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03 01 2023

What is…Exploring Soma?

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What is…Exploring Soma?

by Victoria McMahon and Lori Candon

SOMA = Living Body

Soma includes not only the physical body but also the intelligence of the entire organism that can change itself. As living organisms we are born with the impulse to move toward safety, connection, belonging. Depending on our experiences, beginning in the womb, our bodies shape around our biological responses to safety/lack of safety, connection/lack of connection and belonging/not belonging.

Do you have recognition that you are a somatic being?

How does being somatic register in you?

Somatic being is the innate way of listening, observing, and operating in human form. We all experience ourselves on a continuum of Somatic being – from the awareness of our Soma, just coming into awareness of Soma or not engaging in awareness with the Somatic system.

If you haven’t been introduced to the experience or languaging of Soma until now, celebrate your expanding curiosity for how you long to engage with life. If you already operate in relationship to Soma, what ways are you longing for more or deeper access? Either way, you are inviting yourself into a new way of operating in depth of knowing, embodying who and what you are!

Is your interest piqued?

What is it to operate in life through the lens of experience and language of Soma? We have access to our organic nature through mind, emotion, body languaging.

In gaining access to mind languaging, we are exploring and building our capacity of attention. Attention is about recognizing our words, thoughts and actions that follow a thread of either being life-enhancing or life-depleting. Moving into the observing of being with these threads, we are deepening our connection to the rise of emotion and body languaging. Discovering the woven patterns in-forms and invites us into practices that move us beyond mental mind thinking. Then we are able to organically re-shape into a mind that operates in unity.

The languaging of emotion is about listening and following the ebb and flow in the emotional field. This organic flow invites somatic opening up into the gift of being emotionally present. Engaging emotional presence with mind and body, we experience how emotion shapes thinking and physical body sensing/shaping. This interweaving sustains our capacity to observe and be with rise and release, flow and restriction, and interruption or completion of energy in motion.

Body languaging is the third access point of Soma. Typically, when you hear the word Soma, you think of paying attention to the body, registering sensation. Registers can include muscle tension/relaxation, pain/ease, temperature changes or tingling energy sensation. Observing and tracking the intelligence of body sensations connects us to our body shaping, informing our mood and mental mind thinking. The integration of body, emotion and mind generates the potency for deeper exploration of Soma.

Observing from this deeper exploration, we can develop practices that create choice:

Shifting language of mind, emotion, body
Operating in connection as somatic beings
Engaging in life-enhancing ways with Self, Others and the World
Generating purposeful action towards your longing in life

Are you ready to step into this way of operating in your being, giving you a deeper connection to your organizing design?

Register here: https://www.loc-institute.com/product/what-is-exploring-soma/

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.”- Rumi

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

07 15 2022

Go Slow to Go Fast by Liz Geyer

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Ahh…memories! I remember back into the late 1980’s when I was team teaching with another brilliant teacher, also named Liz. One of our mottos with our third graders was “Go slow to go fast”. When our students wanted to rush through their work, we would point to this motto on the wall, and it was enough said. This theme has been prevalent in my teaching philosophy, which maddened my supervisors at times. They all admitted this was best practice, and then the “but…” came down. This way of being has come back into my line of sight and way of being time and time again. Now…it is directly in my face! From billboards flashing the language to relax and take life easy, to consistency in readings I have completed for myself, to those in my spiritual circle…to my dear friends and community, the message is the same. SLOW DOWN!

Slowing down is teaching me some beautiful lessons. One, is that I have begun paying attention to my hands, and to my ability to smell. What you ask? Well, I learned this slowing down lesson as I was cleaning the house last week. I noticed how my hands were moving down the stair bannister, as the wood almond scent wafted up into my nostrils. My whole body was filled with sensory pleasure. Ooh…it was so cool! The top bannister is painted white, and I observed some brown streaks due to many hands using the bannister and many paws as well! Observing the paint brighten as my hands moved the cloth was a new thing. I slowed down. Simple as that. Then, using the lemon floor cleaner a bit later, I was again gifted with a clean scent, observing the mop and my feet when using the cloth on the stair landings. I immediately went into “Wax on, wax off” mode. It was so much fun! As I was engaged in this cleaning activity, these observations, when slowing down, allowed me to experience pleasure, as opposed to the mood of resentment I had experienced in my last cleaning session two weeks prior. I will say that this session was prefaced by choosing a different way to observe and be with the act of cleaning. And it worked! Slowing down allowed me to enjoy the sensory acts of cleaning, as well as the mulit-sensory aspects of being human. At the end of the session, I was rewarded with the gift of extra time because I slowed down, the flow was there, which allowed the cleaning to happen effortlessly, which led to more time to play afterwards.

Wow…I was gifted time because I slowly and methodically and mindfully engaged in this practice. Hmmm…now I have a new way of being! I will take this new flow of pleasure into cleaning from now on. Will there be times when I just want to get it done? Yes, certainly. Yet, I am also finding this new flow is rippling out into other activities, like cooking. There is no longer a clock watching in this mix. And…there is a new respect…an honoring of whom and/or what I am taking care of in the process. It feels really good to slow down to honor that which I am with in any given moment. Right now, I am being with my computer, creating language, with a relaxed and open body posture…enjoying the language type itself from my entire being, listening to music, sipping on my shake, which is nourishing my body, and the music soothing my soul. Ahh…slowing down is such a huge deal. Dancing through life with a slower pace of being does help me to go faster…yet time is moving faster, and I can now BE slower in its spiraling to the next greater wholes.

I leave you all with a couple of questions. Where in your life are you willing to observe an activity differently? Where are you willing to experiment with slowing down an activity for the sake of the enjoyment of it- pure and simple?

GO SLOW TO GO FAST…Hmmm…I will be with this way of observing for a bit more…and I’ll report back in. And you? Over to you!

04 29 2022

Our Body and Our Spirit are One by Elektra Porzel

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When I was in catholic elementary school, the nuns would say that our body was a temple of the soul. Inwardly I would roll my eyes as this statement was usually stated along with cautions about boys. No advice on nutrition or exercise or listening to your inner guidance! Just don’t sit on their laps!

Now over sixty years later I am now comprehending the larger meaning of this phrase. Our body does house our soul. Our body speaks to us not just of trauma. It now speaks to us of the integration of our Spirit, our larger Being, in a more conscious way for us.

If you are experiencing symptoms of dis-ease recently, maybe it is not the old trauma history talking. Perhaps it is the adjustment of your body to the higher vibrations of your Spirit.

You are on a journey of a return to your original design. On that journey, you must learn to listen to your body, your mind and your Spirit’s voice. You must also seek support from others. With another in the field, your capacity to hold these higher vibrations will grow. You are building your strength, stamina and capacity for the embodiment of your Spirit.

There are several ways that you can support yourself during these times.

Yes, seek out all the support that you can to help balance your physical body’s reconfiguring…Homeopathics, Cranial Sacral Therapy, Naturopaths, chiropractors.
Yes, you should be writing the Observing and Craving Templates to help you discern what thoughts best support you on this journey. Write these at least weekly.
Seek out your allies at this tipping point of your transmutation.
Listen to the April 29th YouTube talk on Tantra’s CreateAWorld channel to get more comprehension about this wobbly and wonderful transmutation that we are experiencing.

All I know is that we are in a shift. Not towards the life-defeating, but towards what is life-generating and life-enhancing. Trust that. Open up to this new conversation with your body as a beginner. The messages of trauma will quiet and the messages of hope and opening up to ‘who you are’ will get louder for you.

Perhaps this dance of connection of our body with our Spirit is not just the turning point of our Spirit with our human body. Perhaps this dance of connection is species wide. Perhaps it is the dance of humanity and our one Human Soul bringing us back to our original design with Mother Earth as our midwife.

Join us in conversation whenever you can…we seek to be in connection with you as you seek to be connected to others in the field.

04 29 2022

How do You Move out of Confusion, Exhaustion and Purposelessness? by Maru Ocozco

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My life has certainly not been traumatic and can even be considered as privileged in terms of what people experience all around me.

However, there was always this sense of not being what I was supposed to be and unable to fit in completely, though I tried repeatedly. I tried giving up what did not match what seemed to please others and I even remember trying to think how another person would do it to choose what I was to say or do.

Of course, it didn’t work, and slowly but firmly depleted all sense of myself and trapped me in frustration and sadness.

The journey back to myself, back ‘home’, has been long and at the same time enthralling and reassuring that I am on the correct path.

Trigger points are always present. Events that throw me off balance pop up frequently, but now I have more tools to bring me back to my truth, to my essence, to being in coherence. Among those tools I have the Templates that constitute the Language of Creation, and the journey writing them has not been straightforward nor smooth. At the beginning, some years ago, I could simply not find what I wanted to ‘Crave’ for.

How could I crave for anything if I had no idea who I was and if I had the right to crave at all?

It was the Observing Templates that showed me the way into a path of Self discovery and Self assurance.

But why?

First of all, the Observing Templates break the spell of looping thoughts, and something ‘different’ comes out of your mind as you reach the final recursion. Sometimes even at the end of the first recursion. Sometimes that change only comes after writing several Observing Templates.

And then, as if from nowhere, something to crave for emerges and the energy from Creation starts flowing again, bathing all cells and igniting the joy of being alive.

And then, Creation craves through you, with you, and the sense of who you are, why you are unique and valuable becomes palpable.

So here I am now, as an Advocate for the Language of Consciousness Institute, and in more recent times, as a therapist and teacher for the Quantum Bioengineering Institute. Activities that let me express my truth, my craving to empower others around me and allow them to shine in whatever way their original design wishes to manifest.

04 14 2022

Emotional Presence: Give The Mind a Spring Cleaning by Victoria McMahon

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Feelings and emotional states of being are becoming the predominant experience in these times upon us. The shift from one feeling to another is so swift and often many of us are not able to language what is moving with us. It can feel like a multitude of experiences culminating spontaneously.

How is this part of your experience? How do you language it….inside a creation template….in a conversation? Are you finding your relationship with experience confusing or awakening?

This may very well be how we are moving with or into the next reset. The curiosity is what does a next reset look or feel like. Is it like previous resets in our physical being lifetime or are we embracing a whole new system response reset. Being a willing explorer in the recent Timeless Time event with Tantra Maat, I feel the body mind response to what is upon me these days is moving into the beyond the usual timeline that used to label as familiar time sequences.

Aspects of being human occurring in the so called sequence of a day are experienced as slowed down time and then other experiences feel like they occur in the blink of an eye. For me, I have been sensing various chapters of this lifetime are being rewritten and, in the present time, new chapters are waiting to be recorded. It is occurring as the saying, ‘when one door closes, another door opens (or maybe it is a window). Feeling doors beginning to close as what no longer holds my attention or what I am not longer wiling to give attention to is a meaningful dialogue being observed in the mind and is now finding a voice into the world.

I was particularly struck in exploring Timeless Time what rose into the field to be acknowledged and integrated. The feelings of sorrow, deep longing and honored reflection gave space for the capacity to close one door and allow possibilities for one or more doors to open. While I imagine the potential doors opening and move with the sentience of what is nudging my thought into action, I am very clear the what and how is being in-formed and thus in-forming this being.

During Timeless Time, I observed how the body system could be with the myriad of sensations from spaciousness around the solar plexus and heart in the beginning time of the event. Then moving into the exploration of what Tantra referred to as mechanistic thinking/identity, I tracked the pressure upon my head as a reorganization of neural networks to bring space and give access to being with the mind in deeper relationship with the how of operating in Time. This pressure, like a vice grip, was more challenging when I identified it as a problem I had created. The moment I observed it as a looping or stuck thinking patterns of old, the intensity reduced and an a pathway cleared or a window in Time emerged. By the end of the event, the pressure valve released. The system is now in a new conversation.

This conversation is mostly moving with observation as the foundation. Observing feeling this chapter in life closing has me be present to space for honoring and willingness to move into being with how closing is for me. Being present to space for honoring and willingness to move into being with how closing is for me has opened me up into the value of not rushing to action. Opened up into the value of not rushing to action has me have a different way of listening to move with Time to feel completion while fulfilling into the next.

This is how the Creation Templates are a part of moving and being with the moment. Allowing the full experience is the embrace of how the templates support the being to be in the space of BDW (broader, deeper, wider) and open the mind up into the in-forming into action. The pause is part of the sorting between that gives access to the greater realms to participate with and through us.

Can you enter into your landscape and observe what is completing in you…pause and give observation in Time. Then through refection, move into the birth/rebirth of the mind that lies beyond all the distortion and looping thinking (mechanistic thinking)? As we are in the season of renewal, the spring that brings new life, new thought…what is the window or door you are opening to bring freshness, vitality, and clarity as you pause and take in this next, new deeper breath of being?

02 28 2022

The Rest of the Story by Victoria McMahon

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Who doesn’t love a good story. We read books that share the adventures of characters, real or based on ideas that form from the imagination of a writer. We hear people tell stories over meals at the holidays or during travels when encounters occur often with complete strangers. I love to travel and find myself in deep conversations with travel companions or complete strangers. In the past few years, I began to observe how the circumstance of stories, especially when traveling, started being remarkable to me. The conversations would begin naturally and easily with a comment of book one of us was reading or some similar pleasantry. Within what seemed like a brief amount of time, we would be delving into deeper curiosities. And then eventually, we would inquire from each other about our unique passion(s) in life.

For as long as I can recall, I have been passionate about being in observation of life….my Self in this life and how I am in relationship with others. This guiding nature of ‘observing ‘and ‘observing being’ the who and what I am in the matter is my passion. I make choices based on this organic way of being human and over time continue to develop the sentient intelligence that sustains the deepening into My Self. So, when I discovered the Creation Templates, a new translation of this innate and organic process landed in my mental mind. I found language and form for what has guided this life I am exploring.

The Creation Templates expanded the story of what I perceive My Self to be….connected me to the deeper, underlying template of who I am as a unique and essential design of Creation. I am more than the connect the dot experiences of my linear life…how I got through life from point A to point B. While this story is a part of who I am and supports my remembrance, I now know that these memories serve to open me up into the ‘more’ of me. What is my early adulthood, I would have referred to as the “Paul Harvey – The Rest of the Story” idea. The rest of the story awakens for me in each new observing, being fully present to what there is to be present to and opening up into what there is to open up into. This is the delving in deeper with curiosity. This is what the Creation Templates have opened me up into…what Tantra Maat lovingly calls the BWD (Broader, Wider, Deeper).

I frame the Creation Templates through my unique lens just like you do through your unique lens. I happen to be naturally drawn to Movement (Yoga, Tai Chi, Dance) and am often called to explore and develop the deeper aspects of My Self when I use the Creation Templates in movement practices. Typically, I begin with sensing my physical, mental, emotional, and soul systems to feel what is present, rising in the moment, and if some aspect is calling out to be in listening. Different tensions can be present at the same time…so I may find I want to slow down, breath into the experience longer and be with my sentient intelligence of listening to discern what is the priority of my system seeking balance, symmetry, proportion, grace, or beauty. Then, the choice arises…do I dare to follow what my system seeks and explore the BDW (Broader, Deeper, Wider) of the Being. In saying yes, I engage and generate the opening up into possibilities beyond what I know myself to be. And from this observing, I discover the Craving Template that my being called out for me to be in the listening.

Why do I share this story with you, you ask? Well, I want to invite you into your own listening of your story beyond what you know or think you know yourself to be! Develop your sentient intelligence through observing and deepen your registers that open you up into the discovery of your unique and essential design (who and what you came here to be as a human Being). Play and get curious with the ways your naturally move through life….maybe you are like me and love movement or just maybe your explore through other artistic forms. Some of use the Creation Templates with a scientific or analytical mind. Whatever you are passionate about in life, use the Creation Templates to in-form you more deeply! Explore and share the rest of your story with us at the LOC-Institute. And, you might end up finding yourself sharing your passion for the Creation Templates with complete strangers on an airplane someday too!

04 03 2021

The Creation Exercises Restore your Connection to Creation

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The Creation Exercises stimulate the innate knowing of your mind and your craving for connection. The structure of the Creation Exercises restores us to a connection with Creation. In the Creation Templates, there are three sentences in each of four recursions.. We use syntax rules such as a period at the end of each sentence to contain its meaning. We use three different sentences, each with their own validity, to build a spiral, an inclusionary action that takes us to the next greater recursion of connection. When you write your Creation Exercises you are rewiring the neural networks of your brain to include the life-enhancing phrases that you used. You are aligning yourself with your higher Self and with Creation. You are then holding a larger field of what is real for you, which differs from that of the reality that you were born into.

In the Observing Templates, we focus on what is here right in front of us in the present. This informs both our internal system and Creation about where we are at the moment, thus starting the expansion towards the manifestation of our Craving. Our observing captures units of meaning of only what we are present to, not under the influence of definitions or constructs given to us by family and society.

In the LOC, we speak of using Template 3 to rematrix language to regain its direct link with Creation. Ancient language once carried this direct link with Creation. It’s a miraculous moment when you feel language give you access to your unity with Creation again. Tantra Maat

This is especially true in Template 3. You create new matrixes of meaning for words and concepts. Afterwards, when you speak those rematrixed words, they hold a large field of meaning for you. Interestingly, that larger field of meaning is held in your speaking and is conveyed to those to whom you are speaking. The listener’s mind ‘gets’ the expanded meaning of the word.

We are language poor right now, because we can’t understand each other. We have to invent another way to create a larger field of commonality of comprehension. The Creation Exercises do this. Imagine if more and more people wrote the Creation Exercises. They would build larger and larger fields of comprehension and connection for themselves, with others and with the larger field of So Above So Below. Holding those fields, they are in a resonance that others may not literally know and will comprehend as the others mirror these larger fields that the writer of the Creation Exercises is conveying.

My sense is that larger comprehension of the meanings of words and concepts will stay with the listener. Their field of meaning for a word or concept will expand. As more and more people have these expanded field conversations, my sense is that the level of miscommunications will decrease. More and more individuals will be holding the larger field of Creation in their field. We will all therefore have a larger playground to play in and greater realities to access!