sentience

11 14 2022

Giving Sentience a Place by Victoria McMahon

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What are the ways you know yourself to be alive, attuned, aligned with your body…your essence being nature? How do you give language to this sense of you? Have you even considered giving these ways of being a place in your everyday life?

Imagine for a moment, we are sitting in your favorite cafe, park, natural scenic location. I invite you into a conversation about how you know yourself to be alive, attuned, aligned with your body…your being. What might you say in response?

Many of us might respond by saying I am alive because my heart is beating, and I am breathing. I am attuned to the with the sounds around me and I am aligned in listening to you speaking. Which, for sure, is a great beginning!

And then, what is next? How might we expand upon this beginning. Becoming the observer into who and what we are begins with our usual sensing experience and it expands beyond. Being the Observer of life is recognizing that observing is Sourcing Creation.

“Observing is being fully present to what you are present to, opening up into what there is to open up into and having what is yours to have.” Tantra Maat

We have the capacity for sensation or feeling of information taken in through our senses. More than simply noticing, we bring the conscious willingness to engage with these sensory experiences. This conscious doing is ‘observing’! In becoming the observer, we open up into the field of Sentience…so what is it to be Sentient?

Living sentiently is the art and science of actively engaging with sentient processes, which develops awareness of access points to ‘the more of you’. This can also be described as ‘living beyond the circumstances of mind or the culture which you were born into’.

Moving beyond circumstance simply means, you make a place for the daily events of life and simultaneously engage with these events as a Sentient Being….in the fully embodied, fully present Presence of who and what you are.

We have a language or communication system through the body as the body sends language in chemical signals that we perceive in a sensory way. The body tells us when we are hot/cold, fearful/calm, settled/excitable…. etc. Butterflies in our stomach is a common way to describe when anxiety is upon us. This communication system is a beginning exploration into the Language of Sentience.

Sentience is defined as “sentient condition or character; capacity for sensation or feeling.” Dictionary.com expands upon sentience as being sentient as “having the power of perception by the senses; conscious.”

In our capacity for sensation, feeling and power of perception through the senses, we remember we are the power of consciousness itself. This capacity of sentience is innately present in each and every one of us as human beings.

Remember, from the definition of sentience, we have the capacity for sensation or feeling with information that arrives through our senses. And the art of being sentient is engaging with our sensory experience through the power of perception, which really means, being consciously conscious and in relationship with our senses. This is more than just noticing that we have sensory experience.

Engaging with your observings in a consciously conscious way, you experience how sensations, sensitivities, and imaginings thread together to deepen the felt experience and increase your capacity to track the full experience. Body sensation, emotions and thoughts support you in gaining access to how your system operates.

So, building sensory awareness develops your unique language of how you perceive sensation experienced in the body and how the emotion and thinking weave into the body sensation to build the whole network. The network that is Sentient Language.

Stop and listen within to experience the deepening right now.

In this now new moment, what are you observing? (a body sensation, a thought, an emotion, or something occurring in relationship to your being?)

In this observing, what is the next layer that you are becoming present to? And, in being present with this experience, what opens up for you?

Feel the next layer awakening…. notice whether you are experiencing mental thinking or beyond the thinking mind. (Sometimes this is experienced as “this is beyond what my thinking mind could come up with” or “wow, where did that thought come from” – I call it a download). Invite yourself to consider it as the cognitive perception of the more.

Again, check in and notice the thinking…. thought thinking (random thought or limiting thought such as judgment) or beyond thinking mind.

Simply continue observing what you are opening up into and observe again in this opening up into, what does this have you have?

Can you sense how you are with the moment just as it is, not dictating how or what arises (like watching a series of images or thoughts without creating a story or an ending)?

Take a breath….

The art of observing, over time, becomes the discovery into a way of living that engages your sentient awareness.

Breathe in fully….

So, did limiting thought emerge? Did you resist the thought, or could you see this as peeling another layer of the onion in a neutral way of simply observing the thought rising to the surface and making room for it?

As you deepen into your observing, limited thoughts are given a place. Remember everything is a part of everything else and everything has a place. This natural occurrence of limited thinking is simply another expression to show us in observation that we were born into a culture and system that disengaged us from the power and language of our Sentience. And as this is the truth of it, we are fully capable of restoring our connection!

Most of us have grown up and currently living in a culture (the world) that avoids, overlooks, and even disavows the value of Sentience. I am bound and determined to give Sentience a place. Will you join me…us?

Begin now! Engage with the practice of writing the Observing Templates in the final weeks of 2022 and join The Language of Consciousness Institute in January. Lori Candon and I will facilitate the two (2) session exploration: Moving Sentiently with The Observing and Observing Being Templates. Click here to register.

Moving Sentiently with the Observing & Observing Being Templates

10 05 2022

Stepping Out of Your NOW and into Your Future by Elektra Porzel

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What happens in your body when you read the title of this article?

Stomach clenching?

Bile rising in your throat?

Excitement rising?

Eyes brightening with anticipation?

For many of us, the thought that we could design our life is a bit scary.

How could we possibly know what the right choices are?

After all, our entire lives others have told us what we should do, must do to survive and thrive in this lifetime. We have listened to them. We also have followed patterns of behavior that at one time felt ‘right’ for us,

Sometimes we followed the advice of the others. Sometimes we did walk our own path but then found that that path no longer fit what we wanted out of life. Seem familiar?

With those thoughts in mind, the team at the Institute started to be interested in how people learn and how their needs in learning now might be different than the traditional ways that we were taught in school as youngsters.

So we started a search for new ways of learning. New ways to support people in learning how to use the Templates. We wanted to figure out not a teaching method, but a learning method, that would support people in using the the Templates of the Language of Creation as a tool for becoming all that they craved to be.

We looked at the idea of flipped curriculum where the reading and viewing of information is done by the student in their own paced learning. We thought about how movement of the body helps us to be present to our sentience more easily,

Then we settled on a title for a new program that combined both of the above, flipped curriculum and a focus on sentience. It’s name…Designing Your Life. I discovered that I couldn’t talk about shifting how others learn to design their lives differently without the same questioning going on in my system. I began to be aware that something was shifting in how I experienced my own life. In my life, I couldn’t help become more aware that something was missing for me.

You might be asking, why would I share this? Aren’t I supposed to touting how wonderful my life is because I use the Templates?

I suppose that you are correct. If I was writing a standard marketing piece, I would only talk about how fabulous my life is…all due to writing the Templates.

Yeah, I could have done that. Instead I chose to be honest with you.

Just like me, you may have been unconscious to the fact that how you live your life is not how you would like to live your life. There is not the levels of joy, or excitement or peace that you would love to have.

I have started on my own journey to shift my patterns of living by paying attention to my sentient awareness. I hope that you do too! So that we all can live our lives as the unique and essential gifts that we are to this planet and to humanity,

Let your body and mind talk to you.

Let your body and mind niggle at you as you contemplate the idea of having more of the life that you crave.

Let the yearning in,

Let the wondering in,

Then take the next step…and

I am joined by three others who are deep in creating this program and designing their own lives. Liz Geyer, Lori Candon, and Victoria McMahon brings years of movement practices, creativity practices and of writing their Creation Exercises from the Templates. We are all ready to walk by your side as you discover your next recursion into your unique and essential nature.

To learn more, click here, https://www.loc-institute.com/product/designing-your-life-artfully-engaging-with-your-sentience-through-the-templates/

09 22 2022

Your Body as the Language of Creation by Elektra Porzel

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Your body is the vehicle through which your Spirit experiences the world. It provides you with the sentient experience of matter while your Spirit enlivens your experience with memories of your original design and of the reality that you crave.

You are the actor upon the stage experiencing the world from your own perspective through the sensory capacities of your body, through the lens of your culture’s indoctrination while your Spirit reminds you that once there was a paradise that existed here and urges you forward to call it in.

From William Shakespeare’s view, “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players”. What is the play that we are acting in? …life as matter enlivened by Spirit in search of paradise.

How do I experience my body as the language of Creation?

Through your sentient awareness which springs from your body as sensations, as energies moving through you, as words popping into your head, as a drawing of your attention to something to pay attention to. It is experienced as

Your joy at hearing the sound of a baby’s laughter

Your delight in the sparkle of sunlight on the water’s surface

Your sudden inward breath at being present with the colors of sunset or dawn

Your tenderness when holding the hand of a beloved

The familiar smell bringing back memories of long ago

The feeling of being part of the group that you are with

Your sense of settling into the solitude of quiet

How do I listen to the language of creation?

With your five senses and your internal listening to

your heart’s longing for a world that you have not experienced in this lifetime

your inner questioning of what is resonant for you

your sensing of energies moving thru you

words and phrases that pop into our heads and feel life-enhancing to you

your inner voices telling you what is ok or not ok

What part of my body is talking when I listen internally?

Every cell and organ in your body as they stand 24/7 for your thrival in this world.

Your Enteric Nervous system also known as your Gut Brain, your solar plexus

Your glial cells which store your memories, your hopes, your dreams and connect them all together via neural networks in your head-brain and your gut brain.

Your embryonic cells which remember your original design of whom you came here to be, to do and to have.

How have humans languaged this language of creation within us and in the world?

Through the noticing of consistent patterns in the structure of life forms here that are called geometric forms, the Fibonacci spiral, the golden mean

Through the study of systems within the human body that act in harmony and balance with other organs and cells

Through the application of these organ and system’s relationship knowings in creating spiritual and healing modalities such as the Taoist practices, the Ayurvedic healing practices.

Through the investigation and application of the healing powers of herbs, gemstones, different sound vibrations.

How are these all different or same as the Language of Creation presented in the book, Language of Creation, by Tantra Maat?

Same as in the structure of the Templates being the same as the golden mean, the Fibonacci spiral

Same as in direct correlation with the Solfeggio tones

Same as the body’s sentient awareness informing us

Different in that we use language and sentience to create phrases that are life-enhancing and life-generating

Why the emphasis of sentient awareness in writing the Observing and Craving Templates?

Because sentient intelligence is your Flesh and your Spirit’s communication system with the conscious you. Your sense of Self is a combination of your historic experience and your determination to create the life that you crave. Your Spirit and your Flesh remind you of your original design and of the life that you came here to live in the reality that you crave to be here.

For millennia, humans have searched for a return of paradise through how they BE in the world. We are in that same search. Many thousands of years ago, a king names Hermes developed the Hermetic Law of Resonance.

“If you change your resonance, if your predominant thoughts change in vibration, if you have more and more confident, positive and optimistic thoughts, if you are able to abandon yourself to the Divine Plan, because everything makes sense, then opening yourself to what is beautiful, elevated, harmonious will become your new reality, attracting it more and more in your daily life, Think without conditioning, Think the best and the best will come true.” The Book of Medit-action Vol1; sources Giodano Bruno, the Seal of Seals and Paola Scarpi, The secret revelation of the Hermes Trismegistus.

How do I change my resonance and attract more of what is positive and optimistic into my life?

By writing your Creation Exercises regularly.

By paying attention to the wisdom that arises in your phrasings in your Craving and Observing Creation Exercises.

By noting what are you present to…opened up to.

By paying attention to what you crave, create, sustain and maintain, and embody.

Those phrases come from within your own Flesh and Spirt, the matter and energies which are YOU. No one else. You are Creation’s hand upon the earth seeking a return of the original design of this planet and its Beings. Be that and you will change your resonance and experience life as you craved it to be.

You build an awareness of Self beyond your historic personality and habits and beliefs. You become the unity of Spirit and Flesh, Matter and Energy, Biochemical and Alchemical.

You move in the spiral of the Fibonacci spiral experiencing larger and larger fields of knowing. You hold those fields in their higher vibrations of a life-sustaining reality that calls in the etheric forms that once existed in paradise on earth.

Love yourself as YOU. BE that YOU everyday day as much as you can as you are in this reality and not ‘of’ this reality.

To learn more about how you can build your relationship with your sentience, register for our program, Design Your Life: Artfully Engaging in Your Sentience Through the Language of Consciousness. Registration opens Sept 23, 2022. Program starts on Oct 25th, 2022. To register:

https://www.loc-institute.com/product/designing-your-life-artfully-engaging-with-your-sentience-through-the-templates/

02 23 2021

The Invisible Box that We Live In

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We each live in an invisible box. For the most part, we are unconscious of it regarding its walls as just how life is. It was created throughout our lifetime from all the beliefs that we learned from our families, our religions, our schools, our governments and from all our experiences. It appears as how we view ourselves, the world, other races and cultures, our position relative to others. It appears as those automatic reactions that we experience and act on.

I began to think about this recently when I noticed that old patterns from my childhood started appearing in my daily thoughts and reactions. Last fall I was offered the opportunity to stay with a group of 10-12 friends for two weeks. Immediately my stomach lurched and I was brought back to family vacations that were more work and no fun. I said no thank you and dodged the bullet, or so I thought. In the following months, I heard about and saw the photos of the special time that this group had had together. Hmmm, what was I missing when I decided to treat my memories as pictures of my future?

I was one of 7 children. One of the middle children I watched the more boisterous kids get my parents attention, sometimes good and sometimes bad. In my family, my experience was that each child was allowed to be known for only one attribute – the pretty one, the smart one, etc. That led to hard feelings (like the nuns telling my younger sister that she should be better in school like her older sisters. Ouch!) It hurt sibling relationships then and some of that continued into adulthood as how we acted with each other and with others. Fast forward 50 years and periodically find myself responding to other members of a group like I responded to my parents and to my siblings. Who gets the leaders attention etc. Who is listened to? The feelings of not being enough or competition arise. I can feel it in my gut and in my heart. These sentient emotional reactions really do not apply to the present and there they are. Geez!

This is the invisible unconscious box that I see arise in my life and in friends lives. The past often controls our present reactions. Our past relationships guide our ‘instinctual’ reactions to present relationships. Please note that I am using the word ‘reaction’ not the word ‘response’. Reactions are automatic when old triggers start the old neural pathways firing. Responses are different, they are chosen, they are the breath we take when that reaction path starts to be triggered and we say ‘no’. ‘Then is then and now is now.’

I use the Observing exercise from the Language of Creation to open the space for me to step back from my reactive neural pathways and invite some other perspectives into my internal looping. I use the Craving exercises from the Language of Creation to start new neuronal pathways so that a one-time ‘choice to respond’ becomes a new pattern in my brain and my life. So, no, I didn’t do that with the group gathering. Yes, I have used it with my reactions to other members of groups and to my own personal actions around eating and exercising.

Recently I was with a group of friends who have all written Creation Exercises. We talked about how language limits our possibilities because language carries the meanings of words that come from our culture, our religions, our families. The Creation Exercises give us the opportunity to give space to our brains and our minds, so that old neuronal pathways can add on new pathways to other viewpoints, experiences, perceptions. We become open to new insights from our Spirits, from our higher Beings. There are recursions and recursions of living at expanded fields of existence that we get to experience. These old patterns do pop up and that is a gift. A gift because by noting that old pattern and using the Creation Exercises to open it up, well, it no longer is a reactive pattern governing our life.

Our lives then become full of new possibilities. They become the creation of new neuronal pathways that result from new experiences, new knowledge, and new activities like the Creation Exercises. The Creation Exercises only requirement is that you follow the word formula and that the phrases in your Craving Exercises are life-enhancing, life-generating for you and that in the Observings you write what you are present to sentiently, not in how you think what you should be present to.

We do not have to live in our old invisible box. We do not have to be governed by our reactions. We can create bigger boxes, bigger landscapes that hold the old and the new of whom we are. It is a fun trip as we open up to the MORE of who we are, as we open up to whom we came here to be.

To start learning the Creation Exercises I suggest that you purchase the Guidebook for Templates 1 & 2.

http://www.loc-institute.com/product/guidebook-for-templates-1-2-craving-observing-craving-being-and-the-observing-being/

If you would like to purchase all six Guidebooks right away. http://www.loc-institute.com/product/special-package-on-guidebooks-for-all-9-templates/

Then also purchase a 30-minute Mentoring session so that any initial confusion is calmed. https://www.loc-institute.com/product/individual-mentoring-support/

Then write your Craving Creation Exercises and your Observings, at least several times a week. These Creation Exercises help your brain rewire itself. To create new neuronal pathways, you must keep writing. There are 9 Templates and in Guidebook 1 & 2, you learn 4 of them. Take your time and when you are ready, purchase Guidebooks 3-7.

Join our Template Wisdom Gatherings on the 3^rd Sunday of the Month to share your aha’s, your challenges and your questions with others who are writing their Creation Exercises. It is in a shared space with others that we open to the MORE of who we are and who the others are as well. https://www.loc-institute.com/courses-events/