There is something about honouring the unconscious processes of the psyche that can be challenging. For example, here we are – or here I am – wanting to share this piece of work with you, and more to the point the story behind it, rather than be filming the next lesson in the Creative Instinct Course and publishing and promoting a set of articles on managing stress.
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My Dear Friends,
After long and careful thought I have had to take a step which will perhaps be most disturbing to many of you, though to others it may come as no surprise. I have come to the conclusion that I cannot remain in either the ministry or the communion of the Episcopal Church.
This quote by Anias Nin got me thinking.
‘My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws, and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.’
The question I am confronted with fairly often by clients in response to statements about self love is “How?”
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There is a small park in the town where I live.
The grass area is maintained by the council and the boarders are gardened by volunteers.
In its own way it is a bit of an oasis. Children run free from the prospect of treading in dog faeces as there are no dog allowed. There is a sandpit and a wooden play structure that would pass as a tiny home in some communities, trees, shade, grass and an extensive garden of herbs and berries.
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How might we engage with the planets within, the archetypal fields of pattern and influence in ways that could help promote healing?
This was a question asked via our facebook group.
The short answer is ‘tentatively.’
There is also far more to say on the subject than contained in the video below, so much more that really needs to be said.
One way of view archetypes, as Jung suggested, is as self portraits of instincts.
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Neurosis is both the problem and the solution.
It is a path that can lead to an increase in consciousness, an increase in consciousness of a part of oneself of which you were previously less conscious.
In this regard it can be seen as an invitation towards greater wholeness.
It is a signpost on a path to greater integration.
It is a marker for potential growth.
It is nothing more and nothing less than an opportunity.
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One of the central themes of ©Live Creative is the idea that, to a significant degree, you can create your life, or at least elements of it. It also acknowledges that the essence of life, as it flows through you, is creating you. That these are two sides of the same process.
In part, how we meet life, and how we respond to the ways that life meets us, is what leads us to certain quality of experience.
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The actual act of living is way to complex to reduce it to simple formulas and words. And yet, here we are.
Relating, adapting, and creating.
How we relate to the world, to ourselves, and to those we share the world with is fundamental to what events and experiences shape our lives.
It is a very useful frame to have when looking at how one might go about changing things for the better. You could do a lot worse than to start with the following three questions:
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There are limits to how far a single piece of advice might be of help when it comes to changing life for the better.
This should be fairly self evident, and yet the internet is rife with suggestions like the one that all you need to do to change your life is to change your vibration. The idea that by changing how you think and how you feel then the material world will somehow fall into alignment around you.
The thing is that this is not necessarily wrong or even bad advice. Changing how you think, and being present with your feelings is not bad advice, it’s just that for some people, it’s not enough.
In fact, for some people, for whom the issues are so deep beneath the surface, or so close to their face, such advice may even be harmful.
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It’s a line I’ve heard all my life.
“Well let’s hope you get somewhere with it.”
“What do you mean?” I ask.
“Well let’s hope you make some money out of it.” She said.
A light goes on. Finally, I see the situation with more clarity than I ever have before.
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