Awakening

05 01 2023

How Do We Think What We Need to Think? by Elektra Porzel

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First a word for traditions renewing us to life renewing itself! May 1st is May Day, the midpoint between Spring Equinox and Summer Solstice. The earliest evidence of this celebration is in the 2^nd century so probably that it was celebrated for both the beauty of nature and for its fertility. The best-known modern May Day traditions include dancing around the May Pole and crowning the Queen of May. Take a minute to smile, look around and treasure the bounty of nature showing itself!!

In addition to being something that we treasure, that we repeat often, our traditions are basically thought patterns encoded in our neural networks and glia cells in our brains. The emotions and physical sensations associated with those traditions are likewise embedded in those networks. Those neural networks and glia cells hold everything that we think is real and how we should act in the world. All that information, all those beliefs, all those perspectives come from our family, our culture, our religion, our country. They frame how we experience our world and the way that we come to the moment, to life.

…human beings think they are their thinking. They think their thoughts are their thoughts. You do not realize your thoughts are thoughts born of cultural structures that leave you trying to fix ‘you’, not your thought patterns. Tantra Maat

If everything in your brains is historic information/beliefs given to you by your family, your religion, your culture, how do know what is your own truth…about yourself, about your place in the world? What are your own possibilities, what is your calling or what are those niggles to be or do differently? Do you need to create different ways to come to being with others, to being with nature, the land and the earth? Just doing the same thing or thinking the same thoughts will not give you a different future.

So, how do you know how to think differently, how to be differently? How do you come to the present moment differently, to create new ways to act in the world? You start with this recognition that your thoughts are not your thoughts. This gives you the perspective of asking…is this really what I believe? What information/perspective am I not aware of?

Next, what do you note about about your society? On a larger scale, what do your historic beliefs say about our institutions, are they sustainable for coming generations? Or if that doesn’t seem supported with evidence, how can you be part of identifying and creating a new more sustainable future for your self, for your family and for humanity? Many authors are speaking to this need now. I am reading Charles Eisenstein and Tyson Yunkaporta. Both these authors predict that our western society is not capable of having a sustainable future as it presently operates. Start with reading these authors to stimulate your thinking.

Reading other sources of information is a starter to opening your mind to the more that is actually present. Then add ‘being with others’ to your search, I suggest that you take the time to be in conversations with others to investigate perspectives different than your own. These partners in conversations should be equally dedicated to discovery and non-judgment. If they are stuck in historic and/or judgmental positions, then they are not the partners that you seek. You don’t have to agree with these conversation partners. You are with them to broaden your own awareness and find how your perspective shifts or expands.

This search through reading and conversation helps your neural networks to expand and connect to these new pieces of data. That makes them a more flexible network where choosing to respond is now possible. In the past, if your neural network was limited, there was only reaction. With more branches and connections, your neural pathways are numerous. You can take a breath and make a choice for what is the most life-sustaining option for you.

I discovered almost 8 years ago that there is one tool that supports me in this process of increasing the diversity of my neural network connections, the Templates of the Language of Creation. When I use the Templates to write my Creation Exercises, I am deepening my search for my own inner wisdom and my connection with Creation/Source. This happens for every writer of their Creation Exercises. The Templates only demand that we write life-generating, life-enhancing phrases. Just writing one Creation exercise results in over 16 life-enhancing phrases connected to that one Craving. 16 life-enhancing phrases now embedded in our neural networks as part of one Craving. The Observing Templates help us stop our looping thoughts and emotions and help us see with clarity where we truly are in the moment.

The Language of Creation’s Templates give us access to our real thoughts of our Original Design and access to the personality within which those thoughts exist. There are new energies coming into earth at this time. They are here to help us in our search for our Original Design and our deeper connection to Creation. Many of us are shifting out of our historic personalities and becoming more of whom we came here to be. We each are part of this body of humanity which is on the verge of restoring the wholeness of their Original Design and birthing their future Selves.

Our journey to discover our larger Self, our Being whom we came here to be, doesn’t end with reading a couple of books or having a couple of conversations or from writing a couple of Creation Exercises. These are ongoing activities over time during which we observe what is shifting in our lives. How are we coming to life differently? How are we being differently? What impact is our shifting behaviors having on others? What are we willing to be? What are we willing to commit to on behalf of a better future for ourselves and coming generations?

Over time, we shift out of our historic thinking and our historic habits. We start walking our talk, the being and thinking of our Original Design. We welcome being part of creating a new sustainable reality for future generations. Take the first step today! Welcome to the miraculous journey of the rest of your life!

03 15 2023

The Art of Unpacking Soma

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by Lori Candon collaborating with Victoria McMahon

Alice Miller, The Body Never Lies—

“Physical illnesses are the body’s response to permanent disregard of its vital functions. One of our most vital functions is an ability to listen to the true story of our own lives.”

We each have a story, a series of events/circumstances, influenced by our individual and collective (societal/historical) experiences. Story may formulate from a tape that continuously runs in the mental mind, linking thoughts with emotion, or from a habituated shaping of our physical body. The shaping of the physical body produces a mood; creating a link between body and emotion. Shaping may operate on behalf of life or you may recognize an experience as disconnecting from life.

The Art of Unpacking Soma has been a theme in my storyline for over 40 years. Observing began through the access point of the mental mind; deciphering the world from a place of either/or thinking (good/bad, right/wrong, safe/unsafe). A hypervigilant, external focus led to disengagement with expressing internal emotion and feeling body sensation. I operated from a place of “being at the effect of circumstances”, which for me means surviving the world and navigating relationships.

As the practices of yoga and tai chi brought me back into relationship with my body, other modalities reconnected me with emotions. Threading my experiences of mind, emotion, body language has opened me up into strength, stamina, capacity for embodying choice. Embodying choice has me have agency for “being with” the dynamic unfolding of life, inviting more.

Can you identify either way of being?

Does a story come to mind right now?

How do you gain access to authoring a new story?

Exploring our unique communication system and observing our mind, emotion, body languaging informs us of our level of engagement with our living body (Soma). The intelligence of the entire organism (Whole System Response) is a vital lens in which we organically engage with the world. Through the interactive, interrelated, interdependent Soma Communication System, we increase our capacity in the unfolding of how we language an experience. This informs moving with experience, being in direct relationship with the fullness of life within us and in community with others.

Is your unique relationship with Soma what you have been longing to discover?

Are you pondering the possibility of a new way of operating in your being that gives you a deeper connection to you?

Are you able to remember a moment when you felt aligned, all aspects of the mind, the emotion and the body interacting in a harmonious way of being?

How are you unpacking that which no longer serves you? Choosing to explore and awaken into observing and engaging as a somatic being opens us up into living our purpose while experiencing the joy of who and what we came here to be and do.

Coming from an organizing nature, unpacking for me happens in so many different ways. Imagine a suitcase where everything is jumbled and stuffed inside, unable to close and function properly.

Then, imagine a suitcase where all the contents are organized and have a place.

Now it is time to unpack the suitcase. Do you throw the contents into a disorganized heap only to ‘deal with it’ later? Do you remove the contents in an organized way, returning the contents to their rightful place? Do you take the time to be with the experience, listening to the wisdom of Soma?

Sometimes unpacking is messy and happens all at once and sometimes it is a slow, deliberate process. There is no right or wrong way to do it. You can be in the both/and…you can go into the depths all at once or you may choose to take one baby step at a time. Consciously choosing what, where, and how to unpack supports moving into ‘trueing’ with Life itself.

Link to our video to explore what ‘trueing’ is for you

Trueing Ourselves in Somatic Relationship

For me, the art of unpacking is a dynamic process creating generative movement toward balance. It is an expansion of either/or thinking into both/and thinking. While sustaining and maintaining life enhancing languaging and fluidity of the entire communication system, soul consciousness is able to operate through form to remember itself.

“Health is the natural expression of the body, mind, and soul when they are in rhythm with the One Life.”- Dr. Randolph Stone, Health Building

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03 11 2023

Capacities Magnify when Collectives’ Actions Unify By Elizabeth Geyer

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A field of people gathered in January and February to paint a new canvas of Self! What has risen as a result? These phrases below were the ones that popped out from unpacking the first recursion of Craving what 2023 is for me. There is so much afoot now, and these phrases are evident in my life, and all over the planet in various forms.

a flow of congruent language that is excited nourishment
finding common grounding of Self with others
everything being newly forged
potency in collective energies
a lifetimes project of deep longing
poking this curious mind and heart where She has not dared to go before.
emboldened steps to Being with Creation as explorer
honoring the new music of life’s light
a matrix unique to each cell, organ, tissue, the All of each of Us
increasing the energetic power of each and every-one who is listening for the beauty of these nuances of shift
a warm, loving space to BE with one another in this rich, all encompassing field of Being, dreaming, action and joy!

I remember back to the beginning of January when I wasn’t certain at all about unpacking. I just knew I had to do it! What evidence has shown itself to further unpack, or what has shown up as a result of unpacking that I can see in my own life? So much! There have been many moments of beauty, intensity, unworkability, play, creativity, joy, sadness.

One story that pops up from reading the phrases that have pinged me, is that of the health journey I began in January that I am unpacking. “Poking this curious mind and heart where She has not dared to go before” is what raised my attention. I have poked into many places to finally begin to take really good care of my body and how I fuel her and exercise her. I have not dared to exercise like this in over 20 years! I have not dared to really look into how much it matters when I prepare meals lovingly. I have not dared to connect with people around health and have a health journey group before. So much has been unpacked here because I am unpacking Self this year! I have not dared to reflect on the stories I tell myself that in the past, sabotaged my journey. The latest story is how I have to have a half banana and ¼ cup nuts before I work out. This week I learned that I was afraid, and told a story that said I need these foods. Nope…not true. Some days it might be true. Other days, no. My body asked me to check in on a workout by workout basis from now on. Duh! Oh…this unpacking is such a cool process!

Another phrase that pinged me is “a flow of congruent language that is excited nourishment”. In The Field of Tantra Maat, there are phrases that we use that I am beginning to hear outside the field. One phrase is ‘building new neural pathways.’ I wanted to kiss my swim instructor yesterday, because she gave us exercises to do in the pool that make us feel so geeky, and they exercise the brain in doing them! I am also hearing other phrases more commonly spoken out in more public spaces. Some of you, I am certain, have been finding commonalities also. Isn’t it amazing how unpacking is rippling out in ways we didn’t have a clue that it would?

Are you noticing that when you are with others doing any body of work, that you seem more capable? This is such a delight! It is as though the universe just purchased a lot of new mirrors and now we are all reflecting off of each other! Let us let these thoughts steep, as they fuel the fires of unpacking more deeply! Join Elizabeth Geyer and the LOC Institute Team for The Art of Unpacking Your Creation Templates, Series 2, Mondays, March 13th-April 17th at 8:00 AM PST. You can register with this link: https://www.loc-institute.com/product/the-art-of-unpacking-the-creation-templates-series-2-with-liz-geyer/

03 06 2023

SandTalk – An Extraordinary Reading Experience

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You have heard how impressed that I am by SandTalk. Here is a review by Elke Power of Readings Monthly.

“Tyson Yunkaporta’s Sand Talk is an extraordinary reading experience. It’s both philosophical and practical, and underpinned by a compassionate yet realistic humanity. At the core of Sand Talk is a deep respect for Indigenous Knowledge, to which long-term thinking is fundamental. As Yunkaporta demonstrates, a central principle of Indigenous Knowledge and learning paradigms is looking back and recognizing patterns from the past, then learning from them. That’s an extreme simplification due to the length of this review, but as Yunkaporta convincingly argues, it is this kind and caliber of thinking that is profoundly lacking in many societies today, including in Australia, and the damage wrought upon our world in its absence is abundantly evident.

Yunkaporta writes with a clear-eyed sense of his own perspective, flaws and past failures. An academic, an artist, and much more besides, language is important to him. Like many of Australia’s First Peoples, he has a complex identity and history, and he writes, ‘I often don’t get to decide what I call myself.’ Throughout Sand Talk, he carefully shares stories of life-changing ‘yarns’ – a term he defines precisely early on – with people he has met on his extensive research travels.

Sand Talk is an engaging and singular introduction to the elements of Indigenous Knowledge, thinking, and methods of communication that Yunkaporta is in a position to share. It’s an opportunity to recognize these concepts and their history, and a generous invitation to incorporate these methods into non-Indigenous thinking for the benefit of all. It’s an unforgettable book, rich with ideas and inspiring in its conviction in the human capacity for personal change and growth. Open it to any page, read and enjoy!”

The LOC Institute is offering a series of discussions led by Elektra Porzel about Sandtalk starting on March 15th at 9amPT and every two weeks thereafter. Calls will last 60-90 minutes. We will discuss it chapter by chapter.

Questions we may explore:

How are these concepts/practices of the Aborigines with each other in community, with the land, with nature different than our relationships with each other, with the land and nature?
Are the concepts/practices presented something that we might adapt?
What impact might that have in our lives?
What if a large percentage of the human population adopted that practice…what might the impact be in how our society functions?
What are you called to write a Creation Exercise on? What did you experience when and after you wrote your Creation Exercise? (If you are unfamiliar with the Templates of the Language of Creation, I can work with you offline to teach you how to write your Creation Exercises)

I look forward to ‘yarning’ with you!

Register here: https://www.loc-institute.com/product/becoming-a-modern-indigen-using-sandtalk-by-t-yunkaporta-and-the-creation-templates/

03 01 2023

Traditions…Hindrance or Support?

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Traditions! Do they support us or hinder us?

By Elektra Porzel.

We all have celebrated shows where the children defy the traditions and prosper. Fiddler on the Roof comes to mind with one daughter refusing an arranged marriage and another marrying out of her religion and culture. We witnessed the joys and the difficulties of these choices. We also have been part of or heard of families broken by the children’s decision to live their lives differently. In my generation, it was intermarrying between culture/religion groups and then racial groups. Now it’s children defying being what their gender has traditionally been in their family lineage and/or in their culture’s definitions of gender. All this change, while welcome in some parts, is never easy. Our families’ traditions are often based in a larger cultural context and that is based in an earlier time when adherence to tradition assured the individual’s and the family’s survival. Our family’s reaction to our changing of traditions can be separation, hurt, judgment, shaming as well as welcoming, integration, owning.

In the beginning of these tradition challenges, we are not always aware of the ultimate value that this shift to the family/societal structure and functioning will be. When it occurs on a societal level, it is harder to monitor and control the positioning of old=good, new=bad scenarios. As we negotiate how to celebrate holidays, how to speak to others of these choices, of altered expectations, there is an up and down of the roller coaster of creating new ways of being, new norms for the family or the society. We are watching an extreme response to change in our legislatures in the USA trying to limit choice, to limit voting, to make silence about the real history a mandatory action, to push back the clock of change. Ultimately they won’t succeed AND they make the process of integration so much harder for the society as a whole and for the individuals within it. While they voice their actions as trying to protect society for the future, they are actually lessening the viability of the society for the future.

We must create a new reality for humanity to live within, to prosper within. That future must meet the criteria of sustainability. Our traditions, our institutions are all up for needing change. We are seeing them falling apart right now. My questions is this: How do we create a sustainable future for our children, our grandchildren and future generations coming? How do we navigate these times without falling into judgment, shame, blame? How do we open up to the greater benefits and be compassionate to ourselves and others in the bumpy road of navigation to a new norm, a new pattern of living as a family, as an individual, as a society?

These questions are all up in two discussion series that we are offering through the Language of Consciousness Institute this month. ‘Becoming a Modern Indigen’ explores what we could gain from reviewing the practices and thinking of indigenous peoples, of our long-ago ancestors. In ‘SandTalk” by Tyson Yunkaporta, he suggests that our present western society’s traditions and institutions are not viable as a sustainable culture for the future. He offers for our investigation the practices and thinking of the aboriginal peoples of Australia. In Becoming a Modern Indigen, we will explore his thesis chapter by chapter…trying out some of the practices, writing our Creation Exercises around those ideas. Lots of wonderful deep conversations will surely occur.

To learn more: https://www.loc-institute.com/product/becoming-a-modern-indigen-using-sandtalk-by-t-yunkaporta-and-the-creation-templates/

In Exploring Charles Eisenstein’s Next Stories, we explore his ideas about new stories that are rising about humanity’s future. He too believes that our present society is not the basis for a sustainable future for humanity. This is discussion is aimed at looking at all the perspectives that dance around each ‘Next Story’. It is free for March.

To learn more: https://www.loc-institute.com/product/exploring-charles-eisensteins-next-stories-march/

02 26 2023

Discovering the Deeper Natures of Unpacking, By Elizabeth Geyer

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Have you ever had a topic you were super interested in take you down many different pathways to relate to it? Have you ever had that topic become almost a friend, and not let you go? This has been unpacking for me!

Way back in November of 2022, I could see in my mind’s eye, a gathering place, with people gathered around a fire, telling stories and sharing their experiences. I felt such a deep kinship with this group that had not yet shown itself! Guess what? That group surfaced, and began to meet to immerse ourselves in the writing of The Creation Templates. Then, another ‘download’ occurred over the holidays. A knowing that unpacking our lives, our journeys, and the deeper relationship with ourselves could be created. I simply kept being with that ‘can’t not’ feeling…can’t not unpack in 2023!

Currently, this amazing group has almost completed The Art of Unpacking The Creation Templates, series 1. We have just begun to form a relationship with unpacking what there is to unpack in our lives. I had no idea that unpacking had so many pathways! I also had no idea that unpacking would show up everywhere…not just in the writing of the Creation Exercises! There are so many ways to look at unpacking now!

What might you be unpacking this year? How has using a magnifying glass to unpack what is there for you shifted you being who you are? How has taking a deeper dive into the wonder of you been for you? For me, I can see unpacking everywhere! I am unpacking my health and what that is for me; I am unpacking becoming an empty nester, becoming a mom to only three cats and missing the 4th one that just moved out. I am unpacking what my relationship with my daughters is for me now that they aren’t here at home anymore. My relationship with my partner and how we are here at home…another exploration…my relationship with unpacking…with others I hold dear in my life and who they are as part of this unpacking…unpacking what listening to my heart is…listening to my body…listening to my mentors…listening to Mother Earth. This list could go on and on!

The other lens I am observing from is that which has my attention, and discerning that attention with more clarity. In other words…what happens if I am writing a Creation Exercise, unpacking it, and I hit a wall? To observe further I have now learned to ask this: Have I hit a wall because the language in this phrase I am unpacking cannot hold a deeper resonance? Have I hit a wall because the phrase has ‘unearthed’ discomfort and I am not certain I have the strength to follow the unpacking thread? These are questions I have never asked mySelf. What do I ‘do’ if the Template falls flat? Well…newsflash…I am coming to discern that writing that falls flat means I need to let Time pass and let the mind, body and spirit ‘steep’. Knowing I am uncomfortable about something only makes me want to persevere to follow that thread to walk along the path to move to the next greater whole! And looking more deeply if the writing isn’t resonating at all has also been part of the experience of unpacking. Choosing to write a Creation Exercise more mindfully and slowly has been a big help to solve the issue of my writing falling flat.

If you are unpacking, and you run into a wall…I call it a firewall…perhaps ask your heart some of these questions. This year I am working on relevancy and potency of exploring mySelf and Her deeper natures of Being. “S.H.E.” has a lot to say and is loving Her audience!

Unpacking the deeper nature of Being and Self is an amazing journey thus far. I would love to share this experience of unpacking with you! In hindsight, I am so blown away by the deeper nature of life that has shown up all around me, loved ones, my communities, both local and global, with the Earth and the Universe…this is BIG? Yes?!! Who wouldn’t want this amazing experience?

To register for The Art of Unpacking, Series 2, register here:

The Art of Unpacking the Creation Templates-Series 2 with Liz Geyer

02 14 2023

What is Scaling? By Liz Geyer

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Synchronistic Sage-Sacred Safeguarding

Centered Clairvoyant Certainty

Animate Astronomical Attentiveness

Listening Life’s Light

Imagination’s Intensities

Natural Nourishing Navigation

Grounding Guided Growth

On a beautiful fall day, in the middle of a small town, full of festival goers, I had my first real experience of scaling. My heart raced, agitation and irritation were upon me. My solar plexus was on fire with a feeling like dread. All of a sudden, everything around me became brighter, louder, and my sense of smell heightened. All of my senses were so attuned to everything in a minute’s time. I knew I could no longer stay at this sweet fall festival. I had no idea what was happening to me. I had no idea that I was experiencing an ‘up leveling’. My body instinctively knew (my mind did not), that I needed to ground myself. I found a park with a stream nearby and laid next to the stream for three hours! Energy stabilized in the body, and the agitation slowly dissipated. This first experience of scaling was the longest, and most profound event. Since then, there have been several events like this, with differing experiences, varying from extreme agitation to irritation that did not dissipate for hours at a time, to feeling very emotional. Once I knew I was in another recursion (event) of scaling, just being aware helped calm the systems.

What IS scaling then? To assist myself, I wrote an acrostic poem above. Experience has shown (only my own…yours might be quite different), that scaling happens when we are moving from one energetic place to another. Sometimes scaling happens slowly over time…perhaps days, or slowly over hours. Sometimes it can come on quickly. I recall being in a body of work with Tantra Maat a couple of years ago. We were beginning something new, and suddenly, I felt a huge rush of energy happen in my solar plexus. I wasn’t certain how to handle it. I realized I was scaling, and this was another register…the rush in my solar plexus. I was also a bit lightheaded. I recall Tantra having me breathe fully and slowly. I also recall feeling as though there was not enough room in my abdomen for the amount of air coursing through it. I imagined a huge balloon, expanding out with each breath. Soon, I was able to feel a balance occur in the body, and my head felt better aligned, the dizziness dissipating.

Scaling is a fascinating experience. There are many situations that might have us scale. One might be a shift in the energy on the planet. Another can occur when we are in an event with many, many people, and the feeling of unity brings a huge rush of energy into the systems. Yet another might happen as we write the Creation Exercises; particularly the last three-5,6 &7. As we delve more deeply into our explorations of Self and the world around us, we can experience scaling in our writing. I remember a few times when I was writing these exercises and there was such a huge rush as I read the finished exercise to myself!

Does any of this resonate with you? Have you experienced similar events, and perhaps thought it was just ‘you’, doing whatever, and thinking this was you? I know I have experienced scaling this way!

I am on a quest to be with scaling as I unpack the deeper nature of mySelf this year. I am not a beginner with experience scaling, yet I am a beginner with articulating it, and describing my experiences with scaling will continue to give me new perspectives, which will assist me in sharing clarity with others and myself.

How about you? Being with our experiences with scaling and having the markers to assist ourselves and others would be a great option to consider! In the meantime, our LOC Institute team is available, should you need assistance! We can be in the beautiful muddle of scaling together!

12 31 2022

The Art of Unpacking the Templates by Liz Geyer

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Welcome to 2023! Happy New Years to you!

It is a new year, and is a time to be with ourselves to create something new to move into. I am sitting with two brilliant questions Elektra proposed:

“How do I come to know mySelf more?

How do I become more of who I came here to be? ”

Have you been pondering such questions?

What response does your body have when reading and hearing the word ‘unpacking?

I have asked mySelf these questions before. This year, I want to try something different by diving more deeply into this inquiry by unpacking a template three, specifically around ‘spiritual maturity.’

Step 1:

I crave to sit with ‘unpacking’. In the past, I have had some less than great experiences with the ‘unpacking’ idea in the school system. I want to move beyond those experiences of ‘unpacking’, thus, I went to the dictionary!

According to Grammarist.com, unpacking is: “To remove things from a box, suitcase or other container. “

Unpacking has also come to mean, “To analyze something, to take apart an idea and examine each detail. This involves a sort of deconstruction.”

I found out this last meaning came into play in the late 1980’s. Now it is seen as a buzzword in some circles. So correct!

The mind now wants to move into writing a Template 3: “Craving what unpacking is for me is.” This way, I can be an observer to see differently.

Before moving into writing this Template, I want to explore the definition a bit further.

Another source, ‘CITE’ gives a definition that intrigues me: “To unburden, as the mind; reveal.”

This definition is the one I wish to explore further! Focusing my observing lens, I want to explore unpacking the Templates to open ever-deepening layers of the Self to become a more perceptive observer of the many aspects of ourSelves. I crave to reveal more hidden gems of who I AM in addition to (goddess, treasure, crone, magician, gnome, grumpy, almost 101 year-old feisty grandma, sha-woman).

Who else might be here within mySelf to bring into the light?

Whom else might there be to reveal within YourSelf?

Step two:

After exploring a definition, if a word pops out for me, writing an acrostic poem sometimes gives me a deeper sense of the intrigue of the word. In this instance, I was intrigued with the word ‘REVEAL’. I was able to train my camera lens more deeply here:

Revealing regenerative relevance

Enlightened exceptional epiphanies

Validate vast vibrancies

Eagerly explore ‘earnestnesses’ empathies

Activate adventurous, authentic access

Lighthearted, loyally learning loving leadership

What a wealth of in-formation occurred in the language here.

Is there any language that stirs something in you?

For me, I am feeling the beauty of ‘enlightened exceptional epiphanies’. If we are unpacking something, finding ever deeper and more colorful layers of who We are, the word ‘epiphany’ lights up like a Christmas tree! What is revealed in the activity is an art…epiphanies are certain to be unearthed!

Step three…

Now to observe from a different perspective. What if we began to see, hear, feel and sense that the Template writing practice is an art form?

I am sitting here pondering this. Hmm, what…if?

Training my lens on a picture,

seeing the templates as brushing colors onto a canvas…

my solar plexus is lighting up with joy in seeing this picture!

My Experience

There is no clench of dread now! Only excitement! I can see a young child opening a box to reveal a bright light of magic, a bit like a Norman Rockwell painting. I can see this in my mind’s eye.

What if unpacking with the templates looked like this? “ Such a sublime activity”, my wise Self says!

I do admit that sometimes writing the Templates becomes something I know I have to do, yet…

…with this new way of observing

…with this new excitement running through my systems,

I am now going to shift my observer to be with the “Art” of writing the templates and try this perspective on this year! What a great way to begin the year through this beautiful art medium of unpacking.

How does one unpack the templates?

I am so happy you asked! I can’t wait to take you on this journey with me, and with the LOC Team! We can be in this exploration together!

Join me and the LOC Team on Monday, January 16th at 8:00 AM PST, for a free conversation about the value of “The Art of Unpacking the Templates”. The next week, we will begin a new six week series, where I will walk us all through ‘How’ to unpack the templates, using Template 3, specifically this Template: “Craving what spiritual maturity is for me”.

This year, I crave unpacking ‘spiritual maturity’. I know I crave this, because the language won’t leave me alone. I have been wanting to unpack templates and really spend a good amount of time in this activity ever since Victoria talked about taking a year to unpack a template!. Now is the time!

I would love for you to join me and the LOC Institute Team in community to be with this activity together! Here is the link to our events page. Hope to see you there!

https://www.loc-institute.com/courses-events/

12 14 2022

Are You in the Practice of Becoming? by Victoria McMahon

creation Awakening, Body, communication, connection, Creation Templates, curiosity, Embodiment, Emotions, Imagination, Language of Creation, listening, Observing, Perception, Resonance, sentient intelligence, Victoria McMahon 0

What does ‘practice’ evoke in you?

A specific feeling….excitement….dread….curiosity?

A body response of contraction or tension ….heaviness?

Maybe it is a tingling in the hands/legs? Or even butterflies in your solar plexus area?

Pause and listen….

How about the word ‘becoming’?

Is it about the mystery or curiously not knowing that arises or is it feelings of confusion…even yet, thoughts popping in about making plans or setting goals.

How do these thoughts connect with your body response to the word?

You may not really give it that much attention in the daily routine of life. And in the typical western culture of the holiday season, you may be so wrapped up in ‘to do’s’ that the considering of who you are right now and who you are becoming is overlooked at best.

In moving towards the close of 2022, I am struck by words like reflections, endings, integration, and deepening coming more into the forefront of conversation with others. In the inner dialogue and external acknowledging, I invite you into taking stock of what you are moving with and towards as 2023 draws nearer.

In the Language of Consciousness Institute December 1st newsletter, Elektra shared her observations of the year of our Team journey. What we are curious about and interested in discovering with you is in direct relationship with our group practice in Becoming.

For all of us, the timing of now is perfectly designed for steeping in

Observing

and Observing Being.

These Templates offer you reflection and integration. They become the steps towards individually deepening in longing to be your unique Becoming.

Do you have a practice of being intentional in your Becoming?

Can you voice the commitment you create on behalf of you…others?

If not, is having a practice for Becoming inviting, even intriguing? Can you imagine for a moment what you might crave to include?

For me, the practice of Becoming has specific elements:

Awareness
Presence
Moving Sentiently
Opening up into Self
Embodiment

These elements may become your foundation for creating a practice…living the exploration. Allow these elements to support you in discovering the language of your body, your emotional being, your mental mind; thus supporting you in the practice of Becoming?

Do you experience your body communicating…languaging its craving for you?. Offering a longing of Becoming?

Is it in the listening of sensation….

the tracking of tension/ relaxation…

the developing of your registers of sensory knowing?

Do you hold yourself more compassionately…and how do you feel that occurring in you?

Are you fully present in your emotional being?

Is this feeling of presence in emotion occurring in a way that you are able to be with and move as the observer of the emotion rising?

This is a beginning inquiry into the ‘what and how’ of registering you as a Sentient Being…a being in the state of Becoming.

Consider the most recent time of feeling overwhelmed, either in a state of elation or full despair…were you able to hold in your full capacity to be in the experience of Self in ‘whole system response’?

Allow me to share an example of feeling overwhelmed….in a state of pure elation. While on a shared field journey in Glastonbury, U.K., we were in an experience in relationship with water and the sacred Chalice Well. As I entered the garden area, I experienced a deep pulsing energy in the body and felt the physical pull of my being towards two yew trees that felt to be guardians of the Well. My gaze lifted and I absorbed myself in connection with the beauty of the trees while my body was being drawn towards these two guardian trees. I mentally realized I was in body and emotion languaging and thoughts came through to hand off my belongings to another in the field so I could be with what was sentiently rising in body and emotion. Within a brief time, I found myself face down on Earth…feeling the pulsing of the body connecting with the pulsing roots of the tree, extending its energy to connect with me! Tears began to stream out…body heaving and feeling full elation upon this being. My capacity to be fully present was overwhelming elation and then some aspect of me put the brakes on it! In that moment, I had the awareness of stopping the Self from being her fullness in Becoming. The whole system response was present and yet not sustained and maintained to full embodiment of Self in relationship with All.

This experience is a powerful experience that in-forms continued commitment to practice in Becoming.

Is there an experience for you that in-forms you of your capacity to be fully present in body, emotion, mental mind being your Becoming?

Consider as well:

Is your thought language in relationship ‘to what you craving Becoming’?
Are your thoughts congruent with your emotional and physical observation of experiences and events?
Do you have opinions about what is cycling through your daily experience?
Do you notice whether you move away from or towards exploration of Becoming?
Are you conscious and present in the experience?

Are you in a distinct practice that invites you into this state of Becoming? Or, are you ready to create your practice of Becoming?

As the Language of Consciousness Institute is in its exploration of Becoming, and each one of us is exploring in our practice of Becoming, we invite you into a practice of Becoming with us!

The Emergence and Embodiment and Immersion Series are part of the Language of Consciousness Institute’s offerings to you in support of creating your practice of Becoming.

Pause and breathe now…

Are you pondering….are you seeing a picture in your mind?

If you participated in Emergence and Embodiment and/or Immersing Ourselves in What is Rising: Co-Creating New Realities event(s), how have these experiences opened you up into discovering who and what you are in and through the collective field?

How does the practice of Template writing expand this discovery?

Does the practice of Moving Sentiently deepen your access to discovery…individual and/or collective?

As this year draws to a close, I invite you into the pondering of what it might look like for you to step into your Being Becoming. What would A Year of Practice in Becoming look like for you? What would you crave it to include?

Are you longing for practices that open the Becoming of Body Sentience, Emotional Sentience, and Mental Mind Sentience? Are you craving regular practice to embody You as a Template of Being?
Do you want your daily experience to include a relationship with Time that nourishes you in the fullness of who and what you are?

This is your invitation….

Create your practice for 2023!

Join me…join the Team of the Language of Consciousness Institute…

Be in relationship ….

Explore, Deepen, Engage in Moving Sentiently with body, emotion, mind in the Practice of Becoming.

Start your new year with us!! Lori and I will be facilitating this two (2) part ‘Practice in Becoming’ series titled, Moving Sentiently with the Observing and Observing Being Templates.

Build and expand in your practice of Becoming with more movement, deepening exploration and the energetic support of the collective field.

Remember, whether you have experienced Moving Sentiently with us in the Immersing Series or not, the only prerequisite is being present to what you are present to and moving with presence into Becoming.

Click Here to Register for Moving Sentiently with the Observing and Observing Being Templates. Set your Practice in Becoming exploration into motion for 2023!

Request this as a gift from family or friend to support you in Becoming or choose to gift this commitment to yourself. Registering by the 19th of December gives you a deep early bird discount too. Can’t wait to be with you in 2023!

10 31 2022

Etheric News Bulletin! By Liz Geyer

creation Alchemy, Awakening, capacity, Childlike curiosity, Commitment, connection, consciousness, Energy, Gratitude, Imagination, Inspiration, Liz Geyer, Uncategorised, Unity 0

Calling all life-enhancement workers, dancers, beings! Etheric Newsflash, as of today, in this time of thinned veils! Can you feel it? The swirling energies, powerful photonic light surges, energetic surges, cosmic and galactic surges, all coming together at this time? According to sources ‘witch’ can be trusted at this time, these surges are all working on our behalf, enhancing our capacities to evolve! We are being encouraged to gather round together to dream and design that which we crave to see in the world! Town criers all over the world are shouting the same news!

“Come together in heart-based community to share and build something magnificent that we haven’t known in this lifetime, and possibly many lifetimes!”-Pam Gregory, Astrologer.

Have you felt the pull to gather round with others? I know I have! The emergence and embodiment group just completed and incredibly powerful seven weeks building a field of strength. I can feel the pressure, the pull, the passion to continue in this work. Can you feel it too? What an incredible opportunity we have! I long to Immerse OurSelves to Co-Create New Realities! And you?? The day before a total lunar eclipse is to take place, November 7th, we shall gather again, to continue to build new structures of being for our future. We shall collaborate, just like those before us did in the days of old. Remember the sewing circles? Well, perhaps you have never picked up a sewing needle in your life. That is okay! We shall string our needles with beautiful language, and sow new seeds into the new fabric of life being created now! We can use color in our language and sew new tapestries of what we long to see. Thread by thread we shall sew!

Where there is deconstruction, there is also construction. Think log cabin…what an amazingly strong structure a log cabin is! Each sentence in our Templates is a log that, when built with others… a geometric matrix, can stabilize the field and move us forward to the more of life we long for. Thus, we shall stabilize these powerful energies swirling around.

Here is another perspective; just imagine how our field will hum and create new realities…, with all of the language we shall generate, with all of the sharing we will create together being in this field! Imagine the connection, the community, the joy of being together! Think of the consciousness we shall expand in ourselves and others! Imagine the new music we shall hear? Syncopated rhythms, the unexpected shining the light in an expected world. What a sight! What richness!

So come one…come ALL! Join us November 7th at 7 AM PT, to co-create! We look forward to gathering with you! Click on this link to register! https://www.loc-institute.com/courses-events/