Creative Meditation: Divine Incubation: Emotions X

What does it mean to be a co-creator with a brush in hand? What is your fire in the belly? What is more fun than fun? This 10-day course is about owning up to the fullness of your personal call to create, with no exceptions. The time is now. We work over emotions and their place in our body and being, before creative exercises.

Transcript

Welcome everybody. Day 10 of this divine incubation on emotions. I've kind of stuck two together. They're similar but not the same and I use them independently but just because this is day 10 there isn't a day 11 and they are closely tied I wanted to leave them here together. And again it's for you to decide is it an adverb or an adjective? Is it an action or an emotion? Determination and perseverance. Just keep going. Nearby is the country they call life. That's Rilke. An astrologer I follow, Molly McCord says, It is when the individual is in their power that it affects the collective. That's very empowering to me. It enriches my determination to persevere. How's that for using them both? Today our final day together in this 10-day course. I bring you another excerpt from my newsletter. It's a little sound bite. I find myself over and over trying to compose thoughts and ambitions so that everyone can come to identify with them or find a way to be inspired by a line or two at least. For background I took 2019 off as a sabbatical year from teaching. We all know what happened to 2020 and 2021. I was there in these years showing up in virtual teaching and writing and exhibiting as you guys know. But not there too. Not in the way that is most authentic to my soul which is live and in person. Creating an environment. I've learned a lot. I'm in awe of it all and while still faced with heaps of challenges that can come from a career track being thrown off the rails for so long, I still hold so much faith and hope and love. I can seem to do no different honestly. So the excerpt. We have to respect the complexity and keep showing up. I see myself tending gardens and reading books until my final breath. Let something. Call it stubbornness, Determination, Or maybe just the small nudge that comes from needing to supply for oneself the demands that life requires. I've been able to persevere in the space I occupy rather than turn and walk away. Going into hiding where it is safe. Or there's the illusion of safe anyway. I'd like to think the education of these past three years for me and this current re-emerging will be the most important thing I do in my artistic career. Yes, I have created some wonderful things prior to this. But this time has me breaking from my cocoon with a sense of alignment. That's the best word I can give it. This excerpt, And the more that I write in it, Actually all my newsletters maybe, Is what it means to me to persevere. And to do so in one's own power. One's authentic power. To be the ant, Not the grasshopper. That's perseverance. So determination, Our final day. Final twenty minutes of silence to work in our space, Our own way, And work out these emotions. Divinely incubated. As I said, I'll come back at the end to wrap it up as we begin with one final quote. Anne Lamott. Hope begins in the dark. The stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, The dawn will come. You wait and you watch and you work. You don't give up. I think that should be right there in the Webster's Dictionary. Dictionary dot com. Right there under determination. Alright everybody. Thank you for being so determined to persevere in showing up here for these last ten days. Let's go for day number ten. Twenty minutes. Paper. Oh. And that is that. Emotions are given to us so that we can become more conscious through conscientious attentiveness. Emotions come to us to guide and to teach, To draw us in and to send us out. They can be igniters and extinguishers. It is up to each of us to choose presence and wisdom in moving and creating in the world and to decide how emotions will resonate, How we use them to fuel our personal fire. As Marion Woodman said, A life that is being truly lived is constantly burning away the veils of illusion, Gradually revealing the essence of the individual. So are you running towards life or just away from death? Can you see yourself in your final hours saying, I am so proud of how I lived? This is the only statement for which we need to live each day, To aim at being able to always say, I am so proud of how I lived. This alone can carry a life to its richest expression. I pray you return to it always as your bedrock for being and creating. And keep creating. Let all you do become a divine incubation of your essence into the world that needs it so very much now.