Weirdshift Weekend
Hello All,
Where are all you Bloggers?! Come on guys! I'm sure we all have something to share about Weirdshift Weekend - let's hear it!!
For me Weirdshift created a whole spectrum of emotions, both good and bad. Of course I thought about nothing else for the entire week following, and in talking with my husband I had an aaha! This is my revelation -
In regards to the "Titanic" process, {at the time I was not appreciating that ordeal one bit!} The process started with the idea that we only had a half an hour before the boat went down, and in that half an hour we had to decide who went and who didn't based on their 30 second plee. My thought was, I am going to apply all that I have learned from the past Alchemy lessons to this process and sail through with no problems. WRONG!!
Some of the past lessons that came to mind during the process was the "We are a community, we all go, or none go! - nobody get's left behind!" I also remember learning that it may not be wise to always do what people tell us to do. Remember the rubber band flick exercise?! If information you are receiving dosen't feel right, don't go along with it, choose again! So, with the Titanic, I am thinking "this is a trick!" why spend our precious half an hour telling sob stories when we should be collaborating. WRONG!! I was so dissapointed in myself for totally missing the point.
I was explaining {complaining} to my husband that I was upset and confused because this lesson was so contradicting to the past lessons, and that's when the aaha hit me. In this life, we are condition to live by a set of rules that someone else created. We, as a worldwide community are expected to follow and apply these set rules to every situation regardless of the circumstance. People in general are more than happy to turn their power over to someone else, because then, when something goes wrong, they are not responsible. How could they possible be responsible if they are just following the rules and doing what they were told!?!?
I expected Alchemy to be the same. I thought as long as I was learning the lessons and following the rules I would be fine. And, if something goes wrong - it's not my fault!! But what I learned in my complaining about our so called contradicting lessons, is that in Alchemy, we have been given TOOLS not RULES. These tools can be useful in certain situation - NOT ALL SITUATION.
When you encounter a situation and you don't like the standard rule - choose again!! Create your own tool and design it to assist you in the current situation! That is the true meaning of authenticity! That is the true meaning of living in the now, in this moment! That is personal power applied! WOW, what a thought!..... I apparently have problems in this area because these thoughts did not occur to me at the time. That is why it seemed so natural to hand all of my power over to someone else. This is my lead and it's kinda heavy!
Here is what I have learned: Authenticity is to: Think a new thought, say a new word, do a new thing. As long as your are following someone else's rules, you have not grown, you have obeyed. The idea is not to re-create, but to create a new. I AM responsible for myself. I have heard this all before, but never really sunk in until now. There is no right or wrong, there is only what works and what dosen't work. I am reminded of a line in a song from my favorite band "And the less I seek my source for some definitives, the closer I am to fine"
See ya!
Where are all you Bloggers?! Come on guys! I'm sure we all have something to share about Weirdshift Weekend - let's hear it!!
For me Weirdshift created a whole spectrum of emotions, both good and bad. Of course I thought about nothing else for the entire week following, and in talking with my husband I had an aaha! This is my revelation -
In regards to the "Titanic" process, {at the time I was not appreciating that ordeal one bit!} The process started with the idea that we only had a half an hour before the boat went down, and in that half an hour we had to decide who went and who didn't based on their 30 second plee. My thought was, I am going to apply all that I have learned from the past Alchemy lessons to this process and sail through with no problems. WRONG!!
Some of the past lessons that came to mind during the process was the "We are a community, we all go, or none go! - nobody get's left behind!" I also remember learning that it may not be wise to always do what people tell us to do. Remember the rubber band flick exercise?! If information you are receiving dosen't feel right, don't go along with it, choose again! So, with the Titanic, I am thinking "this is a trick!" why spend our precious half an hour telling sob stories when we should be collaborating. WRONG!! I was so dissapointed in myself for totally missing the point.
I was explaining {complaining} to my husband that I was upset and confused because this lesson was so contradicting to the past lessons, and that's when the aaha hit me. In this life, we are condition to live by a set of rules that someone else created. We, as a worldwide community are expected to follow and apply these set rules to every situation regardless of the circumstance. People in general are more than happy to turn their power over to someone else, because then, when something goes wrong, they are not responsible. How could they possible be responsible if they are just following the rules and doing what they were told!?!?
I expected Alchemy to be the same. I thought as long as I was learning the lessons and following the rules I would be fine. And, if something goes wrong - it's not my fault!! But what I learned in my complaining about our so called contradicting lessons, is that in Alchemy, we have been given TOOLS not RULES. These tools can be useful in certain situation - NOT ALL SITUATION.
When you encounter a situation and you don't like the standard rule - choose again!! Create your own tool and design it to assist you in the current situation! That is the true meaning of authenticity! That is the true meaning of living in the now, in this moment! That is personal power applied! WOW, what a thought!..... I apparently have problems in this area because these thoughts did not occur to me at the time. That is why it seemed so natural to hand all of my power over to someone else. This is my lead and it's kinda heavy!
Here is what I have learned: Authenticity is to: Think a new thought, say a new word, do a new thing. As long as your are following someone else's rules, you have not grown, you have obeyed. The idea is not to re-create, but to create a new. I AM responsible for myself. I have heard this all before, but never really sunk in until now. There is no right or wrong, there is only what works and what dosen't work. I am reminded of a line in a song from my favorite band "And the less I seek my source for some definitives, the closer I am to fine"
See ya!
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