Your living of this life is your great Masterwork. You are an artist and every step on your life’s
journey is a brush stroke, whether small or large, whether smooth or broken.
As a writer and writing coach, I
am often stymied and blocked by not knowing which project to pursue or what
topic to pull out of an overflowing bowl; it is sometimes hard to know what
deserves my attention, my time, and my labor.
It is exactly the same with the story of your life that you are writing
at every moment. Have you chosen the
right path? Is your daily striving in sync with your soul’s purpose? How much of your energy do you expend just
spinning and swirling?
Many of us get seriously stuck
trying to make something right just because we have already invested so much time
and thought into the venture, such as a job or a relationship that does not
nurture us. I had produced a sizable
amount of written work when I managed to get myself fixated on a project that
absolutely shut me down creatively. My
writing block lasted about twenty years because I was so focused on an idea
that kept me from doing what was next for my creative expression. I do now see that being stuck for twenty
years was a part of my soul-journey, so I do not regret the experience. Today, I know how to recognize this trap if
it shows up on my path. If any of us ever choose being stuck over
being free, it is because there is often something comfortable and familiar
about those stuck-points, or fearful about seeking a change in our
circumstances.
Now, when you step out of this
lifetime and look at the painting you have created or the book you have written,
what does it look like? Did you put all
your attention on one little corner of the canvas and leave the rest blank? Did you write a brilliant introduction and
never get to the meat of your dissertation?
When you look at the sum total of your creative output (all your lives)
do you notice a trend toward mastery?
Lately I have noticed that many
of us who were trained in traditional Christianity have a very poor
understanding of the notion of eternity.
We were told about eternity mainly to scare us into joining the
cult-of-belief where we would spend “eternity” in either heaven or hell. Any
belief is just an idea that somebody made up. Your participation in someone else’s idea is
just a choice to remain limited and stuck.
Even though this truth is “biblical”
we were not told that eternity moves
both ways. In truth it moves “every”
way. Our soul-life does not begin with
this lifetime. Eternity is like God; it has no beginning (in time) and no end. So if we live forward eternally, we also live
backward eternally. In breathwork, I
repeatedly witness the journeyer reliving the existential moment of creation;
when their soul (not their body) was born.
It almost always involves a feeling of peace from resting in the
darkness and the “nothing-ness” and then experiencing the energy shift toward
light and motion.
We hold the memory of every lifetime in our blood and our bones; some
say within our DNA. And we are part
of a great energetic grid that extends in every direction so we can step into
that space in our meditation, in our dreaming, in our trance journey and pull
up any memory from any time. You have unlimited
access to that great artistic library.
If this life is your masterpiece,
what will you do next? Even if we move
forward with halting steps, we have employed motion and light from the
beginning, and so we call on you now for direction and inspiration.
