Additional Currency for our Times

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Joyous spring!

Since October, my world has been deeply impacted by the confusion and suffering stirred up by worldwide economic insecurities and the resultant rapid shifts in experience and perceptions. Everything is affected, and the intricate web of life is being felt more intensely in our day to day existence. If it feels like chaos that is because it likely is! On the other hand, we also seem to be creating a larger and more informed space and context for the resolutions of our personal and cultural “stuckness.”

I noticed a profound inner shift in myself recently and it came out of my own Focalizing practice. In all this, I realized that my primary currency for living life is transforming. I have been slowly observing this and watching how it is gradually manifesting in physical reality and the insights as they are reflected back to me.

It was only after this shift that I recognized that this currency manifested in the outer shapes and forms of life, namely my finances and other physical realities. I like to think of myself as a generous, big-hearted guy but I have always felt a deep need to being able to survive. Yet it came as a surprise to me that my system has been focused and anxious about financial security and physical realities. Not so odd, I guess, but compared to the “felt awareness” (as solid as a rock in physical reality) a new clarity is emerging. My renewed currency is about deepening my caring connection with others and myself and the sustainability of all that this entails. It’s all about the unseen tangible good feeling that comes from caring actions, both given and received. It is that place where the formless becomes form, and where felt and unseen realities morph into the physical. I have not given up my love for cool material things like my Mac—this love has simply been rearranged in the order of my conscious priorities. The former now takes a far junior role to this deeper connection with others and the nature that I emerge from.

It now seems that all my personal and client encounters are even deeper and more mutually gratifying than before. I am continuing to learn from this, and was delighted to get a synchronistic email from a participant in the “Focalizing Tough Times” groups that are presently under way. He wrote: “My experience in group today was profound. I came into the room with my feelings of restlessness and immediately felt that drop out of my head and into my gut where that energy could be dealt with. The other thing is my sense that this economic realignment is about connecting in more genuine and authentic ways that look externally like less income but the universe may be aligning itself in such a way that we may all make less, have less but live more. Could be quite nice.”

Yes, a tipping-point shift from “growth & more” to “caring, respectful sustainability” of the shared spirit that makes life worth living “could be quite nice.” I sense that this is already happening and invite others to join with me and share resonance and experience.

I feel privileged to be on the edge of a personal and global transformation that appears to be quietly unfolding in and around us. If my readers have an interest in exploring these sensibilities explore my web site Resource Links & Books and join the fall Focalizing Workshops which will soon be posted on this site. Contact me directly to explore if you could use more personal and 1:1 facilitation!

Thanks for sharing the journey!