Findyourwave

Every once in a while I find myself presented with a word that lifts my spirit and transports me to a place where I meet heaven on earth. Maggie's fourth aspect of the creative process is tagged by this kind of word - Emerge. For her, it is about going with our natural tendencies to find flow, in order to find what is right, which more often than not includes welcoming the unexpected. But lets just sit with the word "Emerge" or "Emergence" for a moment ... how does saying this word (quietly within or out loud) make you feel? Do you have a felt sense of how it defies definition and yet seems to activate awareness of all that you know to be true and beautiful without words? For the creative process, I understand why Maggie lists it as the fourth element - it brings the preceding three, Accept, Observe and Breathe into perfect braiding and synergistic union with one another. It brings me to a place where I am happy to linger in the sublime, liminal space of knowing before new creation is born.

This next aspect of Maggie's musings on the creative process - being conscious of our breathing - is not surprising on one level and, yet, by specifically highlighting it she prompts a curious spiral of inquiry for me. She specifically notes that breathing is a way to consciously connect with our perceptions of the world in addition to everything else it does to center and ground us. The curious part is the encouragement I feel to open to multiple perceptions of what is inspiring me to create. By becoming present enough to see from different vantage points I begin to understand the undulating rhythm of the creative process. I let each new way of seeing be the invitation to follow the wave of discovery from the outside-in until a phase shift in that wave rises again as the impulse to express from the inside-out. Cycling in this way, conscious of how changes in my breath signal changes in my state of awareness and practice is how I find flow and the breath is the etheric force that anchors my sense of wonder about what is emerging and the satisfaction of knowing what is being made manifest.

My last post was a recent article about a scientific discovery that put me in touch again with an existential awareness of life.

Here is another one of those kinds of articles that does the same thing with a focus on the arts. It dates before the 'proof' of the Higgs Boson's (God particle) existence: http://ericbooth.net/the-higgs-boson-unifies-the-arts/.

From the CERN website the Higgs Boson is put into universal context as follows: "Just after the big bang the Higgs field was zero, but as the universe cooled and the temperature fell below a critical value, the field grew spontaneously so that any particle interacting with it acquired a mass. The more a particle interacts with this field, the heavier it is. Particles like the photon that do not interact with it are left with no mass at all. Like all fundamental fields, the Higgs field has an associated particle – the Higgs boson. The Higgs boson is the visible manifestation of the Higgs field, rather like a wave at the surface of the sea."

And, as the article speaks to the idea of their being a boson to unify the arts, so is the experience of creation and our impulse to express, an aspect of our fundamental essence.

The Higgs Boson Unifies the Arts | Eric Booth We human beings have a long history of proposing theories to unify disparate truths. This yearning to find a transcendent meaning for separate bodies of evidence may be one of our distinguishing traits. You have probably noticed this impulse in your own life: a series of experiences prompts the sens...