Do the same to the other arm. 
  • With this same slightly cupped palm, move over your legs and torso. 
  • Swing your arms so you reach your back and give it a tap.
  • Experiment with rhythms and length of time and notice how alert and energetic you become. 
  • Repeat as many times each day as you wish.  (Perhaps not right before bed!)

To Sing a Deeper Song, Consider:

The Intentional OM HUM  

The Light Vibration of One 

The Pillar of Light Process

Energy Cannot Be Destroyed – Only Re-Purposed 

Raise Your Vibration With Serenity

Raise Your Vibration Through Visioning

Raise Your Vibration and Change the World. 

I help transformational thinkers raise their personal vibration so that we, collectively, can raise the consciousness of our planet.

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Individual Curiosity and a Willingness to Change

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Individual Curiosity and a Willingness to Change
An Inner-world Exploration

How unaware we were when we were young.  How much we didn’t know.  How much we have learned.  Just how willing have you been to let go of how it used to be or how you thought it used to be in order to deepen and broaden your experience of life in the present moment?  

When I think of the really unaware choices I made along the line, it makes me cringe. When I think of the brave and unusual choices I made, I am a bit in awe.

What makes you do what you do, make the choices you do?  Is it the lesson you need to learn? The opportunity you need to take?  Both the opportunity and your choices are lessons and guidance from within.

Don’t focus on the less than clear choices

There was so much I did from a lack of awareness.  And so much I did out of not thinking of the consequences.  Sometimes my choices worked out. Sometimes they didn’t.

What we have is now.  What we have is the opportunity facing us and the choices we make – in this moment. 

It doesn’t help to look back because the past is long gone.  No regrets.  No should-haves. What is left are the lessons learned – the wisdom, the ever-increasing self-awareness.  Use that accumulated wisdom to recognize, examine and make the choices offered to you today. 

Choose from the place of who you have become

You can’t go back.  You only have now, so use what you have learned along your journey.  

Become aware of your current choices and how they are working out. What is the place of illumined service you are cultivating for yourself? What actions inspire and motivate you? How do you feel about the choices before you? If what comes up is an emotion or belief you don’t want, see what needs to change – you or the choice. 

Where will this choice lead me?

What will this choice teach me?

Who will this choice affect? How many? How deeply?

Make the choice that resonates deeply within you in this moment that will guide you further along the path you have chosen to travel.  

If it’s a sheer joy and pleasure to take the action, repeat it. Become aware of how your choices resonate within you and let that be your guide. 

Expand your level of curiosity

I stay open to where my mind leads me. I am constantly surprised and excited about where I’m taken.  I journey to the 95% that is the Unseen World and get ideas that stretch me here within my body suit.  I bring those ideas, experience, and lessons back and work to figure out how to apply what I’ve learned into my life and take time to show others what I’ve discovered.  I explore, I share.  I explore more – and am always surprised. 

Encourage your willingness to change

What I discover in my inner journeys raises my vibration, gives me new insights and I always return from these contemplations with ideas on how to change and a desire to change. That’s why I keep seeking these inner insights. 

Question everything

Question your choices.  Question your motivation. Question the opportunities that present themselves.  Be curious and be willing to change.

Deep Song Affirmation

I am curious and
I am willing to change.

Deeper Song Process

  • Look at an area in your life where you are stuck.
  • Close your eyes and picture that area becoming unstuck – floating away or dissolving. 
  • What takes its place?  What idea floats gently in? 
  • Consider that.
  • If it calls to you, do it.

To Sing a Deeper Song, Consider:

Have You Raised Your Sails?

Believe In The Power Of Your Own Ripple 

The Packed Potential Before the Beginning  

Life Messages from a Potter

How to Weave the Sacred into the Ordinary

Raise Your Gaze

Broaden and Deepen
Your Personal Journey 

I help spiritual adventurers explore the Unseen World so that we broaden and deepen our personal journey and learn to share our discoveries with others.   We are guides and way-showers with our light held high.

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The Packed Potential Before the Beginning 

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The Packed Potential Before the Beginning
An Inner-World Exploration

Wuji means “no limits.” Wuji is at the center and the beginning of our pilgrimage.  Wuji is essential stillness, the packed potential before the beginning.  It is the beginning of the beginning. – I Ching, Deng Meng Dao

Imagine yourself in deep, deep stillness.  No ideas frolic through your mind.  No emotions nudge you for attention.  You are simply there.  At the beginning.  Filled with packed potential. “Packed potential!”  What a fabulous idea! What does that look like?  Feel like? Can I truly be so still and present inside that I can feel the wuji, the center at the beginning of the next step of my personal journey?

I would like that.  I would like to be so present and still and centered that I am like a bird sitting on a branch prepared to fly but not yet doing so.  Simply being present and filled with the potential for movement.

How else can I experience wuji?  How might I think of packed potential? How might I cultivate it and use it to move into whatever form I take that creates change? 

Part of wuji is about waiting

Wuji is how you feel before you take action. For instance, I wanted to write this article in order to figure out how to apply this concept of packed potential. There are, as I write this, organic pauses that allow new thoughts to emerge for consideration and clarification.  But underneath it all is that deep, deep, deep sense of permanence, of a part of me that is always present, the wuji, the packed potential that is me. Here in my body suit.  Living my body suit life.  

“Wuji means “no limits.”

I have to get out of my body suit in order to understand the concept of wuji – no limits – because my body suit is full of limitations. I have to journey to the unseen world of my inner knowing in order to even begin to conceive of “no limits.”  That’s not a body suit concept. It’s an inner world concept, an unseen world concept.  That unseen world is within us, open to us, beckoning to us to come explore.  We can simply close our eyes, turn off our minds and fly. With no limits!

When we use our body suit minds, we cannot conceive of limitless potential because we can’t get there in our body suits.  But our inner self knows and can take us there. 

Perhaps all we need is to know wuji, “packed potential”, exists and that it is possible

If I sit here at my desk and go within, there’s a stillness.  My body suit disappears and I’m left as an energy floating in the present moment.  When I release my body suit, my inner self moves softly into the Great Nothingness where everything is potential, where everything is evolving and changing and shifting shapes and direction – constant unfolding and evolving movement.  I become part of that transforming energy and I, too, change.  I become presence.  I become potential.  I simply am.  

And that’s where we begin to let our lives unfold.

Make time to unpack your wuji, your packed potential

You may find this wuji awareness of packed potential in meditation.  You may find wuju in nature.  You may find it in an action that you take.  

I am changing my spiritual practice to include smaller but more frequent moments in my day. That gives me the opportunity to be still and silent and present more often.  I pause to examine and evaluate where I am and where is calling me, deepen my spiritual connection and then make an aware and aligned choice. I will expand my midday shamanic journeying to include meditation with a crystal and more drumming and singing of power songs.  I will pause again as the sun sets to be with nature and to begin to close the cycles of my day.  At night I will drum my power songs to guide my dreams in the night.  You get the idea. Create small moments of spiritual practice and inner awareness at various points in our day, then make that a habit.

How will you unpack the packed potential that awaits you? 

Wui means “no limits.” Wuji is at the center and the beginning of our pilgrimage.  Wuji is essential stillness, the packed potential before the beginning.  – I Ching, Deng Meng Dao

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I sit in perfect stillness and experience the packed potential
that awaits me at each beginning.

TO SING A DEEPER SONG CONSIDER:

Another Part of You-The Unseen World 

How to Interpret the Messages from Within 

Do You See and Hear and Walk in a Sacred Manner? 

Unleash the power of your Sacred Garden

How to Be Nothing

Raise Your Vibration and Change the World.
I help transformational thinkers raise their personal vibration so that we, collectively, can raise the consciousness of our planet.  

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