CHOOSING ~ A MEASURE OF MYSTERY
RISE 01.25.25 ~
CHOOSING ~ A MEASURE OF MYSTERY
This cycle of our weekly RISE Journey has been amazing!
Saturday’s session was a playful exploration co-hosted with Jake Lawrence. It was called “CHOOSING ~ A Measure of MYSTERY.”
Imagine that the measure of mystery you entertain determines the quality of your life.
In this session we explored our ability to CHOOSE MYSTERY, an attribute | feature of the element FIRE. CHOOSING” which activates the essential qualities of FIRE. FIRE is the element that allows us to re-imagine and re-create life itself.
How much mystery is good for you and in what amounts? What is our relationship with mystery? How were we conditioned to be with and to explore the mysterious things in our lives?
The BackGround ~ Current events – and my curiosity
I have been noticing all the punditry, polarization and marketing based on the reliance on new AI technology, data, polling, and the latest science—which are useful to help confirm/ record our collective knowledge and communication.
It seems that in every quarter we are being sold something—the latest tool, the least discovery in all the maladies that often come with aging, the next best thing for you to eat, drink and do.
It’s a lot! All this doesn’t prepare us to deal with life’s mysteries, the things we don’t know and don’t even know that we don’t know—which is a lot.
But very little is admitted in popular culture about what we do not know… about what we have yet to discover, about how to be, in the “in-between” spaces of, knowing and not knowing.
Also I have been reading Ester Perel’s “Mating in Captivity ~ Unlocking Creatives Intelligence.” In it she notes the dissonance her clients' experience in the love relationships when they grapple with desire —between their need to be “freaky, explore and be romantic” (my words) and their need for structure and stability, certainty and knowledge.
She observes that you can have both but not all at once.
Somewhere in the process of negotiating the binary —in the middle —-there is this unraveling where fear arises and we start grasping, and blaming and being triggered. And this by the way plays itself out in our physical bodies.
It feels to me that we bring the same dynamic to other areas of our lives and relationships. In fact it seems like much of life occurs in this dance around the things we desire— controlling it or surrendering to them completely.
Right now it is being played on the freaky side with right wing governments and populists versus the stability to the left, and the disappearance of the center.
So I wanted to explore this a little bit
It seems that MYSTERY is a dynamic that is in the middle somewhere. I imagine that there are some other choices that are available.
In this session:
- We invited questions of our guests to explore their experience with MYSTERY.
- I offered a guided meditation to explore the mystery of embodied sensations.
- And then together we took a journey into the land of MYSTERY where I will offer a framework that we can use this week to navigate these weird times.
Here are the steps of the journey and questions we asked.
THE JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY
First declare….
“I AM having a human experience. I can choose to let and allow my life to bloom!”
Then….
CHOOSE TO…
I CHOOSE TO FORGET MYSELF AND WHAT I KNOW. [MINERAL]
Ask yourself: What questions are now calling for answers? | What questions am I now grappling with | … trying to make sense of | give voice to?
I CHOOSE TO LOSE MY WAY, I CHOOSE TO BE LOST [NATURE]
Ask yourself: What is changing in me? | Where am I noticing a surprising change / expansion of my ideas about myself? What in you are you now curious to explore?
I CHOOSE TO SEE WITHOUT NAMING [FIRE]
Ask yourself: What unforeseen circumstance is happening now that challenges my ability to accept it?
I CHOOSE TO LET GO AND FEEL [WATER]
Ask yourself: What is leaving that I am willing or unwilling to let go? How does it feel to let go? How does it feel to hold on to it?
I CHOOSE ACCEPT AND NURTURE WHAT IS [EARTH]
Ask yourself: What new support structures or restrictions are now arising that strengthen or threaten my sense of belonging?
This week we offer this journey to support you as you:
- RE-MEMBER yourself in a time such as this.
- CHANGE as you encounter this new terrain
- CREATE from the desires of your heart
- CONNECT more deeply to life’s resources and abundance
- FIND new BELONGING in a community of fellow travelers.
To experience the full unedited session, including the guided meditation of Saturday's RISE you can access the recording by clicking on the link above.
