Madison, Wisconsin
"What are you doing?"
A woman in my Madison workshop told me she hears this question, put by an inner voice, many times a day. Sometimes it rattles her and saps her confidence. But she readily agreed that this may be a salutary question for us to put to ourselves, in the midst of any activity, or inactivity.
It helps us to see our situation from the standpoint of an observer.
What we look at what we are doing or not doing from this perspective, we are able to get a clearer view of what use we are making of our time and energy and our skills. Most important, we may now be able to recognize what we are attracting or driving away through our behavior and even our thoughts.
This has to do with the law of attraction (though I can hardly use that phase since the travesty of The Secret), which I sometimes like to call spiritual magnetism. We draw different events and energies towards us, or send them away, according to our actions and our intentions. With our thoughts and fantasies, even before action, we grow dreams of life, and then walk into those dreams in the physical world. What we feed our minds and our bodies attracts or repels different parts of ourselves as well as different classes of spirits.
I have noticed in my own life as a writer that when I am seeking to create something new, and taking the risks involved, I draw the interest of greater powers. More of my own creative spirit becomes engaged, lending me abilities beyond those I possess when I am doing something small and safe or quite absent from the larger venture. I notice this as a teacher and healer. When I am willing to give more to others, to do my very best to bring the light or spirit into their eyes or to wrap them in the healing embrace of Great Mother Bear, I draw powers far beyond my ordinary self – and now it can be very important to let the ordinary self stand aside while a Greater Self operates.
I don’t want to sound too solemn about all of this. I find I do much better, and that those around me feel better too, when I approach life’s assignments in a spirit of play.
What are you doing? says that persistent inner voice.
I’m having a little fun, playing with an old and ever renewing idea. Glad you asked.
Image: "Dream Path II" by Dorothy Englander.
1 comment:
yes, play seems to be connected to our creative capacities as much as it is to our intuition and dreaming. I am a type A personality, fun isn't usually at the top of my priorities. However as of the past couple years I have seen the importance of play, it's role in my overall sense of connection to life, my happiness and joy. I am rediscovering what is appealing to me, brings me wonder and awe. Above all else finding my innocence. This is the benefit of working with Roberts materials, practicing dreaming true....what a blessing it has been for me;)
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